Low Carb Meals

I have cheat days over the weekends. But on weekdays, I try to stick to low-carb meals as best as I can.

I love breads but because they’re high in carbs, I eat half a slice (if thick) or a slice (if thin) and spread it with nuts or seeds spread like peanut butter, almond butter or black sesame paste. I always eat my carbs together with protein and fats to minimize blood-sugar spikes. Foods high in protein and fats help slow down the digestion of glucose, which helps stabilize blood sugar.

Having at least a serving of green veggies every day is a must. For convenience, I like buying ready-to-eat salads that are triple-washed. Though expensive, but I save on water and time. Thankfully our girls love raw salads too, especially Cass, who’s a health and fitness freak just like her mom. We add proteins and healthy fats such as avocado, eggs, cheese and nuts into our salads.

For meats, I love lean char siu, roast chicken breast, steamed kampung chicken, pork chops (my weakness) and fried fish (another kryptonite of mine!).

My kind of ideal meal would be a poke bowl composed of grilled fish or chicken breast, caulirice and loads of nuts, seeds, onions, garlic, seaweed and veggies. Cass is just like me and she loves poke bowl. Today I ordered Fish Bowl from Gardens Malls via Grab Food for lunch. Cass and I shared the bowl, with toppings of grilled miso salmon, seaweed salad, corns, wakame, seeds, nuts and loads of veggies. I had the rice replaced with caulirice.

Scrumptious low-carb caulirice poke bowl from Fish Bowl @ The Gardens Mall for lunch today.

Cass cooked this super big bowl of asam laksa konjac noodles and shared it with me on Saturday. She added Romaine lettuce, eggs, foo pei, and lobster balls. She also added a piece of plain Vit’s instant noodles. Thus, her XXL bowl was filled to the brim with noodles and ingredients! I only took the konjac noodles.

My dinner on Saturday – homecooked rice wine chicken with black fungus and ginger slices sans rice. I only remembered to snap a photo midway through enjoying my meal. It’s my favorite dish. The mil made the rice wine herself.

Breakfast with hubs on Saturday. We first had the famous kai si hor fun (chicken noodles) at Jalan San Peng and then segued over to Tiger Jit Singh Chapati (just next to the chicken noodles stall). He had chapati while I had my favorite Rava Thosai (only ate half). I love Thosais as they are lighter, less oily and not as cloy as other rotis.

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For people who don’t know me well, they think that I starve myself so that I look gaunt. There are some elderly relatives who always think that I don’t eat any food so that I look stick thin. So each time we meet up, they will comment about my weight and lecture me, duh 🙄 But I don’t do that, nor do I have bulimia. I eat almost everything that I crave but in moderate amounts. Plus I have good genes 😁 as both my parents are thin. My mum is super skinny as she has an ultra small tummy and is a small eater. However, she eats many meals a day and 99% of her meals are homecooked, nutritious and wholesome. So I think I have inherited her DNA as I’m also a very, very small eater but need to eat several small meals a day. Gone are the days when I could stuff myself at buffets till I felt like puking 🤢 😆. We hardly go for hotel buffets now as both hubs and I can’t gobble down so much food like how we used to two decades ago.

But I do miss having our weekly Sunday Japanese buffet lunch at Sheraton Subang and PJ Hilton when Alycia and Sherilyn were toddlers.

I don’t starve myself but I go for low-carb meals. But there are still people who think that low-carb meals are bad and insist that I eat rice and carbs as rice is a miracle, cure-all food 🤣. Anyway it’s my body and I do what’s best for myself. These people don’t know that I battled PCOS (an insulin disorder) for years yonks ago. And PCOS caused infertility and that was another battle that I had to go through. And they don’t know that my late maternal granny had diabetes, thus I have to watch my intake of carbs and sugar as diabetes is hereditary.

Anyway, I’ll do me 😀.

These are some of my low-carb meals. Nothing fancy schmancy but delish. Portion control is key in reducing / maintaining your weight.