> Ok hit my personal goal of 128 lbs. Now I need to maintain it. I am
> going to give myself a 5lbs range. So here is my problem, I need to
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> enjoyable. Any ideas???? Don't say hardboiled eggs, I am up to my
> ears with egg whites.

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boy what a bunch of responses! Rodger why the question, I eat a
teaspoon of low carb peanut butter!!! As for the egg yolks , I hate
the way the taste, but afraid of fat umm??? Well to be honest I did a
low carb, lower fat version of this and it worked for me so maybe but
not 100%. I used reg. mayo, olive oil, but ate lower fat meats.
Thanks for the other ideas. Yeah this nuts can really get you in
trouble. So I needed other ideas.
I have been eating veggies all the time, so thats not an issue, I am
not a fruit eater at all. So maybe the way to add a little more is by
going the route of a bigger portion of what I am doing. We will see.
You know losing this was easy its now the hard part. Have not had
any and I mean any bread, pasta, starch, sugar crap and cant really
return. It wont work for me I cant control it and I know this.
I still feel great , tons and tons of energy and a total clear mind. I
wish I would have done this so much sooner.
Roger Zoul - 24 Mar 2006 22:32 GMT
:: boy what a bunch of responses! Rodger why the question, I eat a
:: teaspoon of low carb peanut butter!!!
Eat two....same as a bigger portion of what you're already eating.
As for the egg yolks , I hate
:: the way the taste, but afraid of fat umm??? Well to be honest I did
:: a low carb, lower fat version of this and it worked for me so maybe
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:: I still feel great , tons and tons of energy and a total clear mind.
:: I wish I would have done this so much sooner.
Doug Freyburger - 24 Mar 2006 22:49 GMT
> boy what a bunch of responses! Rodger why the question, I eat a
> teaspoon of low carb peanut butter!!!
Since it works for you it appears it was his suggestoin.
> Yeah this nuts can really get you in
> trouble. So I needed other ideas.
Everyone's different. For my certain types of nuts work fine
others I eat and eat until they are gone. I have a box of
brazil nuts that i've been eating several every few days and
they last and last. If I tried that with peanuts of cashews
they would dissappear first day. So what you need to eat
is what works for you and that means experiment.
> I have been eating veggies all the time, so thats not an issue, I am
> not a fruit eater at all.
Fruits and veggies are mostly interchangable except for
carb count so not an issue. I'm about the same. I like
nearly all veggies, like nearly all fruits, but fruits don't
hold my interest. I don't miss them if I don't have them
but if I skip veggies I want more soon.
> So maybe the way to add a little more is by
> going the route of a bigger portion of what I am doing. We will see.
That and some amount of experimentation.
> You know losing this was easy its now the hard part.
All too true.
> Have not had
> any and I mean any bread, pasta, starch, sugar crap and cant really
> return. It wont work for me I cant control it and I know this.
Do you know by experiment or is it just a fear? Unless you have
tried you don't actually know. In my case I learned the hard why
that I binge on wheat, but learning that was victory not a defeat.
I then knew what to avoid to make eating other stuff okay. Over
time I learned a few other foods to avoid and a few that I do fine
with.
But once you learn what you can and can't eat, then can tends
to win against should. I like being conservative as a starting
point but I also like following a process that leads me away from
that conservative starting point.
Eventually it becomes a judgement call: Is your current menu too
restrictive, have you expanded until your current menu is too free?
I've made both mistakes over the years but I try to learn from the
experiences to make them victories not defeats.
> I still feel great , tons and tons of energy and a total clear mind. I
> wish I would have done this so much sooner.
W.Staten.Evans@gmail.com - 28 Mar 2006 15:01 GMT
I think adding low fat dairy and high fibre fruit is the way to add the
extra calories that you need. I think that a snack of skim milk and an
apple or a bowl of fat free cottage cheese would be a good way to go.
If you are the kind of person that needs to keep up the spartan style
of eating that you have become used to then add olive oil or coconut
oil to your diet to hit your calorie goal.
Congrats on hitting your goal weight. I have a ways to go but I hope to
have a similar problem one day.
Bill
www.billgetsfit.blogspot.com
Marengo - 25 Mar 2006 07:20 GMT
|boy what a bunch of responses! Rodger why the question, I eat a
|teaspoon of low carb peanut butter!!! As for the egg yolks , I hate
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|I still feel great , tons and tons of energy and a total clear mind. I
|wish I would have done this so much sooner.
What low-carb plans re you following? It might answer many of your
questions if you picked up a copy of Atkins' DANDR. It has a section
devoted to weight maintenance and you may find lots of helpful
suggestions.

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Doug Freyburger - 27 Mar 2006 16:48 GMT
> | As for the egg yolks , I hate
> | the way the taste, but afraid of fat umm??? Well to be honest I did a
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> devoted to weight maintenance and you may find lots of helpful
> suggestions.
For the Maintenance phase of Atkins there's the book "Atkins for
Life". A whole book about one of the four phases has the chance
to cover that phase better than a chapter.
As to gradually tapering off the fat, I do feel that the process
manages to do that somewhat. After Induction I feel that the Atkins
process fits one of the meanings of isocaloric - same calories. Not
in the sense of 33/33/33 of calories of carb/fat/protein being equal,
but in the sense of calories being roughly equal week after week.
At you move up in carb counts the carbs that are added are the
ones that are more filling so there's a mathcing taper off in fat or
protein.
How far down the fat level goes, that would depend on the person.
When I've done the arithmatic it may be lower in fat than Induction
but it doesn't approach focusing on lean. Let's take my approximate
numbers. My ideal weight is 170-180 so my target calories is 1800.
My CCLL is 50 to lose; my CCLM to maintain is 100. That's 400
calories from carb during maintenance, leaving 1400 calories. My
protein minimum according to Protein Power is 77 grams but I tend
to hover a bit over 100. That's 400 calories from protein in any
phase, leaving 1000 calories from fat. At 9 calories per gram,
that's 110 grams of fat per day. Some would call that high fat some
not, but no one is going to call that low fat. It's also easier to
trade more protein for less fat and end up just in the two digists of
fat grams.