Low Carb Diet (atkins)

tinkerbell84

HH62 wrote: »

Thanks so much for all the replies so far. I've been going nuts on carbs for the past few weeks, so when I do start my diet, Phase 1 will be tough. Reading all the responses just helps to motivate me a lot more!

badgerlady - I think it's wonderful that you rescued the battery hens! I won't eat any eggs or chicken unless they're free range. Of course that doesn't help my tight budget but that's an area I won't compromise on.

Just for general info, the plan I'll be doing is South Beach (written by a heart surgeon - I think Dr Atkins was too?). It has three phases. Phase 1 is the toughest and is aimed at getting rid of cravings, rebalancing blood sugar etc. You do it for 14 days. No sugar is allowed, no fruit, and no pasta, bread, rice, potatoes etc. These things are re-introduced slowly in P2. But they are still quite limited and if they cause cravings or energy dips, you stop eating them.
The main difference between it and Atkins, AFAIK, is that you are allowed, to eat things like lentils, chick peas, kidney beans etc even in Phase 1.This does help with those, erm, bathroom issues !!

Thanks again everyone.

With low carb you usually stay on P1 until you're within a stone of your goal weight. So it's likely to be more than just the 2 weeks

~daisy~_2

ive been thinking about this supplemts stuff .....when low carbing i generally feel great enough energy to work out quite hard and live my life - apart from when i cheat obviously....
but im thinking if i feel ok without supplements might i feel great with them ?
thing is i forget after a couple of days then they sit there gathering dust - not very mse

someone posted a cheap webiste seeling tabs a while ago - can anyone remember what it was ? - might take a look and price some bits up

Ted_Hutchinson

~daisy~ wrote: »

ive been thinking about this supplemts stuff .....when low carbing i generally feel great enough energy to work out quite hard and live my life - apart from when i cheat obviously....
but im thinking if i feel ok without supplements might i feel great with them ?
thing is i forget after a couple of days then they sit there gathering dust - not very mse

someone posted a cheap webiste seeling tabs a while ago - can anyone remember what it was ? - might take a look and price some bits up

I use IHERB in the USA, there are $5 discount codes in the referrals board for those who haven't used IHERB before. I find them as quick as UK online discount places and cheaper if you make sure you never order £18 worth or more and have to pay VAT and the extortionate Post Office £8 fee for collecting the £3.60's worth of tax. I also belong to Consumerlabs so can check if something has their "approval" for actually containing what it says on the label and that there is good medical scientific evidence that it does what is claimed.

The supplements I use are Vitamin D3 7000iu/daily now in winter, I'll get another 25(oh)d test soon to check if that has got me above 125nmol/l but I may have to go to 10,000iu/daily. (that is the amount our skin would make daily if we lived naked, so don't worry about amounts under that level)

Omega 3 1.8g daily, that's the equivalent of 6 normal fish oil capsules, 3 double strength capsules or a large teaspoon of concentrated fish oil.
I also have ground linseed daily.

Magnesium. I'm using magnesium malate, Taurinate is also good. The best are Albion Patent chelates. I take 600mg daily.

But the important thing when buying supplements is to check the science first. Is there evidence to support the claims?
What research has been done?
Did they use a sensible logical amount, in the form the body naturally uses, and did they use it for a sufficient length of time for the body to replete it's natural reserves?

There is an awful lot of very bad research published so you really do have to try to use your common sense to work out if the conclusions are justified.

HH62

tinkerbell84 wrote: »

With low carb you usually stay on P1 until you're within a stone of your goal weight. So it's likely to be more than just the 2 weeks

Thanks tinkerbell but I'm going to be doing the South Beach diet - Phase 1 on it is two weeks. Then you move onto Phase2. The idea is that P1 gets rid of the cravings (it does for me!) then P2 is the main weight loss phase. P3 is the maintenance phase.
I've never done Atkins so I dont have a clue how that works, but this is how you do it on South Beach. They're quite different diets, from what I've heard.

Sorry for any confusion I may have caused!

Badger_Lady

Today's menu:

- Breakfast - carrot and orange juice (OK, not strictly low carb)
- Lunch - Cauliflower pizza with spinach, olives and meatballs
- Dinner - the rest of the pizza!

I've been doing Christmas shopping today, and done rather well Also got an electric food steamer from Freecycle which should help with cauliflower recipes etc... I still haven't heard about my job and it looks as though I'll have to wait until 20th January now

~daisy~_2

any more vitamin websites for me to browse ??

brekkie - scrambled egg with cream and butter
lunch - tuna mayo grated cheese small mixed salad including a miscellaneous number of cherry tomatoes - i felt like living life on the edge today so didnt count !!
dinner - left over roast chicken with green veg

snack - pate on cucumber and 8 blueberries

will prolly have the rest of the chocci sponge for dessert

now i need to save all these recipes that have been posted recently and if i find the oopsies i may give them another try tomorrow

tinkerbell84

i get most of my vits from https://www.healthydirect.com

shykins

yaay at last MSE has allowed me to post!!!....course theres been so much posted i cant remember what to answer lol

i used to do SW but i always missed cheese, the crispy bits off the chicken etc and always felt hungry... i had heard of atkins but thought it was all meat, my aunt from canada leant me her book and i couldnt believe all the salad etc i could eat.... i love what i eat, i feel full, i can eat cheese and chicken skin lol, add to which i dont get bloated, my IBS has gone blimey i could go on and on lol

i use healthydirect or simplysupplements for vits tho as i said i dont use that many different types

aurora no one can blame u for taking some time out right now, hope everything goes ok and we see u back when u feel up to it

sweet welcome to our mad but VERY supportive thread, theres lots of knowleadgeable people here

brekkie.. egg cream, was a bit thin
lunch.... hb egg (not hungry)
dinner... sort of morocan beef stew, lots of herbs swede, leek etc
snack... bits of ham

x

vik6525

ooo, I forgot to mention earlier, but the BEST thing for me about low carbing is that i have really bad hypoglycemia (bad spelling i know, but low blood sugar!!)
It was so bad at one point that I used to have a 'hypo' on an almost daily basis. But since I started low carbing, nothing, nothing at all.
Its fantastic!!

pink68

Hi all!

well weigh in was tonight and despite my earlier mooas i had in fact stayed the same! phew!

will be a much better behaved girl this week i promise!:j