CiderwithBuda and anyone who wants to join - the no crap carbs plan

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After Megglevache's inspirational thread and photos showing her FIVE STONE loss I am inspired to start yet again.

I'm not dieting. I'm just going to avoid wheat and sugar. And good waaaayyy back on wine.

So no bread, pasta, biscuits, cake, sweets, white rice etc.

Please join!

Hi. Can I join please?

I need to lose about 3 stone.

Yesterday, I saw a pic of a childhood friend who although I haven't seen for years, we always manage to keep in touch.
In this picture, she'd just had her hair done and looked absolutely stunning. All slim and gorgeous after 4 kids and hitting 40.
It really hit home to me how frumpy and horrible I look. She's been asking to meet up but I've always avoided it because I'm ashamed of how I look. I'm not very tall so 3 stones of excess weight is a lot.

Anyway, enough of my misery and self pity. I'm following a porridge for breakfast, hearty soup for lunch and portion controlled normal family dinner plan. Snacks are fruit.
I've been doing this for a couple of weeks but have been a bit lax with the snacking.
I feel better and dh thinks I've lost some weight but I want to get a bit stricter.

I also saw megglevaches inspiring post and pics. Wow!

I'm so going to do this!

Slip up's happen but knowing how to get back on track is the trick... I have yet to master the trick but keep trying .

I went to the school fair this morning and only had a cup of tea. I made it passed the baking stall, didn't touch the mince pies or shortbread. I am so proud of myself! ignores the fact that I also missed breakfast.

Had a homemade chicken and bacon salad for lunch with 2tbs of low fat Cesar dressing. Grapes for a snack and 1.5L of water down so far!

Tapas for dinner... help!

Good luck 411, we are away the weekend after next so trying to be good until then!

So, bit of a disorganised day today
I have had
A celery, apple and kale juice at the yoga place (lovely)
A small leftover fishcake with cold leftover veg for a weirdly nice late breakfast
A small bowl of leftover dahl for very late lunch
One and a half nakd bars (135 cals each, so 200 total)
Loads of water
Managed to swerve the cakes and tarts at the Xmas fair. Out to see Xmas lights switch on in a min…..there might be mulled wine….. no clear plan for supper,danger danger….
Booked into more hot sweaty yoga in the morning so hopefully keeping mindful of that will help.

I stuck to mainly mussels, parma ham, low fat hummus and salad for dinner tonight with a large port to get into the festive spirit!

Out to another Christmas fair tomorrow then watching DS in a tournament so taking my packed lunch [polishes halo].

er, not too good at the ILs .

Sausage sandwich and an apple for lunch.

Mince pie - FIL is an excellent baker.

Gammon, egg and chips for tea followed by two satsumas. Luckily they don't serve big portions of chips.

Also a couple of chocolate coins. However I did abstain from puddings and biscuits. Although it was basically a rubbish day, the portions were smallish and I didn't feel I pigged out as such. Also no drinks except water and tea. So, we're off home after breakfast tomorrow, that should make the rest of the day easier.

I did a 20km trail race this morning so I'm currently chowing down on my post-race treat lunch which is a jacket potato (skin crisped with olive oil and salt) with butter and cheese. Yesterday was a bit disastrous as had a bacon bap for breakfast (whiter than white bap), then a girl's lunch with about 5 glasses of champagne, and chocolate tart with salted caramel ice-cream for dessert. I convinced myself it was carb loading, Also had a b'day party in the evening but I didn't drink and just had some chicken salad and lamb shish things. This morning had 2 bits of toast with peanut butter as race fuel and energy drink and a couple of gels on the way round. I do know people who manage to low carb to fuel for endurance races but it doesn't really work for me. DH is out tonight so I'm going to have soup and salad. I really need to up my green veg intake. I like them but I'm just crap at incorporating them into my diet. I can easily go a whole weekend with zero greens.

20k... go you! What country are you in that breakfast is 6am UK time?

I am up early making packed lunches for today. I know the alternative is yucky burger and chips or in my case a bar of chocolate so forward planning.

Having a steak and veg stir fry for dinner but using wholemeal noodles and only small quantities compared to the veg. Struggling to low carb with family meals/life.

Coming out of lurkdom and have NC too, because I'll probably be posting quite a bit about my disordered eating and don't want to out myself.

I'm at my highest weight ever, 15st 9lb this morning. I'm 5'3", early 50s, have a history of dieting and disordered eating that goes back 35 years. Size 24 in trousers. I've been struggling with my weight for about 20 years, but it's been the last 10 or so years that I've become obese.
I injured my knee two years ago and I've been relatively sedentary ever since because I'm still in pain after exercise - even after a short walk.

I've piled the weight on in the past 6 weeks after following a quite strict diet for a couple of weeks. The diet has triggered my eating issues and I've been eating tons of crap ever since I fell came off it.

I bought two pairs of trousers just over a month ago and at the time they fitted well. I haven't worn them yet as I'd been saving them for my holidays at Christmas. I tried them on this morning and they don't fit. They both look a size too small ! Not just tight but they look a whole size smaller than I need.

Ok that's enough for now except to say two things.
I'm panicking like mad about my holiday as I'm afraid none of my summer clothes are going to fit. And I'm starting today by cutting down on carbs and drinking more water.

Hi Mixen - welcome.

And everyone else!

I think a lot of us with weight issues have disordered eating of one kind or another - and strict diets are enough to trigger binges and weeks of eating anything and everything. Or is that just me?

I didn't have a great day yesterday. Ended up going for a shopping day with a friend. Started off at her house and she had heated up a pain au chocolate for us both! Then went shopping. Lunch was ok. Peri peri chicken with sweet potato fries and winter slaw. And a glass of wine!

Came home and was supposed to have salmon and stir fried veg but really didn't feel like it so had pasta carbonara and a slice of garlic bread. And wine.

Weekends are hard.

I did avoid any snacking in front of the tv by going to bed at 9 though.

This morning I really wanted toast. But had two slices of bacon, two poached eggs and half an avocado.

My plan for the week is green smoothies for breakfast.

Salad and protein for lunch.
Sensible healthy dinner.

I'm struggling with exercise as I have a problem with my neck, shoulder and down into my arm at the moment. Will try to get out for walks. Or go to the gym and use the treadmill. Also have a cross trainer and rowing machine at home so no excuse really. DH is planning a fitness regime in new year so hopefully that will help too. Even if we just go walking together it will help.

Remember if you go off track you always have NOW to pull it back.Had a great day yesterday. Felt really good as I tried on a size 12 dress and it fit! To be fair it was stretchy
So spurred on by that. Brekkie was 2 slices of toasted rye with chopped seasoned tomatoes, snack an apple, handful of walnuts. Lunch green soup with percorino and gorgeous supper of Asian poached salmon, mixed steamed greens, chilli oil lots of tea water And two nakd bars yum!
Off out tonight and will savour a couple of cocktails -yumyyum won't care that they're loaded with sugar they're delicious!
Had porridge this morning with ground almonds mixed and just had rice cakes with cottage cheese, mixed antipasti peppers/mushrooms/artichokes. Family had pizza am wearing my tightest jeans out tonight- it's my tip.. If I get any clothes on with Lycra I'll eat everything in sight!

I need to do a shop of healthy stuff. DH shopped yesterday!

I have just had a Nakd bar. Not sure I am overly keen but it did the job!

Well done on the size 12 dress! Fab! Enjoy your well earned cocktails!

Cider as your sweet tooth wanes you may be surprised how much better the bars taste. When I've not eaten chocolate for a couple of months I cannot believe how foul it is at first,it taste like sugary oil- it doesn't take long before I'm chopping it down though- that's why prefer really dark 85% choc.

I actually don't have a hugely sweet tooth tbh. I think it was the texture I wasn't overly keen on. It was the chocolate and orange one. I had a cashew one the other day and preferred that.

I haven't got a particularly sweet tooth either, the amount of sweet stuff I eat certainly isn't what makes me overweight, it's the savoury stuff - my main problems are crisps, butter and cheese and of course with the latter two you really need carbs to put them on. I have cut back a lot on both butter and crisps recently and I am certainly eating a lot less bread than I used to, which is good.

Well, I've started today (sort of). Need to eat up a few leftovers that are lurking in the fridge, but so far today I've had:
Breakfast 3 eggs scrambled with a rasher of bacon
Lunch leftover cheesy lentil bake, an apple and a satsuma
Dinner will be a bowl of chilli made with turkey mince with grated cheese on top.

For those people who say they're still hungry after eating just protein, you probably need to add more oily foods, such as some nuts, seeds or avocado. If you just eat lean meat it won't sustain you for that long.

Weigh-in this morning was 12 st 2.4 lbs. Would like to lose 7lbs by 22 December, so three weeks basically. It will be tough as there are lots of meals out etc between now and then but will do my best.

Good luck to everyone who's trying hard.

There was no mulled wine at the Xmas lights. Rubbish. Also no nice food so that was a win. However, I made up for it by having some Baileys when I got home, plus some hummus chips, but not loads.

