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Low-carb? Anyone? Am so cross with myself that I need to do this but my eating habits are bad bad bad and my clothes are too tight!

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OrmIrian · 09/02/2009 11:49

So.... on we go again

I will carry on running but I need to do something about what I'm eating too.

Anyone else?

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Dropdeadfred · 09/02/2009 11:50

I am starting the atkins plan this week...it's going to be really really difficult

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BecauseImWorthIt · 09/02/2009 11:54

I'm back on the wagon. Food is OK but have to knock the white wine on the head!

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OrmIrian · 09/02/2009 11:56

I will have to make soup. Can't face salad for lunch everyday.

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pagwatch · 09/02/2009 11:56

Orm I am doing exactly that!
I want to lose about half a stone before I go on holiday 1st of April I am doing very low carb because it works and carbs make me tired and glum.
I am starting today. Sausage and egg for breakfast, tuna salad for lunch and chicken wrapped in ham and stuffed with chesse plus steamed veggies for supper. I have some nuts in for snacks plus celery and cream cheese in case I am starving at any point.

I have some lovely stuff in the wardrobe and am going to be really pissed off if I end up not able to pack it because of the size of my arse .

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pagwatch · 09/02/2009 11:58

DH is away so not having wine at supper is easier - I can't feel comfortable having wine when I am eating tea with the children.
Although I have developed a taste for G&T....

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pagwatch · 09/02/2009 11:59

how much do you think you want to loose?

race ya !

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BecauseImWorthIt · 09/02/2009 12:00

I can recommend India Knight/Nerys Thomas cook book, that partners the Idiot Proof Diet book. Some lovely recipes in there.

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OrmIrian · 09/02/2009 12:04

I don't know pag. I don't weigh myself. I just want to get back to the point where I feel comfortable in all my clothes. My weakness is for lovely starchy foods so that is what needs to go. If all I can eat is meat/salad/cheese I don't get tempted to overeat.

biwi - I have been here so often I know what I have to do. Just don't really want to , and that I have to. 10 m ago weight was falling off me because my eating was moderate and I was running so much more. I've manage to stuff my way back to porky again.

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pagwatch · 09/02/2009 12:11

it really is a craving thing with the carbs isn't it. I am the same - fine for ages andthen the more i have the more I want.

I only use the scales as it focusses me and i only weigh once a week. But I just want to fit into more than half of my wardrobe. It is always harder in the winter too.

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pagwatch · 10/02/2009 15:10

Orm
I am sorry. I got all excited and posted my internal gibbering dialogue and i think i scared every one from your thread.

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OrmIrian · 10/02/2009 15:14

I don't think so pag. LC eating tends to do that anyway

I have chickened out for the moment. Am stuck on pasta and baked potatoes atm. So easy and everyone eats them. So I am trying 'to be sensible'. Ho ho..... let's see how long that lasts

Will probably start in earnest next week when i realise (yet again) that I can't be sensible....

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pipsqueak · 13/02/2009 22:58

have been lowcarbing since beginning of january and have lost about 8lbs so far so am pretty pleased . am doping the idiot proof diet but still on pahse 1 as have quite a lot of weight to lose . not usre how i will manage long term but am feeling fairly determined and spurred on by relatively easy weight loss so far - interesting to seee how other people find this

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Wispabarsareback · 13/02/2009 23:18

I lost 2 stone a year ago by reducing carbs and having smaller portions of everything, plus not randomly snacking on biscuits etc between meals. It hardly felt like a diet at all, more a change in approach to food - and as a result I've been able to keep the weight off. I used the India Knight book as a starting-point. I definitely recommend this approach, as you don't have to count things and don't feel deprived.

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BecauseImWorthIt · 14/02/2009 15:29

Orm - I feel your pain! I really, really don't want to exclude bread/pasta/potatoes from my diet forever, and I would love to eat 'normally' (whatever that is!), but it just doesn't work for me and therefore the weight piles back on.

I'm heavier than I've been for a while, and although I've managed to drop 3lbs since I've been back on LC eating, it's taken me 3 weeks to do it because I'm struggling with my other problem, namely white wine!

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Coldtits · 14/02/2009 15:32

can I ask - does anyone who finds the low carb diet works REALLY LIKE red meat and cheese and eggs etc?

because I love these foods, and I've found that I high carb, low fat, lw protein diet knocked 2 stone off me last year.

So is it a case of eliminating the things we really really like, so we don't oever eat on the meals we do have?

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BecauseImWorthIt · 14/02/2009 17:06

Any diet works, if you follow it properly. And following it properly really means re-training habits, I suppose. But for something to work long term you have to be able to eat foods you like.

The egg and grapefruit diet will work, but who wants to eat that for how ever long?!

Eating low carb isn't about just eating red meat, cheese and eggs - that's a massive misinterpretation constantly promulgated by anti-Atkins media/folk. The ideal is that your meals are based around fresh, unprocessed ingredients (meat, fish, eggs or veg, etc) and that your daily carbs come mainly from veg/green salad. With Atkins, the initial 2 weeks, induction period, limits you to 20g of carbs per day, but this is to come from veg/salad. After induction you gradually increase the carbs until you reach the point where you aren't losing/maintaining your weight any more. At this stage you are allowed to include some fruits into your diet.

India Knights/Nerys Thomas diet is also low carb, and has 3 phases. By the time you get to the third phase you can also include some pasta, pulses and bread.

But I do think you're right, (sorry - a long waffle to get to this point!) that for most of us, a diet (any diet) is about training us to eat less. I think we all eat too much.

BTW, I was very impressed with your weight loss - have you kept it off too? That's always the hardest bit!

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BecauseImWorthIt · 16/02/2009 21:54

Have made two recipes now from the Idiot Proof Diet Cookbook - moussaka and beef korma. Both lovely, and good family meals too.

Rather annoyingly though they don't give a carb count so you just have to trust them that they're low carb!

How's it going, Orm?

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