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Was reading this post of premkudva and was reminded of my stint with Atkins Diet.

During the 2 months period that I followed this diet, I ate eggs eggs and more eggs. I averaged close to 10 eggs per day and I followed this rigidly for about 2 months before I got bored of it.

On an other note, I have always loved to eat eggs and egg preparations. During my school days, my standard breakfast used to comprise of 2 eggs and 8 slices of bread. The bread was usually butter toasted and the eggs were mostly hard boiled or as an omelette. So I guess that explains my profile, though I blame most of it on the after effects of a tonic called Vidalin. Seems I was damn skinny during babyness and my parents fed me this tonic to make me round. Well… it did have the desired effect me thinks. >:-s

So back to the atkins diet. Here is how it goes. You are supposed to stop eating or reduce to minimum your intake of carbohydrates. So most of your daily intake will be fats and proteins. The logic goes like this. Normally going on a diet or reducing your eating causes your body also to reduce its metabolism to save food. Also normally, fats are stored in the body for later use and carbs are broken down for energy. Now when you start eating fats and dont give the body carbs, then the body begins to start breaking down the stored fats for energy over time. In this case, since there are no carbs coming your way, the body shifts to digesting the stored fasts almost immediately. Ultimately even the incoming fats are being broken down as the body has adjusted itself to a new kind of fuel. This thinking sounded logical to me and I decided to try it.

Now, the problem here is that all healthy and fatty foods are non veg and I being a veggie (or rather an eggie) didnt have any fatty food to eat except of course cheese, butter and eggs. So there you have it, that was very well 90% of my diet during those long 2 months. Of course once in 3-4 days, I would go out to a nearby stall and eat some chicken chettinad that was available there. Non veg was restricted in my house but I was never restricted from having any. So I had eggs for breakfast, eggs for lunch, eggs for tiffin and eggs for dinner or more specifically, 4 eggs for breakfast, 4 eggs for lunch, 2 eggs for tiffin and 3 eggs for dinner. And the occassionaly chicken, but only in the form of some curry. I didnt want to have biryani or any other chicken dish as I didnt wanna eat carbs which in this case is rice.

So on it went and in this course of time I became and expert in the preparation of egg dishes. Among the ones that I remember (the names) are the usual, hard boiled eggs, soft boiled eggs, plain omlette, vegetable omlette, cheese omlette (a fav among my friends), poached/dropped eggs, deviled eggs, french toast and many more. It may come as  asurprise that I can cook, but there is one thing that I love more than eating and that cooking. I keep trying out various combos at home which of course only I dare to sample and which many of my friends have scoffed at. (more in the appendix).

Well basically that was what the toast was about, to show off my cooking skills. Of course since then I have not cooked too much. I’ve been wanting to bake a cake and some cookies since my last birthday but I have always kept postponing that plan and now its almost past an year since I first planned that. So, anytime you want to know anything about my egg preparations or my egg cooking skills then do drop me a post.

And before I forget, I was in perfect health during those 2 months without any sign of weakness or heartburn. I did have any problems and the best part was that I lost almost 8 kgs. I dropped from around 100 kilos to 90 kilos. Was I in 7th heaven or what? But it does take a serious toll on your taste buds eating egg all day.

Appendix:

Some of the combos that I love and most other friends of mine hate are as follows. Its not that they dont like the combo. The biggest problem is that they have never tried it and just cringe at the mention of it. This is what I have to say, “Try it for yourself and if you still dont like it(genuinely), then I will eat my straw hat(with some ketchup of course)”. The problem is that if such a thing is served in big restaurants and posh eateries then people wont complain, but if a common person says then they are afraid to try it and start pointing fingers.

1) Curd-Rice with Jam (mixed fruit preferably)
2) Sweet Milk-Rice with Cadbury Gems
3) Kesari Bath(little extra sweet) with Coconut Chutney(little extra hot)

Appendixer:

premkudva had mentioned somewhere about making omelettes fluffy. Here is my recipe for that. Mix a little bit of sugar in the omelette batter. Mix as little as possible that it doesnt overwhelm the egg taste and make it sweet and mix it thoroughly so that you dont bite into the sugar cubes while eating the omlette. Then beat it like your life depended on it. I have never used an egg beater, so I cant comment on that. My tools are the simple tumbler and spoon. Then pour the frothy egg batter onto the frying pan and just as the outer parts begins to cook to a good firmness, press sharply and firmly the omelette to the frying pan in small jabs with a flat ladle(dont know what that piece of cutlery is called, the one used to make chappatis and dosas) and the egg will rise giving it that fat and spongy look and that yummy taste.

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kuku

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