Starting low carb two week induction type thing - tomorrow - anyone in??

[mrsmalumbas]

Have just bought and read the India Knight book and have been reinspired to restart my low carb ways - Anyone care to join me?

I do know this way of eating suits me, I have done it before, I don't get hungry after the first few days and I do lose weight. I was "sort of" doing this for a couple of weeks before easter and lost about 4lbs, felt good but fell off the wagon over the weekend with easter eggs, wine, simnel cake etc!

Am planning a 2 week induction type event starting tomorrow morning (I am loathe to call it a "diet") to get me back into the swing of things. It would be good to have a buddy or two.

Oh ewww Ss, I am SO not looking forward to that part.

I don't remember any super poo .
I'm sure that's not the kind of thing you'd forget .

I just found out the answer to my own queston on portion sizes from the pig2twig site>

"India
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Don't worry too much about portion control. Eat off a normal dinner plate, not a tray (or a desk), and you should be absolutely fine. "

Just like that I'd imagine Strawb

I've never bothered about portion control when it comes to meat/fish etc.
Have you tried the roast butternut squash soup? Mmmmmm. Bloody gorgeous.
I did wonder about portion size with this as one very large butternut makes a lot of soup and I scoff it all in one sitting

Icky? Anything to do with you googling images of flying poo perhaps?

oggs, I roasted and pureed the butternut squash and then realised I don't have any veg stock cubes so pureee is in the fridge and I am waiting for my Ocado delivery tomorrow, which has stock cubes. I will ahve it for lunch on Weds, when I'm working from home.

Just asked my poo why it wasn't flying away.

Didn't get a good response.

But I got some weird looks when I came out of the loo.

Are we all drinking water girls??

Arsy bum flaps buggery hell!

Fallen off wagon so hard I hurt myself. Got bored of not wanting to eat. And I really fancied crisps. So I had crisps and bread, pasta and shortbread.

I think I know what superpoo is like. Clean, neat and perfectly formed. No need to wipe. TMI I'm sure but there we are.

I just placed an online order for in readiness for my starting next Weds.

So, a question for old time low carbers who lost weight, stopped eating low carb and then put weight on. How much weight did you put on and was it due to overeating or was it because of this thing I have heard that once you go low carb you have to stick to it otherwise your body just keeps putting on fat slowly as it believes it has encountered famine and starvation and it is trying to ensure you have fat reserves for the future.

I am OK with not eating cakes and sweets etc again (or at least apart from birthdays and christmas etc), but the idea that if I eat lentils, rice, fruit etc I will get fat frankly scares me. I am overweight because I ate emotionally and became addicted to sugary treats to lift my mood.

I am going to eat low carb (unbalanced diet) until I lose the excess weight, then introduce low GI wholegrain/legumes/fruit etc (proper balanced diet) but not a diet rich in carbs (again unbalanced).

Does this sound reasonable?

Yes it sounds reasonable columbo. I don;t know about the science anymore TBH. I swallowed the whole blood sugar thing hook line and sinker and stuck religiously to Atkins for a few years. But got fed up of it dictating my life. Found that when I moved away to a 'normal' low-GIish sort of diet I didn't put loads of weight on as long as I remained sensible and didn't binge. And took plenty of exercise. I have a huge love of sugar and starchy foods and could quite happily never eat meat or fish again, and that does mean that I do tend to binge on carbs if I'm not careful. But it also means that when I'm on a restricted carb diet, I eat very little - take away the enjoyment factor and eating becomes a chore not a pleasure. I can leave the safety of lc but only if I keep a strict hold of my eating and keep moving a lot, and I go back to the fold if I start to put on weight or eat too many of the wrong things.

I think the way I am trying to see it is that we have only recently in human history been able to eat refined carbs and sugar. SO why do I feel that I am giving up something practially essential? Sugar in fact esp whte sugar is not really natural at all as a foodstuff. And when the British Isles were first settled by wandering neolithic hunter gatherers, wouldn't they have lived on mainly protein (mussels/whelks/fish/game) and wild tough fibrous naturally growing greens and berries like seakale and seabuckthorn? It would have been tough and unappetising most of the time but when you found a wild honeycomb or blackberries you would have gone wild for them.

So I am imagining myself mainly eating protein, fat and non starchy veggies but occasionally enjoying a "wild honeycomb or blackberries" (ie christmas pudding or easter egg heh heh) and still not getting fat.

I know what you mean. When I first started thinking about doing Atkins I used to get into a total panic about what I could eat - potatoes and wheat being such a staple. But it becomes second nature after a while.

However I can still trip myself up

I tripped up on large piece of coffee cake yesterday

but leapt back on the waggon with such force I think I knocked a few off this morning! Soz!

Have also rolled off the wagon over the last few days, circumstances conspiring against me (trying to find food while working on bank hol and stuff like that).
So off we start again today. I just hate having to get past the cravings all over again.

Columbo's last post seems eminently reasonable to me. We have only become dependent on sugar and starch fairly recently in our history.

Et tu froggy?

Not having a good time of it at all Orm. I'm despairing of ever managing to reach a healthy weight.
I'm currently looking into the cambridge diet. Can't really afford it but feel I need something that will break this destructive relationship I have with food.

oggsfrog have you read a little book by Gillian Riley (Can't remember the title - but she is an addiction cessation counsellor) I would thoroughly recommend it. Not a diet book (she stresses that we obsess about our weight when in fact it is food we have a problem with) but guides you towards a more manageable relationship with food.

Ah yes...this is it. Check out the feedback people give it. It is so worth getting a copy.

at SS! But I hope you had a nice day.

I ate salmon and salad for supper last night

today
bacon and eggs
smoked salmon and cream cheese wraps for lunch
half an avocado
3 slices of salami (the pound coin sized proper French type)
a slice of camembert
some brazil nuts
lemon sole with butter and lemon
salad with vinaigrette (olive oil and tarragon vinegar)

loads of water

multi vitamins
fish oils
milk thistle

Feel tired but ok

Oh and a whole packet of prawns

Cor WWW that sounds good.

Forgot I can eat avocados.

today I've had:

Morning Shine bar
tuna salad
2 x shakes
2 bits of cheese.
celery sticks with a bit of egg may sandwich filler
small pot of hot dog sausages

AF is about to rear it's ugly head so haven't weighed myself