Category: Dr Marks Blog

Off the Straight 60

    By Dr. Mark Richards I’ve been off the straight 60 for a few weeks now. Thanksgiving has come and gone. During this time I have not kept the diet, nor have I tried the graduation rules. I have been watching my weight carefully though. So I’ve watched it slowly creep up a bit. Don’t worry, not  much, and I know I will recover it. So what’s my plan from here? I told you before, my plan was to not gain weight through the holidays. So that is still my plan, but since I’ve gained a bit back I […]

Week 8 – The end…

  By. Dr. Mark Richards Well I have been looking forward to this for a long time now, the end of this diet that is. Its a much different feeling than the first time through, even though this time wasn’t nearly as successful with staying strict, as I’ve mentioned before It has shown me that I can “cheat” and stay on this path. Which if you remember from before, was a big fear of mine coming off the diet the first time. I was very anxious about eating pizza again, and then just falling back into a downward spiral, completely out […]

Cheese Cake Recipe

This is a traditional cheesecake recipe that I have altered to fit this diet, the actual ingredients are in ( ). Ingredients: Crumb Crust -I used the chocolate peanut butter cookie dough as my crust 5 – 8oz packs of cream cheese, softened 1 and 3/4 xylitol (sugar) 3 tbsp coconut flout (all purpose flour) Zest of 1 orange Zest of 1 lemon 5 large eggs 2 large egg yolks 1/2 tsp vanilla   Preheat oven to 500 degrees F Beat together cream cheese, sugar, flour, and zests. Add eggs and yolks 1 at a time, then vanilla while beating […]

Week 7 – Goals and Achievements

Its really important to have a goal with anything you do in life. As Dr. Eric talked about during the time management/stress talk, goals help guide everything we do. So having a goal in this diet is really important. My goals for the first straight 60 were to stay strict to the diet for the full 60 days and drop weight as much as I could. Having those goals really helped keep me on the right path. This time around my goal has been to drop below 200 lbs. This shouldn’t have been a very difficult goal to achieve, when […]

Week 6

Throughout every week I will usually be thinking about this blog and what I plan to write about. It usually helps me stay focused on my goals for my diet. This week I really didn’t have anything come to mind that struck me as a great topic to write about. Maybe that is because this diet is becoming so normal to me that new obstacles aren’t really coming up as much anymore. Obviously you know I haven’t been perfect this time around, and that could be part of it also. So I have a few different things to mention this […]

Week 5 – Slippery Slope

I have a confession. I haven’t been as strict this time through as I should. In fact I’ve full blown cheated. A few things have happened that have caused this. First of all, this is my second time through. So it’s easy to look at the first straight 60 and be proud of myself for doing it and thinking I don’t need to be so strict again. Also, it’s really easy to look at what I’ve accomplished so far and be content with where I am. I said something in last week’s blog, about how I’m ok with slowly dropping […]

Week 4 – Fitness

by Dr. Mark Richards We are half way through. Great job coming this far for the 60 Day Turnaround people. I haven’t talked about fitness all that much (I know you all hear plenty from Dr. Eric).  Everyone knows the benefits of exercise and that it promotes health. So I won’t go into the whole convincing you its important, because I’m sure you already know that it is. I always knew it was something I needed. But, as with a lot of things, knowing the right path and actually doing it are far from each other. As I’ve said before, […]

Week 3 – Planning

By Dr. Mark Richards I’m sure you’ve heard  the saying “if you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.” Well this has shown itself true throughout this experience. The first time around Amanda and I had planned out all our meals for each week. Every Saturday night we would make a list of each dinner we were going to make and then shop for what we needed on Sunday. It really worked great. It solves that daily question of “what’s for dinner?” It seems like such a simple question, but it would always cause us all sorts of grief […]

Pizza Crust

Grain/Sugar Free Pizza Crust: 2 cups almond flour 2 eggs 1/2 – 1 cup of Parmesan cheese 1/4 tsp. Italian seasonings 1/8 tsp. garlic powder (optional) pinch of salt 4 tsp olive oil Combine all ingredients together and let rest 5 minutes. Stir dough, it should be as thick as cookie dough, if it isn’t add more almond flour a tablespoon at a time until it is. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper Place half the dough in a mound on one half of the sheet and the rest of the dough in a mound on the other half. […]

Week 2 – Support

My wife Amanda and I did our first straight-60 right before starting this one. Eric and his wife Laura were doing it along with us, but other than that, we were pretty much on our own. We are only 2 weeks in, but I can say I prefer doing it with a group. I realize I don’t see the group all the often, and don’t usually eat any of my meals with the group either, but knowing the group is there, others going through it with us, just helps. I’ve enjoyed talking to those of you I see around at […]