This software is a must have for anyone interested in losing
weight and feeling better by following a low-carb lifestyle! The Atkins Carb
Counter helps you keep track of the foods you eat, even sounding an alarm to let
you known when you have hit your maximum daily grams of net carbs. It also
features the Atkins Lifestyle Guide, which includes tips and information from
the experts at Atkins. You can lose weight and improve your health with the
Atkins Carb Counter!
Low Carb Sites We Love!
Low Carb Luxury - Great recipes, product store, information, attractive site, and very easy to navigate. Also, features "Low Carb Magazine." Lora, the site's owner, lost 165 lbs on low carb. Her success story is truly inspirational -- even more than my own! I highly recommend this site as a great place to begin low carb information hunting.
Low Carb Cafe - This site appears amatuerish (sorry guys) but has wonderful features, decent recipes and an active online community. Worth taking a look.
The Insulin-Resistance Diet: How to Turn Off Your Body's Fat- Making Machine
recommends a well-researched health program based on the relationship between
insulin and fat. While low-fat foods are a part of the plan, Cheryle R. Hart and
Mary Kay Grossman (doctors at the Women's Workshop, a medical... Read more
Roberta Ruggio Do's and Don'ts of Hypoglycemia: Ruggiero, founder of the Hypoglycemia Research Foundation, has written this book
for people who are in the early stages of hypoglycemia and need
introductory-level information. Ruggiero, who has hypoglycemia herself, shares
her own travails of being misdiagnosed several times. She stresses the
importance of obtaining an accurate diagnosis and receiving proper medical
treatment, explains the necessary diagnostic tests, and describes how to find a
doctor. Appendixes include a bibliography, a list of referral organizations, and
recommended foods and menus. This is a very reasonable, well-researched
presentation of a topic which has often been treated faddishly in other
publications. Recommended for public libraries.
Prediabetes: An estimated 41 million Americans have the condition identified since 2002 as
prediabetes, which, if left unchecked, inevitably will lead to full-blown
diabetes. From one of the world's leading diabetes "patient-experts," this
first-ever practical guide offers fifty essential, informative ideas and simple
steps to help this vast and rapidly growing constituency manage their condition
and thereby reduce their chances of developing full-blown diabetes. Prediabetes
clearly explains what readers can do today, no matter what their age, and
whether or not they have a family history of diabetes, a severe weight problem,
or are members of an ethnic group at high risk-including Hispanics, Native
Americans, African Americans, and Pacific Islanders. Helpful drawings and graphs
are featured throughout in this new, revised edition.
Here you will find tidbits of information
and links to Low Carb diet news. This info has been collected from around the
web or submitted by LowCarbFriends.com users.
Fat Busters or Folly? A
discussion of the many opinions of low carb diets by Susan Aschoff as seen in
the St. Petersburg Times on October 23, 2001.
When Good Carbs Turn Bad A discussion on how carbs are being linked to heart disease as seen on
June 19, 2001 at the WashingtonPost.com.
Dr.
Atkins Sticks to His Diet Foe of
carbohydrates brings his meaty message to Detroit obesity surgeons. As seen in
the Detroit Free Press on May 8, 2001
"The true test of any low carb recipe is whether those who are not sugar-challenged will eat it and ask for seconds!" Lahle Wolfe, Queen of Low Carb since 1996
If smoked salmon and cream cheese omelets, sautéed jumbo shrimp, and
double-patty burgers suit your palate, belly up to the Protein Power
diet: "Not a high protein diet" but "an adequate protein diet." Doctors Michael
R. and Mary Dan Eades make a persuasive case in favor of "the diet we were meant
to eat."
Artichoke-Feta
Cheesecake
3 oz jar marinated
artichoke hearts 24 oz (or three 8 oz packages) cream cheese 1 1/4 cup
feta cheese, crumbled (you can also mix in grated or shredded parmesan cheese) 1/2 tsp dried oregano
1/4 tsp garlic powder or one clove fresh, minced 3 eggs 1/4 cup
green onions, sliced
1. Drain artichokes, reserving 2 tablespoons
marinade. Chop artichokes; set aside. 2. Beat cream cheese in large mixing
bowl until smooth. Add feta, oregano and garlic powder. Beat well. Add eggs,
beat just until blended. Do not over beat. 3. Stir in artichoke hearts,
marinade, and green onion. 4. Bake in a greased 9" pie pan at 325 degrees
for 35-40 minutes (sides should be firm when gently shaken). 5. Cool, cover,
and chill 2-24 hours. 6. When serving you can place sliced olives (calamata
or greek olives are good) on top as a garnish.
Serves 8 Nutrition Info (per serving): Protein: 13g. Total Carbs: 5g, Fiber:
0g, Total Fat: 37g, Sat Fat: 23g, Calories: 397
Greek Chicken
4 Servings *Low Fat* 1 pound boneless chicken 1/2
cup crumbled feta cheese (3 grams of carbs) 1/2 tsp dried oregano (0.5 grams
of carbs) 1 tbsp lemon juice (1.3 grams of carbs) 1 tbsp oil salt and
pepper to taste 1 cup chicken broth 1/2 cup tomato diced (5.8 grams of
carbs) 1 cup fresh spinach (2.4 grams of carbs)
Flatten chicken.
