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The short answer is absolutely. Is a high-carb, high-fat, high salt diet safe? no and yet people are still more willing to argue against the much maligned low-carb diet. I believe it has received bad press because people do not really understand what a low-carb diet is. I have talked to people who believe low carb means eating protein and fat and nothing else. Low carb means eating more vegetables and less highly-processed foods, cutting down the stodge' and sugars that make American's average diet so bad.

My husband has an omelette for breakfast most days instead of a certain well known sugary cereal that he used to have, it's a much healthier choice for him and he also finds it keeps him going for longer. I still have cereal for my breakfast, but I choose wholegrain oats instead of the processed flavoured porridges that are on the market. These two choices are much healthier than pop tarts, sugary cereals, pancakes with maple syrup etc that make up a lot of people's daily breakfasts.

Lunch usually includes a can of tuna with a large green salad for me or in the colder months a yummy tomato and capsicum soup with a few chicken wings (just for something to nibble). My husband will often have zucchini slice and a crunchy salad, tomato and capsicum soup and wings or a mini meatloaf with salad. Certainly a healthier choice than the McDonalds or Red Rooster meal deals that our workmates often have.

Our dinner's involve similar foods to anyone else, we just tend to cook from scratch a lot more so that we have less preservatives and no hidden sugars. We also substitute things, for example if we're having beef stroganoff which we used to have with mashed potatoes we'll have it with a cauliflower dish (basically mashed cauliflower whipped with cottage cheese to the consistency of mashed potatoes). If we're having a dish that we may previously have had chips with we will make sweet potato or pumpkin wedges to accompany it with instead.

We still eat rice and pasta, but not as often and I tend to make my own pasta and use brown rice instead of white.

I do not see us as being on a low-carb diet I see it as making a healthy lifestyle choice, and we probably eat a lot healthier now than we used to and we feel a lot more energetic and healthier for it. Because it's a lifestyle choice and not a diet we do not have a problem sticking to it although we did go through sugar withdrawals when we first cut that out of our systems which to me highlighted how much of a poison sugar is.

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