Need tips for quitting carbs

Two options:

1. If you have the will power just stop. It's going to suck for about a week, but you'll get over it pretty quickly. This is what I did, and six months later I can't even drink sweet tea or stomach pizza without my gut knotting up.

2. Ease into it. Cut out the carbs from one meal each week. This will be easier on your body, but imo, it's harder to stop completely of you don't give them up.

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I think most Americans are addicted to sugar and carbs and we just don't realize it

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This is true.

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It doesn't help Baton Rouge has very limited healthy options.

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Either make it at home (meal prep), or order something to pickup early in the morning first thing. Then you aren't choosing something when you're hungry. You already put your salad order in at 9am so now you are just picking it up

Everyone struggles with it. Like the above poster said I get sick when i eat pizza, but i still do it once or twice a month and pay the price

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Damn 6 months? How do you feel now relative to before the change?

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Let me preface by saying I don't necessarily do keto. I don't test for ketones in my pee and probably don't eat enough fat, but I pretty much avoid carbs. With that said, I have gone from 195 to 155 since March. I feel so much better. More energy, and a big thing I've noticed is much more limber.

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What's your daily food intake like?

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I eat a lot of chicken thighs with the fat trimmed off. They are much more bearable than breasts. I season them with a variety of seasonings to avoid burnout. I'll marinate them sometimes in Korean bbq or another low carb sauce every so often. To go along with meat, green non starchy veggies. Asparagus, squash, broccoli, ect.

I'll have a cheat meal probably every 10 to 14 days. That could be pizza, Canes maybe, something of that nature, but as I said I feel like crap after so I don't want anything like that for a while.

All in all, I usually eat 1200-1500 calories a day, but again I weigh only about 155 lbs. That's eating until I'm full. Of course on those cheat days it may be more, but that's fine.

777 and HFP can give you more scientific stuff. I can only really tell you what I've done. Only shop on the outside of the grocery store and bring your lunch and you'll be good.

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I've also tweaked a low carb, high fat/protein smoothie I make every morning for breakfast.

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details?

You don't need to go low carb to get to a low bf% just to be clear. I personally do better on lower carb but it's not needed.

As far as quiting....well you just have to do it. Best thing to do is just lower carbs for a few weeks having one cheat meal on the weekends. Do this for 3-4 weeks while also cutting down on any preservatives and really focusing on quality food over quantity. After 4 weeks go full Keto getting about 60% of your calories from fat.

But best way to quit, and I hate to put it this away, is stop being a bitch about it

Hardest carbs for me to quit would be beer

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a big chicken finger meal

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but I'm a sucker for fries.

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do you cook at all or just eat fast food?

I eat the same lunch everyday. Precooked chicken and broccoli. Some Italian dressing. Skip breakfast. I will snack on a banana or nuts mid afternoon. At night I eat meat and veggies. Nut butters for a snack.

You are putting it bluntly.

In a nicer way, if you want to look and feel better you need to sacrifice a bit. Walk down the street today and look at people. Overweight, limping, hunched over, sick etc. it may or may not be you today, but anything you can do to prevent that you should try.

My dad lost his toe because he got addicted to orangina or whatever and developed diabetes without knowing. Sugar is the enemy