When to eat your cake - heard of intermittent fasting?

[Dick7Access]

Real fact - if you were to somehow pick up Rhode Island, rotate it about 45 degrees, and drop it in Lake Superior, it would fit entirely inside the lake.

Yes, one of the lakes surrounding my home state is larger than some states. Some nations, for that matter.

You can't legally park a stretch limo in RI, because one end hangs over into MA and the other end over CT.

here we go of the thread again

 

[Rx_]

I don't mean to get on my soap box... but
It isn't a real island!

 

[Frothingslosh]

I don't mean to get on my soap box... but
It isn't a real island!

Drop it in Lake Superior and it would be!

 

[ColinEssex]

here we go of the thread again

Yes, and Frothy is ignoring my question as I suspected he might.

Col

 

[Dick7Access]

I don't mean to get on my soap box... but
It isn't a real island!

That's not my fault, I didn't name it and I didn't give it it's nickname. I didn't even have a choice if that is where I wanted to be born. I would have picked Fenway Park, or Yankee Stadium but for some silly reason my mother chose Woonsocket Hospital.

 

[Alc]

Drop it in Lake Superior and it would be!

Not necessarily.
According to Google:
Lake Superior is 406m deep.
The highest point on Rhode Island is Jerimoth Hill, at 247m.
Drop it in and it becomes a less-mythical Atlantis.

 

[Frothingslosh]

Yeah, but you have to take into account that the edges wouldn't be at the deepest parts. I expect you'd only be able to submerge the 'sea level' for the state maybe 20 or 30 m down.

Either way, I don't think the Rhode Islanders would be very amused - that water is COLD.

 

[Brianwarnock]

Yes, and Frothy is ignoring my question as I suspected he might.

Col

If you followed the thread you would find I had answered that in post 112, kit was the WHO.
NO NOT THE BAND OR THE DOCTOR but the World Health Organisation.

Keep up Col

Brian

 

[Rabbie]

Real fact - if you were to somehow pick up Rhode Island, rotate it about 45 degrees, and drop it in Lake Superior, it would fit entirely inside the lake.

Yes, one of the lakes surrounding my home state is larger than some states. Some nations, for that matter.

Wouldn't it make a very big splash when you dropped it in. Perhaps the Canadians would have something to say about that

 

[The_Doc_Man]

With regard to the "fasting" question... My problem is that as I age, I am "slowing" not "fasting."

Seriously, I have been working on my health the best I could. At age 68 I am still working for financial reasons but I've started to see the light at the end of that particular tunnel (and no, I don't think it is the headlight of an onrushing train...) My blood pressure and cholesterol are under control, though right now I'm going through some liver problems after my gall bladder excision last year. I've had doctors tell me "You're in great shape for the shape you're in." Talk about damning me with faint praise!

Col, I have to agree with you that a Chinese buffet is a guilty pleasure. I've discovered, however, that if the establishment offers what we call "Mongolian stir-fry" that I can more precisely control what I eat. I can fill up with healthier stuff than some of the other things with higher salt and sugar content. When that first plate is done, I can browse and forage for other goodies to give me a taste that will be almost like a dessert. For instance, Sesame Chicken has a sweet sauce, as does Sweet and Sour Chicken. Even General Tso's Chicken has a somewhat sweet sauce. I won't say I eat exactly what I should in such places, but I have a strategy to minimize the damage.

I noted your comment about getting a decent cup of tea at McDonald's. While I'm not a big fan of "pure" varietal teas, a blended tea can be pleasurable. However, at least in my area (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA), coffee is the drink of choice. Therefore, if I wanted to get hot liquids, it would either be hot coffee or hot chocolate. I would have to check to be sure, but I don't think hot tea is even on the menu at the two McDonald's restaurants nearest to my house.

As to fasting, I have read that actually it isn't that we should fast - it is that we should eat five or six very small meals per day (perhaps less total food than we would normally eat if we had three "normal" meals). This keeps our blood sugar levels constant by reloading every few hours, but (by seriously cutting down proportions) keeps our total calorie intake lower. The problem, of course, is - who among us has the will power to reduce proportions to that level? But that statement is based on our evolutionary eating pattern of foraging and resting.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

By the way, I've been to Rhode Island. Picturesque, some great sea-side venues for the restaurants - but they go spoil it all by serving lobster. As a New Orleanian, I know I will never be able to eat lobster as anything other than a component of a crab meat and lobster topping based on a heavy cream sauce with pepper. I've seen that under various names and don't know what it would be called elsewhere. But if you want to serve me a whole lobster, do me the favor of boiling it in cayenne pepper sauce.

