Why Butter, Beef & Egg Yolks Are NOT Bad For You

I’ve been noticing a problem with my clients recently:  While on the one hand they are thrilled with how much fat they lose, how much muscle they gain and how much better their energy levels are; on the other hand in the back of their mind they are thinking, “I’m eating all of these egg yolks, all this beef and cheese, am I going to give myself a heart attack?”

This lingering doubt is so deep that even one of my clients who got OFF of cholesterol and high blood pressure meds by eating a TON of saturated fat and high cholesterol food, still has trouble believing his own results! Read more

The Best low-Carb Ice Cream I’ve Ever Had

This Sunday me and my fiancé were walking to J. Crew in Georgetown looking for this blue and white seersucker jacket that I had seen online when we passed Ben & Jerry’s and I saw a sign in the window for milkshakes. My all-time favorite milkshake is mint chocolate chip.

Seeing that sign in the window made me think about having a sweet, minty, creamy shake with big chocolate chunks at the bottom. It almost made me walk into Ben & Jerry’s, but I resisted and said to myself, “there’s got to be someway that I can make one of those without sugar… today.”

I never found the jacket I wanted, but I did figure out how to make the best low-carb ice cream I’ve ever had. No sugar alcohol. (I’ve found that the sugar alcohols interfere with a lot of people’s ability to lose fat, and are only OK in ice cream.) And it was mint chocolate chip.

Also, I’ve found that sugar alcohols (in all commercial brands) alter the consistency of the ice cream, but this one has the same consistency as regular ice cream.

Ingredients

2 cups cream
¼ cup water
1tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp mint extract
pinch of salt
green food coloring (optional, only if you want it to be green, otherwise it will be yellow because of the egg yolks)
4 egg yolks
12 packs Splenda (or ½ cup)
½ cup of chopped sugar-free chocolate (I like dark)

Directions

1. In a microwave safe bowl, heat cream and water until steaming (2min).
2. While cream is heating, mix everything but the chocolate together well. Add to hot cream and return to microwave until steaming, but NOT boiling (1min).
3. Follow instructions on your ice cream maker. Be sure to add chocolate half way through the process.

Nutrition

6 servings (about 1 cup) with 5g net carbs per serving vs. 52 for 1 cup of Ben & Jerry’s

Super Low-Carb Ice Cream – Josef’s Cooking Show

I’m back on camera!  (So is the certified pug.)  And this time I’ve my my Easter favorite (filmed at my Grandmother’s house) – low carb ice cream.  Commercially available “carb controlled” ice cream has 4 net carbs per 1/2 cup serving.  I don’t know if you’ve ever tried, but 1/2 cup of ice cream is NOT very much!

I find myself eating 2 cups at a time which is counterproductive (16 net!).  Out of necessity I figured out how to get that down to like to like 4 for a real serving.

So, I was wrong in the video with my math – its 16 for the batch, not 6.  At Easter there was enough for 5 people + a second helping for me (it was good), so it makes a pretty decent sized batch – way bigger than the 1/2 cup with the store bought stuff.

Ingredients

2 cups cream (16 net)

2 egg yolks (.6 net)

1/2-3/4 cup xylitol (erythritol is actually a better choice) (0 net)

1 tbsp vanilla extract

pinch of salt

Directions

1.  Pour cream into a microwave safe bowl and nuke for 2min (should be steaming hot).

2.  While the cream is heating, separate yolks and mix with sugar alcohol.

3.  Add egg yolk mixture to the hot cream and mix well.  Heat in microwave for 1-2 min more (just shy of boiling).

4.  Follow the directions on your ice cream maker to turn into ice cream.  (I got mine on Amazon.com, you could also go to Target or Walmart or Ebay, or any place else to get one.)

Nutrition

4 Servings with 4net carbs per serving (this serving should be about 1.5-2 cups, so this is a HUGE reduction from the commercially available stuff).

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