Low-carb diets support thread

bossymoo

Hi all, no toast this weekend haha, but I did got out again last night, more Chinese food, but not a chip, noodle or grain of rice, however I had 2 large white wines and a duck pancake, those very thin papery ones. Wasn't even that nice food, but I was there for an entirely different reason...

Anyway, I have cooked a huge ham today, as well as a big moussaka, so that is me sorted for the next week haha. I unfortunately was swayed today by one of mils scones :-/ why did she leave them? She knows I am low carbing, and she understands, as she has had nothing but protein shakes for nearly a month. So why is she still baking and bringing her lovely wares here??? I know, I know, I need to take responsibility for myself...

Onwards and downwards. Scales wise 8-)

daska

sweaty_betty wrote: »

Hi - thanks for your replies. I didn't realise deli meats could cause problems, I wonder why?

Any thought on how much is enough fat? I do have cream and cheese everyday, anything else I should perhaps be doing to ensure I'm having enough?

Depends who you read LOL. (Ornish seems to think all fat is evil). Atkins devised a fat fast for people who couldn't lose weight even if they followed Induction to the letter - but also warned against people who could lose weight on induction using it to jump start themselves out of a stall. I think Enig's recommendation is 2 tablespoons of coconut oil in hot water 20 minutes before each of your 3 main meals, plus dressings, cooking fats etc.

Deli meats aren't a problem for everyone, but apparently it's the nitrates, plus they're often prepared with sugar etc.

Edwardia

confused 76 I can do the strawberries and they don't spike me but were I to eat daska's blackberries (also low carb and low GI) they would. Thanks for the encouragement xx

daska will have a look at The Raw Chocolate Company's website thanks for the recommendation.

well done on the toast bossymoo :T I had Chinese last night too. MIL..what can I say ..diet sabotage..competitive dieting ?

sweaty betty I didn't take to coconut oil so I fry with ghee, lard, dripping, goose fat or a mix of unsalted butter and EV olive oil. I use the olive oil in dressings, sometimes sesame oil or walnut oil. Fortunately I like cheese, cream and creme fraiche so shove them in/on food and I eat clotted cream from the tub ! Although I like deli meats I have cut down because of nitrates. It is difficult when you've been reared on a low fat diet.

andrewsmum Gressingham duck legs (as sold in Waitrose) are currently 2.65 a pack reduced from 3.15 at Morrisons but they didn't have any left My local ASDA doesn't stock duck

My grandfather worked for Lindt so I was reared on chocolate I reckon THE best is Leonidas www.leonidas.com but it's not widely available. Once you get used to the dark stuff, you'll never go back !

Mercy

Edwardia wrote: »

almost forgot.. bought some books at Oxfam including Do It With Diet by Greta Garbo's diet guru, Gayelord Hauser !

LOLS Funny name! HeHeHe

ahem.

Mercy

Hi all! :hello:

Edwardia - glad you still here.

Been skimming for a week, glad it's buzzing here! :j

I've been really quite good yet really quite bad too.

My lovely people I was staying with won't get low carb but I thought that wheat intollerance would be gripped by their minds. LOLs :rotfl:

I've forgotten quite how many suggestions of pasta or bread were tossed my way followed by me saying - er, no - which caused hilarity all round as they, each time, just then, realised they were being a bit rubbish (truly - no wind ups, just them being a bit rubbish )

They didn't pressure me in any way to eat that stuff, they found it funny that THEY just couldn't hold the thought that I wouldn't eat it, for more than a few hours

It's been a great week.

Worst I've had is spuds. 1 portion of baby spuds with asparagus, ham and sauce. 1 portion of boiled spuds with Raclette cheese - a Swiss delight. 1 portion of dephinoise potatoes with rare steak and veg.

Not bad in a week.

Would have been excellent if I hadn't eaten half my bodyweight in chocolate

Good times with good folk and bad old me

Love you all, will catch up properly when I can soon.

MX

Edwardia

Mercy <smooch> good to have you back xx

Gayelord Hauser (1895-1984) changed his name from Helmut Eugen Benjamin Gellert Hauser in the 1930s I guess because he thought Gayelord sounded more American ?? :rotfl:

He was really anti refined flour and sugar so his book should be interesting.

You were quite good considering you were in Spudzerland but you've eaten your chocolate ration for the year now :eek:

OH made cauliflower cheese last night, used 1 dessertpoon flour and eek BG way too high when I woke up. :eek: :eek: Will have to go through recipe folders and chuck out anything with flour in - had previously allowed 1 tbsp in a sauce - I must be really sensitive to the stuff.

Sunny here Hope everyone getting some sun (vitamin D) and relaxing xx

Angelfeathers

Edwardia, I make cheese sauce these days by grating cheese into double cream and heating them gently together. Far, far easier and quicker than making a white sauce, albeit a lot more expensive, which I guess is why white sauce was invented! I've been using the cream method for a quick pasta sauce for years (idea from Nigella Lawson) but I've used it successfully for cauliflower cheese too now. :-)

Edwardia

Angelfeathers thank you thank you.. should have thought of it myself but didn't :T

Reading one of Dr Charles V Clark's books and here are the teaspoons of sugar equivalents in a few things.. equivalent of 3 tsps sugar in 15g of apple, 7 tsps in 35g of banana, 15 tsps in 60g of rice, 15 tsps in 60g of pasta, 14 tsps in 70g bread, 18 tsps in 80g potato !

Mercy

Angelfeathers wrote: »

Edwardia, I make cheese sauce these days by grating cheese into double cream and heating them gently together. Far, far easier and quicker than making a white sauce, albeit a lot more expensive, which I guess is why white sauce was invented! I've been using the cream method for a quick pasta sauce for years (idea from Nigella Lawson) but I've used it successfully for cauliflower cheese too now. :-)

Now that is an excellent idea!

Off to get some broccoli and stuff to try that out.

Mx

Edwardia

Perusing papers online.. Telegraph has an article saying eggs help you lose weight cos they keep you feeling full longer. I could have told them that I eat a dozen eggs a week !