Things have been pretty busy around here since my last post! You can imagine the joy (and chaos) of celebrating the holidays with 8 grandchildren who are 8 and under! In each of these precious faces you can see the reasons that Steve and I are passionate about living a healthy, active life! We have dreams of sharing our love of climbing mountains; riding bikes; scuba diving and just being active with each of them. (Well, if their parents let them, LOL)
We do love to travel. We recently returned from a trip to Mexico with 3 of my brothers and their wives. We spent one day fishing out on the ocean. One brother caught a Mahi Mahi. It was delicious. For me it was an amazing day on the ocean. For those of the group that got sea sick, not so much. But all in all we had an awesome time together. But after vacation and going 'off plan' it's time to hit the 'reset' button and get back to eating LCHF. I mentioned a website that we have found that is the #1 resource we recommend as we work with people in adopting this lifestyle. 
The site is Diet Doctor. We came across this as Steve was beginning to change the way he was treating his diabetic patients. (There is a whole section on this site just for physicians!) It was like striking gold! You can sign up for a free month and after that you can have full access to the site for only $9 a month! (Worth every penny in our opinion!) Much of it is accessible even without subscribing! Anyways, I will take you on a brief tour:
The first drop down menu is Low carb & Keto. It has all kinds of information; guides; success stories etc.. We highly recommend taking the 'Get Started Challenge' if you are interested in seeing what the low carb/keto lifestyle is all about. They provide recipes; shopping lists; practical tips etc... No weird ingredients. Just real food. This is the challenge that we start all of our Living By Design groups out on. (In fact, we will be starting it this coming Sunday with our current LCHF Boot Camp that we are running!
The second drop down menu is Recipes. There are so many GREAT recipes and meal plans right here. And you can create your own meal plans with the recipes and it will provide you with a shopping list. How awesome is that?? (They also recently came out with a Diet Doctor Eat app for your phone that has all the recipes and meal plans on it as well!!) We have found the recipes delicious and love that it is just real food without a lot of strange ingredients.
The third drop down menu is Health. This is incredibly valuable especially for anyone who has an of the metabolic illnesses. (Type 2 diabetes; heart disease; PCOS; fatty liver etc....)
In fact, here is a list of all health issues that can potentially be helped with adopting a LCHF diet. Steve sees this played out every day in his practice as he routinely takes people off their insulin; high blood pressure meds and more after they adopt this way of eating. In his words "It has put the fun back into medicine". His patients are feeling better and coming off their meds. He (and they) are thrilled!!!
The 4th drop down method (and the last one I'll cover here... news is just that, news) is the Video section. This has a great assortment of video courses on everything from how to get started with LCFH to Keto for Beginners to Fasting. There is a course on Sugar Addiction (which is very eye opening!!) There are full length movies; documentaries; and more. I have to admit that Steve and I spend many 'date' nights curled up watching these. Yes, we are weird that way!!
I encourage you to check out Diet Doctor. Get lost in the site. Try some recipes. Watch some of the videos. Educate yourself. If what you've tried in the past just hasn't worked there's a good chance it's been because we have been taught wrong. It's not about calories in/calories out. It's not about eat less/move more. We need to understand how our bodies are truly designed and eat accordingly. We aren't designed to eat processed, prepackaged, engineered foods. Do some research and decide for yourself!
Off to fry up some eggs and bacon.
Next time Steve will do another guest post on fat.
Stay tuned....
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