Before undertaking our first Healthy Mind Fit Body podcast, I went to the bookstore to familiarize myself with all the latest trendy diets, and for any that I didn’t understand, I did research on Google to find out more. Several books that I checked out were recommending a vegan diet, and a few of them …
Continue reading "The China Study bites the dust"When it comes to losing weight, whether we are talking a few pounds or 100, it is important to keep priorities in mind. After interviewing Robb Wolf today on our podcast, who is a wealth of knowledge on nutrition and biochemistry, I can see how easy it is to get bogged down in the nitty-gritty! …
Continue reading "Priorities in weight loss"I wrote about breakfast a few posts ago, but what about lunch? How can you eat a healthy, low carb lunch, when many of us are so used to the traditional sandwich, where there’s more bread than anything else! When I first started cutting my carbs, for lunch I usually just took off one slice …
Continue reading "Low Carb Lunch"The common notion out there is that to lose weight, you must simply eat less and exercise more. Then, as we have discussed on this blog and on our podcast, the truth is far from this common notion. It turns out that many people are actually eating MORE calories and losing lots of unwanted fat! …
Continue reading "How to eat your way to fitness in 4 steps"Many people are obsessed with calories. “How many calories are in that donut?” What a silly question! “There are 320 calories in this bag of almonds!” This is meaningless! There in fact could be fewer calories in that donut than in the bag of almonds. But guess which food item is going to raise your …
Continue reading "The Calorie Counting Myth"I’m on sort of a working vacation trip at the moment, and have had a few challenges in eating healthy. My family doesn’t eat like me (they’re not yet quite on board with low carb, although I’d like to think I’ve had SOME influence), and staying with them makes it a little more difficult to …
Continue reading "Keeping your diet together on vacation"Just talked to a friend yesterday (who is also a healthy mind fit body podcast listener!) who has successfully cut carbs down and lost fat for a while, only to slip back into old ways and regain the lost weight. Easy to do, I’m sure. He has 2 kids, and a full time job, and …
Continue reading "The idea of slipping on your diet"Even with low carb eaters, bread seems to be a difficult thing to give up. Should we give it up? Do we need to? If so, what do we replace bread with? And for crying out loud, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO PUT THE CONTENTS OF THE SANDWICH ON!!?! I bring up this topic because …
Continue reading "Do we need bread?"There are so many low carb diets out there, that it can be confusing as to which one to follow, or what is the best way to go. There’s a really easy way of looking at all this. First, never diet. All of these diets are based on solid evidence, but you must change your …
Continue reading "Low carb, Paleo, Zone, South Beach…which way to go?"Every once in a while I hear someone tell me they are “on a diet” and are looking forward to their “cheat day” which they have all planned out in terms of what they are going to eat. The diet plans with cheat days usually involve eating a strict, low calorie (often low fat too) …
Continue reading "Should you have "cheat days" on a diet?"
