Eating Low-Carb for Health and Weight Loss

Some of us have health problems that require a more strict Carnivore way-of-eating, or even Beef-Water-Salt, which is the ultimate elimination diet. Some of us don’t have metabolic disease or weight to lose, and do well on a more animal-based diet including the least toxic plant foods. I would love to meet with you and help you find the version that works best for your body.

Once we realize that the food pyramid has been upside-down our whole lives, what do we eat? We pretty much have to re-think everything that goes in our mouths. They have literally turned the truth completely upside-down on us! They tell us that sugar is innocent and that animal fat is killing us, and the exact opposite is true. Sugar, grains, and industrial seed oils are killing us and animal fat is the healthiest food we can eat. Saturated fat is absolute health food! The Inuit (Eskimos) are the healthiest people we've ever found and they eat 80% animal fat. There is an amazing researcher responsible for this discovery, Vilhjalmer Steffansson. You can read his book, My Life With the Eskimo, on google books.

The question people most often ask me is, What should I eat? So here is a list of meal and snack ideas.

Breakfast: easy peasy, as long as you love eggs. If you don't, it's time to learn. After a couple days of eggs for breakfast, you will start to crave them right when you wake up. Eggs have an amino acid profile of 100. They essentially set the standard for all other proteins. Plus they are full of extremely healthy cholesterol (doesn't cause heart disease, that is a huge myth), other healthy fats, and vitamins. If you aren’t feeling like having eggs, yogurt with berries is a great option. For weight loss, choose nonfat yogurt without “nonfat milk powder” which is just additional lactose.

If you eat some less toxic plant foods and tolerate dairy:

Frittata: 8 eggs, 1 cup of cheddar cheese, half cup cream, 10 pieces of pastured bacon or sausage, any other ingredients you want like zucchini, sweet potato, or olives. Fry up the meat and veggies in some butter or bacon fat, then stir in the beaten eggs, cream, and cheese, then bake in the oven for 20-30 mins at 350 degrees until cooked through. Delish.

Another amazing breakfast recipe that can be premade and frozen to have something quick to grab in the morning: Bacon Muffins! These are fabulous. There is a recipe on my blog.

Lunch or dinner ideas:
Wild caught salmon, with melted cheese, dill, and lemon.

Grilled brats with pickles and mustard, with or without cheese melted on top.

Coconut curry -  soup or stirfry with any veggies or meat you want, fish sauce, ginger, garlic. I like to use half broth and half coconut milk to cut down on fat and calories.

Sweet Potato Shepard's Pie, heavy on the meat and non-root vegetables and light on the sweet potatoes, covered in butter and/or cheese.

Zucchini noodles with homemade alfredo sauce and your choice of animal protein.

Any big piece of meat like a steak or some oven baked chicken, with a side like squash, sweet potato, or cold cucumber salad, etc. Baked chicken breast is really good with herbs, garlic, and butter smeared on it before you bake it.

Pot roast. So easy and so good. Brown the roast in a hot pan with some bacon fat or butter in it, then pour broth over the top, add onion and garlic powder, and a couple carrots and cook on low heat for many hours.

Three awesome dessert ideas: yogurt with berries and a drizzle of honey, Panna Cotta, or Egg Custard. Recipes are on my blog. These can be made with honey.

Hope that gives you some good ideas to get you started! Remember you only need to measure carbohydrates, keeping fat low and protein high for weight loss. Keep your carbohydrates below 50 grams/day for weight loss for most people - about 2 small servings, spaced throughout the day. Then eat all the beef, pastured pork and chicken, yogurt, eggs, and fish that you desire and watch the pounds fall away! Happy eating!