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Tropical Paradise: 3 Ways to Incorporate Exotic Fruits into Your Summer Diet
Health and lifestyle consultants agree that incorporating fresh fruit into your diet is essential. Fruits are one of the best sources of the essential minerals and …
Reclaim Your Vitality: All You Need to Know About Our Personalized Weight Loss Program
Research shows that even a small weight loss of 5%-10% can positively impact your overall health. Healthy weight loss allows you to improve your mobility, lowers …
Summer Slim Down: The Ultimate Beach Body Diet Plan
Summer is here, and now’s the right time to don your favorite swimsuits, flip-flops, and beach accessories and take a trip to the nearest beach. …
Sizzling Summer Grilling: Delicious BBQ Recipes for a Healthy Diet
Who doesn’t love a good old barbecue!? However, the great taste isn’t the only reason you should bring out your grill. Dietary consultants agree that …
LOW-CARB BREAKFAST Ideas To Boost Your Energy
Starting your day with a low-carb breakfast is a great way to boost your energy and keep you feeling full throughout the morning. Check out …
Low-Carb Breakfast Ideas to Start Your Day off Right
Are you tired of feeling sluggish and bloated after a carb-heavy breakfast? Low-carb breakfast options may be the solution for you. Not only do they leave you …
The Role of Exercise in Managing Pre-Diabetes and Blood Sugar Levels
Are you worried about your blood sugar levels? Do you have pre-diabetes? If so, exercise could be the key to managing your condition and preventing …
How to Incorporate Intermittent Fasting into Your Busy Lifestyle
Intermittent fasting has been gaining popularity as a diet and lifestyle choice that promotes weight loss, improved health, and longevity. It involves restricting your calorie intake for …
How To Maintain Metabolism
Maintaining a healthy metabolism is essential for successful weight loss.
Celebrating National Senior Health and Fitness Day with Love This Diet
National Senior Health and Fitness Day is a day dedicated to promoting the health and wellness of older adults across the United States. It’s an opportunity …
The Pre-Diabetes Warning Signs and How to Prevent It: All You Need to Know
Pre-diabetes is a condition that affects millions of people worldwide. If left untreated, pre-diabetes can develop into type 2 diabetes, a chronic condition that can lead …
Healthy Eating Made Easy: Meal Planning Tips for Busy Lifestyles
In our current fast-paced society, it’s not uncommon for people to adopt unhealthy eating habits. Demanding workloads and busy schedules can leave little time for …
The Top 5 Foods to Boost Your Metabolism and Aid in Weight Loss
We all know that losing weight is not an easy feat, especially if you’re not used to watching what you eat. But did you know …
5 Delicious and Healthy Low-Carb Alternatives to Your Favorite Evening Snacks
Evening snacking is an enjoyable pastime for many of us, but it can be challenging to find snacks that are both tasty and healthy. Fortunately, …
How Hiring an Online Health Coach Can Change Your Life
Hiring an online personal health coach can be a game-changer for anyone looking to improve their overall health and wellness.
7 Ways a Low-Carb Diet Helps You Reach Your Fitness Goals
Many people who are looking to improve their fitness and health have turned to low-carb diets to achieve their goals. Low-carb diets are diets that are low …
How to Practice Mindful Eating with a Low-Carb Diet
Mindful eating is a practice that encourages individuals to focus on their food, pay attention to their body’s hunger and fullness cues, and be fully present …
The Perks of Working with a Qualified Diet Coach
Maintaining a healthy and balanced diet is crucial to achieving overall well-being. However, with so much conflicting information and fad diets out there, it can be …
New to Keto? Here are Some Mistakes to Avoid
Ketogenic diet, or simply Keto, is a popular diet plan that focuses on consuming reduced amounts of carbohydrates and high amounts of fat, due to which …
The Role Of A Dietary Consultant In Achieving Your Health Goals
A professional dietitian evaluates your health status and works with you to develop a customized meal plan that meets your unique nutritional needs.
The Science Behind Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent fasting (IF) is a dietary approach that involves alternating periods of fasting and feeding. It has become increasingly popular in recent years due to its …
How Can Our Dietary Consultants Help You Improve Your Quality of Life
Dietary consultants can provide personalized recommendations to improve your quality of life by identifying and addressing specific nutritional needs. In this blog post, we’ll explore the …
Mastering Keto With A Diet Coach: All You Need To Know
The ketogenic diet, commonly known as the keto diet, is a high-fat and low-carb diet that has gained immense popularity in recent years. This diet …
This Valentine’s Day, Indulge Without Regretting
Valentine’s Day is a special occasion to celebrate love and affection. This year, instead of worrying about sticking to your diet, allow yourself to indulge …
A Guide To Intermittent Fasting
A time-restricted eating habit known as intermittent fasting is an effective way to lose weight.
