Low-carb diets support thread

avstar

Thanks for the recipe Daska, sounds gorgeous and will give it a go.

Hope you manage to find some exercise that suits you, I've found that for me exercise breeds energy,the more I do the more I have and also my fibromyalgia type pains have gone...all gone :T

What I'm trying to say is that on low carb we're all in agreement that the human body is not designed to eat a modern diet, our bodies are designed to eat like cavemen....in the same way our bodies are not designed to lead a modern sedentary lifestyle, they are designed to move & work.

We each have to find your own levels of physical capability but my own body thrives best on pottering about most of the day, some hard strenuous physical work each day (be that gym or housework/gardening etc) and 8 hours of sleep.

Anyhoo, going to mums for tea tonight and its her 70th Birthday so I will be eating cake, aand I will enjoy it because I love her so much Back to clean eating tomorrow.

SHEILA54

Glad that everyone is doing well, apart from physical disabilities.
durham - mim - didn't you do well yesterday. Sorry that it is worse today but sometimes it is worth the effort.

The sun has just peeped through Just returned from a very fast walk with our puppy (half an hour murphydog, is that ok?). She is really strong already and literally drags me along

I forgot to eat much yesterday so crammed in the evening and ended up with stomach ache. Silly really but I don't want to go into starvation mode.

I have to have my thyroid and fasting lipid blood tests repeated on Thursday. I have gone against low carb advice and cut down on saturated fat recently as I don't want another high cholesterol count when it has always been fine before. I realise that it could be the low thyroid count that is pushing it up but I am trying to balance it all out so I am trying to keep to around 90 - 100g fat, 30g saturated a day, which is hard as I like cream, coconut etc. Fingers crossed / prayers that it will be ok please as it was 7.4 last time, up from 5 and I am not going to take statins!!!

Out to replant the veg / strawberries as the pots are swimming in water and the plants suffering.

Mercy - how is the Dukan going?

Keep smiling

daska

avstar wrote: »

Thanks for the recipe Daska, sounds gorgeous and will give it a go.

Hope you manage to find some exercise that suits you, I've found that for me exercise breeds energy,the more I do the more I have and also my fibromyalgia type pains have gone...all gone :T

What I'm trying to say is that on low carb we're all in agreement that the human body is not designed to eat a modern diet, our bodies are designed to eat like cavemen....in the same way our bodies are not designed to lead a modern sedentary lifestyle, they are designed to move & work.

We each have to find your own levels of physical capability but my own body thrives best on pottering about most of the day, some hard strenuous physical work each day (be that gym or housework/gardening etc) and 8 hours of sleep.

Anyhoo, going to mums for tea tonight and its her 70th Birthday so I will be eating cake, aand I will enjoy it because I love her so much Back to clean eating tomorrow.

TBH if anyone told me they had ME and felt better when they did strenuous exercise I'd be telling them to go see a different GP. Personally I've found the hardest thing to come to terms with is the payback and that is the classic marker of ME (exhaustion not just immediately after the event but a delayed reaction as well). Even having been low carb for 6 months now and having lost 3.5 stone there's still payback if I overspend my energy. And I do that even with 37 hours support from SS, my energy goes on cooking (I get my helpers to chop my veg etc) and DS2.

nuttybabe

Hiya

I am back!

Not a great holiday but as I spent the second week with a dodgy tum (because of their bottled water :eek: so had to switch to beer :p) i came back the same weight! :T The food wasnt great either but they did do lots of salad stuff. Not worth the queue and barging for meat but I did and sadly was dissapointed most of the time. I did do a few dance lessions and step aerobics but as it was 40 desgrees in the shade I couldnt really manage as much as I wanted. The good news is the beer did not effect my asthma and I pretty much stuck to low carb with food except for the odd pastry or chicken nugget.

so back to it

b - ham omelette
l - salad with pate
t - roast pork and spinach with a little gravy

i have also stopped sugar. so had my cup of tea with a little full fat milk and no sugar :eek:. will try to drink more water. and NO alcohol.

murphydog999

SHEILA54 wrote: »

Just returned from a very fast walk with our puppy (half an hour murphydog, is that ok?). She is really strong already and literally drags me along

I have to have my thyroid and fasting lipid blood tests repeated on Thursday. I have gone against low carb advice and cut down on saturated fat recently as I don't want another high cholesterol count when it has always been fine before. I realise that it could be the low thyroid count that is pushing it up but I am trying to balance it all out so I am trying to keep to around 90 - 100g fat, 30g saturated a day, which is hard as I like cream, coconut etc. Fingers crossed / prayers that it will be ok please as it was 7.4 last time, up from 5 and I am not going to take statins!!!

Don't forget to ask for the triglyceride levels/reading, it's a much better stroke marker, than cholesterol alone.
http://communications.med.nyu.edu/media-relations/news/triglyceride-levels-predict-stroke-risk-postmenopausal-women

1/2 hour quick puppy walk :T - any puppy pics???

sistercas

morning all

we have sunshine :j I gather its going to be short lived but hey its here now

off to do the paid stuff , finish at 4 , need to go food shopping as running out of fresh stuff, taking a tub with cubes of cheese , ham , tomatoes and an atkins bar for lunch

need to do a meal plan for the next week

Gray_Malkin

Morning from me too.

