Starting a low carb diet - anyone interested in going for it with me?!

[RatherBeOnThePiste]

I did this very successfully indeed for about 6 weeks in the run up to the summer break. I have been trying to lose weight for a while and was doing OK but then reached a plateau which was when I decided to try something new. And I easily lost a stone doing this.

It was hard in the beginning, for about the first week, then I sort of settled in to it and it just became how it was. And I like the rules of it, because you just can't cheat on it. But it was sometimes hard juggling what the family were going to eat.

I have been cutting down since Tuesday, but will be going for it completely on Monday 5th. I want to lose a stone. Is anyone interested??!!!

howmany carbs is it and do they sell scalhangs at sainsbos?

Tell me about the quesadillas custy, please

here mama lupe tortillas 3 carbs per tortilla

dry fry it - it becomes a quesedilla - a bit crispy and warm

today i had tuna and chili mayo - hellmanmds are now doing msyo ;;;with a hint ...so i have bought
hint of lemon
hint of chili
hint of garlic

so that was for dinner= 1 carb

had sausage for tea = 6 carbs

still might have something later

oh and had a sugar free jelly and cream = 3 carbs

total 10 carbs

They look great - I wonder how carby real tortillas are

First day on P/V today and it feels so......WRONG

those Mama Lupes Tortilla Wraps look really like they might hit the spot!

Not sure what to have later, kids are having toad in the hole and veggies, so I may just have toad with no hole although that sounds a bit erm rude

Tis looking good for me to the Christmas meet so I shall have added incentive if it comes together!

ooh yes, the lbs must come off for the meet.

am making my first ever swede mash.

will take pictures nd blog it later

piste, let me know how your chips turn out

chips are in the oven RIGHT NOW!

And you'll be so sylph like I won't be able to find you

omigod celeriac chips are DIVINE!!!!!!

And they are getting a massive thumbs up from DD aged 14 and DS aged 12. When I gave them to them I just called them curried chips because they are always about stuff they've never heard of. I've used lots of madras curry powder and some salt. I cannot believe they are low carb. Madness!

But from the Pistey household 10/10

I got four

but I bought two celeriacs! So next time I'll be quicker.....

I love celeriac chips!!

We had mashed sweded last night and it was fantastic, such a nice change from mashed celeriac or mashed cauliflower - it will definately feature very highly on our menu from now on.

MASHED SWEDE WITH CHEESE ON is the dogs bollocks

the

dogs

BOLLOCKS!

Horse bolted and door

but i can't find a carb count for an average portion of swede mashed

anyone/~

carbfree.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/swede-mash-is-awesome blog post with pictures

Custardo - try here

Is it just boiled swede?

swede - 2.3g carbs per 100g, boiled.

Had mashed celeriac last night with creamy mustard chicken - really nice.

Will have to try these celeriac chips...

Just had cauliflower rice for the first time - really nice

well this one says 100g of swede is 4.4g.

I have no idea what 110g of swede looks like though. Love the pics, now I need to buy swede.

What I love about the celeriac chips was that they were filling and so tasty and not meat, chicken etc!

Bollocks - now I've found one that says there are zero carbs

wish they'd make their minds up

How did you make the celeriac chips, Rather?

they were straight from Custardo's blog http://carbfree.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/celeriac-chips-that-taste-like-chips/ here

So easy and proper yum. Except I only got 4. I will not be caught out again!

I try again....

they were straight from Custardo's blog here

So easy and proper yum. Except I only got 4. I will not be caught out again!

StickThemWithThePointyEnd - weight lost so far: 9lbs
RatherBeOnThePiste - weight lost so far: 4lbs
BIWI - weight lost so far: 4.5 lbs
Pie - weight lost so far: 0lbs
Eggy - weight lost so far: 0lbs
Snapespeare - weight loss so far 6lbs
Spamspamspam - weight loss so far 5 lbs
Alison222 weight loss so far 5lbs
FBB weight loss so far 3lb
kotinka weight loss so far 17lb
Gincognito -weight lost so far: 2lbs

six sodding pounds! three weeks, not good enough! (but still good!) i am clinging on to the hope of being on the rag,so another couple of lbs are stuffed full of water retention. ;)

It's still 6 pounds though! That's 12 packs of butter, which is a lot of fat

thanks for the link, Rather. I will try them soon. I actually had something very similar tonight, using swede and chilli flakes. They were lovely.

that link piste has lots of differnt suggestions of swede - and one says zero carbs whhich is jut a LIE!

i can't find a carb count for swede anywhere wtf is wrong with google - it worked yesterday

BIWI - chilli flakes would be vair nice on the celeriac chips, the madras spicy was good but could have been even more spicy!

Am still in ketosis, and getting cramp in my calf muscles at night, that is supposed to be salt I think? Dunno really!

I am intrigued to see what weight loss I will get after one full ketosis week.
I want to try the swede mash, but I want to know how many carbs I'm letting myself in for. There are all sorts of figures going round.