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.
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