I am back

[spirittalker]

:no After many days of lurking in shame I am back on and more motivated than I was before. It's confession time folks. I went out of town to attend a funeral and did ok until the last day when I broke down and went carb crazy. Since then I have been cheating daily. I managed to stay in ketosis despite the frappachinos and other gooey sweets and I did not gain. But I did not lose and I felt like crap. I am ashamed of myself. In any case I am back and ready to go :icondance.

I was wondering how does one eat flax? I have the milled kind but I have no clue how to get it down and I would like to start adding it to my daily habits.

[Miss Phode]

Welcome back. Don't beat yourself up. Just get back on it.

To answer your flax question. Some people make flax bread. Here is a very rough recipe:

4 tablespoons of ground flax seeds
2 eggs
1 ounce of melted butter
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder

Now I don't have a microwave, so I bake mine in the oven in a small cast iron skillet. My skillet is maybe 5 inches across. I keep it in the oven at 350 for 20 mintues.

OK, here's the trick with flax. Don't eat too much of it because it will bind you up, so don't go overboard with the flax stuff. Definitely don't eat the above bread in one sitting. And always always always drink lots of h20 when eating flax, because it's a water soluble fiber, and if you don't drink water your gonna get stopped up.

People also make flax bread in the microwave. Regardless of how you make it, you can either add splenda, cinnamon, etc to make it sweet, or herbs, salt, parmsean cheese, etc to make it savory. I like to toast mine and eat it with butter.

You can search for other recipes on this site for flax bread, muffins, and crackers.

Good luck and enjoy

[2big4mysize]

flax is a great fiber food for the added roughage and the high Omega3s.

We have a flax topic in the FAQ but you can eat it as hot cereal kind of gooey like oatmeal, sprinkle it in your salad, bake with it as an egg or oil sub, you can make flax chips, flax bread, flax muffins, flax cookies, flax pudding, flax cake, etc, only your imagination limits you. go to our recipe data base and and enter flax and watch all the uyummy recipes pop up.

http://www.lowcarbrecipes.org/recipe.cgi

happy low carbing.

remember if you are using it as a constipation relief it is one T serving and more if needed if you are using it as a fiber supplement per chapter 8 it is still 1T daily

[2big4mysize]

flax is a great fiber food for the added roughage and the high Omega3s.

We have a flax topic in the FAQ but you can eat it as hot cereal kind of gooey like oatmeal, sprinkle it in your salad, bake with it as an egg or oil sub, you can make flax chips, flax bread, flax muffins, flax cookies, flax pudding, flax cake, etc, only your imagination limits you. go to our recipe data base and and enter flax and watch all the uyummy recipes pop up.

http://www.lowcarbrecipes.org/recipe.cgi

happy low carbing.

remember if you are using it as a constipation relief it is one T serving and more if needed if you are using it as a fiber supplement per chapter 8 it is still 1T daily

[ditien]

Thanks for the tip here im about to get some wheat germ and flax are they interchangeable?