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New Thread for Lo Carbers/non-carbers, etc

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WhereamI · 07/02/2011 16:31

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.

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FauxFox · 12/02/2011 07:14

Weighed in this morn end of phase 1 IPD and i'm 10st 7 Grin that's 5lbs off this week and a total of 11lbs off in the phase 1 fortnight! So so chuffed! A max of a stone left to lose now (want to be between 9st 7 and 9st10 ime lower than that my tits go small and saggy!)- I LOVE this diet!

Today:
B - 2 egg cheese omelette
L - Ham salad with avocado
D - out for dinner at a fish restaurant so fish prob! Will be good low carber on food and naughty on wine Blush

systemsaddict · 12/02/2011 08:10

Well done Fauxfox that's brilliant!!

My averaging day and I'm down 1/2 lb this week - bit disappointed having seen 181 earlier on in the week which would have been a 2 lb loss but I know the decongestants and the cold are making me retain water. And I've eaten crap this week - pizza, hot dogs, sausages last night.

I want to go full-on LC and lose more quickly but I have been at this game for a long time and my sensible head knows that doesn't work for me long-term. What I can do though is focus on eating more 'clean' food at my Reward Meals - proper meat and veg, not junk - and start them with a salad. Will focus on that this week and see how the scales go.

Feeling marginally better today so think I'm through the worst - good job as I find weekends with kids much harder than weekdays at work!

FellatioNelson · 12/02/2011 09:09

Hello all, I'm joining this thread. I've been low-carbing on and off for about ten years. I've lost weight very successfully but then stupidly put it all back on, more than once.

However, About 18 months ago I had a few sessions of hypnotherapy and NLP and started again with a much more 'together' mind-set about my relationship with food, so combining my new coping strategies, visualisation techniques, occasionally hitting the Paul McKenna hypnosis CD, whilst still sticking to basic low-carbing principles I lost two stone and managed to keep it off. Until this Xmas, that is, when I annoyingly allowed half a stone to creep back on. I'm busy nipping it in the bud now, and I seem to be on the way back down again, thank God.

I'm 45 at the end of March and I'd love to be a maximum of 9 stone 7 lbs by then, and ultimately I'd love to be 9st. I think I'm about 10. 4 at the moment. I prefer to lose slowly rather than go hell-bent for leather as I find it stays off better that way, and I'm a bit paranoid about my hair falling out!

Megglevache · 12/02/2011 10:02

Fellatio the NLP sounds interesting I've always fancied having a go.

I bought a few packets of Almond meal/flour/ground from Aldi it was only 99p which was cheaper than anywhere else I could buy.

I'm going to make some pancakes later, can't wait to eat something bready/spongey

I miss crunchy foods, any ideas? I've done the Parmesan crisp things.

Megglevache · 12/02/2011 10:06

fauxfox Amazing- well done you!
You must be enjoying the feeling of loser clothes !

FreeButtonBee · 12/02/2011 10:09

Hi all! We seem to be collecting lots of newbies! Welcome. Lots of v useful info from the experienced low carbers here. I am v excited to here new recipes cos i am a big foodie.

Quite a lot of wine consumed last night. Dinner was a skinny burger- managed to avoid the chips. Also avoided the starters and chiselled off the icing on the cake. The cake wasn't v nice so didn't feel like wasting carbs on it.

Scales say 10 7.25 this morning so i seem to be quite consistently under 10 8 at the moment. Which is brilliant! How this is happening with the amount of wine i consumed i don't know but i will be trying not to make a habit of it.

Dh is definitely coming round too. In taxi on the way home he was complaining that he felt v bloated after eating lots of bread and chips and battered fish and cake. Said that he massively enjoyed the way we are eating at home thse days and feels much better for it. That makes it so much easier to cook at home.

Not sure what's going to be eaten today.

Megglevache · 12/02/2011 11:08

I'm so glad I came onto this thread first inspired breakfast a huge success. I wanted somehting bready and savoury and I go it.

I used the recipe on this thread for pancakes (thank you whereamI) but the ones I made were quite pudgy more like scotch pancakes.

