Low-carb diets support thread

sistercas

Sunnyday wrote: »

Hi Peeps :wave:

well today i`ve done the opposite of Sistercas ^^^

I`ve been like this :o:o

There was unfortunately for me free food at w*rk and someone also sent out for krispy kremes :eek:
You would not believe what i`ve eaten - i can hardly believe it myself and now i`ve got self inflicted tummyache
Soooo i`ve fasted for a few hours overnight and eaten for about 8

Never mind - i`ll restart tomorrow - or most likely later today, i`m not going to eat until late tomorrow as its my day off YAY!!!!:j and i have errands to run etc so i`ll set off nice and early with no brekkie.


SD

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: ooh that really made me laugh

i had a krispy kreme for the 1st time last week , they are lovely i had a maple syrup one ( actually half a one :A)

breakfast: nowt
lunch: lc cracker and potted meat x 2 celery sticks with cream cheese and some ham
tea pastaless bolognaise pastabake with cabbage

scottishf

scottishf wrote: »

Ive been making the low carb bread with the vital wheat gluten.....does anyone know is theres any difference between the vital wheat gluten flour or the powder ??? Also are there any side effects from eating this stuff ?

does anyone know ?

caeler

Hi all!

I'm back from two nights away on business and I survived!! I didn't ditch the diet! Woohoo! :beer:

Evening meal one was a lamb moussaka with a large salad and evening meal two was a delicious beef burger with cheese, bacon, mushrooms and bacon minus the chips and bap with a side salad. Perfect! I took a packed lunch of sausages, bacon, cheese and tomatoes so kept strictly low carb at lunch. :T

Tonight I treated myself to a cauliflower cheese.

Gloomendoom

Sunnyday wrote: »

Gloomendoom - Could you post for example everything that MrsD ate yesterday?
SD

Breakfast: Broccoli and stilton soup for breakfast. :undecided

Lunch: Smoked mackerel and ratatouille.

Dinner: Cauliflower cheese and pot roast beef.

Snacks: A few peanuts and a sliver of LC cheesecake.

Drinks: Just hot water and decaffeinated coffee.

SHEILA54

Evening all!

Welcome back from your trip caeler and well done for sticking to the diet

Well done with the fasting sistercas it will be interesting to see if it works.

hannojah - hope that you are feeling a bit better

sofababe - sorry that you didn't lose weight , same as me and it's not fair

Sunnyday & minihauk - tomorrow is another day, hope you enjoyed your cake. I love Miss Piggy, don't you. Took the grandkids to see the Muppet movie last week and my granddaughter is so like her, stubborn and feisty

Gloomendoom - well done with your weight loss. Feel sorry for the missus - is she very overweight or just a little? I lost a lot of weight because I was very overweight but I have a friend who is now within a stone of her goal and has been following a similar diet and she is finding it hard to lose. It is much harder for me now as well and I want / need to lose another 2 - 3 stone.

Hi to everyone that I haven't mentioned

Thank you all for your good wishes with the doc. Unfortunatly he was called away urgently so I have to phone and speak to him tomorrow.

Went to ALDI this morning and used the coupons from the Mirror today. Bought loads of veg, plants etc and had breakfast out with my daughter, which was nice

Breakfast - scrambled egg, one sausage, 1 rasher bacon, one mushroom and about 6 Frankie & Bennys herb potatoes ( only small)
Coffee with splenda ? 10 carbs

Lunch - 1 ryvita with cheese - 7 carbs

Evening - chicken with bacon & cheese wrapped around it, swede chips (10), broccoli and cauliflower - 8 carbs
Chocolate mousse with cream and 1 tbsp berries - 7 carbs
One flax chocolate brownie - made today as my family like them - 3 carbs

Now I know that flax and I don't get on as I have wind and stomach gripes again. Pity as I need the fibre and they taste so good.:(

Well done and keep up the good work.

Sunnyday

Hi Peeps :wave:

Just had a late tea of broccolli & cauli cheese with stir fried beef slices and peppers and onions all in a creamy sauce made from melted @ldi philly type cheese with lots of garlic:D
Was lovely and i`m now having a glass of hm blackcurrant wine which has turned out rather well if i do say so myself, did i read that red wine has no carbs somewhere :whistle:

scottishf wrote: »

does anyone know ?

Sorry scottishf, i thought that it was all the same and the packages that i have just say vital wheat gluten on them and not powder or flour:think:

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Breakfast: Broccoli and stilton soup for breakfast. :undecided

Lunch: Smoked mackerel and ratatouille.

Dinner: Cauliflower cheese and pot roast beef.

Snacks: A few peanuts and a sliver of LC cheesecake.

Drinks: Just hot water and decaffeinated coffee.

Hmm, difficult as there could be so many variations here, i would be looking at the soup ingredients, smoked food can stall some people - i`m one of them unfortunately. What veg were in the rattatouille and was it fresh home made or tinned in a tomatoey sauce?
Nuts are good but some types contain lots of carbs, how carby was the lc cheesecake?

