Ranch dressing is a keto diet natural, luckily for all of we keto dieters out there. Ranch dressing was popularized in the 1980s and 1990s by the popular brand “Hidden Valley Ranch.” True story: When Hidden Valley Ranch hit the market, my mom’s friends thought they had stolen the recipe from her because they had…
I am a red onion lover and, in my world, there may be nothing better than having a cupboard full of red onion opportunities. The pickled onion is one of my very favorite kitchen projects. I get the benefit of the onion, including all of the antioxidants that onions have to offer, and I get…
I love pickled eggs because, first of all, any variation of a boiled egg is fantastic. Second, this is a boiled egg infused with two amazing things: apple cider vinegar and flavor. What is great about it is that the flavor depends on our mood and or preferences. Use any edible flavoring agent in the…
Here at Eat Like A Bear!, I love apple cider vinegar for weight loss because it does help us fell more satiated with our meals. We will simply feel fuller faster. It also helps us reduce our insulin resistance, thereby supporting the goals of weight loss with intermittent fasting and a low carb/keto diet. What…
(Find updates, diary-style, at the bottom of this post.) And so it is spoken: We’re hiking 100 miles in a “discontinuous, disjointed, discombobulated” trek across the Pacific Northwest and somewhere in Utah, Colorado, Idaho, or Wyoming, wherever the car takes us this year! The “hike” is in honor of my 100-pound weight loss, a milestone…
Are you completely starving the rest of the day while intermittent fasting? Hunger and intermittent fasting? How do you survive? How do you not eat your arm off? How can you really make it through the day? This may be one of the most-asked questions I get and even I find it surprising that I…
How will we maintain our weight loss over the remaining years of our lives? If you’re not focused on that question you might as well not even be bothering with losing weight in the first place. As many of we long-term dieters know, it is one thing to lose and it is yet another to…
Weight loss and discipline: You guys, you’ve got to grab it and cling to it like your life depends on it (and it very well may). In this video I talk about how I was able to stay the course for an entire eight months to lose 100 pounds. Eight months is a very long…
Keto cheat days? Should you have “cheat days” on the keto diet? We all hope to find tools to make diets easier because they are certainly hard enough as it is. But does a “cheat day” make your weight loss easier or harder? ***WET BLANKET INCOMING!!!!**** In this video I strongly encourage you to jump…
Keto Macros: How to count “macros” for weight loss? Should you count your macros? First, what are “keto macros”? The term “macro” is simply short for “macro nutrient.” This is the portion of the food label — carbohydrates, fat, protein, and calories, as distinguished from “micro nutrients” — e.g. vitamins and minerals. Here at the…