A Great Stevia Treat

This is my Stevia Treat

Cool recipe for low carb eaters.

I have a quick recipe for a light treat you may want to try. It’s like toast with cinnamon and sugar. I’ll explain how to make it, then a couple of additions and changes you may want to make.

What you’ll need:

1 Mission brand Carb Balance Fajita size tortilla
These are low carb tortillas. They come in 3 sizes, regular white or whole wheat – both have high levels of fiber. The white show 5g net carbs, which is 12g carbs total, but 7g dietary fiber. The whole wheat has 4g net, I think.

Ground cinnamon – any you like will do.

Powdered Stevia
I use Optimum Nutrition Stevia Powder. If you aren’t familiar with stevia, it is a plant extract that is sweet but non-caloric. It originated in South America, but has spread all over the world. In Japan, for instance, diet beverages use stevia as a sweetener.

Stevia has a slight aftertaste, but comes directly from nature. You could, of course, substitute nutrisweet (aspartame), or Splenda (sucralose), or even xylitol or sorbitol, which are low glycemic, not low carb.

Fry or butter the tortilla. If you are going for extremely low fat, use that butter spray.

Sprinkle on some cinnamon. Sprinkle on some stevia – just a little. Stevia is something like 500 times as sweet as sugar, so be frugal.

This makes a nice low carb snack. The tortilla even has 3 grams of protein.

You can also use these little tortillas for other things as well. I make tacos and quesadillas.

Enjoy, and come back for more of the best weight loss tips.

That's how you make a Stevia Treat!

New Weight Loss Tip and Review

I have a new tip and a brief review.

I recently learned about a concept called calorie shifting, and it has to do with your metabolism.

Basically, in calorie shifting, you eat more occasionally to keep your metabolism high. If you don't, and starve yourself, you end up with lower burn rate that doesn't rid you of fat.

By keeping your metabolism high, you buy yourself faster weight loss and you have more energy.

Now for the review part -

I learned this from a book called Fat Loss 4 Idiots - a tacky title, but good for helping you lose weight.

The book authors recommend you eat anything you want on every 11th day, while following a semi-planned menu the other 10.

Ttake a look and you'll see a promise of fat loss - a fairly high promise you might be interested to see.

Here's the link - give it a try.

I'll be back with more weight loss tips soon. Use these to your good health.

Kevin I.

First Weight Loss Tips

First Weight Loss Tips
For starters, I am not perfect at this. Writing this blog should help me follow the weight loss tips I have and that I find regularly.

About a year and a half ago, I lost 40 lbs over 6 months - which is great. As of today, I have kept that 40 off - very nice.

I did this by following a few simple weight loss tips & rules. Here they are:

1. Don't eat after 8 pm (not my strong suit - need to work on this one.)
   
2. Don't eat before 7 am (I go to work before 6, so this took some effort, but I got used to it.)
3. No seconds.And don't pile on the firsts too high.
4. No snacks or very small ones.
5. Eat protein at least twice a day.

This worked for me - along with one more, from a 40 year old book called Carlton Frederick's Low Carb Diet: cut carbs to 60 per day. Ug.

If you've been on a low carb diet, you may know this isn't so easy. I have adjusted, but it isn't easy, and this weight loss tip doesn't always last.

I am a bit stuck with about 40 pounds to go. I'll post more later on some new things I have learned. Maybe following these new weight loss tips I'll get unstuck!

First weight loss tips

Best Weight Loss Tips

Welcome to my blog, Best Weight Loss Tips. I just learned some great stuff that I want to put on here over the next couple of days, including weight loss tips I've never seen before.

Come back often and spend a couple of minutes reading up! Maybe you have a weight loss tip to post in the comments.