Low-carb diets support thread

daska

I had cauliflower cheese - any guesses on what came next Hint: the new cake recipe I'd tried came out really nicely and went really well with a cup of cocoa... but cadbury's buttons don't taste of chocolate at all now. It was a rather beautiful octopus that got devoured, red with gold undersides to the tentacles and multicoloured suckers - DSD did a fab job decorating it.

Should be less cake making going on after this week and I am deciding right here and now that I will not be eating cauliflower while I have high carb junk in the house. I don't even like cauliflower much LOL.

SHEILA54

Hi

Surely it depends on what is defined as a low carb diet. Personally I try to stick to 40 - 50 carbs a day but I have a vegetarian friend who eats beans, rice, quinoa and oats in moderation, keeps below 120 carbs a day, and has reached goal weight.
The medical definition seems to be below 150 carbs a day so, with 1oz oats being 19g carbs, they may not be unreasonable for some people.

I tried a small milk chocolate given by my grandson yesterday and it tasted awful so it shows how taste buds change.


Here is my menu

breakfast - scrambled egg with smoked salmon pieces

lunch - out for lunch so speck & mozzarella starter, chicken & ricotta salad main, cappuccino coffee

dinner - almond pancake, raspberries 2oz & cream later as still full from lunch

treats - 10g 70% chocolate, probiotic yogurt with flax / seed mixture

bedtime - lactofree milk cocoa

Mercy

daska wrote: »

I had cauliflower cheese - any guesses on what came next Hint: the new cake recipe I'd tried came out really nicely and went really well with a cup of cocoa... but cadbury's buttons don't taste of chocolate at all now. It was a rather beautiful octopus that got devoured, red with gold undersides to the tentacles and multicoloured suckers - DSD did a fab job decorating it.

Should be less cake making going on after this week and I am deciding right here and now that I will not be eating cauliflower while I have high carb junk in the house. I don't even like cauliflower much LOL.

Good on you for making a very important decision! :rotfl: Wouldn't want cauli setting off your carb cravings, now would we. :eek:

Doesn't cake affect your low carb aims at all? :rotfl: I can't have wheat and I'm too lazy to make lc cakes Sometimes laziness is my saviour :rotfl:

Personally, for me, buttons have never tasted like chocolate, unless they were attached to a sticky nephew's cardigan - yum :rotfl:

Mx

Gloomendoom

Mercy wrote: »

Oats are not low carb at all. :eek:

True. I don't think there is any such thing as a low carb cereal. Even All Bran is 50-70% carbs depending on how you measure it.

Mercy

Gloomendoom wrote: »

True. I don't think there is any such thing as a low carb cereal. Even All Bran is 50-70% carbs depending on how you measure it.

I can't even measure it - I'm that intolerant :rotfl:

I agree. Cereals are by definition grains of some sort and so hidden sugar for the detriment of the low carb enthusiast

Mx

daska

Mercy wrote: »

Good on you for making a very important decision! :rotfl: Wouldn't want cauli setting off your carb cravings, now would we. :eek:

Doesn't cake affect your low carb aims at all? :rotfl: I can't have wheat and I'm too lazy to make lc cakes Sometimes laziness is my saviour :rotfl:

Personally, for me, buttons have never tasted like chocolate, unless they were attached to a sticky nephew's cardigan - yum :rotfl:

Mx

LOL, of course cake affects me :rotfl: but I'm stumped as to why cauliflower should leave me wanting carbs when I'm craving free all the rest of the time. And I'm only making the cakes for photos - I did briefly consider putting a shedload of salt in them instead of sugar but that seemed such a waste of eggs etc, mostly I give it away in huge chunks once it's been photgraphed.

elantan

SHEILA54 wrote: »

Hi

Surely it depends on what is defined as a low carb diet. Personally I try to stick to 40 - 50 carbs a day but I have a vegetarian friend who eats beans, rice, quinoa and oats in moderation, keeps below 120 carbs a day, and has reached goal weight.
The medical definition seems to be below 150 carbs a day so, with 1oz oats being 19g carbs, they may not be unreasonable for some people.

I tried a small milk chocolate given by my grandson yesterday and it tasted awful so it shows how taste buds change.


