Want to get fat? Go on a diet

It’s an addiction to insanity in our culture, one of the most overfed populations in human history — the weight loss diet. Despite plenty of scientific evidence that diets don’t produce lasting results for most people and despite countless numbers of dieters, most of them women, thrown into a lifetime of damaging despair, low self-esteem,…

Eat breakfast to lose weight

If you’re like most Americans, you eat a high-carb breakfast packed with grains, dairy, and sugar, or you don’t eat breakfast at all either because you’re too busy or you want to lose weight. Either way, you’re not doing yourself any favors. Breakfast is exactly what it sounds like — the breaking of a fast.…

Why diets don’t work and what you can do about it

After studying dieting for 20 years, a researcher concluded diets simply don’t work, a fact countless Americans have spent 20-plus years of their own lives validating. Why? Dieting is constructed around faulty principles that defy human biology and psychology. The “calories in versus calories out” model fails to account for hormonal shifts during weight loss, the psychological…

Spaghetti squash with skirt steak

Ingredients 1 large spaghetti squash (about 4 pounds). halved lengthwise, seeds scooped out 1 small red onion, halved and very thinly sliced 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 teaspoon thinly sliced lime zest 1/4 cup lime juice (from 3 limes) 1 1/4 pounds skirt steak, cut into 4 equal pieces Directions Preheat oven to 400 degrees.…

Antipasto

This is great alone or on a salad.  It is also fantastic with left over chicken.  Just cut up the chicken and stir it in! 1 cup finely chopped celery 2 cups diced asparagus 2 cups artichoke hearts, diced 1 cup black or Kalamata olives 1 Tbsp chopped pickles (I use homemade  fermented pickles or…