As too many people working to lose weight know, weight "plateaus" happen and it's not always clear why. I think it's because there are certain molecules that help the body give up its fat storage and utilize it and that some processed foods contain those certain molecules. I have had otherwise unexplained weight drops from some canned fish or cured meats, certain chocolates, and occasionally other processed foods.
By keeping a food diary and paying close attention to what seems to give results and what doesn't, I have arrived at a procedure that I think provides the needed molecules to go down from a weight plateau. Four times now, it has resulted in me experiencing weight drops of one pound in one day when combined with a low carbohydrate lunch, light cardio exercise, no processed sugars for either lunch or dinner, and a weight maintenance beverage at both lunch and dinner (see procedure for my weight maintenance beverage at the bottom of this post * ).
Here is the procedure:
Part One:
For breakfast, drink some distilled water that has sat in the sunlight in a glass container together with some minced celery leaf and toaster-roasted banana/plantain leaf (put the roasted banana/plantain leaf in with the distilled water and minced celery leaf right after toasting it black in the toaster). Don't have anything else. Think of this part as your "first breakfast."
I think part one provides a stabilized source of enzymes that are needed for the second part of this procedure.
Part Two:
Think of this as "second breakfast" and consume it about 1-3 hours after part one.
This part currently uses juniper berries that I collect from juniper bushes growing in yards and alleys. They aren't technically berries but are actually seed cones which are used as a culinary spice. I think the juniper berries can be replaced by other edible natural products, but I haven't yet determined which other natural products can be substituted for them.
Microwave uncovered sixty seconds in a microwave-safe plastic cup about seven (dusted off, dry) juniper berries together with a little just-grated cinnamon bark, a pinch of roasted banana/plantain leaf ash, and a little beer salt (beer salt has no beer; I think the silicon dioxide in it is the important ingredient). When the minute is over, stir the cup contents with the handle of a white plastic disposable spoon for about one minute.
Put a little salted butter on the blades of a "bullet blender." Press the juniper berries from the paragraph above into the butter. I use salted butter because all the unsalted butter in the United States of America started to have additives in the past few years.
Prepare another seven juniper berries by microwaving them for 90 seconds uncovered in a white mug with a little beer salt and a little cream of tartar (I think the cream of tartar is important because of the potassium in it). Stir the contents of the mug simultaneously with the handle of a silver fork and the handle of a bronze spoon from Thailand (yes, that is an unusual thing to have on hand, but I was given a set of bronze tableware from southeast Asia years ago). After stirring with both utensils for about 90 seconds, press these seven juniper berries also into the salted butter on the blades of the blender.
Put some distilled water (about 2 ounces) into the cup of the bullet blender, screw on the blade part, and blend for about 40 seconds to make a butter puree of distilled water, salted butter, and the two kinds of juniper berries. I think the butter provides a medium for mixing the nonpolar and polar chemical compounds on the surfaces of the two sets of juniper berries.
Eat a little raw green cabbage. (The cabbage has either enzymes or nitrates that are important).
Microwave uncovered for 60 seconds some Hershey's cocoa topped with some dried dill weed in a dry Mason jar. I use the jars that come with the Classico pasta sauce. After microwaving, stir in with a plastic utensil (I use a plastic chopstick) some just-sliced small pieces of Roma tomato.
Microwave uncovered for 60 seconds in a plain ceramic mug some Hershey's cocoa topped with dried onion powder, a little roasted banana/plantain leaf ash, and lastly a little red raspberry seed powder.
Pour a little butter puree into the Mason jar. Also pour a little butter puree into the plain ceramic mug. Mix the contents of the Mason jar with a long plastic utensil and pour them into the plain ceramic mug. Mix the contents of the plain ceramic mug together and then drink about a third of it.
Prepare ahead of time (but not more than 24 hours) around 10 dry soybeans in about 2 ounces of distilled water. I think the soaking water from this has some lipid molecules that are similar to phospholipids but that contain arsenic/antimony/bismuth in place of phosphorus. If the soybeans have soaked for 24 hours, put the container of them and the soaking water into the refrigerator to prevent them becoming slimy and gross; this should keep the beans from getting gross for another day or two.
Pour some of the soybean soaking water into the plain ceramic mug and stir with plastic. Consume about half.
Cut a little raw green cabbage into thin slices and put into the plain ceramic mug. Mix a little and consume the rest of the mug's contents.
