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In September of 2003, I was working with a very good friend who just happened to be the owner of the company I then worked for, and I had noticed that he had lost some weight - he kept pulling up the pants of his pinstripe suit like a hobo. I asked him about it and he seemed reluctant to say, but... Full Bio
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What Is the World’s ‘Best Diet’? by Low Carb Confidential !. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I just stumbled over Yoni Freedhoff the other day when I read his article in US  News. I’m going to be checking this guy out much closer. He’s a bariatric physician ... Read on »
Eating Practice – 07/29/12 to 08/04/12 – I broke 200 – Wow by Low Carb Confidential !. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating In this installment, our hero inadvertently stumbles over the much desired and anticipated 200 lb mark to land under 200 for the first time in 4 years. He do ... Read on »
Eating Practice – 07/22/12 to 07/28/12 by Low Carb Confidential !. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Sunday, July 22, 2012 – 204.2 Fasting blood sugar – 109 Not the greatest day in terms of family stress. In terms of eating I had some greek yogurt in the after ... Read on »
Find the Heart Attack Rate in Your Area AND The Toxins You’ve Been Exposed to With This... by Low Carb Confidential !. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating For those of us who liked to be informed about this sort of thing – or data nerds  - or just those who like to scare themselves silly – here’s a nifty little tool t ... Read on »
Know It All Diet Researcher Says He Knows It All – No Further Discussion Necessary by Low Carb Confidential !. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Not too long ago I read an interesting article in the New York Times entitled  In Dieting, Magic Isn’t a Substitute for Science . It starts with a question that des ... Read on »
Eating Practice – 07/15/12 to 07/21/12 by Low Carb Confidential !. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating A new week – one of birthday parties and stress. My goals for the week are: no eating after 8pm, take my metformin in the late afternoon to see if better blood sug ... Read on »
Eating Practice – 07/08/12 to 07/14/12 by Low Carb Confidential !. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I’ve concluded that – regardless of any dieting success or failure – journaling what I eat is a helpful awareness exercise. If I have to account for it, the invisib ... Read on »
Have a Question for a Doctor? Try Healthtap.com by Low Carb Confidential !. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating It sure is nice to have a medical professional to bounce questions off of – but that usually isn’t your doctor. He or she is too busy running from exam room to exam ... Read on »
Can a Low Carb Diet Sabotage Long-Term Weight Control Through Appetite Supression? by Low Carb Confidential !. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating For most people, a low carb diet is not their first diet. We come to low carb after failure with isocaloric diets, where we starved while eating tiny portions that ... Read on »
Metformin and Appetite by Low Carb Confidential !. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating This is a very long story that at the moment I will keep very short. At my annual physical 4 days ago I asked for a prescription of metformin – a diabetic drug. ... Read on »
Man vs. Pizza by Low Carb Confidential !. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I hope you’ll forgive me if ‘Happy Shiny Weight Loss Success’ is interrupted by an event that seems to indicate I’m missing Something Big. I was tooling along w ... Read on »
Can You Make Ice Cream With Atkins Shakes? by Low Carb Confidential !. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating My wife had bought an ice cream maker – just what a low carb guy wants in the house – right? Anyway, I got to wondering if I couldn’t make some use of it. Perhaps b ... Read on »
Hunger, Cravings, Obession, and Food as a Utility – A Repost from 2008 by Low Carb Confidential !. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating [Did you ever get a rush of motivation out of nowhere to, say, clean every drawer in the house? Every one? Full of energy, you go from room to room, draw ... Read on »
Happy Shiny Weight Loss – The Dog Ate My Homework? by Low Carb Confidential !. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating The New Happy Shiny Weight Loss Success had not produced the results I have been looking for so far – mostly because I haven’t done a damn thing differently ... Read on »
New Happy Shiny Weight Loss Success – Week 2 of 14 by Low Carb Confidential !. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Day 8 of 105. Sunday, May 27, 2012. Weight: 207.8 Weird. I had just finished last week’s post and then tidied the books and papers scattered about. A boo ... Read on »
At Trip to Mitsuwa – Japanese Food Store by Low Carb Confidential !. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Being Memorial Day weekend and nothing planned, my wife and I packed up the kids for a long car trip to Mitsuwa – a Japanese mall in Edgewater, on the Hudson ... Read on »
New Happy Shiny Weight Loss Success – Week 1 of 14 by Low Carb Confidential !. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Day 1 of 105. Sunday, May 20, 2012. Weight: 211.4 In the morning I announced to my wife: “This is it. Today I’m going on a diet. I’m taking an express train al ... Read on »
Does Your Diet Make You an Asshole? by Low Carb Confidential !. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating To get to the answer to the question straight away: it might. This was brought up in a study reported on Msnbc.com , part of which states: …new re ... Read on »
A Call for Civility in Alternative Nutrition by Low Carb Confidential !. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I’m going to start this post discussing Sigmund Freud – but it’s not what you think – really. This post is not about psychology. Sigmund Freud was a cokehead in ... Read on »
I Suck at Low Carb Dieting – Week 11 by Low Carb Confidential !. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Note: This is week 11 of what was supposed to be a 12-week experiment in low carb dieting. I have kept true to my title for these posts. The past chronicles are  he ... Read on »