Low-carb diets support thread

Mercy

Hello people!

Daisy - sorry for your loss, hope you're feeling better. A few carbs ain't the crime of the century. Big love, hun X

Thanks for the soup recipes, both Gers tomato and sweets butternut squash are on the list.

I may be a dirty minded girl, but them butternut squash are a bit naughty :rotfl: Quick question - have they seeds at all? Never cut one up.

On the subject of bad habits - they're like a warm bed. Although I have heard it only takes 9 days to get into a habit so we should be strong and make good ones.

MXXX

Mercy

Had a funny day today.

Had done the house jobs - in fact it looks great with sparkly bits!:j And last week had bought the stuff I need each week - like the crackers - for two weeks. Nowt to do there then. Shopped well yesterday so no shopping at all needed.

Had 12 hours sleep last night / morning so not tired at all.

Watched 'the good life' on telly for hours with no inclination to cook at all. Then, thankfully, the good life started to be repeated from what I'd seen earlier! So I went outside, straightened the garden, and picked up, via untensils, an amazing amount of cat poo from the back yard (snows gone, could have been there a fortnight)

Came back in (washed my hands) and was ready to cook!

MXXX

Mercy

Happy to say I now have 3 portions of chicken 'korma' on cauli cooling now. Also a great 3L pan of veg (turnip, leek, celery, carrot, cabbage, green beans, chilli, in largest amount first) and bacon / gammon stew cooling also. I still have about 6 drumsticks cooling too .

Food for Yesterday
B - 2x crackers covered in pate plus lumps of pork
L - nothing, still full
D - massive pile of cabbage with last lumps of pork.
2x voddi lime soda, went onto lime soda after that as found I don't actually like voddi in it

Food for today
B - 2x crackers covered in pate plus 3 eggs scrambled with a little cream cheese
L - nothing still stuffed and bfast was at 11am
D - will be a large amount of cabbage with chicken drumsticks

I've been seasoning my cabbage with a great grinder, contains salt, garlic and chilli. Dead cheap from Home Bargains. V nice without being overpowering. Have obviously added butter and black pepper too.

Still not hungry but all is ready to go!

Hope you are all having a lovely weekend

MXXX

Dr_DiNg_DoNg

Bought a wool hat, gloves and scarf yesterday , worried about weight loss levelling off , so its a 40 min walk every day from now on, well at least 5 times a week , started yesterday , its not so bad listening to a podcast, goes quite quick.

Breakfast 2 Quorn saus & scrambled egg
Lunch chicken breast and cauli mash with green beans
Dinner a bottle of fermented grapes and a packet of almonds

mazzers

Evening all... (said in a deep voice while bending my knees )

Gawd i've been :A today.

Dobie, i never thought i'd break the wine every night habit, realy thought life wouldn't be worth living without.. but it's easier than you think, and i rarely fancy a glass now, would rather a cuppa.
It made me feel happy and in control too (losing weight) and does make me feel i've lost control when i cant stick to it.

Linni, what diet are you doing as beetroot is high in carbs, carrot not low either mind.

Gers, let us know how much you've lost, you do seem to be good so well done to you.

Gers

mazzers wrote: »

Gers, let us know how much you've lost, you do seem to be good so well done to you.

Haven't got scales - just go by my clothes being loose or tight. Right now they are loose! :j

Thanks Mercy for adding the tomato soup recipe. Can't really claim it as mine as I think it's just a fundamental one.

Was watching 'Come dine with me' tonight and the last contestant made a Spanish onion soup with ground almonds which all the others loved.

Onions fried in butter - add some saffron for colour - then add ground almonds, stock and sherry and cook off before blending. Think she also added in some paprika. Have checked the C4 website and that recipe isn't there but found what appears to be the same recipe here:

http://www.frenchonionsoups.com/French-Onion-Soup-Recipe/onion-soup/spanish-onion-soup.php

Might give that a try when I get back.

Good to read how everyone's day went. Sleep tight.

Gers

mazzers wrote: »

Dobie, i never thought i'd break the wine every night habit, realy thought life wouldn't be worth living without.. but it's easier than you think, and i rarely fancy a glass now, would rather a cuppa.
It made me feel happy and in control too (losing weight) and does make me feel i've lost control when i cant stick to it.

I was chatting about the wine habit with a friend the other day - for me it was a sign that the end of the working day had happened and now it was the evening, a sort of emotional/mental trigger. It wasn't really the wine I needed but 'permission' to relax and it seems that a glass of wine was the key. Green tea just doesn't have the same mental effect but if I am serious about losing weight then the tea it has to be. I'm getting by on imaging having a cold, beaded, large, fruity, dry Sancerre very very soon! :beer: Meanwhile I'm taking a cup of milk free green tea with mint to bed with me. George Clooney is dropping by later! :rotfl::rotfl:

Gers

Well.. the ground flaxseed I sprinkled on my soup yesterday was most efficacious indeed :eek: not that I thought I needed it but boy was it good! Not doing that today as I'm off down south later this afternoon until late Thursday.

Had a little breakout last night with chocolate :mad: and I know it was only cos I was bored. Ah well, today is another day.

Had breakfast and coconut oil and vits. Need to go out for an hour this morning and then back home, soup (sans flaxseed) and gammon and then offski I go.

Be good fellow LCs whilst I'm away. Mercy seems to have her fridge stuffed with delicious food, pity it can't be transfered through the internet.:rotfl:

As Yoda said ' there's no such thing as trying, only do or not do' Yesterday I managed 'not do', today it will be 'do'. Just imagine if someone offered you a million pounds to not eat carbs for 4 weeks - how much effort would you put in to not eating carbs? Surely, I tell myself, losing 5 stones of unsightly, unhealthy and unecessary fat is worth more than a million pounds.

Corner shop philosophy - but it keeps me going!

mazzers

Is a beautiful sunny day today, lying on my bed it feels just like summer :rolleyes:

Chicken is a-roasting, wont have it til about three.
Had scrambled eggs for brekkie but craved for some chocolate and afraid i did indulge
Pretending it didnt happen and will carry on

Have got to get the xmas decorations up the attic as they are lurking in the spare bedrom atm.
Ho hum, may as well do it myself i suppose.

See you later.

linni

Hi Mazzers - I remembered I couldn't eat the carrot and beetroot but I'd forgotten I couldn't have corn. I should have said I love the salad chopped up finely especially the long skinny bits. I'm going to play about making different salds and see if I can get mine to taste better as I love spinich, cos lettuce, enchiveleaves, and red cabbage. :j

Sweetserendipity - I know what you mean, I have been meaning to get some more since before xmas and when I saw there were only a few left, I panicked! :rotfl: