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I got the message that I should introduce myself so I thought I would say hello here, tell you about myself, and ask some questions before I begin. I've just finished reading Atkins New Diet Revolution and want to give it a try. My husband does not need to lose weight but I have probably 30 lbs to lose to get down to my best weight and 20 lbs to get down to a healthy weight. He is willing to try to eat around the diet but we've talked about the book's restrictions during the first two weeks and it requires revamping our entire diets.
For example, we have a costco membership and we also go to the grocery store 2-3x/month for smaller trips. We usually buy large bags of rice, potatoes and pasta and incorporate those into our meals each week. In the past if we run low on rice we don't seem to feel full with meat and vegetables. We're a little nervous about "feeling hungry" if we eat our chicken without rice or our sausage without spaghetti. The fruits and vegetables we normally buy that aren't allowed are grapes, apples, plums, pears, carrots, peas and corn. Those are things we would typically use in the meals above. Our usual meal plan looks kind of naked when I take out the high carb stuff.
For example,
breakfast-
cheese and spinach omelette, buttered toast, apple slices, p. butter
or
whole wheat pancakes/waffles, syrup, berries, scrambled eggs
lunch-
tuna fish or deli meat on whole wheat bread with cheese, lettuce, and mayo/horseradish/mustard, cheez its, grapes
or
homemade empanada (some sort of meat and veggies baked into a bread of some sort), carrot sticks with ranch dressing, pistachios
dinner-
stirfry of some sort (rice or potatoes with chicken/beef/pork and corn/carrots/peas) that can be made ahead of time and quickly reheated
or
spaghetti (or other pasta) with sausage, tomatoes (eventually?), garlic, onions, sometimes a vodka sauce or alfredo (a lot less cheese can be used in induction that this usually requires me to use)
snacks-
ice cream, popcorn, soda, caffeinated coffee, crescent rolls, brownies
(yeh, nothing salvageable in there I think)
We're supposed to go shopping this week and have almost finished eating (or sharing with coworkers) all the naughty stuff in the house. We just don't know what to buy on our next trip. I know I can get avocadoes, romaine, and broccoli at Costco and I thought those may make nice substitutions for some of the usual stuff. I just feel like I could easily overdose on cheese trying to flavor my food these first few weeks and that I may get bored eating the same foods over and over. Again, we're also worried about being too hungry without our usual supplements of toast/bread, rice, pasta and potatoes which are very filling.
My thoughts right now are:
bf- eggs, cheese slices, and bacon or cubed steaks
lunch- tuna, mayo, avocado slices (just 1/2), small romaine salad w a 0 carb blue cheese dressing
dinner- broccoli, meat chunks, and spices of some sort or soy sauce? in lieu of our usual sauces (too high carb) for stirfry
snacks- ???
Thanks for any ideas before we go shopping... I'm going to mostly lurk around the boards for ideas and questions in the next month or so as we attempt this. Lunches need to be packed like a toddler will consume them (small things that can be eaten on the run in case we can't sit down and enjoy a full meal break at work which sometimes happens when its busy and we can only go out for 5 minutes at a time and quickly eat).
Jenny
For example, we have a costco membership and we also go to the grocery store 2-3x/month for smaller trips. We usually buy large bags of rice, potatoes and pasta and incorporate those into our meals each week. In the past if we run low on rice we don't seem to feel full with meat and vegetables. We're a little nervous about "feeling hungry" if we eat our chicken without rice or our sausage without spaghetti. The fruits and vegetables we normally buy that aren't allowed are grapes, apples, plums, pears, carrots, peas and corn. Those are things we would typically use in the meals above. Our usual meal plan looks kind of naked when I take out the high carb stuff.
For example,
breakfast-
cheese and spinach omelette, buttered toast, apple slices, p. butter
or
whole wheat pancakes/waffles, syrup, berries, scrambled eggs
lunch-
tuna fish or deli meat on whole wheat bread with cheese, lettuce, and mayo/horseradish/mustard, cheez its, grapes
or
homemade empanada (some sort of meat and veggies baked into a bread of some sort), carrot sticks with ranch dressing, pistachios
dinner-
stirfry of some sort (rice or potatoes with chicken/beef/pork and corn/carrots/peas) that can be made ahead of time and quickly reheated
or
spaghetti (or other pasta) with sausage, tomatoes (eventually?), garlic, onions, sometimes a vodka sauce or alfredo (a lot less cheese can be used in induction that this usually requires me to use)
snacks-
ice cream, popcorn, soda, caffeinated coffee, crescent rolls, brownies
(yeh, nothing salvageable in there I think)
We're supposed to go shopping this week and have almost finished eating (or sharing with coworkers) all the naughty stuff in the house. We just don't know what to buy on our next trip. I know I can get avocadoes, romaine, and broccoli at Costco and I thought those may make nice substitutions for some of the usual stuff. I just feel like I could easily overdose on cheese trying to flavor my food these first few weeks and that I may get bored eating the same foods over and over. Again, we're also worried about being too hungry without our usual supplements of toast/bread, rice, pasta and potatoes which are very filling.
My thoughts right now are:
bf- eggs, cheese slices, and bacon or cubed steaks
lunch- tuna, mayo, avocado slices (just 1/2), small romaine salad w a 0 carb blue cheese dressing
dinner- broccoli, meat chunks, and spices of some sort or soy sauce? in lieu of our usual sauces (too high carb) for stirfry
snacks- ???
Thanks for any ideas before we go shopping... I'm going to mostly lurk around the boards for ideas and questions in the next month or so as we attempt this. Lunches need to be packed like a toddler will consume them (small things that can be eaten on the run in case we can't sit down and enjoy a full meal break at work which sometimes happens when its busy and we can only go out for 5 minutes at a time and quickly eat).
Jenny
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