Low Carb Diet (atkins)

stacey777

Badger_Lady wrote: »

Funny you should say that Stacey cos I'm always wondering where my next drink is coming from too... except when I get to work I'm glued to my desk so constantly waiting for someone else to get them in! :rotfl:

Not MSE at all - actually I only started saving money with the Intermittent Fasting. Suddenly my food budget was halved!

yeah i know my teeth were sticking to my lips the other day :rotfl: i bet people were thinking i was on some sort of tablets i was really thristy too and constantly running to the loo have you noticed the dilated pupils as well.

Just had a brain wave there could it be the bacon, but then i didnt have bacon yesterday and i was still really dry even my lips i constantly put vasalene on them.



This is not very money saving but im thinking its better having health than wealth.

stacey777

tinkerbell84 wrote: »

you count total carbs

thanks but its depressing already indulged.

meat loaf ready looks ok but feel a bit sick tonight so cant say how nice it is just trying to be prepared.

Badger_Lady

I haven't noticed dialated pupils but my eyes are consistently more green :rotfl:

Don't worry, it's a family thing - we start off with chocolate brown eyes and they get gradually more green until we hit 40 and they start going grey... I like them green though! And they definitely are more that way since I started losing weight... whether the two are related I can't say...

stacey777

Badger_Lady wrote: »

I haven't noticed dialated pupils but my eyes are consistently more green :rotfl:

Don't worry, it's a family thing - we start off with chocolate brown eyes and they get gradually more green until we hit 40 and they start going grey... I like them green though! And they definitely are more that way since I started losing weight... whether the two are related I can't say...

never noticed my eyes but that is really strange the way your eyes have changed colour.


Another thing:rotfl: my house is always smelly im constantly cooking stuff its like a smoke house tonight and i cleaned all day errrrrr im going off this idea of low carb:rotfl:

stacey777

B lady


Can i ask why do you fast? If its too nosey just say!

shykins

have to say i dont find this anymore expensive then before

i just paid £60 at butcher which will make at least 25 meals for the 3 of us (possibly more) ... i buy a stewpack from morrisons every couple weeks which costs less than a pound, all other veg i get from market, they had 3lbs of sprouts for £1 last week etc etc.... i dont buy any processed foods or package meals and voila dont find it costs more

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stacey777

shykins wrote: »

have to say i dont find this anymore expensive then before

i just paid £60 at butcher which will make at least 25 meals for the 3 of us (possibly more) ... i buy a stewpack from morrisons every couple weeks which costs less than a pound, all other veg i get from market, they had 3lbs of sprouts for £1 last week etc etc.... i dont buy any processed foods or package meals and voila dont find it costs more

x

I ahve bought all my stuff from the butcher and went to lidl and tesco so i could shop for the cheapest items available.

I also bought 5lb bacon which i had vac packed for frezzing. I dont know what im doing wrong. I got 1lb lamb 1lb pork, frying steak about 6 pieces. 2 large pieces of chump steak and the 5lb bacon and 24 eggs £33. and lidl £2.99 for a ham which im baking so i can slice and have as snacks. the rest is all veg and herbs and stuff for making my recipes of the atkins diet book. cream milks and cheese's etc.

Badger_Lady

stacey777 wrote: »

B lady Can i ask why do you fast? If its too nosey just say!

Of course!

Well, my lodger started it - he's a very buff young man, very into health and fitness, and every so often he does a "cleanse" where he eats nothing but vitamin pills for 5 days. One time I tried it with him and found it was much easier than expected, really boosted my weighloss and I felt good for it (although funny enough since then it's hit and miss - sometimes the cleanse is successfull and other times it's just draining and has to be cut short).

Then Teddy-boy stepped in with his comments about intermittent fasting and linked to some articles (the way only Ted Hutchinson can!) about the health benefits observed in research. One article in particular recommended this method of eating until 6pm, then fasting until 6pm. I tried it and found the following:

• That my body quickly got used to the timing so I didn't get uncomfortably hungry on fasting days. A litre of unsweetened soya milk was plenty to see me through after a few days' practise with more substantial drinks
• That my previously stalled weightloss picked up again (not suddenly, but just restarted its slow and steady pace)
• That I don't eat significantly more on "eating" days, so the food bill is much less
• That I actually feel more motivated to spend time on my food - I might be really hungry by 6pm but will be more creative about my cooking, and happily spend the next hour or so concocting something amazing from my storecupboard (I'm a "straight out of the fridge into my tummy" monster normally!). I learned to appreciate food better.
• If I find myself in a situation where appropriate food isn't available (usually when travelling or staying with friends), I'm quite happy to skip the meal rather than eat pastry.

I'll see if I can dig up some of those articles - I certainly remember there being claims of boosting the immune system, which I thought would be valuable over the winter period... of course, this was one of the findings on that Horizon programme as well (although they skipped this point) - those of us genetically pre-disposed to gaining excess weight are designed to live through famine. Therefore we are built to eat, then starve, then eat, then starve... and this logically seems to be the most intuitive way to maintain a slender figure!

Ted_Hutchinson

Intermittent fasting This is quite an interesting blog on the subject. A lot more extreme than the level I go for when I've had a bit more wine than is good for my weight. But I think IF plus Low Carb High fat is probably more like we lived as hunter gatherer's than anything else.
I don't think 3 meals a day with snacks in between was the diet we evolved to function best with.

stacey777

that is a great answer and very interesting i will have to give it a g im a christian and have fasted before for 2 and a half days at most
i just find i get a real sore head.

will give it a go again for diet reason's. In my experiance with it before it meant i had more time to pray about something. you dont realise how much time you spend cooking and eating.

very interesting.


thanks!