Hey Stitch. Comiserations on the carb bloat. Hope you get over it in a day or two.

Bleh I was so tired last night so instead of cooking diner I ate a bowl of rice crispies. And another. And another. Eating crap carbs always induces huge carb cravings in me, I should know that by now.

Anyway, eggs for breakfast and going to have fish and veg for lunch so on track today.

for every diet i have heard, where people successfully lose weight, it seems that two to four months are more than adequate for losing two stones. i wonder about htat sometimes.

well, i had two days of lots of carbs. and my tummy has bloated, and i feel sick.
so back down to low levels again, but not as low as induction. i really cant do the excessive meat again. plus, its not healthy. so lots of good carbs. and lots and lots of vegetables, which i love. no more feeling guilty for eating a salad.

I'm going to start to listening to the Paul McKenna CD again every night. And I'm going to go to bed at 10pm so I am not so terminally exhausted all the time, thus inducing carb and caffeine cravings. In fact maybe I'm going to give up caffeine...I'm going to go half-caff, Niles Crane style for a while, wean myself off. And I'm going to take up running again. I'm so fed up of feeling like a clapped out old has been.

Goal: to sort these darned eating issues out and be in reasonably good working order (as far as it is in my control to be) by the time my next birthday comes round (35th - so kind of milestoney in a way). Would be great to have lost my excess 2 stone by then. 9 months. I reckon I could do that.

Hello

Columbo, please do continue to post on here. When I start eating properly again I will be going down the GL path and eating a lot of good carbs (oats, pulses, seeds etc), fruit and veg.

When I do the 'low carb' thing I find myself eating huge amounts of butter, fat, meat, cream etc and just know that it isn't doing me any good in the long run.
I need to switch thinking and do 'good carbs' rather than 'low carbs'. No white sugar, flour etc and limited potatoes (that is the biggie for me).

I bought the Paul McKenna book and it really got me thinking about how and why I eat, and I'm going to try to follow his four guidelines.

i think low carbing is a much healthier way of eating than other methods. not the induction phase of atkins however. the ongoing wieght loss, and the maintenance phases. but i think they are very very similar to low GI anyways.
i dont think i subscribe to the goldenshot theory. seems to be working for me second time round, and for sister too.

Columbo I think the Golden Shot thing must apply because I am the same. I know and agree with the low carb theory and have now read "The Diet Delusion" which reinforces for me that low carb IS a healthy way to eat.

But stopping and starting doesn't seem to work does it...

I'm wondering if there is any truth in the Golden Shot theory, and if so, why it is so. I did Atkins in 2002 and it worked then (though I wasn't even overweight then, just wanted to get a bikini body).

I'm still going to frequent this thread, if it keeps going, since I am now following The Food Doctor plan which is essentially a low carb way of eating which probably equates more to maintenance levels of other low carb diets - its more about insulin balance. No sugar! But more fruit/veg and pulses allowed plus brown rice and rye bread in small amounts.

it doesnt work for everyone.
leave it.
me, it works wodners for. day 17 today, and i feel good, lost five pounds, several inches, andmy clothes fit better. last week i was dreamingof bread. this week, i couldnt care less. definitly works for me.

Well, I think I'm just about done with this. I just haven't got the will power to stick to low carb. Not through wanting to scoff cakes - just want fruit, chick peas, porridge, milk etc. Plus the fact that I haven't lost any weight the whole time I've done it, just lost and regained the same 5lbs. Before starting this, I'd lost about a stone just by cutting down and eating sensibly, wasn't even "dieting".

Hopefully will be able to continue in that manner after this last couple of months which has, quite frankly, been a rubbish waste of time and money (meat so expensive these days etc.)

I just don't know what I think - all the research on low carb seems spot on but I just feel weird and unhealthy on it, and that is the bottom line for me really.

no oggy, you havent answered that particular question recently. thank you for answering it now, and encouraging me to stick it out for a futher four days.