Low-Carb Living Roared On Strong In 2007

The great low-carb news certainly didn't stop in 2007

The end of another year is upon us and there's so much that happened in 2007 for people who support the healthy and effective low-carb lifestyle. I'm privileged to be on the front row witnessing a rebirth in the popularity of livin' la vida low-carb and it is my belief that things will only get brighter and better in 2008.

When I blogged just one year ago that 2007 would be the "comeback year" for low-carb, little did I realize just how prophetic that statement of the revival of the controlled-carbohydrate nutritional approach would be. Despite the continued ignorance by much of the mainstream media and the so-called health "experts" who claim to know it all regarding diet, health, and nutrition, people are discovering there's more to this low-carb thing than they ever realized before. This awakening to the truth will continue to take place as people take control and responsibility for their own health perhaps for the first time ever.

The two things that I'll remember the most about 2007 happened just in the past few months--the release of Gary Taubes' instant classic Good Calories, Bad Calories that got people talking about cutting carbohydrates for weight and health management again and the American Diabetes Association (ADA) embracing low-carb diets for diabetics in their new recommendations for doctors to use in 2008 that has now set the wheels in motion for other health organizations like the American Medical Association (AMA), American Heart Association (AHA), the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to follow suit. It's gonna happen a whole lot sooner than later--just you wait and see!

You can't really talk about the year that was 2007 without mentioning a few other notable events that took place to help shape and restore the positive image of low-carb living in our culture, including these 25 top headlines:

- Dr. Jonny Bowden's bestselling 150 Healthiest Foods On Earth
- Veronica Atkins carrying on the low-carb torch her husband ignited
- Judy Barnes Baker releases CARB WARS low-carb cookbook
- Dr. Richard Bernstein still promoting low-carb for diabetics
- Filmmaker CJ Hunt begins documentary on "the perfect human diet"
- Stanford study published in JAMA says Atkins diet is best
- Study shows low-carb a "reasonable alternative" to low-fat
- "Biggest Loser" consultant says low-carb "wrongfully dismissed"
- Research shows high-carb, low-fat bad for hyperinsulinemia
- Lora Ruffner ceases publication of Low-Carb Luxury
- Cracker Barrel keeps low-carb options on their menu
- Connie Bennett's SUGAR SHOCK! featured on national TV
- Dr. Eric Westman from Duke leading low-carb research
- "World's Heaviest Man" Manuel Uribe loses 400 pounds on low-carb
- Kimkins diet revealed to be a scam orchestrated by Heidi Diaz
- Low-carb blogs begin to dominate the blogosphere
- The rediscovery of the original low-carber, William Banting
- Atkins diet cruise set to return in 2008
- Dr. Mary C. Vernon espousing low-carb for diabetics
- Health guru Dr. Andrew Weil shows support for low-carb
- The 10 most influential low-carbers of 2007
- Anti-Super Size Me film to share the truth about fat and carbs
- Study finds low-carb lowers, low-fat raises saturated fat levels
- New reality television show to focus on sugar addiction
- USDA makes low-carb friendly appointee to make 2010 food pyramid

While 2007 was indeed a fabulous year, I am confident the best days for low-carb advocates are still ahead of us in 2008 and beyond. Our job is to just keep enjoying our way of eating, sharing with our doctors about our health improvements, telling friends and family how you've been able to lose weight through this proven nutritional approach, and being the shining examples of how low-carb has changed your life forever!

As long as we remain confident that what we have discovered for ourselves is healthy and effective, then there's no reason why the resurgence and rebirth of livin' la vida low-carb will end in 2007. This party's only just begun, baby! I'm looking forward to yet another great year in 2008 and sharing it with you here on a daily basis as we keep educating, encouraging and inspiring others to start making lifestyle changes that will work for them. YOU CAN DO IT!!!

If you ever need to contact me for any reason, then I'm always happy to hear from you and respond appropriately. E-mail me at livinlowcarbman@charter.net. Let's keep working together to change lives, make 'em better than they've ever been before, and then spread the word to everyone we come into contact with. The world can't help but hear us roar if we do that!

2006 Was Awesome For Low-Carb, But 2007 Is The Comeback Year

It's good to reflect and remember at the end of the year on the dawn of a new year. Personal reflection on the previous twelve months keeps you grounded and causes you to think about how your life has changed over that period of time.

Last year at this exact same time, I was looking back on 2005 with great fondness about the quick success of my "Livin' La Vida Low-Carb" blog reaching 20,000 pageviews per month and the release of my debut book about my weight loss. Little did I know that I was merely scratching the surface of what was to come.

