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.

Right.

I. Am. Going. To. The. Gym.

Haven't been for months. Paying money for nothing.

Good to see people back on this thread.

A confession: my "break" lasted 4 days...interestingly long enough for a mini revelation - I don't even like white bread, pasta, cake etc. It's total junk food and it makes me feel ill. I feel better low carbing. I sort of knew this before but didn't believe it, thought I wanted it but I don't. Thought low carb was the hard way but it's the easy way.

So back on the straight and narrow now - green leafy veg only total minimum carbs for a week then the zero carbs week. I am looking forward to it actually.

Good luck everyone.

Hi Orm here's my progress so far...

08.05.08 - 14st 1lb (start weight)
15.05.08 - 13st 6lb (wk 1 -9lb)
21.05.08 - 13st 3lb (wk 2 -3lb)
29.05.08 - 13st 3lb (wk3 -0lb)
05.06.08 - 12st 10lb (wk4 -7lb)
12.06.08 - 12st 9lb (wk5 -1lb)
19.06.08 - 12st 6lb (wk6 -3lb)

So I've lost 23lbs since I started

Bloody hell oggs

Well done that frog!

Hmmm. Wonders (jealously). How distant do you have to be from your ideal weight for them to take you on with the Cambridge Diet?

Katisha, I think you have to have at least a stone to lose.
It's no fun at all, but it is effective if you can stick to it.
The 3 sachets give you about 40g or so of carbs a day and about 430cals. They also give you 100% of the vits/minerals etc that you need. You go into ketosis the same as when low carbing.
Tbh I've been sneaking bits of cheese and meat as I find not eating really hard when preparing food for dh and dd.

Well i'd say I've got about 2 stone to lose really.
What happens then? You have to see someone in person - do they come to you or you go to them? on a wekly basis?
Or will they just sell you the stuff and leave you alone?

You find your nearest counsellor and make an appointment to go and see them.
My nearest one is about 30 miles away .
I suppose a lot depends on your individual counsellor. I'd done a lot of research and because I'd been low carbing I went straight onto the diet. Some people might be weaned onto it by going low carb for a week first.
There is a medical record form that the CDC fills in with your name, address and whether you suffer from a variety of conditions or are taking any medications (if you are then you are supposed to get the form signed by your dr).
Then I was weighed and I picked my flavours. That was that.
Some will measure you but mine doesn't. You get a little record card and a couple of booklets explaining the different levels and bob's your uncle.
I go every week to be weighed and to buy the weeks supply (last week I only bought 6 sachets as I had a lot left over). I'm in with her less than 10 mins. To begin with she rang me or texted me mid-week to check I was okay, but doesn't now.
I pay £1.65 per sachet but again different counsellors may be different.

Here's the website

Hellllloooooooooooooooo. Anybody here???

Was weigh in today and lost 1lb

Hellooooo back !

Well done. Another lb down the swanee.

Ugh! Writing this immediately after eating a shit load of fun size cadbury bars, feeling like total crap.

I was doing OK and sticking to my previous plan (v. low carbs) but I am due to go to a family wedding next week and I haven't lost the amount of weight I had envisaged. I have a dress to wear but it doesn't look good and I'm in crisis about being the frumpy, mumsy looking sister in law compared to the other lot who are all under 28 and slim. I am 35 and size 16.

Anyway on Saturday I felt so miserable about this, the kind of hormonal PMT kind of miserable where everything seems like too much effort and you don't even want to talk about it. There is more to it than that though - as well as the weight/body size issues I've been starting to feel a bit crap from lack of career or work direction (gave up job to be full time SAHM)as if I am not good enough as I am, I feel completely lacking in confidence as if no one will listen to my opinions because I'm "just" a SAHM. DH kept saying, if the diet is making you miserable, ditch it and do something else. He meant calorie reduction and exercise but since then I've been inhaling eating cookies, scones, ice cream and chocolate. I haven't even enjoyed it, just felt this compulsion to do it, even though it had made me feel like crap.

SO just posting on here to make myself accountable really. I can't be trusted, any sniff of sugar and I get a desire to binge madly. It feels like I am trying to obliterate something by the act of chucking all that dross down my throat - my feelings of sadness and failure I suppose. Boom or bust, all or nothing.

So anyway, no excuses from now on, it's back on the wagon immediately - no one last mouthful - the rest of the bag straight in the bin and then out to the shops to stock up on low carb friendly food.

I can identify with so much of what you've written. I went totally off track over the weekend - too much wine, vodka and cake/chocolate.
I demolished a banana and choc chip cake that I'd made for dh and dd. As if that wasn't bad enough in itself I spread each slice with obscene amounts of butter . I was almost cramming it in my mouth at one point. I followed with Rocky bars and pork pie...

Have sort of managed to drag myself back from the brink but as of this morning I've managed to fall back to the weight I was 3 weeks ago .

Don't feel too bad, we've all been there

Froggy, thanks for the solidarity. 3 things:

1. I hear you on the butter thing, sister! What is that about? "I've hit the self destruct button so I might as well plaster this scone with semtex butter".

