After 3 years of low-carb, I'm loving pasta again!
@Lushlala (4028)
Gaborone, Botswana
November 15, 2020 9:54am CST
For three long years, I embarked on the low-carb lifestyle called Banting. Those who follow this 'lifestyle' baulk at the idea of calling it a diet but it's basically a diet that cuts out refined food items, drinks and all high-carbs.
I followed it for three years and to be fair, it REALLY WORKS! But when COVID hit, I just couldn't hack it because I needed my stodgy comfort food
I missed pasta and rice but mostly, I missed bread. Well, I ditched the rigid low-carb lifestyle and while I'm a few pounds heavier, I'm all the happier for it 
Here's a dish I recently made and thoroughly enjoyed. It's my own recipe. I chucked together thin strips of bacon, mushrooms, onions, garlic, thin strips of chicken, my favourite spices and lashings of cream. Truly DIVINE.
Have you tried the low-carb diet? What did you struggle with NOT eating the most? If you've not tried it, would you?
I missed pasta and rice but mostly, I missed bread. Well, I ditched the rigid low-carb lifestyle and while I'm a few pounds heavier, I'm all the happier for it
Here's a dish I recently made and thoroughly enjoyed. It's my own recipe. I chucked together thin strips of bacon, mushrooms, onions, garlic, thin strips of chicken, my favourite spices and lashings of cream. Truly DIVINE.
Have you tried the low-carb diet? What did you struggle with NOT eating the most? If you've not tried it, would you?15 people like this
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
15 Nov 20
sure looks yummy :) i've not done any diets'n purpose, though health reasonin'. not the low-carb, per se. gluten, rice, soy 'n a litany 'f other foods make me quite ill. i miss fluffy biscuits smothered'n butter 'n cream gravy... 've yet to get a recipe that works with gluten free flours without usin' rice 'r soy flours. i do make pasta usin' almond 'n tapioca flours. not fancy noodles such's these, but does feed my pasta cravin' 'n holds'p well'n soups. can e'en freeze such 'n 't reheats beautifully.
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@Lushlala (4028)
• Gaborone, Botswana
17 Nov 20
I'm so sorry that you have to miss out on all these goodies due to health reasons
Fluffy biscuits smothered in butter and cream gravy sure sound YUMMY but I've sadly never had them. Whatever I've tried to make with almond flour, which is very expensive here, never turned out well But I'm glad they satisfy your craving for pasta.
Fluffy biscuits smothered in butter and cream gravy sure sound YUMMY but I've sadly never had them. Whatever I've tried to make with almond flour, which is very expensive here, never turned out well But I'm glad they satisfy your craving for pasta.2 people like this
@Lushlala (4028)
• Gaborone, Botswana
20 Nov 20
@crazyhorseladycx Aww man I'm so sorry to hear that but I don't mean it in that pitying kind of way I know you hate.
Yeah, I guess with almonds being so expensive, even if you grind it yourself, the difference would probably not be worth the effort. What annoys me is that I bought all these various types of flour - coconut, almond, heba, Flaxseed, Cassava etc but once I got bored of the low-carb diet, I lost all interest in them. I now have a cupboard full of the stuff and have no intention of ever using it
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
17 Nov 20
@Lushlala no worries, could be worse :) spend nearly a year'n jest a full liquid diet which 'twas very limited to heal my poor gut. then 'nother 3 months with soft, bland foods. 'twas a near daily meal all my growin' 'n 'nto 'dulthood, that biscuits'n gravy. 'f course, bein' from the south we'd more biscuits than bread. 'twas quicker to make.
yes ma'am, that almond flour 'tis what i consider a 'delicacy', 'long with all the other gluten free flours. prolly why 'tis very rare i make any breads 'n baked goods these days. i thought i'd be smart'n jest grind my own, ended 'p costin' nearly the same. prolly a good thingy such's so spendy. otherwise i'd be eatin' pasta e'eryday. jest love the schtuff.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
16 Dec 20
We did the Atkins low carb lifestyle fr 8 years. I am now happily eating anything including bread and pasta.
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@Lushlala (4028)
• Gaborone, Botswana
22 Dec 20
@BelleStarr Fantastic! I'm happy for you 
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@prinzcy (32322)
• Malaysia
16 Nov 20
I am on calories diet. Can eat anything as long as doesn't surpassed the daily calories intake. Of course I am not to the point of being obsess about it. I can't image if I need to carry a scale to accurately measure my calories intake. Just assuming the calories value would be enough for me.
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
15 Nov 20
how much weight did you lose on a low carb lifestyle? what carbs were allowed?
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@Lushlala (4028)
• Gaborone, Botswana
17 Nov 20
I lost about 7 kg, which was just about right for me as it was my target. The diet allows you only about 25 g of low-carbs per day. You can eat fruit from time to time, not all the time. It basically encourages more meat and green, leafy veggies, certain nuts and seeds etc
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@RebeccasFarm (86975)
• United States
30 Nov 20
Yes I too am afraid this covid thing has blasted my weight loss all to heck too. Your pasta looks delicious. Enjoy it
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@Letranknight2015 (51556)
• Philippines
26 Dec 20
It's hard to eat less food..I had like that for two weeks and I almost lost weight those years.
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@Lushlala (4028)
• Gaborone, Botswana
29 Dec 20
I like losing weight but not when I can't eat some of my favourite food LOL
@Lushlala (4028)
• Gaborone, Botswana
17 Nov 20
Thank you It really does work. The problem is the discipline, although I think I did well to last three years
It really does work. The problem is the discipline, although I think I did well to last three years
@Lushlala (4028)
• Gaborone, Botswana
17 Nov 20
I don't blame you - I don't ever plan to go back on it!
