Breakfast - bone broth, coffee and water.

Lunch - chicken and brussels sprouts or another low carb veggie like broccoli. I toss the veggies in a little olive oil along with some seasonings before steaming them in the microwave. Sometimes I'll make sausage and sauerkraut on days when I really want to keep my carbs low. An omelet with mushrooms, spinach and cheese is another good low carb lunch.

Dinner - usually a protein and a veggie. Sometimes I'll do an alfredo sauce over zucchini noodles. I also enjoy seasoning ground turkey with taco seasonings and topping with avocado slices, olives, green pepper, etc. I serve it over spinach. Very filling and satisfying.

Breakfast- smoothie with almonds and fruits/veggies
Lunch- salad with vinegarette
Dinner- chicken or fish with veggies

I don’t snack.

So many "handful of nuts," freaks here. Who really eats like that? I prefer protein, so I eat more protein, chicken, steak, pork, bacon, salads, I also eat fruits and veggies. I do eat carbs, when I feel like it, including baguette with butter, sometimes with jam. I don't live in paleolithic era, not do I believe that any single person on earth is eating like in paleo times. Nor can we eat like that. Where is the mammoth for me to kill? Where are weeks of starvation to balance my diet? Nor is my life expectancy if lucky 35 years. Are there really that many people that are this insane? If you are eating paleo that means you should be fasting for long stretches of time, months even. Are you all doing this? When God/nature gave me rice and bread, I said thank you. Moderation is the key, and here I am the proof of it. Eating as I like, when I am hungry and approaching 50 at 115 lbs without restricting my diet. Common sense people, common sense.

Breakfast--fried eggs and wilted spinach, chard or kale

Lunch--tuna/chicken/salmon salad with avocado oil mayo and a little relish plus a tomato and cucumber salad

Dinner--more vegetables and usually a pan fried steak or chicken thighs. Sometimes chili over cauliflower rice.

Snacks--carrots dipped in guacamole.

--breakfast is eggs or egg whites w/ salsa and spinach
--lunch is tuna salad w/ very small amount of RF mayo, salad
--dinner is vegetables or vegetables with protein, sometimes 1/2 serving of rice
--snacks are RF cheese stick, nuts, apple, banana

Breakfast: Spinach and feta egg cups

Lunch: Brown rice, salmon, avocado, sweet potato, ginger dressing

Dinner: Rotation of homemade soups heavy on beans, veggies like minestrone or chicken tortilla

Snacks: Fruit, almonds, hot caffeine-free tea, occasionally an Rx bar if out running errands

This is gluten, dairy, sugar and caffeine-free. I eat as much organic as possible. Between 0-1 alcoholic drinks/week.

I eat low carb but add in whole wheat/healthy carbs on days I am very active (a few times a week). here's two different examples:
(I have to add in more carbs to have energy to play the sport I love).

No processed foods/not a highly active day:

Breakfast - sometimes skip altogether, OR 2 hard boiled eggs & coffee with milk and splenda
Lunch - a salad with chicken, a little bit of dressing OR a homemade turkey meatball & lots of veggies soup (there are veggies including sweet potatoes in this, so not totally low-carb)
Dinner - a lean protein i.e. broiled pork chops, a vegetable side, occasionally black beans as well.
Sometimes yogurt/fruit for dessert

A highly active day:
Breakfast - either oatmeal with mashed banana and berries OR eggs with whole wheat English muffin and avocado or toast
Lunch - maybe a sandwich with whole wheat bread and a side of fruit, or something from a place like Cava with brown rice as the base. Lunch is usually after I've exercised heavily so lunch will be pretty big.
Dinner - same as above

I've lost about 15 pounds since august 1 on this plan.

I don’t eat red meat so only lean meat protein. Hard boiled eggs, ckn sausage, baked healthy chicken parm (no breading), Turkey meatballs over riced cauliflower and marinara, turkey chili, turkey burgers, lettuce wrapped cold cuts and cheese, roasted/unsalted cashews/almonds, roasted/grilled veggies, avocados, fruit, veggies and ranch, cheese sticks/slices, cauliflower pizza, lettuce wrapped turkey tacos, grilled ckn salads.

