I'm going vegetarian - and reducing carbs. After 40 lbs gained Ina f ew months I have to go drastic. In shocked how many carbs I ate without even realizing it. Including in fruit.
The transition will be a paleo diet. Then probably vegetarian paleo.
But the first time I've been a vegetarian and it works for health and personal beliefs
I may have been vegetarian if I'd thought about it at a younger age, but once I did, I'd spent too long eating meat & fish to change my diet that much.
As it is, three years ago, we both lost weight unwittingly when changing our eating habits to get my husbands cholesterol down without drugs. In the course of 10-12 months, he went from 36" waist to 32" and I dropped from UK 12-14 to 8-10.
All I did was check the fat, salt & sugar content of everything I buy, and where available, buy things with a lower fat option.
We eliminated things like cakes, biscuits, puddings, pies/pastry, except for an odd treat now and then.
A few other changes were that we used to eat a lamb curry that had 34g fat in it, so made it so that we shared one between us and kept the quantity of rice the same as before, and rather than eat a 7-8oz steak, we'd share one between us. Things like that all helped make a difference.
20 is much less than you think. If you eat bread, potatoes or rice you're almost certainly eating more than 20 carbs a day.
We do eat bread at lunchtime every day (malted wholemeal), and we do eat potato & rice, pasta perhaps once per week.
One of our favourite meals is a Caesar salad with sliced piccolo tomatoes and a large portion of albacore tuna (in spring water).
A large piece of plain white fish is nice too with something like savoury rice or some simple vegetables and a few roast potato pieces.
Both meals low in fat and satisfying.
I had to stay on a low fibre diet for a couple of months from last October, and was gradually allowed to add some fibre, but to test things out carefully in case they don't agree.
I find that quite hard seeing I've always been fond of all vegetables, and there's definitely some I can't eat now.
Can't eat much in the way of pork items now ...no roast pork, and just small amounts of sandwich ham or lean bacon in a sandwich.
Good thing we both like chicken and fish, and small amounts of beef or lamb in things like a stroganoff are fine for me too.
WHAT ??? NOooooooooooo
I did smile when I saw the suggestion ...could almost see your face!
I`ll wait for my next GP visit Pipe, and see what she says. Probably get prescribed Tablets if it doesn`t come down, which it hasn`t done yet. Chippy for tea tonight
Long time since we visited the chippy ...think we may deserve a small treat at some point!
...oh me of little faith 
If the car was stolen, I can easily make another copy, but can't say I'd be happy having so much information in other hands!
