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    Just Recipes!

    Dr Atkins Fromage Burgers 2lb minced beef 1 tbsp each of fresh chives, tarragon and parsley 2 teaspoons salt 1oz spring onion finely chopped 1 small tomato finely chopped 1 egg beaten 6oz cheddar cheese 1 and a 1/2 oz butter Combine the beef, chives, tarragon, parsley, salt, spring onions and...
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    MiM's & flaxseed recipes

    sorry should have put the burger one on the other sticky notes
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    MiM's & flaxseed recipes

    Dr Atkins Fromage Burgers 2lb minced beef 1 tbsp each of fresh chives, tarragon and parsley 2 teaspoons salt 1oz spring onion finely chopped 1 small tomato finely chopped 1 egg beaten 6oz cheddar cheese 1 and a 1/2 oz butter Combine the beef, chives, tarragon, parsley, salt, spring onions and...
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    MiM's & flaxseed recipes

    Burger Buns BURGER BUNS 2 tablespoons butter Pinch salt 1/4 cup flax meal 1 egg 1/2 teaspoon baking powder Use a microwaveable bowl that resembles the size a burger would be , microwave the butter to melt it. Stir in the salt and flax meal. Beat in the egg with a fork until...
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    MIMs

    im not quite sure about this one thinlizzy the book states to have some flaxseed everyday if you are having trouble going to the loo...but it doesnt actually say how much of it to have.....when i made my mim with the 1/4 of a cup it states to put in...i weighed how much flaxseed a 1/4 of a cup...
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    bloated

    yes i am having over 2 litres of water a day and i havent touched any fruit at all, i cant understand whats causing it tbh !!!!
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    bloated

    for the last few days i have been feeling bloated just around my stomach and its always after i eat something, it goes away after a couple of hours but as soon as i eat again it starts again and is quite uncomfortable, has anyone experienced this before and is there anything i can do to help it?
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    ketosis

    ha ha ha, nice one jim lol
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    ketosis

    its not fluorescent yet :-( lol
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    Splenda

    thats 6 teaspoons instead of 3 a day then, yum yum :-) lol
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    ketosis

    i wondered if it was because i was having some splenda in my coffee that may have set it off, but i have only had one or two teaspoons a day..its the only sweet thing i have had i might try some jelly, i did notice tesco's own make raspberry and strawberry ones are made with sucralose so i might...
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    Cold!!!

    i have had the same woofy for the last 3 days i have been freezing, i even had the leccy blanket on last night i did notice aswell when i had a cleaning frenzy yesterday i felt hot but wasnt really sweating at all and i used to sweat loads when i did anything that requires energy of some sort...
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    Splenda

    i looked it up and its defo two teaspoons in a splenda packet for 1 carb, i have the loose splenda too :-)
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    ketosis

    oh dear, i am still having cravings for choccie aswell sometimes, i thought they would go away when i was in full ketosis :-(, although i have had an energy burst on the plus side :-)
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    ketosis

    hi everyone was just wondering about ketosis !!! do you have to actually have to be at the full purple stage on atkins i did a test this morning and i am two away from the purple...how long does it normally take to get in full ketosis ?
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    celeriac carbs

    i know jim...its a big difference isnt it, i seem to be getting alot more veggies to eat if i weigh them by uk standard than i was from using the set of measuring cups i bought from tesco thats why i wondered if the carb amount changes when fried !!!!
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    herbs

    does anyone know how many carbs are in dried sage...i cant seem to find this one !!!
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    So is it just carbs we watch out for? (Pork Scratchings)

    i had 4 bags the other day aaron lol, im addicted to them, i get the morrisons 6pack of the small red bags the proper old fashioned pork scratchings...it sort of makes me feel like i am having more to eat in the way of snacks when you have the small bags :-)
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    celeriac carbs

    thanks ditzee :-) is there any difference in carbs if you fry the veg at all do you know?
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    celeriac carbs

    am a little confused on this one !!! i bough some fresh celeriac and on the cellophene it said it was only 2.3 carbs per 100g raw...but online it is between 5 and 9 carbs per 100gram on the uk carb counters which is quite a difference. i noticed this about mushrooms to...2.4 carbs online per...
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    hungry hungry !!!!

    i have had a litre of water already, so i think i am drinking enough...i think !!!! oh jim i thought i was being greedy having 3 because they were done in butter...i think i may need to get out of this being frightened to eat fatty food attitude that i have attained from low fat diets, i hope...
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    hungry hungry !!!!

    im on to my 2nd day of atkins and i feel very hungry i had 3 eggs cooked in butter at 8am for breakfast and by 10 am i was hungry again and had to have a small bag of scratchings....its now just after 11 and i feel hungry again, is this normal !!!!!!, i thought the eggs would have filled me up...
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    tesco soft and creamy cheese, full fat soft cheese

    i like the idea of being able to have more cream and limiting this and cheeze to 4oz a day, but how would you measure an ounce of cream....would you just put it on the normal scales like other stuff or are liquids measured different :-)
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    help with snacks needed

    so it doesnt matter if they have dextrose and stuff added as i thought we were supposed to steer clear of anything like that the mr porkys scratchings i found were only 0.3 carbs per little packet, but they have dextrose and wheatflour in them, it was the same with pepperami's etc what brand of...
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    help with snacks needed

    oh dearrrrrrrr :eek::eek::eek: i seem to be having a major problem finding any snacks suitable for atkins on induction i have been all over the supermarkets today and everything i have picked up seems to have sodium nitrate, dextrose etc or something or other that i am told you should steer...
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    tesco soft and creamy cheese, full fat soft cheese

    oh dear i had no idea about this girly...i thought you could have up to 4oz of cheese a day and 2-3 tablespoons of cream aswell, i have looked again in my book and cant find anywhere that it says limit all dairy to a 4oz total a day...dear me :-(
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    carb counters online

    thank you jim :-)
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    I'm obese!!

