Sooo what kind of adult beverages are allowed?

Token amounts, lol

it's been awhile since I researched this but if I remember correctly, the clear ones are better than dark.

Dry wine is a good low carb beverage.

"Most regular table wine is classified as Dry Wine and has only around 1 to a maximum of 4 grams of carbohydrates, equating to just 4 to 16 calories, per 5 oz glass. Red wines contain around 1-2 grams of carbohydrates from skin and seed extract and 0-2 grams of carbohydrates from leftover grape sugars, whereas regular white wines typically contain 0-4 grams of carbohydrates from leftover grape sugars."

sounds like the wife and I can pull corks on bottles we picked up before starting low carb. She is only good for about 1/2 to 3/4 of a glass to begin with.

If you follow the original Atkin's plan, first few weeks is induction. Very, very strict on carb intake. Whole purpose is to shock your body to switch from burning carbs you get from what you eat to making your body manufacture carbs from stored body fat. If you have been eating a lot of carbs, first 24 hours or so you will develop one really nasty headache, which is a sign it's working. There are a lot of things you can eat. You could go to Burger King and get a double whopper with cheese.........just leave off the tomato, ketchup and bun. No fries, no nothing else. Unsweet ice tea or water. Or a can of sardines and a hard boiled egg.....or slab of hard cheese.

Most salads are good, provided nothing you add to the lettuce has carbs. Atkins book, if can find it, has a list of carbs for most foods. Carrots have carbs. Celery doesn't. If you look at ingredients on food label, it will list grams of carbs per serving. It also lists fiber, which has carbs, but they are not digestible, so you can subtract the fiber from the carbs to get net carbs.

And as others have mentioned, once you get on a roll, you may not even feel hungry most of the time, so staying with it is easy. Especially when you step on a scale.

Then later on down the road, you can ease up a bit. Add the ketchup and tomato.......just leave off the bun.

On booze of any kind, alcohol does not have carbs, but does have calories. It won't affect your blood sugar, but provides an alternative fuel you body can use instead of burning fat. In early stages of induction, best not to drink anything, but distilled spirits like scotch have alcohol, but no carbs. As noted, next best is dry wine, (sugar fermented out of it). Beer.......even lite beer, not so good, and anything with sweet mixers is no good at all.

All that during induction. Later on.......as you get the weight off, you can lighten up a bit. But lighten up too much and the weight will come right back.

Sunday night - Steak , green beans , whipped cream with some black berries. no sugar in the whipping cream it whips up in under a minute with a immersion blender.

Monday , stir fry , zucchini , onion , bell pepper , chicken or pork , broccoli and some times chard if it is growing

Monday , cheeseburgers no bun, cheesy riced cauliflower or green beans

Tuesday , Fajitas chicken or beef , onions and peppers , with cheese and sour cream

Tuesday , Taco salad , ground beef for chicken , on lettuce , cheese , sour cream , avocado

Wednesday, eggs , it may be Frittata with sage sausage and feta cheese or bacon and eggs , omelets

Thursdays , Kielbasa and cabbage , or grilled chicken

Friday , fish so many fish options one summer favorite is crappie or blue gills scaled , head off , gut out , slit the sides shake down with Tony Shakaries and fry
porkchops and a salad , coleslaw or green beans are also a good Friday

Saturday we might do brats or pork chops or try something new. depends what we did all week and how busy of a day it is.


salads for a lot of my lunches , use lunch meat and cheese , whatever you would put on a sub makes nice salad

soups just leave noodles , potatoes or dumplings out , Cheesy beer broccoli is good

last night we had egg plant and meatballs and went a little crazy and used jar of no sugar added sauce.

Fat head pizza , this is an almond flour , cream cheese , Mozzarella and egg crust , with a little sauce and toppings of choice.

zucchini in season makes a great side , half , slit , oil , season and grill

I make my own coleslaw with no sugar , it is a source of a lot of hidden sugar in most slaw.

Basic coleslaw scalable

weigh out in a container or bowl large enough for it and to mix it
100g Mayo

25g apple cider vinegar

10g mustard dijon

6-7 shakes Gochujang powder or 3-5 shakes of hot sauce

mix in 400 to 450 g cabbage shredded (this is the 14-16 ounce bag of dole shredded cabbage I like the tri color)

salt and Pepper to taste

Carbs are in about everything in daily life a true meal planner is something I’ve yet to find that’s realistic to follow or understand. Even the meat and eggs breakfasts gets old day after day and the other meals have less options for the other 2 meals of the day.

A new natural sweeteners blocks the absorption of carbs making bad food better for you, I think that’s the future of practical eating. Allulose is a rare sugar that has no carbs that blocks other carbs, increases insulin production and suppresses your appetite much like Ozempic will without the unwanted side effects.

