My mom made me a wonderful delicious amazing healthy low sugar birthday cake! Love love love. PrintPALEO Chocolate Almond Coconut Banana Birthday Cake Ingredients3/4 cup coconut oil, melted & cooled 4 large room temperature eggs 1 cup unsweetened almond milk 1 tbsp pure vanilla extract 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar 3 cups packed fine almond Read more about PALEO Chocolate Almond Coconut Banana Birthday Cake[…]
One of the cool new features in Low Carb Menu Planner allows you to view macronutrient information for a selected recipe serving size. I found this recipe, which looks really delicious. I wanted to add it to LCMP so I could build it into my daily menus. Also, by adding it to LCMP, I can Read more about LCMP— New Feature[…]
I’m super excited that Low Carb Menu Planner, with updated features, is now available in the App Store! After the free trial period, a subscription is required for continued access to all features of the app. Now you can track your macros per day, per meal, and per selected recipe serving size! And, all recipes Read more about Low Carb Menu Planner Back in the App Store![…]
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. Read more about 3 Simple Food Tips[…]
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 Read more about Want to Lose Weight?[…]
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 Read more about Food Revolution Summit 2017[…]
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 Read more about Food Quality Matters[…]
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 Read more about Embrace Discomfort[…]
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 Read more about My Low Carb Cafe PHASE 1 Shopping List[…]
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 Read more about Dealing With Overeating[…]