New to low carb, can somebody look at my meal plan?

Gee, both my doctor and my dietician totally disagree with you. Do you have a medical degree?

My dietician gave me plenty of scientific research to back up her claims. Plus she's been doing this for years and has seen the results on many, many patients herself. But nothing I say is going to change your mind, so I vote we don't argue the point any longer. You eat your way and I'll eat mine and let's not worry about it.

OP if you want information on low carb diets this is NOT the place to get it. Go to proteinpower.com and look at Dr. Eades blog or read the forums there or look at lowcarber.org. Or you could stay here and be convinced by anonymous internet trolls. Your call.

Some fun reading: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18370664

Your body burns sugar - that is its energy source. You need carbs. That being said:

There are "good carbs" and "bad carbs". "Bad carbs", like table sugar, sucrose, get digested very quickly and spike your insulin (like all carbs do) - your body burns those carbs - giving you energy (aka sugar rush). This is generally followed by a feeling of being tired because your sugar level drops quickly once you've metabolized the sugars. You'll probably have more cravings for food because your body needs something. Then you eat more, which means more calories, and you get fat. Its the cravings that make us fat - not the carbs. Plus they are empty calories without any real nutritional value, other than sugar for energy.

"Good carbs", like those found in whole foods such as whole grain bread, brown rice, and fruit are not metabolized as quickly by the body because they come with fiber and other things which helps slow the digestive process down and resulting in a much more gradual insulin spike and slower digestion of the sugars - you don't get a sugar rush and you don't get the crash. You feel fuller longer - you don't eat as much, fewer calories. Plus the sugar in fruit, fructose, also comes with some VERY good for you nutrients.

Really, you don't have to avoid carbs - you just want good carbs that come with fiber not highly processed carbs like those in baked goods. You do need fiber and a good source of fiber are whole grains.

But, your meal plan. Add fiber - green vegetables are a good source. Actually, add more veggies in general - they have nutrients that you're body isn't going to get from the eggs and chicken.

Going really low carb isn't necessarily going to hurt you, but it means you're eating a lot of fat and protein without necessarily getting the fiber that you need to clean out your system. Which may result in higher cholesterol and that's bad for the heart. I tried really low carb for about a week and couldn't sleep. Had a cup of brown rice for dinner one night and slept like a baby. But every body is different.

Other factors, fat cannot cross into adipose tissue without carbs. It cannot happen. So if you ate ONLY fat and protein, and no carbs, you would never EVER increase your body fat stores no matter how many calories you ate. Fat must split and bind with carbs to cross into fat cells. Thus, those eating very low carb simply lack excess carbs to combine with fat, and allow dietary fat to cross the barrier into the fat cell.

Yes, according to the labels on the food I have in the house, it's 20-25g carbs. I thought that fruit/sugar made you fat? I'll add some carrots or something though.

your trainer is correct.

When you eat carbs insulin is released into the blood stream. IF those carbs are not burned up right then (and most times they are not) then insulin rushes the carbs to the cells to be stored as fat.

This is reason why they tell diabetics to eat low carb now days. Because when you are taking insulin and eating significant amount of carbs it will cause you to have rapid weight gain.

That is the layman's version.

That's NOT why diabetics eat low carb. They eat low carb because excessive blood glucose = dangerous. There is not an added risk of fat gain as insulin isn't even secreted in patients who are diabetic. It's for general health purposes.

Furthermore, carbs are stored as GLYCOGEN and synthesized as such. The idea that carbs are stored as fat upon ingestion is ridiculous. Carbs are only stored as fat via the metabolic pathway known as de novo lipogenesis in the presence of extreme overfeeding once glycogen stores are maxed out. It would take a diet that is far above your maintenance level intake with 700+ CHO per day for multiple days - depending on the body of the person in question.