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.

you can get psyllium (isphagula husk) from Holland and Barratt in a big tub which over time works out much cheaper, plus it doesn't have any artifical flavours or sweeteners. It is called Colon Care plus.

That's worth knowing - thanks .

Could you not even face scrambled eggs? Easy on the tum and full of protein?

Thanks Oggs

Today

bacon and eggs
large salad nicoise so tuna, spinach and watercress, quails eggs, green beans and olive oil dressing, it was lovely
brazil nuts
lots of water
and having steak and broccoli and salad tonight
no wine for 6 days
no coffee for 3 days
no sugar or carbs for 6 days

my vits from Holland and Barrett finally arrived so physillum husks, HURRAH!

Thank you SS. Have been to the loo, hurrah. So sorry for tmi on this thread!

Oh, well done WWW - hope it wasn't too traumatic an experience

am weighing shortly, will report back later!

I've LOST EIGHT POUNDS!! In 7 days! I am SO happy

Oh, well done you !.
See, it really does work. That's fantastic. It will give you the motivation to carry on.

How much do you want to lose in total?

Oggs, it's such an embarrassingly high figure I won't post it but once I'm nearer my target I will post my starting and finishing weight!

I need to lose 3.5 - 4 stone and am bloody well going to do it this time.
(Sneaked a peek at the scales this morning and I'm down 5.75 lbs. Need to keep off the scales now until official weigh in on Thur)

Onwards and downwards, eh?

Well done WWW on the loss - and your menu looks great.

B/fast - full fry up
Lunch - tuna mayo salad
Dinner - Spicy mince and peppers

Yesterday was good food-wise, but had a few pints of real ale last night, I darent think how much sugar was in them

Day 4.
Just had half a sachet of toffee and walnut shake for breakfast (I'm saving the other half for mid-afternoon).
Will try the vegetable soup or leek and potato for lunch.
Tea will be half a sachet of chocolate and mint, with the other half as a bedtime drink.

Feels a bit odd being here. You sure you don't mind me being the odd one out?

I really want to know how this works out for you Oggs so please stay here!

I have been a bit hopeless lately - can keep low carb up during the week and then tend to lose the plot at weekends. So not surprising I am not losing any weight at the moment!

Thanks Katisha
Feeling a bit fed up today. I've just cooked dh and dd sirloin steaks, new pots, purple sprouting broccoli (from the garden) and salad.
I had half a sachet of toffee and walnut shake added to a cup of black coffee
I weighed again this morning (I know I shouldn't but it's habit to step on them first thing in the morning) and since I started on Thurs I've lost 7 and three quarter lbs.

When I cook now it's making me realise how many times I dipped my finger in things or finished off what dd or dh left .

Finishing off kids dinners is a bad habit of mine as well. Can't bear to see waste to find myself shovelling stuff down, which is utterly pointless...

Had a bit of a disaster with some flapjack I made this weekend for them. For some reason it went all crumbly (I make this a lot and it's usually fine). Any way I decided obviously the best thing would be to pour melted chocolate over it all to stick it together. In fact that worked rather too well and there is no nothing left of any of it, and a fair bit of it is inside me...

Ho hum and on to Monday morning...

Hi everyone...can I join you? I know I need to do the low carb thing as I know it is good for me (and I need to lose loads of weight post baby!) but I struggle with it. I do it for a week, or even two, lose weight, feel loads better but then there always seems to be a reason to relax it (inlaws coming to stay, some celebration or other etc etc) and then once I relax it a bit I seem to lose it totally and think "well, I've had a bit of toast, I might as well have chocolate, cakes, whatever I want". It just doesn't make sense! Anyway, I am back on it again and I am going to try to come here to stay on the straight and narrow! 4 and a half stones to lose.

Welcome Aquasea, and good luck with your new start. I know what you mean about being put off course by celebrations/visitors etc, but this time round, I am managing to eat what I should eat, and not get pushed into eating things I dont want to eat. My breakthrough was when I realised I could say no to cake/biscuits whatever, and not feel guilty that I was upsetting my host.

Lost 2lbs on the weekly weigh in this morning. Keeping off the booze mid week is really helping.

Bfast - cheese omlette
Lunch - frittata and other picnic leftovers
Dinner - Sausages and cauli mash