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This diet is found in the Appendix of the book Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes and is an example of a low carbohydrate diet.

"No Sugar, No Starch" Diet: Getting Started
This diet is focused on providing your body with the nutrition it needs, while eliminating foods that your body does not require, namely, nutritionally empty carbohydrates. For most effective weight loss, you will need to keep the total number of carbohydrate grams to fewer than 20 grams per day. Your diet is to be made up exclusively of foods and beverages from this handout. If the food is packaged, check the label and make sure that the carbohydrate count is 1 to 2 grams or less for meat and dairy products, 5 grams or less for vegetables. All food may be cooked in a microwave oven, baked, boiled, stir-fried, sautéed, roasted, fried (with no flour, breading, or cornmeal), or grilled.

WHEN YOU ARE HUNGRY,
EAT YOUR CHOICE OF THE FOLLOWING FOODS:

Meat: Beef (including hamburger and steak), pork, ham (unglazed), bacon, lamb, veal, or other meats. For processed meats (sausage, pepperoni, hot dogs), check the label carbohydrate count should be about 1 gram per serving (and be organic if able and nitrate free).

Poultry: Chicken, turkey, duck, or other fowl.

Fish and Shellfish: Any fish, including tuna, salmon, catfish, bass, trout, shrimp, scallops, crab, and lobster (no farmed seafood, there are to many toxins in them).

Eggs: Whole eggs are permitted without restrictions.

You do not have to avoid the fat that comes with the above foods.
You do not have to limit quantities deliberately, but you should stop eating when you feel full.

FOODS THAT MUST BE EATEN EVERY DAY:

Salad Greens: 2 cups a day. Includes arugula, bok choy, cabbage (all varieties), chard, chives, endive, greens (all varieties, including beet, collards, mustard, and turnip), kale, lettuce (all varieties), parsley, spinach, radicchio, radishes, scallions, and watercress. (If it is a leaf, you may eat it.)

Vegetables: 1 cup (measured uncooked) a day. Includes artichokes, asparagus, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, celery, cucumber, eggplant, green beans (string beans), jicama, leeks, mushrooms, okra, onions, pepper pumpkin, shallots, snow peas, sprouts (bean and alfalfa) sugar snap peas, summer squash, tomatoes, rhubarb, wax beans, zucchini.

Bouillon: 2 cups daily—as needed for sodium replenishment. Clear broth (consommé) is strongly recommended, unless you are on a sodium-restricted diet for hypertension or heart failure.

FOODS ALLOWED IN LIMITED QUANTITIES:

Cheese: up to 4 ounces a day. Includes hard, aged cheeses such as Swiss and Cheddar, as well as Brie, Camembert blue, mozzarella, Gruyere, cream cheese, goat cheeses. Avoid processed cheeses, such as Velveeta. Check the label; carbohydrate count should be less than 1 gram per serving.

Cream: up to 4 tablespoonfuls a day. Includes heavy, light, or sour cream (not half and half).

Mayonnaise: up to 4 tablespoons a day. Duke's and Hellmann's are low-carb. Check the labels of other brands.

Olives (Black or Green): up to 6 a day. Avocado: up to 1/2 of a fruit a day.

Lemon/Lime Juice: up to 4 teaspoonfuls a day.

Soy Sauces: up to 4 tablespoons a day. Kikkoman is a low carb brand. Check the labels of other brands.

Pickles, Dill or Sugar-Free: up to 2 a servings a day. Mt. Olive makes sugar-free pickles. Check the labels for carbohydrates and serving size.

Snacks: Pork rinds/skins; pepperoni slices; ham, beef, turkey, and other meat roll-ups; deviled eggs.

THE PRIMARY RESTRICTION: CARBOHYDRATES
On this diet, no sugars (simple carbohydrates) and no starches (complex carbohydrates) are eaten. The only carbohydrates encouraged are the nutritionally dense, fiber-rich vegetables listed.
Sugars are simple carbohydrates. Avoid these kinds of foods: white sugar, brown sugar, honey, maple syrup, molasses, corn syrup, beer (contains barley malt), milk (contains lactose), flavored yogurts, fruit juice, and fruit.
Starches are complex carbohydrates. Avoid these kinds of foods: grains (even "whole" grains), rice, cereals, flour, cornstarch, breads, pastas, muffins, bagels, crackers, and "starchy" vegetables such as slow-cooked beans (pinto, lima, black beans), carrots,
parsnips, corn, peas, potatoes, French fries, potato chips.





