One of my newbie mistakes would have to be the couple of times I've felt a bit ill as a result of eating food that's rich and that I'd normally bulk out with rice or pasta. My tum can't quite take it the same if it's not balanced out with a bulky food - for example I ate Chinese food recently as a bit of a treat. Chinese food is quite rich and not ideal for low-carbing as a regular thing as they do put some carby things in it but is not bad as a once-in-a-blue-moon treat as long as you don't do rice/noodles or too many starchy beg. Well ... I might have eaten a bit too much of it because my tummy did NOT respond too well!!!

Rebecca