In this post, I’m going to be laying out some modernist cooking techniques, also known as molecular cooking, that have really helped me during my cut. Modernist cooking may sound a bit daunting, but what I’m really trying to convey is a how to use a few key ingredients like xanthan gum, psyllium fibres, guar… Continue reading The Restoration III-b: the modernist cooking guide to cutting
In my previous post, I laid out how one should set up the underlying basics to a fat loss diet. It went into macros and calories, how to determine them, how to adjust them, all that good stuff. But what’s wrong with this picture? It doesn’t tell you what to eat. This is the difference… Continue reading The Restoration III-a: how to set up a meal plan
Let me come out of the gate with two points I’d like to discuss: first, nutrition and how to set up a good cutting diet; second, I find cutting far more interesting from a scientific point of view than bulking. As such, this post will be going much more into the nitty-gritty, even doing some… Continue reading Restoration III: the Cut
After reading through a few books, and settling on Mike Matthews’ Bigger Leaner Stronger, I decided I needed to do a bulking phase. I was probably somewhere around the 7% to 10% body fat range, so a cut simply wouldn’t make any sense for me. Besides, the objective was to gain muscle, I had lost… Continue reading Restoration II: the Bulk
About a year ago, I started running into some health problems. They seemed pretty serious at the time, and I’ve been in and out of hospitals and doctor’s offices many many times since. Around January or February last year, I suddenly gained a lot of weight and I got these massive swellings in my abdomen… Continue reading Restoration: a health and fitness journey. I
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything here; I’ve been busy moving to Belgium. Moving takes up a lot of your time, it turns out. So much that I’ve hardly done anything else in the last couple of months. Even now, as our new home takes shape, there’s just so much left to do.… Continue reading Egg white magic: the Vauquelin and the Prigogine
Today I finished Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM). ADOM is a 1994 rogue-like game that originally was done in ASCII art. I started playing it some 15 years ago when it was recommended to me by a friend. In that time, I’ve played it on-and-off, frequently with a couple of years in between each stint.… Continue reading 15 years in the making: an ADOM victory
A few months ago, I decided to buy a set of whetstones to sharpen my knives. The decision to do this came from the breaking down of my sharpening tool and the fact that my knives were getting dull. I had one of these twin diamond or ceramic roller things that work reasonably well and… Continue reading A beginner’s guide to sharpening knives
There are movies you watch, and as time goes by, you start to like them more, simply by reflecting on them. There are also movies that you start to like less as time passes. For me, Joker (2019) is one of those movies. Not as severely as Interstellar (2014) or Prometheus (2012), mind you. Those… Continue reading Joker tries to have its cake and eat it too
The last three months I’ve been on parental leave. Nothing prepares someone for that. Maybe you think you’re gonna be doing something useful or fun or you finally get to read that book you’ve always been wanting to read. Well, nope. None of that. Most of your time is spent entertaining a nine-month old. Changing… Continue reading Chain ring maths
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