Low carbs
BenKyloRenSolo
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I was very successful when I did a low carb diet, I lost 40 pounds in 7 months or so with the addition of being active alot and working out.
Anywhere I looked when it came to low carb breakfast meals it involved eggs. I know breakfast is important but I would rather not get sick of having different types of egg meals again or skip breakfast overall. So my question is what else does everyone else do for breakfast that can be low carbs, any drinks or foods that you have for breakfast?
Anywhere I looked when it came to low carb breakfast meals it involved eggs. I know breakfast is important but I would rather not get sick of having different types of egg meals again or skip breakfast overall. So my question is what else does everyone else do for breakfast that can be low carbs, any drinks or foods that you have for breakfast?
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I always eat no higher than 130 grams of carbohydrates on weekends I eat 2000
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When I started off I was doing 50 grams of carbs or less then eventually started doing just 100-150 grams a day. It's weird after getting theough the first several weeks just like with any diet, it got to the point where I had to eat extra just to get enough calories in a day. There are plenty of different diets that work out just this one has worked for me.1
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I don't really do "breakfast" "lunch" or "dinner foods. I just eat whatever I want at any time of day. For example, my breakfast this morning was mackerel with a bit of mayo, and sharp cheddar. Some mornings I'll do ground beef and kim chi. Others, eggs and sauerkraut.3
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I definitely eat eggs for breakfast almost every day... If I wanted to skip the eggs at some point I would probably add a protein shake and/or nuts/needs.2
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I have been low carbing since March 18th. I've lost 50 lbs (40) more to go. Second time around (I obviously did not learn the first time! LOL)! I am also not a huge egg eater so in the morning I will usually have a Dannon low carb yogurt and a handful of cashews or a Premier Protein drink. I agree that I don't stick with traditional breakfast foods, but prefer to eat whatever I feel like at that time.3
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Breakfast is ANY food you want to eat. There's no rule that breakfast has to be eggs etc. or cereal etc. Steak and asparagus? Breakfast! Last night's salmon? Breakfast!4
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That is a hard one, eggs are a good "go to" for low carb breakfast. If I was not eating eggs, I usually did what other posters mentioned and had non traditional breakfast food. Maybe some deli meat and cheese roll ups with some chopped veggies. I agree that a shake can work, I have done coffee with ice, vanilla protein, and almond butter in a blender but this is not super satisfying to me for very long. Can you work in cottage cheese in your carb range? cottage cheese and veggies could be good.1
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Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »Breakfast is ANY food you want to eat. There's no rule that breakfast has to be eggs etc. or cereal etc. Steak and asparagus? Breakfast! Last night's salmon? Breakfast!
Same (and I do eat low carb). I almost never have eggs for breakfast. Today was an exception though. Here are examples taken directly from my diary:- 3 Bacon Cheddar Deviled eggs (6 halves);
- Piece of Original Soul Bread topped with LC natural strawberry preserves & 2 homemade LC Ketobursts (ketofied starbursts);
- Homemade LC Salted Caramel Pork rind Cereal with some Rosemary Parmesan Cheese Crisps & some Brazil nuts;
- 8 ounces rotisserie chicken, Colby jack cheese stick & homemade LC Black Forrest Ice Cream;
- 4 ounces uncured black Forrest ham with 4 maple pecan tahini candies (fat bombs);
- 4 homemade LC sugar cookies with 12 slices bacon;
- 2 pieces Pumpkin Pecan version of Soul Bread and a Colby jack cheese stick;
- Artisan Almond Milk Yogurt sweetened with a few drops of liquid sweetener & 3.5 ounces turkey;
- 2 Zucchini & Feta Fritters, pork rinds and a piece of Ghirardelli Intense Dark Twilight Delight 72% Cacao Chocolate.
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I had a salad with turkey on it this morning (leftovers from a turkey leg I'd roasted previously). When I first started I was doing lots of breakfasts like this, or just dinner leftovers, since I go through phases where I get sick of eggs. My salad wasn't low carb (I'm not)--it was in fact high carb because of corn, tomatoes, onion, brussels, mostly--but obviously it's easy to do a lower carb salad.
I also really like smoked salmon at breakfast. That stir fried with some veg would be a low carb breakfast (I get it's not everyone's cuppa, though).2 -
That is a hard one, eggs are a good "go to" for low carb breakfast. If I was not eating eggs, I usually did what other posters mentioned and had non traditional breakfast food. Maybe some deli meat and cheese roll ups with some chopped veggies. I agree that a shake can work, I have done coffee with ice, vanilla protein, and almond butter in a blender but this is not super satisfying to me for very long. Can you work in cottage cheese in your carb range? cottage cheese and veggies could be good.
