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Originally posted by STUD

What do you guys like ...?

Any suggestions..welcome.


I pretty know what to stay away from..

But it is better to work from a point of view..
Of..
What ya ..CAN.. have..
Rather than what ya ..can not...

Thanks... :0)

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You may well be in luck, and get some culinary wizardry solutions from Skip - i know he's been low/no carb for a while lately.

In our house, there's a lot of baked sweet potatoes replacing normal spuds, and rice noodles instead of the standard egg/wheat noodles with the stir fry.

It all helps Jonty..

N...
Love me some Mr. Island...


Loose 30 lbs would be great..
20 lbs..pretty not to bad...
10 lbs.. i'de be ok with that..
But really need to be in the other 2 catahgorys...

Spinach and cheese in scrambled eggs. Fresh berries in unsweetened almond milk in the blender. Spaghetti squash.Tuna salad. Smoked salmon with cream cheese. Avacados and scrambled eggs. Ice tea and coffee with no sweeteners.These things helped me loose.

Thanks Ron...

That is a good start on a list..

I hear Green Peppers are low carb and loaded with vitamin C !!!
Slammer!!!

Any fresh and/or frozen veggies: cauliflower, broccoli, corn, any type of beans, any type of squash.
Any fresh or frozen fruit: apples, bananas, oranges, grapes, strawberries (any kind of berry), avocados.
If you like something with crunch, try Jicima. It's a great treat, tastes somewhere between an apple and a potato (but has no starch). Eat it fresh, sprinkle it with lime and/or hot sauce. Great great.
Most kinds of nuts, in moderation.
Any kind of natural juices (not these sugary store bought ones).
As far as meat goes, baked, broiled, grilled chicken, lean beef, lean pork, any kind of fish. Nothing fried!!

God diet for heart health and weight control.

Stir fries, sausage , burgers with lettuce buns aren’t bad, try some different low carb tortillas, crust less pizza. Nuts, olives and cheese for lunch or snacks. Bacon wrapped anything!!! The thing I miss or crave when going low carb is crunchy things and cereal, and I’m not a big cereal eater.
I try to do the 80/20 plan. Behave and do low carb 80% of the time and cheat 20% of the time. Common sense and portion control is still needed, along with getting my arse off the couch!!!
Slammer!!!

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Originally posted by slammer

I hear Green Peppers are low carb and loaded with vitamin C !!!
Slammer!!!

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LMAO....!

My wife introduced me to sheet pan dinners. Easy to make, and you can make them virtually no carb. Cut up a variety of vegetables; peppers, onions, tomatoes, potatoes, broccoli, carrots, whatever you have. Add a protein of your choice; cut up chicken or stake, fish, shrimp, beans, whatever. Sprinkle on your favorite spices, she likes salt, pepper, coriander, cumin, rosemary, whatever. Roast it in the toaster or regular oven on a cookie sheet, we put some parchment under it, at around 400F for 10-20 minutes depending on your protein. Easy to make, satisfying, and if you leave out potatoes virtually no starch. Oh, we cut up sweet potatoes also. You can find tons of recipes online for these.

Also Aldis sells a Keto friendly bread that has only 10 grams of carbs, and that's all fiber. Only 35 calories per slice.

Liz:
You guys are killin' me! You're listing everything Al hates! (FWIW, I love avocados, sweet potatoes, and fish.)

I don't like sweet potatoes either, but they sure taste good in the sheet pan dinners. I also don't like fish, but didn't know Al didn't like it. I use chicken or beef, but I"m looking for another protein source. I don't like mushrooms either or I would use portobello mushrooms. My wife used shrimp.

They are just not me go to food...
Stuff Liz is talkin about
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A few years back, my wife started to ask an M.D. [internal medicine specialist] about a "diet" for diabetics. The doc interrupted and with a couple of finger thrusts toward my chest said; "Forget that diet bull**** ... your job is to get fit."

Just t'other day one of my brothers and I were solving world problems. He mentioned that a not-very-tall friend of his had written a book chronicling his [friend's] weight loss.... from 185 to 158.   The gist of it was to eat less ... one egg for breakfast is sufficient, why eat two?  etc., etc.

And a dude I know lost twenty pounds by walking up/down his basement steps for 20 minutes after supper each day ... said he never changed any aspect of what he was eating.

I suppose it's on the indelicate side, but an expression my mom sometimes used: "There's other ways to kill a cat besides choking it with butter."

When Dave had his bad heart attack, the doctor told him to get on on heart healthy diet. He also said it would help him lose weight. So, according to doctor's orders, he started exercising (nasty word, right?) at least half an hour every morning, usually walking on the tredmill, started eating healthy foods (nothing fried, meat baked, broiled or grilled, little or no fat), and lots of veggies and fruits. He felt better, lost nearly 10 pounds that he needed to lose, and found that he didn't miss the fried stuff after all.

