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Well the great state of Alabama is set to rehabilitate Carey Dale Grayson on Thursday, he’ll be executed by nitrogen gas hypoxia. This type of execution is bay far the most humane way that has been tried but of course the Hand Wringers don’t like it. Also we’re supposed to get a good rain today, 2″- 3″ they think, startling about 9 AM.
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So this feral scum-bag’s scum-bag attorneys are claiming that death by nitrogen hypoxia is cruel and unusual and potentially painful, right? I suggest a Louisville Slugger bat to the back of the head, right where the spine connects; that is the off switch.
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It looks like Joe and Mika flipped out when they saw their viewer ratings this week. CNN boss said do something drastic or you’re fired. Maybe call Mar-a-Lago and ask to see the new President.
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28,000 viewers?!?! Can that even be right?
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The picture said 9:00pm, so could be rebroadcast?
CNN at only 45k?!?
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You are correct. Gowdy’s show runs at 9:00 PM EST. It is a rerun from the morning, but even so 28,000 viewers is flatlining. How do you sell advertisers to buy ads there ?
Two days after election day, CNN had only 419,000 viewers in a 24 hour period and only 91,000 in the 25-54 age bracket. I would assume Morning Joe would get at least 50,000 out of that, but barely got half.
CNN Newsroom is the name of a single show on the network.
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I watched two episodes of Landman last night. As much as I love Billy Bob, I was less than impressed. I guess Sheridan can’t win ‘em all. I’ll give it one more shot.
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This is the opening of a column by Matt Taibi. He offers a 7-day free subscription to read the whole thing, but this good stuff…
The Washington Post couldn’t get through an article about Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya without using the F-word. The sub-headline from Saturday read, “The Stanford physician was excoriated by NIH’s director in 2020 for his “fringe” ideas on Covid. Four years later, he’s poised for power in Trump’s Washington.”
It couldn’t leave out the C-word, either:
[Bhattacharya’s] stances — and alliances — have also alienated him from many public health professionals, including on Bhattacharya’s own college campus…”We need to have an honest conversation about how a handful of prominent contrarian academics backed by corporate interests continue to tank evidence-backed policy, including COVID-19 protections,” Mallory Harris, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maryland who received her PhD in biology from Stanford this year, wrote last month…
If Donald Trump creates the position, I volunteer to be Secretary of Feeding People to Komodo Dragons. The first round of tossings into the lizard-pit will involve “experts” who still use grossly snobbish terms like “fringe” and “contrarian” to describe beliefs held by most of the population… [emphasis added in last paragraph]
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Julie Burchill at Spiked-Online with…
He did indeed spend the rest of his life doing the thing he loved, which he happened to excel at. People frequently called him a genius. Last but not least, he had sex with Nastassja Kinski for a whole three years. I once wrote: ‘Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death’s perfect punctuation mark is a smile.’ If ever there was a man to whom this applies, it was Quincy Jones.
But no. These days, it’s not enough to simply feel sad for a bit when someone dies, no matter how advanced their age or fulfilled their lives. Hearts must ‘shatter’. We must feel ‘broken’, ‘in bits’, ‘destroyed’. No one is so old that their death cannot be ululated over as a full-blown tragedy. When the great writer, ER Braithwaite, died in 2016, aged 104, I couldn’t help posting: ‘Taken too soon – I hate you, 2016!’
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You can see the most entertaining examples of fit-witism on the excellent Rita Panahi’s Sky News Australia segment, amusingly called ‘Lefties losing it’. You get the impression that this type of behaviour may have started out as performative and a bit keeping-up-with-the-Owen-Joneses (more on him later). But just as fame is a mask that eats the face, emotional incontinence is a poison that eats the brain. It’s possible that these people are suffering from an actual thing called ‘disconfirmed expectancy’, a type of cognitive dissonance produced when new information directly contradicts an individual’s existing beliefs. This causes disciples to double down on the trounced worldview, much as followers of apocalyptic religious cults, disappointed when the aliens fail to land, say it’s going to happen next year instead.
While this is true of the wretched followers, the leaders are good old-fashioned ‘cry-bullies’, a splendid phrase I created nearly a decade ago: ‘This is the age of the cry-bully, a hideous hybrid of victim and victor, weeper and walloper. They are everywhere, these duplicit Pushmi-Pullyus of the personal and the political, from Celebrity Big Brother to the frontline of Islamism.’
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‘no words’ (which is two words).
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Perhaps my favorite sentences in the Burchill essay.
