After my rather poor and embarrassing start yesterday, I decided to keep going with my enthusiasm and momentum.
Woke up earlier so that I could engage in some brisk walk the park behind my house. Even managed one round of fast jogging to keep the heart rate up a little. Puff…must say I am way out shape!! I’m sure I’ll get there with more practise and push.
Daily summary
Breakfast – Poached eggs and sausages x 1 each
Lunch – Bacon and eggs x 2 but MP scoffed half my bacon so I was left a little hungry :(
Snack – Low fat cheese slice x 2
Dinner – Lamb chops @ 6 to 10 Grill, no pix as I was starving by the time I had dinner as DH was back late.
Exercise – Brisk walk
About high-protein diet....
Before head diving into anything, best to do some research and decide whether it fits you. As for me, I got 3 Atkins book – all preaching to me the same thing, the only variation is that one comes with a recipe book and the other a calorie counter. Both of which are useful especially when you are wondering what to eat today or tonight. They are definitely a good source of ideas. However, living in an Asian country and being brought up with rice and noodles as staple, it can be difficult adopting in its entirety the recommended recipes from the Atkins book. Not only will the cost be pocket blowing but also sometimes they are not easily or locally available.
That is one of the biggest challenge following the Atkins diet – getting sufficient variety without blowing up the mortgage!!
There are 4 phases to the program but I will only talk about the first 14 days as that is my current goal. For the others, just do a google search over the internet and you’ll be armed with more information than you want!
The diet is based on the theory that overweight people eat too much carbs. Our body burn both fat and carbs for energy, but carbs are used first. By drastically reducing carbs, our bodies naturally lose weight by burning more efficiently your own stored body fat as the main energy source. The result is…..drum roll….weight loss.
Induction phase
This phase last for 14 days. Limit carbohydrate intake in the form of sugar, white flour and other starches to a maximum of 20 net grams per day. Protein food such as fish, meat, shellfish and fowl generally have little or zero carbs. So these are the food types to load on. With the targeted 20g of carbs a day, most of them will be utilised in the form of green vegetables such as broccoli, cucumber, celery and other dark leafy vegetables.
A daily multivitamin with minerals is also recommended during this stage.
Not to be a temptress but I had to bake a fruit cake as I had already macerated the fruits with Tia Maria over a week ago. Of course I could have kept the mixture in the fridge for later but being forgetful (and probably lazy) resulted in a whole tub of macerated fruits mixture being thrown out as they got mouldy!! Didn’t want to repeat my mistake twice. Anyway, this fruit cake is more of my parents favourite than mine. So resisting was not all that difficult.
Woke up earlier so that I could engage in some brisk walk the park behind my house. Even managed one round of fast jogging to keep the heart rate up a little. Puff…must say I am way out shape!! I’m sure I’ll get there with more practise and push.
Daily summary
Breakfast – Poached eggs and sausages x 1 each
Lunch – Bacon and eggs x 2 but MP scoffed half my bacon so I was left a little hungry :(
Snack – Low fat cheese slice x 2
Dinner – Lamb chops @ 6 to 10 Grill, no pix as I was starving by the time I had dinner as DH was back late.
Exercise – Brisk walk
About high-protein diet....
Before head diving into anything, best to do some research and decide whether it fits you. As for me, I got 3 Atkins book – all preaching to me the same thing, the only variation is that one comes with a recipe book and the other a calorie counter. Both of which are useful especially when you are wondering what to eat today or tonight. They are definitely a good source of ideas. However, living in an Asian country and being brought up with rice and noodles as staple, it can be difficult adopting in its entirety the recommended recipes from the Atkins book. Not only will the cost be pocket blowing but also sometimes they are not easily or locally available.
That is one of the biggest challenge following the Atkins diet – getting sufficient variety without blowing up the mortgage!!
There are 4 phases to the program but I will only talk about the first 14 days as that is my current goal. For the others, just do a google search over the internet and you’ll be armed with more information than you want!
The diet is based on the theory that overweight people eat too much carbs. Our body burn both fat and carbs for energy, but carbs are used first. By drastically reducing carbs, our bodies naturally lose weight by burning more efficiently your own stored body fat as the main energy source. The result is…..drum roll….weight loss.
Induction phase
This phase last for 14 days. Limit carbohydrate intake in the form of sugar, white flour and other starches to a maximum of 20 net grams per day. Protein food such as fish, meat, shellfish and fowl generally have little or zero carbs. So these are the food types to load on. With the targeted 20g of carbs a day, most of them will be utilised in the form of green vegetables such as broccoli, cucumber, celery and other dark leafy vegetables.
A daily multivitamin with minerals is also recommended during this stage.
Not to be a temptress but I had to bake a fruit cake as I had already macerated the fruits with Tia Maria over a week ago. Of course I could have kept the mixture in the fridge for later but being forgetful (and probably lazy) resulted in a whole tub of macerated fruits mixture being thrown out as they got mouldy!! Didn’t want to repeat my mistake twice. Anyway, this fruit cake is more of my parents favourite than mine. So resisting was not all that difficult.
Here's my parent's favourite fruit cake, more cake less fruit!
Could get dizzy just smelling it, if only I sink my teeth into it.
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