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The Pretty Extraordinary Low Carb Diet Thread

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QueenStromba · 22/02/2012 16:17

A continuation of The Rather Amazing Low Carb Diet Thread.

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FreeButtonBee · 23/02/2012 11:02

Why am I soo tired? It's not LC-ing. Gah, I went to bed at 9.15 - didn't even watch Masterchef.

Right, naughty LFW now behind me. Slightly up today to 11 13.5 but will hopefully see some movement back down tomorrow.

Plain yog for breakfast,

might go for spicy chicken for lunch (columbian spcied chicken (you get loads as well, not weedy girly portions), salad, tabasco and 'green' sauce. I don't ask what's in the green sauce but it's hotter than hell so mainly chillies. Helps with the digestion too

Dinner is spicy beef meatballs in tomato sauce, with salad and feta cheese on top - I made and cooked the meatballs on Sunday so v quick tonight (couscous for DH if he wants it). Am also going to Pilates for the first time in ages so that will HURT.

CV - what's the korma recipe? I am rubbish at cooking currys - apart from an awesome channa masala. They always taste a bit raw and same-y when I cook them from scratch.

encyclogirl · 23/02/2012 11:04

Thanks guys, maybe I could have eggs every other day?

Good to hear coffee is okay, India said it stalled her. I was big into her 'Pig2Twig' and the weight fell away.

Once I started running I had carbs again and I piled half of it back on. I just can't shift it now, even with loads of running, it wouldn't shift.

I got injured before Christmas and am only just back. Meanwhile I've piled on nearly a stone on top of the stone I already needed to shift.

I really am starting to believe that the carbs will have to go. Much as I love them.

GetOrfMoiiLand · 23/02/2012 12:11

I found this Indian recipes thing on the Atkins diet website - some of them look pretty good and they indicate the carb content.

mml-atkins.4worx.com/76/50/38/cd/Atkins_IndianRecipes.pdf

(it takes a while to load btw)

SeriousWispaHabit · 23/02/2012 20:09

Well I am not hungry other than for tea and toast. I am lying in the bath on phone and feeling very sorry for myself. DD2 was up all last night vomiting, I had a 7.30 start at work, got home at 7 and now DD1 has started with the vomiting too. I am knackered, have another long day tomorrow and feel like crap mum of the year for leaving poorly DDs with a nanny. Going to bed after this bath Sad

CointreauVersial · 23/02/2012 20:15

FBB, I would love to type out the korma recipe but I will end up with RSI.....

It was from this book which I bought recently and absolutely love -curry recipes often tend to be "unapproachable" IYSWIM, requiring all sorts of unfamiliar techniques, equipment and ingredients, but these are good, family-friendly curries. The Delia of curry cookbooks.

Anyway, another well-behaved day so far; yogurt/berries/almonds for breakfast, then tuna mayo in iceberg wraps for lunch. Haven't thought about dinner yet.

flipflopflap · 23/02/2012 21:49

Can anyone recommend the lowest carb foods to eat in an Indian restaurant? I'm veggie so no meat dishes, but I've got a birthday thing I have to go to, I was thinking a veggie balti or something?

BerylStreep · 23/02/2012 22:04

Well, I was down a bit today. Had a pretty good day.

Pig to twig had a really good recipe for curry - butter chicken.

QueenStromba · 23/02/2012 22:12

Go for something cream or coconut milk based. Mushroom bhaji is a good low carb side and the spinach based dishes shouldn't be too bad.

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FreeButtonBee · 23/02/2012 22:43

Hmmm CV, RSI from writing out recipe doesn't bode well for actually preparing said recipe. Will book mark the cookbook - although DH has banned all new cookbooks. May have to operate on a balck market basis...

Agree that butter chicken is good ordering - also spicey okra which i had for the first time recently. Twas lovely.

Pilates was hard cos i hadn't been in 3 weeks but also annoying cos i was with 2 big gallumping boys. Not really what i wanted tonight tbh. Might have to rejig my classes.

Ta for the atkins links too getorf but i do like tried and tested recipes. Partic with curry as i am not great with them.

