Goya 2 Goya

Dinner plates in the US of A have gotten bigger over the last few decades just as Americans have gotten bigger over the last few decades. Fortunately, our brains have not changed. Our eyes are still less intelligent but more persuasive than need be. If our Eyes see something tasty, we get hungry; if our eyes see the plate is full, and we eat it, they are satisfied. So, if you have a small plate crammed with food and eat it, you'll be full. If the plate just happens to be smaller than normal and the amount of food is smaller than normal, you'll still get full because our eyes are less intelligent than need be. Therefore, use smaller plates and you'll lose weight. Maybe.

Music is from musicalley.com and it is:

Intellegent Ignorance by radoon
Destination Unknown by Somewhere Off Jazz Street
One More for the Road by Goerge Wood
Talk, Talk, Talk by Cheryl B. Englehardt

Here's the simplest formula for weight loss. Calories In minus Calories Out ~  CI - CO = ?

If the total is a Minus number, you lose weight. If it's a Positive number, you gain weight. If it's zero, your weight doesn't change.

Look at that equation again: CI - CO = ? (for example, 2000 - 2500 = -500. This is Weight Loss. Or, 2500 - 2000 = 500. This is Weight Gain.)

You can Decrease calories in or you can Increase calories out. Or, you can do both: Decrease CI and Increase CO at the same time. This will, eventually, make you lose weight. Remember it. Use it. Think of it when you eat or exercise.

Check with your doctor before trying anything crazy that your body isn't prepared for like exercising, dieting, or going on long treks across the continent of your choice.

Goya2Goya Episode 31: The In and Out Calorie Store

Music from MusicAlley.com

0:00 Me blathering on about weight loss.

2:40 Big George Jackson Blues Band - Beggin' Ain't for Me.

7:09 The Scotty Meyer Band - Beggin' For More

10:12 Graham Day and the Gaolers - Begging You

13:48 Hollow Horse - Beg

Winter. If you're old enough, you're not snowboarding down well-groomed snow while dressed in the correct fashion. You might be thinking, I ain't got the energy for that. Well, you're wrong, my friend. All you've got is the Winter Sit-Around-The-House-All-Winter-And-Get-Fat Blues. Best destroyed by Warm Island Music.

Winter seems to encourage both laziness and lethargy. Both can only add pounds to our butts. Something we want to avoid. How? Walking in the snow? Not bloody likely, eh? Walking around the mall listening to reggae? More likely. Shoveling snow while listening to Island Music?! Yes! Alright! But don't over do it. You're not 18 anymore, you know.

We don't want to sit around anymore and we have our New Year's Resolution to Lose Weight! Well, there's no better time than right now. Get up. Walk until the music stops, then walk back. (remember, consult a doctor if you haven't exercised since high school.)

Music from musicalley.com is:

Jaya the Cat......Good Morning
Jack Wyles.........Just a Jazzy Reggae Suite
Charlie Bobus....Creative Energy
Casandra............Right

Stress!

Not Something You Need!

You don't need it and you don't want it. But you've got it. How do you get rid of STRESS! There are a lot of ways. There isn't alcohol: that relieves stress for a bit but gives you bigger problems. Liver diseases and alcoholism being two. There isn't drugs: as fun as that might be, there are dangers.

Relieving stress is a lifestyle change. What causes you stress? Try to work around it or delete it. Traffic a problem? Try a carpool - share the stress. Or a bus - save the earth, save some money, and save some hassles. Work too much? One word: delegate. Slump it off on your assistant. Don't have an assistant? Re-organize your day or talk to your boss. Don't let your Work Life screw up your Life.

Your Spouse a problem? Can't help you there, dude, you're on your own. I'm no Dr. Phil, you know.

Exercise a problem? No it isn't! How can it be a problem?! You're Listening to Goya2Goya! Oh, sorry. A tad little stress problem there. Here, take this podcast and go for a walk. Walk in one direction until the music stops. When it does, turn around and follow your own breadcrumbs home. Enjoy. Lose weight. Lose stress!

Today's Music is:

1:45 - 5:10 Project Synder..... Stress Relief ("What seems to be the problem, Dave?")

