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Happy Holidays, and Best Wishes for 2014!

12/18/2013

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Hope you're all doing well and enjoying the holidays. Is Christmas really only a week away now? This month's kind of been a blur for me!
 
Holiday Eating, Low-Carb Style

I've read a few stories on other blogs about staying low carb over the holidays. To be honest, I don't find it too hard since I love LCHF foods more than anything and know what my blood sugar will do (and how awful I'll feel) if I indulge in holiday cookies, candy or pies. I realize that using sugar substitute is controversial and many are vehemently against it, but for people who want something sweet this time of year, it's definitely preferable to eating the real thing for anyone on a carb-restricted diet. The one holiday treat I could never resist were my own gingerbread cookies, which I stopped baking a few years ago when I started low-carbing. However, I'm thinking about making a low-carb version of gingerbread men Carolyn shared on her
 All Day I Dream About Food blog.  At only 2 grams of net carb per serving, I'm very tempted! I'd love to hear reviews from anyone who's tried it.

Changes

I'm going through a range of emotions about leaving my position as an outpatient dietitian at the veterans hospital at the end of next week in order to go into private practice. Yes, I'm definitely excited about getting to educate and counsel people using a low-carb approach, but I'm truly going to miss my patients. I care about them very much, and although I wasn't free to make as "radical" dietary recommendations as I would have liked,  I hope that my advice to cut back on carbs and replace margarine with butter will have at least a small positive impact on their health.

I've updated my website with information on the services I'll be offering as of January 2. I decided to offer a couple of low-carb classes in addition to one-on-one counseling. I may add other nutrition-related services as well at some point in the future if there's a demand. I've also updated the Links section with my favorite low-carb books and cookbooks, and I finally updated and reorganized the Research page that I don't think I've even looked at in over a year! That page is finally starting to look the way I envisioned it.

Low Carb Cruise
 
Looking ahead to the spring of 2014, I'll be speaking on the Low Carb Cruise in May. I'm thrilled to get to meet Dr. Eric Westman, Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, Jackie Eberstein, Emily Maguire, Tom Naughton, all the other speakers, and of course Jimmy Moore. Sounds like a fantastic adventure with a balance of learning, socializing, and relaxing.  If you like cruising, definitely consider it. I'd love to meet my long-time followers as well as my newer readers!



Best wishes for safe and happy holidays to you and your families, and thanks for your continued support.









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Eddie link
12/20/2013 03:05:52 am

Hi Franziska

Happy Holidays and all the very best for 2014. It's going to be an exciting year for you. Enjoy it.

Now is your chance, to put many happy, healthy and active years on your clients lives. So few, get this chance to be a positive force for good.

I hope that your new clients appreciate what you will have done for them.

Diabetes progressing to life changing and crippling, complications does not have to be, you know this, and have seen this.

The day will come when your methods will become the gold standard, increasingly, we see Doctors and medical professionals raising their heads above the parapet.

We know that the correct diet together with moderate exercise is the way forward for most diabetics. Increasing medication to cover highly elevated blood glucose numbers has failed.

The very best of health and good luck to you and yours.

Kind regards - May the Force Stay with you

Eddie and Jan

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Franziska Spritzler link
12/20/2013 04:38:57 am

Thanks so much for your very kind words of support and encouragement, Eddie! I hope to have many clients who achieve the kind of blood sugar control you have.

Keep up the great work over in the UK. Best wishes to you and Jan for a wonderful 2014 :)

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Brenna link
12/23/2013 08:21:16 pm

Good luck in your new adventures. After working for Nutritional Weight and Wellness I don't think I could ever go back to in-patient counseling. Have fun on the cruise, hoping to go sometime in the future myself!

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Franziska Spritzler link
12/23/2013 09:22:48 pm

Thank you so much, Brenna! I'm so glad you work with a great group of progressive whole foods dietitians and nutritionists. Perhaps I'll have a similar network in Southern CA someday.

Wish you could go on the cruise this year! Hope at some point iwe'll meet in person, either on a cruise or at another event. Merry Christmas!

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