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Jimmy gave us a lot to think about in his last post, My 5 Low-Carb Mistakes And How Nutritional Ketosis Rescued Me From Them. Nutrition expert Valerie Berkowitz gives her perspective and her four most important lessons learned from Jimmy Moore.

One of the most useful FREE apps you'll find in recent months is a little beauty called Low Carb Dining. I know many low-carb enthusiasts have found themselves wondering what menu items are acceptable while traversing the fast food universe.

Oven roasting tomatoes and garlic delivers a flavor packed fresh marinara sauce that doesn't require a can opener.

Basic vinaigrette dressing adds a vinegary, garlicy goodness to a simple side salad. Works with any cuisine!

This is a hearty low carb homemade marinara and meat sauce that works great as its own one pot supper or as an element in lasagna or chicken parmigiana.

This ground meat mixture forms the basis for many dishes and can be cooked in bulk and packaged in 1/2 cup or 1 cup units for easy transformation on the fly.

Often, the key to successful weight loss doesn’t begin with our bellies or end with our brains. For many, the battle of the bulge actually begins and ends with our budget. How do you cook budget-friendly low carb meals on a shoestring? Let's stretch those budgets and see just how much we can squeeze out of every penny. In her new column, Budget Low Carb Cooking, Susie T. Gibbs gives us affordable options for your low carb lifestyle.

Dana's Bone Broth Recipe. Naked, picked clean of meat, bones are still tremendously nutritious and remarkably flavorful. How? You simmer them for broth.

Isn't Nutritional Ketosis Just Another Way Of Saying Atkins? Nutritional Ketosis is the idea of putting your body in a keto-adapted or fat-adapted state through the use of a well-formulated high-fat, adequate (moderate) protein, low-carb diet. Until you get the macronutrient mix that is right for YOU, the health benefits of nutritional ketosis will continue to elude you. This article explains the concept and how adapting it has put him back on the road of low carb success.

Caitlin Weeks, Grass Fed Girl, shows us that there are plenty of crunchy snack foods you can add to a low carb or paleo diet to satisfy your need for snap and taste. Plus they'll help you stay on your program.

Believe it or not, you can cultivate a state of mind where low carbing becomes much, much, easier. In her first article for CarbSmart, Laura Dolson, Low Carb Diets Guide for About.com presents four strategies to get you to this state of mind.

Dana Carpender summarizes her trip to the Ancestral Health Symposium 2012 at Harvard. Lessons & inspiration for the low carb & paleo communities.