No Carb Snack Ideas

Do you have diabetes? If not, eating no carbs is actually very bad for you. Even diabetics don't eat no carbs, just lower carb.

No carb sounds like a nightmare. You wouldn't even be able to snack on nuts.

Cheese: cheese curds, string cheese, slices, cubes, etc.
Hard boiled eggs.
Pickles & olives
Pretty much any green veggies as net carbs will be super low.

Pepperoni slices! When I was LCing way back when, I loved these. Yes, they're salty but 14 slices were 140 calories in my brand (IIRC) and because it was so many slices, it went more slowly - I didn't feel like I was just having a couple of bites of something. And it felt like a treat, a "fun" food.

Your LC options will tend to be higher-calorie (overall) so if you're watching your calories as well, do be sure to count everything.

Oh, also forgot to mention: sugar-free Jello. Very very very low in calories and I believe 1g of carbs per serving if you buy the cups.

I definitely wasn't all meat meat meat when I LCd. I was doing Atkins specifically and veggies are really supposed to be incorporated from the beginning, and increased over time. There is a "ladder" where you're supposed to add 5g/day of carbs in weekly increments until you hit the level where you're no longer losing, then cut back by 5g and stay there while you're losing. The very first "rung" is more LC veggies. You also have other non-meat options such as nuts (but again...for me at least, there was the question of calorie control, so watch that). And of course there are eggs, dairy.

But for me...I ultimately did have to keep my calories to a certain level anyway, which is why I ended up trashing the idea, controlling my carbs overall per meal but am by no means considered LC any more.

iweld1984 wrote: »

i have a friend that did it for 3 months and his results were unbelieveable and he said that after the first week its not bad at all. He has steak and eggs every morning for breakfast then chicken breasts for lunch and steak for dinner. If I went low carb instead of 0 carb then my carb craving will still be there and thats not good.

Eggs contain .6 grams of carbohydrates each.

jkwolly wrote: »

LAWoman72 wrote: »

Oh, also forgot to mention: sugar-free Jello. Very very very low in calories and I believe 1g of carbs per serving if you buy the cups.

1g =/= 0g

Exactly. There is no such thing as a zero carb diet unless the only thing you're ever eating is plain meat. Eggs have carbs. Cheese has carbs. Nuts have carbs. Vegetables have carbs. And I hope you're planning to eat vegetables because life would be rough eating just "steak, chicken, sausage, egg whites, etc." Even Atkins has you eating up to 20 grams per day of carbs from vegetables at first.

OP, what you're looking to do is eat a LOW carb diet and that's fine. How few carbs you choose to eat are up to you but you should be eating at least a small amount of them.

As far as your original question, good low carb snacks would be things like beef jerky, hard boiled eggs, celery with nut butter, string cheese, cubed cheddar, almonds, macadamia nuts, sugar-free jello with real whipped cream, raw veggies (cucumber, celery, broccoli, cauliflower) dipped in a full fat creamy dressing like ranch or blue cheese, or hummus.