Low carb help please

Kayleen

I have been trying to eat low-carb now for nearly two weeks but am still not sure that I have mastered it!!
Think I am ok for lunch and breakfast but its the evenings I need help with

Dinner is typically breast of chicken or piece of fish and I have cauliflower (the riced version!) brocolli, spinach

Is it ok to eat berries and natural yogurt in the evening as a snack (would it be better if the yogurt was low fat or not)

If I am trying to avoid eating carbs in the evening is what I have posted ok?? or can you suggest low carb evenning snacks

Should I be trying for low-fat too cause I have nuts during the day and then if I am having full fat yougurt is this not too much fat

Don't seem to be shifting this extra belly

Thanks in advance for any help busy at work so may not get a chance to reply until later:eek:

El_Dangeroso

Firstly, be patient, you're not going to see a massive difference in the first two weeks of any diet.

Low carb is high fat, low fat is high carb, Mediterranean is moderate carb, moderate fat (I think.) you have to eat something, you can't do both for very good reasons.

Dinner is very low in fat, add some olive oil or butter to veggies or melt some cheese over the chicken (little tomato paste & Parmesan = chicken parma)

Berries and natural yoghurt (Greek yoghurt is best - not 'greek style') should be ok, although I would personally stay away from anything sweet for a month just to readjust the taste buds, then things like carrots and berries taste incredible. But if it will help you keep on track and doesn't stall you it's fine.

If you are hunting around for something to eat in the evening, you more than likely didn't eat enough during the day. Try and eat a bigger dinner. It's important to eat as much as you want for the first week while waiting for the appetite suppression to kick in. Ensure you get enough protein at each meal, not just dinner time.

It's also a good idea to vary your food otherwise it can get boring, you can make lots of your favourite food with just a few substitutions, you already know about the cauli rice, but you can make fajitas or burritos and use lettuce instead of a wrap, goulash with sweetheart cabbage, chicken with pesto and cream with a spinach and broccoli, the possibilities are endless!

Good snacks are boiled eggs, nuts, beef jerky, pork rinds, smoked salmon and cream cheese roll ups, celery sticks filled with nut-butter, Deli ham slices wrapped around a pickle..etc

Kayleen

Temple, many thanks for your reply.
I am really nervous about going high fat with foods - thats the weightwatcher side of me emerging:)
I can and have lost weight effectively with WW but always tend to put back on around 10lbs so this time I was trying to do it by staying away from the low-point snacks that I tend to eat a lot of.

Can you help me out with my day please

Breakfast is ALWAYS either 30g of porridge made with water and a handful of nuts (unsalted) OR 1 egg scrambled with egg white added and one slice of wholemeal bread - no butter
How does this rate??

mid morn - handful of nuts or fruit like apple and pear

Lunch is ALWAYS tuna (with full fat mayo) or chicken breast with salad which consists of lettuce, cucumber, mixed peppers, red onion and pineapple. cut out the chilli sauce dressing following advice from this forum earlier last week. Sometimes I would have 2 rye ryvita topped with low cal cheese spread like laughin cow lite with my lunch
How is this for lunch??

Afternoon again nuts or fruit

Evening meal as stated earlier

I still feel as though I am going wrong somewhere although I know that it is much better than many peoples diets
Really only looking to drop 10lbs but want to keep it off this time

My biggest weakness is red wine
2gls on Fri
and often quiet a bit more on Sat but at least I have stopped snacking while drinking
Exercise is very good - 3 runs in the week and 2 circuit classes
I am a hungry creature and LOVE food!!!!!!
Willpower is not at its strongest in the evening/night time!!

Any advice from anyone is welcome

El_Dangeroso

I really think your tying yourself up in knots!

You're mixing a bit of low fat, weightwatchers and low carb all in together and it ain't gonna work, plus your probably stressing yourself out which is really bad for weight loss.

I'd really recommend buying a book and stick to the plan to the letter. It's hard to convey everything you need to know in a forum post and there's loads of contradictory info out there, even on this forum.

I'd recommend 'The idiot proof diet', it's the bright pink one and it's really straightforward and practical, that's the one that lost me four stone although I've moved on to something else to maintain. I've recommended it to several people now and some did really well on it and some decided it wasn't for them.

Go into a bookshop after work and have a good long browse. Pick something you can stick with long term, recipes are a good guide to whether or not a plan is going to suit you.

Best of luck!

Kayleen

Think you are probably right!

All the conflicting info is SO confusing me

Many thanks for all your help and I will buy the book
And well done on such a fantastic weight loss:)

metamorphosis

Id also reccomend idiot proof diet (can be girly in 1 or 2 places) but even been a guy, tthe 1st 70 pages are looking at the mental battles with food which makes the book alone worth it. this book will lay it all out there from the low carb induction to re introduction over a number of months.