Posts Tagged ‘low carb diet and exercise’

The Perfect Low Carb Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe

January 9th, 2010

After two or three years of messing around with the proportions, I’m pretty sure I’ve finally nailed the perfect low carb peanut butter cookie recipe. It’s difficult to get it right without any flour or sugar, as these ingredients generally lend chewiness and crispiness to peanut butter cookies.  But I think the following recipe is about as close as you can get without them, and when paired with a glass of milk they are tremendously satisfying.

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Two-Week Low Carb Detox

September 20th, 2009

West St., Annapolis: If you need this, you probably can't read thisThose of you who know me know that I follow a pretty low carb diet all the time. I don’t eat bread or potatoes or sweets (usually), and I generally manage to stay under 50 or 60 carbs a day.

Even so, when your better half is a sommelier, it gets pretty easy to put on extra weight. This is because the liver is largely responsible for metabolizing fat, and if you keep it busy processing wine it isn’t really able to do that very efficiently.

So the wife and I are following a strict 2-week low carb detox program in order to shed our unneeded fats and get our livers running full-speed again. Here’s what we’re doing:
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