I really AM going to Low Carb this time...

[WilfSell]

And DH has promised to join me. But not until after our big night away without the kids next week. So lots of time to procrastinate plan ahead I've ordered India's book. And have an old copy of Atkins' upstairs.

I will need a sugar substitute I think. And, ahem, fibre. Are linseeds low carb? Can you eat them in induction? And I will need to plan my snackage.

And how to get through the first week or two weeks? What helped you not cave in at the first cravings or headaches? And did I read somewhere you can test your piss? Or is that not strictly necessary?

Is there any "fast food" I can have? the previous post got me thinking about pancakes ... DH and I often used to buy crispy duck in pancakes for the weekend. Now I know the duck won't have many carbs in but what about the pancakes and the hoi sin sauce?

Also, where do we stand on donner kebab meat? If the rest of the family buy pizzas and burgers at the weekend, can I buy myself some donner meat as a one off? is it a lesser evil (iyswim?)

Hello everyone, I think I may have posted on this further down??

Anyway, I have been doing Atkins since Monday - have read the book and everything!

I have a question though - I have been doing very well (I think), not having many carbs - maybe 10-15g a day. But, my ketostix went only slightly pink yesterday, and back to nothing this morning (I am being slightly obsessive with the testing!), but the most annoying thing is that I HAVE PUT ON WEIGHT!!! about 2-3 pounds - but how can this happen?? will it come off? (I thought the pounds would drop off and am a bit shocked tbh...)

Thanks! Hopefully someone can give me guidance before I go and eat a biscuit in despair!

Well done everyone on there weight lose this week. I have now lost 19 lbs since the 2nd Jan.

I also am not a breakfast person, will just pick on cold meat/cheese unless I can be bothered making eggs.

I have a problem this week as got 3 of my wisdom teeth taken out yesterday so have stitches, swollen and sore jaw to contend with so can only have liquids so just writing off the next couple of days till I feel better. Chocolate milkshakes, yoghurt drinks, smoothies have never tasted so good I am hoping that because I should be eating less calories, I won't gain so will just go back into ketosis once I reduce my carbs again.

you really shouldn't put weight on polly, and your ketostix aren't showing you in Ketosis?

you must be counting something wrong or not including something.

give us a run down of every tiny morsel from a day and lets have a look.

Enchilada - amazing weightloss! wrt take out - i just have a chicken tikka - after a quick google i found that some other low carb forums seem to think that doner meat allso has an added filler ( so isn't just meat)

however if you google perhaps you could make your own

found this - not that i would ever cook it - but if it helps

1 1/2 kilos leg of lamb
50 gr. black pepper
2 kilos lamb fat, ground
1 egg
150 gr. salt
1 liter onion juice
1 cup olive oil

Remove any bits of skin and bone from the meat. Cut into serving-size pieces. Pound with a meat tenderizer or the edge of a heavy saucepan until 1/8 cm thick. Trim. Prepare a marinade of onion juice, olive oil, salt and pepper, and soak meat in the marinade 12-24 hours. Soak lamb fat in hot water. Remove pieces of meat from the marinade. Spread over each piece of meat the lamb fat and ground lamb mixed with egg. Thread pieces of meat on a long skewer, starting with larger pieces. Trim the chunk of meat on the skewer and add trimmings to the end of the skewer. The chunk of meat is broiled in the Doner Kebab broiler, made specially for the purpose.

btw i put on a 1lb yesterday. my weight has been the same for weeks ( with the exception of a saturday bender ) and that is totally fine.

i think my body is just saying this is where i need to be at - think i lost the weight cos i had the squits TMI!

Hello all

custardo i am munching on Tesco value roasted peanuts. They are yummy and cheap so suits me. lol at your summary on the impacts of the diet on the digestive system

I will post any recipes i have scoffed taste tested. Have just spotted a lemon cake recipe that sounds yummy.

I am another 2lb down

DH is on a healthy eating kick. He is moaning about being tempted by my cheese selection so I suggested he joins me but no he does'nt want to do it 'this way' I am waiting for him to say he's doing it properly or in a healthy way and then I am going to set you lot on him! is that ok?

I have just cleared a cupboard in the kitchen so I have a space for my supplies. It was all packet pasta I had to rehome

wilfselll can i ask where you get the almonds from? I want to try the pancakes as something different for breakfast so wondered if i could buy bulk amounts. I have also just made bread in the microwave with ground almonds, it looks like bread - all springy and dough like. Will report back on taste in a mo as I am going to tuck into some tomato and cheese soup for lunch.

Oh and today I feel fantastic Full of energy and no headache lurking

ok, will let you know what I've eaten today, once I've had some dinner.

Hardly a carb has passed my lips so far that's for sure!

Custy - if you've reached your trget weight what will you do now? Just carry on as youare or ease up a bit?

I know I shouldn't be weighing myself already but I have and I'm 3 lbs down since tuesday!

oh well done JV. well now i am taking saturdays off and scoffing what i like - putting on 3 or so pounds then going back to my diet during the week, have maintained for 3 weeks so far - actually losing a pound or so but over that whole period.

it's suiting me at the moment.

had a pants day today.

I forgot to pack my lunch so got home at at 3 and was starving hungry - so i ate my lunch and 2 slices of edam, then made a sausage casserole thingy that isn't really a casserole - using some sausages that dh bought which were higher carb - but i fancied a change ( bit sick of chicken) and the whole thing was horrible - i ended up eating the veggies and soupy liquid with 2 slices LC bread and have eaten todays allowence of carbs and not really had anything nice to eat iyswim. so bit pissed off.

glad to hear about the tesco value nuts - i will deffo look out for them!

willself, how many carbs are in the pancakes? they sound delish

Dunno how many carbs... I'm not measuring em so much, been following the Idiot Proof Diet and just slightly tweaking things so I keep losing weight...

