Low Carb Diet (atkins)

Sazbo

Morning lovelies :hello:

Just a quickie sazzy - got tomorrow off (for gilly's birthday surprise weekend:)) so lots to do at work today.

Mercy - I've tried celeriac most ways. I agree with daisy it can be quite strong flavoured, so I tend to use a lot of herbs and or spices to balance the taste. If I mash it, I cook it till very soft and then drain very well otherwise I find the resulting mash can be a bit waterlogged:o - I also add lots of butter and cream to it. I find it needs more help than mash made with spuds. For celeriac wedges - I cut thickish wedges and par boil them first, drain well then put them on an oven tray, douse with oil, and whatever flavourings you fancy - I usually use dried herbs, paprika, chili flakes, s&p. Bake until golden.

HC - mmmm at the Aubergine Parmigiana! That's another recipe posted by you that I must try - that along with the moussaka (which is a fave of Gilly's) and Tink's lemon cheesecake :drool::drool:

B - flax bread with cheese and chorizo
L - didn't make one last night, so prob a tuna and mozerella salad from Pret
D - we're thinking of ordering a curry as a treat - but we'll do some cauli rice to go with it and be reasonably good:D

Have a lovely day everyone :wave:

Much love,
Sazzy xxxxxxxxx

aliasojo

HC wrote: »

Aliasojo, are you feeling any better today?

No...life sucks. :rotfl: But thank you for asking.

I've been up all night as I just couldn't sleep. Finally got off around 5am this morning. Had house stuff on my mind and just couldn't relax.

Snow is falling quite heavy here and son has to go to Aberdeen today which is a notoriously bad route both for weather and accidents so I'm a bit worried about him. He's a good driver but I'm a Mum...what can I say?

Carpets just aren't drying even although the heating was left on all night and the whole house smells damp because of them. We've got someone coming to stay this afternoon so OH has gone into town to see if he can get a dehumidifier to help hurry the situation along. I've been after one for a while and now seemed a good time so I hope it helps, they're not cheap. :rolleyes:

Place is like a tip again, got to try to sort a plumbing prob and get the place straight asap. Not had food yet and I'm not even hungry now but I'll need to force myself to eat something as I know it's not good.

Roll on bedtime.

*signed.....a stressed aliasojo


Edit: I've not got a headache though.

sweetserendipity

alias, sorry you still not feeling great & all the other stresses don't help
Noticed you were up during the night when I was reading another thread this morning!! Agree about the school dins by the way.
Hopefully you have had something to eat now but, if not, get something!! It will make you feel stronger.
It's like a winter wonderland here, started snowing this morning & hasn't really stopped. Looks beautiful but I have to venture out to Co-op at some point so think I'll be needing my wellies.
Have had lots of texts from my daughter so feeling happier now.;)

shykins

aww alias sorry u dont feel better am sure once u are detoxed u will do tho.... thats the prob with them carpet dr things they take forever to dry

saz hope yr weekend goes well come back and tell us all (ok not all ) about it on monday!!

hc u have been warned do NOT buy soya flour is nasty yukky stuff.. u can make pancakes with protein powder or just use very that wrap recipe that someone posted about 1000 posts ago lol

these kids are lucky with all these trips arent they we got offered dymchurch when i was at school ... heres a laff my son went on scout camp for a week when he came back i said oh didnt clean yr teeth then he looked all sheepish, how u know mum? i said well fact it was a travel toothbrush/paste set and it was still in its wrapper sort of gave it away :rotfl:

x

Badger_Lady

Grrrrrrr... emotional day Boss pulled me in today to complain about an email I sent (that was in reply to an email she'd sent!), we mutually apologised for the miscommunication, and then I ended up bursting into tears about the whole "Job Security Appeal" situation that's going on - how embarassing! She had to sneak some tissues in so no-one would know (it's still a secret to all my colleagues).

So I went home for lunch, intending to do some physical work cleaning out the chickens and turning the garden over, but when I got there I just felt drained and went to bed with the cat for half an hour instead :rolleyes:

Anyway:
- Breakfast, the rest of my choc-hemp pudding
- Lunch, carrots, cheese, strawberries and cherries (all of which needed eating )
- Supper, plan to do a Thai red curry type thing with broccolli and tofu. Will probably end up having a glass of red wine with it!

Can't wait for my long weekend to start tonight...

Ted_Hutchinson

I liked Annika's blog this morning
When I am out at lectures around Sweden, I get to hear so many stories about people who have eaten healthily and get slim while eating Low Carb Higher Fat, but then when they get to the doctor he frightens them crazy with threats of bad consquences including sudden death, if they continue to eat natural saturated fat. So then they return to the low fat, margarine and a lot of carbohydrates - and of course get obese again and sick, and may have to repeat all the medications they had been able to reduce or stop.

These doctors have no idea about the true relationship between diet and health.