Combine feta, lemon juice and oregano. Spread over chicken. Fold chicken to
enclose filling; secure with a toothpick. Heat oil in a skillet until hot. Add
chicken and cook until golden brown. Mix chicken broth, tomato and spinach. Add
to skillet, heat to boiling. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer 8-10 minutes.
Serve.
Carb Count: Recipe Total 13 grams of carbs, Carbohydrates Per
Serving: 3.2 grams of carbs
IOH Test Kitchen: This recipe is one that I thought was excellent the first time. The second time I tried added a little fresh garlic but felt the original recipe was better. I also used frozen spinach the second time around and it worked fine.
Jack Cheese
Pie Serves 6
4 Eggs 1 C heavy cream 3 C jack cheese
(shredded) 1 C cheddar cheese (shredded) 1 1/4" slice of onion, chopped
15 slices cooked bacon, crumbled 1 T butter
1. Saute onions in
butter until tender. Mix eggs and cream in a bowl. Add onions, cheese, bacon and
mix well. 2. Butter a pyrex dish and pour mixture in. Bake at 325 for 40ish
minutes until done and top is nicely golden. 3. You can lessen the carbs by
skipping the onion but it's not as good!
Nutrition Info (per serving)
Protein: 28g, Total
Carbs: 4g, Fiber: 1g, Total Fat: 76g, Sat Fat: 39g, Calories:
814
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Combine all ingredients except chives,
stirring well. Put in a 1-quart casserole dish and sprinkle with chives. Bake,
covered, for 30 minutes.
1 can (14.5 oz.)cut asparagus 6 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled.
3 eggs 1/3 cup heavy cream and enough water to make 1/2 cup. 1 cup
grated parmesean cheese, divided 1 Tbs. sliced green onions 1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper pinch of ground nutmeg
Arrange the bacon and
asparagus on the botton of pie plate. In a bowl, beat eggs; add cream, 1/2
cup cheese and other ingredients. Pour over asparagus. Sprinkle with remaining
cheese and bake at 400 for 20 minutes.
Total carb count is 24 for the
entire pie. Cut the pie into 4 sections and each piece only has 6 carbs and the
rest of the pieces heat up nicely in the microwave for the rest of the week.
Note: To cut out some more carbs, use less asparagus and it's still very
tasty.
Unstuffed Cabbage
This easy, healthy meal can be made either in the oven or a slow cooker
(crockpot). I use a large covered roasting pan, because the raw cabbage takes up
so much space, but it shrinks down a lot during cooking. The roots of this dish
are Eastern European - there are variations of stuffed cabbage all over that
region. This version has the same flavors and ingredients of stuffed cabbage,
but is much easier! It can be low fat by using very lean ground meat.
1 head cabbage 1 to 1/2 lbs ground meat (beef, turkey, combos, whatever), depending on the
servings you want 1/4 cup minced onion 1 T caraway seeds (optional, but highly recommended) 1 t ground coriander (optional, but if you have any around, put it in) 1 t garlic powder 1 can tomatoes (about 16 oz) (diced is nice, but whole is fine) 3 T lemon juice (can use vinegar, which is actually more traditional) sweetener salt, pepper
PREPARATION:
1. Whack up the cabbage into chunks about 3 inches on
a side. No need to be exact. Separate into pieces, maybe 2-4 leaves thickness
each. Just break them up any old way, really. Put about half in the bottom of
the roasting pan or crock pot.
2. Mix meat, onion, spices, salt and pepper. Form into balls and nestle them amongst the cabbage leaves. Put the rest of the leaves on
top.
3. Put tomatoes and lemon juice or vinegar into blender (or into a
pot and use a stick blender, or use a food processor). Pulse a few times. You
want the tomatoes partially pureed, but still with chunks. You could just fully
puree half the can if you want. You can do this in a pot on the stove and cook
it down a bit if you want (it's probably best to do this, to blend the flavors,
but it's not at all crucial).
4. Add sweetener to the tomato mixture
until you get a nice "sweet and sour" effect. Add a bit of salt and pepper, and
also, if you want, another tablespoon of caraway seeds. Pour the mixture over
the cabbage.
5. Bake in oven for 1 hour. I like to cover it for the first
20 minutes to get the juices going, and then take the cover off. In a crockpot,
cook for 6-8 hours on low or 2-3 on high.
Nutritional Analysis:
Total calories and fat are going to depend upon meat chosen. For four servings
made with 1 and 1/4 lb. meat, each serving has: 15 grams effective carbohydrate
plus 9 grams of fiber and 30 grams of protein
I really enjoy life when I am on Sugar Busters' program. Although I need to stay on Atkins for the long haul, I do take breaks from severe carb restriction and when I do Sugar Busters is one of the other plans I follow. It is probably one of the simplest carbohydrate controlled plans to follow and one that the entire famoily can incorporate into daily life without feeling deprived. One of the pluses about Sugar Busters is that it is not nearly as expensive to follow as some other plans are and it is easy to figure out what to eat when dining out: Simplicity is good in a lifestyle plan!
Note: I was unable to find the a shopping guide to Sugar Busters on Amazon to add to this list but there is one published (I knw because I have one). It is a small pocket guide with a list of Sugar Buster foods and if you can find it buy it. You won't have to worry about making lists to take to the store, just take the little book!
