Here are three simple tips that can help you increase the quality of your diet: Opt for real, whole, unprocessed foods. Vegetables! Fruits! Wild caught seafood! This is real food, and it’s delicious. Check the ingredients list to make sure there’s no added sugar. Especially pay attention to nuts/nut butters and spices/seasonings/condiments. […]
When you decide to follow the meal plan in My Low Carb Café or My Paleo Café (available in the App Store and Google Play), you’ve now got an actual plan for weight loss. The actions you can take to control your weight include reviewing the meal plan in the app, buying the food you’ll[…]
I’ve been listening to some of the talks from the Food Revolution Summit. Here are my notes from Day 7. Speakers were David Katz, MD; Neal Barnard, MD, and Mark Hyman, MD. Katz Meat, butter, cheese not part of a healthy diet. However, SOME meat might be ok, but it depends on the type of[…]
I made a vegan, gluten free, sugar free, oil free, dairy free cake for my birthday and it was amazing. Even meat eaters loved it. To make the frosting, I used a very small amount of stevia extract powder (the only ingredient in the product I used is “organic stevia extract (stevia rebaudiana) (leaf).”). I[…]
I generally recommend you eat the highest quality food you can afford— organic, pastured, grass fed, wild, whole, and unprocessed. On a high fat low carb diet, it’s especially important to choose organic, pastured, free-range, and grass-fed animal products in order to ensure that the animal fat you eat is high quality. In[…]
If you are struggling with your weight and eating habits, your solution to “control yourself” might involve jumping from one restrictive diet to the next, looking for the perfect macronutrient calculation to tell you exactly how much to eat, or eliminating generally healthy “problem foods” like nuts from your diet. I suggest you stop[…]
Here is some general advice for what to buy when you go grocery shopping for Phase 1 of My Low Carb Café. You don’t need to buy all of these foods. You don’t need to force yourself to eat foods you don’t enjoy. Take some time to scroll through the weekly menu. See what’s[…]
How do you treat yourself: After you’ve overeaten or given in to a craving? When you find yourself once again falling into unproductive eating habits? After you’ve finished the entire container? When you know you’ve eaten well beyond your natural hunger? I’m going to guess that it is not with kindness or[…]
Eating is about nourishing the body when it’s hungry. It’s not about: “I’m bored, a snack sounds good.” “That was really good, I’ll have some more.” “I do not want to finish this project, I’ll have some nuts.” “This is overwhelming, I want peanut butter.” When we make food and eating about[…]
Being on a diet can be very consuming. When your time and focus are spent on calculating macros, thinking about what you should be eating that you aren’t or that you are eating but should not be, weighing and measuring and tracking every morsel that passes your lips, scheming all the ways you[…]