Exploring the menu of life.
These are my articles that help maintain good health or to get healthy, from my perspective. I’m not a doctor but food, rather than exercise, is how I maintain a healthy weight. Read to find out how you can too, deliciously, and without feeling deprived.
It’s been almost 2 years since my first round of the autoimmune protocol or AIP diet to cure my shellfish allergies with food. What a ride that has lasted a while but I’ve noticed a few things lately that are calling me back into the realms of another 60-day leaky gut reset, starting next ... Read More »
Loads of bullshit surround how to take care of your health. I’ve learned that it’s crucial to dig deep into research papers and studies, especially who paid for them. Kinda hard to believe the results of a study on the benefits of caffeine when it’s sponsored by the coffee industry. ... Read More »
Last January, I started my path to healing food allergies by strengthening my gut. Although how I lost weight was at first a mystery, it presented a fortuitous side effect to the food allergy cure. I’ve lost 11 pounds and counting, one jean size (going on two) and when I’ve strayed on vacation, ... Read More »
I get whiplash from all the health studies that are released… one week you can eat this and the next, oh, hell, no. It’s tough to figure out the stuff you should eat. Now, I take everything with a grain of salt, and learn for myself. Take the low fat diet. For years, I swallowed that line ... Read More »
Sugar is enduring a brutal smear campaign these days. With good reason. It’s condemned as the cause to everything from diabetes to cancer. It’s so pervasive in the American diet — to the tune of 90 pounds of sugar per year per person — that everyone should be reading ingredient ... Read More »
With the medical professionals screaming at us to eat healthier and better and the food marketers saying their fake food fits into this category, it’s difficult to know where to turn. But I turn to real food — food that comes from the ground or from a tree and has never seen a factory or processing ... Read More »
Since January, things have changed a bit in our house. At least, the food has. We ate pretty healthy before, although my definition of “healthy” is drastically different than it was a couple of years ago. Back in the day, I espoused and lived the “low fat” mantra, counting ... Read More »
“There are good days and bad days…”
Dear Food Diary,
Day 64 today. Looking back, it’s been easier than I thought. You kind of get used to not eating out, cooking a lot, prepping for the week ahead, and introducing novel items into the daily diet. Kale sprouts? Nope, didn’t ... Read More »
Weeks 3-5: Project Fix Leaky Gut
“I can see clearly now…”
Today is Day 36. I can proudly say I haven’t cheated at all on what has been called a “horrific” diet. Whenever I get weak (and that has happened on innumerable occasions), I visualize shrimp, crab and lobster. Dunked ... Read More »
On my journey to heal my leaky gut and cure my food allergies, I’ve been gorging on paleo cookbooks. There seem to be plenty on the market these days… it’s quite trendy to “go paleo.” I’m enjoying the process of exploring the paleo tenets, mostly consuming quality ... Read More »
I have become the person who annoyed me my entire restaurant career: “The Substituter.” Imagine not being able to eat anything on a restaurant menu. You search, stare, analyze the ingredients the chef lovingly created for your eating bliss. The server returns five times but the compulsive research ... Read More »
About ten years ago, I awoke with half of my face swollen like a pro boxer had kicked my head in. Eyes, lips and cheek itching with puffy, dark patches of brooding skin stared back at me in the mirror. All I could say was WTF? Panicked, I hightailed it to my general practitioner doctor who took one ... Read More »