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Today is your LAST CHANCE to enter my 7-Year Blogiversary Giveaway Contest which officially ends at 11:59PM ET tonight. Hundreds of you have entered for your chance to win any number of prizes like one of the two GRAND PRIZES: the brand new 2012 iPad (third generation) and a $600 voucher to attend the 2013 Low-Carb Cruise leaving out of New Orleans, Louisiana in May 2013 (more details coming soon!) PLUS all of the prizes I’ve previously shared in Prize Package Post #1, Prize Package Post #2, Prize Package Post #3, Prize Package Post #4 and Prize Package Post #5. If you’re wanting to have a chance at getting your hands on one of these prizes and haven’t entered the contest yet, then you only have a few more hours to make that happen. E-mail me your answers to the following questions to become eligible for a prize in my 7-Year Blogiversary Giveaway Contest. Be sure to put in the subject line “BLOGIVERSARY CONTEST”:
1. Your first and last name, mailing address (no P.O. boxes please), and telephone number. 2. What is your current eating plan and how long have you been eating this way? 3. Where does your diet fall in the definition of low-carb as published in the journal Nutrition and Metabolism in 2009? LCKD, LCD, MCD or HCD? 4. Who are the top 5 trusted resources you turn to for quality information about health? 5. Do you consume “safe starches” like sweet potatoes, white potatoes and white rice as part of your nutritional plan? Why or why not? If so, what specific starchy foods do you consume? 6. What do you do for exercise? How often do you workout? How long have you been doing this routine? 7. How long have you been reading the “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb” blog? How did you find it? 8. In 2012, are/have you attending/attended any of the three major low-carb/Paleo conferences (PaleoFX in March, Low-Carb Cruise in May or Ancestral Health Symposium in August)? Which ones did/will you attend and why? If you did/will not attend, why not? 9. Have you listened to my brand new podcast “Ask The Low-Carb Experts” yet? If not, why not? If so, what do you think so far? Are there any suggested topics you’d like me to bring up? 10. How many more years do you think it will take before high-fat, low-carb nutrition is accepted and embraced as a healthy lifestyle in the United States? What needs to happen to bring about that paradigm shift in thinking?
The final group of prizes available are here in Prize Package Post #6:
By now everyone in the Paleo/low-carb community has heard of Dave Asprey from “The Bulletproof Executive” who is the guy behind the infamous Bulletproof Coffee (made with Kerrygold butter) craze that’s happening right now. I interviewed Dave about this and more of his work in Episode 569 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.” In that interview, Dave explained how most coffees tend to be loaded with toxins that do not promote health which is why he created Upgraded Coffee to resolve this issue. One lucky reader will receive a bag of the Upgraded Coffee as well as Upgraded Whey. And I’ll announce it here exclusively–Dave Asprey has officially confirmed he will be a guest speaker on the 2013 Low-Carb Cruise leaving out of New Orleans, Louisiana (full details coming in June 2012)!
A lot people in the low-carb and Paleo communities have a great deal of respect for the work of Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, a neurosurgeon who created the Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) protocol for treating neurological issues such as autism, ADD, ADHD, depression, schizophrenia and more. She recognizes that in order to heal the brain you must first heal the gut by feeding it the foods and supplements that it so desperately craves and desires. Listen to my interview with Dr. Campbell-McBride about this further in Episode 557 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show” and two lucky readers will receive a copy of her famous book as well as a special Cooking with GAPS 2-DVD set featuring recipes inspired by the GAPS Diet.
VALERIE BERKOWITZ PRIZE PACKAGE (3) The Stubborn Fat Fix book and a personalized nutrition consultation
Consuming Immunitrition organic raw veggies (green cabbage, cucumbers, red bell peppers, carrots, etc.) that have been cultured and free from chemicals is a fantastic addition to your healthy low-carb lifestyle. These nutrient-dense foods are combined with L. Plantarum probiotic and then allowed to work their magic in tightly-sealed, quart-size mason jars where they ferment for five to seven days and then refrigerated. One lucky reader will receive the SALT-FREE Immunitrition Organic Cultured Veggie Taste Tester which includes one 8-ounce jar each of the Garden, Sea, and Sunshine flavors PLUS a two-ounce bottle of Roasted Pumpkin Seed Oil, a packet of finely ground Celtic Sea Salt, a portion/recipe/serving suggestion and information sheet. Enjoy what they like to call “the healthiest snack on Earth!”
