Stopped the biscuits and now lime craving but not loosing

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Four week ago I quit my bad biscuit binging. And I've of course had a few slips and initially I had to sub in with some bread sticks, as I was craving refined carbs and the habit of snacking badly, but this is what an average day WAS

2 weetabix with loads semi skimmed milk
Fresh Fruit one portion on weetabix ( grapes/ banana / strawberries/ bluewbberies )

Mid morning Snack with tea - a whole packet of family sized bourbons the 400g type packs / 5 fresh baked cookie from Tescos

Half a sand which ( 1 piece of bread) some cheese with toddler
Occasionally crisps, like kettle chips, but usually too stuffed with biscuits and didn't really want sandwich just needed to eat with DD

More biscuits mid afternoon. Like a packet of Jaffa cakes or one of those sharing tubs of 20 rocky roads

Then a normal dinner, mainly cooked from scratch with lots of veg

Snack a low fat yogurt

Drinks diet cans and tea with milk. Alcohol not even weekly only when out maybe 1 time a month, would be 2 large glasses ( is that a nearly a bottle ? )

So I've stopped the biscuit snacks as I said and of course I'm eating more lunch and no weight loss at all.

NOW

Breakfast - chicken breast / scrambled eggs
Fruit portion

No snacks

Just had tomato soup and portion of cheddar cheese, slice of ham and a slice of chicken, but occasionally had a full sandwich ( which I know isn't low carb) or a salad with chicken.

Might have a options hot chocolate instead of morning snacks, so some sugar in the mix but it's 40 kcals and I've weighed scoops to check, but add a splash of semi skimmed milk as I would a tea, so a few extra cals

Normal dinner ( not low carb but would of had the same before )

No pudding

So is the lack of weight loss me eating the equivalent calories / fat in proper food as I was in in biscuits? 😧 sorry long, just surprised I'm still the same fatness after 4 weeks as even with the few slips it's been much much much less. Nothing this week on slips and my weight this morning was more by 0.3 kg

No idea why I wrote lime craving 😂 I think I meant low carbing

I don't know why. Are you weighing yourself at the same time of day, and with same clothes (or none)? I have started the Michael Moseley 8 week blood sugar diet. I've lost around 4kg in less than 4 weeks.

Today for me
Breakfast: 25g porridge oats and 300ml semi skimmed milk. Coffee and milk.
Snack: handful of nuts
Lunch: 2 small slices of cooked chicken. Feta salad.
A few nuts and a square of 85% dark chocolate.
Dinner: stir fry - beef marinated in ginger, red chilli and garlic (with soy sauce). Then cooked with black beans, asparagus, sugar snap peas and beansprouts.
Now I might have some plain greek yoghurt with some nuts.

I may plateau or get stuck some times, but will try to continue on it. It is fairly easy to stick to. Having a little yoghourt (with a few nuts in it) is a lifesaver when you crave something as it is quite filling. I take water throughout the day. I might put some mint/lemon/ginger into the jug for flavour. I have cooked some desserts (the baked peach with some coconut, dates and pistachios is gorgeous), but only an odd day.

It might help if you can get a brisk walk in. It is tough when you have children, but if you could just carve out a half hour for yourself to do that maybe it would help.

Good luck!

Are you eating more than 800 calories, I wonder? Your body holds onto weight if you eat too few calories. It tries to conserve your weight.

I'm sorry, but if you think you're going to lose weight by low carbing - you're not low carbing!

Breakfast - chicken breast / scrambled eggs
This is perfect low carb food, but also assumes that you've had plenty of fat?

Fruit portion
Not really low carb, although it depends on what fruit. if it was strawberries/raspberries this would be OK - if it was a banana, then definitely not!

^No snacks
Great!

Just had tomato soup and portion of cheddar cheese, slice of ham and a slice of chicken, but occasionally had a full sandwich ( which I know isn't low carb) or a salad with chicken.

Tomato soup, and sandwich will both be really high in carbs.

Might have a options hot chocolate instead of morning snacks, so some sugar in the mix but it's 40 kcals and I've weighed scoops to check, but add a splash of semi skimmed milk as I would a tea, so a few extra cals

This might be low in calories, but it will have been very high in carbs.

Normal dinner ( not low carb but would of had the same before )

So, in other words, your 'normal' dinner is a high carb one?

I think you really need to do a bit more research to find out what a low carb WOE (way of eating) is.

The way you're eating isn't cutting down on your carbs, so you won't be losing weight.

Sorry - to be clearer, you have cut down your carbs a bit - by knocking the biscuits on the head. But you evidently haven't cut down the carbs enough for weight loss to occur.

And on a low carb diet you have to be consistent. You can't compensate at one meal with keeping the carbs low if your previous meal was a high one.

Cut out higher carb fruits, the bread, the soup, the hot chocolate and any high carb elements of your 'normal' meal and then you will have lowered your carbs enough to see weight loss.

@BIWI yes your are totally right. I suppose I'm easing in and yes I need to reduce some more to be actually low carving. I do a very small portion the traditional carbs with dinner anyway, but I don't exclude them at the moment.

I am finding it very hard not to snack and feel "starving" and very empty. Cheese helps, but I can't eat multiple cheese portions a day can I ? That's when the options hot chocolate has helped curb the snacking potential. It has 5.8g of carbs obviously a little more if you add a plush of milk for the calcium ( milk in tea adds up ), but I'm conscious of having milk now I've removed cereal.

Why can't I write carbing 😂

I always have that problem too - despite all the years I've been posting about low carbing it so often becomes 'carving'!

One of the great benefits of following a low carb WOE (way of eating) is that it acts as a natural appetite suppressant. So when your carbs are low and - very importantly - your diet is high in fat and moderate in protein, you will genuinely not feel hungry between meals. So there's absolutely nothing wrong with snacking on cheese. It's much better than resorting to the hot chocolate.

You might benefit from joining a slimming group.
They get slagged off on MN a lot because people loose weight while doing them and are then annoyed because they put it back on when they go back to bad habits.

If you aren't interested then do this.
For every meal have at least a third or more of your plate as veg or fruit.
Use lean meats where possible for another third
The last third can then be carb.

Loosing weigh sustainably and keeping it off shouldn't make you unhappy. You shouldn't feel hungry all the time.

If I crave a sweet biscuit then I have a 'biscuit tea' by Yorkshire tea.

Low carb is more than just cutting out the obvious carbs- there are carbs in more than you would think.