Question About A Low-carb Diet, Would This Work?
I need to lose a lot of weight. Luckily, I love meat. I know carbs are what I should stay away from. How something like this:
Breakfast: 3 or 4 eggs with cheese and ketchup
Lunch: a couple baked pork chops
Dinner: a large barbeque chicken breast
Would this work? I’d still be getting carbs from the ketchup, and cheese and the tiny bit found in other things.
What should I add?
Ahhhh, wrong idea…yes carbs should be reduced (not eliminated though), but you cant forget about fruits, veggies and milk! Also, all of this food is high in fat, sodium, and calories, which will probably make you gain weight at such proportions. I would estimate the breakfast alone has over 20 grams of fat (almost half of the daily recommended amount) and almost 600 calories. A better breakfast plan would be one fried egg with a slice of cheese and a slice of tomato over whole wheat toast, or, if that doesnt appeal, one scrambled egg with a little bit (LITTLE bit) of cheese and/or ketchup with one slice of WHOLE WHEAT toast. Don’t forget fruit. For lunch, try a small chicken breast with 1 or 2 cups of salad or carrots or celery and a glass of milk or cup of yogurt. For dinner, one pork chop and one or two of the following: some veggies, baked potato, salad, whole grain toast or pasta, fruit salad, milk, etc…
Don’t forget to exercise and watch your calorie and fat intake too! Take a look at this site to get a better handle on a balanced diet:
Breakfast meal ideas:
1) Mixed fruit salad with a few tablespoons of low fat yogurt.
2) One piece of brown toast with low fat spread and half a can of tinned tomato’s or beans.
3) One piece of brown toast with two scrambled eggs, (use skimmed milk and no butter).
4) Low sugar breakfast cereal such as organic muesli with either skimmed milk or low fat yogurt.
5) Plain oats with berries and honey using low fat yogurt or skimmed milk.
Lunch meal ideas:
1) Salad with chicken or fish.
2) Homemade or tinned soups.
3) Brown bread sandwich with low fat spread.
4) A medium sized jacket potato with low fat cheese or beans.
5) A wholemeal wrap with lettuce, chicken and low fat mayo.
Dinner meal ideas:
1) Roasted vegetables with chicken.
2) Steamed fish with brown rice.
3) Steak with vegetables.
4) Prawn or chicken stir fry.
5) A pepper omelet.
Limit the amount of carbohydrates you eat, instead of eating white bread, white rice and pasta you should eat brown or whole meal bread with brown rice and noodles. These release energy slower and will let you feel fuller for longer.
Be careful of your dairy products, make sure you eat low fat cheese yogurt and skimmed milk. Use single cream in cooking instead of double.
Eat plenty of vegetables and fruit as they are full of fibre and will make you feel full, snack on fruit and nuts throughout the day to keep your blood sugar levels high and keep your metabolism kicking. Eat lots of protein as it will increase your muscle mass and therefore enable you to burn fat quicker.
Regardless of your carb intake if your consuming more calories than your body burns in a day you will continue to gain weight or just plateau and neither lose nor gain. Keep everything as low fat and low calorie as possible. Cheese is always a bad idea. Avoid between meal and late night snacking as well as empty calories like sugar in soda and condiments. Drinking a glass of water is a good way to curb your apetite and don’t forget that some daily cardio will boost your metabolism and help you burn faster. Low carb diets are good for losing a little weight, but not a lot of weight. Hope this helps.
You will find yourself unable to think properly without carbs. You actually NEED Carbs in your diet. There is nothing wrong with wheat products to get your much needed carbs. When I was on Weight Watchers I ate everything from Pizza to Chinese Food, and my Saturday Morning Boston Creme Donuts and STILL Lost 20 pounds.
You don’t have to give up carbs to lose weight.
You need to add veggies salads and fruit salads. The fruit will help keep you energy level up along with the proteins. Right now is a good time to go on a diet, because there are lots of fresh produce available. Remember to get lots of exercise like running, swimming, dance classes, aerobic exercises, and walk as much as you can. Good luck!
Use only sugar free ketchup & BBQ sauces. You need at least 65% of your calories in fat to get into ketosis. It doesn’t look like nearly enough calories and very little fat. I would suggest half an avocado with mayo & seasoning (I like cayenne) with pork rinds every day. Don’t bake your pork chops fry in lots oil with mushrooms and peppers. Add bacon or sausage to your eggs. Mayo with your chicken breast.
You will lose more body fat eating protein and fat (don’t eat protein alone) than not eating AT ALL. To lose weight fast eat all you want but nothing but meat, eggs, healthy oils, mayo, butter and half an avocado a day (you’ll need added potassium). Keep the calories high and the fat percentage high, at least 65% of calories. Adding in green vegetables & some cheese will continue weight loss but at a slower pace.
Your body won’t release fat stores if you lower calories below what it needs. It will slow your metabolism to compensate and store every spare ounce as fat. If you continue lowering your calories, it will continue lowering that set point, til you can survive off nothing and store fat on anything. The body will only release it’s fat stores if it knows there is plenty of food.
Simple carbohydrates (sugar, flour, bread, cereal, pasta, potatoes, rice) triggers insulin which can store the calories you eat into fat. The more protein you eat the more the fat burning hormone glucagon is released. The more carbohydrate you eat the more the fat storage hormone insulin is released.
Simple carbs are addictive and can be disastrous to our health. The best way to break the addiction is NO carbs for 3 days. Make a huge batch of deviled eggs and eat one every time you want “something” have huge omelets for breakfast, with bacon, a lil onion, peppers, mushrooms & cheese. Pork chops for lunch. Get pork rinds and eat them with tuna salad. Steak for dinner. Make a huge sugar free cheese cake for dessert. Eat so much you won’t feel deprived of anything. By the fourth day, your addiction will be gone and you can start making healthy choices.
High insulin levels unbalance other hormones. Controlling your insulin level will balance out other hormones & allow human growth hormone (HGH) to be produced naturally so you will gain lean muscle even without exercise. Any exercise will greatly increase your muscle mass with high HGH levels.
Once you get near your goal, you start adding 5 carbs every week til you gain weight, then you subtract 10 carbs. That would give you your personal carb level (everyone is different and it depends on how active you are.) As long as you remain <9 carbs per hour, you will maintain insulin control, and shouldn’t gain weight. Many people gain weight on high carb, then switch to low carb to lose weight & then are shocked when they return to high carb that they gain weight. Many people can return to moderate carb levels but very few can really eat all they want of sugar and maintain weight or health.
Dr.Atkins was a cardiologist, low carb was a health plan easier sold as a “diet” Read any of his books for easily understandable science. Lutz “Life without Bread” & Taubes “Good calorie, bad calorie” are excellent books that dispel all the nutrition myths.
Reducing body fat and increasing muscle mass will have you in awesome shape in no time. Good luck!