If this works for you like I've felt it work for me, you might experience some faint fat-burning sensations, especially in your fingers or upper arms, within the next hour.
That was a bit daunting to type! I think this procedure can have some of the ingredients or steps removed, but I wanted to document that I finally have a procedure that has given repeated results on four different occasions. The big difference seems to be the new step where I microwave the juniper berries with beer salt and cream of tartar and then stir them with the two utensils, the silver fork and the Thai bronze spoon.
I'm not sure exactly why the beer salt is so helpful. I think it might be because the silicon dioxide when microwaved could be giving off tiny electron-sized sparks that facilitate the chemical reactions and ionizations listed in tables of standard electrode potentials (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_electrode_potential_(data_page)).
* Here is my weight maintenance smoothie.
Prepare in a jar a little beef gelatin powder mixed with room-temperature distilled water.In a high-speed blender, blend some fresh, rinsed broccoli florets with rinsed raw cacao nibs and distilled water.
Pour the blender contents once pureed and steaming (that takes about 50 seconds in my Blendtec at its top speed) into the jar of gelatin-water. Mix together in the jar.
Dilute with more distilled water to a pleasant drinkable texture.
I have this smoothie at lunch and dinner and avoid fried foods and simple sugars, and it has been doing a great job of keeping my weight steady. I think it's likely helpful because it's creating a molecule similar to insulin that keeps the body from making a lot of its own insulin. We tend to think of insulin as a good thing because diabetics need it, but insulin also tells the body to store fat.
[Update 12/10/2024: Something seems to have happened to the Thai bronze spoon and/or silver fork so that I couldn't recreate the weight loss for the past thirteen days. Yesterday I tried two different things to "recharge" whatever needed to be there:
1) I baked at 450 Fahrenheit in the oven the two implements (the fork and the spoon) with powdered dried eggshell then cooled them quickly in the freezer. This was done in case I need a specific crystal/lattice structure in the metal, a structure obtained by annealing.
2) I ran a current through the bronze fork and the silver spoon, using a 9-volt battery, by hooking them to a battery and placing them both in a glass jar of distilled water with a little salt added.
Yesterday morning, I used the first set of implements to do the originally posted experiment. Then, later in the morning, I used the second set of implements to do the same experiment (using the resulting juniper berries to replenish the butter puree leftover from the earlier try that day).
This morning I woke up and weighed in lower for the first time since I reported success with the originally posted experiment. I wonder if there is something in some of the more expensive dishwasher detergent pods that facilitated a needed change in either the silver fork or the Thai bronze spoon. I ran out of those more expensive pods and switched to the cheaper, store-brand dishwasher detergent pods.]
[Update 12/18/2024: I think baking the utensils at 450-500 Fahrenheit in the oven might be effective. I just did that today after first dipping the utensils in distilled water mixed with cocoa powder, then sprinkling powdered eggshell on them. The sensations I experienced afterward in my fingers and in other places in my body, especially when eating the tomato pieces after putting in the soy-soaking water, were very noticeable.]
[Update 12/31/2024: As I've been looking at what detergent residue might have been on the fork and spoon such as to help cause weight loss, I've been considering phosphorus compounds. Making tetraphosphorus (P4) is done by heating calcium phosphate, silicon dioxide, and carbon, and so I'm trying different ways of making it using powdered eggshell for calcium phosphate, silicon dioxide (included in many spice mixes as an anti-caking ingredient), and toasted banana leaf. Stirring it with my silver fork seems to be helpful, but who knows if that's from pure silver, an alloy of silver, or another metal that just happens to be in the metal fork?]
[Update 1/7/2025: Looking over my records, I noticed that I have unknowingly made tetraphosphorus before. On occasions where I have also used a source of carbon disulfide (CS2), I have seen weight go down. That points to phosphine (PH3) as being important. Phosphine is soluble in CS2, and it occurs as a reaction product when sodium hydroxide and tetraphosphorus are heated together. Phosphine has an odor like that of rotting fish, which would fit with the explained weight loss I frequently have seen from canned sardines.]
[Update 1/14/2025: I don't know whether it's the cauliflower I ate for the last two dinners or something else, but my weight just dropped two pounds. Here's what I did as far as my experiments in the mornings:
First, after waking and weighing, drink some celery leaf/roasted banana leaf/distilled water at around 7:15 am.
