katlupe's Low Carb Eating Plan

I love to cook! My husband loves it that I love to cook too. He is a good sport for trying my new recipes and if they don't turn out, he'll eat them anyway. If it comes out terrible and I say I am throwing it out......he won't let me and he eats the whole thing anyway.

Now I just made the New York Ricotta Cheesecake that I found on the Stella Style website. The only thing was that I used Stevia as the sweetener so I did not put much in. I only bought the packets at my store as that was all they had available. I plan on ordering the liquid from Netrition. Until then though I had to use what I had and was not going to use it all on one cheesecake. So I only put 2 packets of Stevia in and it called for 1 1/4 cups of artifical sweetener! I knew it would not be sweet.The cheesecake came out perfect! My first one ever, I might add. I put frozen, unsweetened strawberries on our slices and sprinkled one packet of Stevia over the top. Came out very good that way. It was not sweet enough for my husband. He loved the cheesecake though, and put my homemade blackberry jam (that I made during the summer from our wild blackberries) on top of his. Turned out so good that he ended up eating the whole cake himself (not at one time of course!). I will work on it some more as I would like to try it with the liquid Stevia.

My favorite dessert though has to be the frozen strawberries with a dash of heavy cream and one packet of Stevia on top. I love that the best and that is going to be my main dessert whenever I get the urge for a sweet.

I wanted to stick with the induction plan longer, but I have developed gout in my toes. I read in Living Low-Carb by Fran McCullough that if you raise your carbs slightly, so it is five percent of your low carb plan, that you should still be able to stay in ketosis and avoid the gout. I have also found that taking extra vitamin C will help alot and that is what I have been doing. Flax seed oil and stinging nettle help combat it also. I regularly drink stinging nettle infusions anyway for my hot flashes. It has lessened quite a bit and hardly bothers me. Course, I also gave up the beef and mushrooms. I can live with that.

For the most part, I am doing well on the foods I can eat and love them. I do not feel deprived. I have already lost more weight on this low carb plan than on any other diet I ever tried in my whole life. On another forum I belong to, they have a weight loss board and the people on the low fat, low calorie plans inevitably post how they can hardly stand it and want to eat what others are eating. I don't try to change their diet plans, but I do post on what I can eat, how great I feel and how fast I've lost weight......maybe it will sink in if they read about it enough.

katlupe