Low-carb diets support thread

~Chameleon~

daska wrote: »

I'm working on what I can replace it with, I'm not so bothered about the coffee and cinnamon it's the cocoa/chocolate that's going to be a problem

Why are you unable to have cinnamon? It has so many beneficial health properties I use it daily so would be interested to hear of cases where it's contra-indicated.

Mercy

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

Why are you unable to have cinnamon? It has so many beneficial health properties I use it daily so would be interested to hear of cases where it's contra-indicated.

Hi

Scroll up a few messages to see why Daska is no longer able to have cinnamon on the new regime she's possibly going to try out.

Mx

~Chameleon~

Mercy wrote: »

Hi

Scroll up a few messages to see why Daska is no longer able to have cinnamon on the new regime she's possibly going to try out.

Mx

But cinnamon isn't usually considered a problem as it doesn't contain high levels of water-soluble oxalates, hence why I asked if there was a specific reason for cutting it out.

See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18469248 or http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/87/5/1262.full if you want to read the full report.

absolutebounder

Gray_Malkin wrote: »

I just had pointy cabbage with my dinner and I can confirm it's nice - and, well, cabbagey :rotfl:

I also had stuffed chicken thighs, portobello mushrooms, carrots, broccoli, cauli and green beans in a cheese sauce.

Well stuffed now

I would take that as you have overeaten which would be the main cause for people being overweight and not their diet.
Our bodies have a mechanism for telling us when we are full but often from an early age we were taught that clearing our plate was good (no matter if there was too much on it in the first place) how many of the mums here are guilty of spoonfeeding a toddler who is not interested with words such as "just one more spoonfull to please mummy" or "just a little more to clear your plate theres agood boy / girl"?
It was probably done to you and you are programming your kids to overeat.
there is no need for these stupid diets.

Mercy

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

But cinnamon isn't usually considered a problem as it doesn't contain high levels of water-soluble oxalates, hence why I asked if there was a specific reason for cutting it out.

See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18469248 or http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/87/5/1262.full if you want to read the full report.

I imagine it's because it's on the list

http://www.lowoxalate.info/food_lists/alph_lod_food_chart.pdf

Noted as High in oxalates and VH in salicylicate content. You probably know more about this than I do but the list is there for all wanting a reduced oxalate diet. Maybe it's worth contacting the yahoo group with your findings? They may have made a mistake and all new info is useful.

Just read the absract - this refers to urinary levels where I think daska mentioned a build up? In which case it would not be excreted. Also, the study uses 'healthy' people which is seldom the case when you are looking for a way to change diet to improve illhealth.

Luckily I do not need to reduce my food varieties further so all this is a little academic to me. I will be interested to know how it works for daska though.

Have a good afternoon!

Mx

sweetserendipity

Morning all :hello:

nutty, I don't have time or fancy a cooked breakfast first thing in the morning, but I need something in my stomach to start the day. I've started having the yoghurt/flaxseed at about 7.30 a.m. & a cooked brekkie from about 10.30 a.m. onwards. I hate feeling hungry (it makes me angry, lol) so would rather eat little & often.

alias, yaay to a good night's sleep!!

durham, well done on the 3lbs off!! :j
Is your DD going far from home when she goes to Uni?? It must be such an exciting time for her, but maybe tinged with sadness for you that she's going away.

SHEILA, well done on the 2lbs off!! :j
I think I might have a break from the flaxseed when this packet is finished, just to see if it makes a difference.
Enjoy your break.

daska, good luck with the low-oxalate diet, hope it improves things for you

sister, you will miss your DD when she goes away to Uni, it's such a big step for her (& you) :kisses3:

I had a lovely afternoon on the beach yesterday, followed by an extremely steep climb up a hill to the pub with the stunning view!! :eek: Thought I was going to expire!! :rotfl:

Meals for today:

B1 - greek yoghurt & flaxseed
B2 - bacon & eggs
L - 2 buttered GG crispbreads with cheese, HM veggie soup
D - chicken, sprouts, cauli, broc, cheesy leeks

Exercise - I've already done 1 x 20 minute brisk walk & may do another one later. Wall push-ups.

Hope everyone has a good LC day :wave:

aliasojo

Ask me what I've just done...go on .....ask me. (Apologies in advance for the length and also for the fact it's not exactly low carb related. )

Ok, I'll tell you.....I wouldn't move to let a woman into a car parking space beside me. :rotfl:

I shall explain.....:D

Two of my 'issues' in life are fairness and kindness. I loathe unfairness with a vengeance, I spend my whole life trying to make things fair for other people be they family, friends or strangers. I also often put myself out in RL to show kindness to people and I hate when people biatch or snipe especially for no good reason.

However, often the end result is I end up being unfair to myself. I'm not often on the receiving end of people putting themselves out for me so I end up feeling things are unfair sometimes. This builds up and I then start to feel aggrieved, mildly stressed and generally irked. I 'settle' these feelings with food (or wine). (I have other reasons for eating too...we're just beginning. :rotfl:)

Hypno chap talked about this kind of situation in depth (more related stuff that I don't want to go into here as it's more personal) and explained how I need to deal with my feelings before I can deal with my arm to mouth action.:D

Anyway, I can't actually remember everything he said to me but the gist of it was about making me a stronger person who was able to be fairer to myself and less accepting of others whose actions may affect me negatively. He emphasised how it was ok to sometimes put myself or my needs before others and that doing that wouldn't make me a selfish person. (I also hate selfishness.)

