carb consumption question - too few?

[Aways2Go]

There are, actually, a number of recipes I thought I might be interested in that have a considerable amount of heavy cream as an ingredient. I really do worry about it slowing me, though, and I have been moving along steadily as of late and don't really want to take the risk that having these items a few times a week would interfere with that. For whatever reason, that 270 pound mark now looms large in my brain, and I am very focused on getting below that point in as quick a manner as reasonably possible. Maybe it's because that gets me out of the "morbidly obese" range, which would be a big psychological boost - maybe because I know for absolute certain that when I was in the range of 240s to 260s years and years ago that I was more likely to be referred to as looking "chunky" or big or some other similar term, but not just outright FAT, could buy a lot of clothes right off the rack at most stores and felt good enough to participate in sports, etc, and am hoping that will still be the case when I get there again.

I have decided to take the tactic of not increasing my carbs very much (keeping them at or under 30) and trying some plain nuts every few days. Assuming all goes well, I may then experiment with some dairy at this same carb level before I try berries, or if I am really feeling the need for some fruit, I may go with the berries first. I have lost very well before (when I went to a whole foods diet) eating berries on a near daily basis, so I don't expect any difficulty with them and think I could quickly determine they are not problematic.

I have a long, long haul in OWL so I have plenty of time to try out all sorts of things and all levels of rungs and carbs. I lose just fine on a carb level in the mid 20s, so it seems a good place to experiment with nuts, dairy, and berries. I think I can easily incorporate several servings of any one of these a week without exceeding 30 carbs a day, and that should make it easy to see if it is the foods that slow me without complicating things with increased carb levels also. I plan to work with nuts only for a few weeks, and then if no problems, cut those back again and try either dairy or berries for a few weeks, etc. Hopefully I will find that none of these slow my losses, and then I will know I can have any of those groups and still expect to lose as long as I am at a carb level that lets me lose. I realize this might not work as well once I move on to things like beans or grains since with their higher carb levels it would be a little harder to keep at 25 to 30 carbs a day.

As I said though, I think with a little bit of nuts, berries, and some dairy products here and there, I could stay very happily for a number of months at that OWL level without any great need to keep moving up the ladder. I would like to get to the 240 pound level or below before I start experimenting much with those higher OWL levels and higher carb levels that I can live without for the time being. That will leave me a good 30 pounds or more, I think, that I will still need to lose, which should allow for plenty of time to find my CCLL and try out the last few rungs of foods as I get closer to pre-maintenance and goal.

Thanks for your thoughts!