Low-carb diets support thread

daska

Would be grateful for any handy hints for veggie things for my dad. This is a guy who looks very impressive when cracking eggs - one in each hand - but that really is the limit of his culinary prowess. He'd just got the hang of leek and potato soup... It really needs to be explainable in
a couple of lines at most e.g. Spinach Soup - Heat a pan containing a 2T water, 1T butter, 1/2t curry paste. Add a bag of spinach and cook for 2 minutes. Don't drain. Add tablespoon of double cream, stir and serve.

Have e-mailed him spinach soup, cheese sauce and cauliflower mash. Just remembered stuffed portobello mushrooms so will send him that as well. I would like to try to send him a 'new' thing every few days for a couple of weeks so he has a repertoire of easy things that he doesn't have to think about.

SHEILA54

Cheesy Leeks

Wash and slice 2 leeks, heat dsp oil with tsp butter and fry leeks, then add 80ml water & half tsp stock and cook 10 mins. Stir in 100ml cream and 50g blue cheese and turn off heat, stirring until cheese has melted. Sprinkle with chopped nuts if allowed.

Stuffed peppers

Cut pepper lengthways and scoop out seeds. Mix any cheeses, different if possible, with chopped veg and tsp mixed herbs and place mixture inside peppers. Cook gas 6 for 25 mins

Avocado pear with cheese

Beat soft cheese with herbs until creamy. Slice open avocado pear, remove stone and stuff with cheese mixture. Eat cold with salad or grill under medium heat until cheese melts

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Edwardia

Watched Dr John Briffa interviewed on YouTube today and he says it's a bad idea to weigh yourself constantly because you can put on a kilo in a day through drinking water and lose it again.

The guy interviewing Dr Briffa had done his Waist Disposal diet and the interviewer said it isn't a diet, it's a lifestyle change. I found myself nodding in agreement.

I think anyone who thinks of low carb as just a diet, is doomed to failure because as soon as s/he hits target weight and relaxes the pounds will bounce back, same as any other diet.

What loses the weight permanently is making lifestyle changes and sticking to them, or at least trying darn hard to. I'm leaning towards thinking any diet would work if people cut out processed food and ate real food instead.

Dr Briffa said people should accept that they will go off the rails and plan it. He said he went to a stag weekend, told himself he was going to eat drink and be merry then Monday he'd eat properly again. He did that, put on 6lbs then lost it.

Edwardia

sheila54 I hope everything goes well re: GP. xx

daska

SHEILA54 wrote: »

Cheesy Leeks

Wash and slice 2 leeks, heat dsp oil with tsp butter and fry leeks, then add 80ml water & half tsp stock and cook 10 mins. Stir in 100ml cream and 50g blue cheese and turn off heat, stirring until cheese has melted. Sprinkle with chopped nuts if allowed.

Stuffed peppers

Cut pepper lengthways and scoop out seeds. Mix any cheeses, different if possible, with chopped veg and tsp mixed herbs and place mixture inside peppers. Cook gas 6 for 25 mins

Avocado pear with cheese

Beat soft cheese with herbs until creamy. Slice open avocado pear, remove stone and stuff with cheese mixture. Eat cold with salad or grill under medium heat until cheese melts

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They sound yummy, he'll love the stuffed pepper Do you not find leeks rather high though? 2 leeks would be over the 20g/day he could have on induction.

daska

Edwardia wrote: »

Watched Dr John Briffa interviewed on YouTube today and he says it's a bad idea to weigh yourself constantly because you can put on a kilo in a day through drinking water and lose it again.

The guy interviewing Dr Briffa had done his Waist Disposal diet and the interviewer said it isn't a diet, it's a lifestyle change. I found myself nodding in agreement.

I think anyone who thinks of low carb as just a diet, is doomed to failure because as soon as s/he hits target weight and relaxes the pounds will bounce back, same as any other diet.

What loses the weight permanently is making lifestyle changes and sticking to them, or at least trying darn hard to. I'm leaning towards thinking any diet would work if people cut out processed food and ate real food instead.

Dr Briffa said people should accept that they will go off the rails and plan it. He said he went to a stag weekend, told himself he was going to eat drink and be merry then Monday he'd eat properly again. He did that, put on 6lbs then lost it.

Absolutely agree, what shocked me was when I went to weigh myself on my normal day and found I was still 4lb over. I won't be checking again until Friday but it has made me go back to weighing and measuring the carby stuff and to cut out the chocs and berries (once I've finished this punnet) for the forseeable. I need to shift some more before half term. Thankfully, if dad is still coping with low carb as, it shouldn't be as difficult

Edwardia

I was thinking 2 leeks being 20g carbs seemed too much but couldn't find leeks in Manual of Nutrition or in my GI books or on the GI website :eek: (Didn't think they were a rare veg lol). So I looked at the list of low carb veg on about.com and half a cup of cooked chopped leeks is listed as 3 grams net carbs.

Onions taste sort of sweet (for a veg) as well and they are 5.2g carbs per 100g according to Manual of Nutrition. The only veg listed at more than 10g carbs per 100g in Manual of Nutrition are parsnips, potatoes and sweet corn. Broad beans are 9.5g but most veg fall in 0-6g range.

SHEILA54

daska - I copied the recipes but you are right, leeks are quite high carb. However I couldn't eat two anyway.

Edwardia - blood test results show that my TSH is 7.05 which is progressively getting worse. However FT4 is 16 and within normal range. Dr admitted that hypothyroidism can cause raise in cholesterol which is not good and has always been fine before. Serum cholesterol 7.3, previously 5.4, LDL 4.6mmol and should be less than 3

Told to cut out cheese and saturated fat and stick to vegetable based products. Retest 2 months.

murphydog999

Edwardia wrote: »

The guy interviewing Dr Briffa had done his Waist Disposal diet and the interviewer said it isn't a diet, it's a lifestyle change.

I think anyone who thinks of low carb as just a diet, is doomed to failure because as soon as s/he hits target weight and relaxes the pounds will bounce back, same as any other diet.

What loses the weight permanently is making lifestyle changes and sticking to them, or at least trying darn hard to. I'm leaning towards thinking any diet would work if people cut out processed food and ate real food instead.

Couldn't agree more. There is not a lot else to add to those 3 paragraphs that would help anyone loose weight and then maintain it.

sistercas

sheila sorry to hear about your results, your not going to stop eating cheese and sat fat are you?

HERES a brilliant link by a brilliant woman , see if your gp would read it ? i do know that women should have a higher cholesterol its positively good for them

ive had my blood taken today for my cholesterol and thyroid , that will be interesting, not sure when ill get the results

i havent read waist disposal i will have to mark it for future reference

breakfast : 10% greek yoghurt
lunch: 3 chicken satay sticks , tspn coleslaw , turkey, cracker and roule
tea: meatballs in HM tomato and onion sauce with julienne courgettes s f jelly and cream