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.

First day went OK.

Bacon, eggs and tomato
Salami and an avocado
Salami and cheese snack
Pot roast brisket
Soy chai latte
spoonful of peanut butter

And I spent three hours having root canal surgery today.

So far so good. Thumbs up.

Well done auntyspan. That's fantastic!

Good going Columbo. You poor thing having a root canal though. DH had one of those a few months ago and he said it was "barbaric"... he is a man though

I am on day four and feeling fantastic. I haven't caved once. I have lost all the weight I put on in my two weeks splurge... which I think must prove that it really was all water. phew. I feel so much better when I don't eat carbs. I am less bloated, more energetic, happier, I sleep better and I don't feel hungry all the time (not to mention not feeling the pull of the cakes and then the consequent guilt and misery when I succumb)... so why do I go back to them? I wrote all that down to remind myself when I am feeling like something sweet. It might taste good for a second but it doesn't make me feel good. Oh god, now I am sounding like Oprah "it's just food, it's not love" bleurgh.

Can I join the wistfullness at 11st...

at the "its just food, its not love" I like a bit of Oprah to start the day

Todays menu

Cheese Omlette
Tuna salad
Salmon with yoghurt dressing, and spinach

Good luck everyone today

Corrr well done Aqua. I had a rough first few days - I had a horrible headache that wouldn't go and I had to pee ALL the farkin time!

Now have a bladder of steel and only have to go every few hours

V excited about wedding now and gorgeous dress. I am only 5"2 so I'm still classed as overweight as far as BMI is concerned but I don't care anymore. And as I'm getting married abroad I'll be brown, and as we all know, brown fat is far better than white fat

Pics to follow - and thanks for all the support and advice, lowcarb hugs to you all! x

Weigh in today after first week of Cambridge...... ...... 9lbs .

Have decided not to weigh myself at home anymore though as my scales put me at another 3lbs down .

So. First week over. 9lb down, 41 to go .

wow oggs, well done! That's fab.

does anyone fancy buying the India Knight Idiot Proof Diet Cookbook (and breathe...) off me?

Its a low carb one maybe you have heard of it?
£12.99 in the shops but your delivered for £6.00

Anyone?

On day 3 and today I am feeling tired and hungry, so I will eat a bit of cheese or salami but I don't feel full, satisfied.

I am worried I will be eating too much after snacking on brie and meat all the time.

Also feel resentful, I don't like the thought of all that meat and grease and cream and I want a bit of bread or a biscuit or a cake.

It's all very well going on about neolithic diets, I grumble to myself, but civilisation is based on starch!

Anyway I am sticking to it but find myself looking into the future when I reach my goal weight and being able to eat a normal diet.

Sorry, very negative post. But it's all I can muster today.

Columbo, try snacking on nuts not cheese or meat.

I've shifted over a stone and 2 dress sizes on the Neris & India diet and I am firmly convinced this way of eating is more healthy. We consume so much less butter than we used to because we aren't putting it on toast every day.

Eat lots of fish too, not just meat. Its more interesting and seems to speed weight loss to mysteriously. After the 1st 2 weeks it gets easier, really. I don't even think of being on a diet now - I just don't do carbs and I have never felt better.

Yo, Binkle . I'll have the book unless anyone else wants it. Is it any good?

Hey Oggs, yes its pretty good, loads of low carb recipes that actually seem do-able and tasty!!

If you'd like to accompany me onto the other thread we can discuss special discounted terms

Columbo I've had all those feelings, but I can assure you I feel better than I ever have on this diet. I eat less volume now, am rarely hungry, and what I eat is really good quality, nutrious stuff, no stodgy. I rarely snack, just 3 really yummy meals each day. Good luck - it will get easier very soon.

No stodge I meant

Hi all I've lost another 4lbs so that's 12lbs in all in 14 days.

Well done Www . How are you finding it? Are you still all fired up? Drinking enough water?
I'm miserable on this diet but have not cheated once. I need to start doing some exercise to boost the weightloss.

Well knock me down with a feather! I am feeling right chipper and perky!

Yesterday I was literally lying face down on the floor crying, thinking how hard it was and how I couldn't bear the thought of a life where you couldn't have a fecking croissant if you fancied one...I was so upset because I was ready to jack it in and go and have a slice of raisin bread, I was cross with myself but in the end I didn't have the raisin bread and eventually the feelings of resentment and despair passed. (Clouds part and angelic light shafts fall upon Columbo) Suddenly I got it!

It was just a blimmin' craving, which I didn't really recognise as such because normally I would have given into it. All that I did was decide not to give into it, and after that I have decided that I am not going to be a slave to sugar in that way ever again.

