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i started off eating the same things everyday whilst i learned what i could eat, so i basically found 3 meals and ate them, and you have to remember i came from a terrible diet so im sure that helped me alot as i has soooo much room for improvement...
breakfast
i ate 100-150 g of fage natural full fat greek yogurt with some strawberries (about 3 - 5 sliced depending on size) and or 10 blueberries and or 6 ish blackberries and or 8 - 10 raspberries not all together but a combination normally whatever we had, on top i would sprinkle linwoods milled flax and when i ran out of that i would add either some chopped almond (less than a handful) or walnuts a broken up in my hand (less than a handful)
i still eat this each and every day, i love it! the thought of it gets me out of bed.
workdays
10am
i leave for work at 6am so at our 10am teabreak i need food
i would have a handful of nuts or an atkins chocolate decadence bar (contravercial)
sometimes if i had time id go into the cafe and have a fry up
lunchtime
salad, either home made
or from asda ready made
or subway salad
i always have either cold meat ie. ham or pre cooked sliced chicken in a packet or cheese chunks
or i would pop into supermarket to their hot meat counter and buy some cooked chicken (various flavoured and eat the skin)
dinner
meat and veg (any meat, and lots of it), (veg cabbage, cauliflower, brocolli)
i started experimenting with recipes and also had cauliflower pizza base pizzas
home made burgers in lettuce leaves
spaghetti bolognaise without the pasta and always with homemade sauce
i made or make butternut squash chips
i have cheesy cauliflower mash with most everything i love it!
omelettes galore (favourite is green pepper and onions and bacon i chopped up really small and sauted it all together in a seperate saucepan then tip in onto the X3 cooked eggs with lots of grated cheddar) but any combination is good
at least one fry up a week (sausages (black farmers daughter) eggs, bacon and mushrooms)
curry no rice (always and only homemade sauces) on lettuce (i tried cauliflower rice but dont like it)
steak (huge) with asparagus and mushrooms
afters
every day and i do mean every day, i have jelly and double cream, i used to have 2 little pots but now the wife makes me a measuring jug full each day out of the sachets and i have 3 quarters of it i think its hartleys, its the single best thing i have all day, its awesome and i cant live without it!
i have taught myself to cook, i try to make any sauces myself otherwise i just dont have sauce, i have a good friend on here that gives me great cooking advice (fantastic and invalauable )and i follow ewelinas blog (awesome) without making the low carb cakes at weekends i could well have faultered, these things are too good to be true and elieviate the feelings of deprivation i did feel but dont anymore, although i still make the cakes lol
i never eat bread or potatoes or rice or pasta (the usual culprits) i did try to eat bread but with dire consequences bg wise
i fry things without a second thought, i ignore calories completely, i used myfitness pal at first and for the whole weight loss period i think its been invaluable, i recorded everything i ate and treated low carbing as a game or challenge, trying to lower it each day, i dont use it anymore as i know what im eating, theres no need, i never carb count either again no need
i rarely cheat, a cheat for me is a second handful of nuts or another bowl of yogurt in the evening if im starving or some 85 or 90% chocolate, in other words my cheats are low carb cheats.
i thought of food as fuel, not something that needed to be enjoyed, if i enjoyed it, it was a bonus, (i was a salad hater and a veg hater in the beginning, i never ate either) not to say that everything here isnt enjoyable, it sure is, but it takes alot of willpower for someone like me who loved everything that was bad, but no one ever said it was going to be easy, now on the other hand it is easy, im so used to eating like, i dont miss things really anymore, bread maybe hehe, id love bread or toast with the fry ups, when i can get there i buy livlife bread but not very often its too much agro getting to waitrose or morrisons especially as they often are out of stock. when i cook something i look up on google the best way to cook it, i found it makes such a difference to the food when its cooked nicely, theres so much info on cooking it would be a shame not to use it and when a salad tastes amazing rather than plain old lettuce and tomato it makes it so much easy to eat regular, asparagus is a good example of this, my wife used to boil it to deaf and i hated it, i researched it and now fry it in ghee on a skillet until its a little burnt, then drizzle lemon juice over it, i love it and cant get enough of it
as i said i did start going to the gym but found i hated it so i run now or jog or crawl for exercise, i figure as long as its very hard, its good enough, i signed up for the london marathon because i exceeded all my goals health wise (sounds mental but once you get what you want it kind of deflates you) so figured it would be good to have a goal to work to
i may be lucky, i enjoy the low carb foods, or genetically find it easy to lose weight i dont know, but i come from a fat family and since in my early twenties ive been 19 stone, im 13 (6 ft 2 built like a shed....or maybe a wendy house now lol) now and have maintained that, i havent lost a lb in months but then i havent tried, i wasnt really trying to lose weight, i knew i had to but the diet was all about getting my bloods out of the twenties and surviving, the weight loss was my next challenge i was going to face but found the weight was falling off along with the blood numbers
sorry if this is too long, worse thing is ill probly think of loads more stuff i should have mentioned later hehe
i believe ill eat this way forever, why wouldnt i?