They are simply reacting in their habitual slow-witted manner as they lack the vision to solve the underlying problem.

Do not ask these doctors what they think, but tell them about how you have achieved better health and weight control.

If they get enough evidence that demonstrates savings on health costs, there is a chance that they at least stop being so convinced of the hypothetical dangers of saturated fat, and begin to realize the possibility that there may be another truth.

The first couple of comments are also worth repeating.
Just as I have done, told my doctor what I eat and especially what I do not eat. He saw my performance on both the importance, -30 kg, and that all of my blood has been great so he is very positive, saying, inter alia, "It will be exciting to see how it is with this."
Last visit he said also: "You usually do not highlight a diabetes diagnosis, but if you continue like this so wheat seventeen ..." My long-term blood sugar is now down to 4.6 without medication! :-)
Written by John Lind February 12, 2009 kl. 14:42 #
John Lind,
Sweet! :-)
It is also the best way to teach the medical profession, so that they do not get their only training from Pharmacists, Unilever and the like.
Written by Kenneth Ekdahl February 12, 2009 kl. 14:51 #

alm71

It's my 4th day on the Atkins plan and I feel absolutely awful. I've been feeling sick for about 2 days now. I'm at the point of giving up. does anybody have any ideas to overcome this.

tinkerbell84

alm71 wrote: »

It's my 4th day on the Atkins plan and I feel absolutely awful. I've been feeling sick for about 2 days now. I'm at the point of giving up. does anybody have any ideas to overcome this.

Is this the first day you've felt awful? (It's usual to feel dodgy at around day 4/5/6 - it's your body grtting rid of the toxins and switching to burning fat instead of carbs)

Are you doing atkins induction properly?

Can you post your food diary?

(A painkiller - with food - probably won't hurt if you have a bad head)

Ted_Hutchinson

Google Translate version of this article from a Swedish Newspaper article on Emerging Trends
Never have I received more feedback on a newsletter than the former.
I have received many of attack mail, SMS and positive phone calls.
A person found, however, that I would not speak on issues I did not have deep knowledge of.
I would like to clarify that everything I write about is based on the trend perspective and I have not seen my task to provide deep expertise in all areas.
Just in the case of LCHF, however, I chosen to test myself. In just over six months, I have followed the principle. Results are so far 13 kg less and I think I never ate better food, or felt alert and stronger.
Important, because I always enjoyed it.
I wrote in my leader on the increasingly heating up of the fat war and on the discussion between the known slimming professors and an increasing number of rabble-rouser's from LCHF (carbohydrates and very little natural fat).
The idea of my leaders was to demonstrate why the trends is so slow and why new knowledge is always faced with solid resistance at first.
Actually, it was not first time I wrote about LCHF, but in my trend report in 2008, I had it as an example of what happens in the resistance against anything new.
Clearer further than this, it can not be, and I can say that I eat saturated fat now.
That is why I write about this again, and I think that all who are interested in trends should follow developments in the fat war.
I wrote in my report that the trend will happen is that the authorities and the major food companies will quickly point to research showing to fatrich diet is harmful and will "ignore" studies showing the opposite.
In January 2009 came very really a proposal from the Food Administration, where they went out and warned of the long-term consequences of fettrik diet and some carbohydrates.
If you judge by people's perception following webcast debate at Aftonbladet however, 82 percent have lost faith in Food Administration.
But the Food Agency continues with undiminished force to warn.
They protect their position by demonstrating potential dangers later in life, and it is interesting now is that the truth existed for many years, it is outdated.
Doctors have now said that a man's waistlines should not exceed 94-102 centimeters and for a woman, 80-88 cm. For women relate to midjemåttet should be less than the hip size, while for men to hip size can be as large as midjemåttet.
They have warned of the dangerous problem at bay.
But if we are to believe Food Administration, this does not mean it anymore, but it all depends on how you lost weight.
Certainly, it is a bit strange!
Yes, as I said follow the developments in this war.
Read on blogs on LCHF and see how a growing group build up their resistance against the authorities and the known slimming professors.
Watch how the authorities will hard to defend its position.
Watch how that part of the life - funds industry hit on LCHF passed through large, will focus on research that shows on the harmful effects of a similar type of diet, while they ignore other research findings that show large health benefits.
You suddenly understand why the trend is so slow and resistance to everything new is so great!

This blog is also worth reading Boycott Becel / Unilever

paula7924

alm71 wrote: »

It's my 4th day on the Atkins plan and I feel absolutely awful. I've been feeling sick for about 2 days now. I'm at the point of giving up. does anybody have any ideas to overcome this.

If you've got a cracking headache and you usually drink coffee (even if it's only a few cups) and you have given it up, as you are supposed to on induction it is probably caffeine withdrawal making you feel awful, rather than low-carbing per se. If you have gone cold turkey have a cup of coffee and see if you feel magically better....