When I first started blogging in April 2005, I knew I would want to express myself outside the bounds of the blogosphere. In October 2005 I released my first book Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb: My Journey From Flabby Fat To Sensationally Skinny In One Year where I shared about my weight loss experience in 2004 while it was still fresh on my mind. But as the years progressed, my focus shifted away from focusing on simple weight loss into sharing more about living a healthier lifestyle. That’s what I put in my November 2009 release 21 Life Lessons From Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb: How The Healthy Low-Carb Lifestyle Changed Everything I Thought I Knew discussing many of the lessons I have learned along the way in this wild and crazy low-carb journey. Five lucky readers will receive both of the e-book versions of my books. And coming later this year I’ll be writing a “State Of Low-Carb” chapter in the 2nd edition of the Low-Carbing Among Friends book series and then contributing 60 yummy low-carb recipes to the 3rd edition. Plus, I just signed a contract last week to write a new book that they predict could be a New York Times bestseller coming in 2013. Exciting stuff and more details about that when I can share more!
I’ve got one last prize to share with you and I hope this is a really special one for one lucky reader. As you know I’ve been quite fortunate to interview many of the best and brightest people in the world of diet, health, fitness and nutrition. From researchers to physicians, low-fat raw vegans to zero-carb carnivores, and everything in between, it’s been quite a ride these past few years. I truly love interviewing and have grown to love it more and more the longer I have done it. In just a few months I’ll be hitting a milestone on my flagship podcast “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show”–600 EPISODES! In the past I’ve celebrated every 100th show by doing something set aside from the normal programming and this time is no different. Since there are so many talented people who read my blog and listen to my three podcasts that now air five times weekly, I wanted to give one of you an opportunity to co-host “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show” podcast with me (don’t worry, all you have to do is show up via telephone or Skype and I’ll take care of all the technical stuff) interviewing the guest of YOUR choosing. That’s right, I’m giving you the chance to not only be the host of the show but to name who you want to talk to in that special Episode 600 airing in August. Of course, we have to confirm that the guest can appear on the show (and I’ll let you know right now, don’t ask for Jillian Michaels, Dr. Oz, Oprah, Michelle Obama or Angelina Jolie–I’ve tried for years and not a peep from any of them!). I’ve never opened up my show to guest hosts, so the winner of this prize gets a rare chance to be a part of something very near and dear to me.
This is it guys, only a precious few hours left to enter my 7-Year Blogiversary Giveaway Contest. It all ends tonight, April 27, 2012 at 11:59PM ET, so don’t delay. Christine and I will be compiling all the entries and drawing names at random over the weekend (we’ll pour through all the survey answers after returning from the Low-Carb Cruise in mid-May and share a full report from that collected data). A full list of winners will be shared coming up in a big blog post on Monday, April 30, 2012–come back then to see if you won a prize. Winners will receive their prize within 6-8 weeks after the contest. GOOD LUCK to you all and THANK YOU again for helping me celebrate 7 years of glorious low-carb blogging. YOU ARE AWESOME!
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In Episode 47 of “Low-Carb Conversations With Jimmy Moore & Friends,” we have an awesome line-up for you today with two more fabulous friends. It’s a pleasure to welcome a couple of amazing weight loss success stories in chiropractor Dr. Joe Leonardi from “Fat Then Fit Now” (listen to my interview with him in Episode 252 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show”) and stay-at-home-mom Tara Grant from the “Primal Girl” blog! I enjoyed being away at the Nutrition & Metabolism Society Symposium in Denver last week, but wanted to sneak one more episode into the schedule before taking off the month of May for the Low-Carb Cruise and just some time off (five days a week of podcasting since the beginning of the year is relentless). And we’re still missing our co-host Mindy Noxon Iannotti who should be better by the time we come back with brand new episodes beginning in June. But we’ve got a great show to share with you today featuring commentary from Joe and Tara on whether high-fructose corn syrup is really bad for you or not (this isn’t a trick question), what role sugary soda plays in the obesity epidemic, an honest discussion of the disconnect between medical care and common chronic diseases, and a surprising call for cutting carbs in school lunches happening in Australia. It’s a fantastic episode with some yummy recipes (including a Cauliflower Pizza Crust from Tara) at the end. So pull up a chair, grab a cup of coffee and let’s talk.
