Hi
@Lawrencepa - welcome to the forum
It's easy to live by the numbers, and to fall into an obsession and harder to know what our bodies are telling us. Quite simply, if your body isn't hungry, you don't need to eat. If you worry that your calorie intake is a touch low try:
- Avoiding low-fat options
- Dressing salads or cooking with olive oil
- Using butter instead of marg / spread
- Increasing your meat (or other protein) intake.
If it helps, here's a list of what me and my 12 year old ate today. To note, we felt super-full between meals and felt no need to snack. I try to hit our "main 3" (what we call them - it's just how I guide our meal choices) which are meat, dairy and veg with every meal. I'll only allow carbs (the thin pastry base of the crustless quiche, eg) if we're otherwise having a high-fat meal (as it helps to delay the BG spike).
Breakfast: Cheese omelettes with a few slices of bacon. Then a few raspberries and double cream.
Lunch: Celery and cucumber sticks with cheese and chive dip, some slices of ham.
Dinner: Huge bowl of salad (lettuce, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, grated carrot, sweetcorn, honey and mustard dressing) gherkhins and pickled silverskin onions, crustless quiche, a bit of salami. 2 "dollops" of low-carb ice-cream.
I haven't totted it up, but the only carby things there are the quiche base, the ice-cream and the base levels of carbs in the veggies. If I had to guess, I'd say that's 50 - 60g carbs for the whole day.
If we need to snack, we'll happily tuck into Peperami or Babybels, or whatever cooked meat we have in the fridge at the time. Mostly, we'll drink water if we feel the need to snack, wait ten minutes and see how we feel after. Most often we find that we were thirsty and didn't really need to eat at all, but if we do fancy a snack (because they're not bad!) it'll be cheese or meat. Sometimes a pepper which we'll eat like an apple
It's also worth noting that I'm almost incapable of cooking at the moment, so all food has to be fast, easy an convenient, so either out of the fridge or out of the oven. However, there are lots and lots of people here who are incredibly talented at coming up with delicious low-carb recipes!
P.S. Can I ask, are you low-carbing for a reason? Your profile says you don't have a diagnosis - is that correct? It's cool if you're asking because you want to low-carb anyway, I'm just curious and wonder if you shouldn't - as
@azure says - wait until you've spoken to your doctor before making such huge changes. They might surprise you and have some good advice, and they'll at least want to log your diet change in your notes.
