Frustrations and Celebrations

Posted on February 12, 2012 by lowcarbconfidential

Inspired by the flood of people who came to the site in January ready to start a new year on Atkins, I decided to try to follow along – I would give up my controlled carbing that I had been following and go into hard-core, ketogenic, Atkins induction. So far, it’s been rough going. Frankly, [...]

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Kitchen Experiment: Low Carb Coconunt Pumpkin Muffins with Stevia

Posted on January 14, 2012 by lowcarbconfidential

This is one of my go-to recipes since conjuring it up in October, 2011. I’ve made it no less than a half-dozen times. Now, however, I have made a resolution for the year to ditch artificial sweeteners, and have done well – but this recipe, I think, does need some sweet. A reader recommended stevia, [...]

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Thank You, Anthony Bourdain: It’s About the Food

Posted on January 7, 2012 by lowcarbconfidential

I am an idiot. I only have a slight edge over some other idiots in that I am open to discovering that I am an idiot, so that I might actually learn something new, or discover, sometimes to my horror, how something I thought I knew was so blindingly wrong. For the past month, I [...]

Filed under: cooking, dessert, diet, Fake Foods, Food, Food Additives, Food Monotony, general health, Goals, health, Hunger, Kitchen Experiments, low carb, Organic, Personal Journal, recipe, Research, Reviews, Self-Experimentation, weight loss | Tagged: , , , , , , , | 3 Comments »

Why I Don’t Buy Supermarket Ground Beef Anymore

Posted on January 5, 2012 by lowcarbconfidential

There’s a wonderful/horrible chapter about hamburgers in Anthony Bourdain’s book ‘Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook‘, a brutally, if not violently,  honest and profane look at himself, food, the business of cooking and resturants, and a host of other things surrounding the world of food. If [...]

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MiO Drink Mix (sorry -’Water Enhancer’) – A Replacement for the Sodastream Soda Mixes?

Posted on December 29, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

  I have already stated – somewhere – that as part of my 2012 resolutions I was going to try to ditch the drink mixes. the reason I’m writing about MiO, however, is because my resolutions are not necessarily your resolutions, and I thought you’d appreciate an honest review. Prior to going on vacation, I [...]

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Fatty Foods Addictive as Cocaine in Growing Body of Science

Posted on November 7, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

Is the mainstream media starting to take notice? This article from Bloomberg is a must-read, I assure you. It discusses research that shows the addictive properties – real, serious, addictive responses to junk food as serious as the chemical dependency of drugs – occur. I think that while the entire article is worthy of a [...]

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My Core Foods

Posted on November 6, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

I have a habit of noodling through an idea, then failing to follow through on it. Luckily, this blog helps me record these ideas when I come to revisit them from another angle. One of these ideas is the notion of food monotony I wrote about in January of 2010. I’ve come to disagree with [...]

Filed under: cooking, dessert, diet, Food, Food Additives, Food Monotony, general health, health, Hunger, Kitchen Experiments, low carb, Organic, Personal Journal, Self-Experimentation, weight loss | 3 Comments »

Diet Trick: Lose Weight and Exercise – But Not at the Same Time

Posted on October 22, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

Let’s say you’ve finally decided that you want to mend your ways and give up a sedentary life of wanton Scooter Pies and MaryJane abuse. You want to get healthy and take off all those extra pounds. Great – glad you’re here. Please note that the following is NOT for folks who’ve put on 5-10 [...]

Filed under: cooking, general health, Exercise, Food, Goals, health, weight loss, diet, Food Additives | 4 Comments »

2 Reasons Why Vitamins Might Be Bad For You That Might Not Be What You Think

Posted on October 14, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

You might have read the story that states vitamins do nothing – in fact, they might reduce lifespan – at least in the older woman in the study. Here’s one link to the story – it’s not hard to find more. The new reports speculated on the doses of some of the vitamins being too [...]

Filed under: Food Additives, Research, Supplements | 2 Comments »

Low Carb Pumpkin Biscuits

Posted on October 5, 2011 by lowcarbconfidential

I didn’t know when I started that they would turn out to be ‘low carb pumpkin biscuits’. What I knew was that I had a cupboard of items that I needed to use, and somehow, a combination of mixing them and heating them would turn it into something eatable or ballast for the trash. I [...]

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