Have been sticking to it and today (day 4) I have had bouts of feeling pretty damn good actually, lighter, happier, more free. For eg, when we were getting petrol DH asked me if I wanted anything when he went into the garage to pay, and I was delighted to realise that not only was I saying no, I meant it, with not even any hint of desire for a Kit Kat etc.

So anyway. That's me, pretty good at the moment. Not weighed myself yet, waiting until the first week is over. Fingers crossed!

Well done WWW - fab loss! And well done everyone else for sticking to it too.

So pleased you're feeling better Columbo. It's a great feeling when you realise you are in charge rather than the cravings isn't it .

I too am feeling more positive today. It's not that I have any cravings as such it's just the mind numbing boredom I feel not being able to eat a thing.
It's made me realise how much I actually enjoy eating. Not necessarily carbs/stodge, but the actual sensation of eating/preparing good food.
I'm hoping I come out of this with a lot more respect for my body and the things I put in it.
It's great seeing the weight come off daily, but it really is a drastic/end of the road type of diet.
When I think of how many calories I must have been stuffing my face with, it's quite a shock to see how well I'm feeling on just 405 calories a day.

Sounds like everyone is doing well. Great to get control of the cravings, I love the fact I've lost my sweet tooth.

Lost 3/4lb on the weekly weigh in this morning, not much, but its in the right direction.

It was a good week foodwise, except for Saturday when I lost the plot with toast and rice, I was really busy all day, and cold and wet after a day in the rain with no coat, so just ate what I could find

Its a manic week this week, I'm out every night for dinner, or at events, so its going to be hard to keep the booze consumption down.

Good luck everyone this week

Just had a nice left-overs lunch - heated up the frying pan with some oil, dropped in a chopped spring onion, chopped a couple of slices of bacon, a handful of chopped frozen peppers, some shredded chicken from the carcus of Sunday dinner, fried for 5 mins, then stirred in the scrapings from a tup of cream cheese, and grated some parmesan on top - yumm

oggs, 405 a DAY? That's not enough, surely?

I have to say I don't feel like I'm on a diet with India and Neris, not at all. I just have to remember that I don't eat carbs, sugar or caffeine and it's fine. I'm even ok on no booze so far. (had one night where I drank but otherwise am at beginning of third week of not drinking)

Columbo, I feel v positive too and don't, so far, feel remotely tempted by sugar or carbs. I'm just telling myself "I don't eat those things" and so far it's working. I keep hearing phrases from the India book too, mostly

you're NOT THE BIN
Cheating is fatal

WWW, what day are you on? Are you going to stay on Phase 1 for a bit longer?

I didn't eat much bread/stodge before the diet. It is sugar that I had the issue with. Pasta, cous cous, bread I could live without easily. But gimme a cookie, some ice cream, some Marks and Sparks Vicky Sponge or a bit of fruitcake oooh. Jeez, what is this, gastro-porn? Shut up Columbo, you're on a diet and there will be no sticky buns for you for ages, years even.

I have 2 stone to lose, 3 if I am aiming on being as slim as I was 5 years ago (which is not unreasonable, though I did run a lot then) but 2 stone would get me bang in the middle of the healthy BMI for my height.

I feel fine but I do miss proper cooking/baking. Low carb cooking seems so ersatz. The thing is, I have been losing weight steadily but slowly by trying to reeducate myself, and I haven't been bingeing much recently (made a big tray of rocky road the week before starting Neris & India and had one bit, the rest sat in a tub in the fridge over the weekend and was then given away to a friend).

I think I can stick this for the purposes of losing weight, but I don't think I subscribe to the "sugar is like the crack cocaine of the food world" thing. I mean sure, it's not good for you, but I am teetotal and it was one of life's little pleasures, you know?

I gained weight due to getting depressed and turning to sweets in the evenings. Previously I have been 8.5 - 9 stone all my life and still did carbs, ate chocolate regularly. However, I also ate very healthily apart from that and did quite a bit of exercise.

I hope to get myself back into that position - personally I find it depressing to think I am on this for life. Sorry if that is a downer but I just don't subscribe to the theory that it has to be for life. I think you just have be very mindful of what you eat, not eat loads of crap and not eat more than you are going to burn off.

So I will be going back to my muesli and bananas and brown rice and jacket potatoes once I have lost weight.

Can you tell I'm a Neris not an India?

do you all have dogbreath?
I did atkins once for 10 mins and it was vile

I have found the best way to lose weight is

oat based brekkie
salad for lunch 3 days a week
other times sarnies but not fattening ones
No carbs in the evening to speak of
skip a few meals (pref in the eve)
smoke

I don't really do added sugar so is ok on that front