straight 60 – 60 Day Turnaround

Straight 60 food is Awesome!

Written by Dr. Mark This is one of our favorite meals on the Straight 60. Taco salad! Its pretty simple, take all your favorite taco ingredients and put them over a big bed of lettuce. Just be careful to make sure the salsa you use doesn’t have sugar added, and use it sparingly. For me this will take the place of my apple or berries for the day but its worth it. We’ve been back at this for a little over a week now, and we’ve already brought back a few recipes that Amanda (my wife) and I had really loved […]

Are people dying from sugar abuse?

Addiction. A powerful word, with powerful consequence, powerful correction, powerful potential. Just about everyone has addictive tendencies, and most are addicted. Sugar. Whether it be sweets or blood sugar, we are an addicted group of people. So often when I confront people with this addiction, the tendency is to respond… “I don’t really like sweets” Do you like bread, cereal, sandwiches, crackers, pretzels, biscuits, bagels, pasta or pancakes? If not, how about potatoes or perhaps you like eating bananas on a regular basis? It is rare to find someone not getting their sugar fix somehow… unless they have already gone […]

The Spa – Detox in a DAY!

It isn’t possible. If you were attracted by that title, I can understand. The buzz word of “DETOX” coupled with the current mentality of here and now, and don’t wait, get us a bit excited when we see things like “Detox in a day”. Even if we know it is impossible. The thing that I believe most people are unclear about, is exactly what detox is. My wife ran into someone who likes to go to the Grove Park Inn annually, someone who she knows from our life here in Woodstock, who commented when they caught wind that we were […]

RESOLUTE

“There is more to you than a body and a balance sheet.” – Andy Stanley Every year I write a Daily Sprout regarding the amazing opportunity that presents itself every New Year. I know, I know… many of you are SICK of the idea of making resolutions on New Year’s. “If it is that important, why wait til the New Year, just do it.” or “why make a decision to stop doing something for a month, if you are going to do it, do it right, why tie it to a new year”. And I fully understand this sentiment. Waiting […]

Decision Day 2014… where do you stand?

Here it is, the time when we start digging in deep to your lives. Whether you like it or not, its time for you to realize that your decisions need to change. Join me, or simply watch me from afar hollering my lungs out, begging you to reconsider your ways. Its funny, my wife thinks that long term my calling will pull me from chiropractic into ministry. But I love using guilt as a means of motivation in health, but I hate the use of guilt in ministry. So I don’t know how I could ever make that change. Nonetheless, […]

How to come OFF of the Straight 60…

Coming off of the Straight 60 (60 Day Turnaround) is just as hard as starting it. Well, harder. If you want to do it right that is. I say this because actually starting isn’t that bad, you get motivated, you start. I have people do it all the time. But coming off of it, well, most come off before they plan, by simply cheating and quitting. My goal is to be sure that IS NOT you! However, coming off of it, if you want to truly maintain the value that you have achieved through your strict diet, is important. The […]