Tips and Tricks Archives - Carrie Brown

Keto Survival Kits: Planning to Thrive, not Survive

carrie — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 15:28:49 +0000

Emergencies are part of life, and something we should all be prepared for. Earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes flooding or disease pandemics can leave you in a dire situation if you do not have supplies. Waiting until an emergency happens to try and stock up on supplies can leave you in a vulnerable situation where you may […]

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Patience | Renée Jones

carrie — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 09:00:08 +0000

Twenty years ago, I was captivated by a certain plumeria. Not sure what initiated my love for white flowers with pink edges, but love them I do, and I wanted one. We found white, red, even a red and yellow version in the local shops, but this white with pink edges and a kiss of […]

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Practical Changes | Renée Jones

carrie — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 09:00:09 +0000

Yes, Renée, all these ideas are well and good, but HOW do I get my head around these thoughts I’ve believed all my life? Maybe everyone at school made fun of you for a behavior, preference, or even the color of your hair, (hello, fellow redheads!) or your parents were not very supportive nor encouraging. […]

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Working with who you are | Renée Jones

carrie — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 09:00:13 +0000

Like many of you, my great intentions sometimes come with very poor execution. While on my 40-year Diet Yo-Yo, I always had great intentions for losing extra pounds and keeping them off. I aspire to be more ordered with housekeeping, accounting, etc., but my great intentions to accomplish many things just don’t always get them […]

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Choosing the Shift | Renée Jones

carrie — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 09:00:31 +0000

I’m not hungry, I just want to eat more. Sigh. Whether you’ve had a rough day and feel the need for comfort or a reward of some kind, or perhaps you simply look to that item to soothe your stress, we often look to food to cure what ails us. We get a quick dopamine […]

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The Inner Gremlin | Renée Jones

carrie — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:00:52 +0000

At a recent conference, I was so excited about the opportunities to learn and grow. The flight delays, luggage issues, even the rental car fiasco had not thrown off my good humor. I was ready, and nothing was going to derail me. On that first morning, things were going so well – until they weren’t, […]

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Summer Learning | Renée Jones

carrie — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 09:00:10 +0000

My diet was failing. AGAIN. My New Year’s Resolution for 2012 was to lose weight, and soon it was Memorial Day weekend, and I’d gained. In previous years, I’d worked hard to back down from my highest weight ever (more than once), but I’d been stuck in this general range for quite a long time. This wasn’t […]

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Bottled up between you and success | Renée Jones

carrie — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 09:00:30 +0000

Freshly laid sod looks so healthy. Until it doesn’t. My sister-in-law moved into a new house, and her “instant lawn” looked really great. Then soon, one patch wasn’t doing so well. We stood over it talking through all the things she’d tried. They should have worked. There was nothing more we could do but start […]

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Emotional Rules | Renée Jones

carrie — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 09:00:53 +0000

Alongside nutritional goals and creating support for them, we may also need emotional rules. It’s essential to find the emotional component of comfort or stress eating, and that often begins with identifying how we actually perpetuate our “stuff.” Two “Stuff Perpetuating” Habits Creep: We know carb creep, but what about what we say to or […]

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Creating Rules | Renée Jones

carrie — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 09:00:38 +0000

When creating rules, always make sure the rules you create benefit your goals. Nutritional landmines pop up everywhere. We share living and work space. So, how do we manage temptation or get back on track when we realize we’ve had a bit of creep with our choices? Rules, guidelines, and/or parameters can help – they […]

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Digging | Renée Jones

carrie — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:00:01 +0000

We know our goal, we know our why, we even have ideas for alternative behaviors and options to change our habits. If you’re in a groove with this – FANTASTIC! You’re on your way! Carry on, and let us know how you’re doing. If you’re struggling a bit, let’s look at what makes it so […]

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Persistence | Renée Jones

carrie — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 08:00:38 +0000

Yes, habit change is a simple process of persistent effort to change my behaviors, but _________________. How did you fill in that blank? Don’t you just hate having actually to name that? And it may be hard to identify or admit, but it’s an essential element to overcoming emotional eating, to overcoming whatever blocks you […]

