Axe the avoirdupois in August aka the 7 pound club :-D

Dobie

Hello

I'm still sticking to my GI, moderate carb food & not craving anything else but I've had a couple of cheeky glasses of wine. Well, if I'm honest - about 1/2 a bottle altogether.:o

Wine is often my downfall I'm afraid.

I've been interested in the debate about low carb dieting. It's something I've done recently when I wanted to lose weight in a hurry for a holiday. I felt great on it & loved the food I was able to eat. I think my diet was healthy, in fact the main difference between that & my current diet is breakfast.

I would have something with eggs most morning - for example a cheese omelette, a salad & fish, cheese or ham at lunchtime & some sort of protein & veg for dinner. Snacks were mostly nuts & olives. Nothing wrong with that I don't think & I was never hungry so I found it easy to stick to. I lost 8 lbs in 5 weeks which is extremely good for me because I had half my thyroid removed 13 years ago & have struggled to keep my weight down ever since. Before that I was too thin if anything.

The problem for me was that I got leg cramps, I think because the muscles usually draw on carbs first for energy but if you don't eat a lot of carbs you can get cramps. That's why I'm doing the combination diet at the moment because I have 10 weeks to get to where I want to be but if I find my weight loss stalling I wouldn't have any hesitation going back to low carb for a few weeks to kick start it again. I've heard that potassium can help with muscle cramps so I've bought a supplement so I'm ready to go.

Ultimately I think we all do what works for us & just because it suits me doesn't mean I'd recommend it to anyone else. All I can do is to tell you about my personal experience.

hethmar

As you say, we are all different and what works for one may not suit another. We just have to find the best way for ourselves.

Anyone used lipobind?

potsofmoney_(I_wish)

"Dr Dragon and I watched the world's best diet"

I watched that and am going to start cooking more Mediterranean style food. It is something that the whole family can do and is food that we all enjoy.

I know most of it was stuff we all know, but I still find it an absolute battle every day not to snack, pick or overeat. The only thing that has ever stopped me in the past are diet pills, which I would never recommend as a weight loss method.

Not really sure where I'm heading with this ramble but am looking forward to olives.

Hope everyone is doing well.

lightisfading

Whoops.. have over done it a bit today (35 instead of 29 points - not disasterous but not great either!) - TOTM and I'm craving chocolate like mad :rolleyes:

Just thought I'd post a couple of lower-cal options I found cheaply - Asda smartprice mini swiss roll things (choc and plain/raspberry) which are 1.5pt on weightwatchers, smartprice caramel wafer bars 1.5pt and smartprice choc wafer bars 2pt. Now, they're not 'gourmet', but they're similar taste wise to the WW stuff, and they're all between 30p and 45p a pack against £1-1.50 for WW stuff.

(1.5WW points is... ballpark... 100-150 cals i usually find - but WW points aren't based just on cals so that is approximate)

Anyway, these are entering my regular storecupboard now - I know no chocolate is good for you but I have a really terrible sweet tooth ... and work in a place FULL of chocolate ... so it's that or binge on the really bad stuff! The budget is getting rapidly tighter so it's a good find for me

Also, changing the subject slightly, I made a batch of American style (smooth no added sugar) apple sauce in the slow cooker today - primarily it's for experimenting with - I keep seeing vegan recipes that use it to replace fats in binding cakes etc - but it seems worthwhile exploring for lower cal cake Either way it's rather yummy stuff by itself and I can see myself eating it as a snack like the Americans do. It's just 12 smartprice eating apples, 1/2c water, 3 tsp of cinnamon bunged in the SC and left to it

alared

3rd WI of the month 12st

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11-9
2lbs lost and 1 week to go.

Slow but sure, but harder.

Good luck everyone.

tara747

Well done alared!!!!!

I'm 132.4lbs... still higher than on 1 August but surprised it's not even more, the amount of carp I've been eating.

AdrianHi

Dobie wrote: »

Well, if I'm honest - about 1/2 a bottle altogether.:o

Wine is often my downfall I'm afraid.

I've been interested in the debate about low carb dieting.
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Ultimately I think we all do what works for us & just because it suits me doesn't mean I'd recommend it to anyone else. All I can do is to tell you about my personal experience.

I make 1 or 2 pints of beer or about 1/2 a bottle of red wine fit into my weekly calorie allowance
Like it too much to give it up completely and it wasn't neccessary to give it up completely.
Before I got into calorie counting our evening main meal was always healthy. It's the beer or wine and desert every night that was the problem. The only thing I have changed about my main meal itself is reducing the carbohydrate. 3oz of pasta instead of 4oz, one less spoonful of rice, a bit less potatoe, fewer chips on the now rarer occcasions we have them.

Alexnikov

Well done alared!

2.2 pounds lost this week for me so that's 9.8 pounds lost so far this month

I tried Weightwatchers white wine last night and it was alright. 80 cals a glass too which isn't so bad.

alared

tara747 wrote: »

Well done alared!!!!!

I'm 132.4lbs... still higher than on 1 August but surprised it's not even more, the amount of carp I've been eating.

Tara, I take it that you mean`t to say "crap" :rotfl:

Reminds me of the old joke about the fisherman being asked about cooking a carp that he`d caught.

He said,light a fire, shove a stick through the carps mouth all the way `til it comes out the other end and then let it cook on the open fire.
When it`s finished cooking,remove the carp from the stick and throw it away.

Then eat the stick. :rotfl::rotfl:

tara747

AdrianHi wrote: »

I make 1 or 2 pints of beer or about 1/2 a bottle of red wine fit into my weekly calorie allowance
Like it too much to give it up completely and it wasn't neccessary to give it up completely.
Before I got into calorie counting our evening main meal was always healthy. It's the beer or wine and desert every night that was the problem. The only thing I have changed about my main meal itself is reducing the carbohydrate. 3oz of pasta instead of 4oz, one less spoonful of rice, a bit less potatoe, fewer chips on the now rarer occcasions we have them.

Very sensible!! I like it. You are an advert for doing it the slow but sustainable way.

alared wrote: »

Tara, I take it that you mean`t to say "crap" :rotfl:

Reminds me of the old joke about the fisherman being asked about cooking a carp that he`d caught.

He said,light a fire, shove a stick through the carps mouth all the way `til it comes out the other end and then let it cook on the open fire.
When it`s finished cooking,remove the carp from the stick and throw it away.

Then eat the stick. :rotfl::rotfl:

Yes, I did mean to say crap but thought that it might end up as ****. I see lots of people saying carp instead and thought that they were just trying to avoid the dreaded ****. :rotfl: