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Why a low carbohydrate microwave cookbook?

A great many of my clients find the switch from a high carbohydrate to a low carbohydrate diet very stressful because they aren't sure what to eat. They also don't want to spend hours and hours in the kitchen preparing low carbohydrate meals. The problem is that if they have not had a meal for some hours, their carbohydrate craving will become even more intense until finally they binge out on carbohydrates (bread, sweets, doughnuts etc etc etc).

The solution I finally came up with was the book you now have in your hands, a low carbohydrate microwave recipe book! Meals that can be prepared quickly and without time-consuming cleaning up afterwards. Although there are countless low carbohydrate cookbooks on the market most of their recipes are not suitable for the first two weeks of most low carbohydrate eating regimes (e.g. the Atkins Diet, NZ Low Carb Lifestyle, and the South Beach Diet). This cookbook is designed with the first two weeks of most low carbohydrate eating regimes in mind. The ingredients used all comply with the Carb Addiction Rehab Phase House Rules.

Nutritional basis of the recipes In my opinion, the main objective of any low carbohydrate lifestyle should be to eliminate deprivation. Typically, low calorie diets limit calories by limiting portion sizes, and consequently leave dieters obsessing about food all day long. The main attraction of the low carbohydrate lifestyle, on the other hand, is the unlimited consumption of certain food groups allowed to its followers, hence putting a stop to food deprivation once and for all. For this reason, the recipes are divided into two groups: recipes you are allowed to have as much as you want of as frequently as you want and recipes you are only allowed once per day. Therefore, to put a stop to the calorie-counting habit practised by many individuals, nutritional information is deliberately omitted from this cookbook.