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Carbohydrates explained

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Wooaaahhhhh!! I don’t even recognise most of the ingredients! And they come with a safety warning!!
A suggestion might be, if you’re looking for low carb high fat snacky things, is to Google Keto snacks. Lots of ‘fat bomb’ recipes out there. All clean eating as @Ditto alluded to and quick and easy to make.
Also, you can eat things like cheese no problem. Just don’t eat with carbs...eat protein and fat together, don’t add carbs to the mix!
 
@Ditto have you tried LCHF? Honestly, once you’ve ditched the bread, potatoes, rice etc and replaced them with lots of good stuff....eggs, meat, nuts, vegetables, fish, bacon, oils .... you won’t miss them. I thought I couldn’t live without toast EVERY single day of my life but now it never crosses my mind (well, maybe only occasionally). I clean eat, eat seasonally as much as I’m able to and eat so much that I never feel hungry. I don’t get those awful carb slumps that made me want to sleep all afternoon, have much more energy, better mood, and I’ve lost weight....something I’d found practically impossible to do until I discovered Keto. It has had such a huge impact on my diabetes which was the sole reason I started the Keto way of eating.
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t get the munchies sometimes for carbs, like when I find myself in the bread aisle in Sainsbury's, but I just remind myself how I’d feel after eating it and that’s enough to make myself walk away...admittedly begrudgingly!! And even if I do fall off the wagon, it’s happened a few times, I just give in to it for the day and start afresh the following morning with NO guilty feelings.
 
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Idon’t have anything wrapped either because to me that means processed.
 
If you can get a late edition of Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution - I use the 2003 version but I think there is one later - though as Dr A died at about the time my book came out I have not looked for Atkins Corporation products - but it should have lists of the things to eat - though they do have an American slant which was not all that useful back in the day but we do know what they are nowadays.
It also has menus with different amounts of carbs laid out pretty clearly.
I think that there is an error in the weights in the induction phase, but it is not going to make much difference for most people.
 
Thanks DrummerI’ll check it out.
 
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