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Saturday, January 29, 2011
A Day on a Low Carb Diet
Today is Saturday Jan 29, 2011. I got up really early around 5:00 AM because I'd lots of things related to my work in my mind. After using the restroom and I weighed myself. I weighed 189.1 pounds.
Within about 30 minutes I had two glasses of water.
At 7 AM, I had 4 Blackberries followed by 1 large cup of Indian tea made with no sugar and a little bit of 2% milk.
At 9AM, I had a glass of water followed by 2 egg omlette (removed one egg's yolk to limit cholestrol) with several vegetables-onions, spinach,tomato, mushroom, bell pepper.
At 10:30, I had 1 herbal green tea, no sugar, no milk.
At 12:00, I had 1 glass of water and followed by 10 strawberries, 10 blackberries and several blueberries. I felt full after that.
At 1:40PM, I had a plate full of green salad with caesar dressing and 1 bowl of bell pepper , paneer sabji. I think I overate because I felt stuffed.
At 3:00PM, I had another glass of water.
At 5:00PM, I had a cookie (satisfies my craving of sweet) and a cup of tea
I'll update the blog later tonight as well.
-Navneet
Within about 30 minutes I had two glasses of water.
At 7 AM, I had 4 Blackberries followed by 1 large cup of Indian tea made with no sugar and a little bit of 2% milk.
At 9AM, I had a glass of water followed by 2 egg omlette (removed one egg's yolk to limit cholestrol) with several vegetables-onions, spinach,tomato, mushroom, bell pepper.
At 10:30, I had 1 herbal green tea, no sugar, no milk.
At 12:00, I had 1 glass of water and followed by 10 strawberries, 10 blackberries and several blueberries. I felt full after that.
At 1:40PM, I had a plate full of green salad with caesar dressing and 1 bowl of bell pepper , paneer sabji. I think I overate because I felt stuffed.
At 3:00PM, I had another glass of water.
At 5:00PM, I had a cookie (satisfies my craving of sweet) and a cup of tea
I'll update the blog later tonight as well.
-Navneet
Fruits and Vegetables for Low Carb Diet.
So this post is going to be about list of low carb diet options. Here's a spreadsheet which lists carbs in fruits and vegetables.https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0Am1BATsi70uUdHhINDdUMVNrMzRJaENwaFByNW9JMGc&hl=en&single=true&gid=0&output=html
Fruits Carbs(gm) in 50 gm portion
Watermelon 4
StrawBerry 4
Cantaloupe 4
Avocado 4
Honeydew Melon 5
Peach 5
Blackberry 5
Grapefruit 5
Oranges 5
Papaya 5
Nectarine 6
Clementine 6
Plums 6
Raspberry 6
Pineapple 6
Blueberry 7
Apples with Skin 7
Pear 7
Kiwi Fruit 8
Tangerine 8
Cherries 8
Mango 8
Persimmon 9
Banana 12
Grapes 13
Vegetables Carbs(gm) in 50 gm portion:
Arugula 1
Cucumber 1
Brocolli Raab 1
Lettuce 2
Celery 2
White Mushroom 2
Radish 2
Turnip 2
Lettuce (cos or romaine) 2
Asparagus 2
Green, Sweet or bell pepper 2
Okra 2
Cauliflower 3
Yellow sweet or bell pepper 3
Cabbage 3
Red Sweet or Bell Pepper 3
Brocolli 4
Spinach 4
Beets 4
Green snap or string beans 4
Carrot 5
Kale 5
Snow or Sugar snap peas 5
Onions 7
Sweet Corn 10
Ofcourse there might be many more options. Please feel free to add your suggestions. I'll add a couple more sheets of data shortly which lists Indian Vegetarian Dishes with their carb counts.
Next post is going to be a snapshot of my day today.