Anyway I modified slightly as some ingredients I didn't have and they are AMAZING! So much so that my (really fussy bugger DH wolfed them)

Savoury spiced pancake (I didn't measure so roughly)

pinch of salt
cup of almond flour
about half cup of ground linseed
2 eggs
generous pinch of cumin seeds
generous pinch of pepper
generous pinch of Chat seasoning
splosh of fizzy water

mix till its a thick batter, drop some mixture into a frying pan with olive oil and turn when the sides are crispy.

They are a lovely fluffy texture but crispy outside, my dh didn't believe they had no flour in them.

I'm going to have them later with Indian green chutney and creme fraiche (cream with lemon Grin) and shredded lettuce.

YUM!

PS have lost 2 lbs already in 5 days!

BecauseImWorthIt · 12/02/2011 12:07

They sound lovely!

Welcome everyone.

Brilliant going, FF - 11lbs off is amazing.

FellatioNelson - the Paul Mckenna stuff is really interesting in terms of resolve. I was gutted because I won two tickets (from his chat here) to go to his seminar, and I can't go! {sad] Irony of ironies, it clashes with the day I'm going on a cookery course, learning to make desserts Blush! I have his book and CD, so I think I might revisit that too.

Dinner last night was very enjoyable because of the company - DH and I with our best man and his wife - the restaurant was disappointing. I feel like writing to John Torode about it actually! Food was OK but nothing especially fantastic.

Anyway, I was good (wine aside!), and had:

Smoked haddock with a poached egg and crispy bacon, with a watercress sauce
Slow roast belly pork with curly kale in a butter and shallot dressing (and no mash)
Cheese (no bread/crackers or grapes!)

So carbs there were kept to a minimum. For lunch, I had lamb chops and spinach.

Hopefully the wine won't have done too much damage!

FauxFox · 12/02/2011 12:22

Thanks everyone Blush I do feel better - my clothes fit now and i don't have to wear big cardis to cover my muffin top anymore! I was a very tight size 12 before, now I am a comfy 12 and I want to be a comfy 10. I know weight loss will slow down from now on but it's a massive boost to have made a quick start and with such a painless regime too! Grin

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FellatioNelson · 12/02/2011 12:56

I think the hardest thing about combining NLP/hypnosis with low carbing is that if the person influencing your mind doesn't get low carbing they can say well meant things that are counter-productive to the low-carb cause. The lovely lady that did my hypnosis would have a pre-hypno pep-talk and she'd often say things like 'have less butter on your jacket potato, or use low-fat spread instead.' Hmm Hmm I had to put her right on a few things!

The PM book says a few things which I have to filter out too; it's all very well telling people that you can eat anything you want in moderation, and there is no harm in giving in to doughnut urges so long as you only eat one a week and not four a day, but that's not much help if you are trying to stay in ketosis with four stone to lose, and you really understand what it is that carbs do to sabotage you, in terms of leading you to an endless cycle of over-eating. Those messages are fine for people who want to maintain, and have gained control, but you'd be there for a fecking long time trying to shift any major weight initially.

One thing I've realised is that there are two factors at play here - the biological urge to over-eat that is carb-induced; that cycle of hunger/eat carbs/insulin spike/crash/lethargy/hunger etc, but also the mental urge to over-eat, and that can be triggered differently for everybody. It can be a displacement activity, or a sub-conscious habit, or a form of self-medication. Where some people smoke, some self-harm, some drink too much, others need to eat. Sometimes it is a reaction to boredom or stress, self loathing, self esteem issues that need properly sorting out, and sometimes it's nothing that exciting - just an inability to recogonise and react to the the feeling of impending fullness, or eating on automatic pilot without engaging all your senses.

That's what happens when you sit in front of X Factor and eat an entire box of Maltesers or an entire tub of Haagan Daz, and not actually noticing that you ceased to really enjoy it at the halfway point. Grin

So, I had to steer the hypnosis a bit by explaining to my therapist that I believed wholeheartedly that low-carbing was the most sensible way to eat in the long term, and for her to fill my head with mixed messages about so-called 'healthy eating' would be counter-productive. She also taught me lots of little strategies and visualisation techniques that were very helpful, even though over time I have become a little lazy about using them. Many of them are the same or similar as PM's.