Yes I eat everything besides seafood, the cheese and veggies sounds good! You really do have to get creative when it comes to breakfast unless you eat anything during breakfast time like some people have said. I've just started downing a set amount of water and then just eating something small just to get something in me because I tend to be on the move quickly in the morning.1 -
I just want to politely throw in the idea that a diet that doesn't consist of food you like, maybe doesn't "work for you".1
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kommodevaran wrote: »I just want to politely throw in the idea that a diet that doesn't consist of food you like, maybe doesn't "work for you".
I think he's referring to not wanting to eat eggs every single day, not that he doesn't like eggs at all... but just my take on it.
I also agree with eating a nontraditional breakfast if you want. There's no "breakfast police" that's going to come get you if you eat a hamburger for breakfast.
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It really depends on overall goals. Alot of low carb diets people lose alot of weight but majority of that loss is muscle if not properly done. It comes down to overall numbers not necessarily what's foods. Hitting those goal numbers is what's going to matter. I wouldn't worry about specific foods unless your going for something more serious such as a competition or such. I'm talking more for general weight loss and maintaining it.0
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I got into the habit of eating eggs every breakfast and it does get pretty monotonous after a while.
Occsaionally I'll eat left over dinners but some morning that's just a bit much. I find fish like mackrel or salmon is good, the flavour is strong enough that a poached egg to beef it up a bit doesn't feel quite so "eggy".
Some greek yoghurt is pretty low carb - mine this morning was from Aldi (100g = 3.6g carbs) and I had it with some strawberries (40g = 5g carbs).
Salami/cold meats are an easy one as well.2 -
Breakfasts do seem the hard bit with low carb ..... saying that I usually have mushrooms, half a red pepper, spring onions, jalapenos, 3 rashers of English bacon and 3 eggs scrambled over it for breakfast / brunch and that sees me through to tea time 2
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Damn, I thought this said Low Crabs for a second. I was like, what's a low crab?2
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It really depends on overall goals. Alot of low carb diets people lose alot of weight but majority of that loss is muscle if not properly done. It comes down to overall numbers not necessarily what's foods. Hitting those goal numbers is what's going to matter. I wouldn't worry about specific foods unless your going for something more serious such as a competition or such. I'm talking more for general weight loss and maintaining it.
Citation for this please. The "majority" of the loss being muscle, I mean.2 -
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It really depends on overall goals. Alot of low carb diets people lose alot of weight but majority of that loss is muscle if not properly done. It comes down to overall numbers not necessarily what's foods. Hitting those goal numbers is what's going to matter. I wouldn't worry about specific foods unless your going for something more serious such as a competition or such. I'm talking more for general weight loss and maintaining it.
A low carb diet is actually pretty muscle sparing. The first day or two it isn't, but once the body starts to adjust, protein needs are actually a bit lower.2 -
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BreezeDoveal wrote: »It really depends on overall goals. Alot of low carb diets people lose alot of weight but majority of that loss is muscle if not properly done. It comes down to overall numbers not necessarily what's foods. Hitting those goal numbers is what's going to matter. I wouldn't worry about specific foods unless your going for something more serious such as a competition or such. I'm talking more for general weight loss and maintaining it.
A low carb diet is actually pretty muscle sparing. The first day or two it isn't, but once the body starts to adjust, protein needs are actually a bit lower.
Yeah. As protein can be converted into a carb, you can spare carbs by reducing your carb needs by entering ketosis.
Did I teach you? I think I had one of you in most classes.3 -
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GypsyFire65 wrote: »It really depends on overall goals. Alot of low carb diets people lose alot of weight but majority of that loss is muscle if not properly done. It comes down to overall numbers not necessarily what's foods. Hitting those goal numbers is what's going to matter. I wouldn't worry about specific foods unless your going for something more serious such as a competition or such. I'm talking more for general weight loss and maintaining it.
A low carb diet is actually pretty muscle sparing. The first day or two it isn't, but once the body starts to adjust, protein needs are actually a bit lower.
Ah Haaaah.
Are you accepting new friends? I would like to see a actual sample day of this. I just looked some up on internet. And then I had my usual favorite snack. Apple and peanut butter. From what I read, my apple is not fitting into this equation. Hummm.
