Want to keep carbs down? Try a lettuce bun for a hamburger

[RhodyPatriot]

All the food tips I need came from a German chef at the college I went to (which is known mostly for its culinary program)…

Eat Right, Exercise Daily… and DIE anyway.

He was about 5 foot tall and an equal dimension around; but he was about the happiest guy I’ve ever met.

So while you folks do your best to eat healthy I’ll get my double burger with extra cheese, catsup, mayonnaise, lettuce, tomato, and a white bun and enjoy it.

Apparently, sometimes grumpiness is an asset.

 

[shockedcanadian]

You sick bastard.

Why?

I haven't had a condiment on my salad since my wife and I separated. No ketchup, no salad dressing, no mustard. All that stuff is just sugar, plain and simple.

Bread, I am on low carb bread, thin slices. I love bread and it has been a staple of my diet since I was a kid. It's also a major sugar spike in the body which leads to fat when it isn't burned.

So avoiding a bun on a burger is a major improvement I assure you. There are apparently many recipes for keto break, essentially very low carbs, they use eggs to make, there are veggies that can be used to make bread etc.

I cannot believe how easily I lose weight without carbs, my body is so accustomed to high carb meals and I am happy that my metabolism is still very good at my age. It's clear I had just been overloading it for years. I have never been obese, except for maybe a few years as I was aging, not going to the gym but kept eating as if I was. Now I feel healthy again.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

Why?

I haven't had a condiment on my salad since my wife and I separated. No ketchup, no salad dressing, no mustard. All that stuff is just sugar, plain and simple.

On your salad?

 

[shockedcanadian]

On your salad?

No salad dressing, only quality olive oil and spices.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

No salad dressing, only quality olive oil and spices.

Nevermind.

 

[Anathema]

Apparently, sometimes grumpiness is an asset.

It’s a very large asset pretty often. It keeps the unwanted and the rifraf away.

 

[Papageorgio]

I love home made burgers. I have cut down due to the carbs in the bread. Some time ago I learned of the lettuce bun which is very easy to make and actually works quite well especially with the most exterior side of romaine or even standard lettuce leaves.

Now, I've learned to decrease significantly sauces, preferring to use olive oil and seasoning, garlic powder etc rather than standard condiments such as ketchup,, mustard etc. After all, it is just sugar.

Ditto for salad. High quality olive oil with seasoning, no salad dressing. Since I have very strong taste buds I have never needed to overly sweeten or add flavors, the natural flavors with some reasonably healthy spices have been fine.

Here is one simple recipe. I just make it my own way but if you need some guidance, this might help

Bunless Burger Recipe (Paleo, Whole30 + Keto)

This bunless burger recipe is Keto with an amazing special sauce! Satisfy your low-carb burger craving today with this lettuce burger.

realsimplegood.com

It’s rare if I have a bun with my burger, I make them then crumble it over my salad, then mix a mayo, mustard and dill relish sauce or I go with a vinaigrette

 

[RhodyPatriot]

It’s rare if I have a bun with my burger

Which is fine, but it's also not a burger.

 

[Papageorgio]

Which is fine, but it's also not a burger.

It is to me and that is what counts

 

[RhodyPatriot]

It is to me and that is what counts

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I love home made burgers. I have cut down due to the carbs in the bread. Some time ago I learned of the lettuce bun which is very easy to make and actually works quite well especially with the most exterior side of romaine or even standard lettuce leaves.

Now, I've learned to decrease significantly sauces, preferring to use olive oil and seasoning, garlic powder etc rather than standard condiments such as ketchup,, mustard etc. After all, it is just sugar.

Ditto for salad. High quality olive oil with seasoning, no salad dressing. Since I have very strong taste buds I have never needed to overly sweeten or add flavors, the natural flavors with some reasonably healthy spices have been fine.

Here is one simple recipe. I just make it my own way but if you need some guidance, this might help

Bunless Burger Recipe (Paleo, Whole30 + Keto)

This bunless burger recipe is Keto with an amazing special sauce! Satisfy your low-carb burger craving today with this lettuce burger.

realsimplegood.com

Mustard in its most simple form is sugar-free because mustard’s basic ingredients are mustard powder and liquid, which contain zero sugar.

Does Mustard Have Sugar? + Other Common FAQs

However, you may be wondering if mustard has sugar. I found the facts, and here is what I discovered!

clockworklemon.com

 

[RhodyPatriot]

Mustard in its most simple form is sugar-free because mustard’s basic ingredients are mustard powder and liquid, which contain zero sugar.

Does Mustard Have Sugar? + Other Common FAQs

However, you may be wondering if mustard has sugar. I found the facts, and here is what I discovered!

clockworklemon.com

So he's been skipping out on flavoring his food his entire life for no reason.

Awesome.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

So he's been skipping out on flavoring his food his entire life for no reason.

Awesome.

I am a type II diabetic and take insulin. I recently started Ozempic and my use of insulin is dropping. I have lost 8 pounds and today I had almost nothing from breakfast to dinner.

There is also low sugar ketchup too!

 

[Papageorgio]

I use stevia as a sweetener, it doesn’t effect blood sugar, it is a natural sugar and I might have a pop once or twice a week and for that I drink Zevia, it uses stevia, and they don’t use dyes.

 

[MayorQuimby]

As always, a disclaimer, I am not a doctor, seek medical advice from a licensed physician I can only tell you what I know and what I have done to be successful.

I used to think the same regarding overall calories, but it's far more complicated than that and I have learned so much over the last few years. I struggled to lose weight because of this thinking while now it is shockingly easy for me.

