The Pretty Extraordinary Low Carb Diet Thread

[QueenStromba]

A continuation of The Rather Amazing Low Carb Diet Thread.

He's only 8 weeks so exclusively breast fed. I must have eaten loads of carbs before! I used to have about 4 pieces of white bread each day and usually potatoes with dinner, processed breaded chicken/fish. As well as rubbish such as biscuits and crisps. I really want to shift this 2 stone and am so impressed with how well DH is doing on low carbs and everything looks delicious. Hopefully just choosing carbs wisely will help me.

Oooh 8 weeks Frankly I think you're doing incredibly well not to be surviving on refined white carbs only! :o I wouldn't start low carbing that early on personally - I think you need to ensure you get a really wide range of nutrients and low carb can be devoid of some, hence having to take lots of supplements. This kellymom article, although old, gives you some info - kellymom is an excellent site for breastfeeding info. Also La Leche article says that even Atkins recommends you don't folow the weight loss bit of their diet when bf (although the maintenance diet is ok)

To be honest, I think you're best trying to eat sensibly and healthily, watch your portions, take gentle exercise and worry about it later. If you do that, you will lose weight I promise. With DS I ate cake and sat on my arse and never lost the baby weight but with DD I ate a sensible diet and it slowly but surely came off. Back to pre-baby weight within about 9-10 months without even really having to think about it (although pre-baby weight was still overweight, hence me now doing this!).

frilly a mner called debs on this thread has (iirc) a 8 week old baby and she is low carbing to an extent - I think though you cannot go into ketosis, I don't know why presumably it makes the milk taste vile.

I am not going into ketosis as I think it it would be too harsh on my kidheys, but I am just eating a lot of protein, cheeses and a lot of veg. I am doing a simple version of keeping away from all processed food, bread, pasta, spuds etc, and the sugary veg like sweetcorn and peas. I do eat a fair amunt of tomato and peppers and cauli,though. I don't eat very much dairy apart from a lot of cheese and butter, don't bother with yoghurts or milk or cream.

I must say I am pretty much in awe of a mother of an 8 week old baby (who is bf) attempting a diet. I pretty much mainlined chocolate and toasted tea cakes when dd was that age, and looked like I had been hit by a train for at least 6 months.

Until last week I was living off sugar but I split my maternity jeans and that was the moment I realised I need to shift some weight.

Ihatethecold - lowest carb milk is full-fat, followed by semi-skimmed, then the highest is skimmed (when they take out the cream, you are left with proportionally more lactose). Better even than full-fat milk is cream, which you can dilute down if needed.

Anyway, in Kitchen News I made some more Oopsie rolls this afternoon. Whereas the last lot were decidedly "Whoops," these ones were most definitely "Woo-hoo!!" I don't think I beat the egg-white enough last time, hence the collapse, but this batch was fluffy and fantastic. I had a couple with a bowl of cauli and stilton soup for lunch. Dinner was grilled salmon with braised cabbage.

Agree with others who say go easy, frilly - just cutting out sugar, cakes and stodge while bf will make a huge difference. A hungry babe will hoover up a lot of the baby weight - that's what it's there for, after all.

(I mean, that's what the baby weight is there for, to feed the baby, I didn't mean the sole purpose of a baby is to hoover up extra weight....oh, you know what I mean)...

cointreau whats the recipe for oopsie whoopsie rolls please?

Anyone watch the horizon programme? Hormones making people fat you know!

Jax, it was a link somewhere up-thread.....I'll see if I can find it.

Here you go.

Hello

Please could someone help me. I have lost 3 stone on a shales and lo-carb diet and need to loose about the same again. Lo carbing defintitely works for me but getting fed up with shakes and think need to eat normal food else will just revert when finish shakes and put weight back on. Have read alot and have a number of questions still

How many grams of carbs shoudl I restrict myself to - range appears to be 20g to 100g
Can I eat nuts
Can I eat dairy

Thanks

Thanks CV

Welcome, stresstoimpress! Brilliant progress there

The amount of carbs and the types of food you can eat depend on different variables:

• what type of plan you're following
• how many carbs you can tolerate (everyone is different)
• what types of food you can 'tolerate'
• what way of eating suits you best

I think you're right/wise to want to move back to 'real' food, but I have no experience or understanding of what you need to do moving from a VLCD to more normal eating.

I would imagine that the best thing is to adopt a phased approach, along the lines of the Atkins diet, where you start with a more restrictive phase and then move into something less limiting.

The best advice I can give you is to get hold of the Atkins book - The New Diet Revolution, so you can get a real understanding of the thinking/science behind low carbing, and what you can/can't do at each phase.

If you started on induction, (which is normally a two week period, although some people do this for much longer), as an example, you would be allowed 20g carbs per day, and these carbs should come from salad and vegetables (mostly green leafy veg and salad). During this period nuts are not allowed, and nor is fruit.

Dairy is allowed, although go easy with this - some people find that this impedes weight loss.

The idea is that after the induction period you move on, gradually increasing the amount of carbs you eat daily, until you start to put weight back on - so helping you to work out how many carbs you can tolerate a day - to lose or to maintain your weight.

HTH

thanks cointreau I am just off to make these now!

stress what were you doing before? IF something like Lighterlife then you can go straight from shakes all day to a shake for breakfast and at lunch have salad with some protein, veggies (green leafy, avoid peas, sweetcorn, carrots) and meat for dinner. Low carbing is similar to the maintenance part of LL.

I do Idiot proof diet, which allows nuts, but I know Atkins doesnt, you just have to find what is best for you.

first batch of oopsie rolls in oven, they smell and look scrummy.

Would just like to point out that the 300 degrees is FAHRENHEIT! not Celsius... as I nearly had a disaster. so converted is roughly 150C.

off to find more low carb recipes.

What are oopsie rolls and how do I make them?

I had two low carb sausages for breakfast, have tuna mayo with lettuce and cucumber for lunch.

Feeling lighter already. had mozzarella and black coffee this am. I don't really like breakfast so may go back to just coffee and big lunch at 12.Whats an oopsie roll?

the recipe is highlighted above by Cointreauversial.

Those oopsie rolls look good. Where can you get cream of tartar? Is there an alternative to this as I've never heard of it.

in the supermarket, think it is a bit like baking powder, so in the baking isle.

are they supposed to still be a bit squishy inside? and they looked all beautiful and fluffy then took them out the oven to cool and they sunk ala souffle.

Thanks x

Just weoghed in at 12.37 down for 13st! Hurrah
eggs for breakfast
protein shake for lunch
and meat and veg for dinner

I am one pound off my first stone.

It's moving frustratingly slowly!