Healthy Diet at Home

Low-Carb Fruit Platter  Helps You Stay on Plan It's been in the 90s this week, so I've been looking for creative ways to serve cool and inviting dinners when hubby gets home from a long, tiring, hot day.  While we've been eating a lot of sliced strawberries over the past few weeks, and couldn't resist coming home with a small basket of plump, red raspberries this past weekend, summer ushers in a wide variety of tasty fruits that make the perfect side dish to accompany your fish or chicken. Being on a low-carb diet doesn't mean you have to pass up Mother Nature's delicious fruit bounty all summer.  It just means you have to be careful and selective when adding fruit to your meals and snacks. You have to stay aware of portion sizes and keep your fruit indulgence within your personal carbohydrate tolerance level. While those of you on Atkins Induction will have to wait a bit before returning fruit to your diet, if you're doing the: Keto Diet Atkins 20 Atkins 40...

Egg Fast is the Hottest Low-Carb Stall Buster If you've stalled on your low-carb diet, or you just want to give yourself a hefty shove in the right direction, you might consider doing an egg fast. An egg fast is a short-term dieting intervention method created by Jimmy Moore in 2010. Originally called a Low-Carb Eggfest, by following the protocols he set up for himself, Jimmy was able to lose 28 pounds in 30 days. You do need to like eggs, of course. That's a no-brainer, as the majority of your protein on this fast comes from eggs. Jimmy did allow himself a little bit of hard cheese, some grass-fed butter, and a diet soda here and there, but for the most part, this is a low-carb egg diet that's specifically designed to get the scales moving in the right direction again. It wasn't set up to be a crash diet, although some people have used it that way. Over the past week, I've read a lot of material on this highly effective weight-loss fast. I was more than a little cu...