The Pretty Extraordinary Low Carb Diet Thread

[QueenStromba]

A continuation of The Rather Amazing Low Carb Diet Thread.

Oh RHUBARB.

I read it in one of my 800 low carb diet books.

Mind you I think the crumble topping would bollocks up the low carb element.

what about this?

I don't think there are any low carb puddings. Just have the cheese!

Or serve hartley 10 cal jellies to your foodie mates just to see their faces.

Acksherly - have just remembered that there is one option - an adaption of a Bill Granger recipe - which is berries (whichever you can get at this time of year/are lowest in calories) with a white chocolate sauce - mix of double cream and melted low carb white chocolate.

Just have to find a source of the low carb white chocolate!

You are right, GOML.

Pudding = sweet and stodgy, by definition.

Don't know where my head is this evening. Choose berries that are low in carbs, not calories!

Well. I officially weigh more than when I went to the hospital to give birth to my son. What the actual f%ck.

I feel terrible.

But hopeful.

For breakfast today I was at a friend's house, and her lovely husband was making bacon and eggs, so I ate that. For lunch I had a salad with tuna, and for dinner I had the same thing. The lunch salad was a bit carb-y because my friend made it for me and it had a sprinkle of corn and black beans on it, but what can you do?

So anyway, hoping to do better tomorrow. :)

I'm rather frustrated! I didn't lose any weight last week and actually put on a lbs! I was very strict with my low carbing apart from one slice of homemade banana bread (no added sugar) . Or could it be because I started the shred and put on muscles?

Sorry, Born, but eating banana bread does not constitute being 'very strict'! Even if you didn't add any sugar, you have the banana, which is very carby, and the flour that you used.

If you've just started the shred it's very unlikely that you will already have put on enough muscle to increase your weight.

Sorry ...

If you are in the induction phase, I think cheats are really bad news. However, once your body is settled into low carbing, I think some people can get away with the very occasional cheat & still lose weight.
I am one of those people who so much as looks at a piece of banana bread & I can literally add 3lbs immediately - but some people can definitely get away with more.

Yes - you simply can't cheat. I had a spoonful (huge) of Ben and Jerrys out of sheer idiocy when I started this and it had an impact.

Plus the fact that I assumed that peas = green = healthy and low carb so ate bowls of them. Fucking peas. You may as well have a bag of rolos for all the good they do.

Ditto muller lights . This is why books are helpful - otherwise you make things up and assume all will be well.

I am very strangely 11.12 this morning - so put on 3lbs in a day and then lost 2lbs the next day, I assume it is my cycle (haven't come on yet though). Plus am constipated again.

One thing about this diet - it makes you share detailed info about your most personal bodily functions.

cheerful good luck with it - do you have a book to follow? It will make it a lot easier and get rid of the guesswork.

I am also drinking loads of water. It is deathly dull, I have drunk a litre already this morning.

freebutton I log everything I eat on MFP - I can download graphs showing my progress - it shows an average of 2lbs weightloss a week. I must get out of the mindset of wanting 1lbs weightloss a day.

Oh no. I have to start again i guess. It's not that I ate a loaf of banana bread, it was a tiny slice. I am still in ketosis though, so should I just continue? Don't know what to do. Yes, I didn't start the shred until a fee days ago but I was very active before then. Climbing up Colley Hill nearly every day with a nearly two stone heavy child on my back but hiking a lot etc. walking at least 5km a day since starting the LC diet.

Forgot the add that from today I will only eat food from the idiot proof diet book! Just a question: I eat a lot of tomatoes too, is that okay?

I think you need to watch tomatoes - they are quite carby aren't they? I had some for breakfast last week, 1 cup of roasted cherry tomatoes comes in at 6g carbs, so if you are really restricting them it can impact on your daily total. And 1 cup of tomatoes looks like bugger all.

Carb content may be less raw though.

Just be aware that the IPD isn't always very low carb, which you may need to be in the first few weeks.

It would be a really good idea to keep a food diary and monitor that alongside your weight, to identify any triggers for you.

Dairy - especially cream - is a bit of a no-no for me, I have discovered.

And also make sure you're drinking lots of water!

... and remember that a tomato is a fruit!

First week done and 6lbs off!

I stuck to it last week and am pretty sure I didn't go over 20g carbs any day (barely ate anything apart from meat, eggs and veg so unlikely). I do need to start counting though so will use MFP from now on. I haven't been using ketosticks either but I do have some so will dig them out.

Am loving how I am not hungry most of the time! I ate bacon, eggs and mushrooms at 9am for breakfast yesterday and was so busy that I got to 3pm and realised I hadn't eaten lunch! Normally impossible for me. So I had a late lunch instead. I don't feel the need to snack between meals at all which is great.

I just need to fit in some exercise which has been hard but I will just have to let other things slide - like housework! - to get it done.

Tomatoes were a lovely treat, I must admit, but I wouldn't eat the things every day.

My current addiction is to smoked salmon. I ate the best part of a packet of it yesterday, like a great big cat.

6lbs is brilliant - well done angry.

Almost a bit lower this morning. The scales flickered! Hopefully tomorrow.

Born - agree with the others. First few weeks you need to be pretty strict and only really get your carbs from veg, dairy and nuts. After a while, you can start to experiment with how much carbs your body can handle and still lose weight. I am a bit more fast and loose than others but accept that my weightloss will be a lot slower than others.

If I am going to eat carbs, I either 1. eat a small amount as part of a high protein meal to lower the impact on blood sugar or 2. eat carbs with no/v little fat/protein so there is limited other energy to be used by my body (ie so the carbs are used and not stored as fat) and try not to eat anything for three hours after. This is something that Zoe Harcombe recommends and while her diet overall wasn't for me, i think this a useful way to manage a slip up. If nothing else, it gives a me a plan for fitting it into the rest of my day and means I am less likely to think "Bugger it" and fall off the wagon completely.

But strict 3 weeks needed first, I think.

Ok, I survived the night. I went out for a session with a personal trainer (well 10 of hired her), and she killed us for an hour and a half.

I came home and had some seeds for protein.

I'm doing a phase two version of this way of eating, skipping phase one completely. Be interesting to see if it works. Hey it worked for Gary Barlow!

I weighed in at 10'6 yesterday morning by the way. If I could lose 10-20lbs I'd be thrilled.

The other mindset I've taken is that I've given up sweets and chocolate forever, much like I gave up alcohol many years ago. Trying to win the 'headstuff' battle.

Breakfast was ham and cheese. Breakfast will always be a huge challenge for me. Man I miss my porridge. I am trying to phase 2 it without the porridge.

I realise I'm cherry picking here and might be back 'cap in hand' next week, pledging myself to Phase 1, so bear with me...

PS: I am running loads, so I'd hope that will show up on the scales next week too.