Better day today, hour and a half of ashtanga, quick bike ride in the sun, masala omelette for brunch, small portion roast chicken dinner with butternut squash, broccoli. Not ruling out a Baileys to take the pain out of doing the ironing later. Not enough green/leafy veg today really.

I have decided we are having an Healthy Advent. Going to do some form of exercise every day - saw this www.facebook.com/groups/adventrunning/ and felt quite inspired, especially as it says brisk walking is ok!

Megglevache, thanks for coming on to cheer us on, so inspired by your success…I want to be healthy. This is the difference for me now. If I get thinner by virtue of being healthier then fab, but it's not just about shifting the weight.

I dream of the day chocolate tasted horrible!!!

I have a mega sweet tooth so I have been using the naked cubes (2 at a time) as they kick the craving.
Did well today until I scoffed a bag of malteasers! I barely tasted, more inhaled, them.

Wildflowers I'm in Hong Kong, so 8 hrs ahead of UK at the moment. Trail racing is quite a "thing" here, largely because there's very few good places to road run due to traffic pollution, pavements which suddenly just run out and way too many hills which are not runnable. Conversely there are 100's of km of off-road marked trails with gorgeous scenery and hardly anyone on them.

Anyway, I wuiped out the benefits with my jkt potato, and then had a bad bad afternoon yesterday with wine, mince pies and crisps at a charity fundraiser.

Back on the wagon today. Just had a Waitrose chunky vegetable soup for lunch, which was yummy.

Morning everyone,

I'm planning rye bread with marmite and peanut butter for breakfast, chicken and broccoli for lunch and a lasagne for tea but using leek instead of pasta like the Hairy Bikers do.

I'm reading the I Quit Sugar book which is interesting and makes me feel like I want to change (and change the kids diet but no idea how I will tackle that as they are fairly fussy anyway)

Have a good day!

Morning,

I've had rye bread toast, a bit of cheese spread and marmite and a boiled egg for breakfast, lunch is going to be chicken tikka salad with a bit of yogurt and mint sauce plus fruit, and I'm going to go for a swim. Dinner is sausages and mash, but I won't have much mash.

Cecy - my DCs are fussy too, and they don't like many of the same things as each other, so I'm not going to tinker with their diet too much at the moment, it's hard enough finding things they'll both eat as it is. I'm just going to cook as usual and eat less of the carb stuff myself. I'm going for the everything in moderation approach.

Not a good start yesterday. The evening turned out to be a wine and snack-fest.

White bread and flour products, plus sugar are my downfalls. I've tried every diet under the sun in the last 35 years and I've learned that if I restrict anything it just triggers my disordered eating.
So, I'm going to be following a plan that I've devised myself, based on two books I've read in the past couple of years. I won't actually 'ban' any food, although I will cut the amount of simple carbs I'm eating and try to seriously limit white bread and sugar. And wine !

I'd love to lose weight quickly but I think I have to try to take my focus off weight loss and bring it back to improving my health first, weight loss as an added bonus.

I'm having sausage and mash for supper too, Whoknows ! I'll limit the amount of mash and make sure I have lots of broccoli.

The ironing mountain was so dreadful last night (does ironing count as exercise?) that it required two Baileys. Oh dear. Evenings are always a crunch point for me. In the summer I used to go to a yoga class to avoid the danger zone, but in the winter I can't fore myself out in the cold.

In better news, this morning I got up and hobbled half ran/half walked round the lake near our house - 40 mins. Running for sprouts day one done. Face is purple.

Lunch will be soup. I bought a soup maker a month ago and it's really fab, so today red pepper and sweet potato. Dinner's going to be puy lentils with leftover roast chicken & butternut. There is some spinach wilting at the bottom of the fridge looking at me so need to think of something to do with that.

What is in your green smoothie Cider and do you have a fancy blender?I might need one to motivate me

Cecy I have read mixed reviews about the I Quit Sugar lady - I think its too hardcore for me, longterm although breaking the love of sugar would be great for all of us. My younger 2 kids are also very fussy. It's tricky and also means I end up cooking 2 or 3 versions of dinner sometimes, expanding the possibility for picking and grazing, bad news all round.

Mixen I am with you on the health improving aim.

I'm meant to be getting a bit stricter today as I had a few lapses on the weekend but I'm getting stressed out and I tend to turn to food when stressed.

I'm trying to do a tax return but my PC keeps crashing. Toddler is bored and wants to go out. I've got an assignment to do by tomorrow evening.

I've had porridge for breakfast and am meant to be making some soup for lunch but haven't got around to that yet.
Chicken curry with brown rice and veg for dinner.