Low Carb

ash777

Has anyone had success going low carb?

Does anyone have any tips?

I've just weighed myself and... the numbers ain't pretty... :S

Just a little Samba

Just remember that low carb doesn't mean no carb, and sugar IS a carbohydrate.

If you eat potatoes, leave the skin on, half the portion or just replace it with more veggies. If you eat rice go for brown, make the portion smaller or replace it with Quinoa or make your own cauliflower rice. cut out bread as much as possivble, if you like your italian food try making your own courgette or carrot pasta with something like this.

But yeah, sugar is the killer, you need to not eat refined sugars. Eating whole fruits and vggies as much as possible and keep your portions of bread, spuds and cereals to a minimum.

Don't try to remove carbs from your diet completely, it's literally impossible.

Remove bread, pasta, cereals, white rice from your diet. Remove junk food such as cake, biscuits, fizzy drinks, crisps. Anything with a long list of ingredients should be off the shopping list. If you do that alone you will see improvements in both your weight and your wellbeing. You don't necessarily need to go on a "low carb diet", removing these items will make you naturally eat less carbs.

Eat loads of green veg - as much as you want really. As the poster above says, if you eat a lot of rice and pasta dishes you can replace them with vegetable pasta and cauliflower rice. Make sure you get enough good fats into your diet if you're reducing carb intake.

What would your current average daily diet be like?

Just a little Samba

Oh yeah, fats are massively important! But they have to be good fats. Fat will help to stop you from feeling hungry.

Remove things like vegetable oils and "light" spreads (flora, lowlow, etc) from your diet as well as mayonnaise. For a mayo substitute if you're making a dipping sauce at home just use greek yogurt. Replace the lowlow and all that crap with real butter. When cooking a piece of meat or veggies on a pan use real butter or something like coconut oil.

Butter has been vilified really unfairly. In Ireland all of our dairy cows are grass fed. That's why it's yellow (as opposed to white like in some other countries).
Because of this it's loaded with really good fat soluble nutrients like beta-carotene, Vitamin K-2, butyrate, Omega-3, CLA, and a load of other brilliant little things which help keep your heart healthy and even help reduce your risk of developing breast cancer during menopause.

There's been a massive trend of promoting coconut oil as the "go to" cooking fat but I feel this is driven by pealo diet woo, coconut oil is a good source of fats only if it's virigin coconut oil, most of the stuff sold here (in tesco, dunnes, asian stores, etc) is processed and not nearly as good, I'd go as far as to say it's not good for you at all.

Per 100g coconut oil is 100g of fat, butter is 81g of fat per 100g, the other 19g is where butter takes the edge over coconut oil, it's the milk solids which contain all the lovely stuff gained from the cows diet if lovely green Irish grass.

Good fat source are things like:
Real butter
Eggs
Avocados
Nuts and nut butters
virgin coconut oil and coconut flesh
Cheese
Oily fish like mackerel
fullfat yoghurt
extra virgin olive oil (notice a trend? less processed better)
fullfat milk

ash777

Just a little Samba, how come you say don't use mayonnaise?

Also, thanks for yer replies!

Just a little Samba

Because it's made with cheap processed vegetable oils and contains 688 calories per 100g and offers pretty much no benefits health wise.

ash777

Ah, okay. God, I never really thought of it as being bad for you, it's billed as healthy, so I kind of took it to be!

snor

Which would be preferable - rice cakes or corn cakes. Like them with peanut butter!

No_Comply

Don't listen to people who tell you to only eat brown rice. Nothing wrong with white rice. The carb content is nearly negligible and there's only slightly less fibre in white rice - which you'll get from other sources anyway if you're eating your vegetables etc.

White rice is tastier and cooks in half the time.

Calories in vs calories out. Some calories are obviously better than others and will be a lot more beneficial you get where you want to be. I'm talking fat from some fish and nuts as opposed to others like the fat you'd get on a pizza. Obvious things like that.

It doesn't have to be complicated....which I've been guilty of in the past myself.

Best of luck.

fussyonion

Are beans high in carbs? I normally buy Bachelor's Mixed Beans.
Today, thinking I was being good, I added three tablespoons of them to my tuna salad, but as I'm on a low-carb eating plan, I'm starting to wonder if I made a mistake with them.

Just a little Samba

Beans are about 62 grams of carbohydrate, 22 grams of protein and 16 grams of fibre per 100g. They are pretty much a perfect foodstuff.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/11802-choose-beans-low-carb-diet/

Mellor

fussyonion wrote: »

Are beans high in carbs? I normally buy Bachelor's Mixed Beans.

They aren't low carb, in the slightest

jacksie66

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verywell

jacksie66, what is your average foods for the day?

jacksie66

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ash777

Jacksie66, how long did it take you to lose 2 stone?