The Pretty Extraordinary Low Carb Diet Thread

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A continuation of The Rather Amazing Low Carb Diet Thread.

In an Indian restaurant you can eat cauliflower or mushroom baaji and a chicken korma. You can't tell exactly how many carbs will be in there, but you won't be going too far wrong, I think.

lemniscate, with regard to the stinky breath retardex spray is very good, as are smints.
Bucket loads of water / herbal tea helps too.

We have an Indian takeaway every Friday, and I would second BB's recommendation for cauliflower or mushroom bhaji. Also, spinach is a very good, low carb choice.

Personally I would avoid anything with a korma sauce as it has too much cream for me - something that I realise I have an issue with. I also worry that it has sugar in it, as it always tastes so sweet.

My usual choice is tandoori chicken or chicken tikka.

I'm drinking 6-8 pints a day plus camomile tea and am still stinky Time to hit Boots! Does the halitosis settle down, or am I destined to be Bad Breath Betty as long as I'm low carbing?

My breath took about 2 weeks to calm down. It will still get rank if I don't drink enough. I am completely paranoid though & spray retardex before every meeting, after every meal & that kind of thing. I've got a date tonight & I shall be spraying like some kind of nutter before I meet him!!!!

I can eat loads of Indian dishes, its great. Also turkish food - which is basically kebabs, without the pita bread. The salad, lamb/chicken and some peppers.

yummy.

Chinese, have avoided like the plague - everything has sugar, msg or flour coating.

I have stopped the faily weigh ins, I was becoming obsessed! Determined not to weigh until Thursday morning.

Scrambled egg for breakfast, and just had pesto chicken stew, steamed broccoli and braised cabbage for lunch, I only had a dribble of the 'sauce' though as it's from the staff restaurant and I have no idea exactly what's in it.

I have a beef 'sizzle' steak with veggies for dinner this evening. Am forcing myself to eat really as my appetite has shrunk vastly!

LOL @ 'faily weigh ins' - is that a Freudian slip?!

faily? daily

BIWI I think it may be hahaha!

Ok for breakfast I've had blueberries, for lunch tiny salad (no time and wasn't hungry) and for dinner have cod/chorizo/pepper bake with broccoli - sounding ok?

Creamtea - make sure you eat some fat. Other than a bit of chorizo, your day is sounding very low fat & very low calorie. You can only do that for a very short time before your body thinks you are starving it & then slows down your metabolism & you stop losing weight.
With low carb, you can keep up the fat & protein without it being detrimental.

Hello creamtea - sorry for ignoring you pages ago, I did notice you (but think I got absorbed in reading BIWIs posts about citric acid and stalling) and I did notice your name and think it was terrible as I really started craving a bloody scone with clotted cream and jam. I would so love one of those just now.

I am too scared of indian takeaways as I had a cauli bhaji and some sag paneer a few weeks ago and I was very bloated the next day - perhaps my local indian uses thickeners or starch. Anyway if I want a curry I will make one myself.

I had cauliflower cheese last night - it was delicious. I didn't make a sauce, just steamed some cauli, then grated half a pound a few grams of cheese on top and shoved it in a hot oven for 10 mins.

I have not weighed myself as I am just going to do it once a week on a saturday otherwise I get obsessed. I am trying to not get hung up on weight as I think the best way to measure it is by clothes.

One thing that really excited me (sad loser) is finding in my old handbag some measurements of myself. I remember writing them down in about November time and I assumed I lost them. I doesn't have my weight on but my hips waist and bust (but assume my weight was around the 12.3 mark as it was in December).

Hips - was 41, now 37
Waist - was 31, now 26.5
Weight was 12.3 now 10.9

PLUS (more sad bastard alerts) I have gone on this site which was linked to on the Jillian Michael's thread, using all my old measurements (apart from the measurement for my neck, which I didn't take back in November so assume it is the same as now, 12 inches) and according to the measurements I used to be 30.5% body fat (which is acceptable) and now I am 19.5% body fat (which makes me really fit!).

Here is the site www.linear-software.com/online.html go and have a look. I know there is probably a HUGE margin for error in these things, and the fact is I am very tall which I suppose can skew results, but that has cheered me right up. I am just off down the road to get a battered sausage and chips and some banoffee pie (joke, but I would like to).

