Weight Loss for a Healthy Lifestyle

How to Lose Weight Fast with the 2 Week Diet

Many of you already know. We have a obesity problem. The Center for Disease Control reports that more than one-third of U.S. adults (34.9%) and approximately 17% (or 12.7 million) of children and adolescents aged 2—19 years have obesity problems. But then you don’t need statistics to tell you that you need to lose weight. […]

Paleo diet breakfast featuring salmon, tomatoes, vegetables, and eggs

What’s the Paleo Diet and Can It Help You Lose Weight?

A Paleo diet is what our caveman ancestors allegedly ate. The caveman diet consisted of what our ancestors could hunt and gather successfully without getting eaten themselves. As the old saying goes, “you only have to be faster than the slowest runner when you are being chased by a dangerous animal.” Note: You may see references to the […]

Losing Weight with Intermittent Fasting Diet Plans

Awhile back a reader asked about my experiences with intermittent fasting plans to lose weight. So I spent time learning more about intermittent fasting (IF) the last two weeks. I knew so little about intermittent fasting from prior experiences. Back in the day when I was in the Navy, a Senior Chief Petty Officer I knew did […]

Intuitive Eating for Weight Loss

Sometimes I wish someone would just tell me what to eat so I could be healthy and lose weight. Most people have wished for that exact same thing at least once. It usually happens when you’re sitting in front of the news or reading the paper and once again getting health advice that conflicts with […]

The Whole 30 Diet Plan Review – Daddy Has a Whole New Wardrobe

I successfully finished my Whole30 experiment! And I wanted to add this Whole 30 diet plan review to summarize the journal I blogged during the 30 days. It is a story of the good, bad, and ugly. I started out as a fat man. I ended as a skinnier fat man. But it is all […]

Warning: The DASH Diet Causes Lower Blood Pressure

During my annual wellness visit with my doctor in March 2017, my doctor and I discussed the DASH diet as a way to lower my blood pressure. We talked about my plans to do the Whole30 program for 30 days to reset my eating habits. And then follow that with the DASH diet. Dietary Approaches to […]

What is a Keto Diet

The ketogenic diet or keto diet is a high fat, low carbohydrate way of eating. It allows for moderate amounts of proteins, natural fats like coconut oil or butter and vegetables. It enforces a 4:1 ratio of fats to proteins and carbohydrates. The Atkins Diet is similar to a keto diet, the difference being the […]

Clean Eating Plan for Weight Loss

You may have heard the phrase “clean eating,” but do you know what it actually is or how to go about using a clean eating plan for weight loss? I sure didn’t. Clean eating isn’t a new way of eating. It’s a label for what many of us have been doing. Actually not enough of […]

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