Are you still just trusting what you read?

This is why i listen to my body. Low carb works for me, what is working for YOU?

Sigining off for now
Cuppypowers
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Low carb bread.... actually 0 carb

Did i tell you that i cook? Did i tell you that i am addicted to bread?



Hello my curious readers. I have actually been out of the gym now for a full week and it looks like that is going to be extended for an extra week due to my back injury. Yes. I pull my lower lats last week doing weight assisted pull ups....

Anyway. I am writing today to share with you my latest creation! I am not as luck as many of you who lives in America where the food offerings seems to be out of a story book!!! aka the low carb products! We here in HK such thing does not exist. Also diabetic is not a big illness over here; thus our shops do not offer many low GI, low carb processed/ prepackage food.

On my quest of low carb diet, i often search high and low on the Internet for Low carb bread recipes that is good enough as a replacement for the real thing. Often i am disappointed with the out come as it lacks the correct texture. So i would use the recipe as a base and fine tune it....

AND i finally cracked it. look at the photo! It even looks like bread!!!! :)

I am not posting the recipe here because you can find different version of it all over the Internet, and you might have a pretty good one already!

If that is not the case however, do drop a line in the comments area I am more than happy to share!

Signing off for now.

Cuppypowers

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Low Carb Bodybuilding Recepies... even Muffins

It is true. you read it right. They do exist!

I am not sure if you have noticed that I follow a low carb diet. I have been taking it more seriously for the pass 3 months or so and it has helped me a lot on my joinery to becoming more lean. I am always digging on the Internet for new things to read. I want to introduce to you “My little gems” (see below in the red box)

I will be regularly updating My Little Gem list to share with you what I have found on the web! This week, I have added Lean Body Lifestyle.Michael (might not look like a good cook… sorry Michael, but it has to be said!) but he has a tone of low carb bodybuilding recipes and they looks really really good!!!!! Enjoy and do link me back if you do end up making something from Michael’s

 site! Would love to read a review or two!

Signing off for now
Cuppypowers
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Quiche with Summer Squash

Sean Can't Cook: Crustless Quiche with Summer Squash

This one is awsome. Protein mins the Carbs!!!!

Enjoy
Signing off for now.
Cuppypower
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Addiction - fad diets

Hiya.

I am one of thoese girls who would try "diets". You know the latest most talked about thing, a very good example the Atkins.

But I would never do a fad diet without doing the reading. I am actually dyslexic and has great difficulty in reading. When I decided I want to do the Atkins diet, I’ve put the effort in and read the book.

Did it work? Yes it did for me. Did i find it easy? HELL NO!!!!!!

I sometimes ask myself “did you really need to go on diet? You mean you don’t know why you are fat?” and my answer is: NO. I know why I am fat

My friends would occasionally ask me about my experience with the Atkins diet and my honest answer would be, yes it worked for me, but I recommend that you first read the book, understand the science that goes behind it. It worked for me, but that does not mean it would work for you.

From my years of “dieting”  i have come to the conclusion that there is a certain food group which I am addicted to which is making me fat. Unfortunately, when it comes to eating items from this food group, there is no stopping or self control. I am sure you guessed it right, I was addicted to carbs. Especially refined manmade carbs. I was hooked on bread, cakes and biscuits. I will only stop when there is no more to eat.

Since I began my work out in Nov, I virtually cut out 95% manmade carbs out of my diet.

I hear you ask:

Was it easy?  NO, Hell no.

Do you miss it? YES, I DO. I miss the texture, the variety, and taste, everything about it.

If you have reached your target weight and is at a point where carbs are allowed in your diet, would you have it?

My answer is, yes and no. I have not cut out all carbs out of my diet. I am still eating my vegetable and fruits. I am still eating my potatoes. I do occasionally have the odd desert, but to reintroduce bread, cakes as a regularly item in my everyday food list? I will think twice, three times about it!!!! I LOVE the freedom that I now have when it comes to refined cards. I do miss it, but love love love the feeling that  i am dependent on it, i no longer think about it when i pass a coffee shop or a bakery!!!

I encourage you to look at your diet and the fad diets that you might have been on. Figure out what worked from each fad diet and what didn’t.Learn from the since that goes behind each fad diet; they will allow you to eventually come out with your very own version.

Signing off for now.

Cuppypowers xxx