Agree with postbellum that you need some more fat in your diet, one to make it work and two to not make you feel like shrieking 'bollocks' and eating cheese on toast because you feel so deprived.

The reason I have stuck this diet so long is because I can eat loads of tasty stuff - spinach for instance would be miserable without butter. I didn't last very long on the Dukan diet as the low carb combined with low fat made it feel joyless.

Wow, GetOrf, that is alot of inches lost (as well as pounds). That must be 2 dress sizes? Big round of applause for your very slim & trim bod!

The smell of apple pie was wafting around outside one of the cafes in town today & I was overwhelmed with the craving for sugary, sweet lardy apple pie with lashings of cream. I think I could have easily woofed down an entire family size pie. Didn't though, had some slices of roast beef & a spoon of coleslaw (cheap stuff which is nearly all cabbage & therefore very low carb) with a big dollop of mustard mayo and now am so glad I didn't give in. I am feeling smug about my lack of self loathing!!!!

I know - I am really pleased. TBH though in November I was in the midst of steroid bloat - I don't know how steroids make you put on weight (is it water retention or pure fat being laid down I wonder). But yes I am about 2 dress sizes down - about an 8-10 now when I was a 12 and 14 before. I lived in leggings and loose dresses last winter because none of my jeans fit me (plus I was ill anyway so never went out). I am more pleased that I am healthy now, reallt, the weight loss is a really nice bonus though.

I am starting to get masochistic as I take great pleasure in making things for my family which I cannot eat, almost as a challenge to myself. I made apple crumble last night, and tonight me and dd are making cherry bakewell cake.

I have a real yen for chocolate at the mo - I swiped a bit of DD's thornton's easter egg (I don't know why she is eating easter eggs at the moment but hey ho) - it was only the size of a 10p piece. But it was such a disappointment - it tasted vile. Really horrible synthetic taste. Has thorntons always tasted this shite or have my tastebuds changed I wonder.

Wow, GOML, that is really impressive!

Creamtea - agree with everyone else. That doesn't look like enough food, and there isn't anywhere near enough fat. Remember, this WOE isn't about calorie counting.

creamtea you are not eating enough. Doesnt that sound weird? But it is right. You need to eat enough protein and fat so that this way of eating works.

GOML thorntons has always been shite. If you want proper chocolate then try the Hotel Chocolat 100% pure cocoa chocolate. 1 square sucked is heaven and is just the thing for a fix.

Or at least G&B 85% dark choc - it was on special in Tesco a couple of weeks ago... just saying.

Thanks all! I think once collected kids will have some cubes of cheese for a snack, that ups protein/fat a bit. Tomorrow will be better as at work.
GetOrf - was just about to say ooh we are exact same weight but then read the bit about you being v tall - I'm mrs average 5 ft 6. Aiming to try and get another stone off by end of may.
And to the name...well I know is torture but they are my absolute fave thing, much dreaming/craving I know!
Still been bad with scale obsession - again that will be better tomorrow as out the house.

Love the recipes on the blog! Dh has been low carving for three weeks and has lost a stone. I'm thinking of joining him but I'm breastfeeding. Has anyone done low carbs whilst breastfeeding? I have about two stone to lose. I've already given up bread and potatoes. DD and I have been eating the same as DH but with rice or whole wheat pasta. She doesn't like potatoes so it makes no difference to her diet.

I don't think it's advised whilst you're breast-feeding, FM, although I don't really know why - it's a pretty healthy way of eating! I'll see what I can find out for you.

Welcome, by the way!

I think it's something to do with the ketones Best not to cut carbs when bf I think, although perhaps low carb lite, like no carbs after 2pm and only 'good' carbs like brown rice and pulses?

hi, can anyone tell me which type of milk has the lowest carb content.. I'm
dying for a milky coffee!!

Thanks

Well at the moment a typical day is porridge, tuna/chicken and egg salad and dinner something like minced beef with a tomato sauce, lots of veg and whole wheat pasta. Snacks are nuts, yoghurt, fruit, vegetables with hummus. Does that sound like good carbs without going too low?

It all depends what you mean by too low! That's quite a lot of carbs, actually. It does look like a good day in terms of overall health, but not especially low carb for weight loss, I wouldn't have thought.

How old is the baby? Are you solely breastfeeding?