Banting – Dear Prof…

 

My Banting journey contains letters to the Prof… Prof Tim Noakes. He doesn’t know that he is my mentor…I just find it easy to let my thoughts flow when I think of writing a casual report for his perusal. Needless to say, I am happy to share it with everyone who might be travelling this same road on The Real Meal Revolution. Bring it on…

 

Dear Prof

 

I woke this morning with a glorious feeling of pure power. Last night was a good food and friends evening and I went home to bed before ten and was in bed before midnight. Water with bitters was my only drink (I think I drank three litres!) and all the time I was thinking smugly that this good stuff was helping to flush out toxins and I wasn’t going to feel any pain in the morning.

 

I am aware that too much bubbly water isn’t all that clever because it apparently washes out potassium so I am happy to drink plain filtered water with bitters or without. It’s just that when your drink has a little colour, no-one bothers to try and ply you with alcohol, and because bitters does contain alcohol, I can raise my wine glass of water with impunity to share a toast.

 

A thought I had this morning (I woke before 6 and was truly awake) was that I had definitely crossed the threshold of hunger into a calmer body state. Not a craving in sight. Anyway, the thought of ordinary bread scares me into Banting submission!

 

About bread: I feel on one hand enthusiastic about doing low carb bread trials, and on the other a trifle anxious. The reason is merely that I might just eat the whole loaf and not just a slice or two. My inner voice says get the carbs from vegetables. Actually, it screams, that inner voice. Nutrition is the key!

 

Now I don’t know about anyone else, but getting my vegetables in is not always easy. I like them, but sometimes it is a mission. Steaming is the answer. I am tempted to get an electric steamer but have the bamboo baskets which work just as well in the wok on gas. After steaming and refreshing the vegetables, it is easy to roll them in a pan with coconut oil or butter, or just add butter, sea salt and black pepper and enjoy.

 

Stir-frying is another favourite. So easy. Coconut oil or ghee are my favoured oils and when I have saturated animal fat at hand (yes, freaky thought – gotta change the thinking) I will use that. (Lamb fat for the scrambled green eggs turned out to be extremely yummy.)

 

This morning’s breakfast. Decadent and delicious.

Strawberries in Xylitol Sweetened Cream

 

So you see dear Prof, it is going well here today.

 

Roll on the Revolution…

 

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