Low-carb diets support thread

Sunnyday

Well i sort of got back into a routine :cool:

Breakfast was scramblies bacon and mushrooms, dinner was a piece of cheese and some salami.

When i got home from work i was starving and knackered so i ate two cold sausages - then 2 pieces of cold bacon and then 2 more cold sausages.

Not had any tea yet but i`ve had two cups of tea with a dash of milk in.

My tum still seems a bit unsettled, its been a bit dodgy for the last couple of days - ever since the kebab episode but hopefully it will be better tomorrow.

One thing that i wanted to ask - has anyone had a problem with their teeth whilst lcing? My fangs are killing me. I know that i need one of them filling but all my teeth seem to ache. Think thats its all the extra chewing but they seem to have a constant ache the last couple of days and i can`t put it down to anything definite. I remember last time i was low carb i had the same although i don`t remember it being quite as bad as this time.

I could happily get a pair of pliers around one of them atm

SD

~daisy~_2

cant say ive had the same but are you taking any supplements ??
you might be deficient in something whilst lc'ing ?

brekkie - 2 fried eggs and bacon
lunch - cold rasher and slice of cheese
dinner - small portion of LC shepherds pie
snack - bowl of HM soup

Sunnyday

Each morning i take a multivitamin, cod liver oil capsule and an evening primrose cap. I`ve always done this for years whether dieting or not.

Seems weird as the rest of the time they are fine.

SD

Sazbo

Morning lovelies :hello:

Know I've been a bit scarce lately, just a bit busy atm. But have finally lost a stone - only took me six months to do it lol :rolleyes:. Anyway, just in case anyone didn't see this article today: High GI carbs linked to heart disease in women. And can I just point out that I'm not normally in the habit of reading the Daily Mail! It was a link posted on Facebook, honest Guv! :rotfl:

"Low GI foods were not associated with a greater risk." And...

"A high consumption of carbohydrates from high glycaemic index foods, rather than the overall quantity of carbohydrates consumed, appears to influence the risk of developing coronary heart disease."

Altho, 200-300g carbs a day?! :eek: And "cakes" are low GI?!

Anyhoo... some GI food for thought there guys... I know Sweet was trying this approach.

ETA: some of the readers' comments posted at the bottom of that article are worth a read too

Hope everyone's doing ok.

Much love to all,
Sazzy xxxxxxxx

Sunnyday

Thanks for posting the link Sazbo,
it made interesting reading. I`ve been turning over and over in my mind the different carb ideas especially as i`ve been struggling with atkins this time around.

I`ve been awful today and had a cheese sandwich and a bag of crisps

Oddly enough though my teeth have stopped hurting and my tum is a lot more settled. In fact both things have improved so much that for the first time in three days i`ve actually managed to forget about them :j

I`m thinking of introducing more carbs into my diet and looking more at the low GI way of eating. I never thought that this would be something that i would do as i just wanted to do the jump in head first atkins that i did before which worked so well but this time my bod is saying "no stoppit" maybe its my bods way of saying that its had enough of the yo yo dieting thats been happening over the last few years. Thing is i seem to lose a decent amount and then end up with it all back on again and more so gradually get bigger and bigger

My sis has low carbed very sucessfully and is now about 4 stone lighter, she looks like a different person and it really suits her, wish that i could be the same but maybe its not meant to be.

I think that i`m going to sit down at some stage over the next few days and meal plan a totally different way and i`m going to buy some different pasta etc (DH can have the white stuff) and some wholemeal flour for bread and limit myself to one slice per day and see if i can do this.

Luckily salad type weather seems as if its on the way so this may help. I`m weird in that i just want comfort food and winter food when its cold outside but when its sunny and warm i don`t seem to be anywhere near as bad.

I`m thinking meals like boiled egg on toast for brekkie and wholemeal pasta salad for lunch, tea could be fish or meat with green salad. if i measure the carbs out and set myself a certain amount each day then maybe i can lose some of this lard that i`m carting around. I got weighed this morning and am an embarrasing fifteen stone five - there i`ve actually said it. Two weeks ago i was fifteen eleven and last week i was fifteen three:o

I feel quite defeated by the way that things have gone over the last couple of weeks and very disappointed but i also feel a little glimmer of hope. If i can swing myself around into a more positive frame of mind then i may just manage ok.

On the plus side i`ve just had a man in to give me a quote to start fitting my kitchen :j ok he can`t start for a while but is going to do it on my days off over a few weeks so maybe when i actually have a kitchen i will get some optimism back. Its been hard with no kitchen for six months. If someone told me twenty years ago that i would be looking forward to having a proper sink with a draining board and everything then i would have said that they were mad.

TTFN

A rather mixed up SD

Eric_Pisch

HanSpan wrote: »

For those of you who end up in rows with people about how healthy or otherwise low-carb is I'd highly recommend watching this and passing it on to them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eREuZEdMAVo
I found it very watchable as well as extremely informative. (its very long so you need to pause till you're buffer fills quite a bit or its horrid and juddery)

Fascinating video, a lot of the research backs up my thoughts on weight loss being down to calorie intake, protein level intake, processed carbs / foods and energy dense foods

Big thanks for posting this :beer:

Sazbo

SD - big hugs xx I think the most important thing is not to give yourself such a hard time. I firmly believe that different things suit different people. Now this is obviously not ideal, because it means everyone has to find but works for them, but I honestly believe that there is a method out there that will suit someone. We just have to tweak things until we find what suits.

