Keto/Atkins what the hell did you eat?

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Dr Google has lots of conflicting information, but essentially what did you eat for the first 2 weeks?

Or drink, because milk is off bounds, and I only drink straight tea with milk. Water is fine, and I've got coke zero, but if you don't drink coffee or herbal teas...what else is there?

Breakfast is smoked salmon and scrambled eggs. For dinner we just had chicken with mushrooms and spinach. I'm dying for another cuppa but it's too many poxy carbs, and if that doesn't kill me, my sweet tooth will.

Please no lectures about what you think about the diet, I am doing it alongside someone else to support them and it's their choice.

Chicken salad

Fish and vegetables

Sugar free squash
Pepsi max
And green tea

Nothing that I normally would- I prefer the dukan diet to atkins the book comes with recipes and I found it easier to follow.

I did Atkins many years ago and although you couldn't have tea or coffee with milk( too carby ) you could have coffee with cream.
Try a short term shift to black coffee i or r coffee with cream. If you can't cope without tea consider a short term switch to green tea, pu'er or oolong, (none of which are drunk with milk).

ooh I did this for 3 months a few years back, as a kind of experiment.

I ate really nice things: mackerel pate with full fat creme fraiche, tuna salad with mayo & cheese, steak with pepper sauce, fry ups without the toast/rosti, roast dinners with extra meat/veg/gravy -0 no pots.
Just ate everything I usually do without the bread/pasta/rice/sugar. There aren't any desserts really though - I made some weird chocolate out of cocoa powder and solid coconut oil/milk - warm it up/mic together and froze it in an ice cube tray. That was quite nice after not eating sugar for 2 weeks at one point - I was desperate for a chocolate hit

I didn't do total keto though as I still wanted to eat all the fruit and veg for vitamins.

It was interesting how your hunger pangs disappear after a couple of days.

The biggest loss was texture: crunchy bread, satisfying lasagne sheets, crispy crackers, bread sticks, croissants, croutons, crisps.

Low carb is pretty much chewy or wet food. Meat, dairy etc.

Have a look at the website diet doctor they have lots of free useful info.
I used to take milk in drinks but stopped when I was keto, you do get used to the taste and now although I'm no longer keto I don't take milk in tea or coffee anymore.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/low_carb_diets

This is the low carb section on MN

Not strictly Atkins/keto but lots of inspiration

There's a also a handy low carb boot camp section too

Salmon with lemon juice and peas.
Chicken breast in bacon and carrots and peas.
Gammon steak and steamed vegetables.

Lots of meat and eggs too. You can have cheese as well. No/very low carbs only introduced back after a couple of months.

Cranberry Lite is v low in carbs
Cakes, muffins and biscuits with almond/ coconut flour
Veg soup, mushroom soup with cream
Chicken in air fryer with aioli and salad

Steak with a cream and mushroom sauce and asparagus
Ratatouille with goats cheese
Desserts made with cream, cream cheese,mascarpone etc

I've just lost a stone on it

There's so many more recipes and products available these days, it's much easier to do, if you stick to it!

Thank you, I'll have a read

I've looked up the carb levels of milk, and the fact I only put a splash in my tea appears pretty negligible. I'm having 3-4 cups a day to keep me sane.

I tried it with cream. It's grim. I can't drink coffee but DH does and is enjoying his with cream.