Low-carb diets support thread

daska

How about adding a bit of lemon or lime juice to your water, take the edge off? A few slices of ginger added to a bottle of water and left to steep will give a different option as well - and it works well in hot drinks.

Small amounts of real coffee don't make me stall, but then I seldom drink it more than once a day, if that - and I often make cocoa with cream (and sometimes with coffee as well), though possibly your tastebuds might not go for that option if you're still using splenda several times a day - cocoa is quite bitter.

SHEILA54

I have lemon in water when I wake up but will try the other options. I used to have Marigold veg stock in water so may try that again. May keep to 1 normal coffee a day to help little grey cells. I also used to have 1 Lidl's equiv of Baileys as a treat in coffee and lost but don't dare now.

Edwardia

Hmm.. I think it was the Chocolate Cake in the Hotel, with the DD Sheila54
Or the jelly or sweeteners.

Agree with person on previous page about the Achilles Heel Effect. Blueberries are supposed to be OK on a low carb diet..blimey they make me dizzy. OH used passata and made veal spag bog without the spag for dinner. Had run out of tinned whole plum tomatoes and he used passata which sent my BG up to 10.6 eek

Mercy now I'm feeling that I should have kept my last diet Pepsi lurking in the refrigerator..

I watched The Skinny on Obesity on University of California's UCTV channel on YouTube and there was Dr Robert Lustig MD again Not only do I admire the man for his work and his feisty New Yorker manner, I've seen enough of his lectures to recognise his favourite tie !!!

If he gets over here when his book comes out next year I;m def gonna go see him speak.

daska you get the big hug (((daska))) night all

schoolhouse

Hello! Not been on as have had internet issues. Back now..:j

Will go back and read from where I got cut off. Hope everyone is well.

sistercas

sheila dont get disheartened, it will come off again x

mercy the mozz omelette sounds lovely , ive got some mozzerella in the freezer think i'll dig it out and have a go

edwardia thanks for the links ill have a look today

i slipped with my diet last night , i am sooo tired (TOTM) i ended up eating digestive bisuits and a scone after my tea. i went to bed at 8pm and slept through till 7am.
this morning i went in the cupboard and literally had a choc chip cookie in my mouth with my hand wrapped round a caburys flake I managed to put the flake back and spit out the biccy and i had a proper breakfast of bacon and sausage and 3 cups of tea i am on my own in the house today and feeling so weak and tired i hope i dont succumb :cool:

daska

LOL SHEILA54, you go right ahead and eat a whole pig if you want, the only reason I don't is that I don't like the taste. It was the processed meats I was aiming to identify, and unfortunately bacon and ham usually come within that category.

Thank you for the hug Edwardia. If you put one can of pepsi in the fridge you can feel virtuous every time you reject it in favour of something healthier LOL.

Well done sistercas!

murphydog999

SHEILA54 wrote: »

Seems like everyone is very positive :T

Put on 3lb this week but did have half a piece of chocolate cake when away and you can never be sure if there are hidden carbs when you eat away from home. Fed up though as I thought that I had been quite good and would at least stay the same

breakfast - scrambled egg and a rasher bacon
lunch - green salad with half avocado, chicken, mayo & ham
dinner - stuffed mushrooms with veg and cheese
treats - 1 sq 70% chocolate, 1 oz nuts, 1 tbsp seeds, low cal jelly, 2 tbsp yoghurt, 4 tbsp cream, 4 tsp splenda, 3 decaff coffees and 1 tea.
bedtime - 8 oz lactofree milk with tsp cocoa

This comes out at 36 carbs on fitday but can anyone see if I am not eating properly please?

Hi Sheila, from my point of view a couple of comments........

As has been pointed out sweeteners (also in jelly), don't do you much good - don't forget they are still chemicals - especially on a daily basis, can you cut down/cut out the jelly?

There could be more green stuff, pref. with every meal. (No constipation no matter how many eggs you have.)

Don't forget there is going to be caffeine in chocolate and cocoa!

You could have added some protein with your evening meal. Protein is important.

With regard to ham and bacon, is this supermarket, pre-packed stuff? Is there a farm shop near you? I buy all my pig stuff from one near us, knowing that their cooked hams, bacon and sausages have got no nasties in them, might be a bit more expensive but at least I can eat them with confidence. Would be worth tracking a shop down.

All that said, the chocolate cake with it's flour, sugar and sweetened cream probably did you no favours - I would have had the same weight (water) gain. It's a good idea to have a blip occasionally to give your metabolism a bit of a kick. No doubt it was a water gain so it will come off quickly.

Edwardia

Hi everyone

Sheila54 having ditched the sweeteners and diet Pepsi I felt prettyrough but am now feeling perkier and my tastebuds are really good. I can really taste how sweet Lactofree is even without the lactose (strange) and raw carrots and tomatoe are just yummy.

I think that instead of ditchng carbs to lose weight as a first step, maybe ditching all the processed stuff would be a good kick start for anyone. In the end, they are the difference between good health in the 40s and bad health in the 00s. I used to think I was doing well cos I was reared on low fat and ate low fat or diet everything.. EEK !

daska then I'd be like my mother who keeps a twenty year old + bottle of spa water from Monchique,Portugal in her fridge as a souvenir !

SHEILA54

Thanks for all of your encouragement, help and advice, you are great people :T

Breakfast - 2 eggs scrambled with 1 ryvita and pat butter
Lunch - chicken, broccoli, 1 tbsp carrots, handful nuts
Treat - 1 sq 70% chocolate, coconut oil half tbsp, 1 strawberry, small piece cheddar
Drink so far - lemon water, plain water and one coffee with cream
Dinner - baked cod, half avocado, cauliflower mash, asparagus
Yoghurt with tbsp seeds, dsp sesame seeds
Bedtime - lactofree milk

36 carbs

Does this look ok?

Will cut out jelly, sweeteners, bacon, ham and add in more protein & veg as advised for this week and see what happens!

Edwardia

Sheila54 on a low carb diet you don't need to eat that nasty cardboard tasting skinless chicken breast so if you have, next time I suggest buying thighs, quarters or drumsticks with skin on.

As you aren't allergic to nuts and seeds you could grind them with spices and use to 'bread' chicken or turkey and fry them or you could mix a bit of finely grated Parmesan (the stuff in drums) with some pesto and smear that over and roast them.

Personally I don't cook carrots as I find they raise my BG so I use them in salads and when eating houmous. If you have tested and they don't put your BG up, fine otherwise they are pretty sweet.

With the treats.. you don't need to limit yourself to 1 oz Cheddar, you can eat more of it or you can go buy Brie or Camembert or Mozzarella or cottage cheese (full fat version) etc etc. If you can't stomach 85% or 90% cocoa chocolate that's fair enough, you're doing the right thing with one square.

Breakfast.. hello there's a lurking Ryvita.. not sure how many carbs they are each.. you can slap the butter on as much as you want and cook the scrambled eggs in butter or ghee too.

You don't need to cut out bacon or ham altogether as far as low carb is concerned, but you may want to cut back because of the nitrates. A yet I haven't seen nitrate-free ham in the UK. But you could always do it yourself..

Cutting out the jelly and sweeteners is great !