But just as fame is a mask that eats the face, emotional incontinence is a poison that eats the brain. It’s possible that these people are suffering from an actual thing called ‘disconfirmed expectancy’, a type of cognitive dissonance produced when new information directly contradicts an individual’s existing beliefs.
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I was looking for corroborating evidence on the earlier Morning Joe ratings I posted. It’s frustrating, but I did find this for the days right after the election.
Thursday’s total average daily viewers on Fox News came in at 2.6 million and 375,000 in the coveted 25-54 age demographic, according to Nielsen data. Meanwhile, MSNBC brought in only 596,000 total viewers and 71,000 in the demo. CNN brought in 419,000 total viewers on Thursday and 91,000 viewers in the demo.
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Fox News was up some 60 percent year over year for the day, while MSNBC and CNN were down 23 and 40 percent – respectively. In prime time the news was even more bleak for CNN and MSNBC as they shed 30 percent and 54 percent of their viewers, respectively, compared to the same day last year. MSNBC host Alex Wagner had her lowest-rated show ever in terms of total viewers, while Chris Hayes’s show brought in its worst numbers since May of 2016.
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As I have said repeatedly, we heading straight into an energy crisis of dangerous proportions. Now we are facing this thanks to Obama, Hillary and Joe. There is no way the oilpatch can ramp up the energy production sufficient to cover the oncoming demand. Most of the rest of nation will be in trouble because they don’t the pipeline delivery infrastructure to rapidly deploy gas turbine plants. We must have nuclear too.
Texas has been predicted to need 80% more electricity by 2030 and might be able to do it with natural gas, but the imbeciles at ERCOT can’t get off high center. They’ve allowed themselves to become hooked on federal money for windmills and solar plants. It’s embedded in their budgets like heroin for junkies. The feds know human nature.
The U.S. nuclear energy sector’s dependence on Russian uranium created during a failed Obama-era reset with Moscow is coming back to bite Americans as the Kremlin moves to block future exports of the vital fuel.
Vladimir Putin’s new restrictions on uranium exports to the U.S., announced last week, come as the country’s war in Ukraine continues to heighten tensions with the United States and the West. His announcement created an immediate impact, as uranium prices soared and worries grew that American utilities might have trouble meeting electric demand next year.
It’s the latest fallout from a series of foreign policy decisions crafted by Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton that inexplicably strengthened Putin’s ability to wage economic warfare with energy supplies such as natural gas and uranium.
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Gotta run some errands here in a bit, but I’ll run through the C&C first:
Good morning, C&C, it’s Tuesday! Today we dig into two meatier issues. First, we check in on the rapidly shrinking hellscape of Trump cases, with encouraging news flowing freely. Second, I explain the astonishing rope-a-dope with which Trump —the author of The Art of the Deal— has lassoed the Senate, all but ensuring his nominees will be appointed. And lots more along the way.
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Two months ago, Alex Epstein testified before Congress. Epstein avoids politics and defeats the anti-fossil fuel crowd with logic and cost analysis. His testimony below, before the House Budget Committee, was devastating.
My name is Alex Epstein. I am a non-partisan philosopher and energy expert. I am grateful to share with members of both parties my analysis of “government-dictated green energy,” which is the essential energy policy of the Biden-Harris administration and of much of today’s world.
The basic idea of government-dictated green energy is that the government should force us to rapidly replace our use of fossil fuel energy with so-called green energy—above all, solar and wind—such that we reach net-zero GHG emissions by 2050.
There are three basic truths you need to know about the costs of government-dictated green energy:
1) They have been enormous so far
2) They would have been catastrophic had it not been for the resistance of their opponents
3) They will be apocalyptic if not stopped in the future
All the energy-related problems we have experienced in recent years—higher gasoline prices, higher heating bills, higher electricity bills, and unreliable electricity—are the result of government-dictated green energy policies.
When you shackle the most cost-effective and scalable source of energy, fossil fuels, and subsidize unreliable solar and wind, energy necessarily becomes more expensive, less reliable, and less secure. It’s that simple.
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The winning! Oh, the winning! I can’t take it!
The Trump Effect is crashing into the Trump Lawfare. Yesterday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution somberly ran a sorrowful story headlined, “Appeals court cancels hearing in Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump.” Since the election, it seems to Democrats they keep plunging through layers of Dante’s Inferno, and just when they think they’ve hit the hellish bottom, the rocky floor gives way, and they collapse into the next, hotter, even more infernal plane. Anyway, it’s more good news for President Trump.
I wonder if those lefties are packing their bags yet?
