Hello! Day One Done - anyone want to join me?

[SharkSkinThing]

Just wanted to say hello and see if any other new starters wanted to buddy up for support and advice?

I've got 3 - 4 stone to lose, all gained AFTER having my DS who is now - god help me - 5. All down to long-term sleep deprivation and sugar reliance, and forming terrible habits. And wine to help me cope with the sleep deprivation,

Anyway, hoping to finally turn things around now that he's finally sleeping (sometimes until 5.30am!). Would love to chat to others who are finding that this WOE works for them.

xx

It will be a sad day but I prefer meat and fish anyway so s'ok.

Anyway lchf for now! Paleo is a long way off.

Cake Hello!!Im paleo and gave up dairy for health reasons and lost even more weight.

Oh interesting! Thanks always. Do you also eat some fruit, seeds like quinoa and sweet potato etc? This is my plan eventually but wasn't sure I would lose weight that way.

Cake I lost 2 stone last year. I amazed myself actually. Slow but steady.
I eat all fruit and veg/salad, nuts, seeds, meat, fish, poultry, medjool dates (these are absolutely my favourite thing. Like little caramel sweets and totally satisfy my cravings for some cake or sweet). I use maple syryp and honey. I make granola from blitzing nuts,seeds and flaxseeds then add chopped banana and coconut with a bit of coconut milk. That's if I want breakfast. Bacon, real sausages and egg with tomato and mushroom.
Hummas with an oatcake. Dark chocolate with nuts or strawberries in.
Yes to a little quinoa and sweet potato. I even have a little white potato on a sunday lunch. The jury is out on whether caveman had white potato or not as it is generally thought that they would have eaten tubers and anything else that they found growing

Oh I had read that about white potatoes and was delighted!

Amazing that you lost 2 stone! Very well done!

I will probably lay off the more carby things like fruit, maple syrup etc for now as I find I need to really cut back on carbs as a sort of detox - otherwise I have a small amount of something with sugar in it (even natural sugars) and go a bit bonkers and eat every sweet thing I can find... and then go to the shops for more!

Really looking forward to paleo now though. Thanks!

Hi Cake, Welcome aboard.
I'm Primal (Paleo with cheese!). I originally lost most of my weight on Primal, so it's possible. In the 21 days challenge summary page Mark Sisson has a chart aligning carb intake with weight goal, which was very useful at the time.

That was very brave, Fit. I wouldn't dare trying my scales, as they are called 666 -for they are evil! Good to hear you are already feeling better. :)

Well done, Always, That is really good going.

Hi All, Happy New Year!

Yes Christmas was a binge, Always. But that is the way I love it. And always has been.

So now I’m fourteen stone. A whole stone over my reset weight. Over the past month I’ve put on a pound every couple of days. But I’m not un-happy about it. Yes, in the past I’d have been depressed. I used to find dieting a struggle. Every year I would diet hard, and every year I would lose weight, but it would be difficult and often it would backfire. Somehow, while I wasn’t looking, the diet would slip, and before I knew it, the weight would go back on.

But now I know something different. I’ve learnt a few big behaviours that give me a new way to eat. I’m still interested in new discoveries like ‘sirtfoods’, but I now know that none of these diets has to be a silver bullet that I pin all my hopes on.

The big difference is that now don’t just know what to eat, now I know HOW to eat too. And that means how to diet successfully. I know that I will be back to my reset weight by the end of the month. And importantly I know that it won’t be a struggle. I’ll not go hungry. I won’t crave anything. I’ll be eating lots of delicious light dishes of course. Anna Jones’s latest book was under my tree and I’m looking forward to trying some of her recipes.

But there’ll be lots of good meaty food too, like steaks and roasts and fry-ups.

My diet groove includes all sorts of different foods and moods and seasons. I know I love Christmas, and I still feel happy about having mainlined Quality Streets for the past fortnight, because that’s part of my groove.

But I also know how to Fast without going hungry or feeling crabby at 4 in the afternoon.

So I’ve got no regrets about enjoying Christmas so whole-heartedly. And I’ll do it again next year. If I hadn't eaten so badly for the past few weeks I wouldn't be feeling so good about my protein fast and Burn day meals now. It actually comes as a pleasure to get back to some light living.

And I’ve found a little bonus too. A year ago my Christmas peak was 14st 3. So even though I binged, I put on less...

Hello cake, lovely to meet you!

As you can read we are all getting there on the l/c'ing but in our own way.

I eat fish but no meat so tend to eat masses of eggs, and even though avocado isn't recommended for eating every day, I have a huge salad with a whole one at least 4 times a week!

I have lost 1.8 stone since the end of Sept, and still had a drink, nuts, the odd meal with carbs (and then a week of carnage at Christmas!). I am also not as brave as fit and not weighed myself yet, but will do so on Friday after a week of exercise and l/c bootcamping!

My mini-goal is another stone off by the end of Feb, which will take me to 12.10, at which point I will faint.

I found a photo of me from the summer on the beach. God lord - my stomach is huge. I will post it at the end of Feb together with a current one.

