Healthy Diet at Home

When we choose to live a low-carb lifestyle, we give up many holiday traditions that focus on food. While Easter Dinner can always be adapted to fit your carbohydrate tolerance, if you ask any child what the most important aspect of the Easter holiday is, they’ll probably tell you… CANDY! An Easter basket full of goodies often plays the center role in Easter festivities. Jelly beans, chocolate bunnies, marshmallow chicks, and foil-wrapped chocolate eggs are popular basket fillers. But there’s one strong holiday tradition attached to Easter that the low carber doesn’t have to give up.                                              The Incredible, Edible Egg! Make Easter Eggs the Center of Your Low-Carb Easter Holiday! (Photo by Praktyczny Przewodnik ) Dr. Westman’s Thought of the Day I was browsing through the low-carb videos over at YouTube the other day, looking for an ...

Atkins Induction is often the first introduction that many people have to a low-carb diet. It jump-starts your weight-loss program, can help if you’re experiencing a weight-loss plateau, or get you back on track if you’ve been stumbling around and eating too many carbs. It’s also useful if you’re in pre-maintenance or maintenance and you’ve slipped and fallen out of the wagon. Induction can give you a leg up, and help you regain control of your appetite, drop those few pounds you’ve regained, and help you get your life back on track. But Atkins Induction can also be abused. Do You Run Back to Induction Every Time You Stray? I hear this all the time. You went to a party, it was a holiday, your birthday, or a family gathering. You planned to stay on program, stick to meat and salad, eat a snack before you left, and had a strawberry cheesecake waiting in the refrigerator for dessert when you got home. But something went wrong. You kept looking at the dessert table. You had to sit and watc...

I was reading over at Low Carb Friends yesterday and a new low carber asked for ideas for breakfast that don't include eggs. They said they could no longer stand the sight of them, and the smell was beginning to make them gag. Since I don't have a problem eating eggs almost every day, myself, I never thought about doing a post about that. But after starting the post last night, it kind of got out of hand. Once I started generating breakfast ideas from my own life, I had trouble stopping. Most people associate bacon and eggs, or sausage and eggs, with a low-carb breakfast. Part of that is because that's the way that the Atkins Diet is presented in the media or in articles slamming a low-carb diet across the web, but I know very few real-life low-carb dieters who actually eat that way -- eating bacon and eggs every single morning for breakfast. Most of us use leftovers, protein shakes, One-Minute Muffins, and whatever we have a craving for at the moment. I'm particularly...

Traditional flours, including whole-grain flours, are especially high in carbohydrates. For example, whole-wheat flour can set you back as much as 22 to 24 grams of carbohydrate per quarter-cup serving. For that reason, many low-carb products take advantage of wheat flours that have had the starch removed or modified: resistant wheat starch vital wheat gluten oat fiber whey protein modified corn starches These are common low-carb flour alternatives used in low-carb baking mixes, bread mixes, and other specialty baked goods. But what can you use at home? Read more »