OK, I've been on this plan for almost a week now, and I have a confession to make.
I HATE EGGS.
That's the one thing that has always kept me from going low-carb in the past. I can tolerate eggs in an omelette or a quiche, if there's a lot of veggies/cheese/etc in there to hide the taste of the eggs. But even so, I don't LIKE them, I just tolerate them.
For reasons I outlined in my introduction, I know that I HAVE to stay committed to LCing. I don't want to let my egg-phobia scare me off and ruin my chances of success.
What else can I eat for breakfast? That's the one time of day when I miss my carbs the most. I've always eaten starchy things for breakfast. On the numerous other diet plans I've tried, I have found that I do better at avoiding cravings later in the day if I have some protein along WITH the carbs. But now that I've committed to LCing, I'm at a loss as to what to do about breakfast.
I've only got a week left in Phase 1, and I can probably manage to survive
with eating eggs for breakfast for another week. But I looked at some of the phase 2 menus in my SB book and they scare me - it looks like they're adding back too many carbs at once.
I do like cottage cheese for breakfast a couple of times a week. Before LCing, I used to have it with fruit and some almonds, and it made a perfectly satisfying breakfast. Would that be an OK thing for Phase 2?? I tried eating the cottage cheese and almonds without the fruit the other day (just as an alternative to eggs) and wasn't too crazy about it.