Please note that this article is from 2004; many of the products listed are sadly no longer available.

Years ago, some furious online detractor of low carb diets threw at me the accusation that I ate “pork rind cake.” This is not true. I have never eaten a cake made from pork rinds, and had never heard of such a thing till the accusation was made. And though she subsequently posted a link to a recipe, that is the only time I have ever heard of pork rind cake in my near-decade on a low carb diet.

Breakfast:

Pork sausage
Fried eggs

Lunch:

Wasn't hungry!

Dinner:

Beef spare ribs, roasted with sugar-free dry rub I made myself. YUM.

Snack:
Walnuts
Pork rinds with cinnamon and Splenda (see below)
Sugar free dark chocolate
Sugar free Reese's cup

Beverages:
Tea
Sparkling water
Dry red wine

Totals: 2466 Calories; 180g Fat ; 132g Protein; 15g Carbohydrate; 4g Dietary Fiber

Breakfast:
Three pork sausage patties
Three fried eggs

Kept me full till late afternoon!

Lunch/Supper
Chicken salad -- leftover dark meat chicken with diced celery and a little red onion, plus mayo.

Extra Supper:

Leftover Ham, Cheese, and Broccoli Puff

Snacks:
Sugar free dark chocolate
Sugar free Reese's cup

Beverages:
Tea
Sparkling Water
Dry red wine

Totals: 2118 Calories; 136g Fat ; 102g Protein; 29g Carbohydrate; 6g Dietary Fiber

Please tell me I’m not the only one who talks back to the television. Okay, what I really do is yell at the television. I yell at politicians, and the people on my soap operas. I yell with real gusto at food ads.

Recently, I’ve been yelling at ads for calorie-controlled snacks, like the Nabisco 100 Calorie Packs. Just think! You can eat this whole pack –– 15 “Oreos” or “Chips Ahoy” or whatever –– for just one hundred calories!

I beg of you: When you see ads like this, yell “100 calories of what?”

Breakfast:

Bacon
Portobello mushroom, onion, and Monterey Jack omelet

Lunch/Snack

Roasted chicken wings (ate seven of these -- whole ones, not "drumettes" -- over the space of several hours.

Dinner:

Ham, Cheese and Broccoli Puff -- a version of the egg casserole I've written about in the past.

Breakfast:

Three eggs, medium-boiled (whites solid, yolks set around the edges but liquid in the middle)

Lunch:

9 ounce pork chop

Dinner:

Induction Chili (recipe below)

Snacks:
Sugar-free dark chocolate
Sugar-free Reese's cup
Pecans
Roasted chicken wings

Beverages:
Tea
Sparkling water
Dry red wine

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Totals: 1663 Calories; 99g Fat ; 110g Protein; 21g Carbohydrate; 6g Dietary Fiber

Breakfast:

Monterey Jack omelet with chunky salsa

Lunch:

Pork loin chop

Dinner:

Pork loin chop

Snacks:
Sugar-free dark chocolate
Sugar-free Reese's cup
Pork rinds
Pecans

Beverages:

Tea
Sparkling water
Cider-Ade (apple cider vinegar sweetened with stevia/FOS blend, in water)
Dry red wine

Totals: 1350 Calories; 67g Fat ; 88g Protein; 18g Carbohydrate; 4g Dietary Fiber

Breakfast:

Omelet filled with sauteed portobellos, a little onion, and Monterey Jack

Lunch:

A really, really huge chicken leg-and-thigh, roasted.

Dinner:

Frizzled ham with cheddar melted on it
Leftover scalloped turnips

Snack:
Pork rinds
sugar-free dark chocolate

Beverages:
Tea
Sparkling water
Dry red wine

Totals: 2084 Calories; 123g Fat ; 155g Protein; 27g Carbohydrate; 3g Dietary Fiber

Yikes! Passed 20 grams usable carb!

Breakfast:

Leftover steak and three fried eggs with a tablespoon of steak sauce (need to make my own!)

Lunch:

Pan broiled pork chop with Cajun seasoning

Dinner:

Roasted chicken thigh

Snacks:

Pork rinds
Sugar free chocolate

Beverages

Tea
Sparkling water
Dry red wine

Totals: 1866 Calories; 106g Fat (58.7% calories from fat); 154g Protein; 14g Carbohydrate; 2g Dietary Fiber

As of this morning my ketostix came up with trace amounts of ketones, thank heaven! So I had some veggies in my omelet this morning.

Thought I'd start doing this again, as much for my sake as for yours. As I mentioned, I'm cutting waaaay back on carbs again, now that I've turned in my manuscript. So here's what I ate yesterday. You'll notice the conspicuous absence of vegetables. I promise you this won't be permanent; I just finished recipe development and frankly I'm tired of cooking!

Breakfast:

Cheese omelet

Lunch:

Pork chop, pan fried with a little barbecue rub on it.

Snack:

Another pork chop!
1 sugar free Hershey's Dark Miniature
1 sugar free Reese's cup

Dinner:
Chuck steak

Beverages:

I've been asked again, so I'll repeat it again:

I am NOT an advocate of a low glycemic index diet -- that is, a diet that simply replaces the usual carbs in the diet with low glycemic index carbs.

I DO advocate a low glycemic LOAD diet -- a diet which not only improves the quality of the carbohydrates in the diet, but drastically reduces their quantity.

Remember: Glycemic load = glycemic index x grams of carbohydrate eaten. There is no way this equation will work out if the diet is still based on carbohydrate foods!

It just recently struck me that I have now been low carb for over a quarter of my life. 27% of my life, actually. So much for "That diet is good for quick weight loss, but nobody can eat that way long-term."

Made any New Year's Resolutions? Let's talk about them. What were your resolutions last New Year? Did you keep them? If so, how'd they work out? If not, what knocked you off track, and are you starting over this year, or resolving something new?

Come tomorrow, millions of Americans will change their eating habits. And sure as winter weather is dreary, most of them will revert to their old ways by Groundhog Day.

Most people would rather die than change the way they eat. They do it every day. More people die of the cumulative effects of bad nutrition than anything else. Worse, they spend years and years feeling lousy first. Why?

I just had mac-and-cheese for lunch, and it took a big five minutes to make. I drained and rinsed a package of tofu shirataki noodles and dumped 'em in a sauce pan. Turned the burner to low and started warming them. Then I pulled the packet of powdered cheese out of a box of generic mac-and-cheese mix, and added it and 1/4 cup half-and-half to the shirataki. Let the whole thing cook another couple of minutes to heat through and thicken up, then dumped it in a bowl and ate it.