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Once you have decided to reduce intake of carbohydrate, the next step is to plan for success of a low carb diet. The following steps might help.
- Keep yourself informed: Be well-informed about low carb diet by reading books and make yourself familiar with the diet’s basic principles. Try to separate myths from facts. Weigh all the pros and cons of this diet and how to go about it. To draw a low carb diet plan, diet history is necessary as all the low carb restrictions are not applicable to everyone. Food and eating behaviors give ample proof whether a particular carb restriction will work or not. Hence, keep yourself well-informed about all these facts.
- Initiate easy changes. Start making easy changes from unhealthy carbs to healthy carbs as you learn about low carb diet. Select one or two foods for change at a time. For example, you can stop drinking sugary beverages and drinking pure fruit juices. You can stop eating starchy vegetables like potato and eat plenty of green vegetable, cauliflower, mushroom, avocado etc. Do not forget to add fat and protein to your diet switch from bad fat to good fat such as olive oil, nuts, fatty fish. Choose brown rice over white rice.
- Take decision on how to approach. As there are no one low carb diet that fits for all, it is essential to decide the one that matches your requirement. Low carb diet plans come with various food choices that have numerous ranges of carb levels. You can take help of good books on low carb diets to decide which plan works best for you. Otherwise, you can start with “no white diet” which essentially means avoiding food that have sugars, potatoes, white flour, white rice. Make sure you include cauliflower, onions, tofu etc. which are also white, though low carb.
- Know what you eat. It is easy to focus on what you cannot eat, but attention must be paid to what you eat or what you can eat. You can concentrate on low carb veggies that are non-starch such as collards, kale, mustard greens, celery, radish, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower etc. Avoid potato. Opt for fruits that are low in sugars such as papaya, strawberries, watermelon, apples, blueberries etc. add low fat milk, yogurt and lean meat to your diet. In short, keep an eye on what you eat and be well-informed about it.
- Plan the first few days of you diet. It is important that you know what to fix for a dinner or a snack. So, plan for the whole first week so as not to worry after two or three days later about what to eat and what not. Prepare menus and recipes so at to makes things easier.
- Seek help and support. During initial period of low carb diet, it is difficult to make a sudden change in diet. To avoid temptation and food binge, take help of others who have undergone such a diet and found themselves in similar situation.
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