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Old 07-11-2011, 09:17 PM   #33 (permalink)
Lindy
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Originally Posted by snowy View Post
I've decided to give this a try. Obviously, I live in a household with two other vegetarians, so my meat sources consist of tunafish, canned chicken, and lunchmeat. I'm taking a multivitamin, and keeping track of my diet in a computer program I use to make sure nothing is totally out of whack. I'm going to attempt to keep the fat I do eat healthy (i.e. lunch was low-fat turkey wrapped around slices of avocado). The plan is to eat a lot of eggs, egg salad, tuna salad, chicken salad, tofu, and leafy greens (something I have a lot of right now). I also have a small grill I can grill on outdoors if I get bored of eating the above.

The reason why: I've put a lot of weight on in the last couple months, and it needs to go. Like, yesterday. Something this strict is going to be a good motivator for me.
Good luck, snowy. Don't be afraid of eating fat. Have mayo with your canned tuna. I make great canned salmon salad with mayo, onion, celery and pepper. People who know low carbing will tell you NOT to try and do low carb and low fat at the same time. You should listen to advice from folks who are knowledgeable and actually do a low carb regime. I've done low carb for over five years. The paradigm is necessarily different, so don't be a lipophobe. You need fat to balance the protein. Take potassium and magnesium in addition to your multivitamin. Multis don't have enough of those. Avoid sugar in all its many forms along with wheat flour, rice, potatoes, and pasta like the plague. And the adjective "whole" does not make grain into your friend. That will be hard for you. I eat all the greens and salad veggies that I want, along with a fair amount of berries and melons. Check out one of the books that I mention in Post #9 above. The Gary Taubes book is more science, Dana Carpender's is more of a "life coach" approach. Or anything by Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades. Sorry to go all "evangelical" on you. PM me if you care to.

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Originally Posted by Plan9 View Post
It's excellent.
Well, I wouldn't go that far, but it's certainly acceptable.

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Originally Posted by Willravel View Post
That's amazing! I've been eating canned tuna since I was but a lad. To think there's been canned white meat chicken this whole time....
Where I shop, the canned chicken is less than a foot away from the canned tuna. The little tins look almost identical. Turkey too! And pink and red sockeye salmon!

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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru View Post
If it's mechanically separated, it comes from a chicken but isn't necessarily all meat.
Either way, it's all good.
You can also buy canned whole chicken, (in a big can, the size of a tomato juice can) and separate it yourself. It's kind of messy. Or buy rotisserie chicken at the deli counter.

Lindy

Last edited by Lindy; 07-11-2011 at 09:20 PM..
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