I'm doing my own twist to low carbing and have found it quite interesting. I'm basically doing an Atkins/VLCD mix with 1 or 2 VLCD packs a day for the super amounts of nutrients and then 1 or 2 (pending the pack numbers) meaty snacks/meals with some salad thrown in. It's basically a way for me to eat, get the nutrients I need and keep the calories bordering on VLCD level (easily under 1000 a day). The first few days where tough and I was still a little hungry from time to time until day 6 but now tbh I could easily not eat a thing I'm not hungry at all
Food wise i've just been living on meat with a bit of salad, Bacon and Beef burgers with cheese wrapped in lettuce, Sausages with some mayo, Steaks (NOM NOM), and chicken wrapped bacon with a cheese and mushroom sauce (Tesco's simply cook range i think its called). I've been to the supermarket today and bought all sorts, pork chops, minted lamb, Salami and Bourson to go together as I used to love this in a french roll, Some stilton to go with the steaks, some chicken chunks in a packet to pick at if I need to and some turnips to turn into chips.
As a treat last night I made up a great tip I saw on this forum, melted some 90% dark chocolate whisked in some double cream and crushed sweetner tablets then put it in the fridge. Came out just like chocolate genache that you put on top of cakes is very yummy and while the calories are reasonably high its a great treat if you can stop yourself eating a tonne of it
I know that was a bit of a ramble but I hope some of it helps
Oh and I lost 11lbs in my first week of doing this
