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 ...

Don't Have to Give Up Healthy Holiday Treats on Low Carb When you're on a low-carb diet, the holidays can be rough. Everywhere you turn, there is candy, cookies, quick breads, and other carby treats enticing you to go off plan. Whether it's an office party pot luck, hot cocoa and marshmallows, warm cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning, or the cookie plate the neighbor sent over on Christmas Eve, holiday traditions offer multiple temptations and opportunities to chuck your keto diet and go face down into those unhealthy treats. As habitual creatures who consistently seek out pleasurable experiences, tradition feels comforting and familiar. In past years, you've understood that the holidays only come around once a year, so there was nothing to feel guilty about if you ate a few too many treats. Moving into your first low-carb Christmas changes all of that. You can feel apprehensive and worried. Many past traditions have been disrupted. A low-carb diet is a massive lifestyl...

How to Roast a  Thanksgiving Turkey with Crispy Skin (Photo credit: Gerry , CC BY 2.0 ) No matter which low-carb diet you're following, the turkey is the center of attention on your Thanksgiving Table. High in protein, turkey meat is a nice source of zinc, iron, potassium, and B vitamins. It also has no carbohydrates, so unless you have a metabolic defect in processing proteins, you don't have to limit your portion size. At least, not for the holidays. Going back for seconds on turkey, or even thirds, won't throw you out of ketosis. For that reason, learning to make the perfect holiday turkey can make the difference between serving up a great holiday meal and one that's just so-so. However, most people have their own ideas about what makes a perfectly roasted bird. Ideas about baking it upside down or right-side up, soaking it in brine or injecting it with an herb-butter solution, sticking to organically grown versus a conventional turkey all fuel debates at turkey ti...

Are the Consequences Worth Going Off Plan? The holidays can be a difficult time to diet. Office parties, family gatherings, and social events, as well as the holiday itself, puts you around food. Lots of food. And usually, the type of food that isn't found on any low-carb plan. If you're new to a low-carb diet, it's hard enough trying to figure out how low carb works without having to add temptation into the mix, but newbies are not the only ones who might not understand the consequences that come when reaching for that Thanksgiving roll or small piece of pumpkin pie. If you're considering going off plan for Thanksgiving or Christmas this year, here's what you need to know in order to make a well-informed decision. Read more »

A Low-Carb Diet is Not Always Gluten Free (Photo Credit: Richard Masoner ,  CC BY-SA 2.0 ) The gluten-free community isn't very happy right now. As those in the entertainment world continue to announce that they are going gluten free, not because they have celiac disease or non-celiac gluten sensitivity, but because they want to shed a few pounds, we have a horde of groupies and those who have heard that gluten-free diets are great for weight loss deciding that ditching the gluten is an important way to gain better health. Typically, a low-carb dieter would have no problem with that, but since a lot of these people don't understand what a gluten-free diet actually is, they have put together a weight-loss plan based on their own ideas and incorporated these distorted dieting habits into that new gluten-free diet. Unfortunately, those habits often tell them it's okay to eat a little gluten once in a while. What has gluten-free folks riled up is that these so-called gluten-f...