My feeling is that there are so many complex interactions - between metabolism, blood sugar, hormones, sensitivity to carbs (and other food types probably), weigth, age, gender, etc etc - everyone must be slightly different?

So all I can suggest is that you see what works for you, hun. At the end of the day, what's the use of a strict regime - any regime - if we can't stick to it over the long term? It's got to be workable, imho. So try GI and see how you get on. Ok it might be more carbs, but if that's the difference between sticking to it, and not, then surely that's a good thing isn't it?

Ok I'll zip it now lol

Oh, apart from to say - I would give my right arm for a draining board that actually drains!! So if that makes me mad too then so be it :rotfl:;):D

Sazzy xxxxx

Buttonmoons

I used to post on this thread, many moons ago.....*tumbleweed*

Nice to see the same faces, Hello maz and alijaso :wave:

Maz I noticed you just got a glucose test done, I have to go get one done on Monday and a hormone one as my hair has been falling out, it's so thin now it's shocking :eek: Thankfully this doctor is taking me seriously, but I do wonder if diet is causing the hair shedding, since I stopped low carbing my diet has been abysmal, binging for a week, starving the next.

I'm actually hoping I am needing to GI, get free loaf from boots - how mse!

aliasojo

Sunnyday wrote: »

Its been hard with no kitchen for six months. If someone told me twenty years ago that i would be looking forward to having a proper sink with a draining board and everything then i would have said that they were mad.

Oh I have huge amounts of sympathy for you. We lived for many many months with no kitchen and I know how restrictive and depressing it can be. I ripped out the old one, ripped off all the plasterboard and lifted all the chipboard flooring so we were down to stud walls and joists. We spent Xmas that year with temporary lengths of wood for a wee bit of floor and we pinned cheapo plastic shower curtains to the studs just to make it look less depressing. We had pasting tables as worktops. :rotfl: Ah the stuff that makes you stronger. Not!

Buttonmoons wrote: »

Nice to see the same faces, Hello maz and alijaso :wave:

Lol, no it's not the same aliasojo, that must be someone else you're thinking about. :whistle: I'm new. *nods to confirm*. I've only just got fat.....I've not been here before. :rotfl:

*waves back* nice to 'see' you again buttons hope you're tests go well and help pinpoint any probs.

Sunnyday

Hmm i`ve just ignored the hoover which is still plugged in and standing in the middle of the floor and watched the youtube vid posted on the last page.

Its made me think a bit more. I`ve realised that i have two big problems.

Problem number one is motivation, i`ve been far too laid back and expected the weight to fall off effortlessly - mainly because it did before!

Problem number two is that i`ve planned on staying on induction for a few months and its far too restrictive for me this time.

Later today i had planned on shopping for the brown rice & wholemeal flour BUT now i`ve decided not to do that. The bit in the vid about the bread and stuff made me sit up and take note. Its things like this that i already know that are part of the problem, i need them ramming down my throat until i`m sick of hearing them IYKWIM.

Sooooo i shall stay low carb but just not AS low and see how i get on. I`ve been too busy to cook properly and too tired to care lately, i`ve looked in the fridge at my last efforts and i have precooked leeks in butter that just need a minute in the microwave and cabbage too. The problem is that i`ve not eaten them and have either gone without and starved myself or just fallen asleep so not noticed and its not done me any good.

On my recent days off work i`ve done things like spending 11 hours in the garden and come back inside freezing, and starving and fallen asleep, some days i`ve eaten one meal and others i`ve picked at some stuff so not good.

I`m going to try and post every day now as i did before and i shall look for the food diary that i kept last time and try and replicate it and see how i fare.

I`m giving myself a time limit of a month max to see an improvement and then depending on the results i shall take it from there.

I feel a bit better now although i think i`ve done another u-turn

I shall pop to the shops later and i shall buy some smoked mackerel and have that with some of the veg in the fridge. DH will be home later so i shall cook for him - in fact there is some chicken too so i may steal some.:D

Alias - Your kitchen sound like mine we spent Christmas with no plaster on the walls and dust everywhere, wires taped to the walls and tied up with bits of string and no ceiling :eek: I cooked christmas dinner too with 2 foot of worktop and no cooker wouldn`t like to do that again.

Sazbo - Thanks for making me sit up and take notice, i shall keep re reading your post when i`m feeling down. Lol @ the draining board, the board at our old house was like that but it was my fault, i had to kneel on it to get to clean a window and it erm buckled

Buttonmoon - Hope that you get your problems sorted, my well established way of eating was binge a week and starve a week as the shifts that i work are extreme to say the least, i would keep telling myself that it would all balance out and get so tired sometimes that its difficult to care.

Lcing is the only diet that completely puts a stop to that which is another reason why i don`t need to give up so easily.

Thanks so much for your help and support peeps, you are all fantastic. I`ve felt rubbish and down for most of the day but think/hope i`m over the worst of it for now.

You are all angels :A

SD