Published 11.4.2025: So the answer is… about a month. That’s how long it took me to figure out the new program. Kind of. There are still things that are different and which I don’t understand, but I think the time has come for me to start writing again.

For that matter, I have no idea how the cookie thing works, I had to use a third party code, as Rapid Weaver (this site is made using their Elements program) does not yet have a cookie code to be used in the program. Not sure how you release a website builder WITHOUT a cookie code in 2025, but there it is.

Here is a link to some old content. I have no clue how the new formatting will deal with that. When (if) I figure out how to link the rest, I will.

Are Net Carbs a marketing scam?

Published 1.27.2025: So the concept of “net carbs” is where you subtract the carbs due to fiber from the total number of carbohydrates in a food. I think this became a thing in the low carb dieting world, and frankly I never counted carbs (or any macro, which to me is just another way to count calories).

But because of the trend “fiber maxing”, perhaps, (I have no link to share on that one) the concept has been brought up again. To me, counting net carbs rather than carbs is just an excuse to eat more carbs. But I will admit, that I actually believed that carbs from fiber did not result in calories. Fiber passes though the small intestines into the colon, without being absorbed.
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Calories Still Count

Published 1.13.2026: Two recent articles demonstrate the difficulty in doing nutrition research, if the subjects aren’t kept in the lab (as Kevin Hall used to do when he was at NIH (National Institute of Health)). People lie about intake (wherther they mean to of not) and you can’t ever know what they actuallly ate unless you control it.

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(No, I haven’t learned yet how to copy and keep the formatting of an article. So it’s only the first paragraph of the piece, because I was too lazy to redo the formatting.)

Getting Back into the writing habit

Published 1.6.2026: So I am trying to get in the habit of writing again, and publishing on a regular basis. However, I don’t know what to write about. I have a lot of notes from a number of years ago, articles that I meant to write but didn’t.

So I think I’ll take a look at my notes and see what comes of that. Oy. Not sure anything can come of that, in part because all the notes are very old, and most of the links no longer work. Or the people who used to post there no longer do.

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Resolutions for 2026

Published 12.30.2025: This is my annual post about resolutions, which has fallen out of favor, but which I still make. And evaluate at the end of the year to see if I have managed to meet any of them.

I don’t do “National Quit Day” in January. I see these as goals that I may or may not meet, but three weeks is not long enough to determine if I will meet them. It is long enough to see if I’ve gotten off to a good start. I also don’t put a lof of value on meeting these goals, they are things that I want to do, all things being equal, but if I don’t do them, I’m not stressed about them. I think I’ve had my weight loss goal for as long as I’ve been making resolutions.

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Fasting is not always the Answer

Published 11.4.2025: So Netflix has a documentary series about various aspects of the Wellness Industry. I watched the first episode about Essential Oils, but the reality is that I know nothing about Essential Oils— and I'm not sure I want to learn about them. I think I've always assumed that they were a scam… and certainly the documentary doesn't dissuade me from that opinion.

So after that less than interesting beginning, I looked at the titles of the remaining segments, and the only one I wound up watching was about Fasting. Now, I do know a bit about fasting… though I've never done a "proper" fast where I didn't eat for days. I have intermittent fasted in the past. I have an entire series where I discuss the 5:2 "fast" diet (which was really intermittent fasting). However, my experience with the 5:2 came to an end after I suffered a bit of "distress" and I haven't done it since. I did lose weight on it, mostly because it imposed a calorie restriction (you can't lose weight unless you restrict calories in some way… there is no escaping the energy balance.)

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