Losing weight with the ketogenic diet, or “keto” for short, can be a highly effective way to shed unwanted pounds. The keto diet involves drastically reducing your carbohydrate intake and increasing your intake of healthy fats, which can help your body enter a state of ketosis, where it begins to burn fat for fuel instead of carbohydrates. Read more...

I hear so many inspiring success stories in my Intentionally Bare Keto Support Group!  Real people, real stories.  I’m sharing these stories of hope because the effort is worth it.  Keto/low carb/fasting is more than just losing weight… it’s a restoration of health.  Weight loss is the added bonus... Read more...

When we have a big goal that we want to achieve, it can seem overwhelming.  For me it’s like thinking of cleaning my entire house from top to bottom… um, I think I’ll just do nothing!  That’s what it can be like when we try to achieve that one big goal all at once.  It becomes too overwhelming (or we stumble) and we just say ‘forget it’.  Big picture thinking is great to visualize the outcome, but how do we actually get there? Read more...

I like to think of myself as a ‘work in progress’ vs ‘destination to get to’, but this has not always been the case.  For most of my life I was a type A personality and I only had 2 options – win or lose.  Either I was winning or I was losing.  I was losing weight or I was gaining weight.  I was all in or I was all out.  That’s because my journey was ‘destination’ driven vs ‘journey’ driven. Read more...

I love doing this every year because it’s just for me… I don’t judge myself and I am not hard on myself.  It’s just spending time trying to understand myself and think about how the year went so I can decide what I want to do for the new year in order to be happy and make the gains I truly want. Read more...

Christmas is over… now what?

Whether you stayed on course during the holidays, chose to take a little break, or have been on a break for most of the year (say this like Ross on Friends ‘WE WERE ON A BREAK!’)… what’s your plan for now? Read more... 

More than any other way of eating, experts say Keto is THE healing diet.  Search Dr. Eric Westman or Amy Berger and you’ll learn a lot about the healing powers of keto... Read More...

Should you focus on being healthy? Or should you focus on weight loss? Or should you focus on anti-aging? OR, should you focus on yummy, tasty foods?

 

Leta's Grain Free - Low Carb Mediterranean Salad! THE most AMAZING thing you'll ever eat!   But look at the picture... which one is super high in carbs and is a pseudo-grain? Which one is very low in carbs and is grain free? Before I give you the recipe for the salad that will change your life, here's the backstory: I used to make this Quinoa Salad and everyone LOVED it! I would bring it to pot lucks and serve it for guests all the time. The flavor was just... oh my word, my mouth is watering just talking about it. I have put this salad out of my mind for at least 5 years, because my original version used quinoa (high in carbs, and though technically a seed, can really bother people with grain sensitivities = inflammation). Yesterday when we were driving home from the lake I thought of my beloved Quinoa salad and wondered... could I recreate this amazing salad using riced cauliflower? Well now I had to do an experiment to see! So I made a batch of quinoa, and I cooked up a package of frozen riced cauliflower. I cooked the cauliflower until it was very dry and just slightly browned. I made 2 identical salads, one using quinoa and one using the riced cauliflower... making sure to measure everything so they would be identical (other than the quinoa/cauliflower). The beta testers: We had some friends join us for dinner last night, and I asked them to please take a spoon of each and taste each one. They really didn't know which was which. They all LOVED them, and they said they literally couldn't tell the difference between the two! The taste, texture... everything was the same!   Woo hoo! My FAVE salad is back in rotation and I'm so excited!   So after that long winded story, here's the recipe... I just know you're going to love it 🥰 You can change this up all you like, adding more or less of anything. This is just how I like it. I can't call this Leta's Quinoa Salad anymore, so the new name will be: Leta's Low Carb Mediterranean Salad!   *Put all of this in a bowl: 2 cups cooked riced cauliflower (cook until very dry, slightly browned), then chill in the fridge for an hour before working with it 1/2 red pepper, 1/2 yellow pepper, 1/2 orange pepper (diced small) 4 full green onions (chopped) 1 cup feta cheese (crumbled) 1/2 bunch of cilantro (chopped fine) 2 tbsp olive oil (or avocado oil) 3 tbsp red wine vinegar (shake bottle first) Lots of fresh ground pepper *Mix well together, cover and refrigerate for a minimum of an hour before serving. Can be made the day before. Good the next day! Variations: -I've tried diced cucumber and it's very good. It doesn't do as well on day 2 as it makes the salad a little soggy, but if you think you'll eat it all up in one go, it's a nice variation. -Add chicken or shrimp and make it a meal!   Bon Appetit!   Checkout my new line of Pro-Aging Skincare created for mature and sensitive skin! SALE on ALL skincare products until June 15th       

I’ll be honest with you.  I can get bored pretty easy with Keto breakfast food ideas. It seems like everything I find is some form of recipe for EGGS. I started wondering if the entire world thinks the only thing we can eat for breakfast on Keto is eggs.  Is there anything to eat for Keto Breakfast besides eggs? Read more...