1. Have you tried Paul Mckenna "I can make you thin"? He claims to be able to get you to eat only when you are hungry and to stop eating when you're full. I've got the CD and book, and I think, if I can remember far back enough, that it does work...but it is a long time since I've had 30 mins to spare to listen on my ipod at night.

1. Also a book I've recommended before on this thread "Eating Less" How to Gain Control of Overeating by Gillian Riley. Really really good book - short, pithy, no nonsense, do-able. I really recommend it.

Hi Columbo - I have bought that Taubes book you were talking about. Haven't started it yet as I hadn't realised it would be sooo thick, but I will!

Re this wedding - go and get some heavy duty underwear - magic knickers or somesuch, if you haven't already - that'll get you down a dress size for emergency purposes.

Oggs - does the Cambridge person talk you through this compulsion to eat thing?

Nah. Tbh I've never come clean about my slippages. Also because I've consistantly managed to claw my way back soon enough that I can at least lose 1lb lose every week she always compliments me on how sensible I am and how well I'm doing
'Counsellor' is a bit of a misnomer anyway. They are just people who have used the diet and have undertaken some training. They are self-employed. They don't go into issues surrounding overeating etc they just sort of supervise you on the diet.

Right. Have ordered the Paul McKenna book and tape. It's my birthday in a couple of weeks and I go away in just under four. Must get my arse in gear.

right. back on induction today.
owl keeps makeing me slip into six lsiced of bread an afternnoon, induction it is for me now.

Stitch, long time no see .
I've just had a lightbulb moment. I've been looking at your blog (you've got some lovely stuff on there, you're very talented ), and only just twigged that it's you.

My lightbulb obviously needs replacing. You aren't the same Stitch as the blog I read afterall , though I'm sure you are still very talented

oggy, you had me really confused there. i am sure i have never written a bllog... but, yes, i used to be on the carboholics anonynous threads.

i have been binging on carbs, seriously big time. in one day consuming six slices of bread and butter, two croissants, creme brullee, and other similar stuff, with little or no protein. as a consequence i have put on, over the course of a few months, a stone i weight. trying to go back to owl simply means that i stuff ny face with nuts, and cheese, and other high fat low protein foods, and wonder why none of my clothes fit.
was very good yesterday, and todya, except, when i had nine fat juicy strawberries. could not resist them. chicken, veg, salmon, and salad. an dlots of eggs i have been eating.

Goodness I can't believe that I started this post so long ago and it is still going and there have been so many messages! Well I did my two week induction really well and lost about 7lbs which felt FAB but then it seems to have been one thing and another. I am under a lot of stress at the moment and have put all the weight back on - I am in a bit of a pick and guzzle phase at the momnent i.e not binging but shoving in a biscuit here, a bit of leftover pasta there, a bit of cheese, a slice of bread...etc etc. I "know" in my rational mind how to lose weight and sometimes even as I'm stuffing things in my face I am saying to myself this is not helpful. I keep trying to go back to low carb but somehow can't get myself on track. I am considering trying hypnosis. (Tried Paul McKennna but did not work for me, I think I need a real live person)

mrsm, i managed to stay on ongoing weightloss for a year. the trick is to simply decide that there are certain foods you will not eat. ever. thihngs like rice, pasta, bread, potatos, anything made from refined flour, or sugary sweet stuff.
after that, its ok to have some wedding cake, or really close friends birthday cake. or some potato in for example a pie, or a fishcake. or bread in the breaded chicken etc form.
if you can do that, then the weight stays off. ime.

can i join? have been trying to do the induction thing for the past 2 weeks (ahead of holiday and to shift self away from heaviest weight ever....)

have lost 7 lb so far! (at least another 7lb to go.....)

have been finding it ok (knowing that if I go off track then every day's sacrifices will have been wasted) - and have even managed a cheeky glass of wie or two over the weekends...

rather concerned about the holiday though -we go on friday - will i put it all back on in a week? any top tips?

well done gladders for sticking to it and losing the weight. unfortunatley you are not going to like wha ti say.
atkins, and low carbing in general, need to be taken as not just a diet, or a quick fix, but as a life long change in eating habits. and going on holiday so soon after such a dramatic change is going to make it incredibly hard to stick to. because if you dont stick to it, then you will put all the lost weigh tback on, and then some.
you could try being on a less strict version of low carbing,. ie, not potatos, rice, or pasta. and preferably no sweets.

Agree with Stitch. When you stop low-carbing and come out of ketosis you will put back on up to 7lbs in fluid.

I've got the same problem. I've been Cambridging for a couple of months and have almost lost 2st. We go away to my parents for a fortnight soon and if I stop Cambridging I will immediately gain 7lbs.
I'm debating whether to go for the damage limitation option and stick to very low-carb while I'm away.
Trouble is I want to be able to have an ice-cream with them all when we go to the seaside etc.
Also don't want to be a pain in the bum when it comes to meals.

Realise that most of the 7lb is fluid - am under no illusions! Did Atkins for about 6 months a few years back so know the ropes....

Also realise that some longer term changes are needed so will be cutting out carbs such as pasta/noodles/potatoes/bread as far as possible going forward..

I guess I was just asking for some coping strategies when faced with challenges on holiday... Do you allow yourself a drink every day? And maybe slightly more carbs each day? I should be coming off induction about now anyway.....