What is your thought?

[AmandaRae]

I've lost 8 lbs so far, this is my third time on atkins due to pregnancy and my father passing. Here is my menu for yesterday. please someone help me figure out if i have to much of something or little or not enough. It would be a great help!

Breakfast:

2 Scrambled eggs w/salt and pepper
3 sausages (induction safe)

Snack:
1 cup of broccoli with a slice of melted chedder cheese

Lunch:

Ham (4 thin slices of lunch meat, safe)
1 slice of white american cheese

Dinner:
1 cup of romaine w/salt and pepper
4 slices of bacon
4 slices of cucumber
A piece of onion shreaded for taste..
Pepporoni

dressing (atkins friendly 1carb)

My total water intake for the day was 102 oz

[atkinsgal08]

Re: What is your thought?

What are the net carbs of each of your menu items?

What's your daily net carb totals? How many net carbs from Induction vegetables?

More water can't hurt.

[JulieB]

Re: What is your thought?

That looks pretty good to me. Legal pepperoni can be hard to find, but since you've checked all of your other processed meats closely, I'll assume you checked that too

[liv]

Re: What is your thought?

So you are sure about the Atkins safe? You know all the different words for sugar and starches and you have examined the list of ingredients super carefully? You eat a fair bit of processed meat so this worry me (I don't think pepperoni without sugar really exists). If you can avoid fillers there will be a lot of salts. Single ingredient foods are really so much better for you.

Is the Cheese processed? If is one of those milky processed cheeses, it is not induction legal.

I am not sure that you have enough vegetables in your menu. You should not skimp on them.

And lastly that menu would leave me hungry because it looks low on protein (especially after breakfast) And it is not high enough on fat to compensate.

I like that you have so little artificial sugar in it.
Good luck on the programme.


Added
G posted a list of different names for things that are sugars

This is a list of names for sugar:

1. Corn syrup
2. Dextrin
3. Dextrose
4. Evaporated cane juice
5. Fructose
6. Fruit juice concentrate
7. Galactose
8. Glucose
9. Gur
10. High fructose corn syrup
11. Honey
12. Hydrolyzed starch
13. Jaggery
14. Lactose
15. Levulose
16. Malt
17. Malt syrup
18. Maltodextrin
19. Maltose
20. Maple syrup
21. Modified corn starch
22. Molasses
23. Muscovado
24. Panela
25. Panocha
26. Polydextrose
27. Rice syrup
28. Sucrose
29. Sugar (or any stuff containing the word sugar in it, like turbinado/turbinated sugar, brown sugar, beet sugar, grape sugar, sorghum sugar etc.)
30. Treacle

[Desertthorn]

Re: What is your thought?

It looks pretty good, although it's had to tell without some idea of the carb count, fat count and protein count.
BUT how do you feel. Did you ever get hungry or feel deprived? Did you go to bed wanting to eat the kitchen sink?
Do you use fitday? FitDay - Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal Its a great tool.
We can do this my friend

[AmandaRae]

Re: What is your thought?

I've been using fitday. What would you recommand (how much) for more vegetables? I did feel like i wanted more to eat and it didnt hekp that my husband had mashed potatos with his dinner, and i had to prepare it haha

[JulieB]

Re: What is your thought?

You should be eating 3 cups of veggies daily on induction/extended induction. Rung 1 of OWL is just like induction, but with more veggies.

You can eat any veggies on the induction list, as long as you limit the "other" veggies to 1 cup/day. Remember to eat fat and/or protein with your veggies to minimize blood-sugar spiking due to the veggie carbs.

I was used to having a meat/protein a starch and a veggie on my plate...if you find your plate is less satisfying without that 3rd item, try 2 veggies There are a lot of recipes that use cauliflower instead of potatoes or rice.