Support and ideas for those on low-carb diet

Anya, have you tried spelt flour? It is no use on a strict no-carb diet but is much lower GI when you are maintaining. I sometimes make a tart or pie with 100g of spelt flour for the two of us and it has a lovely nutty taste. It needs very little liquid though. We obviously don't have any other carbs with it.

I will make the tart at Easter - provided I have lost 7lbs by then

I had a two egg omelette with mushrooms fried in butter for lunch. Followed by a yogurt (which had sugar in it I think).
I am now very hungry again.

It can't, that's why I'm asking Merlot to run it through her nutrition thingmy to see how carby it is. My diet is not NO carbs, NO sugar if you see my earlier post. Each of us is following a slightly different regime.

I'm strictly limiting my starchy carbs to NO pasta, potatoes, rice, bread, etc. and my sugars to 1 piece of fruit. It's working for me weight wise, I'm not constipated ( TMI I know)

Thus I want to see just how many carbs in that tart so I can make an informed decisions.

I think I posted on another thread that I used to follow the advice of nutritionist Adele Davis - and she said that she had helped people who could not lose weight by adding good oils to their diet.
They had been cutting out oils or fat because they are 'fattening' but she said the body retained its own fat if deprived of a dietary source.

However, she died at a relatively young age (I do not know what she died of though).

Come on Jingl- you are not being fair.

Anya- how can shortcrust pastry be no carb?

The diet is

NO carb, NO sugar, HIGH fat.

That was just the once! I usually have ham and salad. Like I said, it was that sodding sugar programme made me want sweet stuff. Anyway, it's calories that matter. Energy in to energy out ratio. #exercisebike

Even a syrup butty will turn to fat if not worked off!

What happened to a balanced diet? Just smaller portions.

What about clogging up the arteries?

Here goes Merlot

Leek and Cheese Tart serves 4

200g shortcrust pastry
300g leeks
25g butter
150g cheese (any kind I use a Caerphilly, Cheddar or Lancashire)
150g whipping cream
I whole egg
1 egg yolk

Thanks

Does the diet say as much fat as you want ?

You store the fat as fat if you still eat carbs, granjura because you are not burning it off.....you're burning off the carbs instead.

If you don't eat carbs you will burn off the fat which you will need for energy especially in colder weather.

I can't think of any other way to put it. Maybe someone else has a better explanation?

Again, I quote Merlot's post:

so if you eat fat you store it as fat. (from Merlot)

No need to repeat about carbs and sugar, I TOTALLY GET THAT -

but this diet is about no sugar, no carb and AS MUCH FAT AS YOU WANT

so ...

The Truth About Sugar is being repeated on BBC1 at the moment.

Anya, You can put the recipe on here if you like.

I will need the weights of any meat, cheese, cream etc. and the number of portions you will serve.

The programme gives approx weight for things like a medium onion, red pepper etc.

I thought it might be a good idea to upload the nutritional analysis labels on the 'pictures' forum. We could have a separate thread for them with posters' names but it's playing up at the moment. I think GNHQ are trying to fix it.

Who actually is Zoe Harcombe? And where does she get her information from? That article is a bit random. (Mamie's article)

Snap Merlot

If you base your meals on carbohydrates these will provide the energy you need. If you also eat fat you will not burn it off because your body will turn to the carbs first for energy so you will put on weight from the fat you have not burned.

Cutting out carbs means your body must turn to any fat you have consumed for energy so you burn that off instead.

So therefore you are not storing fat

morning moreish. I keep making the mistake of thinking my iPad works for me!

OK I see where you are confused. If you eat too much of anything it will turn eventually into fat, unless you are burning it off through exercise.

Your body prefers to digest and burn carbs for energy as they are easier to break down (into monosaccharides, simple sugars), we learned that in biology at school. It's very simple to eat too many carbs, as they are quite addictive and found in things like cakes, biscuits, chocolate and all those yummy things that are so morning. This produces too much sugar in the blood stream with all the risks that implies.

Now if you limit the carbs the body will have to use fats and proteins as its primary energy source. Firstly, these take much longer to break down into energy, and the body has to work harder to do this. Also these foods can make you feel full for longer so you have less urge to snack or over indulge.

That's probably over simplified but my undetstanding of how it works.

This:

so if you eat fat you store it as fat. (from Merlot)

I totally get how carbs and sugar turn into fat if unsused- but the diet is about, no carb and no sugar (makes sense) and unlimited full fats ... so?!?

You'll have to explain the contradiction Jura so I can see where the confusion arises.

Merlot I've a recipe I'd like you to run through your nutrition checker sometime, no rush. Shall I put it on here, PM you, or go to GN menus and put it on there?

I understand that- but your post contradicts this- hence confusion.