Will if you put on weight last Christmas and were 14stone 3 and this Christmas you have gained a stone and are now 14stone, does that mean you haven't lost any weight this year on your way of eating?

In a word yes, Always,
...because I've reached my ideal weight. I went from 17st 9 (officially obese) down to 13st (BMI 22). That was back in 2012/13. And 13st is the weight I want to stay. But I put on weight at Christmas and other holidays for short spells. In 2014 I went up to a peak of 14st 3' at Christmas but was back down to 13st again by Feb. This year (ie. 2015) I hit 14st 0 at the Christmas max. So at Christmas 2016 I'm hoping that without any conscious Christmas restraint my max will be something still beginning with 13st!

So for me the proof of the pudding is that I can now cruise along at 13st with occasional blips. The Christmas 'blip' is by far the biggest, and I really do eat extraordinarily badly at Christmas, so I'm not recommending that anyone follows such a binge, per-se. But if this diet groove thing can cope with my Christmas binge then I reckon it can work even better for anyone who treats Christmas a bit more sensibly.

Sorry, long answer .

No, thanks for the long answer. I was just trying to understand where you are up to and your goal etc. So again, thank you for explaining.

I am of the eating mindful school and have overcome the binge diet syndrome by mindful eating and overeating now really makes me feel unwell. I think you have to do whats right for you though and what you feel you can do.....well forever really.

Thanks shark for welcome and favadi for info on primal. Will have a read!

Me today:

spring onion, kale, bacon, tomato omelette

chicken thighs sprinkled with allspice and cooked in coconut oil in oven
served with red kale,cabbage,apple,spring oinion, cumin seeds and olive oil baked in oven too!

blitzed cherries, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries and a little banana and served as a drink.

little dark mint chocolate

lots of cups of tea with a drop of coconut rice milk.

Anyone else want to share their menus, might help us to get some new ideas

carrots.

I still feel happy about having mainlined Quality Streets for the past fortnight

Yes, that would be where my 3 lbs came from for sure! And I don't regret it. I can honestly say the only thing I regret was the bread I ate, because I always felt ridiculously sick after. The potatoes (especially the roasted sweet potatoes I had at Christmas Dinner) were all worth it.

it actually comes as a pleasure to get back to some light living.

Same here. Felt so good to get back to the way I was eating before Christmas. Not to mention my exercise! I hate going without exercise.

As for your stone, remember that at least 6lbs of that could be water weight, which will melt right off. :)

Always today for me will be fairly usual (my weekday meals are pretty set in stone since I've only got a short time to make them before I need to get DS to school and me to work)

1 1/2 scrambled eggs with milk, chilli, goat cheese, butter.
coffee with a good 1/4 cup of whipping cream and a bit of coconut milk for sweetening

1 ounce steak on rocket, cucumbers, celery, tomato, pine nuts, blue cheese and ranch dressing

Tonight salmon and tuna wrapped in seaweed.

Breakfast was mozzarella, tomato and salad, drizzled in olive oil.
No idea what I'll cook today.
Here what I had yesterday:

No Breakfast (I wasn't hungry)

Lunch was reheated roast pork and brussel sprouts, leftover from the night before, with mushroms, fried tomatoes and meat juices.

Snacks- I had the munchies all afternoon (TOM on the horizon!), so I ate like a piglet: 2 tangerines; bowl of olives; salad; a square 85% chocolate; a few walnuts.

Dinner- boiled ham, fried courgettes and 2 pints of broth.

i forgot cracklings both last night and Sunday night.

This is what I'm eating: [http://tinyurl.com/h4fdmhd] Looking forward to the Burn days later in the week. Not sure the link is working, sorry. It's just a short post from my blog, this morning and a photo.

Link doesn't work for me. But for some reason I can't access tinyurl in the UAE. Can you send another link to your blog?

Sorry my mistake. I got the brackets wrong...

So today's post is here: Simple Things

And you can find it on the site if you click on 'Blog' the diet groove

Hope that works, Will x

Morning everyone!

Today is a bit of a mish mash for me in terms of eats due to lack of time and grumpy toddler! This is the plan:

Breakfast: prawn cocktail from m&s

Lunch: cheese omelette and salad

Evening meal: Thai red curry with chicken thigh fillets, peppers and full fat coconut milk with some sautéed spinach

Drinks / snacks: tea and coffee and some raspberries, spinach, coconut oil, flax seed, ginger and cucumber made into a smoothie

Thanks will, nice blog by the way. I tried the 5:2 thing once, but find it to difficult to do with exercise. I end up ravenously hungry after my workouts.

Where this differs is that I used the Atkins / Dukan thinking on my Fast days so I genuinely didn't go hungry. I just ate a lot of fish and chicken if I needed to ...and hey it still worked! I'm not running yet this year. Still suffering from the duvet force field in the morning.

Ooooo than you for all your lovely meal menus. Some good ideas there.
Will I linked to your blog on the first link. Really good piece....simple