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Habits and Behaviors | Renée Jones

carrie — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 08:00:52 +0000

Unless you have that magic wand, habits require an active, persistent, and conscious change in behaviors. It also requires a desire for and a belief that you can make that change. So, three questions: Do you want it? Do you believe it’s possible to change your go-to choices? Will you stay with the changes until […]

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Your Kryptonite: THAT Food | Renée Jones

carrie — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 08:00:48 +0000

Let’s talk about your Kryptonite. Yes, THAT one – that one food or Thing you cannot say “No” to. Okay, you likely already know what most easily derails you. It’s that food, habit, or behavior that trips up your best intentions and usually requires far too long for recovery. With foods, we have a few […]

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Unrewarding Rewards | Renée Jones

carrie — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 08:00:04 +0000

Unrewarding Rewards: True Reward vs. Pre-Packaged Wrap-Around Guilt Trip I’ve said this: “I’ve done so well, I DESERVE this.” That may be upon reaching a goal or progress marker, but on a more frequent basis, it probably means I’ve completed a challenging task of some sort – stuck to my best nutrition habits for a […]

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TEDx Talk on Emotional Eating | Renée Jones

carrie — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 08:00:54 +0000

Hello! My name is Renée Jones and I was honored and humbled to have been asked to speak at TEDx. I wanted to share my talk with you by way of introduction as I join Carrie here on carriebrown.com to share my thoughts on Emotional Eating. Over the coming weeks I will be sharing articles […]

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The Truth about Xylitol and Your Pets: How to keep them safe

carrie — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 06:00:19 +0000

Hello! Jennifer here, with some thoughts on the use of xylitol around our furry friends. I see so many posts contain something like “what can I use in place of xylitol, I have dogs and don’t want to risk it?”. In some recipes like Carrie’s Ice Cream, there is no substitute that gets the same […]

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Things I Love + Discounts For You

carrie — Fri, 24 May 2019 13:44:30 +0000

I am have a number of coupon codes for fantastic keto products to help you with your budgets. PLEASE SHARE WITH YOUR KETO FRIENDS AND FAMILY SO THEY CAN BENEFIT FROM THE SAVINGS!! Here is a list of all the discounts I currently have for you, with the right links and the codes you need […]

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Butter Me Up!

carrie — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 19:10:51 +0000

I always used to say that I liked a bit of bread with my butter. Now, thanks to going wheat-, gluten-, and grain-free I can just skip the bread altogether. Winning! Do you remember the best butter you ever ate? I do. 9 years ago – almost to the day – I was dining with […]

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Keto and Low Carb Thickeners

carrie — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 17:05:52 +0000

One of the trickiest things about low carb and keto cooking is finding a good replacement for flour, arrowroot, or cornstarch to thicken dishes with. Since you found yourself here at this little blog, you’re in luck, because I have trialed all the things up the yin yang to figure out which alternatives work best, […]

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The Inside Scoop : #2

carrie — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 15:33:27 +0000

It’s been a crazy week, people! One of the highlights was getting a mad rush of energy on Tuesday night and deciding to fire up the new oven and BAKE SOMETHING(!!). That one, small act of fiddling with some almond flour led to an entire day of baking debauchery as I got entirely too excited […]

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The Inside Scoop : #1

carrie — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 14:13:45 +0000

It’s been a heck of an adventure since I last got to write in this space. I swear it’s a been a geologic age. And while there’s been a whole lot that’s gone on, I’m going to save you the diatribe and just serve up a synopsis of the really big rocks: Started The The […]

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Show Me The Money!

carrie — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 00:20:22 +0000

I thought I’d share some interesting financial data with you today. Yes! It’s show me the money day – a pretty compelling look at the difference in my healthcare costs before and after I fired my traditional doctor and my psychiatrist. Instead, I went to see a Naturopathic Doctor and a Doctor who treats his […]

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Cats: If You Don’t Have One There’s Nothing To See Here

carrie — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 06:24:37 +0000

This is a tale about happy, healthy cat litter, so if you don’t have a cat(s) or don’t know anyone who does, this post is probably going to be of absolutely no use to you whatsoever. I suspect it will also bore the pants off you. Cats: if you don’t have one there’s nothing to […]

