I am starting low carb diet

Though difficult to accept at first, it is pretty logical on
researching further about atkin's and low carb diet. The difficult
part is a spouse who don't have body weight issue and whose staple
diet is either bread and rice.

However it is time to try and for me to avoid the hassle of counting
carb; I will just minus the rice and sugar in my diet from today, i.e.
21 May 2004, at 78 kg or 172lbs.

burbled across the ether:
Though difficult to accept at first, it is pretty logical on
researching further about atkin's and low carb diet. The difficult
part is a spouse who don't have body weight issue and whose staple
diet is either bread and rice.

Yeah, it does seem counter intuitive donit?

www.lowcarbresearch.org/results.asp for those well meaning friends,
family, doctors, and strangers on the street who will tell you that
lowcarb will kill you.

However it is time to try and for me to avoid the hassle of counting
carb; I will just minus the rice and sugar in my diet from today, i.e.
21 May 2004, at 78 kg or 172lbs.

Good luck. Healthy, happy eating. Post back and let us know how you're
doing occasionally, ok?

--
revek www.geocities.com/tanirevek/LowCarb.html lowcarbing since June
2002 5'2" 41 F 165+/too much/size seven petite please
"Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling
scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones
doesn't automatically mean there's anything wrong." {Soul Music, 1994}

"revek" wrote in message ...
burbled across the ether:
Though difficult to accept at first, it is pretty logical on
researching further about atkin's and low carb diet. The difficult
part is a spouse who don't have body weight issue and whose staple
diet is either bread and rice.

Yeah, it does seem counter intuitive donit?

www.lowcarbresearch.org/results.asp for those well meaning friends,
family, doctors, and strangers on the street who will tell you that
lowcarb will kill you.

However it is time to try and for me to avoid the hassle of counting
carb; I will just minus the rice and sugar in my diet from today, i.e.
21 March 2004, at 78 kg or 172lbs.

Good luck. Healthy, happy eating. Post back and let us know how you're
doing occasionally, ok?


Hemm, first day, and I still could not resist the rice for breakfast
and for lunch and up this far had 156 gm of carbohydrate already. This
is my weakness. The thought of dieting itself, make me eat!

However after reading revek's encouragement and Jenny's "2 gram cure"
I hope to try again. I am a Malay/Asian and rice is always on the
menu, be it breakfast or supper!

Naluri
5'5", 44 year old married, childless and working.

burbled across the ether:
Hemm, first day, and I still could not resist the rice for breakfast
and for lunch and up this far had 156 gm of carbohydrate already. This
is my weakness. The thought of dieting itself, make me eat!

You're going to have to get the rice out of the house if you can't stay
out of it (you might be able to add small amounts back into your diet
later, but don't fret about it right now). Give it to a food bank. Get
some good lowcarb veggies to eat in it's place. Cabbage is good. Bok
choy is excellent as a mildly flavored veggie that you can chop up and
cook just about any way you can think of and mix with your protien or
cover in flavorful sauces. Pick two or three you think you can eat a
lot of and then expand your base slowly-- try a new veggie every couple
of days. Keep note of what you didn't like much and re-try it about 6
months into lowcarbing. You might be surprised at how your tastebuds
have changed.

However after reading revek's encouragement and Jenny's "2 gram cure"
I hope to try again. I am a Malay/Asian and rice is always on the
menu, be it breakfast or supper!

If you miss the texture of rice, try 'ricing' (shredding into rice size
pieces) some cauliflower, then steaming it with a little fresh garlic
(to kill the taste). Instant lowcarb rice. (well, not *instant*)

--
revek www.geocities.com/tanirevek/LowCarb.html lowcarbing since June
2002 5'2" 41 F 165+/too much/size seven petite please
SUSHIDO: The way of the Tuna.

On 21 Mar 2004 23:50:33 -0800, wrote:

"revek" wrote in message ...
burbled across the ether:
Though difficult to accept at first, it is pretty logical on
researching further about atkin's and low carb diet. The difficult
part is a spouse who don't have body weight issue and whose staple
diet is either bread and rice.

Yeah, it does seem counter intuitive donit?

www.lowcarbresearch.org/results.asp for those well meaning friends,
family, doctors, and strangers on the street who will tell you that
lowcarb will kill you.

However it is time to try and for me to avoid the hassle of counting
carb; I will just minus the rice and sugar in my diet from today, i.e.
21 March 2004, at 78 kg or 172lbs.

Good luck. Healthy, happy eating. Post back and let us know how you're
doing occasionally, ok?


Hemm, first day, and I still could not resist the rice for breakfast
and for lunch and up this far had 156 gm of carbohydrate already. This
is my weakness. The thought of dieting itself, make me eat!

However after reading revek's encouragement and Jenny's "2 gram cure"
I hope to try again. I am a Malay/Asian and rice is always on the
menu, be it breakfast or supper!

I love Thai/Malay area food! Had wonderful veggies in a train station
near Cameron Highlands. :-)))))

Many western diet sources may be thinking of the kinds of rice that are
most common here. There seem to be differences between the Glycemic
Index and Glycemic Load of different kinds of rice, with Basmati and
some Uncle Ben's Parboiled rices lower in GI/GL than the more common
western kinds. If you research the right kind of rice and cook it with
oil and serve it with a rich sauce, then test your BG, you may find it
is ok for you.

If you find out, pls let me know, because I love rice too. :-)))))


Skinny --
pre-diab hypo

On 21 Mar 2004 23:50:33 -0800, wrote:
/snip/

I am a Malay/Asian and rice is always on the
menu, be it breakfast or supper!


PS. What about 'glass noodles' etc? Saifun? I've heard they also have
lower GI/GL than western noodles.


Good luck,
Skinny --
pre-diab hypo