Then at around 9 am and 11 am, do the following:
1) Microwave dried parsley and about 7 raw juniper berries 60 seconds in a plastic IKEA cup. Press the juniper berries into a little salted butter on the tines of a personal blender.
2) Microwave about 8 raw juniper berries, beer salt, a pinch of roasted banana leaf ash, and just-grated cinnamon for 60 seconds in a ceramic mug. Press 2 of the juniper berries onto the salted butter.
3) Add ash from sulfur-treated banana leaf (soak raw banana leaf in epsom salt (magnesium sulfate) before toasting into ash) to the contents of step 2. Swirl in. Microwave for 60 seconds, then stir with handle of a silver fork. Press around 4 juniper berries onto the salted butter.
4) Add a little powdered white eggshell to the contents of step 3. Swirl in. Microwave for 60 seconds, then stir with handle of a silver fork. Press around the rest of the juniper berries onto the salted butter.
5) Eat a little raw green cabbage.
6) Microwave uncovered for 60 seconds some Hershey's cocoa topped with some dried dill weed in a dry Mason jar. After microwaving, stir in with a plastic utensil (I use a plastic chopstick) some just-sliced small pieces of Roma tomato.
7) Microwave uncovered for 60 seconds in a plain ceramic mug some Hershey's cocoa topped with (in order of adding) a little dried onion powder, a little roasted banana/plantain leaf ash, a little red raspberry seed powder., and a little of the sulfur-treated banana leaf ash. (I think CS2 in the sulfur-treated leaf ash might be a solvent for phosphite or phosphine.).
8) Puree the juniper berries, butter, and distilled water to make a puree.
9) Pour a little butter puree into the Mason jar. Do not stir yet.
10) Pour some butter puree into the plain ceramic mug. Mix the contents of the plain ceramic mug with plastic and then pour it into the Mason jar. Mix with plastic (I use a long plastic chopstick), and drink about a third of it.
11) Prepare ahead of time (but not more than 24 hours) around 10 dry soybeans in about 2 ounces of distilled water. Pour some of the soybean soaking water into some of the butter puree. Swirl together. Pour into the Mason jar, mix with plastic, and drink about half of it.
12) Add a little just-cut thin, raw green cabbage slices and put into the Mason jar. Mix with plastic, and consume the rest.
(Within about ten minutes, I felt a "thinner" feeling in my fingers. I also note that microwaving beer salt with cinnamon often results in an increased menstrual flow, but not a heavy one that would explain the weight going down.)
We finished eating the cauliflower yesterday, so I will have to repeat these steps this morning and see if my weight drops again.]
[Update 1/17/25: I came across a possibly-relevant cryptic message last night saying MNPO N TI. Manganese phosphite* in tea? Magnesium-nitride-phosphite? If so, I think it might have to be tea with cream, according to my research so far.
* "A phosphite anion or phosphite in inorganic chemistry usually refers to [HPO3]2− but includes [H2PO3]− ([HPO2(OH)]−). These anions are the conjugate bases of phosphorous acid (H3PO3). The corresponding salts, e.g. sodium phosphite (Na2HPO3) are reducing in character." (from wikipedia)]
[Update 1/25/25: I'm still playing around with the MNPO N TI message. I think the MN might be "metallized nitrite" with the metal being lithium or rubidium or something else that is often associated with red color and occurs in cinnamon.
This year in homeschool science, we are focusing on chemistry, especially food chemistry. As usual, I learn so much from teaching!]
[Update 1/31/2025: I recently realized that I was not paying attention to the element cerium (Ce) in my experiments. Time to change that! Same for Cs. I think I should see what happens when I try to get cesium-nitrite compounds and cesium-nitrite compounds.]
[Update 2/1/2025: I also need to focus on anhydrous calcium. I think I made it one day when I microwaved aluminum foil with some other dry ingredients, but I've been leery of repeating the experiment due to arcing in the microwave. My current hypothesis is that CaI(NH3)2 is the molecule I want to have react with arseno/antimony/bismuth-lipids, especially ones with serine.]
[Update 2/6/2025: Now this is interesting! If I put some raw green cabbage in to blend with the butter puree, I get results. Maybe the cabbage is helping me get the iodine or the nitrogen compounds I need.
