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The delicious low- carb way to help you shift the pounds
Main photo: Greg Hinsdale
We’ve teamed up with The Food Doctor, makers of foods with a high-fibre nutritious twist, to give you a delicious low-carb plan. “Good food makes a summer day,and this plan contains some tasty recipes. Low carb, with moderate protein and fibre and containing the right amount of ‘good’ fat to leave you feeling satisfied,” says Linda O’Byrne, The Food Doctor’s nutritionist. Most people tend to lose weight quickly at first (up to 7lbs in 7 days) on a lower carb plan, as excess carbs make the body retain water. Expect to lose 1-2lbs a week after that.
Day one
Breakfast
Red pepper and cheese omelette
Pour 1tsp olive oil into a small frying pan and add a quarter of a chopped red pepper and cook for 2 mins. Crack 2 eggs into a bowl and whisk, then add to the pan. Cook until starting to harden at the edges and add 30g grated cheese on top. Place under a pre-heated grill until the omelette has risen and the eggs are cooked through. Serve with half an avocado, sliced. Carbs – 4g
Snack A bowl of sugar-free jelly with 1 tbsp cream or The Food Doctor Caramel Biscuit DUO bar (2 x 30g). Carbs – 1g or 1.1g for a 30g portion. Lunch Goat’s cheese salad Slice 40g goat’s cheese and serve on top of a handful of chopped romaine lettuce, 3 chopped cherry tomatoes, 4 slices of cucumber and a quarter of a chopped red onion. Drizzle with olive oil. Carbs – 6g Snack 20g almonds. Carbs – 2g
Dinner Stuffed chicken Take a 100g chicken breast, place in a food bag and flatten using a meat tenderiser. Take a rasher of bacon and place lengthways on a piece of foil. Add the chicken on top of the bacon then place 20g crumbled feta insidethe chicken, then wrap up and roll everything together into the foil into a package. Cook in a pre-heated oven at 200°C/gas 6 for approximately 25 mins or until cooked through. Serve with a mixed green salad. Carbs – 4g
Day two
Breakfast
Berry almond shake
Pour 100ml unsweetened almond milk into a blender, add 40g raspberries and 3 strawberries into the blender and mix well.
Carbs – 5g Snack 4 cucumber slices topped with 1tbsp full fat cream cheese. Carbs – 2g Lun