Listen to Dr. Joe Leonardi and Tara Grant share with us today:
Joe’s transformation on a low-carb diet
His recent emphasis more on fitness and motivational speaking
Tara’s focus on “eating properly” started on low-carb in 2002
She switched to Paleo because of the food quality improvements
By all means, we’d love to have YOU be a part of the conversation as well, so be sure to submit your questions and comments to us ANYTIME by using any of the following ways to contact us: Twitter, Facebook, the official web site, and e-mail. We enjoy asking our panel of “friends” to chime in on your most pressing questions about low-carb diets so they can provide you with insights from their own personal experiences on the subject. So don’t be bashful–tell us what you think about the show and ask, ask, ask away about anything related to healthy low-carb living!
As I’ve previously shared, we’ll be taking some time away from the podcast (and all of the podcasts) in the month of May to help me recharge the batteries so to speak as well as hosting the Low-Carb Cruise that will be taking place May 6-13, 2012. But don’t worry, we’ll be back with brand new episodes again beginning on Friday, June 8, 2012 with our co-host Mindy Noxon Iannotti back where she belongs. If YOU want to be on a future episode of “Low-Carb Conversations” then simply e-mail your Skype username to livinlowcarbman@charter.net. When we’re getting set to record again for June, I’ll be in touch with you about it.
If you have something to share about what you heard on “Low-Carb Conversations With Jimmy Moore & Friends,” then drop us an e-mail at lowcarbconversations@gmail.com. Tell us your comments about the show, ask any questions you may have for our friends to talk about, pass along your ideas for what you’d like to hear discussed, and let us know if you’d like to join us on the panel in a future episode. We’d love to hear from you, so reach out and touch us sometime! THANKS for joining us in the conversation and we’ll talk with you about healthy low-carb living again next Friday. DON’T FORGET TO CHECK OUT ITUNES AND LEAVE US A RATING AND REVIEW!
For those of us who are privileged to live in the United States of America, one of the hallmarks of our nation’s 236-year existence has been our basic freedoms of speech, religion and the press. But what if these tenets of our liberty were somehow infringed upon by one set of American citizens over another? That’s precisely what is happening right now with a Paleo low-carb blogger who has Type 2 diabetes from North Carolina named Steve Cooksey from the “Diabetes Warrior” blog. Many of you have pointed me to the various news stories about what is happening to Steve, but here’s the basic gist of what’s happening to him:
In January 2012 he attended a nutrition seminar at a church in Charlotte where the director of diabetes services for a local hospital there was giving a talk about how diabetics should be eating a low-fat, high-carb, grain-heavy diet and take their insulin in order to control their disease. Cooksey spoke up and handed out business cards with his web site URL on it and encouraged people to take a look. The director of the NC Board of Dietitians called him a few days later explaining that Cooksey is not allowed to disseminate nutritional advice without a license. They informed him that they would be conducting an investigation into his web site and offered up their suggestions for bringing his site into full compliance. They’ve threatened to shut down his web site under Chapter 90, Article 25 of the North Carolina General Statutes which makes it a misdemeanor to “practice dietetics or nutrition” without a license. Cooksey says his First Amendment rights are being violated and maintains his innocence as a blogger simply trying to educate the public about how he has controlled his diabetes eating a high-fat, low-carb Paleo-styled diet without the need for insulin or drugs.
