Yummy Eggplant Lasagna Recipe – Low Carb and Gluten Free

Yummy Eggplant Lasagna Recipe – Low Carb and Gluten Free

How to Make Lasagna
 With Eggplant Instead of Noodles

Turning low carb into a lifestyle won't work very well unless you can find new dishes that are just as tasty, or more so, than the ones you left behind. Chucking the breads, cereals, tortillas, and pasta dishes can also bring a lot of emotional upheaval for those who are severely attached to sandwiches, burritos, tacos, and spaghetti.

The trick to making a low-carb diet work better for you is to find healthy ways to bring back the foods you miss the most, such as lasagna.

While that process might be quick and simple if you can tolerate the wheat-protein based low-carb pastas on the market today, switching out those gummy noodles for healthy slices of eggplant can be a tastier option.

No, really.

You can make a yummy eggplant lasagna without the noodles by simply substituting ultra-thin slices of partially-baked eggplant and covering them in a traditional, spicy meat sauce and cheese. Once you get the hang of making this unforgettable eggplant lasagna with ground beef or turkey, family and guests won't be able to tell the difference between your low-carb gluten-free version and the real thing.

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Are You Falling for One of These 3 Low-Carb Lies?

Are You Falling for One of These 3 Low-Carb Lies?

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Weight Loss Isn't a Smooth Path

A low-carb diet offers you many potential health benefits, but it doesn't always live up to its reputation as a quick weight-loss diet. I know that can be frustrating when the pounds don't come off as quickly as you had hoped.

Although the diet regime is sound advice and has lots of scientific evidence to back it up, many people eventually find themselves sitting on a plateau. For others, the diet stops working completely.

Weight loss is never a smooth ride.

The body always strives to maintain balance. Restricting carbohydrates upsets the body's normal metabolic rhythm. It doesn't like change, and it doesn't like having to do things the hard way.

In addition, many low-carb gurus present miraculous claims to their readers, but those claims often fall short of the truth. In their excitement to share their own experiences or coax you into giving Atkins Induction or Nutritional Ketosis a fair chance, low-carb supporters often repeat things they've heard so many times that now they believe those myths are true.

It's not that those in the low-carb spotlight are deliberately trying to mislead you. Most of them believe what they're saying. However, when you're staring down at a bathroom scale that won't budge, all of a sudden, those low-carb lies begin to matter.

If you've reached a point in your low-carb journey where you appear to be stuck, take a moment and give your low-carb beliefs a thorough evaluation. Are you falling for one of these 3 low-carb lies?

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How to Make the Perfect Low-Carb Salad

How to Make the Perfect Low-Carb Salad

Low Carb Styles Special Event Diet The Brutal Way

Need an Easter Short Cut?
 Toss Vegetables into Your Salad!
(photo: Zaskoda, CC BY 2.0)

Easter is right around the corner. Do you have your low-carb menu all set up and ready to go? Done your shopping yet?

Me neither.

Our holiday plans for this year are a bit up in the air. We have a close friend that is in the midst of buying a house and was hoping it would close before Easter. If so, then we won't be cooking at home this year, so I've been dragging my feet, waiting to hear . . .

Low-carb Easter menus are not that difficult though. With ham the traditional centerpiece and lots of hard-boiled eggs around, all you need to round out your low-carb meal is a super-nice salad and vegetables with a little bit of extra perk.

If that sounds like too much work this year and you're looking for a holiday short-cut, simply skip the extras and toss those lightly steamed or leftover roasted veggies into the salad. Chill it all together and you'll have an extra-special mega-salad treat. When topped with a creamy homemade dressing, you can't help but have a memorable meal the whole family can enjoy together.

But I confess.

I have a hard time dragging out the salad fixings in the dead of winter. Winter and hot food just go hand-in-hand, but with spring knocking at the door and summer on the horizon, it's time to start thinking about how to make the perfect low-carb salad.

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Kicked Out of Ketosis? The Dirty Little Secret About Ketone Testing Strips

Kicked Out of Ketosis? The Dirty Little Secret About Ketone Testing Strips

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Kicked Out of Ketosis?
Ketone Testing Strip Secrets

If you hang out at low-carb forums for any length of time, you're bound to hear again and again how someone recently got kicked out of the state of ketosis and is looking for a fast way to get back in. Out of all the issues that you can have with a low-carb lifestyle, understanding ketone testing strips is one of the biggies.

“I got kicked out of ketosis,” is one of the most common complaints I hear.

And while that may or may not be true, depending on the situation, there are a lot of misconceptions about the role that ketones and ketone testing strips play in a low-carb diet.

If you think that you've been kicked out of ketosis, listen up. Here's the dirty little secrets about ketone testing strips that you probably won't hear in a low-carb forum.

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Does the Paleo Diet Actually Cause Weight Gain? (What the Researchers Did to Get that Result Will Surprise You)

Does the Paleo Diet Actually Cause Weight Gain? (What the Researchers Did to Get that Result Will Surprise You)

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Can You Gain Weight
Eating Salmon and Fried Eggs?

The latest study on the Paleo Diet coming out of Australia is sending shock waves through the media here in the U.S. Reporters are tripping all over themselves trying to get the word out that a Paleo Diet, defined by the researchers as a very low-carb high-fat diet, causes weight gain even though the Paleo Diet is NOT a low-carb nor high-fat diet.

On the surface, the study published on February 15th in Nutrition & Diabetes appears to look into the benefits that a low-carb high-fat diet has on beta cell degeneration and function in mice, but the methods used in the study are so shocking and contrary to low-carb, Paleo, and even diabetic diets that it's hard to believe that anyone is actually taking the study seriously.

But they are.

War has been declared on the Paleo Diet, with journalists insisting that the Paleo Diet causes weight gain, all because some researchers in Australia came to an erroneous conclusion after feeding pre-diabetic mice a Paleo diet that they defined as being low-carb high-fat.

“We are told to eat zero carbs and lots of fat on the Paleo Diet,” Associated Professor Sof Andrikopoulos told the Telegraph. “Our model tried to mimic that.”

Instead of reading the diabetic journal article for themselves to see what the Australia researchers did to create that result -- and the what is so outrageous that I was literally dumbfounded when I read the journal article myself -- journalists are reacting to the conclusions presented by the article, accepting them on faith.

While I'm used to researchers using their own definition of what a low-carb diet is when designing their research studies, the design of this particular Paleo study will really blow your mind . . .

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