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You might enjoy this site: dlife.com. It is a diabetic site, but it is full of recipes. You can search recipes by criteria needed, such as low carb, low fat, low sodium, etc. The recipes are simple and most only require ingredients that you already have on hand.  Most diabetics are on a controlled low carbs diet.  That means diabetic site that has recipes suitable for a low carbs diet.

 Try to focus on recipes that have a high protein, low carb foods.  Select low carb foods and low sodium, but do not select low fat recipes.  The fat on your body – know as body fat,  doesn’t come from the fat you eat.  It is produced by your own body from the excess carbohydrates foods you eat.   You body uses all carbs food, whether a piece of fruit, a slice of bread or a bowl of cereal, to produce glucose.  Glucose is the fuel you use when you spend energy.  If you don’t spend much energy, you’ll be left with excess glucose.  Your body cannot store glucose.  It is forced to turn it into body fat.  That’s the fat that sits on our body and is so hard to burn off.

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The lesson you have learned, as we all learn eventually – if we diet, is that diets don’t work!  They can’t our body is not designed to diet.  When you reduce your calories your body reacts to famine.  Your body is programmed (evolved) to respond to famine in only one way.  It slows down your metabolism and gets ready to store body fat.  That means as soon as you stop dieting, your body will go all out to regain every ounce of weight you have lost.

It doesn’t just stop there.  It will also add additional weight because it anticipates another famine in the future. Your body wants to make sure you are protected.  This is how your body is programmed, it’s called nature and we are powerless to change it.  We shouldn’t want to!

Instead of challenging and opposing nature, you need to learn how to work with it.  If you do that, you will get the best weight loss, with the quickest way to lose weight that you have ever imagined.  How?  Your body doesn’t want the weight anymore than you do.  So if you do what your body wants,  it will not only help you lose the weight.  it will make sure the weight never comes back.

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You can add poultry, fish and seafood.   I think its great that you want to be healthy!   While you are still growing it’s important that you get enough proteins food.  Carbs food is good only for one thing.  Your body breaks it down into glucose, that’s liquid sugar, and it uses it for fuel.  If you don’t have much carbs food to burn, your body will turn to proteins food and fat to burn energy.

What is protein – and what does it do?  It builds and repairs your bones, skin, muscles, tissue and organs.   We can’t live without it.  Our teens are the most crucial period for growth.  it’s a time when we require the most proteins food.  Instead of a bowl of  ’energy’ cereal, you should be eating a big serve of bacon and eggs.  That’s what will give you the strength to burn some of the energy you create from the cereal.   The one point you need to take away and always remember is that:  History has proved many times that we can live and thrive without carbs food.   But we cannot exist without proteins food.   Check out the previous answers on this page.  You’ll find a link to lots of suitable recipes.

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There is no such thing as low carbs food,  or low sugar food.  A unit of food is either a carbs food, a proteins food or a fat.  You can chose to go on a low carbs diet but that basically means a high protein low carb diet.  Manufactured, so-called low carbs food is extremely addictive and can be disastrous to health.  Focus on high protein food like bacon and eggs for breakfast.  Lots of Tuna, Salmon, Ham or other lunch meat with a small green salad for lunch and a generous serve of meat, poultry or fish, with a green salad for dinner.  Make a huge batch of deviled eggs, eat one every time you want “something” between meals.  A bowl of cooked, spicey chicken wings also makes for a tasty snack.

Other food ideas: – A huge omelet with bacon, sausage, peppers, mushrooms & cheese. Pork chops smothered with peppers, mushrooms & cheese – pork rinds & dip or tuna/chicken/turkey/egg salad – steaks – a huge sugar free cheese cake.

Always eat as much as you need to never feel deprived.

Cabbage makes an excellent pasta substitute Make a 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 or chia seed for body and also add pizza toppings – pepperoni, mushrooms, lots of mozzarrella. 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 cook up some bacon & throw in onions & let them fry & it makes any salad extra special (BLT) Avocado & turkey is great on a salad – Grilled chicken or fajita meat & fried onions too. Sometimes I’ll make a canned salad – can mackerel, can baby corn, can water chestnuts, can bamboo shoots, can artichoke hearts, can sweet red peppers & add in mayo & chia seed gel.

Kim Chee is a fermented cabbage salad & is suppose to be one of the most healthy foods in the world. You can make a huge batch & it will sit in refrigerator fine for a long time.

I usually make huge batches of food & freeze most of it. I cook meats 20-30# at a time (for just me) I have gone into the forums for recipes (especially when I first started low carb) I was shocked that fried “rice” made with grated cauliflower tasted just like it’s name sake. Shirataki noodles are traditional in Japanese sukiyaki and low carb. I’ve heard faux mashed “taters” made with cauliflower & cream cheese can fool non low carbers. “potato” salad using cauliflower instead.

Chia seeds sound so expensive but 1# will make 10# food (when you can splurge some – Amazon.com has couple lbs. For $16 shipped to you. I buy mine in bulk – 24# for $5.83# 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 and added water during induction) & artificial sweetener if you like and mix it all in. Can be eaten after an hour but will be better tomorrow. Cream a pkg. Of cream cheese into a can of pumpkin & add to the faux tapioca for an even more nutritious pumpkin pie pudding.

(berries are lowest glycemic) Cheesecake – strawberry ice cream (frozen berries, cream, a stick blender) – pork rinds great crunch – canned fish “steaks” or mackerel – avocado/mayo/cayenne dip – olives

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A 60% carb diet is what keeps most of America fat! Keep in mind that if you are eating a low carbs diet, the majority of your calories are coming from proteins food and fat.  Do not be afraid of fat, or proteins food. They are vital foods. Chose them as your preference whenever possible.. What’s wrong with a lean steak, ground turkey, chicken breasts, bison, mixed nuts, peanut butter, eggs, salmon, red snapper, etc??? There are a number of healthy choices out there if you are eating healthy protein foods. Get creative, and make up some of your own recipes!  You will find plenty of recipes in other answers on this page.

Kirsten Plotkin

Author

The Carbohydrate Addicts Manual!

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