-Navneet
Fruits Carbs(gm) in 50 gm portion
Watermelon 4
StrawBerry 4
Cantaloupe 4
Avocado 4
Honeydew Melon 5
Peach 5
Blackberry 5
Grapefruit 5
Oranges 5
Papaya 5
Nectarine 6
Clementine 6
Plums 6
Raspberry 6
Pineapple 6
Blueberry 7
Apples with Skin 7
Pear 7
Kiwi Fruit 8
Tangerine 8
Cherries 8
Mango 8
Persimmon 9
Banana 12
Grapes 13
Vegetables Carbs(gm) in 50 gm portion:
Arugula 1
Cucumber 1
Brocolli Raab 1
Lettuce 2
Celery 2
White Mushroom 2
Radish 2
Turnip 2
Lettuce (cos or romaine) 2
Asparagus 2
Green, Sweet or bell pepper 2
Okra 2
Cauliflower 3
Yellow sweet or bell pepper 3
Cabbage 3
Red Sweet or Bell Pepper 3
Brocolli 4
Spinach 4
Beets 4
Green snap or string beans 4
Carrot 5
Kale 5
Snow or Sugar snap peas 5
Onions 7
Sweet Corn 10
Ofcourse there might be many more options. Please feel free to add your suggestions. I'll add a couple more sheets of data shortly which lists Indian Vegetarian Dishes with their carb counts.
Next post is going to be a snapshot of my day today.
-Navneet
Friday, January 28, 2011
What is a Low Carb Diet?
Low Carb Does not mean less food. It does not mean starving. It also does not mean giving up on everything you like. Having said that it is also probably not for everyone.
As I researched some of the well established major Low Carb Diets, I found that its easier for meat eaters to apply Low Carb as compared to Vegetarians, because there are many more options to get your proteins through meat.
However I reason I started writing down this series in my blog was to say that it can work for vegetarians, even indian vegetarians.
Lets get into some details of what I'm doing:
1. Drinking lots of water. Currently I'm drinking atleast 5 glasses of water every day. But my goal is to increase it to at least 8 glasses of water every day by next week or so.
2. Frequent low carb meals. So I'm eating 6 times everyday with the goal to limit total carb intake to less than 50 per day. Note that diets are more restrictive and suggest eating as less as 20 carbs per day. Its very hard to measure the absolute number of carbs every day. So as long as you are in the ball park of less than 50 carbs, I think you are good.
So here's how my day goes:
1. wake up
2. nature's call
3. get on the scale. (believe me, its the best moment of my day, every day :)
4. drink 2 glasses of water
5. wait 2-3 hours.
6. Have low carb breakfast
7. wait 2-3 hours.
8. Have low carb fruits.
9. wait 2-3 hours.
10 Have low carb lunch.
11. wait 2-3 hours
12. Have a low carb afternoon snack.
13. wait 2-3 hours
14. Have a low carb dinner.
Bottom line, don't let yourself starve. That will be worse than even if you had a chocolate brownie. But eat smart. That's it.
Next post is going to be about what exactly I ate today. I'll probably post it tonight. Need to get ready for work.
Later,
-Navneet
As I researched some of the well established major Low Carb Diets, I found that its easier for meat eaters to apply Low Carb as compared to Vegetarians, because there are many more options to get your proteins through meat.
However I reason I started writing down this series in my blog was to say that it can work for vegetarians, even indian vegetarians.
Lets get into some details of what I'm doing:
1. Drinking lots of water. Currently I'm drinking atleast 5 glasses of water every day. But my goal is to increase it to at least 8 glasses of water every day by next week or so.
2. Frequent low carb meals. So I'm eating 6 times everyday with the goal to limit total carb intake to less than 50 per day. Note that diets are more restrictive and suggest eating as less as 20 carbs per day. Its very hard to measure the absolute number of carbs every day. So as long as you are in the ball park of less than 50 carbs, I think you are good.
So here's how my day goes:
1. wake up
2. nature's call
3. get on the scale. (believe me, its the best moment of my day, every day :)
4. drink 2 glasses of water
5. wait 2-3 hours.
6. Have low carb breakfast
7. wait 2-3 hours.
8. Have low carb fruits.
9. wait 2-3 hours.
10 Have low carb lunch.
11. wait 2-3 hours
12. Have a low carb afternoon snack.
13. wait 2-3 hours
14. Have a low carb dinner.
Bottom line, don't let yourself starve. That will be worse than even if you had a chocolate brownie. But eat smart. That's it.
Next post is going to be about what exactly I ate today. I'll probably post it tonight. Need to get ready for work.
Later,
-Navneet
Why Low Carb?
The answer for me was very simple. I didn't know any better. In my case, I was lucky to have successfully experimented with low carb diet a few years back accidentally.
