Healthy Diet at Home

Egg Fried in the Center of a Bell Pepper Ring Makes Great LC Breakfast! Breakfast is hubby's favorite meal of the day. He loves a hearty, filling breakfast in the morning. In fact, when we used to go out to eat before I went gluten free, we almost always went out to eat on Saturday or Sunday morning. He loves all of the basics you normally find at a cafe: bacon and eggs sausage and eggs ham and eggs omelets with salsa fried potatoes french toast pancakes biscuits and gravy When we went gluten free, going out to eat stopped, but eating a hearty breakfast did not. We simply started making a big breakfast at home on the weekends. During the week, hubby didn't eat breakfast. He simply took a large lunch with him to work. However, his latest job change has dramatically affected the way we eat now. Read more »

Here's the Secret for  Making a Low-Carb Diet  More Successful January always brings a rush of folks to the low-carb fold. Some of them are new and are interested in the quick fat-loss claims that ketogenic diets are known to produce and want to see if they can lose weight as quickly themselves. Others have come back to Atkins Induction for a second or third time because it worked so well for them in the past. Stories that second-timers tell vary in the details, of course, but most of the stories have the same thread running throughout the tale: Something stressful popped up in your life, and you didn't know how to handle the challenge without eating all of your favorite foods. Ketogenic diets work. Maybe not as quickly as you're hoping it will, but it's one of the easiest ways to lose weight due to the way it eliminates the hunger that is so typical on low-calorie diets. Even so, making it work takes a strong mental attitude adjustment. You have to want to change your...

Choose the Best  Low-Carb Diet for You When searching for the best diet to lose weight, there are a lot of things to consider before taking the plunge. For example, health issues, such as celiac disease, metabolic syndrome, food sensitivities, or diabetes can greatly affect the results you get. Your food preferences, lifestyle, family support or struggles, and even your basic beliefs play a role in how well a low-carb diet plan will work for you. If your concern is finding a lose-weight-fast diet, rather than choosing a plan that will teach you how to switch to a more healthy lifestyle, then that goal will narrow your choices. Few really good weight-loss plans are designed to help you lose weight quickly. That's the bitter truth. Most diets that work well don't work fast unless you are brand new to dieting. Although low-carb diets often allow you to drop several pounds during the first few days, most of those pounds won't be body fat. Weight loss during the first week is ...