Is this low carb

[Mary1935]

I'm trying to lose weight - I'm looking at low carbing - today I had a 3 egg omelette with mushrooms around 10am, then a handful of walnuts and an apple - for tea I had a big bag of stir fry veg (about 18g carbs) a tin of tuna and a 30grams of pasta - calorie wise it's only around 800 - plus 5 cups of tea with milk and one sugar.
Even though it maybe low carbs - is it enough calories! Would I lose weight or will my body store the food for later?
I feel really full.
Thanks

HahHa, you have no idea what you're doing.

Download MyFitnessPal and set your carb goal to 25g. That is low carb, possibly low carb enough to trigger Keto.

Cut out all nuts, all fruit, some
veggies and just have lean meat, seaweed and some occasional lettuce.

It's quite low carb but I think you're meant to stay under 20g per day for the first two weeks. Although if I remember correctly you look at the carbs and subtract the fibre in grams to give you net carbs and that should be around 20grams.
Although your veg is 18g I would think a lot of that is fibre so probably only about 10g carbs approx.
I think the sugar in tea is a no and the milk too if your doing Atkins. But you'll lose weight at 800 anyway.

No, I'm sorry it's not low carb in the sense of the diet.

You can't eat things like apples and pasta.

In addition starvation mode is a myth, yes you will lose Weight on 800 calories a day. Or most people will. It seems your are more on a calorie controlled diet than a high fat low carb one.

You need to cut out things like pasta, rice, grains, bread, and veg that grow beneath the ground,,so for example parsnips, carrots, P.O. toes and sweet stuff.

Eggs, cheese, all meats, fish, seafood, green veg, full fat yoghurt, mushrooms, salad stuff, it's a huge list . Your breakfast was good, as would have been your dinner if you hadn't had the pasta.

Diamond, I've no idea why you said haha she doesn't know what she's doing, because clearly neither do you. Eat lean meat seaweed and lettuce???..

Hi thanks all - I seem to be getting low carbing and Atkins mixed up or are they the same? I will read some more of the threads here. My normal meals include large portions of pasta and rice and I'm trying to cut down and cut out if possible.
Any pointers welcome - thanks

It's all a bit technical isn't it? Try the low carb threads here. They are really good for getting started. It sounds like your on the right tracks in terms or no rice, pasta & bread. Good luck with it all.

Yes, pop over To the low carb threads. Loads of help there. Look at the bootcamp thread, everyone posts their daily food so you can see what to eat.

No you're not getting it mixed up with Atkins, I'm sorry, you wouldn't be eating the pasta or apple on that either.

Atkins is a low carb diet yes.

Thanks bluntness and eye - I will pop over and read more.

UK food labels already show net carbs therefore you don't subtract anything unless you're buying e.g an American import (or using a US based app to track your food). For example raw whole almonds from Tesco are labelled as 9.5g carbs per 100g yet the fibre count is 12g per 100g which would leave you with a minus figure! In the USA the nutrition label includes the fibre in the carb count i.e. they'd label the same almonds as having 21.5g carbs per 100g hence the net carb thing.