Zero carbohydrates

If you live on low carb high fat-food and you loose weight, all is good. But if you realize that nothing happens with the weight after a copple of months, you might need to change some levels of food.
LCHF means that all carbs comes from vegetables and dairies, mostly from cream and cheese.
As a woman and been dieting since you can remember, are older (40+) this is typical to get in to a plateau. Week after week, and even month after month and the weight is the same. You feel good but you want to loose that weight!
The key is: loose the dairies! Look over what type of greens you eat too!

There is a way also to go zero carbs, wich we call fakir in Sweden:
That means you only eat fat and proteins, that's it!
I tried to "fakir" in october last year and that resulted in loosing 9 kilos between october and december. I stopped at christmas.
 BUT! Those first weeks was HARD! I experienced to feel really sick = ketosis flue. You feel sooo tired, so drained, the stomach explodes and you are afraid to be more then three meters from the toilett, but after that first period of conversion, you start to feel awsome! Lot's of energy and just love the feeling!
I was so happy to get under 100 kg for the first time in my adult life!
Well...how about trying to loose some more?
I was kind afraid to try this, now when I work. How will I feel? Will I get that upset stomach and tiredness?
I started on monday and nothing "bad" happend. The third day, Wednesday, I felt any conversion-problem: Tired and thought I would get the flue but the next day I felt fine again. And I lost 3 kilos this week!
That means 5 kilos to 90. I am going for that!
Theese morning, when I woke up, I had so much energy that I went down to the gym and tried the cross fit-machin! I worked on it for 12 minutes with a pulse of 140. Also tried to work my shoulders on two other machines...FIRST TIME EVER!
I feel great and proud of myself!
What did I eat this week?

Monday: Started to make eggmilk: 4 eggs, two tablespoons of coconut oil, 4 tablespoons Ghee (butteroil) wich you mix with 4 deciliters of boiling water. (Watch out so you don't get burned)
Breakfast: Coffee with eggmilk.
Lunch: 2 eggs with 1.5 tablespoons butter (Wich I make in the micro at work)
Dinner: Two fried eggs, mackerel in tomato sauce (I fiddle the mackerel out of the tomato sauce), mayonnaise. Some slices of creamy cheese.
Coffee with egg milk  during the day breaks.
Tuesday: Same as Monday but started with egg coffee instead of coffee with eggmilk, then I add one egg, 1 table spoon coconutoil and 2 table spon of Ghee.
Wednesday: Breakfast Same as above
Lunch: Same as always: Two eggs with butter in the micro.
Dinner: Same as Monday and Tuesday.
Thursday: Same breakfast and lunch
Dinner:  Butterfried Entrecote with champignons and bearnaise sauce.
Friday: Same breakfast and lunch
Dinner: Pan fried cod with butter and butter-boiled spinach leaves, about 1 cup. (0.6 kh/100g)
Saturday: Coffee with eggmilk.
Lunch: Two fried eggs with a little creamy cheese on top - after my little exercise.
Dinner: Hamburgers made by myself with fried mushrooms and onions (6 kh/100 g of onion). I will eat around  half an onion.
I am not 100% consistent with zero carbs as you can see, because I want to have something TO my meat/fish or chicken.

I choose those greens wich is the lovest amount of carbs and I eat maximum 100 grams of it.
That what happens if you try to zero your carbs, or almost - maxium energy and maximum weightloss!

Pancakes

Pancakes is a very popular dish in Sweden. Mostly made of eggs, milk and flour, sprinkled with sugar on the top and strawberry jam. Some like it with ice-cream...well, that is a big no no for me, eating LCHF. 

But there is a way to enjoy that type of dish anyway.

Ingredients:

2 eggs

1 teaspoon salt

3 dl cream

1 cup Philadelphia cheese

Sprinkle some stevia/ or any other GOOD sweetner

1 tbsp coconut flour

1 tbsp husk

Beat the eggs hard with salt and sweetening. Stir in cream and Philadelphia cheese and whisk until it is blended nicely.

Mix coconut flour and husk and whisk into the mixture.

Spoon down like small  pancakes in the pan - please use coconut oil because butter burns the  pancakes quickly and have not to high heat on. It will be eight small pancakes on this amount of pancake batter.

Topping:

One part cream and and the same amount of Philadelphia cheese, whisked together. Season with a bit of vanilla powder and stevia or other good sweetner.  Mix in some kind of berry. I had blueberries and raspberries.

The taste was very good indeed! Oliver, my son ate up two of these and his spontaneous comment was:

 - It tastes like the pancakes!

Doh! : D

The best pizza so far

Now I have tried lots ofdifferent pizza bases with different results and taste, and now I have a winner!

I started from a Ciabatta recipe that I found online a while ago. It's probably the closest "bread" I can think of as a LCHF: er.
Today I tried to bake it as a pizza base with a little modification.
First and foremost, it would fill  my roasting pan so I did double everything.
Ingredients:
8 eggs
200 grams Philadelphia cheese
200 grams of cottage cheese (fill the empty Philadelphia box and  you have the same amount)

200 gram melted butter


3 cups almond flour
1 cup coconut flour
4 tablespoons physillium husk (you can use 4 tablespoons of coconutflour instead if you can't find it in the stores)
3 teaspoons baking powder
2 tsp salt
2 tablespoons oregano (dried)



Take out two bowls and mix the wet ingredients well with a whisk. Mix together the dry ingredients in a separate bowl and then pour the mixture into the dry and mix with a wooden fork.
Pour it in a roasting pan, preferably with a baking paper. Do this as fast ad you can, the better it is possible to "spread out" the batter at the plate. If you wait the batter swells and it becomes more difficult to smudge because of the husk.



