I appreciate your advice & knowledge, i'm strong willed enough to knock the fizzy drinks on the head straight away, thankfully i love drinking water. I was just worried about having the odd takeaway or when eating out but i'll just have to explore more options. As a cereal eater what would you suggest for Breakfasts i know most cereals are full of sugar & carbs etc. I'm in a rush in a morning. I need to study the food section i think for some inspiration. Thanks again.
I too love a good weekend Brunch of bacon, eggs, etc - and we try to vary things around, so yesterday, we did a veggie version with a greek frying cheese (not halloumi), mushrooms, eggs, tomatoes. We often have eggs and avocado, today we had smoked haddock, spinach and a poached egg with hollandaise sauce for a change. You'll find if you're testing, and don't want to lose weight, you'll need to replace the carbs not just with protein, but with fat, or you'll just convert the protein into blood sugar like it's a carb. (Remember of course you only need about half the amount of fat for the same calories)
In the week though, when we don't have time, it's generally full-fat Greek yoghurt with combinations of blueberries, raspberries, walnuts, milled linseed, chia seeds, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds. You can buy all these quite cheaply at Lidl or Aldi, and it's as quick as cereal.
Takeaways - I have these quite often. Chinese is not bad, without rice or noodles - depends on your chinese and what you have, but egg foo yung is OK for me, and chop suey as it's mostly beansprouts. Indian curries often have quite a few carbs from sugar, but you can always ask. I've found a caribbean takeaway near me which does a brilliant goat curry and coconut rice which I can have a bit of too. I can have 2 pieces of KFC without problems too, and I get a kebab without the naan - just salad and meat in a tray. I've tried to eat battered fish and leave the batter, but that's just tragic.
I work away a lot and have got a regular set of places I can get low-carb lunches from: Pret is very good, they do some excellent salads and they list the nutritional values and they even have a chocolate mousse with, I think 26g of carb. Subway is good too, you can get any sub as a salad bowl, which is far more satisfying anyway, especially when you can load it up with a fat-filled sauce. I do eat some (to my colleagues) weird lunches- scotch egg and taramasalata - two tins of sardines, a whole mozarella and a bag of spinach.
