Culinary Corner

Once I got going losing weight, I couldn’t wait to weigh myself every day. I expected to see a loss every day too! But was I expecting too much? Of course I was. After all, it took twenty years of wrong choices to top four hundred pounds, so why should I think the weight might [...]

To be successful on any eating plan, with any lifestyle— you have to stick with it. That can feel like an uphill battle if you become bored or start to feel like your food choices are limited. Variety is the spice of life, you know. It’s a cliché, but when it comes to eating, it’s [...]

I was going to do a list of ten great foods, but the tenth would just be the very obvious, but no less important, skinless chicken breast… you just can’t say anything bad about a perfect and perfectly lean protein! With this short list of wonderful healthy naturally “Low-Carb” fresh foods nobody can ever tell [...]

Your body when eating low carb is like a well-oiled machine. The weight starts falling off and your body is running like a sports car—but what happens if that car stalls? If your weight loss goal is closer than it has ever been, but you hit your very first plateau? When your weight just won’t [...]

Over my years on a low-carb lifestyle, nothing has been as hotly debated as sugar substitutes. People can be very opinionated on them and rightly so, as we should all question and research exactly what goes into our food, and then into our bodies. Sugar substitutes often bring into question what is and isn’t natural [...]

When my family first started eating low-carb, we—admittedly—did not have a full understanding of the concept. The one thing we knew for sure was, having just started, that we should keep our carbs under twenty grams a day, the recommendation for the first two weeks on the Atkin’s program. What we didn’t know was that [...]

Not all carbs are considered equal! When I was 467 pounds and eating processed junk, I’d sit on the couch for hours, only getting up to grab more boxed foods from the pantry. What I didn’t know then is that when you eat high-carb processed foods, you create a roller-coaster of up and down blood [...]

Back before my family and I lost a combined total of over 500 pounds, the way we were eating was almost entirely based on foods that seemed to be a great value for the money. Sadly, processed junk food looks to be the best value in the grocery store when you are not considering how [...]

After a health scare, Chef George Stella got in the kitchen and helped his family lose 550 pounds. Here’s how. One day 14 years ago, I had to be wheeled in a wheelchair out of the kitchen where I worked as a chef. Diagnosis? Heart failure. At 467 pounds, I was told to lose weight [...]