Countdown to Fitness

Do you have high blood pressure, cholesterol, or triglycerides?  Are you diabetic?  Do you want to lose weight? Maybe you have arthritis or some other auto-immune disease.  Perhaps you are just looking to eat healthily.  Maintaining good health and a healthy weight is all about managing your insulin levels.  The master hormone insulin is key to regulating energy and glucose metabolism, which comes from eating carbs.  Insulin, when dominant in your body, tells your body to store food as fat, to make cholesterol, and to do other functions, which, when working properly is fine.  However, our Western diets, high in carbs, create an overabundant amount of insulin in the body, leading to health problems, like an overabundant amount of body fat, cholesterol, triglycerides, among the other health problems mentioned above.  Therefore, managing your carbs is key. (more…)

Maybe you want to lose or maintain weight.  Perhaps you have diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high triglycerides, diseases of the eye, or autoimmune disorders.  Or maybe you just want to find a healthy way to eat. The Protein Power Lifeplan by Michael Eades, M.D., and Mary Dan Eades, M.D., which I highly recommend, is the best book on this subject I’ve read so far.  This is not just a diet book, but as the cover says, this book is “A New Comprehensive Blueprint for Optimal Health.”

While the authors had written a previous book Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low-Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health–in Just Weeks!, which I also bought, I was going on a trip and grabbed their second book first.  (I’m going to be reading their first book next.) (more…)

Live Springs Farm Pasture-Raised Pig

Back in March, I wrote an article “Why Fitness Hopeful Is Eating a High-Protein, High-Fiber, Moderate-Carb, Moderate-Fat Eating Plan.” I’ve still been evolving my eating plan since then, so its about time I posted something about it.  While I’m still currently eating a high-protein, high-fiber, moderate-carb, moderate to higher fat plan, what I’ve eliminated is the big difference. (more…)

On my personal countdown to better fitness, I’ve been evolving my diet not only as I’ve read articles, books, and scientific papers, but also as I’ve made scientific observations about how food affects me personally.  Amazingly, or so I thought at the time, when I increased my protein and kept carbohydrate and fat consumption the same, I lost weight.   This has happened several times since October 2009.

How can this be? (more…)

Do you want to lose weight but are having trouble starting?  Are you looking for a comprehensive, inspirational weight-loss plan?  Do you know what type of metabolism you have?  Are you looking for healthier food choices?  Do you need recipes and a meal plan? Are you ready to take a hard look at what keeps you from losing weight?  Do you want to understand the science behind a healthier diet, so you can make your own wise decisions?  Are you ready to sweat?  Consider the book if you want answers to most or all of these questions. (more…)