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Old Sat, Jul-19-03, 12:59
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She can up her carbs yes, and it may give her some more energy, but it's not nessecary. Everyone is different though that is why it's good to find what level of carbs make you feel the best and don't make large ups, with crashes after. Even on induction you should be having close to 20, but it's hard doing that on just veggies. Alot of those carbs come from dairy and such.

Try experimenting with different veggies on the allowed list. Take your morning eggs and make an ommlette with spinich, or a mexican one with onions and peppers mixed into the eggs. You can also try grating Zucchini for a type of hashbrowns. I leaned after grateing them to press them between towels and a couple of books to get some of the moisture out. They brown better that way. For dinner try stirfries. You can still add eggs if you like, but try different veggies and meat combos. Another nummie dinner is to make cauliflower rice, and fry it like pork rice. You can stir in other veggies, eggs, and left over meats. You can also add eggs to a broth for egg drop soup, then mix in some chopped green onion, water chestnuts, or scallions.

In the morning when you make your egg salad, take a large lettuce leaf and roll the salad up in it. Or get some Nori like they wrap sushi in and wrap the salad in that for a sushi type treat with out the shi
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