katlupe's Low Carb Eating Plan

I know it seems strange that I am starting my low carb eating plan on Christmas eve. Most people change their eating plans or diets after the New Year or at least after Christmas. My husband and I live alone with a bunch of critters and have no plans to go anywhere on Christmas. We were invited to my niece's house for dinner with my family. Or we could always go to my sister in-law's house where she will be having a huge Christmas gathering I am sure, with her four daughters and 19 grandchildren. We have always liked having our holidays at home. We couldn't always do that because my mother in-law was always persistant at getting her own way. This is our first Christmas without her as she passed away last January. So I am all ready to start this eating plan and nothing....not even Christmas will stand in my way.

Besides the fact that we have a lot of snow here where we live and do not like to leave our house in cold weather. We use woodstoves for heat and cooking and I really like to keep them going strong when it is so bitter cold outside. Our wind chill factor has been way below zero and it is hard to want to leave your house and drive somewhere for hours to have dinner and have to leave as soon as it is over to get back home to a freezing cold house. Not to mention the kind of food people serve for holidays! Plus, my husband will absolutely not eat a thing that is nuked with a microwave and almost everybody uses them. And sometimes you don't even know it was used in the preparation of the food. I try to avoid them as much as possible, but if I am somewhere I don't usually say anything, but he does.

My husband has been discussing with me his feelings in that since I am going to be following the induction plan and since it is healthy for him to eat this way too, he'd like to change his present diet to the low carb eating also, but not at the induction level. So that makes it easy for me. He'd just eat more carbs like salad and low carb vegetables. He loves that anyway. Now that he is aware of the hidden dangers of white flour products, white sugar and sugar in general and the high carb eating, like white rice, he is all for it. His mother had bad eating problems her whole life and was diabetic. She did not follow doctor's instructions of what she could eat. She would always say, "I love to eat." She loved her desserts and big family meals.

Yesterday I just received in the mail Dr. Atkins Quick & Easy New Diet Cookbook from my paperbackswap club. Whoever gave me this book had never used it as it is a brand new barely opened hardcover book. I am thrilled! The recipes look pretty good. I am a very good cook myself and can see by studying the cookbook how I can change my own favorite recipes to follow the guidelines of the induction food plan quite easily. One more day and then I can go shopping. I work at home and my schedule is pretty flexible, but tomorrow will be my day off for grocery shopping. I have tried to use up most of the high carb foods in the house. The others I will just give away or throw out.