Re: Viv's Diet
It's difficult to give a plan for this diet, because it's so flexible, but here goes!
My daily eating is as follows:
BREAKFAST - 2 eggs. Usually an omelette 'cos quick and easy, but sometimes scrambled, sometimes with bacon. I tend not to eat fried or poached 'cos no bread to put them on! Or you could have bacon and sausage instead. Or if no time, keep cold meat, cheese & hard-boiled eggs in the fridge and eat those as you go. In summer I might have a salad for breakfast, as below. Omelette filling, if required, could be cheese or mushrooms or even avocado. You could serve with tomatoes.
LUNCH - Salad, with chicken or other cold meat, or tuna, salmon or smoked mackerel. Today's salad included mixed lettuce, baby tomatoes, celery, cucumber, radishes, a slice each of red and orange pepper. Sometimes it may be corned beef with cheese, or mixed salami with smoked pork sausage, but I try not to eat that sort of preserved food more than twice a week. Served with Hellman's mayonnaise (full fat). If out at lunch time, I take the same salad in a box.
Sometimes I'll have hard-boiled egg with asparagus and smoked salmon. That day I wouldn't eat eggs for breakfast.
I might also eat, after the salad or even instead of, stewed rhubarb or blueberries with yoghurt and/or cream. You could eat those for breakfast as well as or instead of the options given above, but only eat them once a day.
SUPPER - roast or casseroled meat, or sausages or even burgers (check the carb content), or fish, served with broccoli, cauliflower, a (very) few baby carrots, cabbage, green beans - any combination from the 'allowed' list.
When fruit is in season I will add a portion a day of berries - strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, plums, or peaches nectarines and apricots 'cos I can't resist them in season - but only one portion of fruit a day, while on the very-low-carb version. Serve with fresh cream or live unsweetened yoghurt.
Also in summer I make a large ratatouille with garlic, courgettes, leeks, peppers, aubergines, tomatoes (tinned) and mushrooms, and eat it for several suppers with (eg) chops, salmon or cheese.
SNACKS - cheese, cold meat, hard-boiled eggs. The little Peperami are useful, as are Baby Bel cheeses. Radishes or baby tomatoes. You can have a few nuts, but they do add carbs, and they have the problem of being so 'more-ish'! Eat only a small serving - a tablespoonful or less. I have no self-control and find it best not to have them in the house.
I drink one or two cups of coffee a day - I can't face the day without coffee! and no tea 'cos I don't drink it. I drink 2 litres of water a day - or try to, anyway. I get through less than 2 pints of milk a week. I sweeten with Splenda, tablet or granule.
Don't worry about all the eggs - they've finally discovered that they are good for you and good for your cholesterol, too! Don't worry about all the meat and cheese and the fat content - natural (ie unprocessed) fat is not the devil it's made out to be, unless for some reason you can't tolerate it. But it won't affect your cholesterol. Mine has already dropped 0.9 in 3 months, and I expect it to keep going down. My blood pressure has dropped nicely too, and I expect to be off meds in another couple of months. My BGs are never out of the NICE Type 2 target range.
No cottage cheese - it has carbohydrate.
You should eat until you're full, not gorge yourself, but you don't have to worry about counting anything except keeping an eye on your carbs, if you add in the fruits and nuts as above.
I try not to go over about 50g of carb a day - that's 25g from the basic diet sheet, and an extra 25g if I fancy (for instance) an oatcake for the 'crunch' mouth feel. But you get best results if you stick to the basic diet.
I hope that helps. Ask again if it's not what you wanted, and I'll try to make it simpler.
Good luck!
Viv
It's difficult to give a plan for this diet, because it's so flexible, but here goes!
My daily eating is as follows:
BREAKFAST - 2 eggs. Usually an omelette 'cos quick and easy, but sometimes scrambled, sometimes with bacon. I tend not to eat fried or poached 'cos no bread to put them on! Or you could have bacon and sausage instead. Or if no time, keep cold meat, cheese & hard-boiled eggs in the fridge and eat those as you go. In summer I might have a salad for breakfast, as below. Omelette filling, if required, could be cheese or mushrooms or even avocado. You could serve with tomatoes.
LUNCH - Salad, with chicken or other cold meat, or tuna, salmon or smoked mackerel. Today's salad included mixed lettuce, baby tomatoes, celery, cucumber, radishes, a slice each of red and orange pepper. Sometimes it may be corned beef with cheese, or mixed salami with smoked pork sausage, but I try not to eat that sort of preserved food more than twice a week. Served with Hellman's mayonnaise (full fat). If out at lunch time, I take the same salad in a box.
Sometimes I'll have hard-boiled egg with asparagus and smoked salmon. That day I wouldn't eat eggs for breakfast.
I might also eat, after the salad or even instead of, stewed rhubarb or blueberries with yoghurt and/or cream. You could eat those for breakfast as well as or instead of the options given above, but only eat them once a day.
SUPPER - roast or casseroled meat, or sausages or even burgers (check the carb content), or fish, served with broccoli, cauliflower, a (very) few baby carrots, cabbage, green beans - any combination from the 'allowed' list.
When fruit is in season I will add a portion a day of berries - strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, plums, or peaches nectarines and apricots 'cos I can't resist them in season - but only one portion of fruit a day, while on the very-low-carb version. Serve with fresh cream or live unsweetened yoghurt.
Also in summer I make a large ratatouille with garlic, courgettes, leeks, peppers, aubergines, tomatoes (tinned) and mushrooms, and eat it for several suppers with (eg) chops, salmon or cheese.
SNACKS - cheese, cold meat, hard-boiled eggs. The little Peperami are useful, as are Baby Bel cheeses. Radishes or baby tomatoes. You can have a few nuts, but they do add carbs, and they have the problem of being so 'more-ish'! Eat only a small serving - a tablespoonful or less. I have no self-control and find it best not to have them in the house.
I drink one or two cups of coffee a day - I can't face the day without coffee! and no tea 'cos I don't drink it. I drink 2 litres of water a day - or try to, anyway. I get through less than 2 pints of milk a week. I sweeten with Splenda, tablet or granule.
Don't worry about all the eggs - they've finally discovered that they are good for you and good for your cholesterol, too! Don't worry about all the meat and cheese and the fat content - natural (ie unprocessed) fat is not the devil it's made out to be, unless for some reason you can't tolerate it. But it won't affect your cholesterol. Mine has already dropped 0.9 in 3 months, and I expect it to keep going down. My blood pressure has dropped nicely too, and I expect to be off meds in another couple of months. My BGs are never out of the NICE Type 2 target range.
No cottage cheese - it has carbohydrate.
You should eat until you're full, not gorge yourself, but you don't have to worry about counting anything except keeping an eye on your carbs, if you add in the fruits and nuts as above.
I try not to go over about 50g of carb a day - that's 25g from the basic diet sheet, and an extra 25g if I fancy (for instance) an oatcake for the 'crunch' mouth feel. But you get best results if you stick to the basic diet.
I hope that helps. Ask again if it's not what you wanted, and I'll try to make it simpler.
Good luck!
Viv
