Where is your spice? and liquid?
I slow cook (90 min on stove) lean stew beef (I don't like chicken based stews, personally)with organic beef broth, carrots (a little high in carbs), whatever other veg I feel like (usually very early peas and canned or flash frozen organic white corn), some finely chopped leeks, onion, habanero or other peppers, bay leaves, garlic, thyme, oregano, kosher salt, pepper, a little sriracha, and i prefer to toss in some barley in the last 30 or so minutes, but it's not necessary. I brown the leeks and carrots and onion first, though. If you want to thicken the "stew", remember that you can take 1/2c of the liquid and 1 - 2 T of cornstarch, dissolve in the liquid, pour back in the stew and cook for another 10 min or so. Watch Cooking Light online for good, low carb, low fat base recipes to tweak. And they all need tweaking.
Luck.