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Study: low-carb diet reduces food cravings

By Jim May 17, 2017

A study in The FASEB Journal (which, as you probably know, well-read person that you are, is the Official Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) finds that consuming a low-carb, high-fat diet is "associated with reductions in cravings for all food categories." The researchers define a craving as "an intense desire to consume a particular food that is difficult to resist." … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Low-Carb Basics, Media Watch, News & Commentary Tagged With: Anita, Atkins, calories, food cravings, LCHF, low-carb, observational study

Green beans: low-carb and familiar

By Jim April 30, 2017

green beans

Green beans (a.k.a. snap beans or string beans) are a familiar vegetable, and reasonably low-carb and nutritious. I find it hard to get excited about them, though. Like most people in the American mid-lands, I've been eating green beans my whole life. As a kid, I ate a lot of canned veggies -- including corn, spinach, peas, lima beans, and, yes, green beans. Today, the only canned vegetable I eat at home is spinach. However, I often encounter canned green beans at restaurants. I go ahead and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Low-Carb Basics Tagged With: Anita, green beans, vegetables

Is broccoli low-carb? Compared to what?

By Jim April 23, 2017

Broccoli chart

Is broccoli low-carb? It depends . . . I haven't written many posts about vegetables over the years. Nuts, yes. Seeds, yes. Even fruits (avocado, blueberries, strawberries and tomatoes). Once in a while, I've put up a photo of a plate with, say, a few green beans and a big juicy steak. But the focus has not been on the beans. The lack of focus on veggies may give readers the false impression that I don't eat many. In fact, I do veggies. Not just lettuce, either, but real, honest-to-gosh, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: Anita, blueberries, broccoli, LCHF, low-carb, potatoes, salad, strawberries, vegetables

My Ketonix has arrived (updated)

By Jim May 12, 2015

Ketonix 2015 Blue

Unboxing of my Ketonix 2015 I opened the mailbox today to find that my Ketonix 2015 Blue had arrived from Sweden. The arrival of a new gadget is always a cause for celebration. In this case, I was also relieved. I ordered the Ketonix via the company's website on April 23, selecting the regular "letter" type shipping, so I figured it would take a while to get here. But as the days, and then the weeks, went by, I started to wonder. It's a long way from Sweden to Michigan (as my great great … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Critiques, Featured Posts, Resources Tagged With: Anita, ketones, Ketonix

Great foods for a low-carb diet (part 5): eggs

By Jim May 6, 2015

Eggs aren't merely a great food for a low-carb diet. They're nearly the perfect food. You've got a whole potential chicken in that little spheroid, so an egg is jam-packed with the building blocks of life. Like most people, I've always eaten eggs, either as a main dish or inside of recipes, but for 30-plus years I limited my consumption to two or three eggs a week. Maybe four in a really wild week. Why did I do such a thing? Why did I foolishly limit this nearly perfect food? You know why. I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Low-Carb Basics Tagged With: Anita, breakfast, diet, eggs

A real person eating (mostly) real food

By Jim April 14, 2015

One day, in a fit of flexibility, I changed the tag-line of my blog from whatever it used to be to "a real person eating (mostly) real food." I feel I ought to explain -- to define my terms, or at least try to. First, what do I mean by a "real person"? I mean me, of course, good ol' Jim Anderson -- as ordinary a guy as you will ever meet, with an ordinary name, the son of a factory-working man and a home-making woman. A guy born in a city whose name denotes a hard, sharp, slivered rock -- the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Posts, Food, Personal Reflection Tagged With: Anita, diet, fish, food, low-carb, soda pop

My low-carb week in review: April 5 – April 11, 2015

By Jim April 12, 2015

In dieting, as in most areas of life, averages can be deceptive. Take my daily averages of calories and net carbs consumed for last week -- 1, 831 and 39 grams respectively. And 72% of calories from fat. Not bad, not bad at all. Those averages imply a low-cal, low-carb consistency over the seven days, a steely resolve to eat the right way every day. Like I said, averages can be deceptive. On Thursday, I ate a single meal at Applebee's that ballooned my day's calories to almost 2, 600. My net … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Personal Reflection Tagged With: Anita, eating out, low-carb, progress report, spinach, weighing in

Chowing down low-carb style at Red Robin

By Jim April 4, 2015

I try to be a food-snob, I really do, but it seldom works for long. Despite years of education, and my wife's best attempts to refine me, I remain a regular guy with regular guy tastes -- such as, for instance, the Bacon Cheeseburger at our local Red Robin. (For the record, I get nothing from that restaurant chain except the food I pay for.) Red Robin calls this a "Gourmet" burger. I'm not sure what criteria a gourmet burger has to meet, or even if I care. It's a good sandwich -- a hefty … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Posts, Food, Personal Reflection Tagged With: Anita, cheeseburger, eating out, featured, LCHF, lettuce, low-carb, Red Robin

My low-carb week in review: March 15-21, 2015

By Jim March 22, 2015

It was a good week. I kept my daily averages to 34 net carbs and just under 2,000 calories, with 73% of my calories coming from fat, all identical to the week before. (If nothing else, I'm consistent!) As a result, I lost almost two pounds. My weight dropped from 229 to 227.2 pounds. For my low-carb reboot, now entering its third week, I'm down 4.8 pounds. There were a couple challenges. On Thursday, we ate out at our favorite Chinese restaurant in the area, which had been closed a year … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Personal Reflection Tagged With: Anita, calories, carbs, diet, LCHF, progress report, weighing in, weight loss

Sardines: low-carb, high-fat lunch in a tin

By Jim March 18, 2015

A tin of sardines makes a quick, easy, nutritious and portable low-carb lunch or snack. It's another food item that I seldom, or never, ate before going low-carb, a hard-to-explain list that includes salmon, almonds, macadamia nuts, and fresh avocado. Lately, I've been buying Season Brand Sardines in five-tin packs at Costco. (For the record, I receive no consideration from either of those companies, but may from Amazon.com, which sells several brands of sardines, including the Season Skinless … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Posts, Food, Personal Reflection Tagged With: Anita, fish, low-carb, omega-3, sardines

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