Breakfast if you don’t like eggs…

by | Jan 31, 2013 | Low carb diet, Weight Loss | 0 comments

Here is another copy of the comment I made at 3fatchicks regarding breakfast choices

 

Let’s just say we don’t have to follow tradition to decide what we eat and when.

I quite often have colt meat and cheese for breakfast. Some mornings I’ll have cottage cheese and avocado. Other morning it’ll be bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes and all sort of good things like that and I like eggs so I will have an egg with that.

There are so many things we can eat fro breakfast providing we don’t follow our own Western traditions.

Just use your imagination because you really don’t have to go to work on an egg.

Cheers,

Mark

Atkins bars?

by | Jan 31, 2013 | Low carb diet, Weight Loss | 0 comments

Below is a copy of the comment I made at 3fatchicks on a question about Atkins bar

 

Hi Aarrixx,

I’ve never eaten an Atkins bar because, one, I don’t like the ingredients, two, I’m always suspicious of the claims of net carbs; and three, our neighbor’s dog wouldn’t eat them so that tells me something.

Cheers,

Mark

Need opinions before I fire my doctor

by | Jan 31, 2013 | Low carb diet, Weight Loss | 0 comments

Here is a copy of the comment I made over at lowcarber’s on a post regarding health services in the States

 

Hi Ann,

$237.00 to visit a doctor and that’s just so you can sit there and talk with them. Gosh! That’s a lot of money!

I haven’t been to a doctor for 38 years so I had to ask my friends how much it costs here and they tell me the standard fee is 25.00 EUR which is about $34.00 and that’s without insurance. So you’re paying 6 or 7 times as much. Whichever way you look at it does seem like a lot of money.

Some people don’t even earn that much in a week but it does seem like the medical system in the States is geared up to charge high fees for doing not a lot though I think the advice of others on the forum to order your tests privately and to see if your health insurance will cover it is probably a good starting point.

As for firing your doctor, well that’s only a decision that you can make but I certainly would start looking around for a doctor that can adequately deal with the health concerns you might have and who understands the advantages of a low carb way of eating.

The bottom line is make sure you do the best for you.

Hope that helps,

Mark

Atkins and fruit

by | Jan 31, 2013 | Low carb diet, Weight Loss | 0 comments

Another one of my comments over at lowcarber forum about a post on Atkins

 

I’m not a fruit eater except if it’s mixed into salad and then not too much because I find it too sweet. Now if you were to slice an avocado cover it with mayonnaise and sprinkle cayenne pepper over the top, it wouldn’t last long if it were put in front of me that’s for sure.

But getting back to your question Firefly428, your getting more tired and want to have a snooze, if I’m having a hard day physically I can sense my blood sugar level dropping and yes you can get a bit shaky. In cases like that I normally turn to cheese as that’s a good safe source of energy and I find if I let my consumption of cheese drop too much or fat on general, come to that, and I do feel a little bit lethargic.

Hope that helps,

Mark

Ketosis question

by | Jan 31, 2013 | Low carb diet, Weight Loss | 0 comments

Here is a comment I made on a post at lowcarber forum about ketosis

 

Hi mfergi_200,

Well done for staying on induction for 4 weeks. I hope you’re pleased with your progress.

Generally speaking most people are fine if they stay under 50 gms of carbs per day but I would counsel you to add in those carbs slowly because it can be so tempting to treat ourselves just as once when we come out of induction and frankly the more gently you approach your CCL the better as that gives you plenty of time to gauge what’s going on in your body and the so approach does tend to lessen the chance of going over and moving out of ketosis.

Hope that helps,

Mark

Milled Flax seed causing stall?

by | Jan 30, 2013 | Low carb diet, Stalls and Plateaux, Weight Loss | 0 comments

Here is another comment I made over at lowcarber forum on a post about a stall on a low carb diet

 

Myers728 asked:

You all know me and my posts by now. So 2wks 10 lbs gone, week 3 and 4 nothing. Need to get the pounds off. I have removed heavy cream, peanut butter, added veggies for lunch and dinner, what about my breakfast of milled flax seed? I have 1/4 cup. Could this be causing my stall? I am removing this week to see if the scales move? Dr atkins says no more than 2T, my comment is that with 2T = 4 carbs, 4 dietary carbs, so zero carbs. Maybe this is too much to be having, causing stall?

 

My response:

When we follow a low carb diet there are so many changes going on in our bodies. It’s hard to keep up with what’s going on.

Providing we’re giving our bodies the types of food it needs in order to thrive, we then simply need to be patient while it works through the various processes it has to go through to firstly adjust to the change in diet and secondly start dealing with the excesses that our old diet caused in the first place.

The simple fact is that none of us got fat overnight, it’s something that slowly crept up and by the same token none of us will get thin overnight.

So the bottom line of what I’m trying to say here is stick with your plan, don’t be tempted to add in things just because they seem like they might be okay and be patient. You will get the body you want just give it time.

As for milled flax seed, that’s one of those things that I stay right away from. I’m not sure it has any nutritional value but it certainly contains lots of temptation.

Hope that helps,

Mark