You can read more about this story in this week’s news/blog headlines:
Of course, this story may sound vaguely familiar to fans of “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb” because I’ve been covering it since it first came to my attention in January 2012 after reading about it on Steve Cooksey’s Facebook page where he detailed what was happening. I immediately wrote to him and asked to interview him for Episode 539 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.” I posted a video of that 9-minute interview with Cooksey on YouTube:
You can read Steve’s direct response to these charges against him by the North Carolina Board of Dietitians here as well as this follow-up. Additionally, my buddy Richard Nikoley at the “Free The Animal” blog was also on this like white on rice starting back in January here, here and here. Plus, my Facebook friend Dr. O blogged eloquently about this saga in his post “Diabetes Warriors, Steve Cooksey, and the future of low-carb diets.” Finally, we talked about this story with Ray Dorman and Jamie Van Eaton in Episode 44 of “Low-Carb Conversations with Jimmy Moore & Friends” last month. The implications of what transpires from this case could impact all of us who blog about Paleo, low-carb–virtually ANY health blogger without RD credentials for that matter!
Let this case with Steve Cooksey serve as a wake-up call to what could happen to any and all of us who have decided to blog about living a healthy lifestyle. Obviously the kind of information we share about bucks the conventional wisdom of the day and will ruffle the feathers of those who have a vested interest in the status quo. But what has that gotten us? More obesity, more diabetes, more heart disease and worse. People like Steve are living, breathing examples of why the alternative health blogosphere is so sorely needed. The ADA has failed us. The dietitians and nutritionists who are going after Steve have miserably let us down. Most of the medical establishment is still baffled by how to manage diabetes.
And yet here’s a guy who figured it out on his own, decided to write a blog about what he’s learned and is now being threatened with legal action? Is this still the United States? I for one don’t see how the NC Board of Dietitians have any leg to stand on regarding this issue because that pesky U.S. Constitution prevents them from trampling all over Steve’s freedom of speech and press (read attorney John Whitehead’s brilliant HuffPo piece “Criminalizing Free Speech: Is This What Democracy Looks Like?”). We’ll be watching this intently as it continues to unfold! There’s even an online petition that’s been created for people who are standing with Steve in this battle. Incidentally, they tried pulling this legislatively in Colorado through HB1060 a few months back, but was given a firm smackdown when the legislation was voted down saving people like my fellow low-carb blogger and healthy living friend Jamie Van Eaton from suffering the wrath of possibly shutting down her very popular (and sorely needed!) blog. We must stand against this attempt to silence the voice of the people.
What do YOU think about what’s happening to my fellow Paleo low-carb blogger Steve Cooksey? Do you think the dietitians have a right to monopolize information provided to the public on diet and health? Or can average citizens blog openly about what they’ve learned along the way in their own personal journey so long as they have a disclaimer explaining they are not licensed to practice medicine or dietetics (as Steve has done here and I have done here)? I await your enthusiastic feedback about this extremely important topic in the comments section below!
4-27-12 UPDATE: It appears that the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition (NCBDN) has closed their complaint against Steve Cooksey after he had “come into substantial compliance with the requirements of the law.” A blog called “Gimme The Facts” posted a copy of the letter here which one of my blog commenters shared, but I wanted to see if Steve Cooksey himself could chime in about this. Here’s his take about how all of this went down in a blog post entitled “I Received a Letter from the NC Board of Nutrition and Dietitians” where he details how he has been threatened into silence and “altering how I express my opinions.” He describes this as “a violation of my (First Amendment) rights” and says they have told him they will “keep monitoring” his online activities. Steve notes that he has “absolutely no intention of complying” with the NCBDN and vowed that “this isn’t the end of the fight, this is not over.” STAY TUNED!
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In Episode 574 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore,” we welcome an online wellness and technology guru named Dan Pardi who I was privileged to meet in person at the PaleoFX conference in Austin, Texas in March. He is the CEO and co-founder of Dan’s Plan, a free online database tracker of your progress towards meeting your health goals. This web site is set up so that it “helps you achieve optimal health in the modern world” by empowering you with ways to overcome the many forces at work in this day and age to keep us fat, unhealthy and unproductive.
