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AnnieC
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I get protein and fat from eggs, cheese, butter, nuts, cream, olive oil, coconut oil, avocado, quorn, pulses.....not a problem.
Just wondered why you are doing a low carb diet as you are not diabetic and you don't say you need to loose weight...the two reasons most people do low carbsHi Purple Kat I"m brand new to this forum. I am keen to see another veggie here and to see what you eat and how you manage. That said, because i am trying out very low carbs (around 40), i am being pescetarian until i go back up to about 100. Though if i get into ketosis, i will try 90 or whatever my carb limit thingy is.
Enough about that. I think you are just starting out with the low carb thing aren't you. I started off doing 100 carbs a little while ago (as an experiment), about 6 weeks and did it for four before going lower. I didn't need to go lower, just wanted to experience ketosis. At 100 the food was very good. I ate plenty of fruit and vegetables which i think is key whatever sort of diet you follow or number of carbs you follow (save the fruit thing).
When i go shopping, i stock up on nuts, seeds, fruit and veg, lentils and legumes and chickpeas, preferably the dried sort since the canned varieties may have added sugar. I buy yummy cheese, make my own yoghurt and continue drinking full cream milk. I am definitely into whole foods and cooking my own foods. A pressure cooker helps with the dried stuff. I used nuts, seeds, cheese (especially feta and parmesan) to flavour foods.
I cut out bread, pasta, rice and oats as that is what low carb seems to be really about, not to mention sugar which i cut out back in January when i started my weightloss journey. However, with the hummus i was making, i found that a heated pitta bread was the most yummy way to enjoy hummus so i have that sometimes. Sometimes i have porridge for breakfast too. I think with these foods you can have them but not often and in very modest portions e.g. half a pitta bread, not a whole one.
I found adapting to 100 carbs very easy. Going lower was a bit more tricky at first but now i am doing well on it. Though i don't want to live on this forever as i would like to eat the odd piece of toast again, miss my lentils, don't want to eat this much fish forever and so on.
One thing i would say which applies to any diet, is i cannot understand people messing about with fake desserts. For me sugar and sweet foods are the biggest problem and so long as one is seeking to make them and thinking about them all the time, they will hold you back in your weightloss and always be there ready to tear you down and take you back to scratch. Of course if you don't have a sweet tooth, then you won't have an issue. Since quitting sugar back in January, i am so happy, ;loving my food, eating so well, enjoying cooking, enjoying shopping, and just feeling great. That said i don't have diabetes so i know that those who do, have greater challenges than me. For sweetness, i rely on fruit and i love it. I stew fruit for an alternative and love to eat with natural yoghurt and sometimes added seeds.