About twimii
Back in 2005 I created a simple recipe website for the purposes of testing some web optimization tools. The site had 5 recipes. Only one of these made something that was actually edible (the brown fruit scones). I didn't really cook much at the time. I called the site twimii, the way I make it is, and then, because of some issue with domain names, twimmi, the way I make mine is. The site served it's purpose as far as testing went, but was utterly useless to anyone looking for recipes.
Sometime after that I found out I had high cholesterol and I managed, without too much effort, to reduce it to an acceptable level through exercise and diet alone. And once I had managed that I actually went back to my old diet of junk food combined with little to no exercise. I decided sometime after that to do a complete detox and in order to force myself to stick with it I published the stages of the diet and recipes on twimii. It was a very strict detox and I was forced to think about how to combine the limited foods I had to get whatever I was craving at the time.
I'm glad I did it, partly because I found I enjoyed blogging but also because I learned how to cook – well maybe that's overstating my abilities in the kitchen – I learned how to cook some basic meals and I discovered how much I enjoyed cooking. I wouldn't recommend the diet. I felt great while I was on it but it wasn't something I could stick to long-term and to be honest I no longer believe that exclusion diets are a good idea. I think that they can cause digestive intolerance rather than cure it - but that is just my opinion.
If you want to get healthy and lose weight then exercise more, stop eating junk food and eat only 3 meals a day. Eat less and exercise more. That's it. Anyone telling you something else is either deluded or trying to sell you something.
I didn't renew the hosting for the website when the diet ended as I no longer needed it for testing. But since then I always had this idea of setting it up again. Mostly because I liked the name a lot. I had begun to think of twimii as a sort of little cartoon character ... unfortunately I can't draw for love or money. We'll see how that goes. And also I would like to start trying to find new recipes again. On the old version of the website I was using a lot of recipes from cookbooks. This time around I'm going to try and use mostly my own recipes – which is why as of today, Sept 16 2011, there are only 4 recipes on the website. I'm not the fastest – at anything – so it may take a while but slowly more recipes will be added. And I added in a rambling and rants section because – well because sometimes I like to ramble on or rant about things.
I know you're probably wondering if you try these recipes will you too soon have little cartoon characters running around your head. I won't lie to you – it's a possibility.