(He also worked on making me more pro-active about things and less couch potato-ish iyswim.)

Fast forward to today.....as I said earlier, I'm up and at them early, after another good night's sleep, feeling strangely calm verging on happy (usually feel wound up) and off I go at 9am to do the shopping.

As it's early on a Sunday morning, the car park isn't busy. Spaces everywhere. I parked close to the store entrance. When I came out, a large 4 x 4 type thing had parked on one side of me, very close.

The space on the other side was empty. My trolley was at the side space/rear of the car and I'm unloading. A woman pulled up and started revving her car loudly, I'm assuming she wanted me to move my trolley so she could park next to me. If she had parked there, I would have had little or no manouvering room to reverse out, so I ignored her and kept unpacking.

(Bear in mind there were spaces everywhere, it's not like I was stopping her from parking, I was just stopping her from making things more difficult for me.)

She kept revving then eventually gave up and swung into the next row and parked in front of me.

Now, this may seem like nothing to you, but my usual way of dealing with something like this would have been to immediately jump to attention, apologise for getting in the way and doing all I could to help her into the space despite the fact I would then have made it more difficult for myself to get out.

I'm now home and happy and have no urge to 'comfort' myself with food since I didn't enable a situation that would have led to this.

Mind you, maybe the woman is royally annoyed she couldn't park where she wanted and has now gone home to eat herself calm.

I don't care. :rotfl:

Mercy

Nice one alias!

Calmly done and fun to imagine :rotfl:

Long may this care for self continue! :j

Mx

absolutebounder

aliasojo wrote: »

Ask me what I've just done...go on .....ask me. (Apologies in advance for the length and also for the fact it's not exactly low carb related. )

Ok, I'll tell you.....I wouldn't move to let a woman into a car parking space beside me. :rotfl:

I shall explain.....:D

Two of my 'issues' in life are fairness and kindness. I loathe unfairness with a vengeance, I spend my whole life trying to make things fair for other people be they family, friends or strangers. I also often put myself out in RL to show kindness to people and I hate when people biatch or snipe especially for no good reason.

However, often the end result is I end up being unfair to myself. I'm not often on the receiving end of people putting themselves out for me so I end up feeling things are unfair sometimes. This builds up and I then start to feel aggrieved, mildly stressed and generally irked. I 'settle' these feelings with food (or wine). (I have other reasons for eating too...we're just beginning. :rotfl:)

Hypno chap talked about this kind of situation in depth (more related stuff that I don't want to go into here as it's more personal) and explained how I need to deal with my feelings before I can deal with my arm to mouth action.:D

Anyway, I can't actually remember everything he said to me but the gist of it was about making me a stronger person who was able to be fairer to myself and less accepting of others whose actions may affect me negatively. He emphasised how it was ok to sometimes put myself or my needs before others and that doing that wouldn't make me a selfish person. (I also hate selfishness.)

(He also worked on making me more pro-active about things and less couch potato-ish iyswim.)

Fast forward to today.....as I said earlier, I'm up and at them early, after another good night's sleep, feeling strangely calm verging on happy (usually feel wound up) and off I go at 9am to do the shopping.

As it's early on a Sunday morning, the car park isn't busy. Spaces everywhere. I parked close to the store entrance. When I came out, a large 4 x 4 type thing had parked on one side of me, very close.

The space on the other side was empty. My trolley was at the side space/rear of the car and I'm unloading. A woman pulled up and started revving her car loudly, I'm assuming she wanted me to move my trolley so she could park next to me. If she had parked there, I would have had little or no manouvering room to reverse out, so I ignored her and kept unpacking.

(Bear in mind there were spaces everywhere, it's not like I was stopping her from parking, I was just stopping her from making things more difficult for me.)

She kept revving then eventually gave up and swung into the next row and parked in front of me.

Now, this may seem like nothing to you, but my usual way of dealing with something like this would have been to immediately jump to attention, apologise for getting in the way and doing all I could to help her into the space despite the fact I would then have made it more difficult for myself to get out.

I'm now home and happy and have no urge to 'comfort' myself with food since I didn't enable a situation that would have led to this.

Mind you, maybe the woman is royally annoyed she couldn't park where she wanted and has now gone home to eat herself calm.

I don't care. :rotfl:

Well done.
I just wondered whether hypno chap had done a regression with you to see where it all started from.

Gray_Malkin

absolutebounder wrote: »

I would take that as you have overeaten which would be the main cause for people being overweight and not their diet.
Our bodies have a mechanism for telling us when we are full but often from an early age we were taught that clearing our plate was good (no matter if there was too much on it in the first place) how many of the mums here are guilty of spoonfeeding a toddler who is not interested with words such as "just one more spoonfull to please mummy" or "just a little more to clear your plate theres agood boy / girl"?
It was probably done to you and you are programming your kids to overeat.
there is no need for these stupid diets.

Perhaps I expressed myself poorly. When I said "well stuffed now" I actually meant "pleasantly replete" It's a terrible failing of mine, sloppy speech and writing.

I can assure you I do not encourage my kids (or anyone else for that matter) to overeat.

I also do not consider eating healthy low carbohydrate meals a "stupid diet"