CointreauVersial · 23/02/2012 22:50

I had Indian Scrambled Eggs from the P2T book for tea. Yum.

I just realised the thing I love best about low-carbing is the almost-immediate flattening of the stomach, once all the stodge leaves your system. You don't get that "stuffed" belly-busting feeling ever.

Not weighing til Monday, though.

AngryFeet · 24/02/2012 09:16

Day 4 here and all going well. I am struggling to hit my quota of 20g of carbs a day though! Am started to worry that I am going to drop dead or something if I don't get enough. To do 15g of carb in veg and salad seems like a lot of veg and salad!

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QueenStromba · 24/02/2012 09:57

I've not lost any weight all month because I'm on medication which is making me starving all the time. On the up side I've not gained any weight and I've only got three more days of it so I've avoided the 1-5kg weight gain the leaflet said to expect :)

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encyclogirl · 24/02/2012 10:55

Hello girls, me again. Congrats on the stonking weight losses! So impressive.

I am psyching myself up here to join you. I currently weigh 10' 4 and need to drop a stone at least for optimum running performance. (You're never so aware of extra weight as when you're running and lugging it with you.)

My dh also needs to drop at least 3 stone, so he'll be joining me.

Do you mind if I read along and ask a few questions for a while? I seem to have forgotten so much!

GetOrfMoiiLand · 24/02/2012 11:03

I am glad you haven't put any weight on QS. It is absolutely gutting when you put weight on from medication - bloody steroids were the reason why I ended up putting on so much weight just before Christmas. It was all on my face as well, I looked like Moon Face.

I have lost another pound since yesterday so am 10 stone 12. I always lose weight strangely - don't lose a thing for a week, then end up dropping a load of weight in the following week. It's great on the weight loss weeks, but a bit frustrating on the non-loss weeks.

freebutton I am a curry fiend, I cook them very frequently. My favourite and most successful book is by Camellia Panjabi. I cook 3 recipes from that book frequently and I have looked on the web and found them here www.uppercrustindia.com/oldsite/10crust/ten/rec2.htm - the ones I cook are the Lamb with turnips, Kerala chicken stew and the Goa Vindaloo (the goa vindaloo I cook about once a week, usually use pork or chicken thighs).

They can be easily adapted for low carb imo but cutting down the amount of onion, leaving out the potato and any other root veg, and the peas.

The ingredients lists look insane, but if you have an indian grocer near you you can pick up all that stuff for a few quid, and it keeps for a good while.

I have adapted the methods in all cases - the recipes as written here are rather pernickety, and I have never boiled lamb bone Hmm either.

My general method is to fry off the onion for a good while until they go golden brown (this reallty adds flavour, and since I have been low carbing I have just used half an onion), and for the rest I blend the garlic, ginger, powdered spices and others with a splash of water to make a paste. I then add that to the onions, stir on medium heat until you see oils released (difficuly to explain, but stirring this on a reasonable heat with make the spices seem to emit oil) and then add the rest of the inrednets, the meat (never browned, it makes it tough) and then stock or coconut mild or whatever. Then cover it and let it cook for about an hour on low.

The curry will be rather watery than you would expect, I don't bother thickening it though (when not low carbing I usually add new potatoes to curries anyway because I love spuds).

For spices which are not powdert (such as cardamom, cloves, peppercorns star anise etc) when in the mood I grind them in a pestle but more often that not just throw them in whole with the spice paste and tell people that the curry has got whole spices in.

A note on the more obscure ingredients:
-tamarind paste you can get from sainsburys (where the spices are) - don't buy the block because that is a palaver to use.

-Curry leaves I get from my local Asda but usually forget the buy them and have never noticed the difference.

-Kashmiri chillis I can get easily because I live in an ethnic area, but if not just use chilli powder or crushed chillis.

