I just came up with this yesterday and it is my favorite recipe so far, because it's sweet, chocolate, takes only about a minute to make and is only 12 carbs.
Ingredients
1/2 c No Fat Greek Yogurt
1 tsp Hershey's Cocoa
2 packets Truvia
Instructions
Mix all of the ingredients, serve, eat!
Nutritional Information
12 g Carbohydrates
0 g Fat
1 g Fiber
11 g Net Carbs
124 Calories
8 mg Cholesterol
10 g Protein
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Sunday, April 20, 2014
Friday, April 4, 2014
Cookies and Brownies on a 100g a Day Diet
Last month, just two days after I started my diet, I was scheduled to compete in a charity, holdem poker tournament. Included in the package was an Italian buffet, which would blow my diet before I even had a chance to start.
Having resolved to stick to it, I decided I would partake of only low carb food. Hoping I would last a while at the poker table, I figured that would not be enough to hold me, so I stopped at a local 7-11 to pick up something healthy, filling, and low enough in carbs to fit my diet.
I headed right to the health-bar section and began checking labels. Over the years, I have tried most of the bars on the shelf. While none of them were terrible, none of them had me wanting to come back for more. Tonight, I settled on a Lenny & Larry's Peanut Butter Muscle Brownie, a brand I had never tried.
The packaging had an appealing Ben & Jerry's feel. It looked like a brownie, rather than something that had been squeezed out of a processing tube and the nutritional labeling seemed great point for my diet. It weighted in at just under 3 oz. and had only 19g of carbs and it was high in protein, but then I checked the nutritional labeling a second time and realized those figures were for a single serving and each brownie was two servings.
Fortunately, breakfast and lunch were only 50g total and I had 50g for the tournament. Figuring the only item on the buffet that I could have would be salad, I thought the brownie was still within range, even if I ate two servings. As it turned out I was right on both counts.
The salad was tasty, but wasn't going hold me for long. About an hour into the tournament, I broke out the brownie. Hands down, it was the best tasting health food brownie I have ever tasted. Of course it wasn't Duncan Heinz, but it was still pretty damn tasty. The brownie had great texture. It was moist and chewy, but not that stick to your teeth chewy that I've had with some others. There was no artificial taste and if I had a second brownie, I might have fallen off the diet wagon. Fortunately, I didn't have a second brownie, and even if I did, I wouldn't have blown the diet, because about a half an hour later my chips were gone.
I didn't win the tournament, but I was a winner none-the-less with my discovery of Lenny and Larry's line of products.
Over the next few weeks, I'm going to be reviewing more of their line. So if you have a sweet tooth like me, you might want to check back regularly.
Having resolved to stick to it, I decided I would partake of only low carb food. Hoping I would last a while at the poker table, I figured that would not be enough to hold me, so I stopped at a local 7-11 to pick up something healthy, filling, and low enough in carbs to fit my diet.
The packaging had an appealing Ben & Jerry's feel. It looked like a brownie, rather than something that had been squeezed out of a processing tube and the nutritional labeling seemed great point for my diet. It weighted in at just under 3 oz. and had only 19g of carbs and it was high in protein, but then I checked the nutritional labeling a second time and realized those figures were for a single serving and each brownie was two servings.
Fortunately, breakfast and lunch were only 50g total and I had 50g for the tournament. Figuring the only item on the buffet that I could have would be salad, I thought the brownie was still within range, even if I ate two servings. As it turned out I was right on both counts. The salad was tasty, but wasn't going hold me for long. About an hour into the tournament, I broke out the brownie. Hands down, it was the best tasting health food brownie I have ever tasted. Of course it wasn't Duncan Heinz, but it was still pretty damn tasty. The brownie had great texture. It was moist and chewy, but not that stick to your teeth chewy that I've had with some others. There was no artificial taste and if I had a second brownie, I might have fallen off the diet wagon. Fortunately, I didn't have a second brownie, and even if I did, I wouldn't have blown the diet, because about a half an hour later my chips were gone.
I didn't win the tournament, but I was a winner none-the-less with my discovery of Lenny and Larry's line of products.
Over the next few weeks, I'm going to be reviewing more of their line. So if you have a sweet tooth like me, you might want to check back regularly.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Start Your Engine with a Low Carb Diet
A little more than a week ago, my wife and I decided to begin dieting
again. It was supposed to start last month, but she was part of a taste
test at Lindt Chocolate, and was given a five pound thank-you bag of
chocolates. That both delayed the diets and made them all the more
important.
