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Eat It Again! How Repetition Rewires Your Taste – CarbSmart Podcast Episode 27

Dana Carpender 1,970

Every taste is an acquired taste. If you’ve just recently gone low-carb, say as a New Year’s resolution, you may be overwhelmed by the sheer difference from your old diet. I encourage you to do so rather than using low-carb breads and such to make your low-carb diet resemble your old diet. Those can be useful. Bridge foods helping you to find a new normal, but not only are they, yes, processed foods often overpriced and sometimes deceptively labeled.
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Carbs Count, But How? Understanding Net Carbs vs. Total Carbs – CarbSmart Podcast Episode 28

Dana Carpender 2,020
If your nutritional program is so good, why do you still take drugs? – CarbSmart Podcast Episode 26

Dana Carpender 1,881
Isn’t It Important to Eat a Balanced Diet? – CarbSmart Podcast Episode 25

Dana Carpender 1,795
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Low-Carb – CarbSmart Podcast Episode 24

Dana Carpender 2,256
ENCORE: Refusing Holiday Food and Staying Low-Carb – CarbSmart Podcast Episode 23

Dana Carpender 1,993

Low-Carb Spring

Top 10 Tips to Quickly Spring Clean Your Low-Carb Meal Plans

Susie T. Gibbs 2,813

Spring is a magical season. It feels fresh and new and like rebirth. Spring is filled with possibilities and motivation and a sense of anticipation. In Texas, spring is just a glorious three-day precursor to a miserable nine month extravaganza inside the humid oven we Texans like to lovingly call the Texas Gulf Coast. Join Susie T. Gibbs as she shares her top 10 tips for keeping your Spring meals low carb, light, and satisfying!
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Radishes with Sweet Cream Butter & Sea Salt Recipe

Susie T. Gibbs 2,195
The Couch Potato Greets Spring – Getting Active Again

Kent Altena 1,969
12 Best Low-Carb Spring Foods

Dana Carpender 2,225
Low-Carb Tequila Highballs are a Sugar-Free Summer Treat

Dana Carpender 2,732

The Latest From CarbSmart

What are Sugars and What are Starches?

What are Sugars & What are Starches? Article 1 of the Science of Low-Carb & Keto Diets series. All of us living the Low Carb lifestyle use the words carbohydrate, sugar, and starch on a daily basis. But although we use the words freely, not everyone is clear on just what those words mean, how the substances relate to one another, or how they relate to other things we eat.

Pastas Alternatives

Tony Blakemore 1,163

Pasta in all its various types constitutes a large part of our fast living, fast food culture. Busy mums and dads can very quickly throw together a selection of meat and/or veggies in a stir-fry or casserole to produce a quick tasty filling meal.

Dixie Carb Counters Chocolate Orange Ginger Muffin Mix

Chocolate Orange Ginger Low Carb Muffin Mix by Dixie Carb Counters

Andrew DiMino 917

Chocolate Orange Ginger Low Carb Muffin Mix from Dixie Carb Counters. Perfect as a snack, dessert or low carb breakfast treat.

If My Mother Had Only Known About Low Carbing She’d Still Be Alive Today!

Sonya Tilley 1,561

If I wrote a book on the details of the diet I grew up with, this would have to be the title. I marvel that I have even lived long enough to embrace the low carb way of life. My results are a testament to the fact that low carbing is not "A" way of eating. It is "THE" way of eating if you're interested in living long and being healthy.

Easy Low Carb Recipe Conversions Part 2

Judith van den Broek 1,302

Greetings! I'm back with a couple more crockpot/slowcook recipes, and am going to run them through the 'low carb converter' for you.

The Morning After – How to survive a high carb day

Andrew DiMino 1,255

You've been doing great. You've been losing weight by adopting the low carb lifestyle. You feel better. You have more energy. You sleep better. Your clothes are looser. And then you blow it.

Low Carb Recipe Conversions

Judith van den Broek 1,190

Low carb recipes conversion from high carb.

Easy Low-Carb Recipe Conversions includes Low Carb Chunky Beef Chili

Judith van den Broek 1,270

Hi, all. Let me introduce myself briefly. I'm an avid cook. I enjoy food in all its richness, and I collect cookbooks of all kinds, especially regional and "antique" or traditional cookbooks. I'm Canadian, I'm curious (my favourite word is "why?"), and I've been a low carber for almost 3 years.

Now Completely Off Insulin: Marilyn’s Low-Carb Success Story

Julie Westly 682

Marilyn, 57, is from Edmonton Alberta, Canada. She started out following Protein Power in October of 1999, and switched over to Atkins since January of 2000. She now tries to limit her carbohydrate intake to between 20 to 30 grams a day.

Everything’s Bigger, Better & Low-Carb in Texas

Denise C. Lopez 1,095

"Everything's bigger and better in Texas." This old adage refers to the size of things in Texas when compared with the size of things everywhere else in the world. Well, the first part of this old adage surely held true for me! Since I was a rather small and scrawny child in my first few years of life, ending up at 300 pounds what quite a feat. My mother tells me stories about taking me for regular doctor visits and voicing her concerns about me being too skinny and so I must be sick. The family doctor named her "The Mother Hen."