-Jaggery is palm sugar sold in a great block, don't bother using it cos it's sugar and not allowed on low carb anyway! When not low carbing I do use but it doesn't really make a difference.
-Goa vinegar. I have no idea what that is but use cider vinegar instead

GetOrfMoiiLand · 24/02/2012 11:04

Sorry epic post Blush

Btw I will add myself to the bottom of the list

Custy - target weight 9:3, current weight 9:7.2
RatherBeOnThePiste - target weight 9:13, current weight 10:4
BIWI -
kotinka - Start 266lbs, Target 154lbs, Current 229lbs (37lbs loss)
Cardoon?
goingmadinthecountry?
Febes - weight lost so far 5 st 9lbs 13st 9lbs this week
countessbabycham - weight lost so far 3 lbs
QueenStromba - weight lost so far 46.5 lbs
fluffy123 - weight lost so far 56 lbs GOAL
mejon - weight loss so far - 24 lbs
smokinaces - weight loss so far 27.5 lbs
Rillyrillygoodlooking - weight loss so far 2kg
wantanewname - weight loss so far 9.5lbs
WentworthMillerMad - weight loss so far 21lbs
FreeButtonBee - target weight 9:10, weight loss so far 3.5lbs
supersalstrawberry - weight loss so far 2lb, goal 17lb
Spamspamspam ?
OneLieIn - weight loss so far 4lbs
openyerlugholes - target 9.6, current 10.8
Getorfmoiland - starting weight 12.3, target weight 12.13, current weight 10.12

CointreauVersial · 24/02/2012 11:54

GOML - I'm afraid any recipe book which asks for jaggery, goa vinegar or boiled lamb bones would be going straight out of the nearest window. If I can't get it in Tesco......

Anyway, I'll add myself to the list, but I am in awe at the vast amounts some of you have lost. Well done!! I wasn't going to weigh myself til Monday, but couldn't resist - 4lbs gone already (although I am well aware that 3.5lbs of that is the plateful of croissants and the giant roast dinner I had the day before I started the diet).

Custy - target weight 9:3, current weight 9:7.2
RatherBeOnThePiste - target weight 9:13, current weight 10:4
BIWI -
kotinka - Start 266lbs, Target 154lbs, Current 229lbs (37lbs loss)
Cardoon?
goingmadinthecountry?
Febes - weight lost so far 5 st 9lbs 13st 9lbs this week
countessbabycham - weight lost so far 3 lbs
QueenStromba - weight lost so far 46.5 lbs
fluffy123 - weight lost so far 56 lbs GOAL
mejon - weight loss so far - 24 lbs
smokinaces - weight loss so far 27.5 lbs
Rillyrillygoodlooking - weight loss so far 2kg
wantanewname - weight loss so far 9.5lbs
WentworthMillerMad - weight loss so far 21lbs
FreeButtonBee - target weight 9:10, weight loss so far 3.5lbs
supersalstrawberry - weight loss so far 2lb, goal 17lb
Spamspamspam ?
OneLieIn - weight loss so far 4lbs
openyerlugholes - target 9.6, current 10.8
Getorfmoiland - starting weight 12.3, target weight 12.13, current weight 10.12
CointreauVersial - starting weight 9.9, target 9.0 (-ish), currently 9.5

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GetOrfMoiiLand · 24/02/2012 13:02

Do you make the thai curry paste yourself kotinka? I never can be bothered because I can never get galangal and lemongrass and what have you (loads of Indians live around here so you can get indian ingredients in all the supermarkets, but not Thai!).

I got a great red thai paste from the ponce foods section of Sainsburys, it's in a big plastic bucket and the paste is in a plastic bag inside, but god knows what the carb content would be.

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GetOrfMoiiLand · 24/02/2012 13:41

I found it www.thaitaste.co.uk/products/view/curries-for-all-tastes-pastes-kits-sauces/green-curry-paste-gang-keow-wan - 3g carbs per 100g.

Looking at others in that range they have a massaman paste as well but I have never seen that in the shops.

Sorry - I will shut up about curry now Grin

RatherBeOnThePiste · 24/02/2012 14:36

Friday!

We are going out for a curry

Confused
QueenStromba · 24/02/2012 14:53

You've read that wrong - 3g is the protein, carbs are 21g.

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GetOrfMoiiLand · 24/02/2012 15:27

Bloody hell so I have. How did I misread that? Talk about wishful thinking! Blush

Bollocks to thai green curry then.

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