Low Carb Diet (atkins)

Sazbo

elona wrote: »

Over the last few days since I started this I seem to have done nothing but eat, mainly to reasssure myself I am not on a "diet!"

Touch wood, I have been able to bake bread and not wanted to sample any and not craved crisps, biscuits etc.

I have not weighed myself (mainly because I cannot face the scales!!!)

I am feeling less bloated, not constantly hungry and desperate and the flab seems to be changing shape!

Hi elona I'm very impressed at your resilience re bread. I love making bread for family and friends but haven't dared risk it yet! lol

I'm am also amazed that I am not constantly hungry... but I'm not complaining:D

Sazx

G-G_4

Hey Saz...

He runs an online bike parts shop.. so i'm helping him to list brake pads and things.. it's pretty boring, but it helps him out and keeps me busy..

Plus, I can watch Big Brother whilst I do it.. :laugh:

Nicki

gillette147 wrote: »

I'm annoyed how many are in milk so I might reduce my intake. I've just made a really unmilky coffee.

You can buy lacto-free milk in both Tescos and Sainsburys (both fresh with the ordinary milks and also UHT versions). This has roughly the same amount of carbs as cream, and tastes just like normal milk. I hate cream in tea and coffee but can't tell the difference between this stuff and ordinary green top. My son even had it on cereal when we ran out of the normal stuff and couldn't tell.

Hope this helps some carbs counters.

Ted_Hutchinson

ravylesley wrote: »

I noticed on another thread that Ted fries his food in Coconut oil, doesnt that make the food taste coconutty?Dont think I fancy my morning bacon and eggs tasting of coconut:eek:

When I use the cheapo coconut oil (£1.00-£1.50ish Indian Grocers 500ml) this does not impart a coconut flavour to the food that's been fried in it. The £7.00 -500ml virgin Coconut oil from the health food shop tastes decidedly more coconutty both when you eat it direct and when you fry stuff in it. So generally speaking I use the cheapo stuff for breakfast but for a curry it's quite nice to include the coconut flavour. Creamed coconut or coconut milk is an ingredient in many curries anyway.

Ted_Hutchinson

Sazbo wrote: »

Ted is far better informed than me about this:D but I think I'm right in saying that the message given out to us about the relationship between fat and cholesterol is somewhat oversimplified, to say the least. There is apparently evidence to suggest that the so-called "bad fats" like saturated fat, can raise your "good" HDL cholesterol (high-density lipoprotein) - which reduces your heart disease risk - more than they increase your "bad" LDL cholesterol (low-density lipoprotein) - which increases the risk of heart disease. So they may not be such "bad fats" after all... but Ted will correct me if I'm wrong:)

Sxx

Good News on Saturated Fat This review of the latest Lowfat<>Low Carb<>Mediteranean diet trial that I've put links to earlier in this thread, concentrates on the Cholesterol improvements those on the Low Carb diet enjoyed. Had they stayed on somewhat lower carbs than the trial permitted the results would have been even better.
Taubes asks
Why does the A.H.A. continue to insist that saturated fat should be avoided, if these trials repeatedly show that high saturated fat diets lead to better cholesterol profiles than low-saturated fat diets?

tinkerbell84

Nicki wrote: »

You can buy lacto-free milk in both Tescos and Sainsburys (both fresh with the ordinary milks and also UHT versions). This has roughly the same amount of carbs as cream, and tastes just like normal milk. I hate cream in tea and coffee but can't tell the difference between this stuff and ordinary green top. My son even had it on cereal when we ran out of the normal stuff and couldn't tell.

Hope this helps some carbs counters.

I used to drink the fresh lactofree a while ago - it doesn't taste quite the same as 'normal' milk but wasn't too bad. I bought some UHT when I started the diet and it's disgusting.

I go without milk, and just have double cream in my decaff coffee

Sazbo

Ted_Hutchinson wrote: »

Good News on Saturated Fat This review of the latest Lowfat<>Low Carb<>Mediteranean diet trial that I've put links to earlier in this thread, concentrates on the Cholesterol improvements those on the Low Carb diet enjoyed. Had they stayed on somewhat lower carbs than the trial permitted the results would have been even better.
Taubes asks
Why does the A.H.A. continue to insist that saturated fat should be avoided, if these trials repeatedly show that high saturated fat diets lead to better cholesterol profiles than low-saturated fat diets?

Thanks for that ted, very interesting. So I guess the gist of that is, cholesterol improvements may be depend to some extent on a low-carb context.

sx

gillette147

How long does it take before I get over the weirdness of all this?
I just ate a 1/4 of a pack of cheese....... 0.1gm carbs.
So I did a good thing?...........But it's a 1/4 of a pack of cheese!!!!!
I had a chicken leg too.

I'm a hero.

Sazbo

gillette147 wrote: »

I'm a hero.

- I'm sure the cheese doesn't see it that way. It is all a bit weird. I think it's a chicken and leg situation.

.... yes, I'd better go and have my lunch hadn't I?!

Sazzy xxx

absolutebounder

The hardest part for me is adjusting the shopping and not routinely picking up the bad stuff but good news on my much loved chicken kievs. Make ones own and roll chicken in oregano instead of breadcrumbs and it tastes better than the real thing:D