Help with cutting down on Carbs

^ Ye we do eat smaller meals more often. But the issue seems to be the carbs primarily. I actually think that the smaller portions advice is a side effect of the high carb diets. Because with the way that your blood sugar spikes up and dips back down you get hungry after a few hours. So by eating smaller portions you are introducing less sugar into your blood in one shot, but still having the same trough in your blood sugar level.

The idea behind a fatty diet, as I understand it, is that you feel fuller for longer because your blood sugar has no real variance after eating. So the need to eat 5 meals instead of 3 is not quite as relevant. We will most likely still have those mid morning and mid afternoon snack sized meals though, just with next to no carbs in them.
 
On Keto for a 3 months now. Firstly most of the things said in this thread is correct.

Secondly Keto is not the only solution, you can try Intermittent Fasting (IF) or plain calorie counting.

Here is a supplimentary video on an oncologist talking about keto and his journey https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NqwvcrA7oe8 . Ofcourse this is all personal accounts and dont hold any scientific significance however you can still use this video as a motivation to keto on.
 
Started off beginning of May at 98.5 (shock of my life - those damn chocs) and dropped by end of July to 81kg. Consisted of 30min treadmill every day (9-10km/h) and 10min spinning. Watched carb intake - mostly below 40g/day and food intake to 3500kj/day. Was tough in the beginning (first 2 weeks) but then fine.

Food choices were easy - anything without/little carb (pretty much red meat, tinned tuna, tons of chicken, eggs, cheese). Veg choices are limited (tomato, asparagus). Bread/Pasta is a no go. Best breakfast choice or inbetween food is On-Whey protein - instantly dissolves in liquid and a 30g scoop has 3g carb - (now using choc-mint whey protein in a glass of milk - 60g protein/10g carb in the morning).

Biggest change was getting of soda's (red bull) and switched to zero-carb drinks (water, sprite zero and tab). Avoid any fruit juices (especially orange juice - pushes up your blood sugar level). An option is to drop your body into ketosis and measure it - you will drop in the beginning probably around 2kg/week.
 
CrazYmonkeY159 said:
On Keto for a 3 months now. Firstly most of the things said in this thread is correct.

Secondly Keto is not the only solution, you can try Intermittent Fasting (IF) or plain calorie counting.

Here is a supplimentary video on an oncologist talking about keto and his journey https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NqwvcrA7oe8 . Ofcourse this is all personal accounts and dont hold any scientific significance however you can still use this video as a motivation to keto on.
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I have always liked fatty foods anyway, my only carb honeytrap is bread, maybe pizza too. Give me a rich cheesy sauce and I will practically drink it. I just used to hold back on those types of things because, like many others, I thought that it was the fatty sauce that would make me fat. Now I realise that it is the pasta that it is sitting on that allows it to make me fat, not the fat in isolation.

I am not sure that IF and CC are for me. I may be able to do IF, but the wife certainly wont and we are trying to do this together. Mainly for her actually, she has very bad self restraint when chocolates and sweets are around. I hardly let her go to the shops to do grocery shopping because she always comes back with a pack of sweets. Now she is in decent shape for a woman that gave birth 6 months ago, and needs to lose around 4kgs to get back to her pre-preg weight, and another 3-4 to get to her ideal weight for her height. Being 5' 10.5" those extra kgs hardly show, but she really wants to lose them.

I saw this new found focus as the perfect opportunity to get her sugar and carb dependency down by suggesting an LCHF diet. She is not convinced as yet, because her dietary knowledge is about the same as most westerners. Fat is bad and carb is good. But she is willing to give it a shot for a month or two.

Anyway, what meals have you come up with for your Keto diet? Anything creative that has not been mentioned on the Keto sites?

We had a tuna mayo on cucumber and tomato cracker today. Use the Cucumber cut thick as a cracker substitute, some full fat phili cheese, tomato, then dollop of tuna mayo on top.

Going to look into how to make smoked salmon pate and mousse, as Salmon is by far my favourite fish. Going to figure out the shelf life of some things in the fridge and premake them for a few days of snacks/meals. Like hard boil some eggs and have some chicken breasts or pork sausages cooked up. Some salmon and cream cheese wraps. Things like that. Especially seeing as both of us like to fridge forage in the afternoon.
 
Just on the sauce : make sure it's not thickened with flour!
 
Sinbad said:
Just on the sauce : make sure it's not thickened with flour!
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Ye thanks, I will do cream reductions then. We still have some food to clear out of the cupboard, primarily cereals. I am thinking that we might stick to low carb moderate fat meals for lunch and dinner while we finish that food off. Just to get the body and our eating habits a little more used to the keto type meals. Then once the cereals are finished, bacon and eggs for breakfast lunch and dinner baby!!!!!
 
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