Dinner is usually fish or sometimes a chicken leg (skinned) that I simmer on the stove top for an hour (I simmer 6 or 8 at a time). Often my dinner is a half pound of fresh wild king salmon that I baked on a wood cooking plank that I use for all my fish cooking. Nothing better for us and it tastes wonderful with salt, pepper, lemon, and capers.
Sometimes I will have one of my favorite low-carb veggies with dinner. Like an artichoke with mayo or okra with a butter substitute that has no trans-fats.
My favorite snacks are avocados and a handful of raw almonds. I also love edamame.
All of this assumes that I'm at home. And right now I'm not.
As I write this I'm overnighting in a Reno motel. In my "Nevada" post on my "Fitness and Photography for Fun" blog I covered my favorite road foods.
On August 2 I will begin a two-week trip 100-mile hike through the Emigrant, Hoover, and Yosemite wilderness areas of the Sierras. My producer at Health Central will post this article on my behalf about half way through my hike.
When I am on a day hike at lunch time, my usual lunch will be a handful of raw almonds and/or one or two cans of sardines or mackerel from VitalChoice.com. That's easy.
But this two-week trip is a lot more challenging. Breakfast of GreensFirst and protein powder is no problem. But since we won't have any fresh veggies, salads are out of the question.
I will take along my usual almonds and cans of sardines. For a little variety I hope that other members of the Sierra Club group that I'm hiking with are better fishermen than I am.
Of course, we won't hunt any game, whether big or small. And unlike John Muir who made many long hikes in the Sierras with nothing but tack bread, that won't work for me. However, I do expect to go a little off my very low-carb diet if the camp cook serves beans, which have the virtue of being at least low glycemic.
Not a lot to eat! No wonder I have been able to lose half my body weight. But I very, very seldom get hungry at all. And all of my food is delicious and healthy. At least it is delicious to me. Everybody is different!
It works for me. On this diet I have kept my weight down to a BMI of 19.0 and my A1C to 4.8 percent, which is in the normal range. That's what really counts.
