21 LIFE LESSONS FROM LIVIN’ LA VIDA LOW-CARB
Posted on January 6, 2010
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My friend Jimmy Moore has written his second book, 21 LIFE LESSONS FROM LIVIN’ LA VIDA LOW-CARB: How The Healthy Low-Carb Lifestyle Changed Everything I Thought I Knew. His first book was titled Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb. Jimmy lost 180 pounds in 12 months. He went from being 410 pounds to a healthy 230 (Jimmy is VERY tall).
I read Jimmy’s book with an open mind as we have been changing our diets around our house for one of my daughters who has a hard time processing wheat and other food items. Over the past year we have switched from white flour pasta to pure wheat or rice pasta. While this isn’t truly Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb lifestyle to the extent Jimmy and his wife are, it is a small step in the right direction. It has made a huge impact on how my daughter is able to process her food as well as changed our energy levels. I feel better now that we are not eating so much processed flour.
Another change in our house is a reduction in the amount of sugar we eat. Now, I’m a chocolate lover and I don’t see myself giving it up entirely, but we are watching our sugar intake more. I only buy organic sugar (which is probably still bad for you) and we use pure maple syrup in place of traditional store bought syrup and Agave sweetener in place of sugar, when appropriate.
This year I put my girls on a super vitamin as well as a pro-biotic in addition to our diet changes to help keep them healthy during cold and flu season. Their first cold, and mine too, was during the Christmas holiday. We have not experienced any flu, sore throats, ear infections, etc. I expect we’ll stay healthy through the remaining cold/flu season because we are eating healthy and supplementing our diet with vitamins. A friend of mine recently told me that his kids are in the doctors office at least 1-2 times per month with some sort of cold. Yikes!
In Jimmy’s book you’ll learn what the low-carb lifestyle really is. It doesn’t mean that you have to give up everything you love. It is not about moderation, as Jimmy discusses, although I love that term “moderation” when I consider my chocolate! I’ve tried many diets and I have failed to stick with any of them. But our lifestyle change, although not as drastic as Jimmy’s, has lasted for more than 12 months. And it has made a difference for us.
January is the time when people who want to loose weight start to read diet books or join the local gym. Instead of a diet this year, pick up Jimmy’s book so you can determine if a low-carb lifestyle will work for you.
P.S. Jimmy blogs on occasion about his experience with infertility. Please consider buying a copy of Jimmy’s book if the low-carb lifestyle is something you have been considering.
NOTE: I am not using my Amazon affiliate link to promote Jimmy’s book. I am promoting Jimmy so because I respect him and the work that he does. The links to Amazon from my blog are direct links and I will not receive any monetary benefit from the sale of this book.
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