LOW CARB DIET HELP

I follow a lower carb diet because it works for me and I have a wheat issue... I find that if I cheat I crave carbs more. When I stick to my plan I'm fine.

That being said if it's not sustainable for you, you might try a different eating philosophy.

I generally eat a veggies & eggs for breakfast, protein on a salad for lunch and protein/veggies for dinner. I also have protein shakes mixed with fruit & coconut oil.

I know you are looking for low carb help but I just wanted to comment. I have tried for 9 months (doctor insisting I lose) but nothing seemed to work for me. My nurse put me on the high protein low carb, only for me to gain more weight. I was exercising 16 out of 23 days to gain 4 pounds.
Finally, my daughter agreed to be my support and the nutritionist told me to eat anything that I wanted but to keep my calories around 1600.
I have only been doing this since September 10, but I have already lost 15 pounds.
Hope you find what will work for you!

Here is a website that was suggested and it's quite good: Linda's low carb menus and recipes....also you could join another site like lowcarbfriends.com and get some suggestions/ideas from there. We also have a low carb group on this site with a lot of great info! Good luck!!
I like to eat lowish carbs, but healthy ones...Ezekial bread and low carb tortillas, Shirataki noodles instead of pasta, berries, lots of veges, plus smaller portions of brown rice or quinoa. You can count cals plus keep your carbs on the lower side.

low carb? that's so 90's. the new fad is paleo.

Hi, I was doing Weight Watchers and stayed within my points perfectly and was working out 4-5 times a week and my weight wasn't budging. I decided that the carbs might be hendering my weight loss. In the last couple of days I've kept my carbs to 40 g and I lost 1.5 pounds. For instance yesterday, I ate all my meals low carb and then for dinner I made a Turkey Meatball Soup with whole grain penne noodles. So I'm not feeling deprived since I am having some carbs. I usually have at atlkins snack bar after dinner with a cup of tea. I think my keeping my carbs to 40-50, I could live like this long term.

:flowerforyou: Hi. I know your struggle. Due to medical reasons I am doing low carb as well. Check out a book that helped me get started. The Metabolism Miracle. It helped me get past "the carb flu", which was the first few days of your body adjusting to the changes and getting rid of toxins from processed refined carbs. Once you get thru that period, you may find the lifestyle works for you as it did for me.
I eat all vegetables, except broccoli and cauliflower due to my thyroid condition. I don't include them in my carb allowances. This works for me and it has helped me eat more vegetables in general.
You can check out my diary. I have bad days and great days. I hope this helps.

I like romaine lettuce wraps with lunch meat and mustard, tons of salads, Chicken with a little salsa and cheese melted on top, slim jims and cheese, eggs all kindddddddds of ways, Taco salad minus shells of course.... I usually fluctuate between 20 carbs a day up to 100 carbs a day....
With 40-70 carbs a day you have tons of options. And if you are really struggling, maybe splurge on something once or 2ce a week when you eat all 70 carbs.

feel free to add me and look at my diary. I am trying low ish carb, i average around 80 total carbs a day, but most days is more like 60-70 with the odd 40 and even rarer higher carb 'relax/cheat' day. remember that the important number is actually the net carbs, that's carbs minus dietary fibre content, so whilst my average total carbs over the last 42 days has been just under 80, my average net carbs are only 61, with some days being as low as 30, others as high as 120+ (again, that's one day a week, for a relax day, but I haven't done that for two weeks now)

anyway, food wise, I allow myself bread or cereal for breakfast but after that i try to only eat carbs from vegetables, i eat lots of cheese and chicken (i don't eat red meat) and plenty of vegetables, peppers, courgettes, broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, mushrooms, tomatoes, carrots etc and lots of salad with olive oil, salt and pepper for dressing. anyway, it can be done and i find it gives many of my meals more flavour too.

Good luck to you.

Carbs are just about the one thing in food your body does NOT NEED!

I'm not saying that means we should go without, but the body can survive without them.

Low carb snacks:

Boiled eggs
cheese (sticks, string, spready triangles)
crab sticks
prawns
jerky/ pepperami
nuts
olives