J Makes Waves

Here's your Low Carb 101, folks. If my posts have been making some decent sense and you're wanting to give this low carb thing a go, here's the place to begin. Photo by  Alex Munsell  on  Unsplash Are you one of those lovely people who likes meal plans and lists and recipes? If you are, you're very welcome here 💗 - please stick around for the entertainment and the information... and at the end of this post I'll give you a lovely list of resources that will float your boat. But I am not wired like this, sorry peeps - you'll find few recipes here, and even fewer meal plans - I'm just not that kinda gal.  I think everybody's different: some hate broccoli and others hate salmon - that's fine - we gotta work out how each of us can implement our own version of low carb - and prescriptive diets seem to miss this fact that we are all individuals with different lives, lifestyles and tastes. What I prefer is to just give some key concepts and just ...

Today I've hit a bit of a blogging wall. Maybe my brain's just a bit tired on this Friday night. Fair enough. But in the spirit of staying authentic, I'm just putting it right out there with all of you. That's cool, yeah? We all hit walls, don't we. I can't tell you the number of plateaus I've gotten stuck on during my weight loss journey. I remember being stuck around 94-96kg, and a biggie at 82-83 (I reckon that one lasted more than a year), and another really long one at 76-79. Bouncing around like a ping pong ball, I was, but not progressing for months and months. Gee it's so tempting to give up at those times. Here are a few of my top tips for continuing on the journey uphill, through the wilderness and surrounded by doughnuts. 1. Don't give up, even when it seems like you're failing. Speak words of life to yourself, eg. "This is a temporary struggle, I'll get through this" rather than words that kill off your hope: ...

Photo by  Matthieu Joannon  on  Unsplash A friend of mine has just asked me a very important question - one with a multitude of answers, and which baffles just about every person at some point or another. In a nutshell, it is this: what foods should I eat? Which foods are right and which are wrong for me? Well that all depends on who you ask. I started my food journey back in about 2011 with The China Study - a book on vegetarianism, and maybe at that time I would have preached the virtues of that lifestyle to you (even though I was still hecka overweight and struggling with food addiction). But the long and the short of it is: people are all different; they have different genetic and environmental factors which influence their body composition and their individual tendencies towards different diseases. This means that some folks do better on some diets than they do on others, and the natural tendency is to tell everyone what's been helpful. Oh, there are vested co...