FATS AND OILS
All fats and oils, even butter, are allowed. Olive oil and peanut oil are especially healthy oils and are encouraged in cooking. Avoid margarine and other hydrogenated oils that contain trans fats.

For salad dressings, the ideal dressing is a homemade oil-and-vinegar dressing, with lemon juice and spices as needed. Blue-cheese, ranch, Caesar, and Italian are also acceptable if the label says 1 to 2 grams of carbohydrate per serving or less. Avoid “lite” dressings, because these commonly have more carbohydrate. Chopped eggs, bacon, and/or grated cheese may also be included in salads.

Fats, in general, are important to include, because they taste good and make you feel full. You are therefore permitted the fat or skin that is served with the meat or poultry that you eat, as long as there is no breading on the skin. Do not attempt to follow a low-fat diet!

SWEETENERS AND DESSERTS
If you feel the need to eat or drink something sweet, you should select the most sensible alternative sweetener(s) available. Available alternative sweeteners are: Splenda (sucralose), Nutra-sweet (aspartame), Truvia (stevia/erythritol blend), and Sweet ‘N Low (saccharin). Avoid food with sugar alcohols (such as sorbitol and maltitol) for now, because they occasionally cause stomach upset, although they may be permitted in limited quantities in the future. (Would recommend you stay away from all artificial sweeteners if able or use Stevia, Dr. Craig)

BEVERAGES
Drink as much as you would like of the allowed beverages, do not force fluids beyond your capacity. The best beverage is water. Essence-flavored seltzers (zero carbs) and bottled spring and mineral waters are also good choices.

Caffeinated beverages: Some patients find that their caffeine intake interferes with their weight loss and blood sugar control. With this in mind, you may have up to 3 cups of coffee (black, or with artificial sweetener and/or cream), tea (unsweetened or artificially sweetened), or caffeinateddiet soda per day.

ALCOHOL
At first, avoid alcohol consumption on this diet. At a later point in time, as weight loss and dietary patterns become well established, alcohol in moderate quantities, if low in carbohydrates, may be added back into the diet.


QUANTITIES
Eat when you are hungry; stop when you are full. The diet works best on a "demand feeding" basis—that is, eat whenever you are hungry; try not to eat more than what will satisfy you. Learn to listen to your body. A low-carbohydrate diet has a natural appetite-reduction effect to ease you into the consumption of smaller and smaller quantities comfortably. Therefore, do not eat everything on your plate just because it's there. On the other hand, don't go hungry! You are not counting calories. Enjoy losing weight comfortably, without hunger or cravings.
It is recommended that you start your day with a nutritious low-carbohydrate meal. Note that many medications and nutritional supplements need to be taken with food at each meal, or three times per day.

IMPORTANT TIPS AND REMINDERS
The following items are NOT on the diet: sugar, bread, cereal, flour-containing items, fruits, juices, honey, whole or skimmed water, milk, yogurt, canned soups, dairy substitutes, ketchup, sweet condiments and relishes.
Avoid these common mistakes: Beware of "fat-free" or "lite" diet products, and foods containing "hidden" sugars and starches (such as coleslaw or sugar-free cookies and cakes). Check the labels of liquid medications, cough syrups, cough drops, and or other over-the-counter medications that may contain sugar. Avoid products that are labeled "Great for Low-Carb Diets!"

LOW-CARB MENU PLANNING
What does a low-carbohydrate menu look like? You can plan your daily menu by using the following as a guide:

Breakfast
Meat or other protein source (usually eggs)
Fat source —This may already be in your protein; for example, bacon and eggs have fat in them. But if your protein source is "lean," add some fat in the form of butter, cream (in coffee) or cheese.
Low-carbohydrate vegetable (if desired)—This can be in omelet or a breakfast quiche.

Lunch
Meat or other protein source
Fat source - If your protein is "lean," add some fat, in the form of butter, salad dressing, cheese, cream, or avocado.
1 to 1 1Ž2 cups of salad greens or cooked greens
1Ž2 to 1 cup of vegetables

Snack
Low-carbohydrate snack that has protein and/or fat.




