Sun, Sep-30-07, 17:55
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Senior Member
Posts: 538
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Plan: Vegetarian Low GI
Stats: 188/179.8/125
BF:
Progress: 13%
Location: Israel (temporarily)
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Hi shedthings,
Your story almost mirrors mine exactly. Did lowcarbing a few years back as a meat-eater, lost 30 pounds, felt great and really curbed my binges, but due to a lack of planning for maintenance and personal issues, went off of lowcarbing and in the meantime, became a vegetarian. Amazingly, I did not gain all of my weight back, but only half of it (which is enough!) Now I'm back to lowcarbing but doing it the vegetarian way this time.
As for cookbooks, two that I've found helpful are Rose Eliot's "The Vegetarian Low Carb Diet" and Diane Schwartzbien's "The Schwartzbien Principle Vegetarian Cookbook". Eliot's book is more of a how-to book on lowcarbing the vegetarian way (worth the read, though the plan she outlines is a rip-off of Atkins) but she includes plenty of recipes that are very simple and also most are geared towards 1-2 servings, which, for someone like me who lives alone and cooks only for myself, is great.
The second one is more based on the SP plan, which is still considered lowcarb but allows things that most other LC plans don't (such as whole grains). But there are still plenty of useable recipes in it. Her Greek Salad is a staple of mine! The only thing missing from that cookbook is desserts - aparently, Schwartzbein at that time was very anti-artificial sweeteners though I've read that she's become less strict on that in her new plans.
Hope that helps!
Tam
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