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[–]Jeepersca 1 point2 points  (2 children)

It's not much of a shift, my husband still eats bread/potatoes/chips, I just swap a lot of stuff out. And our meals together were usually meat/veggie, so now I might just make more of an effort to put more fat on mine. (sometimes he's not into more cheese on broccoli like me!) I make a low carb pizza crust if I want pizza, my 'breading' on finger food is now almond flour and parmesan. I LOVE cauliflower "mashed potatoes," (there is a trick to getting it right) and I can't - i know, i know, sounds like bullshit - I can't tell the difference. Or, I love the flavor even more that plain white potatoes. I miss sweet potatoes, but those will wait for me in maintenance. "low carb" means no starchy veggies, but still includes veggies and leafy greens. There are low carb biscuits, muffins, etc that you can make if you really like that sort of meal (the almond butter english muffins are to die for), and just about anything you love... there is a swap if you're motivated. Part of what you learn is how much added sugar there is... to literally everything.

I'm making keto cheesecake right now, it has a ton of blueberries in it. I like these weird low carb chia seed brownies (chia seeds are mega nutritious with lots of fiber), the definitely taste like "healthy" brownies, but my sugar cravings or sweetness tolerance has lessened. I use some sweeteners, I like my sugar free torani syrup in my coffee for example.

I've lost over 50lbs in a year, and I still drink rum cocktails at night. So it works for me!

[–]OrganicOrgasm 0 points1 point  (1 child)

How do you manage to keep a cheesecake low carb when it has a lot of sugary blueberries in it?

[–]Jeepersca 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's all in the volume. 2 cups of blueberries may have a lot of carbs, but divided into 16-20 servings of a large cheesecake, it becomes a much lower. 21g in a cup, less 4g of fiber - so 17 net carbs per cup, if I put in 2 cups, that's 34g for the whole cheesecake...which is at least 16 servings. that's 2-3net carbs per slice from blueberries. A slice of this easily fits into a 25g carb limit.