How can your carbs get over 100g on primal? page 5

[js21]

Hey folks,

Is this thread still relevant? I just started and have the same sort of Q.

I am eating nothing but meat, no carb cheese, and various veggies (90% of the time it's broccoli, brussels sprouts and butternut squash).

The average carb count is easily 115-130g.

In fact, I noticed that if I ate a bowl of plain oatmeal with peanut butter for dinner, instead of meat and veg, it has me at less carbs than my meat and veg meal!

I'm currently a sedantery to moderately active female eating around 1700 calories per day, which is my BMR pretty much.

Any thoughts on getting further down to the sweet spot?

Thanks!

[AshleyL]

Easy, eat four Japanese persimmons! Mmmm

[Ayla2010]

Careful now....I'd agree with the rest of your statement as to your own N = 1, but many people do just great with fat as their primary fuel source. To each their own. I actually feel orthorexic trying to up my carbs. Just doesn't happen natural like.

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[Kochin]

How? Why easily, when I feel like eating veg.

If I fancy eating plenty of veg one day, I could eat this much (sometimes more, but rarely so).
2 bananas: 54g
6 prunes: 32.2
100g sweet potato: 17.8g
1 onion: 9.5
1 pepper: 11.8
100g butternut squash: 10.8
That's 136g of carbs WITHOUT counting any dairy or nuts I may have.

Planned out, it'd look like this:
BREAKFAST
1 banana
100g greek yoghurt
25g almond butter
= 31.8g
SNACKS
1 banana
6 prunes
=59.2g
DINNER
Curry with the remainder veg and some meat. Carbs include a few extra for ginger, garlic and other whole seasonings.
=52g
Total for the day:143g carbs.

[oxide]

kochin, that's not really a lot of veg. It's fruit and dairy.

In general, I eat 3/4 cup berries, 1/6 of a banana, and 2 cups veg (or one cups veg and 1 piece fruit like apple). That gets me to about 100 g for the day. I aim for colorful veggies for the anti-oxidants rather than the carb count. It's amazing how colorful lunch is when the good stuff isn't dwarfed by a giant beige bun.

[Timthetaco]

1/6 of a banana

What do you do with the other 5/6 of the banana?

[Kochin]

kochin, that's not really a lot of veg. It's fruit and dairy.

In general, I eat 3/4 cup berries, 1/6 of a banana, and 2 cups veg (or one cups veg and 1 piece fruit like apple). That gets me to about 100 g for the day. I aim for colorful veggies for the anti-oxidants rather than the carb count. It's amazing how colorful lunch is when the good stuff isn't dwarfed by a giant beige bun.

Meh, it's vegetation, either way.

To be honest, I can't think of any true "veg" examples at the moment because my brain is is "Winter-mode", so it's all: starch, nuts, some fruit and almost entirely meat. And 100g of yoghurt isn't very much dairy at all. I can have HEAPS more when I feel like having dairy. 500ml unhomogenized milk, 200g greek yoghurt, 200ml double cream AND 100g butter. Just don't really fancy it at the moment. "Winter-mode", as I said. Just feel like root veg, meat, scrambled egg, dried fruit and nuts and hot stews.

Some days over Summer and Autumn I could eat 200g sweet tater, 2 large carrots, 2 medium parsnips, 4 leaves of cabbage, 150g mustard leaves, 80g green beans...etc ON TOP of any fruit I fancied. But, at the moment, as long as the odd bit of plant matter goes in, I'm happy.