Anyone eating low carb?

Recently, I did a NO carb diet (except the carbs in fruits and veggies) for 1 week and dropped lbs like crazy! This ended last friday. Now, I am on a low carb diet, because after that experience, I just felt so good but i knew it wasn't a realistic goal for myself to completely stop eating carbs. I have been looking up recipes like a mad lady because, just like you, I dont want to get tired of eating the same stuff, thus making it easier to not succeed. But feel free to add me, I am willing to share ideas, support, and motivate others, and Lord knows I need the support as well!

But you WERE eating carbs - in the fruits and veggies. And I think that is reasonable to do for quite a while. But when I have done it for long term in the past, I allowed myself one cheat meal per week. That is when I had the pasta meal, or burger with a bun and fries, and dessert, or whatever. Allowing yourself one meal of "whatever" makes you not feel restricted, and you end up planning and looking forward to it, but one meal doesn't mess your whole week up - and you can still lose. Atkins bars help me with resisting sweet treats too. Give that a try and see if those things work for you.

Honestly, this isn't a great place for low carb. Look for /r/keto on reddit, or lowcarbfriends.com if you want real help and information. You'll get a lot of people around here who kind of half-assedly do it for a while, but then go back to the low fat/low calorie diet because they "just can't live without pasta/bread/cake" or "fruits are soooo healthy" or "I need to cheat and eat some sugary crap once a week" etc. You'll see person after person here who lost a bunch of weight doing low carb but then quit it and gained all the weight back and somehow blames low carb for their bad decisions. And this gets supported by the calorie in / calorie out crowd. If you're serious about it, do some googling.

nsaglian, I'm sorry, but come on. Atkins induction is under 20 grams of carbohydrate a day, not 125. That's not remotely close. You may be eating well under what you ate before, in which case, bravo, but you are not on a ketogenic diet at 125. So when you don't get the amazing appetite suppression and quick weight loss, please don't blame Atkins. If you drop your carbs down under 20, the magic will happen. You are not going to get that at 125.

such negativity PDXHolly - This is not an "Atkins" thread, it's just low carb - and there are many ways to low carb. Don't slam people for doing what works for them. We come on here to get and give support, not have people put us down. You do it your way, we'll do it ours. And if we can help someone else in the process, then that's why we're here. Lighten up!

Can you post some favourite low-carb meal recipes please (I am so sick of spinach salad but I feel soooo much better when I lower my carb intake).

I was recommended the book "Metabolism Miracle" by my health care provider, there is also a cookbook by the same author.
Both were very helpful in helping me change my diet and restoring my health.

I started a very low glycemic diet 18 months ago, the very low carb period lasted 8 weeks, gradually re-introduced low-glycemic carbs into diet, to control insulin production.

Total weight loss so far is 33 lbs, not counting calories at all, just carb counting.

I joined MFP to count calories and get more weight off.

I try to eat the majority of my calories in vegetables and fruits, some lean protein and dairy, a very few whole grain carbs, some olive oil and as little processed foods as humanly possible, which can be challenging at times.

Feel free to add me and look at my food diary, its open

is that your hamster? that is the cutest thing ever

Hell no!

I would love to add some new friends as well that are doing low carb!

Carrie

Can you post some favourite low-carb meal recipes please (I am so sick of spinach salad but I feel soooo much better when I lower my carb intake).

Oh my gosh - there is sooo much you can eat when doing low carb. Instead of a spinach salad, I make chicken or turkey salad, with onions and celery and then throw some slivered almonds in there =- that makes it so good. Then take some cut up veggies on the side to munch like sliced cucumbers and pepper slices (I like the colored peppers). That's a good lunch.

For other meals you can eat any meat, side of a cooked veggie, I have learned that to keep it interesting you need to try new spices - that helps alot from getting tired of the same foods. Have a fish with a lemon pepper seasoning one time, and use a cajun seasoning another time. I have montreal steak seasoning, but also chicago steak seasoning, and then sometimes I use Old Bay on different things (thats good on shrimp, fish, and even chicken for a different taste). I make cajun chicken, make ground turkey or beef with a taco type seasoning and then use that on a taco salad - you can still have the black olives, peppers, onions, even some salsa if you want, and even sour cream. You just don't have the chips. but with all that on it, I don't miss them.

Keep some Atkins bars and shakes around for variety or when you are having a sweet tooth attack. I use string cheese, peanuts or pistachios in the shell for snacking at night - becasuse you won't eat as many if you have to deshell them first. Takes longer. And I pull the string cheese off in little strings and eat it slowly like that.

I make all kinds of eggs with stuff in it - sometimes mexican style, sometimes cheesy scrambled eggs, sometimes a western omelet, and then others just sunny side up with a meat on the side. You can add meats, veggies cheeses. I even make a quiche and you don't need to use a crust. If you pour all thoses eggs and cheese and other ingredients into a pie pan, the eggs cook well enough that you can scoop it out like a slice. You can all kinds of things to it.

oh - and I love hollandaise sauce - can put it on a nicely baked piece of salmon, on my version of eggs benedict which is using the meat on the bottom instead of bread, then the eggs, then the hollandaise.

i could go on and on. Just use your imagination!!! Also try to spaghetti squash. I like it with just some butter and parmesean cheese, but I know some people eat it like regular spaghetti with sauce and meat.

losingw8now: that was an awesome reply, thank you for taking the time out to share your ideas. would you consider starting a thread for low-carb recipes, and if so, please show the link here somewhere.