I'm fortunate I suppose because as a former athlete and wrestler, and growing up poor I often didn't have breakfast while I ran to school and played sports on an empty stomach. In essence, I'm used to weight swings so when I'm fasting my body even so many years later I generally respond with burning fat in short order. Not nearly as quickly as I used to, but probably better than the average person my age.

The key to eating to lose weight is about balancing your sugar spikes and insulin levels so that your body deals with any sugar after every meal and gets into a fat burning mode.

If you eat ANYTHING, you get an insulin rush to deal with the sugar in your body, this spike is highest after heavy carb or sugar laden meals (breads, pasta, sugary foods such as soda etc) and during this time your body will not burn fat. No matter what you do, go for a run, work out, whatever, it will use the sugar for energy first, you cannot possibly burn fat until your blood sugar in the body is fully depleted.

This is why fasting is critical and even small, healthy snacking in between meals is a bad idea because it will also lead to some form of spike unless you're drinking olive oil only or something. If there was one basic piece of advice I would give even a poor eater is to not snack, only eat three meals a day. Period.

It is thus, far superior to absorb only three meals a day, preferably well spaced apart and you do not eat too soon close to bedtime,. Let your body fast during those hours so that at the very least even if you're diet isn't overly healthy or nutritious (eating healthy more ideal of course) you allow your body to deplete glycemic levels to zero and in this lengthy process, if you fast long enough, you use ketones and eventually fat for energy.

For example, eat dinner at 6pm, no snacks at night, eat breakfast at 8am would give you a 14 hour fast which probably ensures at least a short period of burning ketones and/or fat. The longer you delay your first meal the day of fasting, the better.

Here is another key I've learned, cut down on bread, which has always been my biggest issue as I love bread and it is horrible for sugar spikes, a real deterrent to losing fat. After every meal go for a walk. The longer the better because when you receive that sugar spike you can deplete it so by the time you get home, you body is ready to burn reserves.

Even if I only ate half the calories I normally would, say 6-7 small meals that are less in overall calories, I would burn less fat than someone who has one huge meal a day which is double the calories that the person eating the small meals had. So, assume I eat one really grand meal at lunchtime, twice as many calories overall, I will receive an insulin spike to deal with the sugar, which will take some time. After it burns it though and my sugar level is zero, I'm in fast state.

Once it's depleted, my body slowly goes into fasting mode, looking for energy sources it will first take the ketones and then fat since I don't have any sugar in the body. When I have my next meal 24 hours later I will have lost more weight than the guy eating half the calories across multiple smaller snacks since his body constantly had an insulin spike to deal with the carbs/protein/fat I ate, while I only had one spike.

I've lost 11 pounds in two weeks, and I've been eating ice cream (as soon as I do I take a long walk in the heat, sweating, breaking my glycemic level down to zero again.

Eat good fats such as olive oils even butter. Avoid high carbs, especially empty in nature.

My keys have been, to mix my fasting windows, so I do a 16/8 fast, then the next day I will eat really early, and a lunch to keep my body confused. Keep carbs low. Any time I ate ice cream or say bread, I would go for a walk. If I didn;t, I would walk 500 steps around my house to get the burning working on the carb meal I just ate.

11 Pounds in two weeks with little effort. I assume alot of this weight was water weight since I kept some days to 15-20 grams of carbs total all day. So, over the next two weeks, I'd be estatic if I could burn 5-6 pounds over the next two weeks with a similar approach.

I also do push ups in a couple of the mornings in which I have been fasting. This gets the body accelerated into fat burning. My longest period of fast has only been about 20 hours. I've done complete 25 hour fasts during Yom Kippur and even fasted for 48 hours or so a few years ago so my body is accustomed to the occasional long fast. 14-16 Hours is fairly standard for me after my last meal the night before.

Nice post, congrats on the weight loss, but honestly I don't think you're supposed to lose 11 lbs in two weeks. That's too drastic. I think the safest amount you can lose is like 2 lbs, at most. I am also trying to lose weight, and sometimes I would lose a lot of weight in a short amount of time too, but it's never sustainable. The weight always bounces back. I find that slow and steady really is the best way to win the race. It's taken me quite some time, but I am getting close to 64 kgs now (my target weight is 60 kg). And the best part about it is that I am not gaining it back. The weight that comes off, stays off.

You give a lot of good points, but I just want to add something: For people who snack, you know, they like to put snack food, junk food such as potato chips, chocolate, cake..etc, into their mouth, stop immediately. This sounds like a no-brainer but I actually did not know this before. I would starve myself by skipping proper meals, trying to lose weight, but would still save room for the must-have junk food that I loved so much. But, a few months ago, I asked myself. Do I really want to lose weight, and look good, so that hot guys will want to climb onto me and **** me hard? Do I want that bad enough? The answer is yes, so I cut out all that junk. BEST decision ever. Now the weight just melts off, I don't have to put in much effort at all, I am not exercising, not hitting the gym at all. All I gotta do is watch what I eat. Btw, now that I am mostly vegetarian, and I swap out refined carbs for whole-grains. Again, best decision ever made. The whole grains are just as filling, but they provide much more nutrients as well as fiber, which helps with regularity, which is important but especially for a woman, because this gives you clear skin. I also skip dinner almost entirely. And you are absolutely correct, no snacking after a certain time is very important. Personally I don't eat anything after 3 PM or so. There are days when my will weakens and I will raid the fridge in the middle of the night, but I try my best not to and if I really really have to, I make sure I snack on food that's healthy, such as dried goji berries, or nuts like almond. But ideally, you should refrain from eating anything after 6 PM or so. I found that when you eat late, the calories seem to accumulate really easily as compared to when you eat the same amount in the morning. This is a very important point, I wish more people would know about it.