Recipe - Bacon, Egg and Cheese Scramble

OK - I’m trying to reduce the what I call the Atkins ‘junk food’ - things like bacon that might be low carb, but they might not be good for you, though I have seen reports that the nitrates used to preserve bacon might actually be good for you - but that’s a post for [...]

Kitchen Experiment #5 - Italian Chili with TVP

Am I out of my mind?
My last post was about the potential harm soy can do to you - then I experiment with the stuff I just said was harmful?
What that makes me I’ll leave to you to decide, but the facts are the facts…you can reach your own conclusions.
THE EXPERIMENT: Anyway - at Whole [...]

Is Soy Good For You?

If ever there was a ‘perfect food’, the humble soybean was on track to take the crown. The FDA allowed food producers to state that it reduced heart disease risk. Vegetarians love it because it it a great protein source - and can be produced to have a meat-like texture to help stave off [...]

Recipe - Easy Fried Chicken Breast with Spinach

I haven’t made this in a while, but it was a staple of my weight loss the first time around. As is typical for me, it is easy to throw together very quickly, a single pan is used, with little prep and little cleanup. Good for induction and the non-low carb folks like it too.

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Dining Out - Low Carb Dining at PF Chang’s

One of the things that is great about low carb living is that you can dine out and eat quite well. You just have to be careful. Recently I went to PF Chang’s - a Chinese ‘casual dining’ restaurant - PF Chang’s is to Chinese food what The Olive Garden is to Italian food.
Problem with [...]

Change Your Weight, Change Your Life - Chapter 1

Everything you are about to read is bullshit.
Having got that out of the way, I am going to give you a number of things that you can consider as food for thought. The first thought is: not only is everything I’m saying here bullshit, but everything that you think, that you believe, is bullshit too.
Fact [...]

The Atkins Flu

In my last post describing how some people feel sick when doing Atkins induction, I was describing what’s called among low carbers ‘Atkins Flu’. I’ve heard of it, and experienced mild versions of this in the past - but now for the first time, I have the full-blown version of it: body aches, feverish feeling, [...]

How You Feel When Starting Atkins Induction

Most people starting Atkins notice a number of feelings that they describe in different ways. I have heard over and over and over that: “I can’t do Atkins because it makes me [fill in the blank].”
Some of the things I’ve heard is:

I can’t do Atkins because it make me dizzy.
I can’t do Atkins because it [...]

US Ranks 42nd In Life Expectancy

Here’s an interesting, but not surprising, article on MSNBC that discusses the fact that the US ranks 42nd in life expectancy. Boy - there are a lot of slants that can be taken on this sort of thing, most of them assigning blame to other people - not the people who they themselves are dying [...]

The One Secret to Losing Weight and Keeping It Off

Does it increase or decrease my credibility for me to say that I’m having problems maintaining my weight where I want it to be right now?
Well, I am.
Do I have my reasons? Sure - a boatload of them. I could document for you all the things going on in my life right now that makes [...]