Mr. C. goes on to relate all of the legal failures/issues:
As though we were spiritual pilgrims, let’s review the nine levels of Trump-prosecution hell. The top two layers are the two federal cases, which are being specially prosecuted by Jack Smith, an odious little demon who Supreme Court Justice Thomas opined was illegally appointed…
These two cases are supposed to be closed or dismissed, ‘cuz prosecuting the boss ain’t allowed.
The NY scuzbag Engoran and his attempt to bankrupt Trump with the immoral, probably illegal, and mind-blowing $500B (non-)fraud case is in the process of being crushed by the appellate court like one of those car crushers at the junkyard. If only the smirking judge could suffer a similar metaphorical fate.
Then there’s “Judge” Merchan, who managed to get Trump convicted of paying legal fees to his lawyer.
…Judge Merchan has twice rescheduled Trump’s sentencing hearing, now facing the hideous prospect of sentencing a sitting President to jail — which simply won’t work — or even worse, not sentencing him to jail.
What kind of sheets are on that bed that he made?
Since the law used by Merchan is a “novel” use of the law and Trump would be a first-time offender…and now federalism issues are clouding the issue. I just heard on the radio that Merchan is now ‘indefinitely’ postponing sentencing. Without sentencing, the convictions don’t legally exist. So there’s that. But the Dems hold out hope that some TDS back alley holds a path to their wet dream of seeing Trump in jail.
And finally:
At last, we reach Democrat Hades’ lowest and most terrifying level, where the most vile and uncouth prosecutors burn eternally, consumed by scandalous flames of shame and disgrace. Although the Fulton County, Georgia RICO case carries the most serious charges, and therefore the most realistic prospect for prison, Democrats do not want to talk about it. It’s just too awful. They can’t even.
Although every Trump prosecution features shocking and bizarre legal characters obviously unsuitable to prosecute a case of undersized fish retention, must less manage the first presidential prosecution in history, no character is more shocking or bizarre to prosecute a President than Fulton County’s hapless district attorney, Fani Willis. Fani Willis, the plump county prosecutor who took orders from Biden’s White House and used the case as her personal bank account, generously spread Fulton County money around to her pals, and hired unqualified married men to work under her at the DA’s office, if you know what I mean.
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Good Morning Hamsters,
We’re enjoying a breezy and not humid morning with a clear blue sky. Some of the trees are losing more leaves. Other trees seem to suddenly have more yellow leaves. The pastures are still green despite not having much rain lately. Mother Nature is actively preparing us for winter, as it is almost dark here at 5 pm now.
The Dems are still in deep shock apparently. Their world seems to have gone with the wind on Election Day, and they can’t comprehend it yet. And then on the conservative side there likely are some folks who say “Pinch me if this is what we really did.” This time the Republicans are ready with plans well thought out and ready to go to Take Back America.
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I have theories, lots of theories, and here is one of them.
It’s after midnight and Trump is alone in his office when he makes a phone call.
Gaetz: Hello
Trump: Hey, Matt, this is President Trump. Are you alone ?
Gaetz: Yes, I am.
Trump: You have a problem and I have a problem. We can solve these together. The Ethics Committee has some bad evidence on you, nothing plenty of Democrats haven’t already done, but you need an out.
Gaetz: Yes sir, you are right about that.
Trump: Here’s the plan. I nominate you as incoming AG and you resign 24 hours before the report on you is supposed to be released. This covers you from censure in the House. It also means the Dept of Justice and the FBI buildings will be filled with sobbing, suicidal freaks frantically typing out their resignations. I won’t have to go to all the trouble to fire several thousand people over there because they will have all quit by January 20th.
Gaetz: What happens when my dirty laundry gets leaked all over the media ?
Trump: You withdraw at the last minute and I’ll appoint you special prosecutor to go after Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Garland and the rest of them all day, every day.
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Love this!
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I am neither mathematician nor physicist, but I am fascinated with trying to understand how God created the universe. This is a very well-done, non-boring video about basic physics, how simple things represent immutable laws and the one little equation that rules His universe.
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That is fascinating! Great find.
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Charlie Martin of PJMedia said the rumor on the street is Trump and his friends will threaten to release all the secret payoffs for Senators’ sexual indiscretions from a slush fund funded by US taxpayers over the years to get Matt Gaetz confirmed. It’s just a rumor but you never know….
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I think it is a great idea! Play hardball, way harder than what they expect and can handle.
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When this sort of disruptive nonsense happens, and it is always from the left, I suggest sending in about 50 dudes with bats and see how many home runs they can hit before the rest leave.
