Belly Fat Cure Recipe 2/2 Philly Cheese Steak

I started the Belly Fat Cure diet by Jorge Cruise at the first of the year and so far have had good success with it.  I have high insulin on fasting blood test, so good success for me is 1 pound a week.  I lost 3 pounds in my first 2 weeks then have been doing about a pound a week.  It’s slow, but it’s working and I love the food.  I could lose on the Atkins diet but found it too restrictive and boring and I was losing at this same rate.  With this diet I get plenty of high complex whole grains which keeps my pasta and bread cravings down because I do have some of both.  Also the whole grains increase my fiber intake which feels much better and healthier.

I’m going to be posting some of the Belly Fat Cure recipes I’ve created here.  Most of them are 2/2.  This means 2 grams of sugar and 2 carb servings.  One carb serving is up to 20 grams of carbs.  So most recipes are 2 grams of sugar and up to 40 grams of carbs.  I try to keep all my meals to 5 grams of sugar and 40 carbs or less, and prefer to keep the sugars to 2 grams or less. 

Tonight I made Philly Cheese Steak and it was delicious so I thought I should share it.

This is for 2 Philly Cheese Steaks:

• 1 whole small yellow onion (6-7 ounces is about 9 carbs and 4 sugars)
• 1 package of fahita beef strips (half pound for 2 servings has 0 carbs and 0 sugars)
• 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese (2 carbs and 0 sugars)
• 2 low carb 100% whole wheat pitas (27 carbs and 0 sugars each) — I use Soloman brand low carb orginal but you can use any brand you like, Jorge recommends Mr Pita by Sara Lee in his Belly Fat Cure book but my grocery store doesn’t have it.

So each serving is 33 carbs (rounding up) and 2 sugars, a 2/2 Belly Fat Cure meal. 

Slice the onion into onion ring sizes and separate the rings to make the grilling go quickly.  Add about 2 pads of butter to a medium + heat (I use setting 6 of 10) skillet.  Then put the onion rings into the skillet, add salt, pepper and cayanne pepper (if you like spicy) to taste and saute until the onions look clear.  If you cover the skillet it goes much faster (here’s my favorite skillet).  Add a little water if your rings start to scorch.  Once the onions are done add the beef fahita strips and cook to your liking.  Add a little more salt, pepper and cayanne pepper to the beef.  Once the beef is cooked, add the mozzarella cheese to the top, turn the heat off, and put the lid back on until the cheese melts. 

Then serve half of the mixture into each of the 2 pitas and enjoy with a Michelob Ultra because you still have some carbs before we reach our 40 carb max.  A Mic Ultra adds 2.6 carbs taking our total to 36 carbs (so really you can have 2 beers!).

Leave me a comment and let me know what you think!