I guess those amounts would make a lot of small pancakes (the sort you get in packets, crumpet size). DH and I had 2-3 each and couldn't finish them, and there ws probably enough mix left for another 4. So say 8 pancakes minimum from those amounts.

So each one is roughly half an egg, 25g almonds and I dunno with cream (don't measure!) I guess it was about 2 tablespoons so for each pancake you'd have about a teaspoon?

Someone else will have to look up the carbs!

I got the ground almonds from the supermarket - they're quite widely available in the baking section.

I think I would probably try whisking egg whites next time, adding some baking powder and maybe more vanilla/splenda. But they were definitely 'breakfasty' and I guess you could freeze them/keep them?

custy are you ok to analyse my day:

I had

Breakfast - scrambled eggs made with butter. One medium mushrooms

Lunch - tinned tuna (in oil), a hard boiled egg, some leaves and tomatoes (half a pack of salad - whole pack was 10g of carbs).

Was in a long meeting all afternoon, so no snacks, and only water to drink

decaf coffee at work with double cream (lower in carbs?) x 3

Dinner - steak, spinach, 3 mushrooms, some mayo

a slimline gin and tonic (or 2)

a cigarette (oops - am going through a tough patch).

When I got home i peed on a stick - and was more in ketosis.

That is fine isn't it? I have done this pretty much every day this week, and am 2lb heavier already.

sorry about your friend sal - hard to focus on much I imagine, so you're doing well...

Polly, aer you weighing at same time of day? And have you been, erm, going properly. A bit of a backlog can make quite a lot of difference IME. And weighing first thing after going to loo but before eating/drinking is helpful... Then there's the period period - in which you might retain water and gain weight.

And finally, your scales could be knackered!?

Hi everyone

Just realised it has been a few days since I posted on here. I've just had a quick read back and everyone are doing so well. It's so motivating.

I stayed the same this week but not too fussed as I have lost so much over the past 4 months that I know it can't go on forever.

wilf has jsome good points - that sounds like a highly excellent day there polly.

hope everyone is ok today, i am off to make my LC toast for Lunchtime ( lunch in the car whilst on the go)

wish me luck i am going to get shouted at by old people ( and quite rightly as my organisation are fuckers)

I know I'm being daft here but ...

This morning was the first morning since I started this that I havn't lost a lb over night. Yesterday I was 11st 5.2lbs. This morning I was 11st 5.6lbs.

Please reasure me ... I know I can't expect to lose a lb every night but I was kinda getting used to it and my confidence has been knocked slightly

I have been cheating a little though. Quite a few cups of tea with milk in, a couple of peanut m&ms, a couple of chocolate fingers ... but when I say a couple I litrally mean 2. No more. Is this really enough to sabotage everything???

ha ha wilfsell, am definitely not going - need to sort that out soon! (eggs are rather erm binding aren't they??)

and am possibly near period too, so that could be an explanation.

But scales ok.

Anyway, back to starting weight today, so hopefully now I'm in ketosis I can lose a few pounds.

enchilada-the sugar in the sweets and choc fingers could have taken you out of ketosis.

I am going to cut out caffiene, spoke to nutritionist today about my stall in loss and she thinks it may be that as caffiene raises insulin levels.

Hope everyone is managing to stay on track.

I've just lost a massive 3lbs overnight bringing my total to 7lbs in 8 days. Now that is more like it!

DH is away from this morning till Sunday evening leaving me with the kids. We were supposed to be going together but our childcare let us down.

I'm going to let the boys run feral (no change there then) and have a lazy weekend. Pizza or something out of the freezer for them and a cooked chicken for me.

I would love to have another few pounds off by Monday. I'm also going to measure myself on Monday, then again on the 1st of every month.

Everyone is doing so well! I've never known such a successful diet.

Well I've just been on the scales and I'm now down to 11st 4lbs (started on Monday at 11st 11lbs). BUT, this is usually the weight in which I get stuck so it will be interesting to see if I can push past that barrier this time.

Tonight I'm treating myself to a chicken korma. I know the carbs are high but I'm passing on the rice and naan bread and just having the curry alone. My sugar cravings seem to be disapearing which is good news too.

Loving this diet I'm NEVER hungry. Infact, this morning I had to litrally force myself to eat some breakfast!

Fantastic Enchilada well done.

I'm really trying to make the most of not feeling hungry to try and train myself to stop picking in between meals. I tend to just graze all day which is not good for your blood sugar as it means there will always be insulin in your system.

I'm trying to look on this diet as a medical programme to get me healthy rather than a diet to lose weight.

Enjoy your Korma. I would have chiken Tikka or Tandoori platter and salad if I was going to indulge but as I said earlier I am being hardcore this weekend.

Hi everyone

Jacaqueen & enchilada those are great losses!

I also started on Monday and I'm 8lb down

My cravings are easing and I am finding it easier to worry less about chocolate etc.

I stocked up in Holland and Barrett today. Got the half price whey protein and some soya isolate powder for �£10 which is even fewer carbs per scoop. Just need to find some peanut butter to add to my shakes now.I forgot to look in H&B so wondered if anyone had got some off the high street?

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. Are you having your usual satuday off custardo?

Night out tonight with DH some I may have a drink or two but I am taking some peanuts to nibble just in case!

well done all, yes have have truly over indulgent day.

i told dh yesterday that i faniced pastries and we happen to have a french patisserie in town, so he came back with a veritable feast of freshly baked croisants, pain au chocolat, and from french fancies ( which were too sweet and are still in the bos even the kids didn't like them)

then i went to town and had a maccy d burger and fries

am now drinking a nice glass of cole milk