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Here's my some basic rules as best as I can describe it. It's not super scientific and fairly Slow-carb like. I'm still experimenting as it's really hard to dial in the specifics.

Breakfast: Spinach+carrot+blueberry+strawberry+banana+flax+protein powder smoothing. We're careful with how much fruit we put in this. Can definitely make this even lower carb if we wanted to.

Lunch and dinner: eat pretty normally, but I keep it as low carb as possible. I also keep it fairly light in gluten and dairy. I worry I might be sensitive to gluten. It seems like that's causing my wife migraines too.

For example: Had burgers last night but no bread, no potatoes, no cheese. Just meat and veggies. Desert is usually just rice cakes with peanut butter (just nuts and salt, no added sugar) and cinnamon.

Also, no snacking. Just those meals. I'm done eating by 7pm at night. Here's the original ebook that kicked off how I eat now: https://drive.google.com/file/d/166FSLdptgLAiL96Hl29a_qss8HP...

Really just followed that for 5 days and its recipes.

I've also started fooling with not eating breakfast until 10am or later. This has helped with getting a ton of exercise done in the morning because now I don't feel so heavy doing something like running for an hour and a half.

EDIT: Also been enjoying Freshly and their microwavable meals. It's all gluten free and easy to sort their meals by carb intake.

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I've been losing weight using a keto diet, which is very low-carb:

- No more than 20g of NET carbs per day. (Carb grams minus soluble fiber grams in the US; food labels in other countries may already show Carb grams with the fiber subtracted out.)

- Protein depends on your lean body mass, age, sex, and activity level. See https://keto-calculator.ankerl.com/

- Fat depends on your goals and hunger. If you're trying to maintain your current weight, eat enough fat to satisfy your hunger after the carbs and protein. If you're trying to lose weight, eat less fat than that. And if you're trying to gain weight, eat more.

The limit on NET carbs guides you towards high-fiber plants, and away from sugar, most flours and other refined carbs, and starchy plants like potatoes and rice. It also limits the amount of fruit you can have, because of their high sugar content. (Occasional berries is your best option.) You'll also end up gluten free, because anything with gluten is going to be too many carbs.

It takes a week or two for most people to get past the carb-addiction cravings when starting this, and you'll feel like an addict in withdrawal. Electrolytes help. Pickle juice is great. After a month or so, you start feeling a lot better.

A helpful welcoming community can be found at /r/keto

I tried that one, too. Felt like my food costs went way up, but it was easy to stick to otherwise. So, what did you eat today??