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Old lo-carb thread was 'too big' and wouldn't let me post this. It's for a almond meal pancake - I find one is really filling (I have it with total yoghurt and blueberries) and leave the mix in the fridge to have another next day.

Ingredients:
?1 cup almond flour
?2 eggs
?1/4 cup water (for puffier pancakes, you can use sparkling water)
?2 T oil
?1/4 teaspoon salt
?1 T sweetener
Preparation:
Mix ingredients together and cook as you would other pancakes. I like to use a nonstick pan with a little oil. The only real difference is that they won't "bubble" on top the same way as regular pancakes. Flip them when the underside is brown.

Yield: Six 4-inch pancakes

Nutritional Information: Each pancake has 1 gram effective carbohydrate, plus 2 grams of fiber, 6 grams of protein, and 155 calories.

Right, food diary for today:

Breakfast - bacon and a few cherry toms
Lunch - mixed salad with feta cheese and ham with homemade vinaigrette
Snacks - chicken leg and a bit of cheddar.
Drinks - coffee and tea with a drop of milk and lots of water.
Dinner - gawd knows I am going to my parents house and they tend to get a bit sniffy if I don't want to eat anything and everything. So I shall have to employ great tact and diplomacy and negotiate my way round the spuds and pud.

Orm, my MIL is a bit like that - she watches evrything you (don't) put on your plate. I have found that the best thing is to put a few spuds on my plate, and either cut them up & push them about a bit so I look like I have eaten some, or feed them to the DC.

Asking for seconds is a good excuse not to have pudding.

I'm afraid I'm too embarrassed to post about what I am eating at the mo - too much wine and chocs (I even ate the orange and strawberry quality street which were left over from Christmas - the ones no-one likes). In my defence, I have been having a v crap time in work.

I need to stop though - am going skiing in 4 weeks!

Dinner was 2 scrambled egg, 3 slices of smoked salmon, piece of cheddar and a big massive salad. Yum.

Had 2 more mini meringue things for afternoon snack. Won't be buying anymore of those bc they are too nice. I can't handle having them in the desk drawer. I'll have to find a better snack.

Off to acupuncture for my dodgy reproductive system in a bit and then early to bed with my book.

B: coffee
D: low carb crostini from LCMS and phili
T: parmesan chicken and celeriac chips

so i made th parmesan chicken - it tasted like cheese - just cheese - the cheese was oerwhelming and sickly and dh and i both were disapointed becuase it looked so...well...so.. kfc like!

DD then tried one and proclaimed them 'amazing'
so it wasn't my cooking!

fed up of having just a few c.chips, i went in and 'breaded' the chicken with the almond meal.

it tasted of ....well..not much - but in a not so good way - not almonds anyway.

but i think i can work with that, curry powder or chilli powder or something - i can work with that.

plus the whole thing took me ages and i felt like i was in the kitchen for a long time, so i won't be doing that again.

so all told, haven't had many carbs today - not through bloody trying though!

eSo lunch today was very boring - lamb leg steaks, plain (well, salt and peppered), cooked in the morning 'cos they needed used up, some big salad leaves and a blob of mayo - that was it - and yet another person looked over and went "Wow, your lunch looks fantastic!" I do feel like I'm eating really well at the moment, but it also makes me realise that I can eat this way without doing too much extra or time-consuming cooking.

I get the tasting things better thing too. Cucumber tastes a bit like melon. Even tap water has a flavour - a bit sweet.

I agree with the tap water tasting sweet too- I have been eating this way since last Tuesday and I am staggered at how quickly my sweet tooth has been curbed, no longing for chocolates/sweets/puddings which are my absolute weakness and always have been!

So Thursday today and in 9 days I have lost 7lbs, I am rather delighted. I thought my initial weight loss would be pathetic as I still feel really bloated. (must have been the incident with the rocket fuelJerusalem Artichokes that I will never mention again)

I'm over the moon!

WE are going to a wedding in June, it's going to be a really flash affair and I want to look knock out not blobby

wow meggle well done.

have a good day sal!

no weight loss this morning, i am hoping for good things tomorrow cos i walked to town and back yesterday and didn't go beyond my carbs.

i think my body is saying 'excersize? wtf is going on'

Thanks Custardo and SuperSal.

By my reckoning I have another three stone that I would like to lose but I'd be happy at 2 I think

I'm better off thinking about small steps.

Not a great week for me. Dinner with DH on Monday was lovely, but too much to drink led to picking at the after dinner truffles .

Then on Tuesday I was running a client workshop all day. I forgot to ask what the food arrangements were - but as we had ordered a buffet for the evening thought there would be something I could eat. How wrong could I have been! The menu was:

pizza slices (great big thick bready slices
vol au vents
spring rolls
samosas

Having already given in and had two sandwiches (1/4s, so equivalent to 1 slice of bread) at lunchtime, I caved in and had a slice of pizza and two samosas. I was so hungry, and we didn't finish until 9.30pm.

Day two was a day-long workshop at the same hotel, so I managed to get them to do me a salad. And we finishe earlier, so I could cook my own evening meal, so that was OK.

But then I opened a bottle of wine, which I'm not supposed to be doing during the week.

And I'm out for dinner with some old colleagues tonight (we get together about every 6 weeks), and it's Chinese.

So all in all, I think I'm not going to bother to weigh this week, and will need to put all this in a box. A bloody great big box!

You know, tap water does take sweet! How weird, I've just noticed as I was reading the new posts.

10 5.75 this morning - so up 3.5lb. Not a big surprise as I thought that yesterday's 2 was a bit punchy! Still under 10 7 for the past 3 days which is great.

B: plain yog
L: maybe fajita salad if I have time to go and get it; otherwise, pret salad (bit bored of those now though - need to find a new quick lunch)
D: hmmm, risky one as my dad is visiting for one night and I might end up taking him out for dinner. If not, then prob bangers and mash with lots of veg (no mash for me).

Also found an interesting article on the effect of low carbs on the brain

here

I do feel much much clearer mentally since starting this diet. Looks like it's not coincidence.

That article is very interesting FBB. I am feeling that I am thinking much much more clearly now that I am back eating this way; ongoing mild depression has lifted, so I don't feel overwhelmed by everyday life any more, but I am also seeing things much more clearly at work and being able to think things through better. And I am finishing writing projects! (which is kind of important as I'm an academic )

181.0 today - only the second time I've seen that figure this year, first time was after giving blood but this time it's 'real', so I'm happy.

As you guys have already done the label reading and it is difficult for me with 4 under 6 in tow, which mayonnaise is the best one to go for?

Mother and i tried to make some today which was an hour of my life I will never get back.

i go for hellmans - FULL FAT remember

we did have a store own mayo in the cupboard and i read the carbs - it was a full fat one too, and i was astounded - still a shitload of sugar in there

b. coffee
d. lc crostini and philly again
t. mince quesedillas proper nice with a bit of the left over parmasan from yesterdays horrific chicken crusten parmesan debacle urgh!

tomorrow - i have decided i want my carb free day, but i am going to try on saturday to be good

Bugger! I went for a run and stopped off in Morrisons on the way back for some bits. Picked up a bottle of lemon and lime flavoured Volvic and knocked most of it back.....before checking and reslising it was 13g of bloody carbohydrate.

Grrrr....I was doing so well

Thanks.

I got Hellmans - FULL FAT of course! :)