Low carb-ing is tough!

Hi all...

Some background: male age 49..... wanting better health
and to optimize it

I've read the books and believe in low carb approach

BUT.... its TOUGH! I'm running out of ideas on things
to eat..especially for breakfast

I will admit...I LIKE MY CARBS!! Ha!

Advice?

Susan wrote:

Breakfast is the toughest meal for low carbers. Once you get sick of
eggs, you can try making smoothies with some protein powder, plain
yogurt and frozen strawberries, have cottage cheese with some berries,
or do what I do often; eat dinner leftovers.

yep..breakfast is the one that is the toughest for me

so many "breakfast foods" are high carb items!!

wrote:

I'm running out of ideas on things
to eat..especially for breakfast

My advice works for afternoon/evening people but is worthless
for morning people: Variety in the morning is for the morning
people not for the afternoon people. Before I started low
carbing I eat the same cereal for months on end before
changing brand and even then I changed from one cereal to
another. That's not actually variety. If I didn't have variety at
breakfast before I started low carbing, there shouldn't be a
need for variety at breakfast now that I'm low carbing. I
decided that "getting sick of eggs" was actually the old habit
of the cereal struggling for its life. I just kept eating my same
low carb breakfast and assumed in a couple of months the
old habit would go away and get replaced by the new habit.
It took a couple of months but the eggs gradually became
my new comfort food in the morning.

Advice from morning people who can create variety in the
morning: You can eat any low carb food in the morning. It
doesn't have to be "breakfast food". So consider leftovers
or any of the day foods you've been eating.

I will admit...I LIKE MY CARBS!! Ha!

How much of that is old habits trying to stay alive? The
longer I was on low carb the less tempted I was by the
high carb foods. Until I hit maintenance ...

Hi. I'm Doug and I'm a carb addict. What this means is
abstinence works best. Yet every plan out there is clear that
some level of higher carb count is better for maintenance.
My maintenance level is high enough that I get tempted by
slippery slope carbs.

The "one bite can hurt" bit of Atkins Induction can be handled
early on by not taking that first bite. That's a lot easier at
20 than at 100.

Poppy Flax Walnut Muffins

1. cups CarbQuik
..5 cup Splenda
6 T poppyseeds
..5 cup flax meal
1 cup oat fiber
1 cup walnuts, ground up in blender
2 cups Hoods Carb Countdown (2% is all you can get anymore) if you can't get
Hood's use plain yogurt
..5 cup butter (you could use a different oil and use less if you want)
3 eggs
..5 cup cottage cheese
Spices to taste, I usually use 1 tsp ginger and 1 T dried orange rind

Mix dry ingredients except for walnuts. Put them in the blender with the
wet ingredients and blend to pulverize walnuts. Pour into dry ingredients
and mix well. Pour into muffin pans - makes 12 (I have a silicone muffin
pan which is worth the investment) and bake at 350º for 30-35 minutes.

Delicious and complete breakfast, nice shot of fiber to keep you regular,
272 calories, fat 22 g (7 sat), carbs 14 -
9 fiber = 5 net, protein 10 g

You can get CarbQuik at http://www.netrition.com/tova_carbquik_page.html and
oat fiber at
http://store.honeyvillegrain.com/ind...ROD&ProdID=620.

You do have to make muffins every 12 days but they go together real easily.
I don't get tired of them and you could vary the spices. I experiment with
this recipe all the time (in fact this is different from the last time I
published it) and the other day I made a non sweet version. I was trying to
make something my SO would eat containing turmeric which is supposed to
improve memory and left out the Splenda and poppy seeds and put in some
grated cheddar cheese. They are not bad but he said he liked the originals
better so I am going to try just putting some turmeric in it.

wrote:
| Hi all...
|
| Some background: male age 49..... wanting better health
| and to optimize it
|
| I've read the books and believe in low carb approach
|
| BUT.... its TOUGH! I'm running out of ideas on things
| to eat..especially for breakfast
|
| I will admit...I LIKE MY CARBS!! Ha!
|
| Advice?

Back when I started, it took some months to figure out what to eat. I had a
list that I made and posted on the refrigerator.

This might be a good time to mention that all your carby stuff should be or
should have been tossed in the garbage can.

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Hi all...

Some background: male age 49..... wanting better health
and to optimize it

I've read the books and believe in low carb approach

BUT.... its TOUGH! I'm running out of ideas on things
to eat..especially for breakfast

I will admit...I LIKE MY CARBS!! Ha!

Advice?

Doug Freyburger wrote:

assumed in a couple of months the
old habit would go away and get replaced by the new habit.
It took a couple of months but the eggs gradually became
my new comfort food in the morning.

OK

But besides eggs what else is there for breakfast in
the AM?

wrote in message
...
Hi all...

Some background: male age 49..... wanting better health
and to optimize it

I've read the books and believe in low carb approach

BUT.... its TOUGH! I'm running out of ideas on things
to eat..especially for breakfast

I will admit...I LIKE MY CARBS!! Ha!

Advice?


Butch up or stay fat, it's that simple.

"Cubit" wrote:

This might be a good time to mention that all your carby stuff should be or
should have been tossed in the garbage can.

Is this what you did?

So you have no breads, cereal, ice creams, nothing like
that in your house at all?

writes:
But besides eggs what else is there for breakfast in the AM?

Cheesecake. Nuts. Ice cream. Leftovers from yesterday's supper.
Berries (Atkins himself had blueberries in cream for breakfast).

Once you're past the startup phase of whatever LC diet you're on,
there are plenty of alternatives, you just have to be a little
creative.

I've done LC banana bread, protein pancakes, muffins, etc.

wrote:
Doug Freyburger wrote:

assumed in a couple of months the
old habit would go away and get replaced by the new habit.
It took a couple of months but the eggs gradually became
my new comfort food in the morning.

But besides eggs what else is there for breakfast in
the AM?

Besides? I'm an afternoon person. In the morning there IS
no "besides". It's enough that I make it to the office and
start doing stuff in the morning. Besides and food, that's
an afternoon concept for me.

What else? I'm an afternoon person. In the morning there
IS no "what else". "What else" and food, that's an afternoon
concept for me.

If you're an afternoon or evening person and you're trying
for variety in the morning, you're wasting your effort. If
you're a morning person asking me for advice about morning
variety, you're asking the wrong person.