My Mom and a Sister, and her Husband are visiting me in Austin this weekend! Yay.

Last weekend I went back to Atlanta and saw Scissor Sisters with Karen.   That was a lot of fun. The only dance I had previously ever done at a concert was the Standing Still.

The last time I spoke with KStar he unloaded a bunch of advice on how to handle what I thought were Tight Hipflexors.    He was a bit difficult to keep up with over the phone, I think because he overestimates my intelligence,  but he's always to a pleasure to speak with.  And between he and Yoga Gina, and my cousin who is now a doctor of PT herself,  I got them loosened up.   My Psoas are no longer an issue, but I have been battling the odd back spasm.  At the end of our conversation I told Kelly to start a blog, and he said 'good idea I'll get right on that' or something very similar.   Well he finally complied with my order and it is awesome.

Get your man to read this blog, and your man will be more like him (and Adrian). they are the men your man could move like. I've spent the week doing his workouts and I feel great.

Speaking of Bending over backwards:

Whole Foods is bending over backwards to balance their eco-religion with actual nutritional science and predictably falling short. 
They say that because according to their scale Kale is 20 timesbetter than salmon, and White potatoes are better than chicken.  They are, obviously , trying to kill you.  I have so many issues here I don't know where to start. I want to just say "assholes" and be done with it.    Maybe the scale isn't technically so off base, and it is their editors who are overlooking the word 'density'.  Maybe.   Maybe they need to stop getting their nutrition advice from Lisa Simpson.

They also have a scale that ranks how Animals should be treated as they make their way to your plate. I asked their butcher, who incidentally can't stand their ANDI scale either, about the Animal Husbandry scale and he said that yes, grass fed animals get a higher score.  This is great, now if only we could get Whole foods to respect humans the way they do cows.

(Cows spent their 7 million years developing a stomach  that can get the most out of grass and naturally occurring grains, and they still get fucked up by corn.  We've been eating grains for roughly .15% that  long  (.00143) and before then wern't really chowing down on many grasses,  and somehow for us corn is the greatest thing since Salmon? No, it's not.  Its horrible for you.  )

 Here is a list of good things corn and wheat do to your body:   Keep it from starving.   Full stop.

The calories-in calories-out approach to weight management has been enabled, despite its historical, statistical, and clinical bankruptcy,  by an accumulation of circumstances alternatively comic  and villainous, but  it is the pernicious, if not viral, way that modern diet causes the dieter to blame themselves that has most enabled the obesity epidemic’s  continued growth.

Even if an adherent is current maintaining a healthy weight, the problem with believing a calorie is a calorie is a calorie, or that the key to managing your weight is simply to take in less calories than you expend, is this:  When that plan fails --and any survey of the obesity statistics since people started thinking in these terms indicates that failure is quite likely--  it won’t look like the plan is failing, it will look like the person is failing.   The dieter will say, “If I could have stopped eating those donuts Friday mornings I wouldn’t have gained this weight”, or “If I wouldn’t have stopped going to the gym, I would have burned off these pounds”.   So they don’t  change their thinking, and they will continue to fail.    What these dieters don’t understand, because their oversimplified view of food disallows this understanding,  is that their diet drove their behavior:  They HAD to eat those donuts.  And They HAD to take a nap after lunch instead of going to the Gym, because certain elements of their diet imposed dilemma upon them.

We would never suggest that the key to beating nicotine addiction is to ‘limit yourself to one smoke a day” and we shouldn’t attempt to maintain or lose weight on a diet heavy with foods that are designed to be stored as, or to otherwise make us accumulate, fat.   
 Food is no less a drug than nicotine and there is a clear, undisputed link between certain foods and storage hormones within the body: The control of those hormones is the key to controlling your weight.  Not exercise, not calorie restriction, and not fat restriction.  Numerous circumstances, some comical and some nefarious, have caused many people to deviate from that simple, provable, and in a skinnier age well-known, truth. 

The Obesity Epidemic is the result of that deviation.

If you are of the lucky but shrinking majority who can counteract the deleterious effects of certain foods by focusing on caloric restriction and exercise, count yourself lucky, but we shouldn’t,  just because some people persist despite living in such opposition with themselves, thrust such a proposition on the population as a whole.   

Powerful stuff, this:

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/09/hitchens-201009

 

Well, I'm only still reading it, and maybe powerfull isn't the right word, but it's somthing.  A must read, for instance.

Not familiar with Hitch?   http://article.nationalreview.com/437551/second-thoughts/david-horowitz  has some info.  I don't know him too well, but is a muscular debater, and I think something of a boozer.

hey, look, McGovern gets mugged by reality

Dinner for schmucks was always going to be painful to watch, but it had Meet the Parents type of potential to be Brilliant AND Painful. This was not brilliant.

It was interesting seeing Juff Dunham play a bad ventriloquist. I think the dummy he used was the same one the bad ventriloquist used in that documentary I saw back at the Atlanta Film Festival. Definitely painful.

Did some paddle boarding on the quarry next to the old office yesterday too. Chill.   Kinda want one tohelp me crack my head open on  the Toccoa. 

Dave is moving to Virginia.  Bah.

I'll be back in ATL next weekend.