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Spotted over yonder;
After a long and exhausting day, a young woman finally settled into her seat on the train, hoping for a peaceful ride home. She closed her eyes, ready to drift into some much-needed rest.
But her hopes were quickly dashed by the man sitting next to her, who whipped out his phone and began speaking loudly enough for the entire train car to hear.
“Hi, sweetheart, it’s John! I’m on the train,” he announced.
“Yes, I know it’s 6:30, not 4:30, but I had a long meeting.”
“No, honey, I wasn’t with Cathy from Accounts—I was with the boss, I swear.”
“You’re the only one in my life. Yes, I’m sure, dear.”
For a solid fifteen minutes, the conversation dragged on, his voice dominating the space and testing the patience of everyone around him.
Finally, the young woman had enough. She leaned in close to him, then spoke loudly into his phone:
“John, darling, hang up and come back to bed already.”
The train car erupted into laughter, and John’s face turned bright red. He hung up instantly.
And from that day on, John never made another loud phone call in public.
H/T Grannies Funnies 😉
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This young leftist Democrat congresswoman has announced she’s running for governor of New Jersey next year.
Thanks to the Brick Suit guy we get this and like he says…
Who is going to tell her ?
Mikie Sherrill
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My grandfather, Bill, was a B-52 bomber pilot in WWII and flew missions over occupied France. He was shot down and rescued by the Free French. After hearing his stories as a kid, it became my dream to fly, just like him.
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Peoples exhibit #475,392 as to why a D should never be trusted or believed, regardless of what they say.
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On to the Cabinet appointees, and the resistance to them. Delays such as occurred after his last election has taught Trump many lessons, and he’s not taking their crap this time. We hope..
Trump has learned a lot since then. Yesterday, the Atlantic ran an unintentionally encouraging story headlined, “How Trump Could Make Congress Go Away for a While.” If only. The sub-headline explained, “An untested provision in the Constitution might allow him to install his Cabinet picks no matter what the Senate has to say.” It’s really good. And, it’s about to be Mike Johnson’s time to shine.
… The first principle is that the Constitution requires Presidential nominations to be confirmed through a yes/no vote by a majority of Senators. As noted, at the outset of Trump’s first term, the Senate tied Trump’s appointees up in knots and put them through the wringer in ugly, extended, contentious hearings. (Note for interest that Senate hearings to ‘interview’ nominees are a relatively recent innovation and are not constitutionally founded.)
Trump can avoid a lot of these headaches by implementing the Recess Appointments Clause. The Senate has avoided this by just not going into recess. But is there a workaround? Yes, there is! Trump can force a recess, under the right circumstances:
In 2014, the Supreme Court decided NLRB v. Noel Canning. Amidst an extended discussion of Appointment Powers, the majority opined that “the Constitution gives the President (if he has enough allies in Congress) a way to force a recess.”
The Constitution’s Article II, § 3, provides that…In modern language, the President can force both the House and Senate to adjourn whenever one of them passes a resolution to recess and the other doesn’t. A presidentially forced recess can last as long as the President wants. So, for instance, if the House of Representatives tells the Senate it wants Congress to recess, and the Senate “disagrees,” then the President may declare a recess to settle the disagreement.
For as long as he wants.
Circling back to the beginning, all this places Trump ally and House Speaker Mike Johnson in the spotlight. Trump may not even need to use his disagreement powers. The existence of a threat of an extended recess completely changes the dynamics. President Trump now holds effective negotiating leverage to strike a rational deal with the Senate, without having to dicker away the MAGA farm.
I do worry about this being used against conservatives later, but for now, it may be necessary.
This appointment strategy is wickedly smart. It took everyone by surprise. It evidences a stratospheric level of planning and master-level chess-playing by the Trump Team. Trump is getting some of the best legal advice I have ever seen. No wonder he is being so bold in his nominations, as if he’s not giving a single thought to the political considerations of nominating people that a majority of the Senate will go along with.
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In other words, Trump doesn’t need the Senate. He has Mike Johnson and the House of Representatives in his pocket. And since the Senate knows it, President Trump probably won’t even have to play his ace cards. For an even more mind-blowing experience, cast your mind back over the last four years, and recall how hard Trump has worked to get into this position of having a friendly Speaker and a MAGA Congress.
And that, dear friends, is why the Atlantic, slowly awakening to the danger, is panicking.
If Trump was a babe in the woods when in 2016, as a rank amateur, he set out to confirm his first term picks, this time he’s a grizzly bear in the Congressional woods. What other cards does Trump have up his sleeve?
