MST3000 star Mike Nelson tries an unorthodox low-carb approach in February
American pop culture has all forms of entertainment for us to help pass the time and some of it can be downright wacky. One of these is the infamous Mystery Science Theater 3000 (affectionately known as MST3K to fans) which my wife Christine watched religiously on the SciFi Channel laughing her head off at the antics of show creator Mike Nelson and his creative commentary during some of the most mundane movie clips they could find.
Never seen the show before? Here’s a YouTube clip of the Top 10 best lines from MST3K:
Now that you know about Mike Nelson’s most famous work, I wanted to share with you a new venture he is doing at his online comedy RiffTrax Blog this month that will interest anyone who supports livin’ la vida low-carb. As a regular reader of my blog, Mike said he wanted to do a one-month experiment during the month of February where all he would eat is bacon.
“At our blog, we’re pretty bacon obsessed, so on a dare, I’ll be eating nothing but bacon for the whole month of February,” Nelson said. “Nothing too scientific about it, just for fun.”
He added that “there’s no more low carb route than that, so I thought you might find it funny.” Yes, funny indeed, Mike! That’s why I’m pleased to share his blog post “Bacon Stupidity” with my readers today.
“For the entire month of February, 2009, I, Michael J. Nelson will eat nothing but bacon. Nothing, my friends, but bacon,” he writes at his blog.
So, let the bacon feast begin! What drove Mike Nelson to take on such a self-induced carnivorous low-carb experiment?
“Because bacon is nature’s finest and most nourishing food. Also, because several doubters on the RiffTrax staff had the unmitigated gall to insult bacon by making the outrageous claim that, as good as it is, no one could eat very much of it and live,” he recalled.
But Nelson exclaimed, “I can and will. Therefore I will spend the month proving it.”
So, all this month you’ll see him chronicling about his bacon escapades, including how he celebrated on Super Bowl Sunday as well as going shopping for various cuts of porkolicious glory. Don’t miss all the hilarious comments from people telling Mike he’s gonna kill himself, clog his arteries, and possibly die if he follows through on this bacon experiment.
Yet, Mike OBVIOUSLY understands that all the saturated fat in the bacon isn’t harmful.
“I am willing to release these few vitals: my waist size is 33/34. My blood pressure is pretty consistently 117/65. My weight hovers around 190. I’m 6’2″. I willing to bet you my weight will not change (may lose a little, actually) my blood pressure will probably drop a little, and I won’t get any taller,” Nelson quipped.
There you have it! Follow Mike Nelson at his RiffTrax Blog all this month to see his all-bacon-all-the-time diet. Wanna bet his HDL goes up, triglycerides go down and he loses weight? I have no doubt.
