Foolish me! A few weeks back I wrote a column on diet-friendly pizzas -- yummy topping-blanketed pies that are good for everyone. Well, everyone but folks like me who have chosen to follow a low-carb lifestyle.
Being relatively new to the Atkins Nutritional Approach -- I just started my seventh wonderful week -- I pretty much put pizza on the list of foods I could no longer enjoy. Boy, was I wrong.
Yes, your typical pizza dough is crammed with carbs. But thanks to a combination of modern technology and good ol' kitchen ingenuity, I received a small avalanche of alternatives. A few others I discovered while surfing the eDiets.com website. In order to round out this column -- just so men and women of all dieting persuasions can be enlightened -- I have tossed in a few great low-fat, lower-cal concoctions.
I was at my all-time high of 224 pounds when I started the Atkins Diet
Nutritional Approach a month and a half ago. Yesterday, in the privacy of my own bathroom, I weighed in at 204 pounds.
As I move from Induction to the Ongoing Weight Loss phase of this 4-phase plan, I'm feeling more energetic and my clothes are fitting much better. In fact, while shopping at Old Navy this past weekend, I discovered my waist had shrunk two inches. I needed a comfortable size 36 rather than the baggy 38 I first grabbed out of habit!
What's really exciting about this week's progress is at comes on the heels of my 44th birthday. After three days of dining out (my birthday fell on a Friday) and enjoying a few drinks with my meals, I was stunned to see such weight loss success. I lost weight after feasting on 3-egg omelets stuffed with cheese, onions and sausage... Caesar salad, steamed veggies and steak and shrimp at the Outback (washed down with a few mugs of low-carb Michelob Ultra beer)... chicken wings... and a few celebratory bourbons and Diet Cokes.
I know... I know... It's not the way to go about healthy weight loss but I am back on track with my nifty eDiets-created Atkins menu and my nightly workouts down the cellar where my treadmill and Soloflex are no longer collecting dust.
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OK, now back to those promised pizza recipes. Since I just finished praising my Atkins plan, let's start with a low-carb recipe I borrowed from the Atkins website. (You can check your local grocery for Atkins products or go online at atkins.com for more details.)
Mediterranean Pizza
Crustless Pizza
Deep Dish Pizza
Cheri's Low Carb Pizza
Chicago-Style Pizza
Caramelized Onion and Goat Cheese Pizza