I may send you a request. So I can have a friend whos doing this on MFP.
I'm not a good one to friend for diet ideas. I rarely log anymore.
When I was losing a typical day would be an egg and bacon; coffee with whipping cream or coconut cream or coconut oil; a can of tuna with mayo and celery; and a steak and salad for dinner; maybe some nuts for a snack.
For more ideas, join the MFP Low Carber Daily group. There are plenty of meal ideas and many have an open diary. (I closed mine after some problems with some old MFP members)1 -
I'm barely awake in the morning but typically ravenous so I have a smoothie for breakfast at around 6:30. Ingredients are normally water, vanilla protein, high fat yogurt (11%) and frozen strawberries. Typically 15-20g net carbs, and generally 1/2 to 1/3 my total carbs for the day. It's between 275-325 calories. I then subsist on coffee with whipping cream once I get to work until I have lunch at 11:30.0
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I had half a avocado, with a can of albacore tuna, and a dash of Dijon mustard mixed, with some cucumbers, and a half an orange. It was too much, but what I did eat was filling, and I did not blow my carbs. I'm in the 50-75 range. If you like tuna, you can mix Parmesan cheese, eggs, and tuna, and make a nice tuna patty. I have a hard to time with protein, I don't eat any meat besides fish. It really is about getting creative. I was surprised that you could make the zucchini/spinach egg fritter's, and they were low in carbs, because they are delish. Using coconut oil with help bump up your fat. This weekend I'm trying spaghetti squash, made into hash browns. I really miss hash browns. lol0
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What counts as 'Low Carb' ? I've been avoiding Baked Beans as I know they have 'some' carbs.... I see War-horse says he now has 100-150g a day.... If I had 2 poached and half a tin of Beans I'd be happy with that for breakfast. I think there is about 30g carbs in 200g of beans ... is that low carb?0
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It really depends on overall goals. Alot of low carb diets people lose alot of weight but majority of that loss is muscle if not properly done. It comes down to overall numbers not necessarily what's foods. Hitting those goal numbers is what's going to matter. I wouldn't worry about specific foods unless your going for something more serious such as a competition or such. I'm talking more for general weight loss and maintaining it.
A low carb diet is actually pretty muscle sparing. The first day or two it isn't, but once the body starts to adjust, protein needs are actually a bit lower.
I'd think your protein needs would go up on vl carbs. Gluconeogenesis converting some of your dietary protein to glucose and all.0 -
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GodivaTrailrider wrote: »What counts as 'Low Carb' ? I've been avoiding Baked Beans as I know they have 'some' carbs.... I see War-horse says he now has 100-150g a day.... If I had 2 poached and half a tin of Beans I'd be happy with that for breakfast. I think there is about 30g carbs in 200g of beans ... is that low carb?
Rather than worrying about what's "low carb," which no one will agree on and which (unlike keto) doesn't mean anything specific, why not set your own goal and see if a particular food or meal fits? It's a lot easier to fit 150 g (I'm not low carb and yet I'm often around that number) than under 50, so it's going to depend on your own carb goals.
Personally I think of beans as pretty high carb -- they aren't low cal, and I ran black beans and about 73% of their calories are from carbs (if you add a sugary/tomato sauce they will be higher, if you add fat the overall percentage of the dish from carbs will be lower, of course). But someone said blueberries are low carb and yet they were the single highest "net carb" contributor of my overall high carb breakfast the other day (about 21 carbs and 17 net carbs in around 100 g). So it really depends on how you like to eat and your goals.0 -
Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »It really depends on overall goals. Alot of low carb diets people lose alot of weight but majority of that loss is muscle if not properly done. It comes down to overall numbers not necessarily what's foods. Hitting those goal numbers is what's going to matter. I wouldn't worry about specific foods unless your going for something more serious such as a competition or such. I'm talking more for general weight loss and maintaining it.
Citation for this please. The "majority" of the loss being muscle, I mean.
Yes sorry not majority lol.
I myself among others have tried the low card to no carb diet. What I see a lot of times without the proper knowledge on doing this and a balance of your nutrition and not tracking what your actually losing being body fat or water or muscle. They read about it and just drop carbs which leads to lean muscle loss which helps the process of burning that body fat. To many time I've watched individuals get excited about the quick weight loss and in time not be happy with how they look in the mirror hence the skin fat is still there. I appreciate all the advice I see on hear cause by all means I'm no expert just years of trail and error on myself and others.0
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