    awwwww, thats brill...i bet you are over the moon with that weight loss, well done :-)
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    carb counters online

    to check the carb total, thanks :-)
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    carb counters online

    what is the best carb counter to use online, which one does everyone use on here, thanks :-)
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    Vitamins

    i read in the very old book i think it was to also take l-glutamine aswell, i think he also said you have to be careful what is added to them to make sure it doesnt hinder your weight loss !!!, i am still debating whether to take any or not and whether they are really necessary :-s
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    tesco soft and creamy cheese, full fat soft cheese

    yep thats the nutritional info jim, there isnt anything else added...it just says ingredients are full fat soft cheese !!!
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    tesco soft and creamy cheese, full fat soft cheese

    is this allowed on induction?, i no cream cheese is allowed....but im not exactly sure what cream cheese is tbh or whether this tesco one is classed as a cream cheese. also is smoked mackerel ok to have aswell :-)
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    Weekly weigh-in thread

    wow thats fantastic freckles, well done, btw...just out of curiosity...are you doing the new or old atkins?
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    Advice please...

    yes thats what they are called cheryl lol jimmys sausages - free range pork sausages they are in a green coloured packet like cardboard...with a picture of grass on the bottom bit i cant remember how much they were as it doesnt say on the box, but i think it was around 2.70 or something...but...
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    Net Carbs

    thanks stephen, you have saved me alot of hard work trawling thorugh all the books :-), can i ask...have you been using the atkins shakes and bars while doing this....also are you only allowed a certain amount of meat at each meal...as it states i.e. 8oz steak ?
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    Net Carbs

    hi stephen there are so many versions of atkins going around it gets confusing !!! lol i saw the bit about subtracting carbs away, i did hear that in the uk we dont subtract anything on packaged items away...but....we do need to subtract it on fresh fruit and veg as this is the same where ever...
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    Advice please...

    cheryl, i found these ones in tesco last week, and everyone who i spoke to on here thinks they are fine for atkins and there only 0.3 carbs per sausage :-) jimmys free range sausages ingredients :- free range pork 90% water pasturised free range egg white salt stabiliser e450 antioxidant...
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    beef burgers

    i make my own burgers to, i use pork mince and add sage, chopped onion salt and pepper, and sometimes i put cheese in the middle, they are delicious, i guess you could shape them and use them as sausages to, hmmmm on that note i am also thinking of buying a sausage maker for this diet and...
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    sauces/stocks

    oh, i thought we cudnt have any of them because of the salt content, thanks longratia this is great news :-), i will be checking them all now, i wonder if marmite and bovril is good to go as i luv these ;-)
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    sauces/stocks

    does anyone know what you can use as a stock/sauce for dishes like lasagne, mousakka etc on induction, as it seems that oxo and the likes are not allowed !!!
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    carbs in a cup of veg

    ok, i have just completed my first day on atkins and the food has been yummy:) am having trouble with the carbs in a cup of veg so far i have had :- 1 an a half cups of lettuce - 2.0 carbs 1 cup of mushrooms - 2.8 1/2 cup of onions - 5.0 this adds up to 9.8...but i have read somewhere that i...
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    what boullion and broths are we allowed

    i am a little confused as to what we are allowed of these, all the ones i have checked in the supermarket seem to have somethin in we are not allowed on induction or owl etc what does everyone else use ???
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    are these sausages ok for atkins diet

    sorry i meant 0.3 not 1.3 :-)
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    are these sausages ok for atkins diet

    jim, when we look at the carb count on these sausages it says 1.3 carbs of which sugars 1.3, a i right in thinking we count them as 1.3 carbs and do not subtract anything away in the EU, and do we do the same for fresh veggies or do we subtract ?
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    are these sausages ok for atkins diet

    so are these ok for atkins then, im starting the induction today and they are sitting in the fridge...as i wont touch them till i know they are safe to eat lol
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    are these sausages ok for atkins diet

    i saw these sausages in tesco yesterday and wondered does anybody know if they would be ok for the atkins diet jimmys free range sausages free range pork 90% water pasturised free range egg white salt stabiliser e450 antioxidant (ascorbic acid) cracked black pepper preservative e223 ginger...
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    mug full of veg

    hi jim are we talking about the big coffee mugs (not cups), is that what you use?, and i know this may sound silly but do you cut your veg first before you fill your cup with them i.e. because if you filled a mug with uncut mushrooms you are getting less than you would in weight than if they...
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    mug full of veg

    thanks for that stephen :-), but the only thing i can find is that a us cup/mug is 8fluid ounces in english but that is for measuring liquid ingredients, can i ask how do you measure your veg out?
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    mug full of veg

    i have just been looking through the sticky 'so you are thinking of starting atkins', and it mentions the veg you are allowed is per mug full, what exactly is a mug full...is there a certain weight to it? :confused:
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    sausages and bacon on induction

    Thank you everyone for all your replies, i am so glad i joined minimins, there is so much help you get from everyone on here, bacon and sausages it is then lol :-)
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    sausages and bacon on induction

    Hi everyone :) So i have been readin through the atkins posts etc on here and from what i can see you are allowed bacon and sausages on induction !!! Although it seems confusing abit to me...as you can have bacon if it is nitrate free...but i cant find any in the uk supermarkets that is nitrate...
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    different versions of atkins

    Hi I am a newcomer to this site and have just joined :) I have been thinking of starting the atkins diet as i have heard it has very good weight loss results. However i have no idea which one to choose from as there are so many different versions with different foods aloud. I am a tad confused...
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