The critical case against Skim Milk and Boxed breakfast Cereal

So  much evidence...

Brain and body are toast, dealt with the City Assessor office this morning.  Not a SINGLE FUCKING BIKE RACK AT MY TOWN HALL.

WTF

Locked up to a rusty one way sign.


Granted i think this city is one of the most sprawling ones.  Used to be three cities.  Now is one. Offices in the middle one.

And no bike rack. Not that anyone rides in this town except after driving a mile or to the bike path.

Moving a big scope this morning, cleaning and prepping rooms for delivery of a table tomorrow so heavy and big Riggers have to have the transport/set up contract.

between the headwind on the way in, the ride last night, short on the sleep with the stupid time change, the stress of dealing with a pile of problems on top of everything else, my brain is just as blah as my legs are feeling.

Someone asked about a good case against the whole have a bowl of insulin spiking pancreas killing fat american making for breakfast.  IOW a bowl of boxed sugary cereal with skim milk.

I've more or less departed from lots of grains for breakfast except before long rides or race days.  If I'm going to eat a breakfast I'm going for an egg, some bacon, left overs scrambled with egg...  something substantial, with a good balance of essential fatty acids and heavier on the protein to give the body the raw material for making hormones and cell repair and to help attenuate the hunger signals.

A pile of my pancakes work okay because they are full of whole grains and fats and I dont drown them in syrup. (Maple Syrup is f'n expensive yo?!)  But usually being old and fat and experimental and shit, if i eat a large lunch, a snack after riding home, and a big dinner, black coffee is all I need to get through to Lunch.

But here.  If you are going to have milk in the house, only have Organic Whole milk.  The fat in there is extra calories that can be processed pretty easily but it also lowers the insulin response and makes it a better 'food unit.'  Organic because dairy is pretty sketchy stuff.  Organic isn't THAT much better, it isn't like getting a nice gallon of Raw milk in an old wide mouth glass container from your friend down the road with a bunch of cows that are hand milked.  But it is one hell of a lot better for you than the cheap stuff.  So what if it costs a couple dollars more.  Find something else to save a few dollars on.  Maybe replace one trip with a bike trip. That'll make up the difference.

As far as the cereal goes...  Granola is sweet, and fills you up more readily than a bunch of color infused and sugar processed and carefully engineered things that used uber processed raw materials to be made into something that survives a milk bath.  Look less at sugar content and more at nutrient density and complexity. If it comes in a box and says whole grains it means there is probably more sugar to make it taste better.  But if it isn't 100% whole grains skip it.

rules of thumb and maybe some day I'll get a nice intersection of motivation and time and actually put the info together more along the lines of the title of the blahg post.

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