If your goal is total health, then you don’t want to be eating a semi starvation diet which will force the body to catabolize it’s own lean tissues (including vital organs, like the heart). Females need 2000 calories a day to maintain weight.
Saturated fats (contrary to myths) are healthy & necessary for the body to function.
The first 2 weeks, you can have several cups of salad a day - Bacon, lettuce & a lil tomato with avocado/mayo dressing is my fav. Jicama, cucumber, celery & radish marinated in sesame oil & hot pepper flakes with rice wine vinegar & artificial sweetener. Make a stir fry with Bok Choy, bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, celery, mushrooms, shirataki noodles. I love eggs & could eat deviled eggs every day. You can smother omelets & meats with mushrooms, peppers & cheese. Meatzza - Meatloaf with pizza toppings. I like thin sausage patties fried crispy with pizza toppings. Pork rinds & celery sticks are great crunch and can be eaten with dips (avocado/mayo/cayenne) & tuna/chicken/turkey/egg salads. I love my rotisserie & it makes meats tasty. I cook a turkey often & make soup with the bones & turkey salads. I’ll cube up some turkey meat mix in a couple of raw eggs add cheese & broccoli with cayenne powder & nuke 2 minutes for instant meal. Flax seed should be eaten 4T daily even in induction.
Ground flax seed (4 Tbsp) 1/4 cup water, sweetener, mix in a raw egg - let sit 10 min. to absorb liquid, put cream cheese in middle & nuke 2 min for daily fiber needs.
After 2 week, you add 5 grams of carbs per day every week & add greater variety of non starchy vegetables. Change your mindset - adapt what you like to eat to low carb -
replace bread with lettuce
replace pasta with cabbage
replace rice with cauliflower
replace potatoes with brocolli
Cabbage makes a good pasta substitute. Make lasagna with blanched cabbage leaves & thinly fried eggplant instead of noodles. Sugar free pasta sauce over fried cabbage. My fav is chicken cacciatore, I add greens & flaxseed for body & add pizza toppings too. Alfredo sauce is also low carb.
I make a lot of shredded cabbage & mayo or fried cabbage if I’m a bit more ambitious. I fry up bacon & onions & it makes any salad special (BLT) Avocado & turkey - grilled chicken - fajita meat & fried onions is great also. I’ll make a salad with 6 cans: mackerel, baby corn, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, artichoke hearts, sweet red peppers & add mayo & chia seed gel.
Kim Chee is fermented cabbage & one of the healthiest foods. You can make a huge batch & it will sit in refrigerator fine for a long time.
I make huge batches of food & freeze most of it. Go into the forums for recipes - I was shocked that fried "rice" made with grated cauliflower tasted like it’s name sake - faux mashed "taters" made with cauliflower & cream cheese - "potato" salad using cauliflower instead. Shirataki noodles are traditional in Japanese sukiyaki & low carb
Chia seeds sound expensive but 1# will make 10# food - Amazon.com has couple lbs. for $16 shipped to you. I buy mine in bulk for $5# with free shipping at getchia.com
I also order off Amazon - Lowrey’s Pork Rinds 18 for $15 - they pop like popcorn & are portion controlled.
Faux tapioca - 2 cups of water, 5 scoops of low carb whey protein powder, stir together & add cup of chia seeds, after they have started to absorb the water, add in 2 cans of coconut milk (or cream & added water) & artificial sweetener if you like & mix it all in. Cream a pkg. of cream cheese into a can of pumpkin & add for pumpkin pie pudding.
I make a raw porridge out of low carb whey powder & water, I add ground flax seeds, chia seeds, sunflower seeds, almonds, coconut milk, tahini (ground sesame seeds) & raw egg. All seeds & nuts are raw & soaked to germinate them.
(berries are lowest glycemic) Cheesecake - strawberry ice cream (frozen berries, cream, a stick blender) - i eat lots of fish for snack (fish "steaks" or mackerel in tins are favs)- olives
Check out the recipe sites posted below -
Thin and Crispy Pizza Crust
http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/recipe-forum-sticky-threads/549376-thin-crispy-pizza-crust-easiest-ever-pics-included.html
Easy flax bread with pics -
http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/breads/r/flaxbasicfoc.html
Chilidog Casserole
http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/recipereview/showproduct.php/product/3399/sort/8/cat/all/page/1
Cheesecake -
http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/recipereview/showproduct.php/item/3571_cheri%20A%20Cheesecake%20Factory%20Cheesecake%20%28converted%20to%20lowcarb%29
Pumpkin soup & others
http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/lowcarb-recipe-help-suggestions/608599-low-carb-soups.html
