So you've decided to go on a low carb diet. Maybe you tried going to meetings, or starving yourself, or drinking shakes, or low fat high carb, or you ordered food from one of the popular weight loss plans, and nothing has worked. The low carb way of eating may be your last hope for weight loss success. The good news for you is thousands of people have lost weight with that way of eating. So after deciding to take the low carb approach, you'll need to figure out what to eat on a low carb diet.
The foods that you'll eat on low carb diets vary depending on which plan you choose, but most of them share a great deal of common allowed and disallowed foods. Foods on the do not eat list include starchy vegetables, such as corn and potatoes, soda that contains sugar, most fruits (at least in the beginning for most plans), bread, white rice, and high carbohydrate pasta among other foods. You'll get the definitive list when you decide on a plan. When you're deciding on what to eat on a low carb diet, you'll discover for most plans that if the food has sugar in it, you'll need to avoid it.
Most low carb plans allow you to eat a certain quantity of vegetables. Vegetables such as broccoli, spinach, lettuce, cauliflower, and cabbage are allowed on the majority of plans. If you're not a big fan of vegetables, on most low carb diets you can eat butter, which you could add to your veggies to make them a little tastier.
Deciphering what to eat on low carbs becomes pretty easy when you get to the meat category. On most plans you can eat plenty of meat, and the list of allowed meats is almost endless. Most likely you can have chicken, fish, ground beef, steak, pork, and ham. Those are just a few possible meat choices. You'll need to be careful because certain deli meats have sugar added and that could increase your carbohydrate count. Cheese is also allowed on most low carb plans, but not in unlimited quantities.
When you first decide to go on a low carb diet, you may be disappointed and think you have chosen a way of eating that doesn't have much variety in allowed foods. The rules and the allowed foods are different depending on which plan you choose. After some investigation you will find that no matter what plan you are on you will be able to select a wide variety of meats, vegetables, and cheeses. Supporters of low carb diets would tell you that deciding what to eat on a low carb diet can be a very enjoyable process.