Postby Harriet » Sun Jun 21, 2020 1:50 am
Harmony, I eat SO much carbs, yes! I'm not sure what you mean by doing without carbs, exactly. I think you mean you are not having flour products, for instance. But you seem to be avoiding apple and melon? ... so I don't know. We may not be speaking of the same thing. If you think of carbs as all the plants, I live off of carbs, and plenty of them.
We have hefty meal plates here, if it helps to know that, with lots of starchy vegetables like the different potatoes, plus beans of at least one or two kinds every day, all kinds of grains from rices to oatmeal to barley, etc. Rarely any oils. And we do pasta, sometimes a brown rice pasta but other times just ordinary. Of course there are salads and fruits, but that doesn't mean we aren't filling up on filling things, too. I just basically try to aim for Nutrition Facts' daily dozen (Dr. Greger). If a plate looks like it's half starches, that's fine.
Another way of looking at it for weight maintenance is nutrient density (calories per pound, knowing everyone will be eating their usual same weight of food a day - 3 to 5 pounds depending on the person). In other words, as much from the low nutrient density part of that scale as possible, which goes from non-starchy veggies to fruits to starchy veggies to grains to beans. Avocados would be next and getting a little high, but I have one every once in a while. Beyond that is the dairy, which does cross the line into high density and I probably could reduce that for the sake of some weight loss and to move the cholesterol down more. Bread comes in varying ranges of healthy-ish to not healthy at all. Dd can handle it well - I can't, so I avoid most. Highest calorie density is oils and in our house only HRH still uses some in cooking, insisting things will stick to pans if he doesn't - I prove every day that's not true, but he can't believe it.
We are NOT always on track with what we plan - we had cookies today. Absolutely not able to say our days are to be held up for scrutiny. We just don't get too excited about it anymore when we get off-track - no food police.
I am not expert on fats but Twins' Mom goes by a way of eating that she's learned a lot about them. LadyM is learning a combination of her way-of-eating and intermittent fasting. RunKitty, I believe, is including less dairy than me.