Dave didn't like many veggies so I fixed cauliflower and broccoli with a cheese sauce and he loved it. It's an idea that might work for those who don't care for veggies. Instead of mashed potatoes, I fixed mashed cauliflower that also had only one potato cooked with it. With a little salt, pepper, maybe some sour cream and/or queso, it tasted just like potatoes. Might try that.

I was just at the grocery store and they were out of Black Bean spaghetti, but that is another option. Takes a little getting used to the texture, but with a good spaghetti sauce on it it tastes just fine. Regular spaghetti does not have much taste either so it's only texture, and color that is different. If I have this for lunch I will not gain weight that day, and often lose a pound or so. They also make lentil and edamame spaghetti. All with no carbs and mostly protein.

If you do stir fry, I use sesame oil sparingly with whatever else is used to keep it from sticking/burning. The sesame oil can even make BROCCOLI taste good... In fact it's my go to oil for flavor enhancement.

Would a Mediterranean Diet be in the category of a low carb diet? I do like Greek food.

"Would a Mediterranean Diet be in the category of a low carb diet? I do like Greek food."

I think parts of the Mediterranean Diet would qualify, but you'd probably have to eliminate the pasta part.

I've had a sweet tooth all my life, so after chemo I went on the keto diet for 6 months,,, no beef, naturally cured bacon (no nitrites), eggs, fish, chicken, turkey,,, keto muffins, carbonaught bread, sour cream, berries (strawberries, blackberries, raspberries), big salads, no rice, cereals, spuds, beans, or pasta. I lost 30 lbs. Cooked with good oils - extra virgin olive oil and avocado oil. Also did intermittent fasting - eating in an 8 hour window. I got off the sweets and didn't crave them due to getting off the carbohydrates. Good luck , Al , it's gonna take a week or so of adjustment, then clear sailing. 

I think low carb or keto or LCHF are effective diets to loose weight, but in the long terms it is better to have a more versatile diet  to avoid insufficient supply of essential nutrients, Avoid sugar, rice, white flour and similar that only gives energy and no nutrients. 

Check out the South Beach Diet Cookbook. Good variety of interesting dishes. Older book, but Amazon still has it.

If you can't make the changes into a permanent lifestyle then don't waste your time. Low carb will take it off. Go off that diet and it jumps right back on, and quickly. And in my inexpert opinion, yoyo dieting is worse than maintaining a steady weight.

Don't think of it as a diet, think of it as eating healthy for your heart and your body in general.

Basics: stay away from fried foods, processed foods, candy, cookies and chips (unless they're baked). And if you want to cheat once in a while, that's okay, just don't do it every day or every week.

And yes, it is a change in lifestyle if you want to lose weight and stay that way. You can't go back to your old way of eating.

Late to the thread...

The key is really to eliminate as many carbs as possible from your diet - especially the processed ones. This means avoiding sugar (ice cream, candy, non-diet soft drinks), stuff based on flour (bread, pasta, etc.), other sources of carbs (including most but not all beers), rice, that sort of thing. Many processed foods contain a lot of sugar; ketchup, for example, is loaded with it.

Instead, you can eat a LOT of meat and dairy (as long as we're not talking about milk shakes) and tons of veggies - and with the veggies, you need to avoid things like potatoes and yams, which are carb-heavy. Pay attention to the amount of fiber included in the ingredients; low-carb diets work on the basis of "net carbs." This means that if you're eating a serving of, say, refried beans, the total carb count might be 19 grams per serving, but that serving also includes 6 grams of fiber, so the net carb is the total minus the fiber and a net of 13.

These diets work as long as one keeps below a certain amount of net carbs per day.

Now, this may all sound rather dull and bland. But one can make up for it with a larger portion of ribs, for example - as long as one doesn't use a sweetened barbecue sauce - and a nice big side of slaw, as long as one doesn't include sugar in the slaw dressing (Splenda substitutes nicely). The pickles are fine, but the potato salad is a no-no.

There are plenty of keto/low-carb cookbooks out there that can provide recipes, and low-carb diets do NOT need to be bland or unsatisfying. You want to grill up a steak? Do so - and feel free to put a couple of TBS of butter on it. That, and a nice big salad with blue cheese dressing are perfectly fine. But you've gotta avoid the fries or baked potato for the nonce.

Before you do this, Al, have a talk with your MD to make sure that this approach isn't going to mess with your blood chemistry. Given your medical history, an MD may warn you off of this approach - with good reason.

As allways Skip..
An exalant response..

Thanks.