Slow Carb Diet Update Down 12 pounds plus the 30 Lost a Year Ago, I'm Smiling. This is a diet I can live with!

I eat a lot of eggs and a lot of salads. But I make them the way I like them!

I am indeed smiling.  I have lost another 12 pounds total since resuming Tim Farris' the "SLOW CARB DIET" a few weeks ago.  Last year I lost a little over 30 pounds and gained only a pound or so back.  That is a 42 pound current total.  Indeed I am smiling.  Ultimately knee surgery is my motivation.  It stands to reason the less I weigh the easier it will be in the long run.

I love fresh tomatoes!

I credit not gaining back even when I went off the diet with NEVER DRINKING ANY CALORIES.  This is not all that hard for me.  I just drink and enjoy filtered ice water.  The only time I drink any calories is if we are out and I am more afraid of drinking the water than I am of drinking the calories.  Then I order a plain old coke or Pepsi, NOT DIET.  I am WAY more afraid of the chemicals than I am of the sugar! I stay away from all of the chemicals and prepares process foods.  I pretty much fix everything from scratch myself.

Lots and lots of different soups.  This is a steaming hot cup of Asian Wellness Soup.

The rest of the time my regime is simple:

Drink no calories
                                                                
No fruit.
                                                                
Nothing white except cauliflower.
                                                                
Go off the diet from Sat. night to Sun. night and eat as much of anything as I want. (Including fruit and everything else I want or am craving.)

The official diet has one more rule which I do not follow and that is to eat the same thing repeatedly which I cannot do.

My standard breakfast is eggs and tomatoes in the summer.  I really like to make up a batch of egg salad (Yes, I put in a little mayonnaise.) so I don't have to cook every morning and I like egg salad!

Omelet of eggs, zucchini, asparagus, and spring onions.

When I don't have nice tomatoes I make an omelet with veggies like shitike mushrooms, green onions, asparagus or other fresh vegetables.
                                             

I fix things the way I like them, like fried cod in cornmeal.

Usually lunch is meat or soup left from the prior evenings supper.  Supper is a big salad or a couple of cooked vegetables with meat, fish, or poultry.

Fresh spinach is good!

If I get a craving for salty I have a handful of salted nuts.  If I get to craving something sweet I have a little dark chocolate and that is it.  I have no problem sticking with it because of the weekend breaks when I can fix what I have a yin for.  Last week it was pineapple upside down cake which Brian is finishing off and I don't mind a bit!

So that is my story and I am so happy to have found this.  My thanks to Tim Ferris and the SLOW CARB DIET.  It works for me even though I have modified it and made it my own.  The trade off is I loose slower than he ascribes to but I can stay with it indefinitely.