For me I feel the two have worked quite well together. My head is in a better place which makes it easier to resist the urge to cheat and have major blow-outs.

FellatioNelson · 12/02/2011 12:57

Sorry for essay. Grin

BecauseImWorthIt · 12/02/2011 13:32
Grin

Would you mind sharing any of your strategies/visualisation techniques? They could be really useful for the rest of us.

FellatioNelson · 12/02/2011 14:23

OK, I'll have to drip feed them though otherwise you'll all doze off. Grin

I'll come back later with one.

FellatioNelson · 12/02/2011 16:47

Right then. First one.

You know how, when you are low-carbing and you really crave something you shouldn't have, like bread or cake or chips or crap non-organic dark chocolate? So you have a bite, thinking that will be it, then you have another bite, then you get all hysterical and eat every bit of carb in the house because you've ruined your ketosis and will have to start all over again anyway. And then you do it tomorrow as well, because you are no longer in ketosis, so you are starving, and it turns into a week long carb fest and you feel shit and put back on three pounds?

Here's my strategy. It's called Put it in a box. A mental box not a physical one. OK, so you caved in and had one bite of cake. It was truly delicious, the best bit of cake you ever ate. And it hasn't ruined your day. Yet. So you have another bite. OK, it's still delicious, but you know ketosis is being sabotaged, and you're feeling a bit pissed off with yourself now. You are on a slippery slope. STOP STOP STOP. Do not have the third bite. That will most definitely turn into a three day excuse to eat crap.

Savour the one or two bites you had (the next ten never taste as good anyway) and tell yourself that you wanted it, you deserved it, you gave yourself permission to have it, you enjoyed it very much, but now it's OVER. Visualise yourself packing up the experience in a little box, done up with ribbon, and file it away in your head, right at the back in a dark corner, where it won't bother you again. Don't feel any guilt or failure, because it will have done you no harm. But it's over now.

Disclaimer: This only works if you do it about three times a week with small nibbles of things. If you try it six times a day with whole KitKats it is a rubbish technique. Grin Remember your head only has room for so many little boxes. If you overfill it the contents will live on your arse instead.

FellatioNelson · 12/02/2011 16:53

Oh, and obviously if you want to give yourself permission to eat the whole slice of cake, or have a whole portion of chips or whatever, you can still put it in a box. So long as it nips any excessive behaviour in the bud, it has done it's job. Obviously two chips is better than a whole plateful, but the important thing is that you keep the experience in perspective and don't allow it to spiral out of control beacuse of your perceived 'failure'.

BecauseImWorthIt · 12/02/2011 17:03

That's good.

Next?

Grin
FellatioNelson · 12/02/2011 17:05

Can I just say, for newbies to LCing and anyone who doesn't already know this - go easy on the sugar free sweets and diabetic chocolates. They can be a life saver when you are feeling desperate, but the polyols will have you shitting through the eye of a needle if you eat more than three or four in a sitting. And even that many will give you shocking wind.

FellatioNelson · 12/02/2011 17:06

Patience my friend. Wink

MosEisley · 12/02/2011 17:10

Marking my place as I'm interested and will come back and read this.

BecauseImWorthIt · 12/02/2011 17:24

Agree re polyols. I once pulled a muscle in my stomach because I had such violent diarrhoea and wind from Thornton's Diabetic Toffee!

FreeButtonBee · 12/02/2011 17:30

Hi all. Liking the brain training.

Had a fried egg for breakfast, then lovely vietnamese food for lunch - pork and lemongrass mearballs followed by asian style chicken salad with chilli and ginger dressing. Was lovely.

Am getting peckish now so will go for a piece of cheese ( possibly with pb )

Dinner goign to be cabbage and bacon cheesy bake followed by gu ganache pud - only 11 carbs per pot! (note to newbies do not follow me for i am free styling this a lot!)

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