What was your eating routine before you embarked on the BSD? Did you eat three meals a day, cook your own food, eat out a lot or subsist on takeout? Are there other people in your household whose meals you provide? I ask because I think it would be helpful for you to cleave as close to your old routine as possible, only changing what needs to be changed. Writing up new menus is fun but it also verges on fantasy. The actual acts of buying, prepping and cooking food can feel burdensome, like a lot more work than you feel capable of when you’re dealing with daily life pressures on top of your real concern for your health.
If that’s the case, then we need to streamline the process. Create a short list of ingredients easily bought, prepared and made so you have BSD-friendly food good to go in the same way you did before with carby food. Just to give you an example, when I started I made a batch of chicken salad (poached chicken breast, mayo, lemon juice, herbs, green onion) and bought a pound of turkey pastrami, some thin-sliced Swiss cheese and a head of butter/Bibb lettuce. Every lunch that week was either the chicken salad or some Dijon mustard slapped on a couple of leaves of lettuce to which I added 2 oz of turkey and 1 oz of Swiss. It took no time at all and no elaborate thought process. Just two seconds to weigh things then plop it on a plate. Mushroom omelette for dinner or chicken sausage with a side of steamed spinach and that’s a day’s work done.
Add these days together and they turn into a habit very quickly because it’s EASY. Easier than before, even. The trick is finding your automation system. I got more experimental as I learned what kinds of foods were lowest in carbs and tried things I used to dislike only to find my palate had changed, but that’s not how I started. In the beginning I stuck with tried and true while I got my bearings and figured out my new food-making assembly line.