5 Ways to Lose Weight In Your 40s
As you age, losing weight can become increasingly challenging. However, it’s not impossible to shed those extra pounds, even in your 40s. In this blog …
3 Proven Weight Loss Diet Plans To Help You Get Started
Losing weight can be a daunting task, but with the right diet plan, you can achieve your weight loss goals more effectively. There are several …
New Year’s Resolution: 7 Healthy Lifestyle Choices To Make in 2023
New Year’s resolutions are a popular tradition where people set goals to improve their quality of life in the coming year. One common goal often …
Foods They Never Told You Would Trigger An Insulin Spike
Insulin is a hormone that helps regulate blood sugar (glucose) levels in the body. When we eat, our blood sugar levels rise, and insulin is released …
5 Tips That Will Have You Losing Weight For Christmas
Christmas is a time of joy and festivities filled with presents and movie marathons, but it can also be a time when individuals give up …
Intermittent Fasting & The Holiday Season: All You Need To Know
We need to take care of our bodies during the high-stress holiday season. We say this because while most of us are more focused on …
How to Minimize Unhealthy Food Cravings
We’ve all experienced food cravings at some point in our lives. You know that feeling when you can’t stop thinking about a particular type of food …
How to Avoid Overeating This Thanksgiving
As the day of thanks draws closer, prepare to be grateful for our health and lifestyle consultants. At Love This Diet, we’re aware of how …
Intermittent Fasting and Thanksgiving: A Survival Guide
Our online diet programs might make losing weight a breeze, but even the strongest let the mashed potatoes take away from all their progress on Thanksgiving. …
The Second Anniversary of My Fasting Lifestyle
November 15, 2022, is a big anniversary for me. I have been following an intermittent fasting lifestyle for 24 months and can’t wait to tell …
3 Fasting Challenges & How to Overcome Them
Intermittent fasting has several advantages, but following this eating plan can become increasingly difficult if you don’t consult an intermittent fasting coach. Here are a few …
The Hunger Scale and How to Use It
Do you ever feel like you’re always hungry? Millions of dieters around the world struggle with hunger every day. But there is a way to …
Your Guide to a Healthy Halloween
Halloween is synonymous with sugar-laden treats. From candies and gummy worms to caramel apples and other sweet treats, there are plenty of sugary goods to …
How to Make Meal Prep Easier for Intermittent Fasting
Meal prep can be tricky, especially if you’re new to it. However, it’s a critical skill to have if you’re practicing intermittent fasting, as it can …
What Makes You Hungry?
Millions of dieters around the world struggle with hunger every day. But what if there was a way to understand your appetite and create a …
Love This Diet gives the FDA a HUGE Thumbs Up!
Love This Diet gives the FDA a HUGE shout-out regarding their September 28, 2022, news release announcing their proposed initiative to revise their food labeling …
How to Make Intermittent Fasting Fun
Intermittent fasting doesn’t have to be boring! Just because you’re not eating during certain hours and avoiding certain foods doesn’t mean you can’t have fun …
Why Should You Consult a Health Coach For Your Weight Loss Journey?
How often have you started following a diet plan for weight loss, only to abandon it a few weeks later? How many times have you …
Putting the ‘Fun’ in the 3 Fundamental Types of Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent fasting has become a popular trend in the last few years. The eating plan involves modifying your diet plan and eating habits for a healthier …
Food choices: making healthy choices
From a health standpoint, fat-containing foods have many advantages over sugary, high-carbohydrate foods. Foods containing healthy fats will fill you up faster and help you …
The Intermittent Fasting Guide to Avoiding Binge-eating on Non-fasting Days
Many people view intermittent fasting as a diet plan, but it’s way more than that: it’s a lifestyle. Unfortunately, many people who give intermittent fasting …
Discover the huge health benefits of strength training for all ages
We all worry about muscle loss when fasting and dieting. This article from Harvard Health Publishing is a great guide to resistance training.
Extend Your Fast.
