Low-carb diets support thread

mazzers

I have been to work as i swapped a shift to recover from my Sunday binge.

Seem to be back to having one day on, one day off :rolleyes:

Got a lot of lc veg to use up, and just got two large cooked chickens reduced to £1.47 so they should keep me going for a couple of days.

Still not caught the mouse, i wouldn't mind him staying if he behaved and did no damage. Do they do much damage?? anyone know altho, there'll be pwp everywher i spose :rolleyes:

Ah well, off for a huge cuppa coz i'm parched.

Gers

Morning - dull, grey and cold today (not me, the weather!)

Just breakfasted on bacon, found that I had no eggs, no tomatoes no nothing else so will have to make a trek to the shops today. Was tasty but a tad boring.

Yesterday I bought another of the Sainsbury's crown of chicken with rosemary and garlic to eat over the weekend. Lunch will be a surprise and Friday evening meal is normally take-away Chinese brought in for me. :j

Got paperwork to do today :eek: been outstanding for a wee while and now my birds have come home to roost.

Had some coconut oil, supplements and will be having some flaxseed oil later with my berry pudding.

Hope everyone is fine.

sweetserendipity

Morning all :hello:

I'm feeling cheery (I know, it can't last :rolleyes:) because I've just had a yummy breakfast & the wii bodytest told me I'd lost 3lbs since Monday!! Don't usually weigh during the week but thought I'd have a sneaky look today & I'm glad I did!!

Made the 'colcannon' last night (mashed cauli with cooked cabbage & leeks mixed through with loads of butter & black pepper :drool: Was lovely. Fried the rest of it this morning for brekkie, yum yum, reminded me of 'bubble & squeak' that my Mum & Dad always had for supper after a Sunday dinner.

B - fried 'colcannon/bubble & squeak' with fried egg
L - 2 crispbreads with butter & cheese, garlic sausage
D - might do 2 x fish in butter sauce with more colcannon

Anyway, happy days, have a good day all :wave:

mazzers

Oooh sweet, i like the sound of that bubble and squeak

I have had a nice fry up too.
Going to have chicken and fresh spinach for dinner.

Unfortunately, cleaning is the order of the day today
I've been coaxed into a night out tomorrow night :rolleyes:

The mouse will soon be outta the house ( i hope) as i've ordered a humane trap off ebay, he had a nice date for supper last night :rolleyes: and i had the rest of the pack
Hopefully i have lulled him into climbing into my trap, apparently, they deposit about 80 droppings per day, and i noticed my pack of bird food (peanuts) had been repeatedly spilling for a few weeks but i hadnt realised what was going on :rolleyes: idiot!!
so that equals lots and lots of droppings, eeww how unhygenic.
Mind you cant be much worse than smelly pants, socks and mouldy dishes left all over the house :rolleyes:
Why couldn't i have had girls

sweetserendipity

mazzers, you must be looking through rose-tinted glasses if you think girls would be any better than boys!!

Smelly pants, socks & mouldy dishes reign supreme in this household too, tis not just boys!! :rotfl:

Also, don't forget to keep checking the mouse-trap, my MIL had a mouse & put a humane trap down but then left it for a few days Poor mouse was stiff as a board when she finally checked it, probably starved to death or died of thirst, poor little thing.

Gers

Forgot the flipping eggs!:mad::mad: Got a lovely Per Una jacket instead! :j:j

Am nibbling on Gruyere and sipping on a Pinot Grigio, had the Chinese meal (no rice or chips) and ready for bed.

