Ilmee Mintz
I'm Ilmee Mintz — Korean-born weight loss coach, author, and creator of sustainable weight loss through portion control and real food.
On this channel, I share:
• Portion control for long-term weight loss
• Simple, realistic home-cooked meals
• Healthy recipes without extremes
• Mindset, motivation, and daily habits
• Fitness for busy people with real lives
This is not dieting — this is learning how to eat, move, and live in a way you can sustain for years.
📌 Start here: Portion Control Basics
📌 New videos weekly
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Ilmee Mintz
Your hair is the first thing your body gives up on.
Not because it doesn’t matter. Because you can live without it.
When protein, iron, and sleep run short, the body protects the heart and the brain first — and lets the hair go.
So thinning hair is not a hair problem. It’s a warning light.
I wrote the whole thing down.👇
open.substack.com/pub/ilmeemintz/p/can-you-analyze…
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The bent, imperfect peppers from the bargain bag — roasted with balsamic, rosemary, thyme, and a little chili until juicy, tangy, sweet. Cheap, real, naturally imperfect. Full recipe and story on my Substack
open.substack.com/pub/ilmeemintz/p/naturally-imper…
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Cayenne, salt rim, fresh lime — my one weekend chill, on purpose.
open.substack.com/pub/ilmeemintz/p/i-need-a-margar…
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I bake chocolate cake.
No buttermilk needed. One coffee trick that makes chocolate taste deeper. Icing done in 90 seconds.
Full recipe on Ilmee’s Plates 👇
open.substack.com/pub/ilmeemintz/p/i-just-want-goo…
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Nobody in my house eats tomatoes — so I started buying them just for me.
Roasted cherry tomatoes with balsamic vinegar. Hot oven, 30 minutes, no prep. They come out caramelized and taste like candy.
My daughter said exactly that. The daughter who “doesn’t eat tomatoes.”
This recipe is from my upcoming book Portion Control Kitchen — and it’s now live on my Substack, Ilmee’s Plates. Link below.
1 cup is your serving.
open.substack.com/pub/ilmeemintz/p/the-tomato-nobo…
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Damn. Pulled pork
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New book just dropped.
I found my own enlarged thyroid on camera two years ago. My doctor said monitor it. I spent the next year running what I can only describe as a clinical trial on myself — tracking symptoms, adjusting supplements, making mistakes, and documenting everything.
My Thyroid, My Body, My Lab is the full story. The science. The stack. The errors. The portion control method I have lived for 20 years.
It is on my Pensight page now. Link below.
pensight.com/x/ilmeemintz
Read part 1 here.
open.substack.com/pub/ilmeemintz/p/my-doctor-said-…
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It started snowing in November, and suddenly grilling felt like too much effort. This oven-baked chicken thigh recipe came together without marinating, without planning, and somehow turned out better than expected. Saucy, juicy, simple — a winter recipe I’m keeping.
open.substack.com/pub/ilmeemintz/p/no-time-to-mari…
6 months ago | [YT] | 13
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What builds good character when cruelty is loud?
open.substack.com/pub/ilmeemintz/p/johnny-donny-an…
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Read my Substack post on Creatine here
open.substack.com/pub/ilmeemintz/p/creatine-change…
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