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The Best Low Carb Diet Menu - Beef Roulade

June 6th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

Here is one of the best low carb diet menu items for all of you beef lovers - a Beef Roulade. This rolled steak is delicious and keeps within the Kimkin Diet plan guidelines. It is a very attractive looking meat course, yet is very easy to prepare.

Beef Roulade Ingredients

3 lbs flank steak

1 cup Kimkins veggies, chopped “smallish”

3 Tbs garlic, minced (jarred OK)

0.5 Cup mozzarella, shredded, part skim to taste

Salt, pepper & garlic powder

Instructions

Have your butcher pound out the steak or do it yourself with a meat mallet to about 1/4″ thick
Sprinkle the steak with spices, veggies and minced garlic
Sprinkle with mozzarella and press all layers down gently
Begin rolling the meat from one end being careful not to squeeze the filling out. End seam side down.
Pam spray large baking dish
Bake at 350 degrees for 60-90 minutes, or until meat thermometer reads 150 degrees at the center of the roll
Remove from oven, cover loosely with foil and let set for 10 minutes
Slice in 1″ slices (2 slices per serving)
Arrange so the center shows the pinwheel design

This is one of the best low carb diet menu items and just happens to be one of Kimmer’s favorites. We think that this recipe will please even the “pickiest” of family members. So, why suffer through one of the other diets pre-packaged meals when you can make your own scrumptious steak with a fancy twist - a Beef Roulade!

My Kimkin Diet on Cruise Control - Weeks 7 & 8

June 4th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

kimkin diet More Weight Loss - Weeks #7 & #8

These two weeks went by quickly and smoothly. I didn’t deviate from the Kimkin Diet one iota - ate protein, a few carbs, and lots of water. Dinners out went very smoothly.

I’ve gotten into a bit of a boring routine by cooking most of my dinners on the weekend and sticking them into baggies and then just grabbing them during the week. It takes the scary moments I used to have with standing in front of the open refrigerator trying to decide what to make (and not grabbing a taste or two).

I have gotten into the habit of not eating lunch if I am not hungry (really just common sense at this point) and then eating a regular dinner with maybe a little extra protein. My calories are dipping under 500 a day, depending on which protein I choose. I am avoiding all dairy products, though. Dairy is technically “low carb”, but because they really give me a craving for more, have lots of calories, and for some reason slow down my weight loss, I chose to just avoid them.

Anyway, at the end of 8 weeks on the Kimkin Diet – I’m at 217 or about 42 pounds down. The good news is that we are almost caught up – my next post will be it and then the good old “daily” diet grind stuff.

Just so you know, I passed the 50 pounds mark today (hurray!). Another newsworthy item is that Kimmer of Kimkins was featured in Woman’s World magazine this week, along with two of the Kimkins Diet followers - Christin and Deni. Why not check it out at your local news stand or at the supermarket checkout lane?

Who is Kimmer of Kimkins Diet Fame?

May 30th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

We have been asked by a number of readers; “who is Kimmer of Kimkins?” Is she real or is Kimmers fake, just a figment of some marketing guru’s imagination? Well, let us tell you, she is every bit as real as you and me.

Probably the biggest difference between Kimmer and the rest of us is that she has lost 200 pounds, from a high of 318 pounds to 118 pounds today, and has kept the weight off for over 6 years! She lost 160 pounds in only 7 months while losing a total of 198 pounds in the span of just 11 months - what a testament to her own diet – the Kimkins Diet Plan.

Kimmer was the proverbial yo-yo dieter, like so many of us have been, with the cycle of weight loss followed by weight gain over and over again. As you can imagine, her life was less than ideal at the heavier weight levels, but it took a defining moment in her life to make her decide that she was going to lose her weight once and for all.

After trying all the popular diet plans, she decided to formulate her own diet plan utilizing the best and most effective weight loss strategies from all of the popular low carb diets. What she didn’t know at the time was that she was about to create one of the most effective fast weight loss programs available today – the Kimkins Diet.

You can find Kimmer these days cruising in the various Kimkin diet forums giving great advice and lots of encouragement to all of us in our weight loss quests. She has been featured in a number of popular magazines and is becoming well known in the low carbohydrate diet circles.

So, we hope you now have a little better idea of who is Kimmer of Kimkins and how well she can relate to our struggle for permanent and fast weight loss.

Weeks 3 & 4 of My Kimkins Diet Plan

May 23rd, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

So far, I hadn’t posted anything on the Kimkins forum, a little shy I guess. But everyday I would scour it for more low carb diet information. Everyone was talking about the Boot Camp program that Kimmer put together for someone who really wanted to lose weight fast. This person lost 100 lbs in 5 months – I guess it helped!!!!!

Kimkins Boot Camp – Should I or Shouldn’t I?

The voluntary Boot Camp is a two week program that includes 30 minutes of cardio exercise each day. Now they say that you can break up the 30 minutes into at least a couple of 15 minutes blocks. So I say – how hard can it be?

The eating plan was slightly modified and a lot more controlled. Still, I wasn’t hungry and it was nice to have some green vegetables. I had no problem following the diet menu plan at all, and made it through the whole two week period without any cheating. In fact, I hadn’t cheated on plan at all – not even once!

Don’t think I stayed home every night either. My husband and I ate out at least twice a week and, so far, I’ve made smart choices whenever out. In fact, this is the only time I allowed myself a beloved Diet Coke.

Boot Camp – Sort of!

I can’t pat myself on the back for the exercise portion though. I think I went walking once during this two-week period. The lack of exercise is why I don’t think I made my Boot Camp goal of losing 10 lbs. during this two week period. I have no excuse – I just didn’t do it.

Kimkins touts that you can lose weight on the program with no exercise, and you really can. I proved that. But you will most likely lose more weight when you are exercising. Perhaps I’ll try another Boot Camp soon and see if it doesn’t make a difference.

Breaking Through a Plateau (or a Stall)

What I did find during the Boot Camp is that I stopped losing weight for a few days. No cheating, no changes in my diet, no nothing – including lost pounds. I noticed a forum topic about the practice of Fasting, so I checked it out. I decided to try this little secret to see if that would help me break my “stall”. After about 48 hours, I was down almost three pounds and able to get going again.

In my next post, I will tell you a little bit about the benefits of having support during your weight loss experience…