When I first started my - OMG I don't want to have diabetes - diet, someone told me that cinnamon would help with my blood sugar.  I figured it couldn't hurt so I started adding it to my diet ( Read more... )

Since the beginning of September, I have been on a high lean protein, low carb diet.  The reason for the diet was my blood sugar, but the other night I read a list of foods to boost your immune system and it was pretty much the diet I have been on.  Nuts for snacks.... and less sugar & bad fat.  I then checked the internet and found similar lists ( Read more... )

I have been on this diet for 3 weeks.  I have stuck pretty close with the exception of some extra fruit and a bit of meat that wasn't as lean as it should be (a bit of the dark meat from the chicken.)  I am not avoiding things like avocados but all bread, pasta, sweets etc.  I think I need a hit of dark chocolate.  The diet recommends a snack, ( Read more... )

Absolutely.   I would have warm Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie pie and have with it a sip of Aged Port out of one of my grandmother's crystal apertif glasses.  I would eat quacamole with tortilla chips and have a marguarita.
Can you tell I am on a high protein, low carb diet?