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Junk food smack-down: pork rinds vs. potato chips

By Jim July 11, 2011 5 Comments

Bags of pork rinds and potato chips

Pork rinds (also called pork skins or chicharrones) are another food I never ate before going low-carb.  I considered including them in my "Great foods" series, but decided they aren't in the same nutritional class as foods like almonds, avocados and salmon.  Still, pork rinds do fill a need many low-carbers have for a crunchy, salty snack that isn't a nut. Pork rinds are a specialty item in comparison to potato chips.  The local market where I do most of my shopping carries two brands of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Low-Carb Basics Tagged With: food, junk food, pork rinds, potato chips, potatoes

Great foods for a low-carb diet (part 2): seeds

By Jim July 8, 2011 1 Comment

Maybe it's a stretch to call seeds "great food."  Also, a reader new to low-carbing might get the impression that low-carb is a diet for the birds.  That impression would be wrong unless we're talking about birds of prey! Seeds are at least a useful food, packing plenty of nutrition into a tiny space, and I have added a couple of seed products to my diet since going low-carb: sunflower kernels and flax seed meal.  As you can see from the above, neither photographs well.  Roasted sunflower … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Posts, Food, Low-Carb Basics Tagged With: flax seeds, food, low-carb, peanut butter, recipe, rolled oats, sunflower seeds

Great foods for a low-carb diet (part 1): almonds, avocados, macadamias

By Jim July 5, 2011 3 Comments

If you're like me (which you probably aren't, but let's pretend), you may find your food tastes expanding as you adapt to a low carb way of eating.  Over the last few months, I have added several foods to my dietary repertoire, and I have eaten more of some other great foods than I ever did in the past.   In general, I eat more whole foods now than processed/ packaged foods.  Nuts, seeds, berries and fish are classes of foods that I always liked, but eat significantly more of on my low-carb … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Posts, Food, Low-Carb Basics, Personal Reflection Tagged With: almonds, Anita, Atkins, avocados, food, fruits, guacamole, low-carb, macadamias, nuts

Progress report 7-3-11

By Jim July 3, 2011 1 Comment

On May 7, I set a weight goal of 215 pounds by Labor Day 2011.  At that time, I weighed around 241 pounds.  Yesterday, I weighed in at 227.6 pounds.  So in the past two months I have lost 13.4 pounds on my low-carb way of eating. The pace has slowed. In the first two months of low-carb eating, I lost about 19 pounds.  Nevertheless, I am on schedule to meet my Labor Day weight goal, perhaps with time/ pounds to spare. Frankly, weight loss is a secondary issue for me.  More important is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Low-Carb Basics, Personal Reflection Tagged With: diet, low-carb, progress report, weight loss

Low-carb road-trip eating

By Jim July 1, 2011 2 Comments

Road

When my wife was 11 years old, she was mesmerized by Peter Tork, a member of the Monkees.  Depending on whom you ask, the Monkees were either actors in a TV comedy or musicians in a rock-band.  Or both. My wife would say both, and more, but her focus was always on the blond, hazel-eyed Mr. Tork. It still is. All of this explains why she and I drove to Merrillville, Indiana, yesterday to watch the Monkees (three of the four, anyway) perform at the Star Plaza Theatre.  It was a stop on the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Posts, Food, Low-Carb Basics, Personal Reflection Tagged With: Anita, breakfast, eating out, low-carb, Monkees, salad, salmon

The reason low-carb diets work

By Jim June 24, 2011 9 Comments

      You look trustworthy, so I’ll let you in on something. I’m going to tell you the secret of how a low-carb diet helps a person lose weight.  But first a word from our sponsor  . . . Oh, wait -- we don’t have a sponsor.  I keep thinking I ought to monetize the blog, put up a few discrete blinking ads for Carb-Free Pudding or Miracle Weight-Loss Body Lotion (in five delicious flavors!), or at least add links to my books on Amazon.com (when I get them written), but I have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Low-Carb Basics, Personal Reflection Tagged With: cutting calories, diet, hunger management, low-carb, weight loss

The ups and downs of weighing in

By Jim June 22, 2011 4 Comments

The Grand Canyon

In any endeavor, we want confirmation of our success. It's nice if the confirmation comes with a plaque and some folding money, but at the least it needs to be objective.  We want something we can show people, something to point to, something more substantial than a feeling of satisfaction. This explains why mobile phones have cameras in them.  If you are lucky enough to achieve something -- and let's face it, luck is the major factor -- you can whip out your smart-phone, snap a photo and send … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Low-Carb Basics, Personal Reflection Tagged With: diet, Volek and Phinney, water, water weight, weighing in

Tips for eating out low-carb

By Jim June 20, 2011 3 Comments

Just about every low-carb cookbook, carb-count guide, diet plan and blog has advice on eating out while limiting your carbohydrate intake. For instance, over at About.com, Laura Dolson maintains an extensive and helpful guide on Low-Carb Fast Food. And blogger and low-carb cookbook author Dana Carpender reviewed the Burger King Angry Burger, which she encountered while trying to buy a bottle of dark rum in southern Illinois on a Sunday. She disliked the burger, and didn't get the rum, either. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Low-Carb Basics Tagged With: diet, fast-food, low-carb, tips

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