Ready! Set! Low Carb!

Published: Sun, 10/24/21

Living Well Blog Beyond Your Scale


Ready! Set! Low Carb!
2021-10-24 18:34:33-04

Low carb can be lots of fun ... if you don't overdo it.The nice thing about it: everyone can have their own tailor-made plan ... Lose a lot or a little? Sweet or salty? Anything goes with low carb. Count calories? Forget about it! Only carbohydrates need to be reduced. Especially the bad ones made from sugar and white flour. How long? Everyone can decide for themselves. 

I want to encourage you to go low carb not no carb.  No carb is only for super-weight watchers, and it is certainly not healthy. But an enjoyable low carb diet that everyone monitors themselves, with lots of vegetables and protein, is fun and (ful)filling.

Lose weight in a do-it-yourself kit!

All you have to do is take the basic concepts to heart and study a few grocery lists on the internet. 

This list HERE! doesn’t bombard you with all kinds of unwanted stuff and gives a good first overview of items that should be on your grocery list. Good for runners and walkers alike. But there are countless others. Just click your way around the internet under the search term “Low Carb”. 

It takes you back a bit to the good old times when our mothers used the Food Combining Diet (separating proteins from carbs) to lose weight successfully. 

However, low carb is more consistent, because low carb means leaving out or reducing the side dishes ... pasta, rice, potatoes. And that nasty white sugar. Birch sugar like xylitol is ok. Sweetener too, although it is controversial because many consider it harmful to your health. 

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