No carb for one day a week vegetarian diet

edellc

So I need to loose the baby weight and I am now at the mind set to stick to it, so I need advice I am trying to eat no carbs for a least one day a week but I'm stuck on what to eat so need help.

I am a vegetarian but a strict one so no poultry or fish either but dairy is okay.

So what do i have for breakfast, lunch and dinner I was having a bowl of bran flakes, a brown bread sandwich, and then something healthy and homemade for dinner but as you can see all contain carbs

RobAMerc

honestly - I can't see how no carbs one day a week could help.
You would be much better off limiting your carb intake to good carbs only or better still limiting them to pre lunch only. lets say, porridge for brekkie, houmous with veg fingers and some wholemeal wraps for lunch (maybe look up low carb pancakes ) and a big broccoli, onion, green pepper with a touch of soy or fish sauce stir fry with cauliflower rice for your dinner. ( all those should be low carb ).

It's not hard and you'll soon feel so much better you'll stick with it.

Mary-Ellen

Spinach/ mushroom omlette,
Nut roast and veg
Tofu stir fry
Scrambled eggs, with grilled tomatoes/ mushrooms
Bolognese/chilli/curry made with quorn with veg instead of rice/pasta etc
Salad
Soup
Asparagus spears with boiled eggs
Sandwich filling wrapped in a lettuce leaf instead of bread

Transform

edellc wrote: »

So I need to loose the baby weight and I am now at the mind set to stick to it, so I need advice I am trying to eat no carbs for a least one day a week but I'm stuck on what to eat so need help.

I am a vegetarian but a strict one so no poultry or fish either but dairy is okay.

So what do i have for breakfast, lunch and dinner I was having a bowl of bran flakes, a brown bread sandwich, and then something healthy and homemade for dinner but as you can see all contain carbs

if the latter part of your post is typical of your normal diet then you have your solution right there

rubadub

RobAMerc wrote: »

honestly - I can't see how no carbs one day a week could help.

Posted yesterday

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45587821#.TuTrPLKgkdx

Cutting carbs two days week and then eating normally for the other 5 days caused weight loss more than restricting cals all week.

This is a very surprising study.

I would like to hear more about the study, if you know the full story it can be be more revealing and possibly not that surprising as it might seem. (e.g. they might have been eating feck all)

El_Dangeroso

Hi Rubadub,

That's a cool one isn't it? Dying to see the paper, don't even have an abstract yet.

It's likely to be a low fat low carb day, they mention lean meats etc. They lost double the weight than the cal restricters too!

I think it might be a sort of nod to intermittent fasting. Generally it's very hard to eat above 800 cals a day if it's low fat low carb.

I'd also say the women, since they knew they were in a weight loss study were not going crazy for the rest of the week.

Still though nice to know you can slowly lose weight for only two days of being really severe.

rubadub

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

Generally it's very hard to eat above 800 cals a day if it's low fat low carb.

Yeah, it is very filling. I had my fingers crossed it was going to be OK to have fatty meat!

I reckon I could manage at least 1 or 2 days a week easy enough.

EDIT I only saw the fat mentioned in the first link after a second read. heres another
http://leisureguy.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/low-carb-diets-beat-low-cal-for-cutting-pounds-and-cancer-risk/

They were asked to follow either:

a low-calorie, low-carbohydrate diet for two days a week
a low-carbohydrate diet that allowed unlimited protein and healthy fats, such as lean meats, olives and nuts, also for two days per week
a low-calorie, Mediterranean-type diet for seven days a week.

Those in the first group were allowed 650 calories on the two days of their regimen. Those in the first two groups were limited to fewer than 50 grams of carbs on their diet days. The third group was allowed 1,500 calories a day.

Must be sticking to the presumption that animal fat is "unhealthy fat"

El_Dangeroso

rubadub wrote: »

Yeah, it is very filling. I had my fingers crossed it was going to be OK to have fatty meat!

I reckon I could manage at least 1 or 2 days a week easy enough.

EDIT
http://leisureguy.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/low-carb-diets-beat-low-cal-for-cutting-pounds-and-cancer-risk/

Must be sticking to the presumption that animal fat is "unhealthy fat"

Oooh, nice find! So even the fat including low carb plan lost the same as the low carb low fat. How bizarre!