How well do you actually know your carb counts?
Have you just started a low-carb diet? Test your knowledge with our quick carb counts quiz. (more…)
Category: Low-Carb Beginner
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Low-Carb Food Quiz
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New Year Round-Up: Top Low-Carb Diet Tips
Are you ready to start – or restart – your low-carb diet?
Check out this round-up of 5 most popular posts from previous years, with top tips to help you succeed.
Best of luck with your diet in 2016!
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Low-carb sugar substitutes
Sugar is finally getting some media attention as the ultimate diet demon.
Dieticians now agree that refined sugar has no nutritional benefits. Everyone would be better off cutting it out completely.
Low-carb dieters knew about this for a long time. White sugar is pure carb. There is no place for it whatsoever on a low-carb diet.
So does this mean you will never eat anything sweet again? Of course not!
Sugar substitutes and sweeteners are now widely available, both online and in the High Street supermarkets, shops and cafes.
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Chocolate on a low-carb diet – oh yes, you can!
Do you think chocolate is the enemy of your low-carb diet? Do you crave it desperately anyway?You don’t have to suffer. You can enjoy chocolate and stay low-carb.
On just one condition.
Chocolate itself is not high in carbs. It just gets laden with lots of sugar for mass-market products.
If you can avoid the sugar, you can have the chocolate.
How?
By getting sugar-free chocolate, sweetened with Stevia, erythritol, or another low-carb sweetener. Or making your own from scratch – it’s actually fun for chocolate lovers!
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