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Context: What You See Is Not Always What You Get

carrie — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 01:41:36 +0000

Context might be my favorite word these days. Because context has the potential to change everything. And context often saves us from a whole bunch of angst and work. I love anything that does that. Why is context so awesome? Because what you see is not always what you get. After spending the last lifetime […]

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Does Eating Meat Cause Diabetes?

carrie — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 06:16:30 +0000

To eat *meat or to not eat *meat – that is one of the burning questions out in The Land of Health Food right now. Does eating *meat cause diabetes? The amount of stuff out there on the interwebs about this very topic is plentiful. The arguments back and forth would take you a year […]

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Embrace!

carrie — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 04:20:33 +0000

As I suspect most good – and by ‘good’ I mean mostly conscientious and consistent – bloggers do, I usually feel somewhat obligated to write some kind of New Year post. But for the last many years that sense of obligation has not materialized. On purpose. And you know, that’s not a bad thing, because […]

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STOP

carrie — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 01:19:41 +0000

As the start of a new year approached I started to think about what I wanted it to be like, and then my thoughts turned to resolutions. The resolutions part lasted about 8 minutes, because over the last few years as I have been working out WTF is wrong with me? I had already determined […]

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The Most Important Thing

carrie — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 05:12:08 +0000

Mornin’! I’m back on the couch in front of the fire, steaming mug of coffee at hand. I use the word ‘mug’ loosely because although it looks like a mug, I’ve seen thimbles with a larger capacity. Thus, I am grateful that this beach-side studio comes equipped with a percolator and decent ground coffee. I […]

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The Joys of Splenda. Or not.

carrie — Sun, 31 May 2015 21:30:21 +0000

Hi peeps! I am working on a post all about sweeteners since there is so much confusion out there. In the meantime I just could not wait to share this story from Wildman, who, if you remember, is my buddy who came to Whistler with me to start teaching me how to video. When I […]

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Resolutions. Really?

carrie — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 00:39:33 +0000

Hello, friends! An exceedingly Happy New Year to you! How are your 2015 resolutions coming along? I’d love to hear about the things that you are going to focus on in 2015 and the things that are important to you. Ah, yes. I forgot. New Year resolution-making isn’t terribly cool and trendy these days is […]

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The Transformation: Meal Plan

carrie — Sat, 31 May 2014 22:22:55 +0000

Since the results from my transformation started to become physically apparent I’ve had bucket-loads of requests for more detail on the exact meal plan that got me to where I am. If you haven’t read the series of posts I wrote detailing my journey earlier this year, please note that this meal plan was developed […]

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Tips For Keeping Your Veggies Fresher Longer

carrie — Mon, 26 May 2014 20:43:56 +0000

It’s been terribly sunny here in Connecticut of late. Quite lovely. Makes eating fresh salads much easier in my book. Talking of salads, while I was mooching around Trader Joe’s the other day, swooping up armfuls of baby spinach and bagfuls of shaved Brussels Sprouts, not to mention the cavalcade of cucumbers and torrent of […]

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The Transformation: Rejuvenation

carrie — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 07:30:42 +0000

Don’t tell anyone, but I think I left this topic until last because rejuvenation has been {by far} the hardest part of my transformation to get my head around. My whole life I have been running along at breakneck speed, getting stuff done. It’s what I do. I am always busily engaged in something productive. […]

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The Transformation: Consistency and Routines

carrie — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 23:57:37 +0000

Wait! Don’t go! I know the title of this post is all kinds of boring and probably has you yawning right out of the gate. Either that or you want to scurry away shrieking. But hang in there for just a moment while I persuade you that the contents of this post will cause you to have a […]

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The Transformation: Stress

carrie — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 07:30:54 +0000

Hello, lovely readers. I hope you have a big mug of Joe and possibly a lovely *SANE snack on hand, and are sitting somewhere comfy. This is a looooooooong read. You may want to grab a blanket in case you need a nap in the middle. Today we’re going to talk about stress, because I am as certain as […]

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