Dan realizes overcoming these barriers can be extraordinarily challenging, but they can indeed be defeated with his three-pronged philosophy emphasizing food, movement and his special area of expertise, sleep. The goal of “Dan’s Plan” is to provide a sustainable lifestyle program to get healthy and stay healthy. Listen in as I speak with Dan about this sorely-needed resource for making that happen that is free-of-charge for anyone who desires to restore their health!
Listen to Dan Pardi talk about the development of “Dan’s Plan”:
We need an “information diet” to regulate the daily “overload”
He studied exercise, food, movement, sleep and lifestyle
Working on a PhD in cognitive function with an emphasis on sleep
Sleep became a “fascinating” subject because it impacts life
Food, movement and sleep is the “three-legged chair” of health
The biggest mistakes people make in regards to sleep
Everything you do during the day sets you up for a good night’s sleep
Activity and sleep are “two different sides of the same coin”
The most important thing you can do is “get in the bed on time”
The effects of sleep loss are cumulative (one full day weekly)
Cognition is “impaired” when you don’t receive adequate sleep
You get an “inebriation” through a lack of sleep
The “iPad insomnia” effect that is impacting sleep
Modern technological advances are not helping our health
Light is important and directly effects your cognitive performance
The artificial stimulation that happens from artificial light
Dim the lights in the evening to begin melatonin secretion
There are dangers with truncating regular sleep patterns
Artificial light is included as a possible carcinogen
What about people like Dave Asprey who sleep for 3-4 hour
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR FINANCIALLY SUPPORTING THIS PODCAST! If these podcast interviews on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays from the most provocative and thought-provoking diet, fitness, and health experts have helped you in any way, then won’t you consider helping us out by clicking on the DONATE button on the official podcast web site? We love making these exclusive health interviews featuring the world’s top nutrition and fitness experts available to you at no charge so that the positive low-carb message can get out there to the people who need to hear it the most. Now that we’ve expanded the podcast to air three days weekly, your generous donations of any amount are greatly appreciated to help us keep the education going.
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How did you like what you heard from Dan Pardi discussing his “Dan’s Plan” program? Provide your input about it in the show notes section of Episode 574. By all means, go sign up for your FREE membership at DansPlan.com. Next week will be an abbreviated week of podcasting before we take an entire month off from podcasting (I need a break after doing five-day-a-week podcasting since the beginning of the year). On Monday, we’ve got a firecracker fitness and health expert named Dr. Krista Scott-Dixon from stumptuous.com who has a rather irreverent way to look at things like nutrition (Wanna sneak peek of what I’m talking about? Check this out–you’ve been warned!). Then on Tuesday, we welcome back a former podcast interview guest in Nell Stephenson (listen to my first interview with her in Episode 399). She has a new book releasing on May 1, 2012 entitled Paleoista: Gain Energy, Get Lean, and Feel Fabulous With the Diet You Were Born to Eat that we’ll share all about with you in this podcast! There will be no podcasts beginning Wednesday, May 2, 2012 and we’ll return to the air again on Monday, June 4, 2012 while I’m away on the Low-Carb Cruise and taking a bit of time off for rest and relaxation to recharge the batteries.
JOIN US ON THE “ASK THE LOW-CARB EXPERTS” PODCAST THIS WEEK: We are poised to have a TON of questions this week in Episode 15 of “Ask The Low-Carb Experts” on Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 7PM ET addressing the topic “Exploding The Low-Carb Myths” featuring low-carb researcher and practitioner Dr. Eric Westman. He is one of the co-authors (with Dr. Jeff Volek and Dr. Stephen Phinney) of the New York Times bestselling book The New Atkins For A New You (listen to my interview with Dr. Westman about this book in Episode 338 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show”). He has performed some of the most influential scientific research on low-carb diets in the world. Dr. Westman regularly teaches his patients about low-carb diets and has heard virtually every objection about it over the years. That’s why he’ll be a highly-qualified expert here with us dispelling the myths people still believe about low-carb living. If you have any questions about the myths about low-carb diets that you would like for Dr. Westman to address, then feel free to send it to me this week at AskTheLowCarbExperts@gmail.com. Or ask your question LIVE on my show by calling (712) 432-0900 or Skype the show for FREE by calling the username freeconferencing.7124320900. Whether you call or Skype, be sure to use the access code 848908. Listen LIVE and leave us a review at iTunes if you like what you hear. This is your chance to interact with the best nutritional health experts in the world, so don’t be bashful.