She has a class reunion in August and I could stand to lose a few inches around the middle. By starting now, we can do it the right way. However, we have chosen slightly different paths. She is focusing on watching calories and I am focusing on watching carbohydrates.
Normally, I would have chosen the same path as Jill, but just by chance, almost on the same day we started our diets, my friend Claire started a blog called The Carbometer, which talks of her success with a low carb diet.
After reading it, it made perfect sense to me, but it's not my intention to duplicate Claire's efforts, either in dieting or in blogging, because not only am I taking a different path than Jill, I'm taking a different path than Claire.
Claire is really counting carbs and is dead serious about losing weight while eating healthy. She is limiting herself to 30-50 grams of carbs a day with amazing results. My needs are different. You see, I'm a junk food junkie. I know my diet is literally killing me. I know if I do nothing by cut out junk food like McDonald's, Tastykakes and Coke, I will lose weight, but more importantly, I'll feel better and live longer. Of course an early death is both a reason and motivation, but that's too distant and abstract. It has never been enough for me to change my ways, but watching and listening to Jill, Claire, and to some extent, my conscience and common sense offer more immediate and tangible motivation. Being accountable and tracking what goes into my body is the important. Jill's determination and Claire's blog are catalyst for my efforts.
I plan on eating healthier by cutting the junk and tracking what I eat. I've set a goal of keeping carbs at 100 grams a day, something I find surprisingly easy to do. I track most of the nutritional value of the foods I eat with an eye on the carbs. By doing so, without even looking, I've reduced my caloric intake by 50-60% and am averaging about 1250 calories a day.
If you are serious about losing weight, you'll definitely want to follow Claire's blog. If you are like me, and primarily interested in eating healthier, without depriving yourself while shedding a few pounds, you'll want to check us both out.
I'll be talking more about how I'm changing my habits and supplying some recipes that are healthy, but like the chocolate shake, stuffed cabbage in my next two blogs, probably a little to high in carbs to make it onto Claire's radar. If healthier eating through reduced carbohydrate intake and portion control is your goal, I hope check back soon.
She has a class reunion in August and I could stand to lose a few inches around the middle. By starting now, we can do it the right way. However, we have chosen slightly different paths. She is focusing on watching calories and I am focusing on watching carbohydrates.
Normally, I would have chosen the same path as Jill, but just by chance, almost on the same day we started our diets, my friend Claire started a blog called The Carbometer, which talks of her success with a low carb diet.
After reading it, it made perfect sense to me, but it's not my intention to duplicate Claire's efforts, either in dieting or in blogging, because not only am I taking a different path than Jill, I'm taking a different path than Claire.
Claire is really counting carbs and is dead serious about losing weight while eating healthy. She is limiting herself to 30-50 grams of carbs a day with amazing results. My needs are different. You see, I'm a junk food junkie. I know my diet is literally killing me. I know if I do nothing by cut out junk food like McDonald's, Tastykakes and Coke, I will lose weight, but more importantly, I'll feel better and live longer. Of course an early death is both a reason and motivation, but that's too distant and abstract. It has never been enough for me to change my ways, but watching and listening to Jill, Claire, and to some extent, my conscience and common sense offer more immediate and tangible motivation. Being accountable and tracking what goes into my body is the important. Jill's determination and Claire's blog are catalyst for my efforts.
I plan on eating healthier by cutting the junk and tracking what I eat. I've set a goal of keeping carbs at 100 grams a day, something I find surprisingly easy to do. I track most of the nutritional value of the foods I eat with an eye on the carbs. By doing so, without even looking, I've reduced my caloric intake by 50-60% and am averaging about 1250 calories a day.
If you are serious about losing weight, you'll definitely want to follow Claire's blog. If you are like me, and primarily interested in eating healthier, without depriving yourself while shedding a few pounds, you'll want to check us both out.
I'll be talking more about how I'm changing my habits and supplying some recipes that are healthy, but like the chocolate shake, stuffed cabbage in my next two blogs, probably a little to high in carbs to make it onto Claire's radar. If healthier eating through reduced carbohydrate intake and portion control is your goal, I hope check back soon.
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