Here is my menu

breakfast - scrambled egg with smoked salmon pieces

lunch - out for lunch so speck & mozzarella starter, chicken & ricotta salad main, cappuccino coffee

dinner - almond pancake, raspberries 2oz & cream later as still full from lunch

treats - 10g 70% chocolate, probiotic yogurt with flax / seed mixture

bedtime - lactofree milk cocoa

i agree with you there Sheila for some low carb could be 100g a day for others 30g a day ... i'm currently trying for 40g per day and now that i am not craving i am managing just make it just below that so i am happy

i wouldve also thought that ensuring you are not drinking ginger and eating sweets , but trying to eat more healthy is a start to low carbing ..

there is so much info out there that contradicts whats good and what is not ... until recently i thought quinoa was a wonder food ... i didnt realise it was as high carb ... now i know it is i have it once a week instead of once per day ...

it's a slow learning process and i would love to think should be supported by those that know what they are talking about... maybe not though

Padstow

Edwardia wrote: »

Hi y'all.. my Wimbledon towel arrived this morning and so did the Abel & Cole delivery. The cook book has plenty of LC recipes. No subs, all looks great so very pleased.

Butter chicken recipe sounds great daska but is that really 30g of sugar ???
:eek:

Padstow.. toast:eek: potatoes :eek:

NO low carb diet plan advocates a dish with 30g of sugar or toast or potatoes or rice cakes for that matter.

For people who are really low carbing, this thread is not a support thread any more.

It's a support thread for people who want to lose weight but still eat the maximum amount of carbs they can get away with OR who eat lower carb but do so still maintaining the pizza, muffins etc.

Well! Potential sinners not allowed in the thread of St Edwardia then!
No carb from any root veg apart from the carrots in occasional coleslaw has passed my lips in over 5 weeks, add to say I've not touched a flour/sugar product or potato in that time either.

You're doing fine ordering Able and Cole boxes. I have been dropped from a great height from thousands per month to £146 pw and that's before paying the bills on a 5,000 sq ft home. I haven't had heating or hot water since January. The electric bills are horrendous due to constanly boiling kettles to keep myself and the house clean.

I was looking forward to SHEILAS's suggestion of a curry. Tough, as the car had to be taxed at £135 for 6 months, add on cheap dog food, a tenner in petrol, plus what I can squeeze from the lawn mower. The nearest bus is two miles away down unlit lanes, so car's a must. That's my income gone until next Monday when no doubt it will be swallowed up again. No money for food.

I did indeed shop for some bread and butter this morning, but my local corner shop, 3 miles away, Co-op was charging £1.80 for the cheapest butter. I put both bread and butter back. No point in two Lincs spuds either, as no butter to put on them. Total food today? Ramekin of seeds.

I never thought it could happen to me, but Edwardia, life turns on a sixpence and it could happen to any one of us. Be grateful, not smug.

Mercy

elantan wrote: »

i agree with you there Sheila for some low carb could be 100g a day for others 30g a day ... i'm currently trying for 40g per day and now that i am not craving i am managing just make it just below that so i am happy

i wouldve also thought that ensuring you are not drinking ginger and eating sweets , but trying to eat more healthy is a start to low carbing ..

there is so much info out there that contradicts whats good and what is not ... until recently i thought quinoa was a wonder food ... i didnt realise it was as high carb ... now i know it is i have it once a week instead of once per day ...

it's a slow learning process and i would love to think should be supported by those that know what they are talking about... maybe not though

Not sure about the ginger reference? What do you mean there, hunni?

Low carbing - what's good - low carb foods. What's bad - high carb foods.

No not simples :rotfl: Of course the amount is important. As is the level of carbs in a day you are aiming for.

May be the aim of each of us should be made clearer? If it is not, how can 'those that know what they are talking about' help at all, really?

My sig states my plan - Dr D's. Dr Dahlqvist - see page one for link.

Personally, over 100g carb a day isn't low carb as I know it. I cannot understand another person's ideal for low carb unless it's there.

Why not put your ideal carb count in your sig? Doesn't have to be obvious to others, something like 'ideal - 60'. Would help those you want support from to actually fulfill your 'support' wishes

Just an idea. :beer:

Mx

sistercas

padstow is there any way you can get some help with food? friends or rels? you cant survive like that x