Let the swordfish sit in the cold water until it is thawed, about one to two hours. Change the water every so often to speed up the thawing process. Alternately, you can continuously run cold water into the bowl for an even quicker thaw.
The consistent carbohydrate meal plan can help stabilize your carbohydrate intake by creating uniformity. The goal is for the amount of carbohydrates you eat each day and at each meal to remain the same. In this sense, the consistent carbohydrate diet is a carb-counting program. It differs from the exchange plan because you keep track of just carbohydrates instead of all food groups.
The American Academy of Family Physicians defines low-carbohydrate diets as diets that restrict carbohydrate intake to 20 to 60 grams per day, typically less than 20% of caloric intake. The body of research underpinning low-carbohydrate diets has grown significantly in the decades of the 1990s and 2000s.