Low carb diet

derick337

Is a low carb diet healthy.

Alatariel75

Like most diets, it can be healthy or unhealthy depending how you run it. If you make sure to get lots of nutrient dense foods and meet your macro and micro goals, it can be perfectly healthy.

derick337

I pretty much eat 3eggs for breakfast that's two egg whites and one whole egg boiled for lunch I will eat something like broiled fish and mix veggies. Dinner grilled chicken breast or chicken salad something like that I normally switch on the meats. I guess that would be considered a low car diet?

Alatariel75

Are you logging in MFP? Do you know how many calories and grams of carbs you're taking in?

livingleanlivingclean

What does your wife recommend? Does she think a low carb diet eating the foods you've suggested is healthy?

BigNate17

derick337 wrote: »

Is a low carb diet healthy.

It's healthy if:

1.) You enjoy eating low carb
2.) You're hitting your macros and micros consistently
3.) You can see yourself eating a low carb diet forever. Because if not then you're just asking for a bad rebound

Old_Cat_Lady

I eat high carb and I'm losing weight. I love my plain sweet potato with a side of grilled chicken. I watch total calories. I am avoiding flour products since they don't fill me up and seem to be high in calories.

ZoneFive

derick337 wrote: »

I pretty much eat 3eggs for breakfast that's two egg whites and one whole egg boiled for lunch I will eat something like broiled fish and mix veggies. Dinner grilled chicken breast or chicken salad something like that I normally switch on the meats. I guess that would be considered a low car diet?

I gotta say that sounds terrifically boring.

I usually have ham, eggs & cheese for breakfast. Or maybe yogurt with muesli & berries. For lunch I'll have a chef salad, or a Cobb salad, or or maybe barbecue from the place next to where I work. Sometimes I'll have a sandwich if I feel like it. Dinner might be ribeye and sugar snap peas, or roast chicken (dark meat), or country pork ribs, or moussaka, or pizza, or takeout Chinese if that's what the day calls for. All of this keeping under 100g carb for the day, and within my calories. Given that the Standard American Diet runs anywhere from 250 to 325 g carbs (and often very much more), that counts as low carb.

Why, short of medical reasons, should anyone so limit themselves? If I thought I had to live on grilled chicken breast I'd go into a decline.

TeaBea

derick337 wrote: »

I pretty much eat 3eggs for breakfast that's two egg whites and one whole egg boiled for lunch I will eat something like broiled fish and mix veggies. Dinner grilled chicken breast or chicken salad something like that I normally switch on the meats. I guess that would be considered a low car diet?

Weight loss is all about reducing calories. Cutting carbs is just one method. If you like eating that way, then fine have at it.

But keep in mind that weight loss is just the first step. Keeping the weight off requires some sort of permanent change, low carb for life may be that change for you.

rocknlotsofrolls

I'm currently eating between 80 and 100 grams of carbs a day, and between 1200-1500 calories a day, and that includes simple AND complex carbs. I'm losing weight. This is just what works for me. It's about 80% healthy. I mean, I would hate my life if I couldn't have at least a little bit of unhealthy, i.e. processed food everyday.