super creamy chocolate mousse!

new dessert and it's super easy!
-1 oz of cream cheese
-1 tablespoon of cocoa
-2 packets of truvia
-1/2 cup of heavy whipping cream.
*optional* -1 tablespoon all natural peanut butter
...blend all ingredients until it forms into a mousse-like consistincy (a hand mixer works great). Makes 2 servings, tastes delish!
I'm addicted to this stuff, i eat it almost everyday!

Get that Beach Body

Ok, so this is the time of year that a lot of articles come out telling you how to give you a "beach body".  It will usually consist of a low fat and a good amount of carbs.  Why not try a different diet this time around?  How about high fat and low carb?  There's already studies that are showing a high fat diet is more beneficial and those who maintained the diet lost more and kept their weight off long term compared to those who did low fat. 
A sample of some daily food you could be eating:
Breakfast: eggs and bacon/sasuage
Snacks: olives (green or black), cheese, atkins shakes/bars, pork rinds, hard boiled eggs, etc.
Lunch: Cheeseburger with mayo wraped with lettuce
Dinner: Peperoni pizza with hot wings (pizza crust made using califlower and cheese based crust, sounds weird, but my husband and I can tell you that it's pretty great). 
Dessert: atkins endulge bar, low carb ice cream, etc (many dessert recepies on the atkins website).

Pair this new lifestyle with working out and THAT is your beach body plan.  Who knew you could fight fat with fat?! 
The only catch is that you have to keep up with this diet.  you can't just lose your weight and decide to be done and revert to your old ways, cuz as with any diet, you will gain everything back.  The low carb way is a lifestyle to live with.  I'm loving it. 
I'm a big believer in the" fat head" movie, if you read some of my other blog posts, i've refered to it before.  I think it helps people on the fence about starting a low carb lifestyle make a decesion and stick to it, here's the link : http://www.hulu.com/watch/196879/fat-head

No-Bologna Facts

These facts are on Tom Naughton's "Fat Head" movie website and I think they are great!:

• There’s never been a single study that proves saturated fat causes heart disease.
• As heart-disease rates were skyrocketing in the mid-1900s, consumption of animal fat was going down, not up. Consumption of vegetable oils, however, was going up dramatically.
• Half of all heart-attack victims have normal or low cholesterol. Autopsies performed on heart-attack victims routinely reveal plaque-filled arteries in people whose cholesterol was low (as low as 115 in one case).
• Asian Indians – half of whom are vegetarians – have one of the highest rates of heart disease in the entire world. Yup, that fatty meat will kill you, all right.
• When Morgan Spurlock tells you that a McDonald’s salad supplies almost a day’s allowance of fat, he’s basing that statement on the FDA’s low-fat/high-carbohydrate dietary guidelines, which in turn are based on … absolutely nothing. There’s no science behind those guidelines; they were simply made up by a congressional committee.
• Kids who were diagnosed as suffering from ADD have been successfully treated by re-introducing natural saturated fats into their diets. Your brain is made largely of fat.
• Many epileptics have reduced or eliminated seizures by adopting a diet low in sugar and starch and high in saturated animal fats.
• Despite everything you’ve heard about saturated fat being linked to cancer, that link is statistically weak. However, there is a strong link between sugar and cancer. In Europe, doctors tell patients, “Sugar feeds cancer.”
• Being fat is not, in and of itself, bad for your health. The behaviors that can make you fat – eating excess sugar and starch, not getting any exercise – can also ruin your health, and that’s why being fat is associated with bad health. But it’s entirely possible to be fat and healthy. It’s also possible to be thin while developing Type II diabetes and heart disease.
• Saturated fat and cholesterol help produce testosterone. When men limit their saturated fat, their testosterone level drops. So, regardless of what a famous vegan chef believes, saturated fat does not impair sexual performance.

It just boggles my brain that all my life I've been lied to by the gov't about what foods are healthy for me.  I should have known better I guess.
http://www.fathead-movie.com/index.php/no-bologna-facts/ the direct link to his website.  Also, if you havent yet watched the fat head movie, you need to!  Go to http://www.hulu.com/ and search for "fat head".