NMR Ideas for staying low carb...

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Breakfast: Got to be eggs, cheese, and sausage, and/or bacon, with

onions, peppers, mushrooms,etc.. If you're avoiding processed foods,

scratch the bacon, and note that some sausages (Brown n Serve, for

example) don't have nitrites. I use Egg Beaters almost exclusively,

they're actually 99% egg whites. You could probably avoid the meat

completely.

Alternative is strawberries and cream, with Splenda or your favorite

non-sugar sweetener if you wish. Strawberries and other berries are

REALLY low in carbs (but not " free " )

Lunch: Cold: Tuna salad, with celery sticks (no carrots though)

Hot: Burger (beef or whatever) with cheese and onions

Dinner: Salmon with cucumber salad

Creamed chicken - no flour, use cream and some cheese to

thicken

Snacks: There are some snacks that " aren't recommended for Phase I "

of the Atkins diet, but we've managed to sneak in a few:

1) Low carb oreos and chips ahoy - 6 g of carbs for two cookies,

keep to two a day for Phase I. I swear, the oreos taste like the

real thing!

2) Low carb ice cream - 3 g for a 1/2 cup serving - Turkey Hill is

GREAT, they have a low carb peanut butter cup ice cream.

3) Celery - this is unlimited, IMHO - 1g net carbs for a stalk. I

buy tons of cream cheese and other soft cheeses and dip away.

4) If you can take it, cold cuts, burgers, chicken - eat as much as

you want!*

5) Well, it's not a snack, but: BEANS. But beans are high carb!

Yes, unless you are black soy beans (by Eden)! They are very low

carb, and full of fiber. If all that cheese is backing you up, throw

some beans in your burger or stir fry, and increase your fiber. They

are somewhat " chewier " than regular beans, so your black soy bean

soup has a bit of grit to it.

* What happens is that you manage to stay on the less than 20 g of

carb diet for at least 2 days, your body goes into ketosis.

Therefore, you eat like a P I G for two days, and suddenly your

appetite decreases. This is noticed when you go from 6 eggs, 5

sausage, 10 bacon, and a half of pound of cheese for breakfast, to 1

egg and 2 sausages and a slice of cheese.

All the numbers given are for products I use, be careful because some

things say " low carb " and mean " 20 g carb vs. 60 g carb for the

original " .

What helped me the most is to use the Internet to look up various

foods. I found out kohlrabi is relatively okay, and cauliflower is

much better than potatoes, and strawberries are good.

Just my experience, hope this might help someone. BTW, I never

bought the Atkins book, used their website and other websites. Does

the South Beach diet have an informative website, or do people buy

the book?

Take care,

RH