Everyone except the two guys I listened to today, I should say. I will not name the podcast – I don’t want to get sued
and maybe these guys just have more to learn. I searched for more podcasts on low-carb living and found Podcast X.I should point out that the title of Podcast X was very indicative of low-carb. Like “We Love Meat and Fat” or “Hamburg R Us.” This was not a case of mistaken identity on my part where I thought it would be about low-carb and it was really something else. Nope, it was definitely supposed to be a low-carb podcast.
As I listened, the hosts were talking about their return from a recent vacation and how they’d both fallen off the “wagon” and had spent a week or two eating all sorts of horrific things. OK. I can understand that, in the spirit of true confession and all (which reminds me, I haven’t blogged about my birthday “dinner”). So one of the hosts was saying how he had ice cream every night, hot dogs, and steak!
Steak? The other host chimed in about how he had been eating too much “flesh” and how he was thinking how he really needed to get away from that. The next few minutes were spent talking about how not-so-bad the couple of trips to a national Smoothie chain were because while the smoothie of choice was 450+ calories, it only had 1.5 grams of fat. AND THERE WAS NO MENTION OF THE CARBS or SUGAR!
By now, I was ticked. While I paid nothing for this podcast episode, I felt ripped off! I quickly grabbed for my iPhone and was all set to call these guys! Only then did it occur to me that I didn’t have their number and it didn’t work that way! Not to worry, I left them a 2 star iTunes review. I gave them a couple brownie points for good rapport with each other. I ended my misery when they were debating whether rice pasta or wheat pasta was better for you.
Fear not! I can recommend some good podcasts! For low-carb, there’s none better than Livin’ La Vida Low Carb with Jimmy Moore. He has set the bar high for any other low-carb podcasters that dare to follow in his footsteps! For general good health and fitness, there’s Shauna & Carla’s Two Fit Chicks and a Microphone, and for sensible eating and weight loss, there’s Russ & Jeff from Fat 2 Fit Radio (though with more of a “calories in/calories out” bent for my tastes, but I do appreciate their work! They were my first podcast subscription!). I almost forgot Logical Weight Loss Podcast with Dave Jackson. Dave isn’t on board with the cutting the carbs too much either, but he keeps me in the loop with diet and exercise gadgets and is entertaining.
So the moral of the story is that there are a lot of voices out there. Listen for a minute to each one, decide who’s speaking from wisdom and from foolishness, and tune in accordingly.
