Banting Buddies Bloemfontein

27/01/2018

What an amazing evening with the most delicious food! Thanks Patzu and Antionette, looking forward to the next banting evening!!

10/01/2018

08/01/2018

Good morning everyone. Lets look at how you should plate a meal. Every plate of food should visually have 70% of vegetables, vegetables can come off both the green and orange lists. If you are counting carbs you want to keep your carbs under 50g a day. The lists I have given you give the amount of carbs per 100g of a food. While onion is 7.64 g of carbs per 100g, it does not mean that you can not use it in cooking to flavor food, just don't go and eat a whole onion by yourself. If your food is not tasty you are not going to stick to the lifestyle, in this regard you will notice that many spices are on the red list, this just means that they are over 25g of carbs per 100g of spice, not that you can't have them, you will also use such small amounts of spices that the carb count is negligible. The only list not to eat from is the banned list. I do however want you to stay away from nuts and seeds, and the nut and seed flours, these stall weight loss and should only be an occasional treat. Eat freely from the green list, then use portion control on the gold list, and include some orange list vegetables. Dairy is on the gold list, but sadly for many women it stalls weight loss so eat it in moderate amounts, besides butter dairy is not classified as a fat - all dairy is made up of fat, carbohydrates and protein. Protein is on the gold list, and I want you to add a palm sized portion (size and thickness) to each meal. Healthy fats are also on the gold list - butter, ghee, olive oil, coconut oil, avo oil, and lard. I want you to add 2 tbsp of healthy fat to each meal, the fat you cook in counts, but make sure you don't leave it in the pan but pour it over the food. There is no reason to be having BPC or fat bombs, these are good for endurance athletes participating in an event, the rest of us can get sufficient healthy fat from our meals, the extra fat consumed in a BPC will stop you eating a nutritious meal. Then add dollops of butter, or banting mayo or dress salads with olive oil and lemon juice. Don't snack unless you are absolutely starving, eat three meals a day if you need to, don't try and cut back to 2 meals unless you really are not hungry. And then follow the rule eat when hungry and stop when full.

02/01/2018

"Pass The Butter ... Please.

This is interesting . .. .

Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back.

It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow colouring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavourings....

DO YOU KNOW.. The difference between margarine and butter?

Read on to the end...gets very interesting!

Both have the same amount of calories.
Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams; compared to 5 grams for margarine.

Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.

Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.
Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few and only because they are added!

Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavours of other foods.

Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years .

And now, for Margarine..

Very High in Trans fatty acids.

Triples risk of coronary heart disease ...

Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

Increases the risk of cancers up to five times..

Lowers quality of breast milk

Decreases immune response.

Decreases insulin response.

And here's the most disturbing fact... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC... and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT.

These facts alone were enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).

Open a tub of margarine and leave it open in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will notice a couple of things:

* no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)

* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value ; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow.

Why? Because it is nearly plastic . Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

Share This With Your Friends.....(If you want to butter them up')!

Chinese Proverb:
When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.

Pass the BUTTER PLEASE" - THANKS NATHAN NEELY

30/09/2017

The Low-Carb Creed has just won two prestigious awards (and remember two BB Coaches contributed to this book) Excellence in Writing and Communication and Excellence in Design. Please ensure your clients get a copy of it.