Also, soaking water from soybeans appears to have a substance that interferes with weight loss...perhaps it is a plant growth hormone like abscisic acid or gibberellic acid that is released during the soaking process. We really don't have much information on plant auxins and their effect in our diets.]
[Update 2/7/2025: If you think this post has gotten long, you should see my food diaries! They're full of what I eat, when I exercise, and what different chemical compounds I'm looking at. I think I have at least three composition folders full now.
This week I might have gotten 1-2 pounds of weight loss. The differences were 1) letting the juniper berries microwave-heated with beer salt and cinnamon (and then powdered eggshells and then cream of tartar, microwaving each time and stirring afterwards with a silver utensil) cool down before combining them with butter, and 2) including raw green cabbage in the blender when I puree those juniper berries with salted butter. Am I making some kind of sintered glass with the cinnamon and the silicon dioxide in the beer salt? Is the cabbage giving me an unusual nitrogen compound? I'll have to see whether the weight loss stays for more than a day or two.]
[Update 2/8/2025: As of this morning, my recent changes have brought my weight down three pounds in seven days. Unless some fufu from a local Ethiopian restaurant is behind my weight loss, it could be I'm finally recreating the right components in my experiments. I'm going to be cautiously optimistic today.]
[Update 2/12/2025: Cautious optimism gone. It was apparently the fufu. I rebounded after I stopped eating it for dinner. Where did the Ethiopian restaurant get their fufu mix? What processing was used to make it?]
[Update 2/12/2025: As you might imagine, the above procedures have gotten tedious. Yesterday I tried some new experiments in the afternoon. One in particular seems to have been effective. Either that, or I benefitted from some unusual molecule in the new frozen vegetable mix I made for dinner last night.
Here is the possibly-effective experiment:
0.5) Eat a little raw green cabbage.
1) In a ceramic mug, microwave for 90 seconds
regular Hershey's cocoa powder (about 1.5 teaspoons)
topped by a thin, sprinkled layer of onion powder (ground from dried onion pieces by me at home using a small blender),
all topped by a little powdered roasted plantain leaf (made weeks ago by soaking washed plantain leaves in epsom salt (i.e., magnesium sulfate) and then toasting nearly to ash in our toaster)
Stir with the handle of a shiny bronze fork from Thailand.
2) Sprinkle some dried dill weed on top. Microwave for 60 seconds.
3) Using a silver fork handle, stir in some just-sliced Roma tomato for a few stirs.
4) Pour in about a tablespoon of soaking water from dry soybeans that were left in distilled water to soak for about 24 hours.
5) Eat about half of it.
5.5) Add some raw green cabbage and eat the rest of it.
I tried the experiment again this morning and within an hour I felt calf-muscle-tightening sensations, even though I hadn't been doing more than light housework.
On the subject of food experiments, has anyone else noticed that it's almost impossible to buy plain salt anymore? Everything is either sea salt, iodized salt, or has sodium ferrocyanide (i.e., yellow prussiate of soda) added to it. How is anyone supposed to do homeschool chemistry without pure sodium chloride for the experiments that use salt? And who wants to be forced into eating salt with additives? Not I.]
[Update 2/14/2025: Based on further experimenting, I would modify the previous update's experiment to read as follows:
1) In a ceramic mug, microwave for 90 seconds
regular Hershey's cocoa powder (about 1.5 teaspoons)
topped by a thin, sprinkled layer of onion powder (ground from dried onion pieces by me at home using a small blender),
all topped by a little powdered roasted plantain leaf (made weeks ago by soaking washed plantain leaves in epsom salt (i.e., magnesium sulfate) and then toasting nearly to ash in our toaster)
Stir with the handle of a shiny bronze fork from Thailand.
2) Sprinkle some dried dill weed and some powdered roasted plantain leaf (not sure if it should be sulfur-treated or not) on top. Microwave for 60 seconds.
3) Using a silver fork handle, stir in some just-sliced Roma tomato for a few stirs.
4) Pour in about a tablespoon of soaking water from dry soybeans that were left in distilled water to soak for about 24 hours.
5) Eat about half of it.
5.5) Add some raw green cabbage and eat the rest of it.]
[Update: 2/20/2025: My latest hypothesis, based on my food journals, is that there is something in cucumber (plain, peeled cucumber) that is also helpful. It's good to have a new research direction. It feels like I'm just spinning my wheels most of the time, or even being nudged to think in other directions that end up being fruitless.]
