My favorite low carb snack: celery sticks with cream cheese. The book I referenced has many good recipes for low carb meals, too. I forgot to mention that one of the cool things about the Carb Addict diet is that generally speaking, you have two low carb meals and then one "reward meal" that is whatever you want it to be (pasta, cookies, beer, whatever). The only caveat is that the reward meal (and beverages) must be consumed in a 60 minute window due to the insulin response created. In other words, I still have my whiskey after dinner and often a bowl of ice cream or cookies, so long as it is within the 60 minute window. It sounds weird, but the science behind it makes sense.
I say all this because I am pretty uncreative with meals/recipes because my wife is a great cook and enjoys planning awesome dinners. Breakfast for me is usually just cottage cheese and a handful of sunflower seeds or maybe two eggs with peppers. Lunch is usually lean deli meat with cheese and a huge salad that I prepare with cukes, spinach, radishes, green beans, celery, nuts, cauliflower-- whatever veggies are around. Sometimes lunch is leftovers, depending upon what dinner was the night before. I've tried lots of the recipes in the Carb Addicts book and most are pretty good or at least not terrible. There's also the Atkins Diet books and tons of recipes online. I'm just lazy (and lucky) because I don't usually plan the big daily meals.
@Memaw wrote:
I need to lose at least 20 pounds to be in a healthy range. Any ideas/recipes on how to even start?