Bake the base for a maximum of 30 minutes and take it out.
Meanwhile, prepare what you want on your pizza.
Today we did a taco-inspired pizza and I made a spice mix that I was inspired by the last weekend when I made Indian cuisine.



I dry roasted 3 tsp of cumin seeds, and put them together with 4 small garlic cloves, some chiliflakes, about 2 tsp coriander seeds, a little chipolte pepper (smoked chilli), salt, oregano and some garlic powder in a mortar.  I mixed the spices with minced meat which I fried with butter.
I had a tomato sauce that I made before.
Grate the cheese, about 4 ounces - I had three pieces of cheese with different tastes. Likes to mix different cheeses.
Spread the tomato sauce on the pizza base, then add the cheese.
Then the minced meat.
Slice olives, fresh spring onions and tomatoes in the oven at 200 degrees until the cheese has melted.


Really good! If you like a thin pizza base so you can scrape off a bit of pizza batter and bake it as small buns or what you like. Do not be afraid to try!

The cholesterol campaign and its misleading dietary advices

This guy is from Denmark and I can not say that his lecture is "fun" to listen to but very important. He is a very respected and trusted person here in Sweden/Denmark and Norway. 

Good blogs to follow in english

Top 17 Low-carb & Paelo blogs to follow

Click on the blue text and you will get the blog-adresses.

Christmas in Sweden

This blog has almost fallen in to the winter-sleep but the reason is that I finally got a job, after 15 months of being without.
I am sooo happy for my new job and loves it but at the same time I am very tired because of that long time, I have been home. I could spend hours on my blogs, both this one and my swedish blog and now I don´t have that much time. Christmas is close and most of my friends are so busy, buying christmas-stuff, making food and baking cakes. All Christmas in Sweden is about food and christmasgifts and this is one of the hardes holidays of the whole year, when you are a sugaraddict - where ever you are or look there is lots of triggers for sugaraddiction.

We all have "soft spots" what is triggering us and one of those for me is swedish gingerbread-cookies.
You can buy them everywhere and there is shops who put boxes of gingerbread-cookies by the cash registers, so when you pay, you get that smell right up in your nose...and yes, it smells soooo good!
I try to put my nose in the other direction and not even look down in to the box...what I don´t see, dosen´t exist! That´s how I try to survive the cravings.
I don´t have any physical craving but in my mind, there will always be one.
Every Christmas has been a struggel before I started my life as 100% dedicated to Low Carb High Fat. Now it makes it easier but there is always situations wich is harder to deal with then others, off course.
The main rule is:
Don´t fool yourself to think that you CAN eat all that yummie stuff for a week and then stop!
The best comment I heard about that is: I started to eat Christmas-food and I haven´t stopped yet and now it is is july...
But that is so true: You think you can treat yourself a week between Christmas and New Year but when that week is passed, you can´t stop anyway.
I don´t even make substitutes for my cravings. Yes, there is recepies for example of gingerbread-cookies without starch, sugar and gluten but I CAN NOT BAKE THEM! Why?
Because it is a trigger for me!
So, make a list of your Christmastriggers and decide to not fool yourself and make substitutes, if you are not 100% sure of not continue eating the real stuff after.
The only treat I will make for Christmas is choclad truffles with different tastes, as vanilla or minth. I use 90% cocoa wich is the strongest cocoa-level you can make treats of.
100 grams of 90% chocolate, wich you melt on low heat
3/4 deciliters of full fat cream, wich you whip in to the melted choclate together with a tablespoon salted butter. You can use some kind of sweetening, like Stevia.
Add also some flavoring like minth, whiskey, vanillapowder or what you like or just as it is.
Put it in the fridge for an hour, take it out and role them to small balls and and role them in pure cocoapowder or coconutrasps.
I will also make a Christmascake and this I made for my sons birthday this summer:

8-10 pieces

Cake base:
150 g butter
150 g dark fine chocolate (70-85%)
3 eggs
2 cups sukrin (sweetner)
1 tsp vanilla powder
1 cup almond flour
Glaze
1 cup whipping cream
100 g dark chocolate (70-85%)

To do this:
Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Melt the butter in a saucepan. Grease a springform tin with melted butter.
Chop the chocolate finely and add the chocolate into the melted butter. Stir constantly and let the chocolate melt on low heat.
Beat eggs until fluffy with sukrin in a bowl.
Add the chocolate mixture into a springform (20-23 cm) and bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes.
Let the cake stand and cool, preferably in the fridge.
Pour the cream into a saucepan and break down the chocolate. Heat over very low heat. Stir constantly. Pull the pan when everything melted and let cool. The icing will become thick.
Remove the cake from the mold and spread the icing over the cake.

As you see I added cherrie-halfs on my cake but for christmas there might be other options like, coconut rasps, other berries or just as it is!

Merry Christmas!

A picture taken last saturday where I live. 

A small update!

I am soooo sorry for not writing here right now but a lot of things is happening right now. I just started an education as a chef, wich is really fun and interesting considdering my "obsession" of food! *ha ha*
I will try to find the time and energy to write more in here in time, also translate more of my food-recepies wich I have at my swedish blog: www.startarom.blogspot.se
Follow the blogs and links in the list I have here >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Primal North, Jimmy Moore and all the other low-carbeaters!
I started a new fase in my diet also, because of my low change in loosing weight where I realised that I eat to much carbs even though I thought it was low and I call it ketosis-eating, wich means that I eat more fat, more proteins and almost no veggies at all and lost another 4 kilos in 1,5 month.
I will continue doing that until Christmas, first of all.
I really, really want to loose my last kilos of overweight!

Writing soon!

Me in my school!