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.

AuntySpan, half a stone (7lbs) should be do-able in a very short space of time. Most of it will be fluid.

Day 2 and I am already miserable!

Breakfast was 2 poached eggs and siced tomato,
Lunch was 2 turkey patties with onion and roquefort and sliced cuumber.

Dinner will be baked salmon and salad, although I can eat the full fat salad dressing that I couldn't eat on Weight Watchers.

I am going to the library in a bit to get some low-carb books.

What do you eat when you have the munchies?

Must not eat pizza......

i think wine is OK but you have to 'burn it off' before you burn off anymore fat. So as long as you do something active tomorrow then you should be OK?

I've had today - Atkins shake this morning for brekkie, sausage, mushrooms and bacon for lunch and tonight is a tuna salad. Had a couple of mini cheeses for snacks.

Also had two coffees, one with milk and one with cream. Drunk about 1.5ltr of water.

I constantly need to pee & have a headache. Is this right?

"I constantly need to pee & have a headache. Is this right?"

Yep! You're obviously doing it properly!!

I have been to gym and am now in the danger time of trying not to finish off the DSs tea for them. They are having spag bol and I will have just bol later, or maybe bol and cabbage which is nicer than it sounds.

I love just bol and lettuce with cardinis dressing, and a big blob of full fat yoghurt on the bol

OOOPS, I ate macadamia nuts today, only just read that nuts are a big no-no during induction. I did feel a lot better after eating them. Headache went a way and I wasn't feeling hungry anymore. Anyone one else eaten nuts on induction?

Sorry girls couldn't bear the no fruit this time for some reason and have had to change diet altogethrt but have lost 4lbs in a week and no hunger! Good luck

Where's MrsMalumbas gone?
And can someone stop me eating maltesers?

Congrats on passing your dissertation Strawb , I bet that's a weight off your shoulders.

I managed not to finish the entire box of maltesers before Oggs hid them.

I think the lowest carb bread (without looking up anything) is that very dark rye bread that comes sliced in packets. I used to eat quite a lot of that with cream cheese - in fact I might go and get some.

I used to make those almond scone things of Orm's - is that what you mean by the muffins Strawb? They do go a bit damp quite quickly but are still nice.

I seem to be back to my usual sticking-point weight now (12st) , which is good, but now I need to get below it for once. Could do with shifting another stone really.

hmmmm weighed myself this morning and have lost 2lb.... was expecting a bit more for my first week. Not sure if I'm doing everything right....

Cannot give up coffee although have changed to black with small amount of full fat milk or cream. only switched on Friday though

Ate punnet of strawberries and some raspberries during the week and as I read I believe that they're off limits for induction?

Is it possible I'm eating too much??! Tend to snack on cheese... could this be why I'm not losing as much as I wanted to?

Having lamb steak, cauliflower cheese (made with greek yoghurt) and asparagus for tea.

Also had three Micholb beers last night but they ARE low-carb!!

Are you actually doing induction proper Auntyspan? If so I think you will have to lay off the cheese and fruit for the first two weeks or so. And the beer.

It's basically protein plus salad for the first induction period and after that you start bringing in the other stuff. That would probably give you a faster initial weight loss and get you into the swing, but most of us here are doing some sort of customised version of induction and the weight comes off, but a bit slower.

My tip (which I don't follow ahem) would be to up the water intake as that does actually seem to speed things up. There is also a body of opinion that the Atkins shake/cereal bar things slow it up as well. I used to use them in emergencies but they are well nigh impossible to find any more so now I don't bother.

thanks Katisha - not doing the proper induction due to not being able give up coffee.

But yes, I will try this week to do it 'properly'. But gutted about the shakes thing as I'd planned on having those for brekkie.

What do you guys snack on?

Snacking is the problem with this diet. It's tricky. You have to be inventive or else get out of the habit. Ideally once you are fat burning you don't get so hungry anyway and only eat breakfast, lunch and dinner but in the real world you have to go for things like celery and ham. Out of induction it gets a bit easier as you can do cheese, cream cheese in ham/smoked salmon/celery/cucumber, a few nuts, some leftover salad.

Actually a good idea is to have ready made salad in the fridge because then you could have some of that without having to specially start chopping up lettuce and so on. Or some cold sausages/slices of ham...But there is very little in the crunchy/chewy range!

You might be OK with the shakes - I know breakfast is difficult, especially if you are rushing out ot work and can't be arsed woith omelettes and all that. I usually have ham and cream cheese, or else blueberries and greek yog. (The latter out of induction.)