Dear So and So

[bmccasland]

Dear colleague,
No need to get snarky when I asked if you're going to meet the project deadline. I haven't heard a peep from you about the report, field investigations, scheduling... nada, rien, zip. Funny thing, it's my head if we don't make the deadline, and I don't want to find out there are troubles at the end of the month. You may go back to your zoning out....

[solobiker]

Mimi, thanks for sharing the pics. I am so happy that he is feeling better and that you two enjoyed a much deserved trip.

[marni]

What cracked me up was how many people had to tell me I was climbing the tree the wrong way!

well it looks to me like you started at the bottom and were trying to get to the top. Is there a better way to climb a tree? I don't think you would call going from the top to bottom climbing?

So glad you had a good trip.

marni

[alexis_the_tiny]

Mimi, that holiday sounds wonderful, glad the two of you had a chance to get away. And is there a right way to climb a tree??!!

Dear doctor, when you prescribed me corticosteriods for my allergies, don't you think it'd warrant more warning than just "It's something stronger than Zyrtec, just take it and come back in a week."?!?! Whatever Google is telling me about Xepasone is not very comforting...

[Reesha]

Dear favorite LBS,

You guys are amazing! Thank you for the free bike fitting before my giant charity ride and THANK YOU for offering to sell raffle tickets for the quilt my mom is donating. You are the best!!!!

[Sky King]

dear favorite lbs,

you guys are amazing! Thank you for the free bike fitting before my giant charity ride and thank you for offering to sell raffle tickets for the quilt my mom is donating. You are the best!!!!

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[malkin]

I think it is easier to climb the tree on the top side of the arc.
Did you get a coconut?

[Biciclista]

I think it is easier to climb the tree on the top side of the arc.
Did you get a coconut?

according to my son, the monkey, it's better to power yourself up the underside of the tree because if you slip you land on your feet. I have seen him do it.

I, on the other hand am not strong enough to do that, I was just aping for a photo. I did not get a coconut there, although we collected them and my nephew opened two up and we ate them at another beach.

[SadieKate]

Dear Anonymous Person(s) Far and Wide:

Quit slamming carbs. Vegetables are carbs. Beans are carbs. Wheatberries are carbs. How about talking about simple vs complex carbs instead? Talk about glycemic load. You're leading the innocent astray.

[OakLeaf]

I have to say ... and I freely admit it may have more to do with enzymes and less with carbs, but I am feeling a lot better since I started cutting down on grains ... (which 80% of my grain intake was brown rice and almost all of the rest of it whole grains of other sorts) ...

(plus, most vegetables are water and protein with hardly any carbs...)

[VeganBikeChick]

I have to say ... and I freely admit it may have more to do with enzymes and less with carbs, but I am feeling a lot better since I started cutting down on grains ... (which 80% of my grain intake was brown rice and almost all of the rest of it whole grains of other sorts) ...

(plus, most vegetables are water and protein with hardly any carbs...)

I'm the same way. Pasta and grains do me in. I become the bloat factory. Much easier for my body to process plain ol' veggies and fruits. Even beans get me bloaty.

[BodhiTree]

I have to say ... and I freely admit it may have more to do with enzymes and less with carbs, but I am feeling a lot better since I started cutting down on grains ... (which 80% of my grain intake was brown rice and almost all of the rest of it whole grains of other sorts) ...

(plus, most vegetables are water and protein with hardly any carbs...)

I'm finding paleo type food choices make me feel a lot better also.

[lph]

(plus, most vegetables are water and protein with hardly any carbs...)

What kind of vegetables are you thinking of? I've always thought that most vegetables were relatively high on carbs and low in protein, though I know of exceptions.

I tried a search on nutritiondata.com, for vegetables highest in protein and total carbohydrate, and most of the top runners there had carb levels in grams a lot higher than protein levels in grams.

Not trying to be contrary, I'm truly curious I've been experimenting with gradually substituting some carbs with more fat and protein, and it sure works well for keeping my blood sugar stable.

[OakLeaf]

Well, okay, you got me, it must be enzymes.

I was really pretty surprised when I looked stuff up. I don't entirely trust the USDA database, partly because food really isn't fungible, and partly because the sample sizes tend to be very small, but the results are so far off what I thought that I trust *that* much.

It's too early in the morning for me to go back and re-read the basic summaries, but I'm going to assume that what the database shows for carbs is for digestible carbs, because the total of fiber and sugar all by itself is often greater than the total carbohydrates. (That's the "by difference" part, I think - they can't test digestible carbs directly, so they derive it from the total by subtracting fiber and sugar. I think.)

"Average" vegetables like spinach and rappini have approximately the same amount of carbs and protein. Really surprising to me. But what surprised me the most is carrots - though it probably shouldn't have, since they're so high in sugar. Carrots have the same carb to protein ratio as long grain brown rice (10:1) - and yet carrots are one of those things that if I eat enough of them (or drink carrot juice) I feel so good that I wonder why I ever eat anything else.

So it must be enzymes. (But it's still not the simple sugars in carrots which overall make me feel bright, strong, quick and healthy, vs. the complex carbs in brown rice, which make me feel logy and slow though not at all bloated - I'm not allergic to it, it's something else.)

[lph]

Cool. I've never even heard of rappini, actually I'm continually hearing vegetables mentioned here I've never heard of But I'm fairly sure most of the veg. I eat regularly, not a very impressive variety, are lowish on protein. I'd be happy to find more high-protein ones so I'll have a closer look at that list, and then go pester our local Turkish vegetable guy who sells a lot of strange-looking growths.