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The Easiest Diet Mistakes to Make [Weight Loss]

Video | Paralysis by Analysis | Diet Minutia | The Mundane Middle | Maintenance 

When you set out to change your diet, obstacles pop up from start to finish. I have seen a lot of diet mistakes over the years and made many of them myself. Whether you are having trouble getting your diet off the ground, finding it hard to stick with it, or worried about gaining weight back once you’ve reached your goal, this blog post will help you see that you’re not alone, and that may be just the motivation you need to stay on track. 

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6 Low Carb Foods That Ease Anxiety

Video | Fatty Fish | Dark Chocolate | Almonds | Yogurt | Blueberries | Eggs

Anxiety is a growing concern among all age groups. There are natural remedies for reducing anxiety. Exercise will work, and breathing techniques may help, but what about food? 

There are foods that provide the brain with nutrients that lower anxiety symptoms. And the good news for low-carb dieters is that the anxiety-easing foods I’m about to share have fewer than 10 carbs per serving.

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Blood Sugar vs. Popcorn – Is Adding Butter Better? 

Video | CGM | Plain Popcorn Results | Buttered Popcorn Results | Popcorn Blood Sugar Comparison | Takeaway

A couple of months ago, I used my non-prescription CGM to see how plain popcorn would affect my blood sugar level. The result was very poor. It shot my blood sugar straight up and then just as quickly dropped the level to a point lower than my starting point. 

Sharing that result spurred a lot of questions about buttered popcorn. Since butter is pure fat, which is a nutrient that does not spike blood sugar, would adding butter to the popcorn make it a better snack for blood sugar control? Well, I ran the test. It should be better, right? It was not what I expected. Here are the results. 

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Bedtime Routine for Weight Loss

Video | Problems with Late-Night Eating | Fasting Hours | Dinner Macros | Stoppers | ACV

More than half of us are all-day grazers, eating for 15 hours or longer every day. We also eat the majority of our calories – more than 35% of them – at night after 6 pm (1).

That late-night eating comes with a number of metabolic consequences, and a new study shows that it actually increases hunger, reduces the calories you burn throughout the day, and leads to changes in fat tissue that make weight loss harder. 

If weight loss and better metabolic health are your goals, it pays to have a strategy for handling the hours before bedtime. This blog post shares what to eat, when to fast, and a few tips to make the whole thing easy to follow, more enjoyable, and effective. 

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Easy Keto Chicken Tenders – Smoosh, Cook, Eat 

Video | Recipe Steps | Jump to Recipe | Cooking Tricks | Side Dish Ideas

This comment was posted under one of my YouTube videos, “I hate cooking. This is why I can’t ever stick to a healthy diet because a lot requires some type of cooking. ugh”

Can you relate? 

I want to show you that cooking does not need to be time-consuming, difficult, or include a bunch of ingredients that you’ve never heard of before. 

In fact, if you can smoosh ingredients together and stick them in the oven, you can be eating a healthy meal in less than 30 minutes that is keto and kid-friendly. Here we go. 

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Blood Sugar vs. Dark Chocolate: I Ran the Tests. Which Chocolate is Best? 

Video | Testing Dark Chocolates | 72% Cacao | 86% Cacao | 92% Cacao | 100% Cacao | Sugar Substitute Sweetened Chocolate | Results

I ate chocolate for breakfast for the past four days to see how different levels of cacao and different sweeteners used in dark chocolate would affect my blood sugar. 

Dark chocolate has health value. But at what level of dark does that value start, and at what point do the added ingredients tip the scale from healthy to unhealthy? 

That’s a big question, and while we might not be able to answer it fully, this blog post chips away a big chunk by looking at blood sugar impact. Join me to see what my continuous glucose monitor (CGM) showed as the best and worst dark chocolate. 

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Hunger – When to Eat | When to Fast

Video | True Hunger vs. False Hunger | Using a Hunger Scale | Fasting Schedules | Metabolic Flexibility

The average person’s daily calorie consumption has increased by 24 percent since the 1960s (1).

Many factors contribute to this calorie explosion, from the processing of foods to the three-meal-a-day plus snacks mindset, to external cues that make us want to eat even when we aren’t hungry, think the late-night pizza commercial and the smell of fresh-baked cookies. 

These extraneous factors make it very hard to tell the difference between true hunger, which is driven by your body’s physiological need for fuel, and false hunger, which is driven by other factors, including habits, routines, whims, and scarcity.

Learn how to tell the difference, and you create an effortless way to cut out hundreds of unneeded calories each day. 

This blog post shares my hunger scale so you have a tool to help you gauge when to eat and when to fast. And I’ll share the trick for staying in the middle range so you move through your day feeling satisfied. 

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