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My LCHF diet

Post 861

Titania (gone for lunch)

Today, I had a 'paleo salad' for breakfast and, quite frankly, I didn't expect to stay satisfied for this long (8 hours and ticking).

Simple and delicious, for 1 person:
2 hard boiled eggs
½ package of thinly sliced bacon (60 gr or so)
1 avocado
5 cherry tomatoes

Quarter tomatoes and eggs, cut the avocado into cubes, fry the bacon until it's crispy then crumble it on top of it all.

Next time I think I might sprinkle a bit of herbal salt before adding the bacon though.


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Post 862

Titania (gone for lunch)

And once I got hungry, I got *really hungry very quickly.

I think that might be one of the main differences between Paleo and LCHF - because on LCHF, I get hungry very slowly, so have lots of time to prepare the next meal - like in 2-3 hours or so.

I was thinking of topping the Paleo salad with aioli or olive oil or something, but thought I'd try it as it was. I wonder if some Feta cheese might have helped me stay satisfied longer and growing hungry slower?


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Post 863

Milla, h2g2 Operations

I was going to write a long story about my morning, but will restrict it to this: No breakfast (health check) or coffee, and no lunch until 12.30 (at a lunch reastaurant, with Peewee) gave me a mad migraine. Coffee after lunch, and pain killers helped just enough to be able to drive home, get my migraine spray and go to bed. I do need breakfast, none of this nonesense anymore.
smiley - towel


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Post 864

Titania (gone for lunch)

Had the Paleo salad again, but this time with my 'zingy' dressing:

Chop one clove of garlic finely
Add chili flakes
Add the juice from ½ lime
Marinate

Add a bit of sesame seed oil (if you like the nutty flavour)

Add olive oil and sea salt according to your taste - taste often while stirring it in.


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Post 865

Titania (gone for lunch)

And I drank up *all the dressing after eating the salad - yummie smiley - drool


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Post 866

Titania (gone for lunch)

smiley - laughsmiley - roflsmiley - laugh

http://www.instructables.com/id/Bacon-Sushi/


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Post 867

Titania (gone for lunch)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html?pagewanted=2&_r=5&hp&pagewanted=all&

From the article:
'...had no qualms about his own pioneering work on discovering what industry insiders now regularly refer to as “the bliss point” or any of the other systems that helped food companies create the greatest amount of crave.'


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Post 868

Titania (gone for lunch)

Food for thought (ahahah):

http://slowburnfitness.com/youre-seven-feet-tall-because-you-eat-too-much/


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Post 869

Titania (gone for lunch)

I've lost an inch or two around bum and waist again!smiley - boing One size smaller jeans, again.

A Swedish night radio channel recently hosted a breakfast competition, and I bet the winner eats the LCHF way.

Scrambled eggs with cream and cheddar cheese, 1 avocado, a couple of slices of smoked ham, tomatoes.

http://sverigesradio.se/diverse/appdata/isidor/images/news_images/2689/2730180_520_292.jpg


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Post 870

Titania (gone for lunch)

And now I need to eat more again, getting hungrier.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2013/mar/13/gwyneth-paltrow-no-carb-diet-perfect-sense

'"at risk of nutrient deficiencies", warns one. Her children "won't be able to think straight as their brain won't be functioning", says another'

Dieticians...smiley - rolleyes


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Post 871

Milla, h2g2 Operations

I liked ms Paltrow before, and now even more smiley - smiley

smiley - towel


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Post 872

Titania (gone for lunch)

I've been eating the 'paleo salad' a lot lately, varying the ingredients a bit, but alwasy keeping the egg, avocado and tomato.

It doesn't fill me up for long, even if I add olives, Feta cheese, oily dressing - but it leaves my stomach feeling unusually flat. I wonder what it is on my other foods that makes it a bit swollen?


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Post 873

Titania (gone for lunch)

Yet another version of the paleo salad. I had egg, I had bacon, but was out of avocado and tomatoes.

So I added diced Feta cheese and an almost over-ripe nectarine cut into wedges.

smiley - bigeyes

Feta + nectarine = smiley - lovesmiley - drool

It's a perfect match!


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Post 874

Titania (gone for lunch)

Interesting, I notice a different pattern this time.