If you have something to share about what you heard on “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show,” then drop us an e-mail at our dedicated podcast e-mail address–LLVLCShow@gmail.com. We’d love to hear from you about what you think about the show, interview guest suggestions, show topics, and anything else you want to share! I LOVE hearing from my listeners, so share what’s on your mind.
If you love this podcast and want to share these interviews with friends and family members who may not be connected to the Internet, then we invite you to check out our new “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show” podcast store where you can get up to 10 episodes in mp3 format or a single episode (up to 75 minutes long) on an audio CD format. So many of my listeners have been asking for ways to share the life-changing messages being shared on this podcast and now you can. CLICK HERE to support the show and spread the low-carb love!
One of the things that excites me about what I get to do here at “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb” is to see living, breathing examples of people discovering the principles of healthy low-carb living for themselves. Some people are convinced by some amazing weight loss success stories, others because of the breadth of scientific evidence and still others because something just “clicked” for them after years of trying to figure it out. I recently received an e-mail from a man in New Zealand who had what he describes as a “low-carb epiphany” that suddenly took the idea of carbohydrate-restriction to the next level for him on an intellectual basis. Although he lives on a farm run by his father-in-law, he himself is a software engineer. But it was a brilliant realization that pushed the idea that low-carb is how we as humans are supposed to eat in order to maximize our opportunity to be at our optimally healthy weight because of what happens to the animals when they are being “fattened up” before being processed into meat. Check out this incredible e-mail detailing this epiphany about low-carb living from my reader in New Zealand. ENJOY!
Hi Jimmy,
My wife and I live in rural New Zealand. We have 10 acres and farm our own sheep, pigs and goats. We have a house cow, a milking plant that we use for the goats and hopefully in 9 months the cow as well. We have our own free-range chickens and ducks that provide us with eggs.
We have a son with Type 1 diabetes and a daughter with Celiac disease, so purging our house of anything processed and wheat-based as well as going largely low-carb Paleo has been our response. Almost as an afterthought, my wife and I have been losing weight whilst eating our fill of these foods–no surprises there. From a Paleo perspective, I suppose we’re luckier than most.
However, all that is just setting the scene for an extraordinary discovery I wanted to share with you today.
We have three giant white pigs in addition to our Kune Kune pigs. The giant white pigs are a commercial breed. They grow rapidly and have an appetite to match–so much so that we’ve decided that we need to slaughter them because they’re costing too much to feed them. Now I’m not a farmer but my father-in-law is. In order to get the giant whites fattened for slaughter he arranged for delivery of a large amount of wheat mash to be feed to the giant whites in the amount of 3kg per pig per day.
And now the epiphany…
It dawned on me (and I may just be dim) that with pigs and with other animals as well, whenever you want to fatten them you feed the animal what in a human diet would be considered “healthy”–i.e. whole grains. In the case of our pigs, if you want them to put on weight in the form of body fat, then you feed them a high-carbohydrate, grain based diet.
Now I’m no biologist or nutritionist. I am but a simple Software Engineer. But I understand pigs in particular share many dietary and therefore also physiological similarities with humans. We can quite successfully use their insulin and thyroid in our bodies, for example. Pigs are omnivores and so are we. Our pigs survive quite well on our food scraps which includes meat, fat, vegetable matter and fruit–and now to fatten them for slaughter it takes feeding them wheat?!
So if fat in the diet equals fat on the body (as all the nutritionists and health experts like to say), then why when we farm animals like pigs and wish to get them fat for slaughter do we not feed them fat? I think the answer become pretty obvious very quickly. Farmers like my father-in-law know empirically that to fatten animals you put them on whole grains like wheat which is in effect a high-carb diet.
