Include Low Carb Diet Recipes in Your Collection
Michalis 'BIG Mike' Kotzakolios

To encourage yourself to maintain a healthy diet, eating lots of good tasting food is a must. Gone are the days of living on carrot and celery sticks while watching others eat platters of pasta and steaks.

You don't always need 'official' low carb diet recipes to create a delicious low carb meal, if you are at all creative in your thinking. You can still use plenty of herbs and spices, especially the most healthful ones like garlic and onions to make a meal enjoyable and palatable. You can substitute high carbohydrate laden ingredients with other lighter varieties, or at least more healthful ones.

Yes, even including pasta in low carb diet recipes is possible, if there is just a tiny bit so you don't feel deprived. You can put lots of vegetables and a variety of low-fat meat, poultry or fish in the sauce. Make it about the sauce and not about the pasta. While whole grain foods have as many carbohydrates or even more than processed or refined foods, they are much healthier and you stay full longer.

Another thing that is no longer necessary is feeling hungry all the time when on a diet. Feeling hungry and deprived does not work for very long. If you have an arsenal of low carb diet recipes, even if you don't follow them to the letter, you will learn to compare the ingredients which are at a minimum or absent, and get ideas for what could be substituted in your favorite recipes.

It is important to remember that when dieting does not work, it's because once you stop and go back to your 'normal' eating patterns, you will gain the weight back. However, if you instead see it as a lifestyle change, and are determined to make it permanent, the best way is to be realistic. You will need to replace every fattening, high carb recipe you have with a collection low carb diet recipes. This is more effective than to just say you won't eat any of the foods that are traditional or favorites.

I found with so many favorite foods, it is the condiments, sauces or spices that are what make it a stand out - and not particularly the main ingredient. Luckily there are a lot of low carb, low calorie alternatives in these food items. For example, as a vegetarian I was craving a hamburger, yet I would never dream of eating meat. I came to the conclusion the best part of a hamburger is the mustard, pickles, onion, ketchup and lettuce. So when I would eat a 'veggie burger', which in those days still tasted a little like you would imagine cardboard tastes, I made sure to load it with all of the above. Instead of a refined flour bun, I would substitute thinly slice whole grain bread. You will barely know you are not enjoying a hamburger and can feel satisfied and full, and with clean arteries.

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