re: Low Carb favorites

That's not really the point of the thread regardless of how wrong you are. In what world does less carbs equal losing water weight long term? Fewer carbs is fewer calories.

My wife and I did a long term change to our weekday diet that's helped us lose a good deal of weight. Lunch and dinner during the week are a meat and a veggie. On the weekends, we have maybe 2 meals between Friday night and Sunday where we splurge "responsibly." Splurge typically means that we're out to eat, don't purposely avoid the starch portion of an entrée and hope it's a sweet potato or something.

Now that we've gotten used to it, I find there's really no need for a carb laden starch on every plate. If more people cooked at home, shopped the outer ring of the grocery store, limited their starches, and desserts, our national obesity problem would be significantly reduced but I guess we'd all be thirsty.