Low-carb diets support thread

caeler

bandraboy wrote: »

Any other suggestions for really easy to make dinners - or ready meals you've seen in supermarkets.

Try the bird's eye simply fish from the frozen menu, the salmon and pollock are low carb (.6g) (unfortunately the prawns are not due to the sauce). However they are pricey, nobody is doing offers on them anymore. TBH I think I could easily recreate my own very quickly or I might go to Asda and they'll do the same thing for at the fishcounter!

I'm afraid I've not eaten any ready meals since on the diet but then I'm only on day 7.

PS. I'm with you on this one, I hate spending hours in the kitchen and I've found this diet labour intensive with all the preparation required!!

caeler

I've started a blog:

http://natashadoeslowcarb.blogspot.com/

In a strange way, it is keeping me motivated and I'm trying to keep a diary on my meals which much like the 'spending diary' this forum is famous for, this is my eating diary!

Feel free to drop by!

[I really hope it's OK to do this but it is subject relevant!]

Eric_Pisch

bluefuzzybug wrote: »

I've started a blog:

http://natashadoeslowcarb.blogspot.com/

In a strange way, it is keeping me motivated and I'm trying to keep a diary on my meals which much like the 'spending diary' this forum is famous for, this is my eating diary!

Feel free to drop by!

[I really hope it's OK to do this but it is subject relevant!]

keeping a food diary is critical imo as is cal counting, your just guessing otherwise

if you have an iphone i can 1 million % recommend my personal diet

http://www.vidaone.com/mpd_ppc.htm

the blog seams a good idea as a way to keep focused on the task

pondskater_2

HanSpan wrote: »

Just catching up on a weeks' worth of posts and spotted this. When I was seriously trying to lose I weighed every day and can fully understand the urge to do so. I created a spreadsheet with a graph so I could track the general trend, rather than fixating on each day. I also always felt that only doing it weekly was a bit risky as I'd be completely miserable if that day happened to be bad.

I've provided the spreadsheet/graph for several people on here and am more than happy to do some more. If anyone wants to then feel free to pm me. I need your current weight (pounds please I can't think in kilos) and what you'd like to get to and by when. Its in excel so you need to have that.

The graph then shows a goal line and an actual line so you can see if you're generally matching your aim. I found it cheered me up no end, particularly when I had a bad day or two.

This sounds a good idea for me. I find when loss is slow that I can forget the progress I have made week on week and a visual reminder would be very encouraging. I weighed in this morning and I have now lost 18lbs and am finding LCing the most satisfying and easiest eating plan I have ever found.
Quiet in here though innit. :rotfl:

caeler

I brought some really cool scales which download to my laptop and keep track for me! I think they are really good, I like to see my progress too...or lack of it!
http://http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/8327857/Trail/searchtext%3ESALTER+SCALES.htm
I'm on Day 12, the cravings have gone and I've happily turned down all my usual treats and I think I'm even begining to enjoy sugarless tea!

I am however struggling for LC snacks, I'm currently loving cream cheese wrapped in salami, another other ideas?!

HanSpan

bluefuzzybug wrote: »

I brought some really cool scales which download to my laptop and keep track for me! I think they are really good, I like to see my progress too...or lack of it!
http://http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/8327857/Trail/searchtext%3ESALTER+SCALES.htm
I'm on Day 12, the cravings have gone and I've happily turned down all my usual treats and I think I'm even begining to enjoy sugarless tea!

I am however struggling for LC snacks, I'm currently loving cream cheese wrapped in salami, another other ideas?!

I tend to just eat nuts but I'm not one to follow this week as I've been in France, eaten rubbish and can't get into my trousers for work this morning!!!

Can you tell me the details of those scales as the link won't work.

hannoja

It's just got an extra 'http' in it. Try this

caeler

HanSpan wrote: »

Can you tell me the details of those scales as the link won't work.

hannoja wrote: »

It's just got an extra 'http' in it. Try this

Yes thats the one. I am really impressed with the scales, it provides really detailed information but the best bit is transfering the latest reading onto your pc, and it shows and running total so you can track progress. The only thing worth being aware of is the battery usage, it takes 6 aa/aaa (can't remember) batteries and I've used it twice in 2 weeks and I'm getting a low bat indicator, I don't mind paying because its so good, but batteries are expensive!! Thankfully it came with 6 so I could get going straight away.

Buffy_the_Vampire_Bat

Hello everyone :wave:

I'm the sort of low carber, the one who promised to post some meal ideas AGES ago Still on the Buffy plan here but have been making some adjustments as OH has been diagnosed with IBS (had to have all the tests to rule out bowel cancer etc :eek:) Work has been a bit mad due to due a huge restructuring, but I seem to have come out the other side ok.

To recap, the Buffy plan is: weetabix or bran flakes for breakfast with skimmed milk (or oat crunchy for a treat at weekends), one round of sandwiches (with homemade bread) or a salad plus sugar free jelly and pineapple pieces for lunch, and then a main meal in the evening which does not usually feature potatoes/rice/pasta/bread etc. I make the occasional exception e.g. for special days and the odd meal out, but don't fall off the wagon doing so. People are really starting to notice my weight loss now which is really nice :j

So here are some of the meals I have been eating. Everything is made from scratch, quite often from my head, so there might be small variations in the content of a dish from time to time...

1) Chicken, bacon and watercress pastry less quiche (errr, quiche without pastry basically )
2) Cauliflower and broccoli cheese
3) Prawn and egg stir-fry
4) Italian style beef stew
5) Braised pork with peppers and rosemary
6) Chunky vegetable soup with pesto
7) Chicken and tomato pastry less quiche
8) Braised pork with fennel
9) Aubergine stuffed with bacon and parmesan
10) Beef and mushroom goulash
11) Peppers stuffed with chicken and pesto
12) Cheese and courgette frittata
13) Warm bacon and broccoli salad
14) Salmon with chilli, garlic and ginger
15) Beef in red wine with mushrooms and capers
16) Cauliflower and green bean curry
17) Pork steaks with plums and ginger
18) Curried parsnip soup
19) Warm chickpea and feta salad
20) Pork steaks with juniper and apples
21) Bacon and tomato pastry less quiche
22) Chilli cheese frittata
23) Prawns and courgettes with coriander
24) Chicken Marengo
25) Chickpea and spinach curry
26) Cod wrapped in parma ham with roasted cherry tomatoes
27) Mediterranean fish stew

This includes everyday dinners and special having people round to dinner type dinners - I certainly couldn't be dishing up parma ham on a regular basis

Bloody hungry now I've just typed that lot out :rotfl:

As I've said before, I know what I do is not "proper low carbing" but it is certainly working as I keep having to buy new clothes as things keep getting too big for me...was annoyed though when I dug one of my favourite skirts out of the wardrobe, tried it on and it fell straight off

Hope everyone is doing ok, off to read back a few pages (ummm, quite a few pages actually! )

HanSpan

hannoja wrote: »

It's just got an extra 'http' in it. Try this

Ooh they are nice! Although right now I don't want to know how much I weigh. Serious cooking for the next few days then seriously back off carbs until I can zip up more than one pair of trousers!