The Diva of Diet

I know this link I am about to send you to, is quite lengthy, I think it is well worth you time. (1hr 30min) This is the main crux of why America is fat. Eat saturated fat. It is good for you on so many levels. Stay away from High Fructose Corn Syrup. It is the devil!!! (So are refined Carbohydrates by the way.)

In the last couple of days I have gotten a sudden surge of visits from people that I have never met before. I truly appreciate all the positive feedback. I have been very bad about updating this but from today forward all that is about to change. And I promise you will see very, very regular updates to this site.You have all motivated me to do much better!!

I was shocked to see that someone said they linked to me from Jimmy Moore’s Livin’ La Vida Low Carb site. I wasn’t even aware that my site name had even made it on over there. I am truly humbled by that. Jimmy has been on my list of five people that have inspired me to keep going in this new lifestyle. His podcasts with many top doctors nutritionists, and authors have taught me so much. It is because of this, I understand why I have struggled with my weight my entire life. As long as Jimmy is on, I will be a listener and a follower and will recommend other people do the same.

Here is what you can expect from me. At least three times a week, I will post a Daily Diary entry. I will be posting pictures of my me throughout the years and how I look now. You will get a bunch of low carb recipes that are at least inspired by me but probably prepared by my husband (Although I am not a bad cook myself, he just happens to be a chef.) I hope to have appropriate pictures accompanying them. I will also provide links and recommendations of articles, videos, and books I think you should check out.

For those of you that have started to stop by, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Please tell your friends to sign up. Life has calmed down for me finally so I don’t have any more excuses not to keep my commitment to you. Please keep checking back, there is much more to come!!

I am at 48 pounds of lost weight so far and I have never felt better in my life. People often ask me what I have done to loose such a substantial amount of weight. When I tell that that I have given up bread, pasta, cereal, sugar, etc. the first words out of their mouth are often, “Oh I could never give all that up!” This actually frustrates me. Maybe it is because I see myself as how I used to be in them. I wanted to have my grilled chicken salad and eat my chocolate cake too. But because I educated myself, I realized I couldn’t. At least not on any kind of regular  or semi-regular basis. It also frustrates me because people are more beholden to their favorite foods then they are the health of their own bodies.

I finally convinced an overweight friend to just try what I am doing for two weeks. It took me at least 6 months to get him to agree to finally do this. But he fought me tooth and nail and gave me every excuse in the book as to why he couldn’t begin on a particular week. There was his birthday, or an upcoming date at a restaurant, or he already bought a couple of boxes of prepackaged, processed food that he needed to get rid of. You name the excuse, I was met with it.So now we have an actual start date. I could not be prouder of him. I will help ease him into his transition. I will grocery shop with him ahead of time and give my non-culinary friend easy meals that he can make by himself.

We don’t get easy, fast fixes in life so why do we expect them when it comes to dieting?. Why are we so committed to what we think are our favorite foods even though we know they are not good for us, but we are not committed to the health of our bodies with such loyalty? Maybe the answer is simply…addiction.

In fact the same pleasure center of our brains that respond to cocaine is the same pleasure center that responds to sugar and refined carbohydrates. A coke addict goes back for coke to get the high he experienced time and again before. So does a carb addict. We wouldn’t tell a coke addict to cut back and use the drug in moderation, but we the carb addicts, try to justify and reason why we can have just a little bread and pasta throughout the day or the week. How does the saying go? All things in moderation? Really? Can an alcoholic have just one drink? Have you ever really been able to have just one potato chip?

We owe it to those around us to be healthy and vibrant and energetic and here for along time. But more importantly, we owe it to ourselves. I have a saying that I like. Excuses only satisfy the people making them. So stop making excuses for so-called moderation and start making a commitment to to your own health.

Hey Ya’ll

I am down 43 pounds as of this morning. I feel great and have the energy of a 25 year old. Ate lunch at a restaurant and had the best chef salad of my life. Plenty of ham and turkey and since I don’t eat run of the mill dressings I asked for full fat may on the side. I promise you it’s pretty good and you can spice it up with herbs. I also avoided the croutons like the plague.

Eating out does not have to cause you any angst. Most restaurants want you as repeat business so they can usually put in special requests. I will order some type of protein and if they tell me it comes with potatoes and a veggie, I will ask for a double potion of veggies and skip the starch. Avoid things that say marinated because you have no idea what it has been marinated in.

I now will not ever, ever, eat in a fast food joint again. Real food when left out on a counter top should begin to mold and rot  Months, even years later double cheeseburger and an order of fries from mickey D’s will look exactly the same. Don’t believe me? Watch this.

Eating out should be easy and can be healthy. Your friends will be jealous that you are eating hearty meals, high in good fats and loosing weight while they are suffering through bird-like portions and still can’t get the scale to move.

Welcome to my new blog. I hope you will find this site enjoyable and informative. Today I made a frittata that will be my breakfast all week. You can find the recipe under the Cooks’ Corner tab. I pair it with a flax seed muffin and have a cup of coffee with heavy cream. And I am totally satisfied for most of the day on that. The flax seed muffin has only three to four carbs and gives me that bready texture that I as a typical American, crave. And getting ready for work in the morning knowing I will consume a hearty, healthy breakfast is a breeze!