Coconut Cake

Coconut Cake

Mmm coconut. Delicious and healthy! One of my favourite Low Carb High Fat recipes is this Coconut Cake. You can make it either in spring form or as individual little cakes using a muffin pan.

• 75g of Butter
• Stevia (sweeten according to taste)
• 1 Egg
• 2/3 of a cup (1,5 dl) of Almond Flour
• 1/3 of a cup (1 dl) of Shredded Coconut
• 1 Tsp of Baking Powder
• 1/2 a Tsp of Natural Vanilla Extract
• 1/3 of a cup (1 dl) of Whipping Cream

Put the oven on 175° C (350 ° F). Mix butter and Stevia in a bowl. Add the egg and stir some more. Add almond flour, coconut flakes, vanilla extract and whipping cream. Stir carefully. Butter the pan and sprinkle some coconut at the bottom of it. Then pour mixture into it. Let it sit in the oven for 30 mins. Take out and enjoy with some whipped cream.

My Saturday Night TV Snack

My TV snack tonight consists of Jello with cream, sparkling water and an Atkins chocolate bar (the Atkins version of Snickers)!

Empowered by the Low Carb Diet

Tonight's dinner consisted of a low carb hamburger with rocket salad, red
bell peppers and mayo with a dash of ketchup. Into the burger I stuffed
Camembert and blue cheese. Of course the bun was low carb.

One of the things I love about the low carb diet is that I finally feel like I'm in control of my weight. Having lost three kilos in just five days fills me with a sense of empowerment, which I haven't felt for a long time. When you're stuffing crap into your face, knowing that you'll get fatter from it, you get to a point where you feel utterly out of control (and I'm not even THAT fat).

Gone are those days and I look forward to seeing more results tomorrow.

Baking: A Part of the Low Carb Lifestyle

If you're contemplating the low carb lifestyle and don't like cooking or baking, you're in a bit of trouble. Why? Well since most of the foodstuff you need to eat when you're monitoring your carb intake isn't readily available in your local grocery store (at least not in Iceland or other countries I've visited, which are quite a few). Anywho, in order to tackle this problem head first, best find your apron and put on your baking mood.

Today, I've spent a couple of hours getting ready for a TV night tonight and then a two day trip I'm taking the family on. That means baking and cooking. For tonight I put together a very tasty ice cream, which adheres to the low carb diet. This is what I did:

Ice Cream

My daughter dipping into the vanilla ice cream.

• 5 eggs.
• 5 tablespoons xylitol.
• Whip together for 5 minutes with flavoring of your choice (I divided the recipe into two and added one espresso into one bowl and two teaspoons of vanilla essence to the other one). 
• In a separate bowl, whip 5 dl of cream.
• Mix carefully and slowly to egg mixture and dump into the freezer for a couple of hours.

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Tonight I'm feeding the family hamburgers. Since fatsos like me can't eat the regular kind of hamburger buns, I made my own. This what low carb buns look like:

Hamburger Buns

Hamburger buns or just bread rolls. 

• 2 eggs.
• 3 dl almond flour.
• 2 teaspoons baking powder.
• 1 teaspoon salt.
• 2.5 dl boiled water.

1. Mix together the dry ingredients.
2. Add the eggs and mix.
3. Add the boiled water.
4. Leave to set for a 5 minutes, as mixture is very moist.
5. Cover an oven plate with baking paper.
6. Divide mixture in five.
7. Bake for 50 minutes in a 180°C warm oven.

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For the travelling I plan to take four of the hamburger buns and use as sandwiches (tastes better than it sounds). Also, I will be taking crisp bread, also baked today. Tastes great with butter only, cheese or cottage cheese (a personal favorite). This what you do:

Crisp Bread

What the crisp bread looked like, before it hit the oven.

• 4 dl sesame seeds.
• 4 dl linseeds.
• 2 dl pumpkin seeds.
• 2 dl sunflower seeds.
• 2 dl egg whites (about 6 egg whites).
• 3 dl boiling water.
• 1 tablespoon salt.

1. Mix it all together and leave to set for about 20 minutes.
2. Divide mixture into two parts and spread each part on an oven plate (make sure it's not too thick or too thin).
3. Bake at 120°C in an hot-air oven for 1 hour.

Adios, fatsos!

In the morning I usually have a cup of black coffee with
coconut oil in it, which tastes better than I dared to hope.

Hurrah! We're getting there! When I hauled my ass to the scale this morning an unknown number greeted me. It read: 95.6 kilograms, which means I'm 2.8 kilograms less of a chubby bastard today than I was when I shoved the last couple of carbohydrates into my fat mouth, five days ago.

Stood naked in front of the mirror this morning (I know, not a pretty sight!), I felt like I was less of a hyppo than when I started. Since I've long suspected that my scales were lying to me, I decided to locate a scientifically proven equipment which could proof beyond a shadow of a doubt that I was a lesser man today then a few days ago: A measurement tape!

Last Sunday I actually measured myself high and low and wrote down. I measured my pecs, thighs, triceps and gut. Today's results were convincing that I was on the right track. My tummy had shrunk by 4 cm, my pecs and triceps were unchanged and my thigh was a little be larger (which I think is due to a great session in crossfit this week). 

Like I said, it's all in the right direction if all goes according to plan, there will be less of me to love in a week.

Cooking Jamie Oliver Recipes, Low Carb Style!

I don't get away with offering my family just anything for dinner. I would never say that my wife was particular about her food, but I might get away with saying that she has a polished palate when it comes to food (and men). My older daughter is, on the other hand, a fuzzy eater (don't know where she gets that from), while my younger daughter is like a trash can: Takes anything (don't know where she gets that from).

With a situation like that cooking is a challenge, which usually falls onto the lap of your dearly beloved fatso. But really, cooking low carb for everyone is actually less of a challenge than you might think. In my case, I only add one dish which has a lot of carbs for those who can eat carbs without ballooning.

Last night I cooked a Jamie Oliver recipe. Chicken breasts, seasoned with S&P, grated lemon peel and fresh thyme. Slicing the breasts into two thinner slices is a good idea, as it's quicker to cook them on the pan. With this I served a potato mash with butter and sweet corn, which you add after having mashed the potatoes (for me, mash with cauliflower and cilantro). On the side: Tomato and basil salad with a little bit of red wine vinaigrette and olive oil.

A walk in the park and everybody was happy (aside from the fuzzy baby, which eventually got toast with cheese).

My Fat Percentage Jumped!

Dragged my fat ass to the scale this morning and for a moment I was really happy. The scale announced that my fat ass was 500 grams lighter today than yesterday. Then the sky turned grey and I was struck with devastating news: My fat percentage had gone up by 0.8 percentage points.

Muscles way more than fat, so naturally I wondered whether the little muscles I had had disappeared and blubber taken over? I'm going to find out the truth in this matter. 

(And so I don't forget. A friendly lady named Anna pointed out to me that adding a little bit of butter -- or a lot of butter -- to my eggs in the morning should make them more pleasant to eat).