5:10 - 9:18 Jim's Big Ego.....Stress (Great little comedy tune about stress.)

9:18 - 12:57 Stressbitch....The Mother of All Smokescreens Feat. George Galloway (A little political something to irritate everyone - George is a British anti-war politician. See George.)

12:56 - 17:39 Ariyasamade... Just Relax (A nice little guitar music to round out our walk today.)

Music today is provided by musicalley.com

More music to walk by if you're a walker, to hike by if you're a hiker and to stroll by if you're a stroller. Especially if you're in a crowded mall and don't want to hear the junk that comes out of the speakers in the sky. These tunes are from musicalley.com. At a little over 15 minutes, once the music stops and the fat lady sings, turn around and go back the way you came. Tada! A thirty-minute walk - which is a tad bit shorter than it took me to put this episode up.

Live up to your challenge!

The musicians are:

• Ledenhead - Resurrection From the Small Bang
• FiveKnights - Resurrection
• Inner Flux Angels - Resurrection
• Chachi on Acid - Resurrection Cemetary

Enjoy your walk and enjoy the music.

Music suitable for hiking around the mall - sort of overrides the Christmasy schmaltz of the mall variety. At about 23 minutes, it is also suitable for first time walkers to hoof it for 23 minutes. Or, 11.5 minutes one way, then spin around and walk 11.5 minutes back.

Music is from musicalley.com and provided by the following excellent musical entities. Enjoy your walk. Enjoy listening.

• Love=Action's The New Year
• Special Patrol's New Year's Eve
• Emissary's New Year
• Biareus' Arabia
• 2012's Soldier Trapped in a Drunken Spell
• AJ the DJ's Lesbians on the Beach in Guam

Our next episode will include music ala resurrections!

What is salt but that which we spice up our food with? Unfortunately for most Americans, there is more salt in our food than just what we put in it. If you have high blood pressure: lower your salt intake. If you eat a lot of processed foods because you're in a hurry, you have too much salt in your diet. How do we take care of this salty intake? It's been said once and may well be said again. And your mother said it a thousand times but did we listen? Noooooo. To reduce salt intake and to garner other health benefits: eat your fruits and vegetables; reduce red meat consumption; eschew white bread for grains; pass over white rice for brown. That sounds pretty simple, doesn't it?

Here's a shoe you might want to check out if you're going to start walking seriously. It's New Balance's M749 (2E) Walking Shoe. A lightweight breathable shoe for country walking and will run you about $60. Available at all fine walking shoe stores but not, oddly, Amazon.

I interviewed a non-meating eating friend in Tokyo last week. The interview was on the run - as we walked to the busiest train station in Japan (Shinjuku) after a night of drinking beers and rum-based drinks, I asked him about vegetarianism and protein.

About three minutes into the interview we enter Shinjuku station and the background noise level goes up. I think you can still hear him well enough to learn about kale, seaweed, and protein.

He mentions two words that may not be familiar to those less fortunate to have not been born in Japan: izakaya and yakitoriya. An izakaya is a food and drink establishment that serves a wide variety of food; everything from chicken and fish to tofu. A yakitoriya is a place that serves primarily fried chicken plus other foods including tofu and a variety of veggies. Both serve a Lot of alcohol: beer, sake, and shochu (rotgut sake, if you will).

Enjoy.

About 66% of Americans are either overweight or obese (30% of body weight is fat or more) and we spend about $20 billion on gym memberships. There has been a 500% increase in the number of Americans who are more than 100 lbs overweight since 1987. And Time magazine has a story titled: "Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin." Which should actually be titled: "Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin if You Gorge on Fat Foods After You Exercise." But how many of us will stop exercising because of it?

At 10 minutes into the show, our musical feature "Desert People" by 1000psi from musicalley.com begins. Thanks for listening and enjoy the show.

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We deal with the rain and alcohol. What's wrong with it and what's right with it - when dealing with weight loss. Then we talk about simple exercises you can do on your couch - crunches and situps. Finally, a short babble about food and what you should eat - not fat, obviously.