When we were expecting with our son, my wife was prescribed a low carb diet. Well, guess what, I was sort of automatically on that diet as that's what got cooked, plain and simple.
Why she was going through her pregnancy, I lost a few pounds just because of following her diet plan as well as the regular walking regimen she was prescribed.
So that's my data point. I'd done it before. I knew what it meant to be on a low carb especially given that I'm a vegetarian.
Though I'd been wanting to loose weight for a long time now, it was this last trip to India which pushed me over the cliff to do something serious about it. For those of you who love Indian sweets like me, you know that when you travel to India, you are surrounded by everyone who loves to feed you and its hard to say NO to all those amazing sweets.
Well, I definitely put on a few more pounds and on my flight back to the US, I decided I'll start something as soon as I land back in SFO.
Once I was in SFO, my initial game plan was to execute on the same diet plan that I'd from my wife's pregnancy days. But that turned out to be a great starting point. As I researched some on the web, there were several low carb diets- Atkins, South Beach and probably many many others.
To be honest, I don't even know what Atkins is, what South Beach is. I've researched them much.
What I know is following ( my naive understanding )
1. In our body, Sugar gets converted into carbs.
2. Carbs are needed by our body to give it the necessary energy.
3. Excess carbs get converted to body fat.
4. The process can be reversed: Body fat can be converted into carbs.
So the idea is simple: Control Carbs. Eat less Carbs. And let your body do the magic.
The next post is going to be about what is the diet plan I'm following.
-Navneet
When we were expecting with our son, my wife was prescribed a low carb diet. Well, guess what, I was sort of automatically on that diet as that's what got cooked, plain and simple.
Why she was going through her pregnancy, I lost a few pounds just because of following her diet plan as well as the regular walking regimen she was prescribed.
So that's my data point. I'd done it before. I knew what it meant to be on a low carb especially given that I'm a vegetarian.
Though I'd been wanting to loose weight for a long time now, it was this last trip to India which pushed me over the cliff to do something serious about it. For those of you who love Indian sweets like me, you know that when you travel to India, you are surrounded by everyone who loves to feed you and its hard to say NO to all those amazing sweets.
Well, I definitely put on a few more pounds and on my flight back to the US, I decided I'll start something as soon as I land back in SFO.
Once I was in SFO, my initial game plan was to execute on the same diet plan that I'd from my wife's pregnancy days. But that turned out to be a great starting point. As I researched some on the web, there were several low carb diets- Atkins, South Beach and probably many many others.
To be honest, I don't even know what Atkins is, what South Beach is. I've researched them much.
What I know is following ( my naive understanding )
1. In our body, Sugar gets converted into carbs.
2. Carbs are needed by our body to give it the necessary energy.
3. Excess carbs get converted to body fat.
4. The process can be reversed: Body fat can be converted into carbs.
So the idea is simple: Control Carbs. Eat less Carbs. And let your body do the magic.
The next post is going to be about what is the diet plan I'm following.
-Navneet
Low Carb Diet for Indian Vegetarians To Loose Weight
I'm not someone who can be on a treadmill. But I can play some sport. However the problem is I've not been able to use playing squash or other sports as a tool to weight loss.
I'd been really wanting to do something significant to loose weight for a while however couldn't find anything that I would be able to sustain.
I think I've finally found something that's already helping me quite a bit. In the last 10 days, I've lost 8 pounds.
I've been asked by several people over the last few days to share what I'm doing, how I'm doing. So for the next few days, weeks, I'll try to jot down what specifically I did with a sincere hope that it will help some of you.
I' usually not a very public person when it comes to person details. So this is a little bit of a stretch for me. However I'll try to be as transparent as I can.
The next post is going to be about why I decided to go with Low Carb diet.
-Navneet
I'd been really wanting to do something significant to loose weight for a while however couldn't find anything that I would be able to sustain.
I think I've finally found something that's already helping me quite a bit. In the last 10 days, I've lost 8 pounds.
I've been asked by several people over the last few days to share what I'm doing, how I'm doing. So for the next few days, weeks, I'll try to jot down what specifically I did with a sincere hope that it will help some of you.
I' usually not a very public person when it comes to person details. So this is a little bit of a stretch for me. However I'll try to be as transparent as I can.
The next post is going to be about why I decided to go with Low Carb diet.
-Navneet
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