Just thought I would start this thread since there seems to be a gamut of confusion and misunderstanding about what normally constitutes "good eating" in low carb land! I thought that by clarifying what we know to be true vs. "what we've heard" a lot fo the confusion can be cleared up!
Here's the first: You can only eat some sort of egg for breakfast. (thanks Mis, took my cue from you )
Not true! Low carb eating is about thinking outside the box. Get inventive with your breakfast. Actively search out low carb cook books, search the internet for ideas and talk to others. You can make "pancakes", meat, lettuce, and cream cheese roll ups, heck some of us just eat leftovers from the night before! If you're a die hard egg person in the morning, try jazzing it up with a tablespoon full of salsa, or even have scrambled eggs with a tsp full of pesto. There are is a variety out there but when you first startit just seems so overwhelming. Take the time to learn to cook new ways and your diet (and tummy!) will thank you!
2. You eat only meat, fish, eggs, cheese and butter.
FACT: Even on the strictest of the Low Carb plans, some carbs are allowed in the form of lower carb vegetables. Some of the plans allow up to 15 carbs per meal (Schwartzbein), some allow unlimited carbs at the "reward meal" (CALP) and even dear old Doc Atkins adds more carbs and fruit as you come off induction.
WRONG!! At least not for me. Low carbing is the least difficult diet I have ever been on. I can eat anything I want, as long as it doesn't have carbs. I don't have to weigh/measure/count calories/worry about portion size for the most part. Once you really get that you can have anything, just as long as it doesn't have carbs, it is so easy to eat!!
Then you weren't going by the book. If you follow the plan, don't cheat then you body really has little choice but to loose the fat. I encourage them to buy the Ketostixs - it helps - A LOT!
I thought this to when I first started, as of today, I've lost no weight. The 3 lbs I did loose are back but it's muscle!!! I've lost 3" in less than two weeks. The pounds will come. People don't see weight, they see shape. That's what I'm after, a shape. I'd like to be able to see the shape of my belly button again!!
If you do your homework and stick to the plan it DOES WORK!!!
Just so nobody is misinformed, ketosticks are only useful on a ketogenic diet, like Atkins. They are not of any use on plans like Schwartzbein, Berstein, CALP, CAD and similar LC diets as you will not be excreting enough ketones to show on the tests.
Extremely LC not the WOE for people with kidney problems. But for normal people who aren't on dialysis (something about Ketosis, read the book, lol), it's perfectly healthy.
Myth #8 When I went off the diet I gained the weight back..
You're not suppose to go back to your original bad eating habits. Did you not learn anything? It's a way of life, not a quick fix. We all fall down occasionally, but we know that it's not the "diets" fault, it's ours if we stay down.
"All that fat you're eating, your arteries are clogging faster than you can say boo!!"
When there are studies upon studies that show that people's cholesterol and most especially triglycerides are DROPPING on this WOE. Mine improved 100% in the space of 1 year, and I wasn't even actively "dieting" just cutting back on sugar and flour and such. Hmph!
Check out the latest medical studies. It's not the fat that's killing people. It's fat combined with overly refined carbohydrates of the sort you find in doughnuts, pizza, hamburgers, french fries, etc. Scientific studies have now proven that Dr. Atkins was right all along. Limiting high carb foods and eating a higher protein/fat diet can help lower the bad cholesterol and raise the good....which is a good thing. Just don't think you can start to eat lots of high protein and fatty foods and still continue to gorge yourself on potatoes, bread, pasta and rice. It ain't gonna work....the combination could kill you.
Count carbs. Eat fruit. You just need to learn the # of carb grams in portions of fruit.
Not in induction, perhaps, but berries, melon, and other fruits can be used in most lc lifestyles, depending on your own ability to deal with the sugars in fruit. I can share an orange or an apple with DH, or have some grapes, or pineapple or pears...
Top Ten Myths of eating low carb
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Myth # 5 - My two cents...
