20121203: Cupcake made of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #food
20121203: Cupcake made of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #food
I’ve looked at my stats, and people keep coming back here for a few things. In particular, people come for sketches about food, color, object as text, drawings, cupcakes, and animals. I couldn’t get them all in here, but I certainly got a few. Enjoy!
20121127: Decadent chocolate cupcake sketch by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #drawing
20121127: Decadent chocolate cupcake sketch by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #drawing
So I’m fit. I have a pretty well established nutritional set of guidelines that focus on whole grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts and beans. However, a big part of my philosophy is that if you want it, you should eat it, or else you spend your day thinking about it, instead of simply enjoying it, perhaps until you explode into and finish a cheap box of whatever. This extends to a lot of different foods that people label as bad, like cupcakes. Cupcakes are delicious! In moderation, they can fit into anyone’s nutritional goals. Make them special, infrequent, and especially tasty. I’m suggesting you give up pre-packaged Tastycakes that you might consider eating every day, and instead, every once in a while, go deep in, indulge, and either make or buy a decadent cupcake with rich mousse or frosting or cream. Savor each bite slowly, letting the umami of the dark chocolate melt into your tongue. And know the calories, count the calories, log the calories.
In this video, I discuss one of my own most useful benefits of logging my food to an online database, MyFitnessPal.com. I’m able to see at a glance my most eaten foods in context of all meals, breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner, and evening snack. As a result, I can see the foods that have contributed to my success in losing weight, and will contribute to my future success in maintaining weight and nutrition. I include the list below, but I explain the items as they relate to my eating in the video.
Naan Pizza by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
Extra points for combinations: Naan, plus fresh sliced tomatoes, fresh Ciliegine mozzarella, and a bit of leaf basil, salt and pepper makes for a delicious treat. This list should make for a good grocery list if you are looking to lose or maintain weight, a good meal planning list, and a good way of seeing why I believe that I have a very reasonable nutritional outlook. My philosophy is much like Michael Pollan‘s: Eat real food, mostly plants, move more. Being fit does not require pain, but it does need a plan, knowledge, and patience.
20121113: Eat real food by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org (cc-sa) #design
20121113: Eat real food by John LeMasney via lemasney.com (cc-sa) #design
There are only a few key rules that I keep in my nutritional set. This is one of the most important: Eat real food. This covers a lot of other rules, such as avoiding processed, advertised, labeled, shrink-wrapped foods. It means shopping at farmer’s markets. It means avoiding foods with ingredient lists. It means cooking from scratch. It means everything, from a nutritional standpoint.
Crapt fattie fattie by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org
I don’t take part in Hallowe’en, I don’t feel guilty, and I don’t support giving out handfuls of candy to anyone for any reason. Our focus, socially, is off. I have a few other reasons to dislike the holiday, including the passing of my mother, lots of lost childhood popularity contests, and a dislike for the faux, but this post is about giving, identity, and food.
I am a socialist, if you need to know, on the political scale, but I’d rather give someone money or help or some other support than candy. I refuse. We should all be giving things away to those who need them, and not recollecting in different forms. I suggest Goodwill, or freecycling. But the idea of us all buying the same candy from the same distributors in droves to exchange with each other out of some wacky societal pressure to take part is, in a word, odd.
Have a party if you like, dress up for kicks if that’s what you’re into. For me, I think there is enough wonder, mystery, and surprise in who we actually are, and that we should focus on that. You should get to know me, and in reading this post you are, much more so than if I came to your door or party dressed as Heisenberg from Breaking Bad. I support getting to know others, though I’ve never done it on Hallowe’en in a 30 second exchange at the door, often with people I have only ever seen at my door for that purpose. I have gotten to know people better at gatherings, but no one needs to wait until the 31st of October to have a gathering. You can even wear costumes if you like, but I’d prefer to see you dressed to explain who you are, not how well you can emulate someone else’s creation. Make your own character, and have it be a bit about you. Or, just be you.
No one needs to eat a bag of candy. No one. This blog is nothing if not about health, and I would be dishonest if I said that it was fine and okay to excite anyone about eating thousands of calories in some gluttonous orgy of chocolate. Have some delicious, extraordinary chocolate, be aware of how much you had, and enjoy it. I had a bagel today, a treat, with some dark chocolate in it. The warm, toasted chocolate met and mingled with the salt in the bagel. It was delicious, and special, and no one ever handed one to me at their door on Hallowe’en.
In much the same way that other American holidays are about purchases, discounts, fear, escaping identity, excess, comparison and guilt, I think this one leads the pack. I’m not participating.
Naan Pizzas (#livealittle)
Tasty and creative Super bowl snacks!
Day 4: Whole Wheat Naan Bread Pizzas.
John LeMasney to defend Android vs. iOS tonight at Princeton Public Library
