50g will be fine, but you'll probably have a lot of bother keeping down THAT low, they said.
Definitely cut out white processed bread, and all white bread if you can manage it. Stick with whole wheat and wholemeal, and granary.
No white rice. Brown unprocessed only.
No processed cereals, but home made musili is fine. No raisins tho. (get stuffed)
No Potatoes, whatsoever. Mashed, boiled, fried, chips, fries, baked or roasted. No parsnips. No shop bought pizzas (never have) No ice cream or biscuits (don't like them anyway) Melons or Crumpets. Aw. :( . Definitely no pies. No problem there.
All that stuff wacks up the blood sugar levels quickly, bangs up insulin production, and just as quickly gets slapped around the waist.
Pasta? Eat your heart out. Fruit, small portions - maybe a couple or three ounces, green veg, the same, salad, at least two ounce of each per meal. A couple of ounces of Carrots are cool.
Plenty of protein - lean meat, fish, eggs, grain, nuts - but keep the meats to 4 oz per serving max.
Yoghurt, milk, and cheeses are fine in small amounts.
Sounds easy enough, I said. After all, I never feel hungry (I've been known to 2-3 days without eating). Ah, they said. You're actually going to have to eat more to lose weight. Darn it.
But most of all, count those carbs. Max 120 g per day, and watch it, it'll be tough.
Urgh. But I can do this. No problem with white bread - I make my own breads. Same with bacon, yoghurt, sauces, soups and I love lean meat and all sea foods and salads. I can't stand ANY rices or Pasta. Spuds? meh. No great loss, and I haven't touched sweets or pastries for 30 years. Make my own baked beans, and happiness is nibbling seeds, nuts, and pulses. And they end up in the bread too. I make my own jams, pickles, chutneys and preserves, so I know exactly what goes into them.
Sounds fair enough. Or is it?
Have you ever weighed out 2-3 oz of baby spinach or savoy cabbage? Mixed Lettuces or beet leaves? If that's a portion, it's absolutely Ginourmous! Then there's the carbohydrate content. A massive, and believe me, it is, 3 0z spinach has 1.85 g of carbs.
Meat or Sea food? effectively zero g. Fresh Tomatoes? 0.73 g per ounce. Nuts 3 g per oz average. Cucumber? 0.36 g/oz. Carrots 1.53 g/0z, Celery 0.38 g/oz.......
Do you see a pattern emerging here? The carbs are so tiny per portion as to be invisible. The target is 30-40 grams per meal. The reality is that I've been lucky to squeeze 15 g out of a meal. In the unlikely event I manage 3 meals a day, I'll get a whopping 45 g carbohydrates per DAY.
Sorry Wheelie, they said. You've got to reach at least 90 grams/day, otherwise you'll be in bother.
If only they knew.
So, Dear Reader, I'm open to suggestions.
Here's an example meal I like.
Soup.
Hot and Sour Prawn soup.
- Calories 35 kcal
- Protein 4 g
- Fat 0.4 g
- Saturated Fat 0 g
- Sodium 163 g
- Cholesterol 28 g
- Carbohydrates 4 g
- Fibre 1 g
| 90 ml fish stock |
| 1 tablespoon finely chopped lemongrass, or 1/2 teaspoon finely grated lime zest |
| 1 garlic clove, finely chopped |
| 1/2 fresh red or green chilli, finely chopped |
| 2 oz button mushrooms, sliced |
| 2oz raw prawns, peeled and de-veined |
| 1 tablespoons rice vinegar or white wine vinegar |
| 1 tablespoon reduced-sodium soy sauce |
| 1 tablespoon cornflour |
| 2 spring onions, thinly sliced |
Main Meal.
Baked Rosemary Monkfish
- Calories 170 kcal
- protein 20 g
- Fat 9 g
- Saturates 4 g
- Carbohydrates 3 g
| 1 tablespoon olive oil |
| 4oz monkfish fillet (black membrane removed), in two pieces |
| 2 large garlic cloves, cut lengthways into quarters |
| 2 sprigs of fresh rosemary, broken into small sprigs |
| 1/2 lime |
| 1/2 oz butter |
| 1 tomatoes, halved |
Served with, say :-
Broccoli Salad
- Fat 7g
- Cholesterol 0 m
- Carbohydrate 7 g
- Protein 3 g
2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
pinch sea salt
1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
4 oz broccoli, blanched five minutes
1 large teaspoon cream or plain yoghurt
pinch rough ground black pepper
1/2 red bell pepper, cut into strips
Total Carbohydrate, 14 grams. See my problem?
Starting weight, 85.5 K. Target 74.8 k. Present 83.8 K. (over 13 days)
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