Hi everyone, well I’m back!
Having lost just over a stone just before Easter I have spectacularly fallen off the wagon and have become even heavier and even more addicted to carbs. I feel and look a mess and it’s time to start afresh.
I have the book and really love the suggested 8 week food plan BUT preparing such different meals daily is just not sustainable for me. I really need a menu plan of easy, normal meals…I don’t suppose any of you guys have managed to keep a food diary that you would be willing to share?
Many thanks Kitty😊

Hi Kitty
I am cooking a lot more from scratch, but haven’t used recipes that call for lots of ingredients I don’t have and not likely to use again.
I also hate having a menu plan where I know what I’ll be eating a week ahead.
I have bought a spiraliser, which I love for courgetti and salad stuff – carrot, cucumber.
My general principals are splitting calories and carbs reasonably evenly through the day – I’m finding that if breakfast is a lot less than 200cals, I get hungry, or need an early lunch.
At least one meal will be lots of low carb veg (cooked or salad) with fairly plain fish or meat – although I often have one or two veggie days across the week (protein of egg, cheese or hummus)
Lots of eggs – breakfast, and frittata (one egg bulked out with spiralised veg)
Full fat cottage cheese is great – with spiralised courgette, if you have it with a salad you don’t need a dressing

I found some lovely pictorial references to low/high carb fruit and veg content – so nice I’ve put colour prints in the kitchen
http://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/vegetables http://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/fruit

Good luck

Hi Kitty, welcome back! There is a thread on ‘what have you eaten today’ https://thebloodsugardiet.com/forums/topic/what-have-you-eaten-today/page/11/ which has people daily menus on it – that might help you.
For a couple of weeks I would stick to a limited number of foods just to get started and keep it simple. I had the same breakfast (full fat yogurt, berries and seeds)l lunch was soup – I made a pot 3 days running and eat one, freeze 3 so I would rotate round the three till I needed to fill up the freezer again. I had a salad with that and dinner varied most – but I stuck to things that I could easily make and I was not having to go out getting new foods for recipes etc. That worked for me – hope it helps.

Thanks frog and orchid
Yes I’ve just looked at the thread you suggested orchid, that should help.
What I really need is to book into a health farm for 8 weeks and let them feed Me!
Failing a win on the lottery I guess I’d better start planning for the week😂😂😂

Kitty, wouldn’t it be nice? Or a chef for 8 weeks! I am way too lazy for all of these recipes. I modify the family meals. I have slightly less meat, no carbs and lots of veggies for dinner. I make a couple of leftover type meals on weekends, either eggs muffins or eggplant parmiagana types of things for lunches and berries/yoghurt for lunch.

Little planning and usually around the 800. Good luck.

I’m actually quite enjoying being more involved in preparing the food that I’m having – preparing my food at home instead of reaching for convenience food is giving me more understanding of what I’m eating, and informs choices when I’m eating out.