To all the anti-low-carb folks, tell me this isn't healthy

Not only healthy but delicious, filling, and an effective way to lose weight.

Breakfast - 3 egg omelet with spinach and green peppers
Morning snack - 23 almonds (1 oz)
Lunch - 6 oz roast salmon, large romain and tomato salad with 3 tbsp caesars dressing
Afternoon snack - 2 slices salami and 1 oz cheddar cheese
Dinner - 2 roasted chicken thighs with skin, 1 cup roasted cauliflower and 1 cup roasted broccoli with olive oil and parmesan
Desert - 1/2 cup of full-fat greek yogurt with 2 squares of 90% cocoa dark chocolate

Calories - 2000 Net carbs 28g, Protein 111g, Fat 154g


If you are smaller than I am (200 lbs) and need less calories, make it a 2-egg omelet, 4oz salmon, 1 chicken thigh, a little less veg/salad dressing and you can easily get under 1500. To get to around 1300 cut out a snack or desert

Think you might be a bit off - I entered the equivelent and got 47g - I forgot the spinach, so say, 50g

Good for you if you enjoy eating that way everyday but it's not for me.

ETA: will be more actually, I only looked at what was obviously carbs - didn't check yoghurt, for example. This is why people post all the time about not losing, inaccurate logging.

It can't possibly be healthy spending my life full of chit.

Looks delicious. However, on a diet like that, my colon would put up an "out of order" sign. Without whole grains, things move through my system V E R Y S L O W L Y. It can't possibly be healthy spending my life full of chit.

With whole grains and a mostly plant-based diet, my system is very happy. So I can't follow your example.

There is something wrong with your colon then. Because the fiber you get from veggies, and the water you should be drinking would do you fine. Again, diabetics have a LOW carb diets and grains are restricted. There are many "healthy weight diabetics" You may actually know some and not even know it.

I thought Low carb diets were Fad till few months ago and changed my perception after reading the official recommendation of LCHF diet by Swedish health organization. LCHF diets are very helpful for people who have carb resistance and insulin problems. The bottom-line is you need to find whats best for your body and I do think Calorie in and calorie out theory is too simplified and not really effective.

There's no BACON or CHOCOLATE in there. Fail.

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I thought Low carb diets were Fad till few months ago and changed my perception after reading the official recommendation of LCHF diet by Swedish health organization. LCHF diets are very helpful for people who have carb resistance and insulin problems. The bottom-line is you need to find whats best for your body and I do think Calorie in and calorie out theory is too simplified and not really effective.

Not a theory. Science. That's how every weight loss diet works. I'm not talking a few weeks of water loss, then a calorie deficit from cutting carbs, which is how a lot of diets that cut out carbs works.

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OP - no one ever said low carb is not healthy, at least I have not, the main critique is that is is not some magical fat loss secret, it is not sustainable, and it is idiotic to label food as "bad" or "evil"

I am glad that works for you …I would be starving and have about zero gym performance with that day...

The secret is to eat what you want in moderation and eat less calories than you burn.

Op, I am way smaller than you, lift weights, do cardio, and I eat around 2,000 to 2,100 calories per day.

No food is good or bad.

If you have found a diet that keeps you healthy and on track, why do you care what others think of it?

I care because it's unnecessary misery, and I wouldn't encourage anyone to do it. I did it for a few years because I am a stubborn gullible idiot. As far as I can see the only people who have stayed 'on track' have a vested interest in it or have a condition where they have no choice.

I have had friends in hospital with seizures on LC and seen what it can do to people's brain function.

Edit to say sorry...I don't know who your question is aimed at, but I'm in full rant mode today! :flowerforyou:

I'm a borderline carboholic/ alcoholic (basically same thing). I buy a case of cookies i want to eat half the case of cookies. I want to get that sugar buzz and feel fully satiated. I buy a case of beer I want to drink the case. Get full on buzz going.

Moderation is hard for me. If you can have just two cookies with a glass of milk, good for you. If you can drink one beer, good for you. I can't. I love my paleo high fat lowish protein and lowish carbs cleaner diet. It makes me feel great. I don't really get food cravings and when I do I have a tablespoon of butter or coconut oil and it disappears. I have found what works for me.

To the OP what you posted looks healthy and tasty. But attacking people who may not agree with low carb isn't cool. Life is a struggle and balance for each individual. Each individual must come to terms with their personal responsibility when it comes to their health. For some moderation. For others with food sensitives, allergies, and disease alternative diet/ habits may be involved.

Know your body, know your mind.

Not a theory. Science. That's how every weight loss diet works. I'm not talking a few weeks of water loss, then a calorie deficit from cutting carbs, which is how a lot of diets that cut out carbs works.

Very simplified science, it doesn't take in to account how your body reacts to different types of foods and how it impacts the fat metabolism. There are many variables which might impact calorie in and calorie out theory depending on your body. In broad sense, yes you can apply first law of thermodynamics and say calories are important but its very small part of the overall picture.

http://eatingacademy.com/nutrition/do-calories-matter

What works for others may not work for some one else despite eating same calories, the secret is figuring out what works.