Building on the success of 2005, the traffic at my low-carb blog in a year when low-carb was supposed to be as dead as a doornail continued to soar higher and higher than I could have ever imagined. Swelling to 30,000 pageviews in January, 50,000 in April, over 66,000 in August, and nearly 100,000 in September, I am now averaging close to FIVE TIMES the number of monthly readers that what I was one year ago today and there are no signs that this trend is going to end anytime soon.

The positive message of livin' la vida low-carb is attracting literally tens of thousands of brand new readers each month which I am so grateful for. This only motivates me to continue striving to provide the best content than I can to earn your trust and faithfulness. I cannot THANK YOU enough for your support of this blog and my mission to encourage and educate people about the low-carb lifestyle.

What a thrill it was to be named by FOXNews.com as one of the top health bloggers on the Internet today. WOW! I never in a million years would have thought I would be writing articles about diet and health that people would actually WANT to read. But when you lose as much weight as I did, I suppose people want to hear how you did it so they can help themselves, too.

Speaking of my weight loss success, that book I wrote entitled Livin' La Vida Low-Carb: My Journey From Flabby Fat To Sensationally Skinny In One Year has now sold in excess of 2,000 copies which isn't bad considering I self-published it. I'm itching to write another book soon which may include a collection of my best blog posts since beginning this blog. With almost 1500 columns to choose from, that'll be hard to whittle it down to less than 100. But it will be a way to celebrate when I hit one million pageviews sometime in early 2007. WOO HOO!

I have several other projects in mind for 2007, including collaborating on a low-carb cookbook, recording my book as an audiobook with updated and revised chapters, and several other ideas I'm still thinking about right now. Let's just say I won't be sitting idly by, I will be keeping quite busy.

In 2006, I started writing for CarbWire.com in addition to the other sites I was already a part of, including my blog, LowCarbNewsline.com and CommonVoice.com. In August I began my "30-In-30" Low-Carb Weight Loss Challenge to lose 30 pounds in 30 weeks and urging others to join in. This has been more successful than I could have ever imagined and has helped me get my weight back down when it started to creep up.

Additionally, I created two new links blogs late in the year: "Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Links" and "The Quintessential Diabetes Resource Links". Then in October, I was given the opportunity to launch my own podcast show called "The Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore."

As if all of this doesn't keep me busy enough (sleep? what's that?!), I am set to begin writing as the low-carb contributor at Charles Platkin's DietDetective.com web site, which averages over 100,000 monthly pageviews, early in 2007.

There's so much more I could say about the year 2006, but I really don't want to bore you with statistics, highlights, and memories. As we begin a new year in 2007, I am overjoyed with the anticipation that this really is going to be the comeback year for livin' la vida low-carb. All indications are that low-carb will be back on the map again as new scientific research will continue to be released proving the efficacy of this healthy lifestyle change (something researcher Dr. Eric Westman from Duke University believes will happen sooner than later!).

When the good news about low-carb releases, you KNOW I'll be there to report on it even if nobody else in the media does. We live at a strange time in the history of the world with tens of millions of people suffering from such physical problems as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and so much more. The work we are doing to help educate people about how they can defeat each and every one of these ailments will not be in vain as long as we always remember we have the truth on our side.

While most people will be thinking about weight loss in the coming weeks, we know that livin' la vida low-carb is so much more than that. It's about improving lives through better health that comes from low-carb living. You're not hearing people talk about how much better off we are because of the low-fat diets because the fact is our health is MUCH worse than it has ever been. We must lay the responsibility for this directly at the feet of those who advocate this failed nutritional approach.

That's why the door is wide open in 2007, as Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades told me in an exclusive interview earlier this year, for low-carb to be stronger than it has ever been. The evidence supporting this lifestyle will be impossible to ignore and the media along with the so-called health "experts" (like low-fat supporter Dr. Dean Ornish who said in my interview with him that the burden of proof falls on low-carbers to demonstrate the studies) will be hard-pressed to keep sweeping the science underneath the proverbial rug. It's time to clean the house!

It's not a matter of if, but when. I expect it will reach the point of hysteria in the media when Gary Taubes releases his long-awaited A Big Fat Lie: What If Fat Doesn't Make You Fat? book. Let the weeping and gnashing of teeth begin, I can't wait!

So, we bid a fond farewell to the year 2006 which was an awesome year for low-carb. But 2007 is gonna be even better! Get ready, get set, because the new year is coming! HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!