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pork scratchings are the answer to hunger pangs but poor appetitite is do to with lc hf getting boring
< sharon> yep I put it down to bordom too
pork scratchings are the answer to hunger pangs but poor appetitite is do to with lc hf getting boring
@madasmacus I glad I helped someone. BTW My son told me the pancake mix has to stand for 10 or 15 minutes before cooking.forge thank you for all that amazing advice I WILL have another attempt to make pankages with the dreaded almond flour (which hates me and is in league with the devil)
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In fact im going to print out your info and give it a go :¬)
Ty
Why not make your own curry. That way you can control what goes into it. Bulk it up with plenty of veg and use very lean beef. Also swap white rice for brown.could easily demolish a chinese large beef curry and rice but alas i cant cos im being sensibel
Food "boredom is not an isue around here.
No major carb and extra veg is still fine after 7 months and my wife and adult son have been on it for 2 meals per day as well as me for 3 meals per day. In that time I have been back to my specialist 2 times and got off 130 units insulin per day and onto 4 metforman tabs per day. Being off insulin helps me with driving regulations compliance. In 7 months I have lost 19KG but I am not losing much now but another 5 kg will make me happy and I have lost the weight without a vigorous exercise campaign.
We don't count carbs or cals or measure portions.
As for food variety we eat BBQ Curries oven "fried" crumbed chicken, steak sausages chops bacon eggs salads and slow cooker meals microwaved frozen veg fresh veg but no potatoes and grated cauleflower instead of rice. even deep fried frozen prawns rolled in coconut flour/wheat flour mix Cakes are always available. Occasional crispbread biscuits baked beans and small portion of all bran cerial with diet jelly and friut + an occasional glass of wine
I have found the casual approach is fine, it works and is sustainable and it is not necessary to do hi fats I am walking proof that you can do it all without extreme high fats.
My son has put together a list of recipes that we have used and liked.if anyone wants them I can email but there are too many to post.
Although bread is off the menu, we have not replaced it directly but the 3 of us get through a dozen large muffin/cakes in about 4 days. We dress up the cakes with choc bits, glace cherries, nuts, foam cream, yoghurt, sweetened cream cheese icing, and custard made from milk thickened with coconut flour. Plus I made "jam" from strawberries and gelatine with fake sugar and use the jam and foam cream.
Don't be frighetened to use some SR flour. 1/2 coconut flour and 1/2 wholemeal flour and fake sugar will make a 80% less carbs cake etc. If you keep the quantity of your treat down + the 80% less carbs then your tasty treat is not going to be a big deal and send you too high.
I sometimes make a tinned fish fish-cake with frozen veg and an egg and a heaped dessert spoon of wholemeal flour and a heaped desssert spoon of coconut flour and 2 tablespoons olive oil baking soda and some curry powder and that ends up a platefull and does not send me too high. I cook it with spray oil in a flat sandwich press toaster (it cooks from both sides in 5 minutes.) I even eat it with lots of tomato sauce.
No major carbs, no measuring and no serving size restrictions works fine with extra veg and some nut flour and xanthan gum, I am pretty sure everyone can find enough not too boring food to eat, you can have your full complement of vits and minerals the natural way without supplements.
It is all good fun too - if you treat it as fun it will be fun. If you treat it as punishment it will be punishment
The only issue is nut flour cooking is expensive and you can't buy ready cooked. Some wholemeal flour in the nut flour is not a bad option no matter what the LCHF purist say.it holds things together and makes things taste more normal. BTW olive oil is needed in coconut flour because it is made after the oil has been taken from the coconut. Olive oil in coconut flour tend to take away the coconut flavour, it depends on what you like.
There is no time for food boredom get on with the job of having fun on a no major carbs diet. it is too easy.
Yes but it has less coconut flour but it depends.Does the coconut flour not taste of coconut. Only asking as I wouldn't want my food to taste of it all the time.
Yes but it has less coconut flour but it depends.
If you replace the coconut oil they removed before they made the flour with olive oil it sort of neutralises tastewise.
I often use 3 flours - wheat whole meal, almond, and coconut. The carbs are still vey low and any "odd tastes" are minimised. The other thing you can do is add some vanilla essence to mask flavours that we may not be used to.
You really have to experiment to see what suits you, coconut flour increases a lot on volume when wet. Equal dry mix of the 3 flours is not equal when wet coconut ends up nearly twice the volume.
A 3 flour equal dry mix will end up about 85% less carbs than wheat flour alone and if I do not eat too much it is a good compromise between similar to I am used to and cutting carbs to the extreme.
I do a lo carb ice cream that might be good with the mug cake. The only real issue in lo carb for me is bread - I am not a fan of high fat -I have enough heart issues without doing hi-fat.I'm lchf daughter found me this site, she's a chef and some if the recipes are great, I like the mug brownie with cream yum. I don't have nuts or chocolate and I add 2 tablespoon of Stevia
Just tried the cauliflower pepperoni bake, not bad at all
This is a totally out of date topic, but I have SO lost my appetite since being on LCHF! Anyone else suffering the same? I feel I can't eat anything; I'm just so bored with it all. (Weight loss stalled about 3 weeks ago which may have a lot to do with my lack of enthusiasm!)
I go to the I can’t be bothered stage every few weeks and usually find I’m back down to the same few staples and bored. In fact just last night I had (another) meltdown about choosing deciding planning shopping and cooking more ***** meals and how I’m sick of cooking from scratch constantly. I ended up fasting . Today I’ve dragged the recipe sites up again and just about to drag myself round the supermarket, again, and refuse to leave til I have meals in the trolley til the end of the weekend. I’m miserable doing it but I know from experience it’ll help a huge amount once I have done it.AndBreathe
its really strange that I don't get the "mmmm im hungry best go get something to eat now"
I have progressed to "I am not hungry but I should eat something, but I cant be bothered to make that again" stage
I will be fine im sure.
Maybe its a phase im going through hehe
This thread is just reporting how weird it has become for me
Cheers all :¬)