Daily Mail Live Below the Line Article

I've always had a metabolism which hasn't run well on carbs. Even as a child I would be ravenous by 10 am if I'd had just bread or just cereal for breakfast, I very much need a protein like eggs or meat to keep me going. Lots of jokes about first breakfast and second breakfast and having a hobbit metabolism.

Don't forget elevenses, the afternoon tea! :rotfl:Seriously, exact same hobbit jokes made in my house and workplace about me also.

Strangely I was always the same when a child also, I'm told I was fussy when very small but by teens always had 4 weetabix for breakfast beforr school, eating all my lunch at first break and then borrowing money to buy another lunch then milk and broken biscuits at home before dinner. I was the only one of my peers who ate so much but was so hungry all the time yet quite boney.

Re the foggyness (low carb flu) i have been informed that it does pass after 10 days, make sure you're eating enough though.

Seems to be a fair few of us 'hobbits' out there.:rotfl:

The sugar addiction passed in about 3-4 days, which surprised me a lot. I didn't get the low-carb flu thingy, I suspect because I tapered off consumption rather than did it all at once.

Sometimes, I drop 0.1 kg per day fpr several days, sometimes I sit at exactly the same weight for 4-5 days and then drop 0.4 kg over night, which has been today's happy experience. I weigh myself once a day, first thing in the morning, and keep a special notebook charting my progress.

Another couple of pounds and I will move from obese to merely overweight, yippee!

Currently scarfing a heaping plate of mixed salad and half an avocado.

My downfall isn't sugar so much as savoury things I adore cheese in any shape or form and have to limit myself all the time.
I stopped eating bread, and consequentially butter about 18 months ago and changed to cracker type things which I use low fate pate or cottage or low fat soft cheese on as a spread, this I will have at lunchtimes with HM soups.I do eat an awful lot of fruit ,perhaps mostly oranges though. and will mix diced up fruit with low fat plain yogurt for taste .

My dietician whom I was going to at that time said sensibly that it didn't go on overnight and it certainly won't come off quickly either.
She said if you can lose between a pound and a pound and a half every week to ten days its more likely to stay off and 'crash' diets just make you feel worse as it goes back on again too quickly hence the yo-yo dieting of some many people.

I have gradually lost around two and a bit stone and will hopefully lose another couple this year.

But its not so much a 'diet' as a complete change of eating habits that has built up over the years .

I have just had a great weeks holiday with my friend and although I haven't lost any weight during that week I also haven't gained any.

Down to the fact of probably having 'treats ' of delicious afternoon teas and morning coffees with my friend ,which I don't normally have when I am back in my own daily routine .But it was a holiday and now its over its back to 'normality' once more

By the way I love liver , but I like it with streaky bacon and lots of veg in a thick gloopy casserole ,probably not so good for me :):)

Thanks monnagran I shall feel quite virtuous eating my liver and bacon casseroles now :):) one of my favourite old-fashioned meals that my late Mum used to cook for her tribe of permanently hungry kids.I eat sensibly now and continue to lose my excess gradually and (hopefully )