Low-carb diets support thread

sweetserendipity

Wondered where thread was when I signed in?? We were on page 2!! Eek!! Everyone obviously has better things to do today!!

Garage is mostly done, things to go to the tip are in the way though :rolleyes: but have bagged up charity stuff & thrown away quite a lot of rubbish. At least the floor is clear-ish.

So what has everyone else been up to today??

Having a Jamie Oliver chilli for dins tonight (complete with kidney beans & chickpeas so not very l-c ). Actually made it last night but there was tons left over because hubby doesn't like kidney beans/chickpeas :mad: so he didn't have any. Have frozen 2 lots & there's still loads for tonight's dinner for me & DD1.

Anyway, I'm off to make myself a well-earned coffee. :coffee:

mazzers

Well done on the clear out sweet, whenever i make plans that involve physical activity, i get waylaid
on purpose.

Is a beautiful day here, i have started painting (half heartedly) but got waylaid by my ex who came to do a few odd jobs for me, well, his son really :rolleyes:

I am now having a nice glass of the wine i opened last night, totm is so heavy i feel drained.

Sorry if thats tmi

House is very messy, bit at least there are no dirty dishes for a change, i constantly have dishes to wash.. where do they come from
From the boys rooms, thats where, they collect mould in them for a few weeks, then bring them down and dump them in the kitchen :mad:

paula7924

Hello everyone!

I'm back from my American Route 66 road trip/neice's high school graduation holiday. You've been very busy while i've been away so i don't think i'm even going to attempt to catch up what i've missed )

I was surpised that the shops over there weren't full of low-carb stuff like I was expecting them to be. I was expecting it to be easy but didn't manage to find any sugar free flavoured syrups until my last day. I have no idea what they taste like but i am looking forward to being able to flavor (sorry flavour) the lidl greek style yoghurt. yum yum.

I didn't put much weight on despite the unavoidable burger buns on the road and "I've made spaghetti bolognese & garlic bread - you can eat that right...." (V nice actually and a nice treat since i haven't had pasta for 11 months), which i knew really as my clothes were still fitting me pretty much the same. I have to admit though that I had made busting out of my clothes less likely by not packing anything that was on the small side in the first place - I knew that doing low carb properly was going to be trickier than usual and that it would have been a crime to have avoided chocolate malts totally

In fact....... *drum roll*....... i think i'm not even going to try to lose those extra 2/3 pounds as I'm probably looking better for it - my bony chest plate is not so scrawny looking now like it could do before. (Just to remind you I'm a 2 sizes different pear shape and not showing off in any way at all here)
Hurrah! what a breakthrough - the number on a scales is just a number and lower does not automatically mean better!
I wouldn't have been happy with the numbers going up before i went away and i would probably gone back onto induction but i was quite shocked to see how bony my shoulders & chest looked in some of the photos. (the rarity of exposed flesh in sundresses rather than the 2 layers of sweatshirts like i'm back into now) so I'm going to stay on lifetime maintenance.

Now if only I could find a way to squeeze the fat on my bum up to my chest........

I'll have to update my sig for my new hiher weight, although I can't remember if i had actually changed it to my pre-holiday lowest kg - i don't like to count my chickens as it were so i didn't reduce my sig until i was sure my weight really had gone down and was stable and that it wasn't just a temporary blip or a midcycle drop which would come back up again (in the same way that our due-on-water-retetion-increase falls off again afterwards)

ps I had a fair few sabotage comments, mainly from my sister-in-law telling me i was too skinny and wouldn't believe me when i said that i was the same weight that I was before (as proved by my old clothes fitting me perfectly) and not actually as low as when I was excercising 3 times a week, as proved by the fact that those clothes are still too small ;-)
To be fair though i probably look skinnier now than i used to as my weight is the same but my shape is even less balanced than it was before - my waist is a lot thicker but my shoulders/chest are bonier and i'm an AA rather than an A cup before. As I try to dress to hide my pear shape they will just see my scrawny top half and ignore my plump bottom half.

Roast chicken for tea for me. It's nice to be home. And back to be amongst people who aren't surprised that bagels are in fact carbohydrates. and toast. and noodles. and waffles. but no, regular cheese doesn't have carbs, nor chicken, nor eggs :-) ...... maybe that explains why my brother didn't lose much weight when he tried a low carb diet last year........

newish2this

Hey paula, welcome back :wave:
I returned recently and didn't even attempt to catch up with the 50 odd pages of [STRIKE]chatter[/STRIKE] LC talk:D
Glad you had a lovely time and have settled on your weight.
I've been maintaining for a while now and agree with what you are saying.
Originally, I was trying to lose another 1/2 stone but was really struggling. Eventually I gave up and settled at my current weight. It was only after I stopped getting so paranoid over the scales that I realised that although I was heavier in weight, I was actually smaller in clothes sizes than I was previously. Now, I rarely stand on the scales but just judge by my clothes;)

rosysparkle

Evening! Welcome back, Paula.

Chicken Cacciatore for 4: 13g carbs/portion
olive oil, s&p
4 chicken legs or breasts, or 8 chicken thighs or drumsticks
1 400g can of chopped tomatoes
150ml chicken stock
200ml white wine (or more chicken stock)
1 small onion
2 cloves garlic
200g mushrooms
1 tsp chopped fresh sage
1 tsp chopped fresh rosemary
8 black olives

Heat the oil and cook the chicken till brown on all sides, lift it out of the pan and keep warm.
Add the chopped onion and garlic to the pan and soften, add the wine and bring to the boil. Return the chicken to the pan along with all the other ingredients except the olives, cover and simmer for 30-40 mins till the chicken is thoroughly cooked. Add the olives and heat through.

This is substantial enough not to need much accompaniment, I had it with some courgettes.

mazzers

Bloody dead in here :rolleyes:

Welcome back paula, i'd luuuuuv to hear all about your hol in detail, i am so jealous. :p

Is good you are happy with your weight
Hopefully you will stay to keep up with the goss


I did some more painting, and more wine drinking and am a bit tiddly now so will probably hav a nap

Hopefully i will finish the painting tomorrow as i have to wait in for a delivery.

I need food really badly, but am not up to cooking, i had two nasty burns last time i cooked while half cut
This is why you need food prepared to grab..
I might make the youngest cook me bacon and eggs later

That'll be a turn up for the books :rolleyes:

~daisy~_2

dont have a nap - you will never sleep later !!!

i love caccitore - yumminess

focus888

evening all had a horrible day here nightmare with the london transport system. anyway just wanted to moan.

had cheesestring and 10 mini cocktail sausages for breakfast/min morning snack and chicken wings and veg for lunch. then just had some fish soup for dinner yum yum!!

ive been doing this diet 1 month tomorrow so happy its been along time since ive stayed on this diet for that long.

focus888

hi paula :wave:

everyone at work are taking turns to go away am very jealous seeing as im not going nowhere.

onewingedangel

I NEED CHOCOLATE!!!
I'm trying to fill up on cheesestrings, buut its just not cutting it. I keep eyeing up the kids rusks!
Promised myself a day off the diet one day this weekend and, man am i looking forward to it!!!
If i allow myself a day off every month or so i might be able to keep my sanity.
I'm so happy today! i put my jeans on and when i started walking they fell down past my bum.lol (dont worry i was in the house!) haven't wore them for about a month. Might feel brave enough to try on some of my old skinny clothes soon!!!
Hope everyone is doing well. I'm off to drool over chocolate I can't have............
xx