If you are new to the diet and fasting lifestyle, you may find it hard to fast for more than 12 to 16 hours. Don’t …
Two Weight Loss Stories: Amanda and Jim
Nearly two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, and this number is growing. Obesity is linked to heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and …
After the 4th of July
It’s after the 4th, and the park is empty. It was a great time, but you feel way over full. Now it’s back to work. …
Happy 4th of July from Love This Diet
The 4th is fast approaching, and you want to enjoy the holiday without feeling guilty about eating lots of fun foods, be prepared with these …
Following the Father’s Day Feast 2022
It was a really good Father’s Day celebration including several restaurant meals, zoom sessions with friends and family across the USA, and parties with adult …
The Ant, the Grasshopper, and Diets
Aesop was a Greek storyteller who is thought to have written many stories now known as Aesop’s Fables. One of these fables is The Ant …
The Diet Plateau
It can happen to anyone; the diet’s going great, and then you hit the dreaded plateau. So what’s next?
Are Diet Secrets Hidden in Vintage Cookbooks?
Are diet secrets hidden in vintage cookbooks? We think they are!
Diet Dogma and What it Means to You
Dogma is a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as absolute truth. We often associate dogma with religion, but dogma is …
Diets and Organic Foods
Should you eat organic? Most people think they need to eat organic to be healthy, but this isn’t the case. The truth is, eating organic can be expensive, and it’s not necessary for everyone. If you can afford to eat organic and it’s important to you, then, by all means, do so. However, there are plenty of other great foods available that you can enjoy without breaking the bank.
I don’t have time to spend 6 to 8 hours every day in the gym; I can’t afford to pay a full-time personal trainer or afford to have secret diet food flown in from Shangra La. I can get all the healthy foods I need at my local grocery store.
Diet Secrets Hidden in Vintage Cookbooks
Diet Secrets Hidden in Vintage Cookbooks
Do vintage cookbooks hold the secret to diets and weight loss? Is the truth about diets hidden in plain sight? Many years ago, in a city far, far away, I started a low-carb diet. The first thing I did was go online and study up; the second thing I did was buy a low-carb cookbook.
Diet Drinks and Artificial Sweeteners Are not your Friends
Millions of people struggle with their weight, and many have turned to diet drinks and artificial sweeteners to help them lose weight. The truth is that diet drinks and artificial sweeteners are not your friends. In fact, these products may be making it harder for you to lose weight!!!
Good News for Prediabetics
Are you concerned about your prediabetes? You’re not alone. Prediabetes is a serious condition affecting millions of people in the United States. But there’s good …
Spring, Kids, Diets and Fasting
Fasting is not for kids, but many adults are motivated to drop weight or fast to observe religious festivals. Fasting can be a healthy way for adults to lose weight and cleanse their bodies, but it’s not appropriate for young children. Kids see their parents fasting and think it must be a good thing, but they don’t have the same understanding as adults. So, what should a parent do?
Losing That Extra Weight Can Save Your Life!!!
Weight gain as a general rule is a lifetime of slowly putting on a pound or two per year until we find ourselves very over weight. The best advice is do not let that happen.
Fasting and Diets for Saint Patrick’s Day 2022
Saint Patrick’s Day festivities include fun foods like green beer, green cake, green bread, corned beef & cabbage, or corned beef rubins. “She who must …
Holiday Weight Gain and Loss
November 2021 and December 2021 were jam-packed with the usual holiday super treats, and I dug in. Yup, I ate and ate and ate. And, …
Announcing our new YouTube Channel.
I am excited to announce my new YouTube Channel. Please check it out at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeycoyo7yT1rLPMzt3s_f-Q Be sure and watch the short video CDC on Weight …
Back to the Future, Deloreans, and Diet
Dr. Emmett Brown was the inventor of time travel, well, in the movies anyway. So, what would our ancestors look like if we could catch …
Is Fasting the Same as Starvation?
In my teenage years, I became fascinated with survival training. Does anyone remember “Euell Gibbons and the wild hickory nuts?” Yes, I actually bought his …
Valentine’s Day, It’s OK to Indulge
Valentine’s Day, It’s OK to IndulgeMother Nature may not have invented donuts, but she did provide all the good things to make them. Like water, …
Diets and Cabin Fever
At one time or another, we have all experienced cabin fever. The past two winters have been worse with home isolation due to covid. Not …
Fasting + Time + Diet = Weight Loss
How much fasting time do you need to start burning fat? 2 hours, 8 hours, 16 hours, or 24 hours? By understanding Mother Nature’s Plan, …
Is Time the Key to Weight Loss?
Is Time the Key to Weight Loss?
I believe it is; in support of my argument, I have been practicing fasting and low-carb & keto diets for a year to lose over 20 pounds. Note that for the past 40 years, my yoyo diets generally lasted less than 6 months.
The Pitfalls of Fasting
Many people find that there is a very nice weight loss in the first few days or the first week of fasting. However, they often begin gaining weight after this initial loss. Why? Read on.