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Did This Huge List of Celebs Promise to Leave US if Trump Won?
“I have a long list here of all the people who said they were going to leave America if Trump wins,” Tate said.The list included Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Rob Reiner, Barbara Streisand, Cher, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Megan Rapinoe, Tom Hanks, Amy Schumer, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Bill Gates, Jane Fonda, Madonna, Mark Ruffalo, Kim Kardashian, Bruce Springsteen, George Clooney, Hunter Biden, Oprah, Robert De Niro, Samuel L. Jackson, Miley Cyrus, Travis Kelce, Bobbi Althoff, Rashida Tlaib, Stormy Daniels, Anthony Fauci, George Soros, Diddy, Eminem, Ellen DeGeneres, Sean Penn, Sharon Stone, Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee, Bryan Cranston, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Bono.
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Just be gone, don’t let the door hit you where the good LORD split you.
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I loathe Rob Reiner
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Once a Meathead, always a Meathead.
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I thought everybody did.
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I just ordered a “starter kit” on sale from Byrna: a pop-up tent target for shooting practice, and some CO2 and ammo. I’m planning on buying a launcher for Hubby, but I’m waiting to see if there’s a Black Friday special. he bought me one, but indicated he thought he could use one, too.
I lubs my Hubby, and vice versa.
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Super Dave 3:28
I was at Toyota dealership for service in Brenham. This jerk sets up at a table, puts his phone on speaker, calls his mom, and several of his brokers. Sharing all of his personal stuff and moving money around with everyone else within 40 feet.
It was all I could do to keep from throwing his phone and cute little laptop across the show room floor. And slapping him for good measure.
A real 40-something self-impressed asshole.-
It must really suck to be inside that dude’s skin.
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Megan Rapinhoe and Assley Judd – severe, clinical insanity.
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Received today from Michael Berry:
Facebook killed the Czar’s Facebook page because he was getting 20 million views per month, which were to promote content he created to support President Trump and Republicans.
So, he pouted for a few weeks, now he’s starting over. Why even start over, why not just dump those awful people? Because we decided a big portion of our audience is on FB and this has been a great way to communicate things that we can’t always get out over the air, like Camp Hope information, Sponsor information, family pics, and profound questions like whether you prefer your eggs over medium or over easy (no joke, MB LOOOOOVES that stuff).
Follow the new page here, and please share his first post so the brigade can build back: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61568594070207-
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I have no idea what any of this means and the link leads me nowhere.
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Y’all have heard me talk about how un-hungry I am on this carnivore diet. I was getting discouraged and worried about not eating enough. “My Zero Carb Life” lady and the Steak ‘n Butter Gal, both carnivore gurus, kept saying over and over that the biggest mistake newbies make is not eating enough. I’m one of them. I was tracking my intake and I just had a hard time eating enough calories because I was satisfied with so little. As I kept hearing, “When your body is comfortable knowing that it is being fully nourished, your metabolism will rev up and you’ll start losing weight.” I kept hearing that if I ate until I was “comfortably stuffed” long enough, my appetite would “open up” and I’d get hungry, better. Calorie restriction tells my body that food is scarce and to reduce the metabolism. Feeding it well tells it that food is plentiful and it can open up the afterburners, so to speak.
I’m not wanting to lose weight primarily, but doing so will help manage the blood sugar. Wearing cuter clothes and feeling more comfortable are secondary goals. But losing weight will help me manage my glucose levels, if history is any indicator, so losing weight is a goal. So not being able to eat enough means not getting the metabolism up, and that means not losing weight, and that means my prediabetes is not totally under control.
So, eating enough was definitely a challenge with the dental surgery, but over the last few days I’ve been able to eat more comfortably. Yesterday afternoon, I got hungry about 4:00 p.m. and ate some food. Finished that and wasn’t “comfortably stuffed,” I was actually still hungry. So I ate some more. I still wanted more after that, so I ate again. I haven’t eaten that much at one sitting in…a long time. I was afraid to get on the scale this morning.
I was down over 1.5 pounds. Shocker!
I didn’t get hungry again until about 4:30 today. So again, I ate, then ate some more, then ate some more. Finally felt full. (It’s a good thing I had some leftovers in the frig!)
I’m interested in seeing what the numbers look like tomorrow.
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The Shrews on the View looked like they swallowed a pickle as one of them read a required “Legal Note” about what they said about Gaetz.
I’m sure they were forced to do it. Or else.
More of this please. Make these vicious harpies pay for their stream of hate filled spew.
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