Too many carbs, not enough protiene!

Pescetarians can get their protein from fish, dairy, eggs, beans, grains, soy products (like tofu, soy milk, tempeh), and faux meats made from gluten (seitan). If you want more protein, try building your meals around these foods and then adding the carbohydrates to round things out.

saramichelle89 wrote: »

You say you are eating most of your carb allotment for the entire day at breakfast - what are you eating? With every meal in order to lower your carbs and sugars you need to have lots and lots of veggies, no starches. Cook them plain. Alternate between raw and cooked. No canned veggies though, too much sodium. Unused sodium turns to sugar which turns to fat! You can do lots of white fish with veggies and salads. It gets boring, but thats where "sodium free seasoning" like Mrs. Dash comes in to play! :-)

I have never before heard that unused sodium turns to sugar -- source?

milk_burp wrote: »

I'm trying to avoid paltry, and red meat... I also have a bad sweet tooth. I find that I've used most of my carbs for the day at brekafast. I'm not much of a chef, but I'm doing my best. How do I raise my protiene intake, lower my carbs, and sugars, while maintaining a pescetarian diet?

What's your calorie allowance that you've used most of your carbs? That's a lot of carbohydrate to eat!

As janejellyroll said, pescetarians can get their protein from fish, dairy, eggs, beans, grains, soy products, and meat substitutes as well as protein powders (if, for example, you eat oatmeal for breakfast, you can stir in protein powder).

I'm a vegetarian and find it very, very easy to get a large amount of protein mainly from cottage cheese, protein powder, powdered peanut butter, whole grains and egg whites most days.

milk_burp wrote: »

I'm trying to avoid paltry, and red meat... I also have a bad sweet tooth. I find that I've used most of my carbs for the day at brekafast. I'm not much of a chef, but I'm doing my best. How do I raise my protiene intake, lower my carbs, and sugars, while maintaining a pescetarian diet?

Okay, so you don't eat poultry or red meat, so I assume like others that means you eat fish and otherwise avoid meat, right?

If so, great sources of protein are fish and shellfish, eggs and dairy, legumes (beans and lentils, with soybeans deserving a call out with tofu, tempeh, edamame), seitan, plus there is protein in grains, nuts and seeds, and a variety of vegetables.

First question, though, as others have asked: what are your goals? To protect against muscle loss at a deficit I'd recommend .6-.8 g of protein per lb of goal weight, but sometimes people think they need more. That amount should not be hard to get with all the options available to you. Also, how many carbs? You don't need to cut carbs to lose (and if you are doing a low carb diet for medical reasons, that would be good to know).

I am not sure how it's possible to use up carbs at breakfast otherwise. I normally eat around 150 g of carbs when losing (although at times I've done lower), and if I have a balanced breakfast with protein and fat too (or even just with protein too) it's not going to be especially high carb. One breakfast I like is a 2 egg omelet with a couple (or more) different vegetables and maybe some feta cheese. (I make sure one of the vegetables is a green, like spinach, kale, chard, but that's for my own reasons.) With that, because I like to start the day with lots of protein, I usually have smoked salmon or low fat cottage cheese.

A couple of other breakfasts I have, also aimed at getting plenty of morning protein are:

Oatmeal with protein powder or greek yogurt plus some berries (although savory oats can be good too, and for that I add a vegetable like cauliflower and a couple of eggs). When I have the oatmeal with berries I normally have some vegetables on the side, since I like having vegetables with breakfast.

The other, mainly in the summer (but maybe good for a sweet tooth) is a smoothie. Mine always have lots of vegetables (lately winter squash (cooked ahead and in the refrigerator), green pepper, spinach, plus protein power or greek yogurt (or both) and homemade cashew milk (you can buy this, but the homemade kind has more real nuts and thus more fat, which I like). Then I add some frozen strawberries. This combination isn't what I'm recommending (I like it, but don't assume it would appeal to all) but playing around with different combinations. It's not low carb, but I don't see that it should use up carbs unless your limit is quite low, again.

But there are literally millions of possibilities -- among other things, you should eat what seems enjoyable to you, and also remember that breakfast food can be anything. When I first started I wasn't into breakfast and would have a salad with some protein source on it (often chicken, so that wouldn't work for you, of course) for breakfast.

That's...odd...

That post is gone - the one being quoted. I don't see any particular reason that it would get deleted. I wonder if that poster reported her own post?

TR0berts wrote: »

That's...odd...

That post is gone - the one being quoted. I don't see any particular reason that it would get deleted. I wonder if that poster reported her own post?

Nope. After it got quoted, the poster went in and edited her post to say some, um, unkind things instead. Looks like it then got deleted.

And yes, the content of the original post was completely false, so please, OP, pay it no mind.

snickerscharlie wrote: »

TR0berts wrote: »

That's...odd...

That post is gone - the one being quoted. I don't see any particular reason that it would get deleted. I wonder if that poster reported her own post?

Nope. After it got quoted, the poster went in and edited her post to say some, um, unkind things instead. Looks like it then got deleted.

And yes, the content of the original post was completely false, so please, OP, pay it no mind.

Ah, that makes sense.

Noel_57 wrote: »

I always thought excess sodium turned into Hasenpfeffer.

Only at Easter.