2021 A Review, Over 20 Pounds of Weight Loss
In the first part of January 2021, I weighed 218.6 pounds. A year later on January 1, 2022, I weighed 195.8 pounds. A loss of 22.8 pounds in one year and no sign of stopping yet!
Butter, and Bacon, and Cream…oh, my.
Is fat as dangerous as lions and tigers and bears? For nearly 60 years, we have been told it is. For example, to the left …
The Gut Microbiome and How to Keep it Happy
The type of food we feed the gut microbiome has a huge effect on our health. When we eat large amounts of highly processed foods loaded with nonfood chemicals that food manufacturers add to processed foods to improve their shelf life, color, taste, and texture, we encourage unhealthy bacteria to take over our gut. When we eat whole foods, we promote the types and variety of good bacteria to thrive. For this reason, it is best to limit processed foods in favor of whole foods whenever possible.
Obesity, Misinformation, the Boomer’s Sad Story and its Meaning for Current Generations
When comparing the obesity rates from 1990 to today, the rate of increase is staggering.
In 1990 the most obese state had an obesity rate of less than 15%. Today the lowest rate of obesity in any state is above 20%, and in many states, it is as high as 35%.
Insulin and Weight Gain, Part 1 of 2
What makes you fat? Carbs? Fats? Proteins? The scientific answer is Insulin.
Calculating a Lifetime of Weight Gain
Most people gain weight a few pounds each year. Over a lifetime, this adds up. You can create your personal lifetime weight gain chart.
PART 2. WHY NOVEMBER IS A GREAT TIME TO START A NEW DIET AND FASTING LIFESTYLE
Isn’t this the season of eating, drinking, and having fun with food? The season we all get together to celebrate, and to eat, drink and be merry! So, why start a diet now???
Part 1. Why November Is a Great Time to Start a New Diet and Fasting Lifestyle
November 15, 2021, I started my dieting journey 52 years ago, but on November 15, 2020, I started a new adventure – a fasting lifestyle.
Insulin Resistance
We now know how to prevent many of the medical problems caused by insulin resistance.
How Ghrelin and Leptin Impact Diet
Halloween is scary fun – weight gain is scary bad. In fact, weight gain is downright dangerous to your health.
Part 2 Insulin and Weight Gain in the Modern Age
Obesity and Insulin; the greatest’s love affair of our generation. When and how often we eat does matter. The modern SAD (Standard American Diet) includes …
Insulin and Weight Gain, Part 1 of 2
What makes you fat? Carbs? Fats? Proteins?
The scientific answer is Insulin. The hormone insulin makes it possible to store fat.
I am fasting to lose weight, do I still need to diet?
I am fasting to lose weight, do I still need to diet? What diet has worked for you in the past? Let’s take that information and combine it with intermittent fasting to make you life healthy, happier and longer.
The Problem With Calories
Have you lost weight counting calories? Most people have, and then they gained the weight right back in no time at all. I hate counting calories anyway; it’s just boring. I love fasting.
How I went on vacation and gained four pounds, Update 2022
I went on vacation and gained 4 pounds. This is how I lost the weight gain through fasting and diet.
Magic Moments
Everyone on a diet has had weight loss magic moments – that instant when you see or feel real progress from all of your hard work.
Why was there no obesity crisis in the 1950s, 60s, 70s??? Part 1
So, what did they do to stay so slim??? Why are so many of us fighting the battle of the bulge Insulin is the life …
The truth about weight loss – what makes you fat?
Did you wake up one day and decide, “Hey. I am going to be fat!” I didn’t, and I don’t think you did. For most …
The obesity crisis – How could this happen?
Obesity is the accumulation of fat to the point that it presents a risk to your health. Obesity is a body mass index (BMI) over …
How can reading help?
“Knowledge itself is power” Sir Francis Bacon published in Meditationes Sacrae 1597
Breakfast the most important meal of the day!
Do you get up in the morning and wonder what to eat? Cereal? Bacon and eggs? Pop-Tarts, vegan, paleo, low carb, keto? Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? Mom said it was so it must be true. Or is it?
Swimming is the best stress buster
Are you stressed? So, who you gonna call? Ghostbusters? Probably not. Stress is an internal issue, and you need to find a way to deal …
Meditate for 15 minutes every day
Meditation and self-affirmations work to improve your mental state. We live in a high-stress world, and we all need time to allow our minds and …
Importance of yoga
Can yoga help you lose weight? Or Tai Chi? I have tried both, and these are excellent approaches to muscle strengthening and low-impact exercise. If …
Exercise as self-care
Can yoga help you lose weight? Or Tai Chi? I have tried both, and these are excellent approaches to muscle strengthening and low-impact exercise. If …
