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@Dooks-Fatberg
My lo carb regime such as it is has kinda settled in now with typical day being:
Breakfast - usually just black coffee (or three) and sometimes a small fruit juice. Once or twice a week if i'm absolutely starving i'll have greek yoghurt with fruit and some seeds.
Lunch go-to's are:
Eggs of some description. Plain or cheese omlettete, some chorizo with a fried egg, turkish eggs (poached eggs on garlicky yoghurt with chilli brown butter).
Or i'll have a simple salad. Really into pear and blue-cheese at the moment. Or make an old fashioned ploughmans-style plate with some leaves, few bits of cheese, some cold meat, apple, celery, tomato, pickles and mustard. Smoked fish is good. I love tinned fish but haven't found anything to replace the toast with sardines yet. Soup is another good one. Mmmm. Soup. If i'm in London I'll grab a couple of those little snack pot things from M&S. Chicken with chilli peanut sauce and the crushed pea and chilli prawn ones are good. Expensive habit tho. If i'm desperate for a snack i'll have some dried fruit or a few nuts. I drink water and black coffee.
Evenings are usually some combination of protein and veg. I'll complile a list to some of my faves later but lots of roast veg, grilled meat, salads and one-pot or roasting tray things. Lettuce hand wraps are good thing too. Lots of spice and citrus and chilli. Big flavours are your friends. Fish tacos with homemade picked onions, and charred corn but with lettuce instead of the tortillas is on regular rotation.
I'm a sunday roast fiend so usually let myself have a couple of roasties with that. I'm only human.
No booze at home till at least Thursday and just generally stay away from wine and the pints. I do still partake in the brew, but I try to stick to one or two evenings a week. When i do go out I stick to two or three halves (or better still a couple of punchy Belgians).
I drink way less than I used to but do still like a tipple so have got into the habit of having nice gin with diet tonic, sipping tequilla or mezcal or some half decent scotch and bourbon in, so i can have a variety of things to reach down if the mood for a nip strikes.