Even decaf coffee stalls me normally, when i drink it i can`t find any difference so i only have it when i must and stick to the normal type. Different things work for different peeps though. I`d be getting all the packets out and checking the carb amounts in each one though. If some of the things were pre packaged rather than cooked from scratch then the carb content can be a lot higher so well worth checking labels for a few days. Hope that this has helped in some way.

In my most effective lc days a typical days food would be scrambled eggs in butter - no milk and bacon with a couple of mushrooms for brekkie, cubed cheese and salami for a snack, chicken wings (plain) for dinner and a pork steak or similar with cauli or broccolli or better still courgettes or buttered leeks for tea. Snacks would be pre cooked pork shoulder steaks that i would cook and leave in the fridge for when i felt peckish. Unfortunately it worked out too expensive to sustain for long periods but i found that keeping the preservatives ie in the salami & pepperami to an absolute minimum and eating mostly unflavoured meat in no sauce and only a tiny amount of veg worked fantastically.

If Mrs D really wants to give it her best shot i would see if your local library has a copy of the atkins diet book - well worth a read.

HTH

SD

Gloomendoom

SHEILA54 wrote: »

Gloomendoom - well done with your weight loss. Feel sorry for the missus - is she very overweight or just a little? I lost a lot of weight because I was very overweight but I have a friend who is now within a stone of her goal and has been following a similar diet and she is finding it hard to lose. It is much harder for me now as well and I want / need to lose another 2 - 3 stone.

She's just a little heavier than she wants to be whereas I was quite a lot heavier than I wanted to be.

To be honest, I think it is the amount she eats rather than what she eats. I know you are supposed to be able to eat what you want as long as it is the right stuff but sometimes I'd swear she eats more than I do.

Anyway, she's started listening to Paul McKenna as a lullaby (I've edited out the bit where he makes you wake up .)

mazzers

mazzers wrote: »

Flax/almond doesn't affect me, maybe it's something you will adjust to.

Still gutted about the sugary drink
Cooked breakfast in a mo

mazzers wrote: »

Yes sis, they're in the chiller

SD, i was pondering about that woe too, sounds good, but in reality you're never really clearing the carbs out of your system, so will probably be more hungry, dont think it's for me, a few carbs too many and it's the slippery slope.

Mercy, i get very phleghmy too, in fact, im always phleghmy, constantly have to clear my throat.. you've got me wondering now :think:

Had second wind and made chicken curry and spicy burgers, i'm worn out now but can relax foodwise for the rest of the week.

Scottishf, i've not had any side effects from the gluten and imagine they are the same thing.

sistercas wrote: »

well thought i would have a go at IF , did 18 hours from 7pm last night to 1pm today ( so only missing breakfast) I have to say it was fine , i was fleetingly hungry around my normal breakfast time but it passed really quickly , ive been shopping and even being surrounded by food and the baking bread smell in the SM i wasnt hungry , might try it again and see if it has an effect on my weight

Sheila hope things go well at the docs

sunny well done on the 3lbs :T

had lunch , hoping i dont overeat between now and bedtime

Scottishf, i did reply, like SD tho, mine just says vital wheat gluten so assume its the same thing.

Sistercas... I did 17 hrs
11pm til 4pm
Was quite easy, even with peeps scoffing chips in the canteen, like you, i was hungry but it passed and i was very energetic.. could've gone longer tbh. but had to have break at 4pm or wait til 7.30 and thought that was a bit long.
Didnt have a very healthy meal, had fish n chips and a cuppa, at 8pm had two chicken legs and an apple, but still not a lot of calories in one day (still unsure if you can have 1 meal plus a snack)
Just water now til 4pm tomorrow and must try to eat a healthier meal :cool:

Sunnyday

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Anyway, she's started listening to Paul McKenna as a lullaby (I've edited out the bit where he makes you wake up .)

:rotfl::rotfl: Can you tell i`ve had some vino - i`m imagining you waking MrsG up in a couple of weeks when she`s lost a few pounds

Mazzers - You`ve done really well today and i`m sooo jealous, i`m aiming for a good fasting type of day tomorrow.

Hannoja - Hope that you`re feeling better now and your sore throat has disappeared

SD

Gloomendoom

Sunnyday wrote: »

Hmm, difficult as there could be so many variations here, i would be looking at the soup ingredients, smoked food can stall some people - i`m one of them unfortunately. What veg were in the rattatouille and was it fresh home made or tinned in a tomatoey sauce?
Nuts are good but some types contain lots of carbs, how carby was the lc cheesecake?

Soup: Brocolli, stilton, a couple of chicken stock cubes and water.

Ratatouille: courgettes onions, aubergines, peppers, tinned chopped tomato, seasoning.

Cheescake: 9g carbs for the whole thing (8" diameter). The sliver she eats in a day probably doesn't amount to 1/2g of carb.

All our food is home made and she only has a couple of cups of decaf in a day.

Again, the amount of nuts she eats probably only equals 3 or 4 grams of carbs.