Denying the CarbMonster

Do you have any idea how tough it is to stop eating foods you love? I thought it was going to be harder than this. Maybe I am just in a honeymoon phase with my new diet plan, but I'm not having cravings of baked potatoes and dinner rolls or plates full of pasta right now.

I've been attracted to No/Low Carbs bloggers for quite a long time. One of the chicks I follow has lost an enormous amount of weight by cutting out carbs except for her occasional beer and I've watched her weight go down (and I've watched what she puts on her plate because she photographs it)... bacon and avocado are staple foods for her... and low or no carb veggies and, of course, meat.

So, my own choice to go without simple carbs has been on my mind for a very, very long time. I've just been afraid to try it. It has only been three days since letting go of them (or choosing lower carbs options) and I really thought I would miss them.

I am a pasta FIEND. A baked potato lover, too. But, I'm okay right now. I made a meatloaf recipe that turned out amazingly great. Check it out:

Minced fresh mushrooms, minced fresh onion, minced fresh garlic sauteed on med-low heat in part butter, part olive oil til the onions were soft. Let cool. In a separate bowl mix ground beef, 1 egg, a little cream (cream has no carbs. milk has carbs!) and then add your mushroom mixture in. Mush it all together, stick it in a loaf pan, top with uncooked bacon strips - yes, bacon strips - and bake at 350 F for 70 minutes. I drained all the grease out of the pan and let it rest once it was finished baking...and then even gave it a few minutes under the broiler to crisp up the bacon.

We had the meatloaf with a lower-carb option: rutabaga mash instead of potatoes, and steamed fresh green beans. I'm telling you, it was delicious. The meatloaf wasn't missing the bread - the mushroom bits and the egg did all the work.

That was fun to make.

It's been a full day. Dinner has me feeling full, too. I'm really surprised that I'm not ripping open boxes of rice or noodles to satisfy a carbs monster craving...but I'm not. At least not today.