consider eating the yolks, but start with 3 eggs instead of 6. Then simply account for the calories (not the fat) and eat less later.

Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, supper like a pauper.

Eat big in the am, and then progressively less through the day.

voila.. eat the eggs, increase your nutrition, lose weight, feel better.

ooohhh… and then improve the quality of the eggs…. ya… switch from store bought to farmers market bought. Better eggs have more nutrition. Store bought eggs are just like potato chips. They look like a food but aren’t really.

the nutrition is IN THE YOLK, not the white.

I ended up eating so many omelets that I got a little burnt out on them and gave them up for a while.

I finally came back around and, now, I’ve been eating several whole eggs just about everyday and love every last bite. If you think about it, it’s like eating an entire chicken. Tons of nutrition packed in there.

Vata tend to never gain weight of any kind and Pita can burn off anything once they get moving.

It’s the protein body type / Kapha that this post is directed towards.

The other purpose of the post is to show that we do not have to avoid whole eggs. it’s the yolk where the nutrition lies. Avoiding it is, IMHO, not a good plan.

Thank you for your comment

Great post and hope this will be shared to anyone!

It consists 1 cup of fat free cottage cheese, 1 cup of raw egg whites, 1/2 a cup of raw rolled oats, 1 cup of water, 4 tablespoons of ovaltine chocolate and 4 table spoons of ovaltine malt. I usually add a banana in every other shake.

I dont know how healthy this is but it tastes great once I blend all of it and it keeps me full for 4 hours. 652 total calories, 95.5g total carbs, 62g protein (including banana). I also supplement this with a B-complex, multivitamin, flax+DHA and CLA taken throughout the day. All ears for any advice! BTW I also switch the whole choco+malt for fresh strawberries and a banana sometimes.

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don’t knock it till you have tried it. this is how you get ripped by stuffing your face with as much as you want, lie around in bed and wake up in the a.m. with six pack abs.

Yes, you do need to ditch the teflon… go for cast iron… NT also recommends cooking the spinach to destroy anti-nutrients prior to consuming.

We eat A LOT of eggs… yolk and all. My 5 yo can even make her own egg scramble at breakfast, with no assistance from me. All my kiddos start the day with 2-3 eggs, hubs is a 4 egg guy and each day varies for me.

I use REAL pastured butter or coconut oil to cook in… and our veggies of choice are zucchinis, mushrooms, and asparagus. We enjoy our spinach in our daily kefir fruit smoothies.

When I am just studying and not doing weight training I can eat 3 eggs cooked in a small aluminum Teflon sauce pan with glass cover with a teaspoon of olive oil wiped around to make the nonstick work. I will not be hungry for 4 to 6 hours after that, no snacks needed or maybe a handful of nuts and green tea. I am trying to add more of your ingredients, but usually I am in a rush in the morning. Maybe when I get my omelet pan out of storage.

When I do weight train. I might be able to eat your omelet. People should adjust the recipe proportionate to what makes them full. Not go hungry or be stuffed. That will vary with their activity level among other things.

I’ve known body builders to burn as much 10,000 calories per day and the average guy does what 2,000 to 2,500? I don’t really worry about calories, but more about what makes me feel good and function well. Keeping sugars down and avoiding high glycemic foods when I can.

When I am feeling lazy and need something to eat before bedtime I will eat a frozen Amy’s vegetarian meal (not many calories). Just enough to do the job and not wake me up in the middle of the night.

I used to eat a double quarter pound hamburger (lettuce and tomatoes,no cheese, no mayonnaise) small or medium fries and 20 oz coke for lunch. So how ever many calories that is, works. Now I am trying to give up the Colas and eat healthier. Not sure what I’ll do when I return to work.

wouldn’t really feed two people if you ask me. Barely feeds one.

with calorie tapering, eating bigger at breakfast (which I propose as the best way to burn fat and lose weight, while still eating and keeping up energy levels), a big breakfast at the beginning of the day and smaller meals to follow, ending with 100 or 200 calories meals in the evening, this recipe is a way to start the day strong.

add a little oatmeal and you’re Scooby!

High glycemic carbohydrates (potatoes, bread, cake, sugar, short and medium grain rices) typically cause a spike in insulin, in response to high blood sugar,that leaves a person hungry within a hour. More sensitive people many even start to shake, get drowsy or fall asleep with low blood sugar. Insulin tries to store blood sugar in the liver and muscles and store excess as fat or get rid of it through the kidneys (frequent urination typical of functional hypoglycemics and diabetics). In Hyperinsulinemia and type II Diabetes lipids inside the cells interfere with the function of insulin.

Former fat guy’s 6 egg omelet would be enough to feed two people in many cases. The kale is a great source of magnesium, calcium, vitamin C, betacarotene, folic acid and many other nutrients. The folic acid helps the liver function properly for a fatburning metabolism. His other vegetable choices are all excellent.

I would not try to go all day without eating another meal, because you don’t want your body to think you are starving. 3 to 6 meals with exercise and you can still burn a lot of fat.

6 meals is more typical of low fat vegan diets. Like those of Dr. Neal Barnard books http://pcrm.org/shop/index.html (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine – PCRM.ORG) and Dr. McDougal (“The McDougal Plan”)

Jorge Cruise (jorgecruise.com – also on facebook) is very good at get sugar out of the diet too).

Congradulation, sounds like you are well on your way. You don’t have to be hungry to lose weight. You can’t lose weight if you insulin levels are up.

Kelly

I love what you do with the fried veggies. We do this quite often as well. My wife and I also love to fry green tomatoes in coconut oil. Since coconut oil doesn’t change chemically when heated, it’s actually healthy to fry foods with it. It can actually help speed up your metabolism.

For some great info on coconut oil, check out http://www.cancertruth.net/newsletter_2009dec.html/#Coconut

Anyway, keep up the good work!

Also that a can of fruit, if I misjudge my activity level, my blood sugar can crash (fatigue or shakes), my toes tingle, fuzzy thinking and hungry again within an hour or worst immediately. After my blood sugar reaches a high enough level, my nose is stuffy too. So better to keep portions small or skip. I have less problems with potatoes, but same thing keep portions small or skip.

If you blood sugar is up, then you insulin is up, which means your not going to lose weight until you bring it back down. The 20 minute walk, climbing stairs (3 or 4 floors) etc.

In the liver there is a group of sulfur bearing amino acids that pass methyl groups around. Without Folic Acid, Vitamin B12 and Betaine, this cycle stops at homocysteine. I think it is part of the fat burning cycle. Anyway it involves cysteine and methionine in the metobolism as well. So spinach provide both the Folic Acid and Betaine and eggs the B12 (unless you lack an intrinsic factor to absorb it). Beets are another good source of Betaine. I have read this is not to be confused with Betain Hydrochloride found in digestive enzymes.

I think the book I read it in is “Methyl Magic, Maximum Health Through Methylation” by Craig Clooney, PhD. mine copy is in storage, but it looks familar.
http://www.amazon.com/Methyl-Magic-Maximum-Through-Methylation/dp/0836235851/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261587775&sr=1-1

You can have too much spinach, and you would likely feel it if you get there. I believe the calcium in spinach is bound to phytic acid (also found in wheat and other grains) and it also contains oxalic acid [like rhubarb does]. The phytic acid in spinach and grains will not interfere will calcium absorption in other greens. So spinach is very nutritious, but eat some other greens, broccoli and/or almonds too.

I have had spinach grow under a layer of snow (from summer crop going to seed). Not sure if all varieties can do that.

According to this article iron absorption is good.
see http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/reprint/114/3/526.pdf and other site on the web or some nutrition and medical books.