Low Carb Diets Support Thread

kah22

I use MyFitnessPal as my food dairy. Recently I thought I'd try Turnip Fries but all the recipes I've come across are given in cups, ozs or whole turnips. To be accurate I prefer to work in grams

Here is a RECIPE I've come across. It ticks most of the boxes excep, as you can see, it uses turnips as its measurements

Can anyone give me a break down of this recipe, or point me to a recipe in grams

As always many thanks for replies

Kevin

Treacle_Toes

Good day food wise today.

B: coffee with double cream (not hungry after a long run this morning)
L: chicken salad with pickles, olives and cheese
S: bag of pork crunch (like pork monster munch!)
T: creamed spinach (cream cheese, creme fraiche, double cream) and fried chicken & chorizo

Kah22 - sorry I can't help with your question, maybe enter tesco turnip into mfp to get and average weight of a turnip.

rainbowfairydust

i have been trying to restrict carbs in the last week or so, and have lost 4lbs. I was wondering how many grams people eat every day ( carbs that is)? I have done some research on the matter but there is nothing that is a definitive "eat this many" carbs per day in order to lose weight. I dont really want to go to low either.

rainbowfairydust

vintagebrighton wrote: »

Can I ask you knowledgeable people a couple of questions please?

I've gone from having 300-400g carbs a day (I didn't know I had about 100g carbs just for breakfast!) to around 40g. Is this low enough? I tried going lower but it's really difficult.

Is around 40g low enough to lose weight? My stats on MFP are set at 10% carbs, 70% fat and 20% protein. Is this a good ratio or does it need tweaking?

I really don't want to calorie count but do I need to if I'm not going as low as 20g carbs?

Thanks for the great thread

VB x

i have my macros set to 50% protein, 30% fat and 20% carbs - 70% fat seems quite high to me ( although i am NO expert on the matter) - i have been tracking my intake for the last fortnight or so. First week i wasnt restricting any food but wanted to see what percentage of protein/carbs and fat i was consuming. I was hitting nearly 200g of carbs per day :eek:, and very little protein/fat so the last week has involved really trying to limit the number of carbs and increasing protein. It seems to be working so far as i lost 4lbs this week. :T ( whilst still eating bread :T..ooops naughty me )

vintagebrighton

I thought you had to make sure that your diet was high (good) fat when low carbing? Might have to do a bit more research.

VB x

Pop_Up_Pirate

rainbowfairydust wrote: »

i have been trying to restrict carbs in the last week or so, and have lost 4lbs. I was wondering how many grams people eat every day ( carbs that is)? I have done some research on the matter but there is nothing that is a definitive "eat this many" carbs per day in order to lose weight. I dont really want to go to low either.

The general rule of thumb seems to be less than 40g a day.
Lots of veg is high in carbs so check out which ones you can eat lots of and which are to be restricted.

rainbowfairydust

Pop_Up_Pirate wrote: »

The general rule of thumb seems to be less than 40g a day.
Lots of veg is high in carbs so check out which ones you can eat lots of and which are to be restricted.

Thank you for the advice. As mentioned to another poster i was clocking up to 200g of carbs per day. In the last week i have been averaging around 100. I think for this week i will knock off 20g every day with a view to reducing to between 40-50 grams per day ( over the course of the next couple of weeks). I had a browse on the diet doctor website ( link posted earlier) and even the nuts i eat are the most carb loaded ( partial to pistachios and cashews! ) .

pamsdish

I kept to an average of 50g of carbs per day, some days worked out naturally lower, salad days say, others may have nudged 60, and lost 4 stone on that, every body is different some, like me, can manage higher carbs, you need to keep your diary and see what works for YOU.

kah22

rainbowfairydust wrote: »

i have been trying to restrict carbs in the last week or so, and have lost 4lbs. I was wondering how many grams people eat every day ( carbs that is)? I have done some research on the matter but there is nothing that is a definitive "eat this many" carbs per day in order to lose weight. I dont really want to go to low either.

If I might suggest, download the app MyFitnessPal (no call for the paid version the free one is great) and use it as your food dairy

As well as acting as a food dairy the app will also let you set such things as: calories, carbs, protein and fat as well as your target weight

Another little gem that the app offers is that when you close your dairy for the day if you keep to the same intake it suggest where you will be in 5 weeks time

I also use a Fitbitand the Fitbit talks to MyFitnessPal telling it how many calories you have burned

Let's know what you think

Kevin

fireblade28

vintagebrighton wrote: »

I thought you had to make sure that your diet was high (good) fat when low carbing? Might have to do a bit more research.

VB x

i have my macros set to 50% protein, 30% fat and 20% carbs - 70% fat seems quite high to me ( although i am NO expert on the matter) - i have been tracking my intake for the last fortnight or so. First week i wasnt restricting any food but wanted to see what percentage of protein/carbs and fat i was consuming. I was hitting nearly 200g of carbs per day , and very little protein/fat so the last week has involved really trying to limit the number of carbs and increasing protein. It seems to be working so far as i lost 4lbs this week. ( whilst still eating bread ..ooops naughty me )

You don't necessarily need so much fat in a diet, the primary effect is to keep you satiated (full). However what you have to remember is fat is more calorically dense than protein, thus its easier to overeat in terms of calories when you eat a lot of fat. This may curb your weightloss.

It comes down to personal choice and how active you are but I would always say higher protein is better as you will lose weight quicker due to the thermic effect (25-30% of the calories are used during just digesting it), lower calories (harder to eat a lot of protein than fat) and also feel more full. The other benefit is that you will retain more of you lean muscle which keeps you metabolism higher. Therefore you are less likely to 'stall'.

One factor to take into account is your activity level, do you run? lift weights? If you do the higher protein intake is good. If you don't then it may be overkill and you might not need it. Having said that more protein is preferable to more fat for reasons I outlined already.

The main reason people think low carb works in the first place is people tend to end up eating more protein as its difficult to replace all the carbs with fats. What you see in the studies when you compare the low carb to low fat is protein is not equal. As protein is more thermic
this then gives the false impression that low carb is inherently better.

The bottom line is both strategies work if you are consuming less calories than you were previously. So if by upping your protein or fats you eat less then either works.