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Atkins Stocking Stuffers
Are you wracking your brain for great gift ideas for your friends and family? Here’s a list of health-oriented, low-carb-friendly stocking stuffers for almost anyone in your life. Go for gadgets. Fitness trackers from Fitbit and Jawbone can track daily steps, sleep habits and heart rate. Perfect for the active person in your life. Get
Read MoreThe Happy and Stressful Holidays
There’s no doubt about it. The holidays are here! We’re out shopping for gifts, maybe attending a few holiday parties and busy making plans to celebrate with our families. I know I can’t wait to spend quality time with my family! There’s also loads of stress around this time of the year which often leads
Read MoreSaturated Fat: Friend or Foe?
New research shows that a diet high in carbs may increase your risk for diabetes and heart disease, not a diet high in fat. In fact, even doubling or almost tripling levels of dietary saturated fat did not increase total levels of saturated fat in the blood, according to a controlled diet study just published
Read MoreGive Thanks for Atkins!
Following Atkins? Who said you need to feel deprived on Thanksgiving? I’ve got delicious low-carb Thanksgiving recipes for every Phase, plus a sample meal plan, to help you thoroughly enjoy this holiday without guilt. I guarantee you won’t even miss the extra carbs. AppetizersBegin your day with some tasty appetizer options that will please your
Read MoreMy Favorite Atkins-Friendly and Delicious Thanksgiving Treats
Thanksgiving is less than a week away and I don’t know about you but I’m excited to be spending time with my family and of course all the fabulous food! Most people think it’s totally impossible to be on Atkins during Thanksgiving, but between you and me…..they’re wrong! There are now so many delicious and
Read MoreDo Diets Work? Yes!
A new study published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal, questions whether diets are actually effective in helping people lose weight, keep it off and decrease risk factors for heart disease. After analyzing clinical trials on four popular diets—Atkins, South Beach, Weight Watchers and Zone—the study found that these diets
Read MoreSnack Attack—27 Low-Carb Snack Suggestions
One of the reasons the Atkins Diet is so effective and so pleasurable to do is that you can have a midmorning and a midafternoon snack. That way, you’ll head off fatigue, jitters, inability to concentrate, ravenous cravings for inappropriate foods or overeating at your next meal. But not just any snack will do: They
Read MoreSweater Weather: How to Fight the Urge to Curl Up on the Couch This Fall
It is finally feeling like Fall in Los Angeles! Autumn is fabulous for fashion – I just love sweaters and scarves, but the colder weather can really take a toll on my motivation. On chilly days like these, Ozzy and I prefer to stay home and watch our favorite shows on the telly. We LOVE
Read MoreDon’t Be Scared of Halloween
With all the little goblins and ghouls begging for candy at your door (or, if they are your own goblins and ghouls, bringing bags of it into your home after a successful night of trick or treating), Halloween can become a horror story, especially if you’re trying to stick to a low-carb diet. Here are
Read MoreFitting Fitness into Your Busy Schedule
I don’t know about you, but this time of the year is always incredibly busy for me. I’m back at the studio every day for The Talk, I just filmed an episode of CSI, which I’m very excited about, and I did some weekend speaking engagements on the east coast, which was something new for
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