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Week 6 – What’s next

I still have 2 and a half weeks util I’ve finished my straight 60, but the question as to what follows has been on my mind pretty much since the first week. I’ve got it down to 3 main choices. 1. Continue the diet. 2. Continue the diet but not so strict, allowing myself some grains/sugar once in a while, but in moderation. 3. Go crazy and eat all of the foods I’ve been denying myself for the last 60 days. I’ll admit, I think about option 3 a lot more than the others, but I realize it would not […]

Supplements and Chemicals

Juice Plus.  I’ve been on it for years.  There is a TON of research behind it, and it is clean.  This is one reason why it made sense to my small brain, that we should consider this as a primary supplement.  The ingredient list is a FOOD LABEL, it is not an FDA ingredient list, because it is all whole food.  That is an awesome place to start when looking for nutrition. You see, years ago, we wrote a Daily Sprout entitled, “To Live Longer, Use Less Supplements”.  It is buried in one of our archive binders in the front […]

Week 5 – Frustration

This was a hard week. Nothing was really different this week. Nothing bad happened. It was actually a pretty good week, besides what the scale told me, which made it a frustrating week. At the beginning of this week the scale went up a pound. The next day, the same thing. I came close to hitting 220 lbs at one point. It was frustrating to say the least. A week like this, in the past would have most definitely discouraged me to the point of giving up. Well I haven’t given up. Those negative thoughts were present though. The feeling […]

Unacceptable Levels

You have a liver, thank God for that.  But did He design it to handle the incredible chemical load that happens in today’s world?  Is it able to keep up in our children?  Consider the Daily Sprout from last week about the chemicals in furniture that are showing up in children at five times the levels in adults. September 4th at 7pm we are showing this movie that cannot be seen on Netflix, or streamed on the internet.  Come to the office, bring a friend, this impacts everybody. Check out this info from their site:   Unacceptable Levels examines the results […]

Blood Pressure and Chiropractic

Over the years I have had many people come to our office because of high blood pressure, and we have had absolutely fantastic results.  I recently had a discussion with Maggie (one of our massage therapists) about the different causes of high blood pressure, and when chiropractic was more likely to be helpful.  I figured this would be a pretty wise thing to share. First off, high blood pressure is a real concern.  Much more of a concern than high Cholesterol.  Check out The Cholesterol Conspiracy by Dr. Ladd McNamara, or The Cholesterol Controversy by Edward Pinckney.  Both fantastic books […]

Cookie Recipe

Thick and Soft Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies The recipe makes a baker’s dozen. Ingredients: 1 Large Egg 1 1⁄4 cup Creamy Peanut butter, or Almond Butter ( I used a mixture of both) 1 tsp Baking Soda 1 cup of your preferred sweetener. Recipe calls for brown sugar ( I used xylitol) 1 tbsp Vanilla extract 1⁄2 cup unsweetened natural cocoa powder 1 tbsp+ coconut oil Instructions: 1. In mixer combine peanut butter, “sugar”, egg, vanilla, coconut oil. Mix until “sugar” (xylitol) is no longer gritty. 2. Add cocoa powder and baking soda. Beat until well incorporated. Dough may be […]

Week 4 – My Birthday

Week 4 by Dr. Mark Sometime during the first week I realized my birthday would fall right right in the middle of this diet. Not just any birthday, my 30th. I figured, that’s great, I’ll get 1 cheat day since its my 30th after all. For some reason I thought I should ask Eric first, just to make sure it was OK. Well that wasn’t too smart, he said “absolutely NOT, it’ll ruin everything!” Afterwards, I realized it was a pretty dumb thing to consider anyway. If you can remember back to one of my earlier posts, cheat days for […]

The plight of EWG

The Environmental Working Group is a fantastic organization. I have utilized them for their Dirty Dozen since its inception (the list of the top twelve “dirtiest” foods when raised conventionally).  Actually, just yesterday I was in Publix and a mother’s lack of knowledge became my fortune.  Currently Strawberries are number two on the list of dirty foods (need to be bought organic).  I overhead a mom say to her daughter, “No, those are organic, we aren’t buying organic”, and then they turned to where I was standing, and grabbed some strawberries. I instinctively looked to where she HAD been looking, […]

Kale Chip Recipe

Kale Chips Ingredients: One bunch of Kale 1⁄2 cup Nutritional yeast Olive oil Salt Cayanee pepper Instructions: 1. Wash and Dry Kale 2. Break the leaves off of the thick stems of Kale and place in a bowl 3. Lightly coat the Kale with olive oil 4. Lay Kale on baking sheets in a single layer ( you will most likely need two cookie sheets) 5. Sprinkle nutritional yeast evenly over Kale. 6. Sprinkle salt and cayenne pepper to taste. 7. Bake at 350F. Tossing every 10 minutes with a spatula until crispy. Generally needs to bake for 30-40 minutes. […]

Pancakes for dieting…

  I was leaving Helen yesterday, as the end of my Anniversary weekend (18 years) came to an end.  And we stopped in a small diner, and proceeded to order appropriate for the Straight 60. My first question – “do you have anything that is turkey based for breakfast meat?” “No… well, we have bologna… oh wait, no thats not turkey. Well, deli turkey, but no turkey sausage or bacon or anything like that”.  I could tell she had never been asked this question before, yet she moved around in this environment as if she had grown up inside of […]