Showing posts with label protein recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label protein recipes. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Add protein to diet with cottage cheese

As part of my attempt to improve my diet and body appearance, I got the book The 4-Hour Body from the library.  It has some interesting stuff in it.  One thing this guy pushes is eating at least 20 grams of protein at each meal and eating 5-6 meals a day of about 200 calories each.  Well, I have always had a problem with portions.  I will eat until I feel like I am bursting.  I really need to find some way to restart my "I am full" hormone.  Until then, there was a suggestion I saw somewhere to premake everything I eat and eat the same thing week after week so the calories only have to be counted once.  I am actually kind of in the process of doing that, so I can kind of do both at the same time.  The book suggests eating 4 eggs at breakfast, but I want to save my eggs for a snack at work.  The 4-Hour Body suggested replacing the eggs with cottage cheese.  When I saw the price and sodium content of cottage cheese at the grocery store, I started searching the internet for instructions to make cottage cheese at home.  There are actually two different processes.  One of them uses a buttermilk starter to make cultured cottage cheese; I wonder if yogurt could serve this purpose.  The other is just curdling milk using vinegar; this could create some interestingly flavored cottage cheese.

Jillian Michael's book, Master Your Metabolism, actually suggests carbs for breakfast rather than protein.  Now I am wondering who is correct.