how to stay away form CARBS!!!!!!!! HELP

Instead of focusing on restricting your carb intake focus on increasing your healthy fats and protein. I try to stay around a 40/30/30 carb/protein/fat ratio and it has helped me.

Eating carbs isn't keeping you from losing. Eating too much or even too little will keep you from losing. It all comes down to calories in/calories out.

ditto that!

I struggle with my carb addiction one day at a time

... I love carbs!

Everything in moderation!!!

I'm no pro, but weaning carbs out of my diet was gradual. At first, I portioned high fiber crackers with my hummus - now I eat hummus (2T) with carrots, red peppers or celery. I used to eat my eggs with a 2 pieces of toast, then 1 now none. Instead I put cottage cheese in my eggs (and whites and jimmy dean turkey crumbles) and no bread. I used to eat crackers with tuna and a bean salad for lunch - now crackers are gone.

As for more ideas: I try to keep my snacks to 150 calories: I like apples and low cal cheese or low salt almonds or 2T of peanut butter; hummus and veggies, sometimes greek yogurt.

It was hard for me to go cold turkey on carbs - but I have given up the worst offenders. Hope this helps a little! We are all so different!

I struggle with my carb addiction one day at a time

God bless you. I will keep praying for you and yours. :flowerforyou:

I'm not a low-carb person, but I do try to choose my carbs wisely. Lots of veggies, fewer grains. I was never raised on bread and pasta so it's a no-brainer for me to not keep those things in the house. When you don't have stuff like that to turn to first, you'll have to think a little harder about what you can replace them with (in my case, usually more veggies, or beans/quinoa/corn that kind of thing).

I have been running and exersing for a while now and have learned that even though I am eating the right amount of calories and a balanced diet im not loosing due to my carb intake..... what foods are good subs???????? and what snacks are recommened for higher protien during the day???

You're likely not losing weight because you're not counting your calories right, not because you're eating too many carbs.

why?

I'd echo what everyone else is saying...why stay away from carbs? I HAVE to and let me tell you, there are days when all I want is to sit down to a nice plate of pasta!

Carbs aren't evil and unless you have a medical issue, they're likely not the cause of you not being able to lose weight. My diet is low carb and it's open so you can look at what I eat.

Now, having said that....if you want to do a low carb approach..the best thing to do is educate youself on how to balance your diet. Most people will just abandon carbs and not eat enough protein and/or fats and wonder why they're tired and not losing weight.

I'm forty-seven. Forty-seven years old. You know how I stayed alive this long? All these years? Fear. The spectacle of fearsome acts. A carb steals from me, I cut off his hands. A carb offends me, I cut out his tongue. A carb rises against me, I cut off his head, stick it on a pike, raise it high up so all the carbs on the streets can see. That's what preserves the order of things. Fear.

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I find I do way better when I limit refined carbs. I thought I had the most pathetic willpower out there till I discovered that when I limit refined carbs I can handle dieting better (after a few days of blood sugar adjustment not fueling my body on processed sugar).

In the end obviously I lose at the same rate as if I were consuming same amount with the refined carbs but it works better for me and I feel healthier.

Focus on veggies, fruits, almonds, yogurt (the more natural the better), whole grains, beans, brown rice, peanut butter to name a few.

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Eat more dead animal and less grasses.

any aminal??

they said DEAD animal. you need to kill that thing first! also, fluffy cats look big, but it's all fur. that thing is barely a snack.