Low Carb Diet (atkins)

pink68

oh well just made mince pies and jam tarts with the kids so guess i have to give up now!

HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!

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gillette147

MERRY CHRISTMAS ONE AND ALL!!!

I will be back on the low-carb bandwagon on Jan 5th.
xxx

Sazbo

Happy Christmas everyone! :j Just wanted to say thanks so much for all your support, insight and friendship. I have learned so much from you all. And I'll be needing it next year too!;)

:xmassign::xmastree::santa2:

Much love,
Sazzy xxxxxxxxx

shykins

ok deep breaths.. innnnn... outttttt... innn... outtt...sorry have to vent somewhere and know u lot wont mind

ok so for christmas.. bought my presents for everyone, everyone elses presents for everyone (including for me), wrapped them etc..... did 90% food shopping and preparation, cooked dinner last 2 days ok will admit mother put the pickles out and laid table today....SOOOO i ask hubby to get me a refill for my baileys and ds to get me some nuts.... mother makes comment about being waited on hand foot and finger... i am like excuse me who did ALL the cooking etc, shes like well u had help, so choice is i come here and whinge or hit the roof so sorry u guys got it instead of the parental unit!!!

ok thats better, thanks everyone!!! hope u had a brilliant couple days, enjoy the rest of the holidays

x

Ted_Hutchinson

ALL DIETS ARE HIGH-FAT DIETS This made me laugh. He's quite right of course.

newish2this

newish2this wrote: »

I'm going to ease up over Christmas now (I really don't want to lose any more weight) but like everyone else, I will be reading this thread;)

Also, I have had a bit of constipation, any suggestions for this??:o

OMG, I relaxed the diet (well, just eat whatever I fancied) for 6 days and have gained 9lb:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Is this normal/possible . Will this just be water and will it come off quickly if I do the induction again

With regard to constipation, I have had no problems over the last couple of days:rolleyes:


I hope everyone has had a fab Christmas and haven't gained as much weight as me:o

pink68

I'm sure newsih2this you will find most of that drops off as within a few days of getting back on it. especially if you have been drinking whihc dehydrates you meaning you hang on to every drop of fluid your body can muster.

i weighed myself this morning and have put on about a pound, but the four of us have had a very quiet time so far ( we have no family to entertain ) . the meals with friends start today though and continue for the next week so it can only get worse!

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suemagoo

Goodmorning all hello buttons welcome have managed to escape much weight gain just 2 pounds (Had loads of veg xmas day and pud still in wrapper) Its allways new years eve that catches me must be good as going somewhere hot we hope in february happy new year to you all :j

paula7924

newish2this wrote: »

I have been getting terrible cramps and I think I read that calcium was best for this?? Also, I have had a bit of constipation, any suggestions for this??:o

A bit late with this I think but, yes, calcium should help with the cramps (leg cramps esp over night by any chance?) BUT you have to take calcium with magnesium as calcium alone will bung you up - the magnesium is the anticonstipator to counteract the calcium.

My thought on the calorie counting is that once you start low carbing and "mindful eating" the calories look after themselves as your own body signals let you know when you have eaten enough and therefore had the right amount of calories.

Hope everyone is having a good christmas. I'm being low-carbish. Not strictly low carb - partly because i'm at my in-laws and don't want to be total pains in the !!!!!! and partly because we're treating ourselves to a little bit of stuff we would never normally have in the house- jamie's turkey and leek pie WITH the puff pastry rather than without, a hairy bakers mince pie with a mug of mulled wine, and a roast potato with an otherwise perfect low carb Christmas meal etc. We've been low carb for 6 months and close-ish to our goal weights now so we eat a lot more carbs than you poor people still on phase one/induction but flour/sugar etc is usually totally off limits.

I did have weetabix this morning though - i horrified my MIL by having full fat milk and a huge splosh of double cream with it. (25g carbs in 2 biscuits!!)

MIL is a total low-fat-is-king/butter-on-your-cabbage-is-evil stalwart, but since I've lost 3 stone and my other half has lost 3 1/2 stone she is merely pursing her lips rather than saying anything. MIL is still offering us biscuits and cake at every meal and not serving enough veg though.....

And although I take full responsibility for choosing to eat the weetabix I blame her for putting them within my reach - i mentioned when we arrived that I really fancied weetabix but of course couldn't have them and she went out on Chritmas eve and bought me a box - kind thought but not helpful! (and has commented everyday since that I hadn't opened them).

I'm just about managing to avoid going back over 10 stone (10 stone 0lb this morning so definitely no more treating myself from now on). My scales at home are in Kg so it's quite weird seeing my weight in stones and pounds. It makes me feel fatter actually)

I'm off now. We 're cooking oven roasted broccoli and pork chops with cream and mustard for tea tonight so no low-carb problems there (as long as i resist the chocolate cheescake).

Thanks to you all for your help, encouragement and support this year. I'm more of a lurker than a poster but I would have found it all so much harder if you hadn't all been here with your tales of woe and the sharing of your successes.

Special thanks for Ted for doing all of the detailed research for me - Cracking job mate, keep up the hard work!

newish2this

pink68 wrote: »

I'm sure newsih2this you will find most of that drops off as within a few days of getting back on it. especially if you have been drinking whihc dehydrates you meaning you hang on to every drop of fluid your body can muster.

Thanks for the reassurance. I'm still not back on it yet as working nights tonight and I know there will be a lot of junk available and I forever pick on nights:rolleyes:. I'm going to get back on the induction plan on Monday. I'm just amazed at how much and how quickly the weight went on:mad: