How to cut down on carbs

In what ways are you finding it challenging?

What is your daily goal in grams?

um, stop eating carbs.

Seriously, instead of a burger with a bun enjoy the patty grilled, topped with cheese and tons of sautéed mushrooms.

Instead of a burrito in a tortilla, treat yourself to a huge taco salad

Grill up some chicken and veggies and enjoy!

Now, if you are meaning hardcore no carbs....that is not my specialty!

Is there a medical reason you're doing this?

Liftng4Lis wrote: »

Is there a medical reason you're doing this?

This.

Or, are you trying a low card dietary plan?

Use smaller portions. I've been doing "lower" carb since last summer. And by that, it's brining that total to where it is supposed to be, not Adkins low.

Other things I do...for lunch I might have frozen meatballs with other frozen veggies with a little Parmesan cheese. It has some carbs to keep you going but not over doing it. At dinner I may swap out a carb side with mashed cauliflower. Boil cauliflower in chicken broth, mash it, add a little butter and then cheddar cheese and mash it. Also, remember peas and corn are both starchy carbs.

chrisrallen33 wrote: »

I'm just trying a low carb high protein dietary plan. I'm just trying to find ways to get the carbs that my body needs without over doing it.

If you're trying LCHF, you want to make sure you get enough fats and water. Do up meals with protein, veg, and fruit, plus some oil when cooking to get the fat up. Look up low glycemic index veg and fruit, and use that mainly.

Cut down or mostly out on grains and dairy. (How far down or out is going to depend on the numbers you want to hit and what you like and such. If certain foods work well for you for certain purposes, try to work them in. When I tried LCHF -- and I did like it, I just can't do it right now -- I still had feta, goat cheese, some yoghurt, and unsweetened lattes as part of my regular diet. My plan was not rock bottom carbs though, not like Atkins.)

You can probably google around for some template meals for LCHF or join a group. It would get you started or give you some ideas. But say, steak & veggies that you like, cooked up in a frying pan with olive oil, and a fruit you like on the side.

You may want to find some low carb staple carbs if that makes sense? Like something like a Ryvita cracker, then you can do things like fried egg and avocado on it, or smoked salmon and avocado on it... or use a bread you like but less of it.

(I tend to go by starting more or less with what's prescribed by a plan, then making the adjustments I find I want to make for it to suit me better. You may find you like eating that way, with a few exceptions. Make the exceptions, see how that goes.)

(And imo, I'd still plan to do the odd treat day. Holidays, events, a dinner out. But you may very well find you feel better eating a certain way on the regular, so aim for that as your regular diet, and deviate when life happens.)

Give it a chance. If you don't like it, don't stick with it. Make changes that work for you across the board in terms of weight loss, satiety, a sense of wellbeing, enjoyment, energy, etc. Maybe all you'd need to do is decrease carbs a bit, or change your type of carb, or change your carb balance in meals/snacks, or change when you eat carbs.

alabrake44 wrote: »

Perhaps try eating carbs in the morning then limiting carbos the rest of the day.. Then none for dinner.

Why?

If I was trying to eat less carbs, grains (and sweetened stuff like icecream, cake, biscuits) would be the first to go. Then switch carb dense vegies and fruit for lower carb options. I like volume, so choose foods that give me a meal the size I want

suruda wrote: »

Tonight for dinner I am making sautéed spinach with feta cheese and then grilling salmon and having tsatsiki over the top (yogurt, cucumber, garlic sauce)

I'll probably cook some rice or orzo for hubby who can eat all the carbs he wants!

Omg!!! This sounds amazing

if you want to cut down on carbs you simply don't eat as many. This is very difficult to answer without any context. What is your issue with carbs?

you need to provide more information to get any sort of useful answer.

Currently, my answer is to eat less carbs.