I like walnut flour for breading. Beef tallow for cooking fish. I dont eat much turkey. Pheasant I like to cook in the instapot with a dash of cider vinegar. Chicken broth garlic diced onion and caned tomatoes.

Try some of this stuff no sugar or dyes it’s all clear no food coloring in it.

As a transition. People who drink soda are really addicted to it. Just a little concentrate.

Zeva is good. Gotta be cold, though. Lol

baked steelhead, sweet potatoes with cinnamon salad with walnuts and apple cubes and diet water is what I came home to after hunting with my oldest son.. Not no carbs but I think healthy. we always eat healthy. I love my potatoes, breads especially the wife's.

Whatever you do, I don't recommend you low carb the kids. Glucose is a big part of the growth hormones.

lets put it into meals

tonight was a beef arm roast I treat this like a big steak , the side was green beans , wash it down with a miller lite

tomorrow is another roast , the wife went to the butcher today
roast in a dutch oven in the oven with
broccoli

Monday is a stir fry

Tuesday Tacos , no shell , a taco salad , greens, cheese , meat , some peppers , sour cream maybe a a little salsa , very little salsa

Wednesday is eggs often a cheese omelet

Thursday kielbasa and cabbage

Friday , fish and slaw I make my own slaw so it has no sugar

We had baked baked pork chops and brussels sprouts with melted butter on the sprouts. I dont miss carbs at all anymore. I did eat a small portion of corn bread at our trappers convention. Have ham and beans every year, Sure was good. On the rare occasion I eat something like that now my blood sugar doesn't spike. I believe it would though if I ate stuff like that very often. Daughter made me a chocolate cake for my birthday. Sweetened it with stevia. Used cream cheese cocoa and coconut flour. It was wonderful. Also made crawfish aytoofay. chopped up cauliflower real good to put it on stead of rice.

For breakfast I alternate. One day I have a three egg omelet with sauteed onions/mushrooms/bell pepper, american cheese and sausage crumble. the next day I'll have two eggs, bacon and one slice of toast. I've been doing this for a couple of years.\

For drinks, I drink diet pepsi. I tried to go to just water, but it affected my bun/creatin ratio, so I switched back and my numbers got back to normal.

These are some of the main courses I have for supper. Cauliflower crust pizza with sauteed mushrooms/bell peppers/onions/mozzarella cheese, pepperoni/ sausage, rotisserie chicken, baked stuffed bell peppers, beef steak, roasts, ribs, ham steak, pork chops, meat loaf, shrimp, fish, crab legs. So there's quite a variety. I'll usually always have a salad with the main course. No taters, pasta, bread, fruit or sweets. The only time I have bread is every other day for breakfast.

I've been doing this for two and a half years. So far I've dropped 112 pounds. It comes of slow, but it's coming off.

I went two years without a Mtn Dew, and that first sip I took again was like the nectar of the gods.... some people apparently get over cravings.... but some never do, and I'm of the latter camp.

I have found that these days there are lots of zero net carb replacements... such as bread and tortillas, which help.

That Zevia was so nasty I spit it out. I can do Ollie, but not very low in carbs.

I've found staggering coffee, water, zero sodas, and Lipton diet green teas is.... doable. Most of the time! But if I slip up, it's almost always for a REAL soda.

Also harder, because I don't do veggies....

I suggest using Google or whatever your preferred site you like and look up carb free foods. There’s actually a lot of stuff out there.

Start slow. Cut soft drinks with zero and diet drinks. Zero drinks are pretty good. The sugar drinks are not sugar. They are high fructose corn syrup. Much worse than sugar.

Find seasonings that are delicious and learn how to prep the meat. Remove the fascia layers on all chicken to allow the seasoning to get into the meat instead of sit on top of the fascia layer. It is this layer that makes the 'chewy" in chicken.

Lots of low carb alternatives on Amazon. Some really good jellies and jams. Several high protein pastas and rice alternatives.

Learn to season vegetables. Seasoning is what it is all about. I have some good ones. If you want to know let me know.

Meal prep is on Sundays and when needed. Turkey patties take 20 mins in the oven at 350. Same with tenders. Veggies take longer to cook so be ready for that.

It takes planning and desire. I don't do low carb but I do meal prep. I have a different frame of mind and motivation. I don't know who said this but the quote is: "Do it because your wife needs and deserves a healthy husband and your children need and deserve a healthy father."

It will happen if you lead them and be the example. It will suck for a bit but if you love her like you are showing us that you do, then I know you will do it. You have to set the pace. It's your job.

Best part is your family will be healthier and they will love you for it. When I did this, it was a wonderful side effect to see. Now I just have to maintain.

I can tell you want to do this. That is half the battle. Now get to it!!

In my 20’s & 30’s I was so addicted to that stuff. I drank a minimum of three, twelve-ounce cans every day. Back then I drank twice as much Mountain Dew as water. After a while I forced myself to quit them because I knew how bad they were for me.

I didn’t touch one for probably 30 years. The wife and I were grocery shopping one day and they had some at the checkout and we decided to treat ourselves. A couple of swigs, and I was wondering how the heck I ever liked that sickly sweet monkey whiz.

By that time, I had been low carb for a number of years. I don’t eat or drink anything with sugar in it and use Stevia as a substitute for a few things. The amount of sugar in that Mountain Dew must’ve shocked my system, it was horrible. LOL

OMG, three a day? LOL. I drank at least 6-8 a day. Drifter still drinks around 15 a day.

3 a day is a dabbler, not an addict, lol.

The rest of the day, minus 2 cups of sugar sweetened coffee, was full sugar energy drinks.

Water? Isn't that the stuff you use to shower in?

Three a day was a minimum, but you guys still got me beat by a mile! You’s really need to cut back, that stuff will kill you.

Coffee, water, Zevia, Bubbly water, Hop water. Happy trapping! ScottW

Some people get addicted to drugs.
Some people get addicted to alcohol.
My weakness is Mountain Dew…think I’m one week 2 of no Mountain Dew or any other Coke drink, but if I started again it would be all I drink.
I would start off the morning with one or two and end the night with one. It was nothing for me to drink a 12 pack a day…bottles or cans.
Have no clue if I’ve lost any weight, but I’ve gone down 2 notches in my belt, lol. I also sleep a LOT better.

Whiskey and water…

I use concentrate juice sometimes but water it down to twice as much water as it calls for. Still tastes sweet to me and fills that craving

just 2 weeks after I quit drinking soft drinks again I had a headache and sore throat. I figured a soft drink carbonation would be nice on my throat and the caffeine would help my head. So I got a large DR P at McDonald's drive through. It was horrible tasted like drinking cough syrup and I dumped it out. I was surprised how fast my tastbuds had corrected themselves or just changed. It's that same with fruit. Before it didn't seen so sweet. Now bananas seem much more sweet and the aple chunks in my salid last night were border Line 2 sweet.