Not Sure

[Deleted member 208503]

does anyone have suggestions/links on a structured diet
as in low carb high protein high fat?
meal plans dont work as i never know how to make
substitutions for something i wouldnt eat.
structure as eat this much of this for
x number of meals but i choose the actual food?
preferably to eat 6 small amounts a day
i need something external as i cannot trust
my hunger signals as it never stops

 

[AloeSvea]

Hi @cdpm. I am not sure what the difference between a structured diet and a meal plan is... but the books on Atkins, LCHF and paleo and keto and so on usually have a very thorough instruction section, including shopping lists, and weekly recipe/dish plans for you to choose from - just choose your author! (country, emphasis etc). Ditto cookery books of course.

I recommend doing a search in your local (hopefully large urban?) library website, and ordering up large such books and spending some time reading and choosing amongst them for the structured diet that suits you the best, and then go for it from there. (And buying your favourite ones, ready for the long haul.) New Atkins and Michael Mosley's blood sugar diet are ones that spring immediately to mind, bookwise (and heaps of websites support and back up those two programs). I re-learnt cooking and food prep myself from marvellous Paleo recipe books, and started out moderate carb before going low and keto. I am very grateful to the Paleo community for the great eating experiences, and a gentler exit from higher carb fruit and honey, and starchy vegetables, but I would have done better and faster if I had just leapt into the LCHF world of the diet doctor and the many great recipes there online (and in LCHF cookery books) , but you know - 20/20 hindsight and all that.

I really like the ease with good graphics of the Atkins approach - I used the great charts a lot , and had them prominently on my fridge, when I first started going seriously low-carb. They were very helpful, as were the great lists and carb content material. And being high fat is pretty easy if you like fatty meats and dairy (if you are dairy tolerant), so straight forward enough to be high/healthy fat there.

I'm not sure about the eating six small - meals? a day thing. That sounds like a lot of food preparation and dishes to me! . And I strongly doubt once you start eating LCHF that you will want to eat so many meals - such ways of eating are very filling, in my experience, and one of the many beauties of it/them is you feel very full rather easily.
LCHF/keto is so filling that I find it really easy to 'window of time' eating that way (ie not eating for relatively long periods, in order to lower the amount of insulin you have floating around in your body).

Just about to eat some LCHF/keto brunch buns, slathered in butter, topped up with three rashers of bacon

 

[Resurgam]

I just take the main protein ingredient of the meal and then think what I'd like to have with it - today it was fish and in the fridge there was salad - already done sweet and crunchy from Lidl, also tomato, coleslaw and beetroot, so that is what I ate.
Yesterday I did not feel like eating until very late - due to the heat, so I had three cold sausages - high meat ones from iceland.
I have been low carbing for so long that I always have the main parts of my way of eating on hand - either frozen or fresh, but now I am settled on the diet I only eat twice a day, when I get up and then later on - sometimes as late as eleven at night.
I am still struck even now by the amount of food people eat. I am far more efficient.