Reducing my carbohydrates intake

Oh I have the same problem. Nuts are good snack, I will do that. Veggies of course, carrots, cucumber, peppers anything like that.

Fruit is also a good choice, still a carb, but a better choice overall.

devilsguy26 wrote: »

i see myself often going for a high carb snack (not on purpose) or just over eating carbs. Any secrets or advice on snacks that I can eat that are low in carbs?

First of all, WHY do you want to reduce carbs?

If you want to stabilize blood sugar, eat several meals over the course of the day and include all 3 macros in each meal.

If you feel hungry sooner after eating a higher carb meal or snack, start choosing things like cheese, nuts, eggs, jerky (if you can handle the sodium), pre-cooked lean chicken breast.

If you have trouble exercising self control around high carb snacks, don't have them in the house. When you really want one, go and buy a single donut or cookie, or candy bar.

If you only think that reducing carbs will cause you to lose weight, get over that nonsense. It really is all about creating a calorie deficit. How you get there will depend solely on what fuels your body best along with giving you the proper nutrition and making you satisfied.

earlnabby wrote: »

If you only think that reducing carbs will cause you to lose weight, get over that nonsense. It really is all about creating a calorie deficit. How you get there will depend solely on what fuels your body best along with giving you the proper nutrition and making you satisfied.

There is plenty of evidence that a calorie is not a calorie is not a calorie. Diets chronically high in carbohydrates can lead to insulin insensitivity and that alone makes a carb calorie different than a fat or protein calorie, but there is more to the story than just this one factor.

Creating a deficit is of course key to reducing weight. However if someone is eating a very high carb diet (as is common in many households these days) changing up the mix of calories can help and also help sustain the losses.

I'll speak for my own experience. While I've always cooked healthy, well balanced, from scratch meals for my family at dinner, carbs had come to dominate breakfast, lunch, and snacks. When I started down the get-fit road last September the only concious and significant change I made to my eating habits was to change up the carb overload in my diet. Between that and a modest increase in activity, I dropped 50 pounds over the following seven months.

Sad, really, there was nothing more I enjoyed making for the family than our regular two (or four) loaves a week of home made bread. I still make it but not nearly as regularly.

Cheese, pepperami / salami, low carb berries, 85% or higher cocoa solids chocolate.