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How to Enjoy Alcohol Over Christmas (Without Breaking Your Low Carb Lifestyle) food company marketing tricks low carb metabolic health Dec 12, 2025

The festive season is filled with celebration, laughter — and often, a few glasses of something bubbly. But if you’re following a low carb or real-food lifestyle, you might wonder: can you really enjoy alcohol without derailing your progress?

Good news — you absolutely can. With a little planning a...

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Festive Season Health: 5 Low Carb Summer Recipes To Enjoy Now (Not Next Year) low carb mindset tips recipes Nov 28, 2025

The festive season is in full swing, and it can be so tempting to hit pause on health goals until the new year. Yet nourishing choices do not have to wait, and even small steps now can help you savour the celebrations without a spiral of regret.

This guide brings together 5 delicious Real Life Med...

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5 Ways Sugar Harms Your Health low carb metabolic health nutrition sugar addiction weight loss Aug 15, 2025

Ever feel like excess sugar is lurking around every corner, ready to trip us up? You’re not imagining it—between the endless soft drinks, sneaky breakfast cereals, and well-placed treats at every checkout, today’s world is set up to tempt us at every turn. We live in a truly obesogenic environment w...

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5 Book Recommendations About Low Carb and Metabolic Health low carb metabolic health nutrition Jul 04, 2025

As the winter chill settles in and the days grow shorter, there’s something comforting about curling up with a good book—or popping on an audiobook while you walk, cook, or relax. This season is a wonderful opportunity to nourish not just your body, but your mind as well. If you’re keen to learn mor...

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5 Ways Low Carb Improves Health low carb metabolic health nutrition weight loss May 23, 2025

As most of you know, we are all about health.

There is a fine line between toxic diet culture and changing behaviours to improve health.

At its heart, diet culture promotes weight loss at any cost. In other words, it doesn't matter how you get there as long as you lose weight. Subtext: “thin peopl...

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5 Signs You May Have Sugar or Carb Food Addiction emotional eating low carb mindset nutrition sugar addiction May 16, 2025

This week, we want to talk about something that affects so many people, yet is so often misunderstood: ultra processed food addiction, sometimes called sugar addiction or carb addiction.

If you’ve ever felt stuck in a cycle with overeating foods like chocolate, chips, biscuits, takeaway pizza and e...

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Alternate Sweeteners and Low Carb Diets – What You Need to Know (Updated) food company marketing tricks low carb nutrition sugar addiction Apr 16, 2025

Tempting isn’t it?

Many of us would love to have our low carb cake and eat it too, to be able to enjoy all the sweet foods our brain desires while still losing weight on a low carb diet. Artificial sweeteners seem to promise that we can have the cake and still heal our metabolism and lose weight. B...

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5 Low Carb Swaps from Our Kitchen low carb nutrition recipes Mar 31, 2025

When we talk about reducing sugar intake, it's essential to understand that sugar encompasses both simple sugars and starches. Simple sugars, such as glucose, fructose, and galactose, are found naturally in foods like fruits and milk, or they can be added to processed foods. Starches, on the other h...

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Low Carb Christmas Rum Balls dessert low carb recipes Dec 19, 2024

Hands up if you like rum balls!

Traditional rum balls are a classic recipe that typically uses crushed biscuits and sweetened condensed milk, cocoa and coconut.

These sweet, sticky balls will likely remind you of childhood… But unfortunately, they are high in sugar.
We’ve created a low carb altern...

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5 Essential Mindset Shifts for Long Lasting Health and Weight Loss healthy habits low carb mindset weight loss Dec 11, 2024

Mindset is all about beliefs.

Henry Ford famously said, “Whether you think you can, or you think can't- you're right.”

Many of us have beliefs that have gone unchallenged. They are thoughts (which, by the way, are just a group of neurones firing together) that we think over and over. These thought...

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Low Carb Gingerbread Cookies cookies dessert low carb recipes Nov 28, 2024

Christmas doesn't have to mean missing out. There are low carb options for nearly every festive food available. 

These spicy, crisp cookies bring the warm flavours of Christmas to your low carb table without compromising on taste or health goals.

These are great to make with kids who love decorati...

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Fast Mexican Mince beef beef mince high protein low carb recipes Nov 21, 2024

Fast Food Doesn't Mean Fake Food. 

A 20-Minute Mexican Marvel

In a world where drive-throughs beckon and takeaway apps tempt, it's refreshing to know that real, wholesome food can be just as quick. This Mexican mince recipe proves that fast food can be nutritious, delicious, and ready in less time...

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