PR1's Menu - What do you think?

[DarlingBri]

Re: PR1's Menu - What do you think?

All vegetables have carbs. Most of your carbs should come from vegetables, in fact.

Carrots are not allowed on Induction; they have too much sugar.

To stay within Atkins parameters, you would need to eat 2 cups of peppers (from List A: Salad veggies) and one cup of broccoli (from List B: Other Veggies) each day - no more, no less. Onions are problematic because they are high carb for an induction food, and thus generally people use 1/8th of cup or less for flavour or garnish.

Red Peppers: 5.9g
Broccoli: 3.5
Onions: 12g
Carrots: 7.5g (again, it's not the carbs, it's the sugar.)

[PR1]

Re: PR1's Menu - What do you think?

More great info, it's like having your own little Atkins parrott on your shoulder, chirping away with all the right info.

[PR1]

Re: PR1's Menu - What do you think?

I lied, another question.

Does the carb count change if any of the above are not raw?

[DarlingBri]

Re: PR1's Menu - What do you think?

It depends. If you cook them from raw, the raw counts are fine. If you grill them with olive oil or sautee them with butter, for example, you'd add the carbs except at .0085 carbs per teaspoon, that's a little... crazy. (I do add it to my fit day but I don't take those carbs into account when menu planning.)

You would enjoy using FitDay.com (it's free) once you have your measuring cup The parrot encourages you to do so

[imagood1]

Re: PR1's Menu - What do you think?

What might help all of you is to purchase a set of measuring cups an measuring spoons online and have them shipped to you.

When Dr Atkins set up the eating plan it's too bad he didn't take into consideraton all nations but since he was from the US I'm sure that's why everything is done in cups instead of litres or grams or other measurements.

[DarlingBri]

Re: PR1's Menu - What do you think?

What might help all of you is to purchase a set of measuring cups an measuring spoons online and have them shipped to you.

There are pros and cons to doing the conversions. Yes, it's easy to chuck everything into a cup, but we still need the weight equivalents to shop and for almost all general cooking, as recipes are in metric. Some of us (ahem) also like the precision of being able to weigh food.

Plus, beans come in handy 200g packs, so once you know one cup of beans = 100g, that's perfect for two people. Also, 75g mushrooms = 1 cup, so I just weigh out 150g bags of mushrooms right in the store.

Most people doing Atkins in metric will have a food scale in their kitchen. (This is how my husband knew we were serious about Atkins - I threw out the toaster and replaced it with a metric food scale!)

It took me about a week to become efficient with this, but overall I'd say it's easier to work with the cups converted to grams if you're living in a metric society.

[PR1]

Re: PR1's Menu - What do you think?

I did find a measuring cup which had US and European measurements on it, so that was great.

Started on Sunday and weighed 15st 3, now down to 14st 10. Target is 13stone, so another 24 pounds to go.

Finding it remarkably easy, probably because I like the food I'm eating anyway and of course I've got willpower which is definitely needed.

Not sure how I'm going to "wet the baby's head" when my son arrives into the world in around 11 days, maybe a water on the rocks?