Hello,
I started the Modified Atkins Diet 3 weeks ago. I'm having a tough time with a couple of things. I LOVE cooking and am not a picky eater at all. I thought that would make this easier for me, but instead it is having the opposite effect. There are so many meals I would like to make but I feel like I cannot since I am used to cooking with no recipe. How do you cook when you are on this diet and you are used to just throwing in a little bit of this and a little bit of that? And how do you figure out how many carbs are in a portion if you want to make a vegetable dish that has several veggies, such as a casserole? Are you restricted to only Atkins recipes in those cases, or are there ways I can make things that I have been making for a long time?
Secondly, how do you know if you are truely counting your carbs correctly? I was given a list of a variety of foods and their serving size and carb count by my dietician when I started, but didn't realize until after I left that the list was from 2011. I didn't think that would matter, but as I have been looking up random foods online that weren't on her list, I am finding that different websites vary the amount of carbs that are in a serving size. I want to make sure I am being as accurate as possible, and to me, if one site is saying 3 carbs and another site is saying 5 carbs, that could be a big difference at the end of the day if I end up going over with a few foods. Likewise, if I am counting something as 5 when realy it is 3, I want to know so that I feel free to have more carbs if I am hungry and have a craving.
If you have suggestions for ways to sneak in healthy fats too, that would be great! I hear coconut oil is a healthy one, but am having a tough time sneaking it in since I am used to olive oil and butter.
I started the Modified Atkins Diet 3 weeks ago. I'm having a tough time with a couple of things. I LOVE cooking and am not a picky eater at all. I thought that would make this easier for me, but instead it is having the opposite effect. There are so many meals I would like to make but I feel like I cannot since I am used to cooking with no recipe. How do you cook when you are on this diet and you are used to just throwing in a little bit of this and a little bit of that? And how do you figure out how many carbs are in a portion if you want to make a vegetable dish that has several veggies, such as a casserole? Are you restricted to only Atkins recipes in those cases, or are there ways I can make things that I have been making for a long time?
Secondly, how do you know if you are truely counting your carbs correctly? I was given a list of a variety of foods and their serving size and carb count by my dietician when I started, but didn't realize until after I left that the list was from 2011. I didn't think that would matter, but as I have been looking up random foods online that weren't on her list, I am finding that different websites vary the amount of carbs that are in a serving size. I want to make sure I am being as accurate as possible, and to me, if one site is saying 3 carbs and another site is saying 5 carbs, that could be a big difference at the end of the day if I end up going over with a few foods. Likewise, if I am counting something as 5 when realy it is 3, I want to know so that I feel free to have more carbs if I am hungry and have a craving.
If you have suggestions for ways to sneak in healthy fats too, that would be great! I hear coconut oil is a healthy one, but am having a tough time sneaking it in since I am used to olive oil and butter.
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