Low carb recipes
dianedemoss08
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Hi!! Anyone doing low carb and have recipe? This is my 4th day. Lost 6 lbs in the 1st 3 days! Pretty excited about that! I'm staying under 20 grams for now.
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Pinterest has saved my Keto life. For real.4
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I have a some saved, but they all use carbalose flour or carbquik. They aren't something I would recommend until you've been on the diet a while because they can kick you out of ketosis if you aren't careful.2
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I agree with the Pinterest Keto search... I just restarted keto last week and I LOVE IT0
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I've been doing this low carb pizza a lot lately... it isn't super low carb, but it is about 10-12g of carbs per pizza, depending on quantity of ingredients...
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F
-Use a low carb tortilla (La Tortilla Factory just changed their recipe on the Low Carb Whole Wheat to have 3g net carbs, though I haven't found the new recipe yet... I 'm using different brands ranging from 4g-6g net carbs)
-Look at labels for crushed and pureed tomatoes and find the lowest carb - I have some that are 3g net carbs for 1/4 cup. Then add some olive oil to the pureed tomatoes and mix together to decrease carbs further and thin the mixture. I build a "recipe" in MFP for this mixture each time and keep the remaining amount of a can of tomatoes and some oil (measured with food scale for quantities of ingredients and then total grams is total servings for the recipe so it is easy to log as I use it) in the refrigerator in a plastic tub. Just warm slightly and mix it up when you take it out because the oil will harden in the fridge.
OK, so put the tortilla on a pizza pan, spread tomato sauce/oil mixture to within about 1/2 to 1 inch of the edge of the tortilla. Then spread shredded cheese over the sauce. Add pepperonis (or whatever toppings you like, as long as they are low carb). Bake in oven for about 8-10 min. at 450 degrees.
I measure all of the ingredients and no 2 pizzas are exactly the same quantities, but they are usually around 12g net carbs with that recipe. I know that is a bit high, but it is delicious. Since 6g of that is from the tortilla, I can take off 3g once I can find the tortillas with the new recipe. Otherwise, there are usually about 2g from cheese because it is 1g per oz. Could probably find some kinds of cheese with 0g carbs, so I could probably get it down to about 7g carbs for a personal sized pizza.5 -
The recipe sounds great! Can't wait to try it.1
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Now if you look up the recipe for pizza crust with cauliflower you would more than likely get less carbs. Think I'm trying that for supper.2
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I would give this website a try. Most of the recipes are pretty easy. I highly recommend the Pizza. https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/recipes0
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I'm jumping back onto the Low Carb bandwagon this week. I converted to a low carb lifestyle and lost tons of weight and it was so easy, but after my son was born almost 4 years ago I went back to my old ways. When I did it the first time I lived off of salads and fish...oh and Cauliflower puree or an awesome recipe using smoked sausage and cabbage. I'm actually really excited to do it again. I was never much for Fat bombs...but the coffee with the coconut oil was yummy. Best of luck to everyone on their journeys!2
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I second the pinterest suggestion, I made the swiss cheese chicken bake on there and it was FANTASTIC! I've also found recipes on there for biscuits, pancakes, casseroles, you name it. I also love Instagram, I follow a bunch of low carb/keto people on there and see what they make for dinner all the time. It's a great way to share ideas.
As far as websites go, I like ketokarma, ruled.me and Linda's low carb menu.0 -
I'm just starting can people please add me as a friend as looking for support and people to discuss low carb daily food ideas thanks3
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I have been in Nutritional Ketosis for some time and originally lost 47 pounds, and here and there I did try the recipes that resemble breads, pancakes, etc. I find even these recipes have too many carbs and either my weight loss stalled or I gained weight. I guess it would depend on how insulin resistant you are and how carbohydrate intolerant you are. My carb tolerance is about 15 - 20 grams maximum, other wise I gain weight. I also make sure that my protein is only 0.6 grams X my weight, which works out to 45 grams of protein a day. Remember if the protein is too high your liver will convert some of that to sugar through gluconeogenesis. And of course the rest of my diet is 80% fat. Eating fatty fish help. You need to trial and error to see what carb tolerance you are. I personally just stick to real food. It does take some experience of trying different recipes to "mix" it up so it's not boring but the effects are astounding. My focus is no longer on carbs or anything that looks like carbs, but on health.2
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MonicaRAmbs wrote: »I have been in Nutritional Ketosis for some time and originally lost 47 pounds, and here and there I did try the recipes that resemble breads, pancakes, etc. I find even these recipes have too many carbs and either my weight loss stalled or I gained weight. I guess it would depend on how insulin resistant you are and how carbohydrate intolerant you are. My carb tolerance is about 15 - 20 grams maximum, other wise I gain weight. I also make sure that my protein is only 0.6 grams X my weight, which works out to 45 grams of protein a day. Remember if the protein is too high your liver will convert some of that to sugar through gluconeogenesis. And of course the rest of my diet is 80% fat. Eating fatty fish help. You need to trial and error to see what carb tolerance you are. I personally just stick to real food. It does take some experience of trying different recipes to "mix" it up so it's not boring but the effects are astounding. My focus is no longer on carbs or anything that looks like carbs, but on health.
Impossible. Unless you are talking about water weight or you have some medical condition or are pregnant, you can only gain with with a surplus of calories. The only relevance with macro split is whether or not you are satiated enough to stay in the calorie balance for the results you are trying to achieve.0 -
Hello. I'm new. What are the best sites for low carb recipes?1
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YouTube is a great source for LCHF recipes. I would suggest Gayle Mcleod, Ketobetic Aline, Doctor Eric Berg (He has some recipes and a lot of useful into), and Cooking Keto with Kristine all their channels have good recipes, info and inspiration. I would also recommend the Diet Doctor web site he has a lot of useful info and recipes. I'm not a member of his web site but his intro video just wants an e-mail address. If you don't want to do that just block and print the recipes. LCHF is not a diet it's life style, and your going to have some things on maintenance that you wont have while your lousing weight. So if your starting out keep and eye out for the carb count.0
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A few people have recommended DietDoctor but the first recipe I fancied actually worked out to more than my daily calorie allowance I still have weight to lose so dont want to sabotage0
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spikeyhair wrote: »A few people have recommended DietDoctor but the first recipe I fancied actually worked out to more than my daily calorie allowance I still have weight to lose so dont want to sabotage
Most low carb recipes are NOT low calorie. In fact, most of the ones I copy have more calories than the regular full sugar version, but they have only a tiny fraction of the carbs and non of the sugar.
Most "low calorie" diet foods are low on fat and stuffed with fiber.0 -
I've been using this site:
http://www.tasteaholics.com/recipes/
There are low carb options. Or, I take a regular recipe that sounds good and swap out carbs...remove the high carb item and add more chicken for example.0 -
These are all vegan so feel free to consider these low carb side dishes complimentary to your protein.
https://richbitchcooking.wordpress.com/2016/12/24/4-vegan-low-carb-recipes-lchf/
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