Sunshine might be too strong a word sistercas, but at least it's dry here

I'm still at work until 12 noon today. I brought smoked salmon flakes and salad yesterday, and keep eggs and cheese in the fridge at work too. I need to go food shopping on the way home too. Might buy another mooli and try the chips again.

Have a good day everyone....

EDIT - The sun has come out :j

elantan

Well i had a very carbtastic night last night

But there is some good side to this ... It wasnt due to having cravings, it was due to us being so stressed with everything currently going on and still not having a cooker ( i killed ours last week ) and not having time to get anything prepared ( was out all day from 8am till 6pm)

So we landed up at the indians ... And whilst it was carbtastic it was also much much much less carbtastic than normal ... I only had 4 pieces of pakora compared to my usual plate full ... I had approx 1/5th of a naan compared to my usual full naan, i didnt have any rice at all and my cake was 3 profiterolles without the chocolate on them and 1 thin finger slice of a cream cake compared to my usual chunk of chocolate cake, easily 10 profiteroles and a chunk of carrot cake

Came home spent the night on the pan getting rid of most of it ( sorry tmi) as it was too much for my belly ... Woke up today with a heavy belly so will try and work that off today

Good points ... I didnt eat as much carbs as usual ... Yes i still ate too many but i chose to eat much less ... Best news ... I DONT crave anymore today ... Which i was kinda panicking about tbh ... Can i have a carby night and not crave carbs for three days straight ? ... Infact i'm gonna have two days of protein and fat (with some veg threw in for luck) no porridge or quinoa till friday for me

So with that little experiment out of the way i am feeling more confident with going on holiday for the 4 and a half weeks ... I know i will still need to be more vigilent ( nothing like naan bread , pakora or even a wee profiterole and finger slice of cake will be allowed)

But i can sit and have all that avaiable to me and not eat it

I was worried about my hols ... Especially after the Rome debacle ... I think my head is in a better place for it all now

I still expect to put some weight on ... But i think it wont be as much as it could be ... If that makes sense ?

Jerryjerryjerry

Hello. Id love to join this helpful and informative thread if there is room for a medium sized one!

It has taken me over a week to get through all the previous posts and I have enjoyed it thoroughly. I started my very low carb diet last wed. I'm not attaching myself to any particular diet, just being as low carb as I can manage. So, a week on - I'm over the moon with results.

I weighed 10 stone 5 lbs last wed and today, I am 10 stone 1 lb.

Can't believe it. I have not yet missed carbs. However, on friday night, I had to use a lot of willpower as my husband made home made chips! I didn't even have one! SO proud of myself.

I want to get down to 9 stone. I am 5 foot 4. And this is the heaviest i've ever been.

Yesterday, I had eggs and smoked salmon (whoopsied to 50 pence) for Breakfast.

About 4 coffees decaf with cream - A large pot in Asda is 1 pound at the moment.

and chicken and brockoli stir fry with a dash of creame fresh for dinner.

I also had a handful of blueberries as snacks. Once these are gone, I wont buy more for a while, as I want to stay away from fruit for a bit longer after going through this thread.

Today, I plan to have a mushroom omelette with a grilled tomato.
and roast chicken with salad tonight.

My downfall is alcohol. Last week-end, I drank vodka with low cal tonic - but far more than is recommended. So I will have to watch that. I also find drinking water hard. Does drinking water in decaf coffee count? Some say it does, some say it doesn't.

I'm in my early forties.

Oh, I also did 20 minutes on the exercise bike this morning for the first time in 10 months. I feel invigorated and motivated!

daska

SHEILA54 wrote: »

I have to have my thyroid and fasting lipid blood tests repeated on Thursday. I have gone against low carb advice and cut down on saturated fat recently as I don't want another high cholesterol count when it has always been fine before. I realise that it could be the low thyroid count that is pushing it up but I am trying to balance it all out so I am trying to keep to around 90 - 100g fat, 30g saturated a day, which is hard as I like cream, coconut etc. Fingers crossed / prayers that it will be ok please as it was 7.4 last time, up from 5 and I am not going to take statins!!!

Sheila - You can choose not to act on your doctors advice - otherwise we'd be imprisoning everyone who gets fat or drinks more than the correct number of units of alcohol etc. You do not have to take statins if you don't want to. My dad has refused because they made him feel lousy.

Will changing your diet for a few days, or even a week, make a difference? I have no idea. But, as I understand it, if you're losing again that might be reason enough for readings to be less than perfect, as the body's disposal system is via the blood stream. And, even assuming it does make a difference, you won't then be able to be sure whether changing it now has improved them or made them worse or made no difference at all. You would need to keep your diet consistent between blood tests in order to draw any conclusions. And the evidence about saturated fat seems confused - not least because a lot of foods thought of as being bad because they're high in saturated fat are in reality even higher in monounsaturated fats e.g. lard

Personally I'd concentrate more on the weightloss and keeping it as easy as possible - you have so much more you need to contend with, why make life more difficult than it needs to be?