Low-carb diets support thread

murphydog999

L - you know you have to get your health in order, your husband should be on your side and forego some of the stuff that he knows will do you in, if they are in the cupboard. IF YOU HAVEN'T GOT IT YOU CAN'T EAT IT! presumably you are doing the shopping? just forget to buy it.......unless you want it in the cupboard?????

Personally I think the night shifts have got a lot to do with it. It's that instant sugar energy boost that you have become used to, which is pervading into normal life. Until you can change jobs I don't think anything will change without big help from all around.

elantan

we both go shopping together murphy .. he says he will look at it again when we come home from our holidays ... but he doesnt feel like he can just now

i know i need to get off of nights and i know that when i was night shift it was caffeine / sugar all night but i have managed to stop that ( it isnt easy ... in fact it's really hard to stay awake on nights just now)

i think the thing that set it off this time was lack of sleep ... on sunday my neighbour decided to chainsaw for hours so i got less than 3 hours sleep so had no energy to cook at all and just landed up going out for a pizza hut ( need to add that to my list)

then on monday i got 4 hours sleep but that was interupted 8 times ... so i didnt sleep on monday really as i was just falling over and the phone would go again or the door would go again ... i was hoping that by tuesday i would be all better and tuesday was a good day for me food wise ... but wednesday was terrible again

i'm really struggling and getting so frustrated with myself just now as i know what i need to do and when i am not craving rubbish i do it really well ... but when i am craving rubbish

Mercy

Hi all!

Went to the swimming baths this evening for another dose of almost drowning but vomit stopped play. :eek:

They had to shut it for an hour so I walked back home

At least that's 1/2 hour quick walking in fitflops but not quite what I wanted. Met 2 of the ladies outside and apparently there's another session tomorrow but it's mixed instead of ladies only. May still go as once I take my glasses of if I can't see them, they can't see me :rotfl:

Mx

Mercy

I am also having another adventure in fermentation! bought water kefir grains today. Will let you know how it goes when they arrive.

Edwardia - i don't charge for my kimchi because I eat it all myself :rotfl:

Mx

elantan

please do mercy i have water kefir as well but i havnt plucked up the courage yet to try it ...

i should though as it has essential b vitamins

daska

elantan - a lot of people have the view that "just sugar", "just a bit of bread" etc and don't realise just how difficult it is for some of us. You say he's trying to recover from additions, if you are going to support him then it's only fair that he support you. Maybe you need to present it differently, ask him how he'd feel if you sat in front of him consuming <insert name of whatever it is he's addicted to>. Or, depending on what it is obviously, you could be really mean and start leaving whatever it is around the house to tempt him.

Good luck to you both.

daska

elantan wrote: »

please do mercy i have water kefir as well but i havnt plucked up the courage yet to try it ...

i should though as it has essential b vitamins

Oh do, it can be really nice, just remember to let it ferment twice, one on the grains and once when bottled - it goes fizzy. If you like ginger then juice an inch or so and add it to the scoby, and a boiled eggshell, it'll grow like crazy.

Has just reminded me I need to bottle a batch

Edwardia

elantan - IMO you need to sit down with husband and explain why you want to low carb and tell him that leaving carby sugary treats laying around the house is undermining your efforts to lose weight and get healthier.

If it were me I'd point out that I love him and will be supportive of his efforts to give up <insert addiction here> and that I expect the same from him.

Whatever anyone says, its NOT fair to dictate to OH what he can eat or not. My husband is all for organic, but as he's skinny and walks at least 2 miles a day he wants some carby sugary treats and to have pizza if he wants it.

We negotiated and came up with the following:

OH gets breakfasts he wants 7/7 and lunches he wants Mon-Fri and I get breakfasts I want 7/7 and lunches Mon-Fri. Dinners are low carb Mon-Fri. At weekends we may eat same low carb lunches and dinners or he may do me low carb and have something carbier eg salmon with Hollandaise and green beans for me, salmon with green beans and pommes Dauphinoise for him. He has to keep his Oreo cookies, shortbread fingers and Jaffa cakes on his own shelf in the larder cupboard not around the house. Kettle Chips are not allowed in the house at all and wine gums aren't allowed to be eaten in front of me. OH can have Pizza Hut and KFC if he wants them in front of me because I'm not bothered by them. If I was he'd have to have them away from me.

Padstow

elantan you poor thing with the chain saw going etc.
I think night shifts are evil as they ask your body to do the opposite of what is natural.
I witnessed my daughter preparing for a week of night shift when she stayed here over the weekend. She lived the preceding day as though she was already on them as closely as possible, by staying up very late and sleeping through the day. Then lots of sleep on the actual day. She normally wears ear plugs and has black out blinds at home. I suppose a sleep mask would do.
As Daska said, you don't stand a chance of eating properly until you get the sleep sorted.
Have you thought of taking home made creamy soup to work? Chicken and mushroom, curried beef? Celery and stilton I love, using celery salt in place of normal to get a good flavour.
Something I see in the article linked for junior doctors, is to wear dark glasses on the journey home to prepare for sleep!
http://www.agamfec.com/pdf/MIR/Guardias_Supervivencia.pdf

elantan

daska wrote: »

elantan - a lot of people have the view that "just sugar", "just a bit of bread" etc and don't realise just how difficult it is for some of us. You say he's trying to recover from additions, if you are going to support him then it's only fair that he support you. Maybe you need to present it differently, ask him how he'd feel if you sat in front of him consuming <insert name of whatever it is he's addicted to>. Or, depending on what it is obviously, you could be really mean and start leaving whatever it is around the house to tempt him.

Good luck to you both.

daska thank you for your kind words ... it is alcohol he is getting to grips with ... i dont drink alcohol so he knows that wouldnt happen ... i think the thing with an alcohol addiction as well is that alot of people that have it are also addicted to sugar, he has managed to cut the alcohol right down to an acceptable level for us but the sugar addiction has went up

he knows he needs to deal with it but just now he is still trying to deal with the alcohol addiction ... last year he gave up cannibis, alcohol and cigarettes ... i think if he gave up sugar he would flip just now

he has came to understand that it is having an effect on me we talked about it last night whilst out for our walk, he actually brought the subject up not me, he was saying a guy in work brings him in a mars bar every day and that he had told him it will be stopping after we come back from the states as he is not going to be taking any ( his weight has went up to the highest he has ever been and he isnt happy about that)

he did also say that he will try and just have one thing in at a time for him to eat that i cant ( maybe i can get him to hide it as well lol)

i do think that even having the bread in the house just now is too much for me ... as i say i like wholemeal bread but i am determined not to have bread for a while ( till i am much more in control) so having even that in the house when i am craving is a bad thing

i think that for me the danger is having anything that i shouldnt ... i dont think i should do the whole treat idea as i dont think that would work for me