Healthy Diet at Home

hi, i'm organizing and lifestyle expert loriemarrero, creator of the clutter diet, and i want to talk today about shortcuts. you know i've been in this industry of organizingand productivity for 16 years now, and people look to me for tips and shortcuts all thetime, and particularly hacks. people love that word hack, they want kitchenhacks, and life hacks, and you know what? crash diet, i've got to say i have a pet peeve about theword hack. hacking is for coconuts and criminals whobreak into computers, and it sounds like someone with a bad cough, or someone who's a bad comedianor something. all the connotations of the word hack arejust so negative to me. i don't want to hack my life, and you knowshortcuts are not always the best way either. you can save a lot of time going through afast food drive through window more than you can save time going to a farmer's market,but i think we would all agree that the best way for your health, for the return on investmentfor...

(This is part 6 of a multi-part series on How to Tweak a Low Carb Diet . It discusses my weight loss journey so far. If you didn’t read part 1, you can do so by clicking on the how-to link. Part 1 also includes links to the rest of this series.) At one time or another, most dieters get caught up in the desire of wanting to lose weight fast. That actually worked to my advantage because Lyle McDonald originally created his Rapid Fat Loss Plan (a whole foods PSMF Diet) to deal with crash diets safely. While McDonald’s focus is on bodybuilding, muscle retention, and metabolism, maintaining muscle mass during dieting is to everyone’s benefit – quick weight loss or not. The Kimkins fiasco brought the protein content of a low carb diet into the limelight. Dr. Eades’ did have recommendations for low carbers to shoot for. He talked about large, medium, and small servings of protein (five, four or three ounces) at each meal depending upon how much you currently weigh, getting 35 grams of carbohy...

what's up, guys? jeff cavaliere, athleanx.com. i'm going to take you behind the scenes today.we've done it a few times before. one of the questions is, 'jeff, what do youtake for your supplementation? what are you exactly taking from morning until night?' well, i figured, i'll open up my cabinetsfor you, and i'm going to show you why that's important in just a second. we'll come backand point to that. but i actually take my vitamins and i'm goingto tell you where i take them throughout the day and why. and then i have my workout supplementationas well. a lot of you guys will probably have something that looks somewhat similar to this,and that's a lot of bottles. now, i take a lot of these things for a lotof different reasons some of which are insurance policy because i can tell you guys that even though i eat extremely healthy and admittedly,i am one of the healthiest eaters out there, i still feel there's certain things that i'mnot g...

Setting Weight Loss Goals  Can Cause You to Crash and Burn From the moment we entered this world, people have been pushing their ideas and suggestions at us. One of these suggestions is that we need to set goals. The idea of setting weight-loss goals is driven by the belief that we will receive a certain reward for having achieved the goal. Being different than we are now is supposed to bring approval and relieve our feelings of anxiety and insecurity. We hate where we are now, so we have a low-carb weight-loss action plan that will enable us to get the fast results we're hoping for. Whether that happens or not, that's what we believe, so we experience this insatiable desire to achieve our goal. It's almost like an obsession, at times. The urge to get what we want, when we want it, in return for our efforts, is just that strong. Goals can motivate you to stick to your weight-loss plan. That's what we've been told. The reward factor will give us that little boost in ...

What's up with low-carb dieters these days? I really need someone to explain it to me. I'm at a total loss to understand. I realize that dieting is difficult, that it requires you to give up a lot of your favorite foods, revamp your lifestyle, and substitute those old food habits with healthier alternatives, but c'mon. I mean, do you really expect to drop 15 pounds in only a couple of weeks? Do you enjoy all of the pain and misery you are bringing upon yourself due to these false expectations and fantasies? Did someone, somewhere, tell you that low-carb diets are a quick weight-loss scheme? Or what? Where did that idea actually come from? Why are so many people coming here to this blog with the idea that if they don't shed some water weight and perhaps a little muscle tissue during the first week or two, then low carb isn't worth the effort? This self-torture doesn't make sense to me. Whether its 3 days, 8 days, 2 weeks, or a month, choosing to torture yourse...