All included with two songs under the talking: Jim Tetlow's Song For a Virtual WaterPhone and Machinist's Cold in Hot Cities. Both can be found at podsafeaudio.com (I believe.)

In this episode I talk about some of the Advantages and disadvantages of walking.

Among the advantages are:
it's free, you can do it anytime, it's aerobic, you don't need special equipment, you can lose weight doing it, and when you stop - for whatever reason - you don't feel you're wasting money on a gym.

The disadvantages include:
cars, dogs, sometimes it's dangerous to walk, and it's hard to walk in a snowstorm, hurricane, rain, or when it's too cold. And if you go to a gym you'll have access to a trainer who might help you more than if you just walk alone.

Also, if you collapse at a gym, chances are high that someone will call a paramedic. If you're walking, you will have to rely on the kindness of strangers.

But mostly I walk because I like seeing new people and things and relaxing while I exercise and, hopefully, lose weight, lose fat, reduce my cholesterol, and work on a few muscles.

I talk about motivation, again, and the fact that my cholesterol (both good - HDL - and bad - LDL) has gone down. Why? I don't know: improved diet? exercise? eating more almonds and cashews? I also talk about lifting weights to exhaustion and how that might be good if you can't walk because of rain or sunshine or a favorite TV show. And we end with a 30 second Frankenstein song I've titled "Hello Chicago" and made with a lot of help from some creative people at http://freesound.org - Notofficial, Odington, and Flick3r. Thanks for listening.

Continuing our motivation diatribe. I talk here of setting attainable goals and finding inspiration in the 300 lb people of Alabama and Mississippi in my fat loss lifestyle. Clearly, we need to maintain a certain motivation and resist all attempts at breaking down our resolve - easier typed than done. Taking a tip from Alcoholics Anonymous, we should live one day at a time.

This episode finishes with a short tune titled "Fear." It was put together by me but I was merely the producer. The real talent lies with the following people I found at http://freesound.org : Flick3R, Notofficial, Walter Odington, and bebeto.

Fear is by Goya2Goya feat. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Fitzgerald Kennedy on vocals. Enjoy.

News coming out of the internet pipes today was that two states in these United States are competing for having, on average, the fattest people in the universe: Mississippi and Alabama are necks and necks in the tubby awards. And I'm not helping any.

I want to talk about Motivation for a moment: We Need Motivation and we Need Change. If we want to keep to our New Life Styles (not diets - diets don't work but life styles are forever. Maybe) we need Motivation, Rewards, and Goals.

We need, to coin a phrase, Change we can believe in.

On other news, fasting - not eating or limiting the intake of nourishment to a minimum as in a fruit fast or a juice fast - is a good way to jump start your new or continuing life style change.

In the audio portion, we have some electronica: Fast Like Mahatma Gandhi feat. the Dalai Lama on vocals. Please enjoy.

Fat. It does a body good. First, it protects internal organs - cushions the blow when you get into a fight or tumbling accident. Second, it provides us with healthy looking skin and hair - fat hair? Third, it helps our brains function normally - as normally as they can, I guess.

Is fat good? Yes. And no. Of course. This is nature, not partisan politics. The good fat in food is unsaturated - both poly and monounsaturated fats are good for us. Poly and monounsaturated fats can be found in nuts and canola oil (mono), and fish (poly).

Bad fat comes primarily in the saturated form. Saturated fat is found in animal products such as meat (of course), cheese, eggs, and milk. What does bad fat (saturated) do? It raises LDL (Bad cholesterol) and raises the overall cholesterol rating (it might also raise the HDL - good - cholesterol but not as much as it raises the LDL.)

What does good fat (unsaturated) do? The opposite, of course, it lowers LDL and raises HDL.

What we are aiming at in our daily life is health and that seems to mean less saturated fat and more unsaturated fat; more nuts and fewer cheese dips; more fish and less dead cow. Generally, in order to lower LDL and raise HDL and to lower our fat consumption we need to eat our vegetables and fruit. And exercise.

This week I did deadweights for about 20 minutes a day. I feel great. I feel like Tony the Tiger. I feel... like I should do it for at least 20 days - forming a good habit.

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