We're only six days into 2009 and already, I've read about a million different diets - the detox diet, the All New Atkins diet (shamelessly making a whole new bucket load of money off the back of the same principle), Cheryl Cole's diet (chicken in cream sauce anyone?). No wonder most people get confused about which to follow.
Well, to make it all clearer for you, I'm on a bit of a health kick to shed the excess carb loaded pounds put on over Christmas and will be posting daily recipes for you to follow.
I'm following a diet containing slow releasing carbohydrates with most of my meals being protein based. As the body uses energy sources provided by carbohydrates first, cut back on this and it is forced to switch to the energy stored in fat. That's the science in a nutshell, although on a practical level, it also makes sense.
White fish, eggs and salad are all low in calories, bread (who has bread alone - think about the butter, jam, honey, peanut butter - the list is endless), pasta (and sauces!) are not.
So, my posting for the day is Salmon and Quinoa salad with pomegrante.
1/2 mug of quinoa
Seeds of 1/4 fresh pomegrante
1 tin of pink salmon
Unlimited brocolli florets
pinch of pumpkin seeds
1/4 hot chilli, chopped.
lemon juice to dress
Cover the quinoa in water, bring to the boil and simmer until cooked. Meanwhile, steam or cook the brocolli. Mix together in a bowl with the rest of the ingredients, dress with lemon juice and there you have it! Delicious and the quinoa serves as a carb fix. It's a bit like couscous but is in fact a protein. Genius! (the grain, not me).
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