Me, me, me, me night

I keep asking myself how can I have a diet rich in fibre if I am having a reduced carbohydrate diet. The reason why I failed to understand for so long how that could be possible is because every single time I read a nutritional fact label, I see fiber under the carbohydrates category. After doing some research, it appears that most non-starchy vegetables and low sugar fruits are quite high in fiber, and a well-constructed low carb diet emphasizes vegetables and other sources of fiber.

Unfortunately, according to my calorie count, I don’t even get half of the recommended amounts of daily fiber. I wanted to find a way to ensure that I am consuming the recommended amount so I don't have to resort to Benefiber (http://www.benefiber.com/index.shtml).

That's how I came across this list with a few categories: Food containing almost all fiber, such as flax seeds. Vegetables that are close to all fiber such as chicory and endive. More fiber than usable carbs such as avocado, broccoli, and cauliflower. About as much usable carb as fiber such as asparagus, eggplant and mushrooms. Finally, high fiber, but not as much fiber as usable carb such as zucchini squash and bell peppers. The interesting fact is that I do consume many of these sources of fiber every day. The issue is that my favorite vegetables (eggplant, bell peppers, and asparagus) they are not under the super high fiber content list. Hopefully I will be able to incorporate some new items to my diet.

You can find a detailed list at http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/nutrition/a/fibercounts.htm

Breakfast was pretty simple today. Half of an apple, an omelet with cherry tomatoes, ham, and a dash of smoked gouda (I still have gouda from Edam, NL). I also had coffee with milk, a brazil nut, and a fat free DanActive.






I felt hungry by 10:45 so I sliced and eat half of an apple and that helped to wait until lunch time. If it was not enough the fact that I don't really like fruits and I just eat them because they are healthy, I cannot eat a whole fruit. It has to be diced, sliced.

Lunch was yummy! I had my own version of juicy karkówka. I replaced potatoes with cauliflower as it was a healthier version of the original recipe. The issue is that cauliflowers are much softer than potatoes so the 60 minutes I needed to cook the pork were more than enough to cook the cauliflower. A friend suggested me to steam the cauliflowers and then toss with the juices coming from the pork. The beauty of this recipe is that it took me 15 minutes to prep and 60 minutes to cook in the oven (all inside of a plastic bag). Yes, you heard it right! (A plastic bag that goes to the oven). I think I will buy them and give as gifts to my friends who (like myself) did not think that there was a type of plastic that could resist the oven temperatures. I cannot wait to go back to the nearby Starsky :)

I only had a camomile tea in the afternoon. Good girl!










As tonight was me, me, me night, I splurged on a naked halibut burrito. It felt great doing nothing (or almost nothing). Now is time to rest so I can go back to my gym routine tomorrow morning.

Aftermath for 01/10/2013:

1199 Calories
5 cups of water
7 hours of sleep
0 minutes of exercise



Have a great one!
Fernanda