Sunday Lunch

[fiat_knox]

I cooked my own Sunday lunch today - my folks being away at some fancy party that wasn't a wake. For my folks, that makes a great change.

For my meal, I had sliced lamb, served on a bed of watercress, rocket and spinach with butter beans and chick peas, and the last of the salsa.

Yum.

Currently hard at it on my story, after a major rewrite and brutal slaying of one of my chapters and excision of major chunks of dead writing on several others.

Comments

[lemuria.livejournal.com]

That sounds fantastic (though as a vegetarian I'd substitute Quorn for the lamb) but I'd still be gasping for some carbs - deprive me of my pasta and you die ;)
I take it the diet you're on is some modification of Atkins then? (I'd seen you use the abbreviation CR and assumed you meant calorie restriction, whereas presumably it's actually carb restriction?)

Fantastic Food

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

It was a pretty wholesome and healthy meal. I imagine what it's going to taste like when I can find butter beans and chick peas in season, rather than out of a can.

And there are plenty of carbs in the beans and chick peas: polysaccharides. Starches.

I try to ensure that I get protein daily ... but I only eat a maximum of a couple of hundred calories daily. If that sometimes means skipping meat once every other day, so be it: as long as I can make up for it with some form of protein the next day.

It has, so far, worked. From having one link free on my belt, I've gone down to nine - and my trousers are seriously loose about my waist, to the point where I need to get new, smaller ones.

Re: Fantastic Food

[lemuria.livejournal.com]

Wow, a couple of hundred calories a day is serious restriction!
As my grandmother would have said 'don't lose too much or you'll disappear down the plughole' ;)

Re: Fantastic Food

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

I keep myself going with some carbs, even if it's sugar in tea. :) And as I said, I do ensure I get regular protein. Everything else, I supplement with vitamin tablets.

Oh, and CoQ10 to aid assimilation of food and efficient conversion into energy.