The most helpful foods that improve a diet that I’ve found is steamer bags of vegetables that are quick and easy to heat up to complete an evening meal. Chicken, lean meats and the fruits I eat along with the steamer bags of vegetables help with some options. When I eat carbs say pancakes or sugar free cookies a tablespoon of Allulose will reduce the carb intake. It’s 70% as sweet as sugar to a tablespoon is not a lot of sweetness like you might think. One packet of Stevia and a tablespoon of Allulose is just right in my coffee. Add it to oatmeal, cereal or pancakes I sprinkle it on the foods to reduce my carb intake.

I’ve seen better organized jail menus than any truly efficient meal planner for a week let alone for a monthly plan. If you listen to everyone in the game you can eat eveything then the next input says you can’t eat anything but water and tree bark. For as common of an issue diets are for many peoples health concerns health menus don’t exist. The info out there is hard to make sense out of for daily use.

Fortunately I haven't grown tired of eggs and meat for breakfast. I'm just short of 3 years having those for breakfast every day, and I still like it. In those three years I've not had any cereal, pancakes or waffles. I do change it up though. I'll have the omelet one day and over easy eggs with bacon the next. I don't miss the sweetness in food, and really prefer the savory flavor.

At the two and half year mark after losing 111 pounds, my weight loss stalled for three months. I didn't gain or lose, and my diet didn't change. So, I went off the diet for two weeks. I gained 5 pounds. Then I went back on it. Since going back on it, I've lost those 5 pounds and two more. It was like a reset, and things are back on track. It felt strange eating carbs with no restrictions after not doing so for so long. It feels more natural being back on the diet.

Thanks for the replies. I read lot of info but nothing is better than talking to someone doing it. 72 here today so i'll fire up the smoker. That hub cap sirloin I fixed last week was good for 5 meals all together. Stir fried leftovers in bacon grease for breakfast 2 days. Lunch was stir fried with cheese melted on it.

So have you decided to try cutting carbs? It seems impossible at first but becomes easy when you get in the habit and know what your looking for

One issue is individuals have different needs/restrictions in their diets so what works for one person won’t work for the next person because of their health issues. High cholesterol, blood pressure, food allergies and diabetes are impacted by what you consume daily. I’m a picky eater give me a healthy salad my first thought is to smother it in dressing to sweeten it up.

Sugar free stuff is not carb free, fat free or sodium free often they are loaded with other bad things for you with ingredients to make up for what’s missing in the product. Read the labels it’s scary the way things are mislabeled. Look into natural sweeteners for a quick example many are sugars renamed to sound like something else like sucrose, fructose make up popular sugar substitutes both make up sugar. Aspartame is a nasty chemical that stuff causes me extreme joint pain in the knees, neck and back even in small amounts.

Many healthy sweeteners have side effects and should be taken in moderation Erythritol for one is tasty but if you eat too much of it, it will turn your gut inside out it feels like. Bloating, gas and diarrhea it says on some of the packages so don’t load up when you can spread it out over the day.

Russell Stovers make some tasty sugar free chocolate candies that need to be eaten in moderation but the Erythritol needs to be respected plus they are high in saturated fats lucky my cholesterol is not a problem so 2 a day works for me. Find your niche, read labels and do your homework you can’t eat unhappy for very long.

If you decide to cut carbs, you'll find after about 10 days the carb cravings go away, that's your brain weaning off the big shots of glucose high carbs give.
I can eat eggs everyday, but I mix it up with cottage cheese with fruit and nuts, or muesli cereal with cream....not being cooked leaves all the resistant starch in oats/barley/ etc, plus you get a good shot of fiber.
This morning just had breakfast sausage and cheese on a low carb tortilla.. lots of ways to change things up. One of the big hangups is thinking your denying yourself the stuff you like, like baked goods and ice cream, trust me you don't crave that stuff after you get dialed in, and you can start adding things as you progress, even a cheat day won't kill you as long as it's one day, or meal...
It's actually a pretty simple diet, you just eat real food cooked simply and avoid the worst starchy foods...

One issue I have is I need to gain weight or maintain my current weight at the least. I went from 175-180 to the current 140-145 I’m at now I’m not sick or unhealthy just lost my cushion and losing any more is not the plan. The weight loss was not planned so I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place if I can’t control it.

today I had home cooked chicken strips, and eggs for lunch, and a chicken salad for supper,

How does this effect Cholesterol that is my biggest
Worry

If you are trying to get in shape and have a good diet, ZERO alcohol. It is one of the worst things you can put in your body.

Green beans, bell peppers, onions, zucchini, avocado, and kielbasa all have too many carbs in them which will affect the success rate of a no carb plan, especially in the beginning.

Thumb catcher, two years ago my brother said his cholesterol was just over 800. He went on meds for a year and it came down to 753. He started a carnivore like like I had been on. He told his doctor he was going to go carnivore, she didn't think it was a good idea. He called me on Thursday and said his cholesterol was 170, said his doctor was shocked. I've been on a carnivore diet for two years. I have stopped two blood pressure meds and a cholesterol med. I lost 85 lbs and have kept it off. I don't consider it a diet but a lifestyle change.