Dinner
Meat or other protein source
Fat source—If your protein is "lean," add some fat in the butter, salad dressing, cheese, cream, or avocado. 1 to 11Ž2 cups of salad greens or cooked greens
1Ž2 to 1 cup of vegetables

A sample day may look like this:

Breakfast
Bacon or sausage
Eggs

Lunch
Grilled chicken on top of salad greens and other vegetables, with bacon, chopped eggs, and salad dressing

Snack
Pepperoni slices and a cheese stick

Dinner
Burger patty or steak
Green salad with other acceptable vegetables and salad dressing
Green beans with butter

READING A LOW-CARB LABEL
Start by checking the nutrition facts.

• Look at serving size, total carbohydrate, and fiber.
• Use total carbohydrate content only.
• You may subtract fiber from total carbohydrate to get the "effective or net carb count." For example, if there are 7 grams of carbohydrate and 3 grams of fiber, the difference
yields 4 grams of effective carbohydrates. That means the effective carbohydrate count is 4 grams per serving.
• No need to worry—at this point—about calories or fat.
• Effective carbohydrate count of vegetables should be 5 grams or less.
• Effective carbohydrate count of meat or condiments should be 1 gram or less.
• Also check the ingredient list. Avoid foods that have any form of sugar or starch listed in the first 5 ingredients.

Sugar by any other name is still sugar!
All of these are forms of sugar: sucrose, dextrose, fructose, maltose, lactose, glucose, honey, agave syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, maple syrup, brown-rice syrup, molasses, evaporated cane juice, cane juice, fruit-juice concentrate, corn sweetener.
 

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Keto taco shells are god tier

1. Get round provolone cheese slices

2. Microwave on parchment paper for like 2 minutes (depends on your microwave idk), cheese should have started to brown

3. Hang them on a towel rack or similar horizontal bar shaped item (paper side down obviously don't be a barbarian) and let them cool off and harden into delicious taco shaped objects
 

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This diet is fucking hard. It's not the cravings (went away after about a week) or hunger (shit I'm like full around the clock), fitting in enough calories is. I have averaged like 800ish in the last week when my goal is 1500ish. I'm worried my metabolism is going to be fucked up. I don't know how really active men do it since they're need is much larger than mine.

I doubt anyone on here follows this diet, but thought I'd ask anyway. Any tips on how to up your calorie count other than "add a ton of butter to everything"?
 
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This diet is fucking hard. It's not the cravings (went away after about a week) or hunger (shit I'm like full around the clock), fitting in enough calories is. I have averaged like 800ish in the last week when my goal is 1500ish. I'm worried my metabolism is going to be fucked up. I don't know how really active men do it since they're need is much larger than mine.

I doubt anyone on here follows this diet, but thought I'd ask anyway. Any tips on how to up your calorie count other than "add a ton of butter to everything"?
Make bacon. I like thick cut bacon, 4-5 slices. Save the leftover bacon grease. Take two eggs, fry them in the grease. Find the vegetable you want to eat with your breakfast. Fry that in the grease as well. Done.
 
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Okay feeling shitty passed. Guess I'll share some recipes I found/ came up with.

Homemade Blue Cheese Butter:
1/2 cup of butter (1 stick), use actual butter don't be a faggot
1/2 blue cheese crumble
1 tablespoon parsley
1 teaspoon dried basil
1 small garlic clove, fresh, minced

Throw all that shit into a bowl and stir until evenly mixed.

Dank Steak

1 round eye cut steak or sirloin steak
lightly salt it with sea salt and lightly pepper it
Heat up some olive oil in a pan
Throw the steak in, let it sear both sides for a minute
keep cooking each side one minute at a time until it's rare

Top it off with a dab of that Blue Cheese Butter

Sides: Cauliflower and Spinach
1 cup spinach
1/2 cup cauliflower
Put some olive oil in a pan and crush one garlic clove
Allow the garlic to cook in the pan until it turns a golden brown
Throw the rest of the shit in
Sautee until fully cooked

That's dinner.
 
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Also jfc sugar withdraws suck I feel like I have a really fucking bad cold.
I thought people were exaggerating about carb flu bc I was never really into sweets until one time at work I got into it and I got stuck in this shitty cycle of abstaining from sugar for like four days and the fifth one I was so fucking irritable the only cure seemed to be an ice cream come from the soft serve machine in the cafeteria. Once I finally broke it after like four months I never wanted to go back to it.
 

