Today was a good test for me. I attended the Pride on the Plaza Festival in Concord and ate with our Church 1.0 group at The Old Spaghetti Factory. While everyone else was having pasta and spumoni and Italian sodas, I had iced tea, house salad (no croutons), and one link of Italian sausage. I…
Category: Atkins
Losses
Today my friend Ryan Bell posted this: “Some losses are a song interrupted. Some run their course and make coherent sense but sudden ruptures are deeply unsettling. Like a chord unresolved, it irritates and agonizes, not necessarily even because you loved the song so much, but because that’s not how music is supposed to work. Like a story that…
May Challenges for Healing
Today I am beginning a 30-day challenge with the Atkins group, based on Dr. Eric Westman’s book, The New Atkins for a New You. Now that I have my migraines and Dawn Phenomenon under better control, I think I can do this! Plus, I just discovered that Dr. Westman uses Net Carbs and I’m so used…
Present Truth
Wikipedia defines “present truth” (in Adventist theology) as “a belief in truth as appropriate to any given time.” But it is the dietary approach to diabetes management that especially needs application of present truth as I continue to research and sort through the plethora of conflicting ideas. Eden diet? Clean meat? Vegetarian? Vegan? Weimar/NEWSTART diet? Atkins…