Scaling back the carbs

[atkinsgal08]

Re: Scaling back the carbs

>>I knew there was something wrong when I lost and gained right back s>>

That doesn't mean there's something "wrong". Weight fluctuates.

>>I run out so quickly.>>

Buy some frozen ones.

[JaxMama]

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I'm a veggie snob unfortunetly, I hate anything frozen that we are allowed to eat. I like frozen carrots, corn and peas which we can't have. I don't like canned either. I deal when I have to with the frozen and canned. But I stopped buying them because they taste like crap, to me.

[atkinsgal08]

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Then your choice is clear ... you can't "run out".

[2big4mysize]

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thanks for writing it out. I was wondering what you did since all you said was

Whatever I did yesterday worked because I dropped from 137.4 to 136.80, although I know it's only 2 oz from my previous lowest. But at this point baby steps is fine with me.

do you eat brussel sprouts? if so frozen ones can be bacon roasted ( cook a few pieces of bacon in an oven safe skillet and then remove the bacon. place sprouts that have been sliced in 1/2 from top to bottom in the remaining bacon grease and cook at 325 for 15 min or until nicely browned. flip and brown the other side. they get crunchie on the outside and soft and tender on the inside. you can do frozen cauliflower that way too.

you could also use frozen to make soups, and purees like artichoke or spinach dips. and cream of soups cook so much faster with frozens veggies.

[JaxMama]

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I added an extra stalk of celery to dinner and salsa. It got me just under 18 grams of carbs. I hope it's enough for today.

[atkinsgal08]

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>>an extra stalk of celery>>

Wow! <just a bit of intended sarcasm!>

>>It got me just under 18 grams of carbs.>>

NET?

[atkinsgal08]

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If you're at 40 net carbs, you would want about 30 NET to be from your Induction vegetables.

[2big4mysize]

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If you're at 40 net carbs, you would want about 30 NET to be from your Induction vegetables.

where are you getting that info from?
we keep the 3 cups from induction for the rest of our Atkins and then we add 5 net on rung one. where does it say in chapter 14 OWl DANDR 2002 that we have to keep adding more and more veggies as we increase our carbs climbing the carb ladder?

[Minerva]

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. I think I have been. I will take what I can get with my 2 oz loss.

Is your weight so stable that 2 oz. is significant? Mine is pretty stable within half a pound or so provided I weigh first thing in the morning with no clothes on, but to be able to see 2 oz. is amazing. Just wondering... could it be you've lost more fat than you think, and it's been replaced by water weight or something? (My weight hasn't gone down in five days and I'm blaming it on TOM...)

[JaxMama]

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LOL Atkinsgal, those were gross carbs I added not net for the veggies. And two eat two large stalks of celery is great for me since I hate it But stick anything in sour cream and it tastes good.

I think my weight is stable, it stays within within a lb from day to day. I So when I lose anything I am very happy about it. Like this morning I was 137.2, not the 136.8 from yesterday. That could very much could have been water weight since I did not have as much water as usual yesterday.

When I w

[Georgiana]

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those were gross carbs I added not net for the veggies.

In OWL, we (should) continue to derive the majority of our net carbs from low carb vegetables. If you ate 18 total carbs worth of vegetables and your current net carbohydrate level is 35, then you are still undereating vegetables.

Many of us find that the "cleaner" our menu is -- more net carbs from vegetables, less from diary, nuts, berries, alcohol, legumes -- the better we lose.

And two eat two large stalks of celery is great for me since I hate it

Why eat celery then?

Trying new vegetable recipes (some that use vegetables that you actually like!) could help you get your veggie net carbs in more easily.

[atkinsgal08]

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>>not net for the veggies.>>

We count NET, as you know.

So telling us your gross vegetable carbs doesn't help us or you.

[2big4mysize]

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In OWL, we (should) continue to derive the majority of our net carbs from low carb vegetables. If you ate 18 total carbs worth of vegetables and your current net carbohydrate level is 35, then you are still undereating vegetables.

Many of us find that the "cleaner" our menu is -- more net carbs from vegetables, less from diary, nuts, berries, alcohol, legumes -- the better we lose.

Why eat celery then?

Trying new vegetable recipes (some that use vegetables that you actually like!) could help you get your veggie net carbs in more easily.

could you cite the passages in DANDR you are getting this info from cause in my DANDR Dr Atkins clearly says we add 5 gram increments to the induction salad and one cup veggies of induction. CHapter 14 page 170 of the paperback. he even says in that same paragraph that each level is one of those 5 gram increments so if we are adding 5 grams for each "level" to the induction salad and one cup veggies that makes it inductions 3 cus plus the 5 net grams of OWL rung one and rung 8 as the low carb vegies making it 30 max if all the induction grams came from the veggies which we know they didn't cause he says cheese is one per ounce and 4 ounces are legal. So he never expected us to ate all 20 induction net grams as veggies and that is the sum total of those veggies 30 max grams of carbs. the other levels add 5 net grams for a total of 35 more grams of carbs that are not those low glycemic veggies.

That makes it impossible to eat the majority of our grams from those veggies

[Georgiana]

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could you cite the passages in DANDR you are getting this info [...]

That makes it impossible to eat the majority of our grams from those veggies

Chapter 13:

"Ongoing Weight Loss has a couple of fundamental differences from Induction, which I will explain in Chapter 14, but it is also very similar to Induction in that you will continue to derive the majority of your carbohydrates from vegetables low in carbs."

[JaxMama]

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As much as I eat rabbit food does not seem to be enough. I eat them with almost every meal.