Foods Low in Carbs

Consistently eating only foods low in carbs is the best way to lose weight and keep it off. 

Why?

If you are consuming 200 or 300 grams of carbs daily like most North Americans, your body is adjusted to burning sugar.  When consumed and digested, all carbs become sugar.

This is not good because, in order to lose body fat, you want your body to burn fat rather than sugar.

The solution is to limit carb consumption so that your body shifts from burning sugar to burning fat.  At least until you reach your ideal percentage of body fat, consume no more than 25 grams of carbs daily.

Foods low in carbs are natural foods such as fish and shellfish, meats from muscles and organs, poultry, eggs, and low carb vegetables. 

Please think of yourself as the successful product of millions of years of evolution.  Your genetic heritage came from your ancestors who ate natural foods.  The more you eat the kinds of foods they ate, the healthier you are likely to be.

Natural animal foods low in carbs are game (such as deer or elk), grass-fed ungulates (such as cattle or bison), wild game birds (such as pheasant or quail),  free-range domestic poultry, eggs from free-range chickens, and wild-caught fish (such as sockeye salmon or Chilean sea bass).

The best plant foods low in carbs are (preferably organic) green leafy and cruciferous vegetables such spinach, lettuce, mustard greens, beet greens, turnip greens, parsley, kale, collard, bok choy, broccoli, caulikflower, celery, cubumber, (green, red, or Chinese) cabbage, mushrooms, (sweet or hot) peppers, yellow summer squash, and zucchini.

Since fruits and fruit juices are not foods low in carbs, avoid them.  (You can obtain all their valuable phytonutrients and fiber eating vegetables.)

If you drink alcoholic beverages, only use unsweetened ones and limit yourself to one drink daily if you are female or two drinks daily if you are male.

Avoid all grains such as wheat, oats, rye, barley, spelt, kamut, corn, rice, wild rice, tell, millet, sorghuym, and sugar cane and all products made from them such as breads, pastas, rolls, muffins, crumpets, pastries, bagels, pretzels, doughnuts, cookies, cakes, corn chips, most Mexican food, pizza, croissants, soft drinks, granola bars, breakfast bars, and breakfast cereals.  Avoid candy.  Avoid all sweetened dairy products, drinks, and dessetts. None of these are foods low in carbs.  None of these are foods your ancestors ate.

Since nuts are high in carbs, except, perhaps, for a small daily serving of walnuts, avoid nuts.  Similarly, avoid legumes, potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, and nut butter.  Use white onions only modestly for flavoring.

Sausage and cold cuts often have added sugar.  Either make your own or count their carbs towards your daily total.  Condiments, too, often have added sugar.

You have enough information now to get started.  It's a good idea to buy a food counts book and use it religiously for a few weeks until you learn which foods are low in carbs.

If you improve your diet in this natural way, you are soon going to like the way you look and feel. 

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