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I'm thinking about going on a Keto Diet, Could be Interesting to do.
It's good, started it about a month ago and so far lost 25lbs. I had carb cravings for a bit but they eventually went away, it was easy for me to cut out soda and sugar because I've done it before, my appetite seems to be much lower than it used to be I never had issues with over eating but I noticed I'm getting fuller faster so if one of the problems you have is over eating this diet can help. One of the nice things about this diet is it really forces you to cook your own food and avoid eating out because it's pretty hard to find low carb options when eating out especially if it's fast food.

Another diet I used to be on a while ago but recommend is the Blood Type Diet where you're supposed to eat foods based on what your blood type is. It was good for a while but with my specific blood type it was kinda restrictive and I ended up just eating the same thing all the time which I got bored of quickly but it may work better for you.
 

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I did keto for about a year and a half and felt great while I was doing it. Have been seriously considering starting up again, this thread might be the push I need to just do it.
 

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One of the nice things about this diet is it really forces you to cook your own food and avoid eating out because it's pretty hard to find low carb options when eating out especially if it's fast food.
The whole "Make your own Food" thing was actually the main reason why I Wanted to go Keto in the first place lol, I've been watching this guy called "That Nate Guy", he Makes some pretty tasty looking Keto Foods, Including Keto Stuffed Peppers, A Keto Pizza and many more things.
Here's one of his Videos:
 

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I did the low carb diet for a while. (It's basically the same thing as a keto diet, but with less urine testing.) I lost about ten pounds without doing any exercise. But then I started getting lazy about abstaining from candy and french fries and it all came back.

I decided the other day to get back on the wagon, and it's hard. So far I've managed to avoid burgers and pizza, but I am jonesing really hard for candy right now. Sugar-free gum sometimes hits the spot, but sometimes not, and even that stuff is frowned upon since it often contains the "-ol" sweeteners (like sorbitol).

I hate this diet and wouldn't recommend it to anyone. But it works for me, when I can stick to it.
 

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Get a food dehydrator and make a fuckload of jerky. Basic recipe is trimmed and sliced beef round (butchers can usually slice it thin which saves a lot of work) dusted with equal parts black pepper, garlic powder and salt, dried to taste. You can get as creative as you like so long as you always have sufficient salt.

I found eating enough calories was consistently the toughest part so carrying a bag of jerky as well as some string cheese and macadamia nuts for fat was necessary to round out the numbers. Jerky wrapped in string cheese is delicious.

For variety, bacon jerky is even easier, since it's already sliced and salted. Just remember to always trim as much fat as possible whatever meat you use because it can go sengoku rancid.
 

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Keto isn't too bad, I did it for a month and lost 10 pounds. I stopped because I was worried about the long term effects on my body because I didn't know if it was really well understood enough and I didn't want to take any chances.
I mostly just ate compenents of meals. I ate cheese, eggs (scambled or hard boiled is good) tuna (mixed with avacado to make a tuna salad), bacon, salami, nuts and I always made certain to eat veggies. All of your allowed carbs should be dedicated to veggies every single day. I enjoyed cucumbers and every day I ate a spinach salad to get enough magnesium to allow me to sleep and not feel like shit. You have to drink tons of water too, broth is good to keep you hydrated as well (chicken or beef broth served hot)
That whole month I felt super good, my disgusting face cleared up (I found out why I used to break out, my skin has a bad reaction to milk so I cut it out of my diet afterwards) I lost weight, did lots of walking due to all the energy I had. I had an app called stupid simple keto that tracked all the fat, carbs and calories I ate so I could ensure I was eating enough per day

tbh i might do it again because of the success I had the first time.
 

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Get a food dehydrator and make a fuckload of jerky.
That's an interesting idea. There's actually a store nearby that makes some really awesome jerky that I'll treat myself to sometimes, but it's so expensive. Do you have any recommendations for dehydrators? I've never used one before.
For variety, bacon jerky is even easier, since it's already sliced and salted. Just remember to always trim as much fat as possible whatever meat you use because it can go sengoku rancid.

You trim the fat off the bacon, even? I'd imagine you wouldn't have much left… Could you do ham or Canadian bacon?

my disgusting face cleared up (I found out why I used to break out, my skin has a bad reaction to tard cum so I cut it out of my diet afterwards)
That's a particularly funny instance of that particular word filter. :biggrin:
 
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