Hello,
I have been doing LCHF for two weeks and this time I’m doing it slightly different. In the past when I have done it I have predominantly followed Atkins and never really managed to get past the induction phase.
This time however, I have taken a slightly different approach and am having more whole foods- meaning not only bacon and eggs etc.
On average this is what I have everyday…
1 coffee with full cream milk in the morning on the way to work (I don’t have breakfast, never have and I’m OK with that)
Lunch: a medium sized container of salad (kale, baby spinach, coriander, parsley, spring onion) dressed with about 1tbs of apple cider vinegar and a drizzle of olive oil, I don’t measure the olive oil but it’s not on the skimpy side, nor is my salad saturated with oil. I also have about 100g of some type of protein, either, poached, baked on on the BBQ.
Dinner: Pretty much the same thing, salad/steamed veggies dressed with olive oil and some kind of protein.
I have plenty of water throughout the day and other than that 1 coffee in the morning I don’t drink anything else.
If I’m still hungry or just want something to have to change up the taste a bit, I may have 1 flat tsp of a peanut butter which only has coconut oil and peanuts (no added sugar,salt etc) or a couple of teaspoons (heaped) of coconut yoghurt (again no added sugar).
Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy with my results so far, (have manged to go down from 102.7kg to 97.8kg) but I understand that it’s the first couple of weeks and my body has lost water weight. I want to make sure that if I continue like this, I’m continuing on the right path.
I’m worried that I may be having too many carbs. I’m not very good with measuring things, when I make my salad I usually make a big bowl of it and portion it out for the upcoming week and only dress it on the day. It’s all done by eye.
To all those out there who have done this for a while and are experts- does this sound sort of OK regarding what I am doing?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
I have been doing LCHF for two weeks and this time I’m doing it slightly different. In the past when I have done it I have predominantly followed Atkins and never really managed to get past the induction phase.

This time however, I have taken a slightly different approach and am having more whole foods- meaning not only bacon and eggs etc.
On average this is what I have everyday…
1 coffee with full cream milk in the morning on the way to work (I don’t have breakfast, never have and I’m OK with that)
Lunch: a medium sized container of salad (kale, baby spinach, coriander, parsley, spring onion) dressed with about 1tbs of apple cider vinegar and a drizzle of olive oil, I don’t measure the olive oil but it’s not on the skimpy side, nor is my salad saturated with oil. I also have about 100g of some type of protein, either, poached, baked on on the BBQ.
Dinner: Pretty much the same thing, salad/steamed veggies dressed with olive oil and some kind of protein.
I have plenty of water throughout the day and other than that 1 coffee in the morning I don’t drink anything else.
If I’m still hungry or just want something to have to change up the taste a bit, I may have 1 flat tsp of a peanut butter which only has coconut oil and peanuts (no added sugar,salt etc) or a couple of teaspoons (heaped) of coconut yoghurt (again no added sugar).
Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy with my results so far, (have manged to go down from 102.7kg to 97.8kg) but I understand that it’s the first couple of weeks and my body has lost water weight. I want to make sure that if I continue like this, I’m continuing on the right path.
I’m worried that I may be having too many carbs. I’m not very good with measuring things, when I make my salad I usually make a big bowl of it and portion it out for the upcoming week and only dress it on the day. It’s all done by eye.
To all those out there who have done this for a while and are experts- does this sound sort of OK regarding what I am doing?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