Doesn’t it stand to reason that this same diet used to fatten up pigs would also fatten up humans? How did we ever seriously come up with the idea that we are somehow so different to other omnivores and respond well to a high-carb diet when our giant white piggies are doing the same thing and putting on fat?
Like I said, it was a forehead slapping low-carb epiphany for me. My wife will no doubt call me a “townie” for not seeing that one sooner.
Keep up the good work–we love the podcasts and interviews.
Cheers.
And that e-mail speaks for itself! It’s great to sense the enthusiasm oozing in this low-carb lifestyle change happening in this family in New Zealand. Have you had any similar epiphanies in your journey to livin’ la vida low-carb? Feel free to share them below!
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In Episode 573 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore,” we have a special treat in store for you today with professional writer and published author Nancy Kennedy. Several years ago, I received an e-mail from Nancy asking me about my Atkins diet weight loss success story and she explained that she was writing a book about how people have lost weight. She found my “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb” blog and thought I’d be the perfect example of what she was wanting to include in this book she wanted to write called How We Did it: Weight Loss Choices That Will Work For You. Since you well know my basic nutritional health philosophy is all about people finding what works for them to attain the best health possible, I was obviously excited to be a part of the project. Nancy conducted about an hour-long interview with me asking about all aspects of the process of being morbidly obese to all the miraculous changes that took place for me physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. While the project had to be shelved for a little while, the book is NOW AVAILABLE and we’re happy to share more about this inspiring book of success stories with you today!
Listen to Nancy Kennedy share about success story book:
She wanted to do this book after losing 30 pounds herself
Her desire to find if there’s one or many ways to succeed
Why she wanted to examine all the different diet plans
I was one of the first people she contacted for her book
The variety of success stories featured in the book
Weight loss means a few standard commonalities should be in place
How “inspired” she was by the triple-digit weight loss stories
What she did to find the various people featured in the book
There are thousands of weight loss blogs out there
Facebook’s popularity helped her find a South Beach dieter
We have been told a monolithic message of low-fat, low-calorie
Her desire for people to be inspired and informed about what works
In magazine weight loss profiles, you don’t learn “how this works”
Why she chose to leave out Dukan, 17-Day Diet and Paleo
She wanted to talk to people who lost and maintained over time
How she could tell if someone had “made the switch” or not
The difficulty she had finding a Mediterranean and Volumetrics success
Her acknowledgement that this is much more than about weight loss
The common theme that she heard that went well beyond weight loss
The “triggering event” that makes you understand the need to change
How some of the featured stories creatively began their journey
She allowed the success to tell their story in their words
The tips included at the end of each story from the success
Her overview of the basics for the different plans
She got “down and dirty” with specifics about why the diets work
Whether she was inspired by a success to any particular plan
Why she enjoys the faith-based Thin Within philosophy
How she loves the South Beach recipes for her lifestyle
Her question about whether I have switched from Atkins to Paleo
How some people can pick and choose the things that works for them
Why changes aren’t made every two weeks, but at periods of time
The invaluable “Do’s & Don’ts From Those Who Did” chapter
Stop looking at past failures and keep searching for what works
You’re fighting your environment constantly
Listen to your body and respond accordingly
Banish your dread of exercise and reap the benefits
How quickly you can get stronger by doing resistance training
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One of the things that excites me about what I get to do here at “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb” is to see living, breathing examples of people discovering the principles of healthy low-carb living for themselves. Some people are convinced by some amazing weight loss success stories, others because of the breadth of scientific evidence and still others because something just “clicked” for them after years of trying to figure it out. I recently received an e-mail from a man in New Zealand who had what he describes as a “low-carb epiphany” that suddenly took the idea of carbohydrate-restriction to the next level for him on an intellectual basis. Although he lives on a farm run by his father-in-law, he himself is a software engineer. But it was a brilliant realization that pushed the idea that low-carb is how we as humans are supposed to eat in order to maximize our opportunity to be at our optimally healthy weight because of what happens to the animals when they are being “fattened up” before being processed into meat. Check out this incredible e-mail detailing this epiphany about low-carb living from my reader in New Zealand. ENJOY!
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