Hope all are well.

paula7924

hello peeps. I'm back on induction and determined to lose half a stone before christmas (but preferably 20th novemeber). my scales broke and the new ones have a stones and lb option rather than just lb or kg. somehow seeing my weight in stones has made it seem much more real.

i know that i put a quarter of a stone on one long weekend of indulgence and then another. before i had lost the first, and i know i was at the top end of my acceptable weight range before i put on the first quarter stone so why did it come as such a shock when i saw that my weight was 3/4 stone over where i want it to be! (1/2 over what i think is my maximum)

not that the weight is the real problem - its the fact that 6 weeks of no pilates has let my belly go back to being wobbly rather than relatively firm (esp when i remembered to hold myself properly as pilates teaches you) and much wider in profile.

i even had to borrow back my old fat jean that i had given away as my new jeans are too small, or too low rise and muffin top-y if i could get in to them. i was so sad that they didn't fall off me like they had done before i gave them away.

had a mental jolt as well when i realised that i was wearing the exact same outfit that i had done in march and at that point i felt like a fox as it was the smallest i had been for a long time, and this time round i felt like a fat failure. looking at a photo from march i think i actually look slimmer then despite being the same weight as i am now. i'm not sure if it's just because of the confidence i felt then but i was better proportioned i think - more flesh on my shoulders and breast bone (i am so pear shaped i can look skeletal up top and rubenesque below my rib cage) and more toned belly. proof that the number on the scale soesn't determine how good you actually look. now i just need to find a way to slim down my bottom half and plump up the top half

sweetserendipity

Morning peeps :hello:

Had a lovely sleep-in this morning, feel refreshed!! Had half a bottle of red wine (& then broke the wine glass ) so maybe that helped knock me out.

Had my brekkie already & feeling stuffed:

B - fried colcannon/bubble & squeak with fried egg
L - 2 crispbreads with butter & cheese, garlic sausage
D - got a portion of chilli out of the freezer so plan on having that with garlic mushrooms

paula, tis a horrible feeling when you put weight back on, makes you feel depressed & disappointed with yourself I have jeans in my cupboard that used to fit but I'm nowhere near getting them on now. I have lost weight in the last few weeks & do feel more positive about myself, but I still have a long way to go :rolleyes:

Gers, it's lovely to buy new clothes, a better buzz than buying eggs!!

mazzers, any update on the mouse?? Have a good night out tonight, is it a date??

Have a lovely day everyone :wave:

paula7924

Gers wrote: »

The only disconcerting thing is that I've exchanged a rounded full shape for a wibbly wobbly rolls of fat thinner one, look a bit like a roll of corrugated cardboard, Gone from a Weeble to a Shar Pei - when will the greyhound look arrive?

I had exactly the same problem then discovered pilates and it works wonders. wish i had discovered it when i was a teenager - if i had substituted the amount of time i spent doing the jane fonda workout for pilates i would actually have had the flat stomach i was aiming for!

If you have sky sports they have a daily half hour "Oz Style Aerobics" which is fantastic. It's actually 22 minutes without the adverts and alternates low intentisty cardio stuff, abs, legs or pilates, although the kickboxing ones are my favourite.

Diva tv does pilates and yoga, although that may not be showing at the mo. I've got loads copied so i haven't checked recently

HanSpan

sweetserendipity wrote: »

g&b, if you could recommend a low-carb restaurant in Edinburgh, that would be good!! Not sure I'll still be lcing by that time but I'll show willing!! :rolleyes: Probably have a meal about 6-6.30pm so any ideas/recommendations for a family-friendly pub/restaurant that sells wine please!!

Cafe Andaluz
Oh got I'm salivating just thinking about it.

We went to Scotland in May and visited this tapas bar in both Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Its easy to do low or high carb in a tapas place. And to eat sensibly if you order say two dishes each then decide how hungry you are before you order some more.

Some of the items in cafe Andaluz would be low carb but for the marmalade/chutney on the side but, if you're strong and can resist that, the Butifarra Negra (black pudding) is absolute heaven.

I've just been an looked at the menu on line and am sooo annoyed we live so far away. Scallops, Boquerones, mushrooms, black pudding, beef carpaccio, albindigas, chorizzo......
The local La Tasca just doesn't come close.

edited - just realised I think I've answered this too late. Sorry if that's the case, I've had a completely mad week at work and not even looked on here since last weekend.