The other thing I can say about Rhode Island is that their capitol city, Providence, rolls up its sidewalks at 8 PM downtown. You have to go into the suburbs or cross a state line to do anything of interest late at night in downtown Providence. Part of that is perhaps due to their strict Catholic influence, I think, though these folks are even stricter than the New Orleans Catholics. The Rhode Islanders just don't seem to know how to "pass a good time" as our local Cajuns would say.

 

[Dick7Access]

By the way, I've been to Rhode Island. Picturesque, some great sea-side venues for the restaurants - but they go spoil it all by serving lobster. As a New Orleanian, I know I will never be able to eat lobster as anything other than a component of a crab meat and lobster topping based on a heavy cream sauce with pepper. I've seen that under various names and don't know what it would be called elsewhere. But if you want to serve me a whole lobster, do me the favor of boiling it in cayenne pepper sauce.

The other thing I can say about Rhode Island is that their capitol city, Providence, rolls up its sidewalks at 8 PM downtown. You have to go into the suburbs or cross a state line to do anything of interest late at night in downtown Providence. Part of that is perhaps due to their strict Catholic influence, I think, though these folks are even stricter than the New Orleans Catholics. The Rhode Islanders just don't seem to know how to "pass a good time" as our local Cajuns would say.

5 years ago I would have agreed with you, give me Cajun food, but two years ago I was overdosed by my Dr. with a antibiotic and burn my stomach limning. My tongue still likes Cajun but my stomach can only handle bland. However, even 5 years ago give me a boiled lobster with melted butter.

 

[AnthonyGerrard]

Catholics and no nightlife does that exist. From irish heritage admittedly, but our local church had to move midnight mass earlier to make sure the pub didn't empty into the church.

 

[AccessBlaster]

However, even 5 years ago give me a boiled lobster with melted butter.

for the spiny variety, crack the back and straight onto the barbie. Ice cold beer, now that's a diet.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

I just find boiled lobster, with or without butter, to be woefully bland. It must be an acquired taste, or perhaps it is only tasty if you haven't burned out your taste buds on Cajun food since you were knee-high to a short duck.

I've been to Hawaii and have eaten poi. If you have dietary problems and can't handle strong tastes, lobster and poi would (to me) be the ideal tasteless diet. The subtlety of lobster gets overwhelmed by almost anything, in my estimation. I've had lobster in Salem, Massachusetts and in suburban Providence, Rhode Island, plus I think one other time when I was in San Francisco. Three different venues, same result.

Give me cayenne-boiled shrimp any time. If you happened to have boiled corn on the cob and small red potatoes in the pot at the same time, .... YUM! Interestingly enough, my dietary problems are not pepper-related. It is oil content or fat content that gets me. The afore-mentioned boiled foods don't give me trouble.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Catholics and no nightlife does that exist.

Anthony, I can only say that apparently it does if you are in Providence. Perhaps it is the Puritan influence somehow still permeating the area? All I can say is that it took a lot for me to find an all-night diner and a news stand that sold magazines of ANY kind, reputable or otherwise.

 

[Dick7Access]

I just find boiled lobster, with or without butter, to be woefully bland. It must be an acquired taste, or perhaps it is only tasty if you haven't burned out your taste buds on Cajun food since you were knee-high to a short duck.

I've been to Hawaii and have eaten poi. If you have dietary problems and can't handle strong tastes, lobster and poi would (to me) be the ideal tasteless diet. The subtlety of lobster gets overwhelmed by almost anything, in my estimation. I've had lobster in Salem, Massachusetts and in suburban Providence, Rhode Island, plus I think one other time when I was in San Francisco. Three different venues, same result.



Give me cayenne-boiled shrimp any time. If you happened to have boiled corn on the cob and small red potatoes in the pot at the same time, .... YUM! Interestingly enough, my dietary problems are not pepper-related. It is oil content or fat content that gets me. The afore-mentioned boiled foods don't give me trouble.

I think it's a little of acquired taste and both bland and Cajun? I guess I am in the middle. I like both. Boston Lobster Feast, Orlando, FL. It's all you can eat. I had 5 Maine boiled Lobsters and the big claw from my wife's.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Now, I'll admit that I have eaten cayenne-boiled mini-lobsters. Of course, the Damn Yan... (whoops, I mean "Northerners") call them crawfish.