I’ve been eating this way for the past 1.5 yrs, though I’ve gotten slightly less restrictive since I’m not trying to lose anymore. I feel so much better than I did when I gorged on processed carbs. I lost 25 lbs in about the first 6-8 months and have maintained.

Anonymous wrote:Breakfast: plain whole milk Greek yogurt, add fruit & nuts
Lunch & dinner: roasted or grilled fish, pork tenderloin, chicken, turkey, grass fed beef with salad (I like spinach with homemade vinegrette), roasted or sauteed veggies. I eat all the veggies, including sweet potatoes, beets, peas etc. I'm not a huge fan of raw veggies. Homemade chicken or turkey soup with lots of veggies & lentils. I also eat black beans, I like Ina Garten's wild rice salad, avocado. Snack is always fruit. A tiny bit of dark chocolate. Coffee & tea. I eat rice only when I have sushi.

To me low carb is no pasta, bread, sugar, pastries, rice but I don't calculate the carbs or cut any veggies. I'm 43 y/o with 3 small kids, 5'7 and 125 lbs so it works for me. I don't really have time to exercise a lot.

Do you pack grilled fish or pork tenderloin for lunch at work? Or do you have amazing dining options?

I eat very low carb and also have to be dairy free except for goat cheeee. Like OP, I just feel much, much better on this way of eating and have sustained it for several years.

Breakfast: watercress, dressed with olive oil, roasted turkey, and left over vegetables with coffee. Sometimes add pecans

Lunch: salads of arugula, or other greens, sometimes cabbage, radishes and a protein. Fish or chicken usually. Alternate with a wrap of these incredients, the ones made from coconut

Dinner: a Ross of brololini and collards and either salmon, chicken or another fish cooked with lemon, ginger and basil. Rotate most other green vegetable plus cauliflower. Simpler meals work better for me.

Snacks. Broth, goat chees, almonds, olives.

Desert occasionally is raspberries or blackberries or amgraanynsmith apple. More occasionally dark chocolate or a low carb coconut milk ice cream.

Breakfast - no fat, plain, Greek yogurt with berries (use frozen and defrost in microwave when fresh is too expensive)

Lunch - salad with protein. Salad is all veggies plus a protein. Could be leftover chicken from dinner, or chick peas. NO cheese!

Dinner - veggies and protein. If tacos, I put the taco meat on lettuce. Of pasta, I use pasta zero ot just eat the meat and veggies.

Snacks - apple with natural peanut butter (make sure to watch serving size of peanut butter); lunch meat wrapped around a pickle; hard boiled egg

Breakfast - oatmeal, two eggs, chicken sausage
Lunch - Turkey sandwich, and a big salad with tofu
Midafternoon snack - Non-fat yogurt, apple, banana, boiled egg.
Dinner - Chicken, fish, or a lower-fat cut of read meat with a vegetable on the side.
Evening snack - A small bowl of puffed wheat cereal and bowl of Halo Top ice cream.

Note that this is low carb (a typical day I will have some oatmeal and a few slices of bread) not no carb, but it is zero sugar.

I am a male, and have lost 50 pounds and kept it off for over a year using this approach.

NP and I also need to get back on track. This week was kind of a bust, so I'm brainstorming for next week. Here's what I have so far.

breakfast: egg cups (PP described above)

lunches: tomato/cucumber/feta salad with grilled chicken

dinners: panko crusted chicken, top with marinara, with steamed broccoli on side (there's a good martha stewart low carb version with just 1/2 side breaded)
turkey stuffed peppers

keep the ideas coming. ignore the weird apple lady above. I track macros and feel better with low carb when I'm not exercising, but otherwise mid-carbs when I'm doing very high volume workouts and lots of protein (120-130g carbs/130-150g protein/ 60g fat).

lots and lots of salads
roasted veggies
chicken, ground turkey, salmon if meat/seafood
falafel/hummus
cauliflower rice instead of regular rice
fruit, nuts

Do you like fish and seafood?