Usually, it goes like this:

1. Getting hungrier, having to add a snack or an entire meal per day.
2. Drop in weight, often considerably enough to tighten my belt one more hole or, in some cases, getting into trousers one size smaller.
3. Eating less again.

This time around, it was.
1. Drop in weight.
2. Hungry!
3. It took a remarkably short time for my body to accept that no, I'm not starving.

This morning, my breakfast consisted of 1 avocado, 1 nectarine and 2/3 of a small package of Feta cheese, with some olive oil drizzled on top, herbal salt, black pepper.

I hadn't eaten more than half of it before I was full.

Other news: I recently tried Kombucha (fermented tea) for the very first time. For my Swedish friends:

http://www.svenskkombucha.se/

I've always had problems with constipation, but drinking just a little (1/3 of the bottle in the link) for three days in a row resulted in no. 2 each of those days.

Must remember to try it again next time I feel constipated.


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Post 875

Milla, h2g2 Operations

I have stuck into a rather unhealty rut I think. Working at home, so not walking or exercising as I ought. Yoga is lovely, but only once a week. Not very much for breakfast, sandwich with mayo and tomatoes, and coffee with cream. Usually I'm not hungry until two or three in the afternoon. Eat something light (eggs, sandwich, leftovers, whatever I find), and then cook something for the kids in the evening. If I just had moved more, I might have stayed the same, or even lost weight. But I'm slowly gaining. smiley - erm

Oh well. Now that snow is finally receding (not gone yet, mind) perhaps the outdoors will feel more interesting.

smiley - towel


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Post 876

Titania (gone for lunch)

Milla, when w*rking from home, I think you need to create a firm schedule, including getting out and get some fresh air. Myself, I find it so easy to overdo the w*rk bit when w*rking from home and forget about pretty much the rest.

We use MS Outlook at w*rk, so when I'm w*rking from home, I make 'appointments' with myself in order to remember to do something else other than w*rk every now and then.

Uhm... that sandwich? Is that 'real' bread? As in fast carbs? Because combining fast carbs with fat is just about the worse thing you can do. It will most likely lead to gaining weight. And no, wholegrain or sourdough won't make the combination any healthier.

There's a diet (I've forgotten the name) where you separate protein and carbs so that you avoid combining the two in one and the same meal. Fat should be added to the protein part, not the carb part.


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Post 877

Milla, h2g2 Operations

Yes. Ordinary bread *hangs head in shame* I know it's bad. We should have a shame smiley...

Yes, perhaps I should make myself schedules. I keep having bad conscience for not finishing anything, procrastinating when there is no hurry, and consequently not feeling like I deserve a proper break. Thanks for putting some new thoughts in my head!
smiley - towel


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Post 878

Titania (gone for lunch)

Argh, is this springtime?

Fresh green asparagus sprouting new sprouts (thereby destroying the delicate tops), nectarines growing rotten from the inside and out, avocados going bad even though they feel firm?


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Post 879

Titania (gone for lunch)

*desperately trying to stop another bunch of fresh green asparagus to sprout, but to no avail*

smiley - rolleyes

'Blinis' for dinner tonight.

Whisp an egg, drop a big pinch of shredded (long shreds) cheese into it, fish up the cheese and fry it on both sides in butter.

Add smetana on top.

Finely chop some red onion and mash it together with sea salt. Add the mix on top of the smetana.

Add a spoon of whitefish roe on top.


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Post 880

Titania (gone for lunch)

Hungryyyyy!

Tuesday, I started off with 2 cups of coffee with coconut oil and cream and a hard boiled egg with butter and herbal salt. I had brought ingredients for a salad to w*rk, but got hungry 1 hour earlier than usual - very hungry. Instead of the salad, I bought myself a Lebanese take-away meal.

Made the salad for dinner instead, but added more stuff because I was really hungry again.

Wednesday I felt I was eating all day; bacon, eggs, cheese, sourcream - no matter what I stuffed myself with, I soon got hungry again.

And now, 5 am Thursday (that summertime transition (?) really messed up my sleep pattern) I'm ravenous yet again. I have a smoked mackerel in the fridge, an avocado, a hard boiled egg, tomatoes, onion, olives - it looks like it's going to be a salad again.

My salads these days are always mixed with my 'zingy' dressing. I've grown quite fond of chili lately. And lime.

I do hope all this hunger results in another weight drop soon.


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