Veggies and carbs - jaws dropped.

I've lost well over 100 lbs and, though I still have 85 lbs to go, I think the best thing is to just stay away from overly processed foods as much as possible. You don't have to eliminate carbs.

As a vegetarian my diet is largely bean and lentil - based. Overall my diet is between 55-60% carbs. As has been said, healthy carbs are awesome.

I just bought two big canisters of old-school oatmeal because I'm willing to bet it'll be a good, healthful breakfast.

Right on! Vegetarians tend to be slender, extraordinarily healthy, live a decade longer than everyone else and have better quality of life during that time, too. And vegetarians, by necessity, live off carbs. There are a bunch of Olympic gold winners from the London Olympics who are vegetarians, even vegans. Everyone should eat more beans, save themselves and the planet at the same time.

I've lost well over 100 lbs and, though I still have 85 lbs to go, I think the best thing is to just stay away from overly processed foods as much as possible. You don't have to eliminate carbs.

As a vegetarian my diet is largely bean and lentil - based. Overall my diet is between 55-60% carbs. As has been said, healthy carbs are awesome.

I just bought two big canisters of old-school oatmeal because I'm willing to bet it'll be a good, healthful breakfast.

Right on! Vegetarians tend to be slender, extraordinarily healthy, live a decade longer than everyone else and have better quality of life during that time, too. And vegetarians, by necessity, live off carbs. There are a bunch of Olympic gold winners from the London Olympics who are vegetarians, even vegans. Everyone should eat more beans, save themselves and the planet at the same time.

I know a lot of overweight and even obese vegetarians.

I don't blame carbs for that, but I have yet to figure out where this idea that vegetarians are mostly slender comes from.

My old Weight Watchers leader always said, "nobody ever got fat eating carrots."

This.

It's a sad world where a vegetable is considered more unhealthy/fattening than, say, and Atkins bar.
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...Blimey, I've been raging on Atkins bars lately.

Some "well meaning" woman told me I eat too many carrots when she checked out my food diary (on a different program). She said I'd stay fat forever if I kept eating 'so many' carrots...

That was when I decided I didn't need her diet advice.

Some "well meaning" woman told me I eat too many carrots when she checked out my food diary (on a different program). She said I'd stay fat forever if I kept eating 'so many' carrots...

That was when I decided I didn't need her diet advice.

Too many fruits in your profile pic. Not gonna make any progress.

So that's my problem!

Perhaps it comes from somewhere close to where many get their misinformation about low-carb lifestyles. I'd be swell if people actually knew what they were talking about before forming an opinion, and then running their mouths to misinform and judge others.

Did you create this account for the sole purpose of harassing me? Private, no photo, no forum posts except to criticize a pretty benign opinion (that only you seemed to have taken personally) and nasty, vulgarity-filled PMs.

I'm wondering if you sent vulgarity-filled PMs to all the people in this thread who quoted me and agreed?

Reporting the PMs are your best option. Drudging the drama in this topic is not the way to go about this.

Not all vegetables are created equally. It also depends upon what the veggie is made of. The Atkins website has a list of veggies and their carb count. Carrots are on the no-no list.

Which is another reason to avoid Atkins.

nothing wrong with atkins if done properly

Anyone telling you to NOT eat vegetables needs their head examined, imo. Carrots are very healthy and nutrient dense.

no one told her to NOT eat veg.

I Have done the Low carb and low calorie and I find that the low carb ( Not no carb ) works best for me . If you eat enough fiber and protien it works really well and you dont get the hunger like you do with the low calorie. ( Its just my opinion )

Okay, this morning, my jaws dropped when I saw that one cup of carrot was like 12 carbs! Wait, I thought it was good for you to eat vegetables and reduce the carbs! How am I supposed to reduce carbs while eating vegetables? There is something somewhere that I don't understand........

Any clues?

Any diet that suggests cutting out one or more food groups is unrealistic and setting you up for failure.

And any plan that suggests that veggies (or fruit) are bad is ridiculous.

Carbs are not evil. Not even the "white"ones. Carbs are a great source of energy for your body. If you want to moderate your intake fine, but to think that you shouldn't eat carrots because of the carbs is wrong.

^^ THIS!!

Right on! Vegetarians tend to be slender, extraordinarily healthy, live a decade longer than everyone else and have better quality of life during that time, too. And vegetarians, by necessity, live off carbs. There are a bunch of Olympic gold winners from the London Olympics who are vegetarians, even vegans. Everyone should eat more beans, save themselves and the planet at the same time.

A decade longer than everyone else? Really? Assuming you can reference your claims with published research, don't you mean a decade longer than a person eating the average western diet is deficient in a raft of nutrients and chock full of empty calories? And aren't you referring to those in specific countries not worldwide?

A lifetime vegetarian is far more likely to eat a less processed/ more wholefood diet, any difference has little to do with the meat/ fish content of the diet. It's no more healthy to eat a cheap commercial beanburger (which often contain only a small percentage of beans!) with sugary white bun and fries than it is to eat a cheap commercial chicken burger with sugary white bun and fries. Both the beans and the chicken could easily be made into a nutritious meal.