Dieting/Low Carbs

[Donna]

Yesterday I had scrambled eggs for brekkie, an Atkins breakfast bar and some cheese and ham for lunch and dinner was chicken salad with mayo.

Being very good so far, but its because I am not at work. The guys feed on bacon sandwiches and burgers and chips EVERY day!!!!

[EmmaG]

Morning

Well you could always eat the bacon and throw the bread, same with the burger and no chips

Off to Tescos in a min to get a salad for lunch.

9 stone 9.5lbs today

[Donna]

Originally Posted by EmmaG

9 stone 9.5lbs today

Well done Emma!!! You are really going full steam ahead!!! Will weigh myself when i am out of my pj's (they must be very heavy lol)

[Naomi]

I've jsut started back on the Atkins today. I've put it off and put it off but I've gotta do something to help with my weight lol

[yola]

I'll be heading back onto Atkins once baby is born. I suspect I'll be bottle feeding (if last time was anything to go by) so it won't matter how soon I start.

So I shall be stalking this thread regularly looking for inspiration from Emma and Donna

[Donna]

The more the merrier girls!!!

Been the "Donna and Emma" thread for too long now!!!! lol!!!

Really pleased as started Wednesday morning and i was 10st 1lb, and now i am 9st 13lbs - 2lbs gone already!!!

[EmmaG]

woohoooo Well done Donna!!!

Yes it would be great if we had a few more ladies low carbing

Well today I have had brie, olives, very plain salad, some macadama (sp) nuts (they are very low carb for a big packet ) this evening I am going to have pork medalions and some green beans. I hope tomorrow I will have lost a bit more as I have been rushing around today and I didn't even have my lunch until 2pm!!

[EmmaG]

Hi everybody,

I am now down to 9 stone 8lbs today popped to M&S and got some butter chicken (£2.49 and enough to feed 3 people (it was half price)) and some veg and salad stuff, so hopefully I will be good over the weekend.

How did you do Donna this morning?

[candyshandy]

I am now on week 6 of the maintenance programme of my diet - its now low carb/low gi. I need to read up on the gi bit.

I lost 3 stone in 11 weeks and I've lost a further half stone since i've been in maintenance

[dinahsmum]

I think a low Gi diet is as sensible as any I've read about.

There is a new idea out wheer you eat as much as you want on one day and restrict to 25% or 50% of normal on the next. Scientists who've been testing it on themselves have lost 35lbs in 12 weeks or so without feeling hungry, apparently. I'll see if I can google any more info and edit it in.

Edit:There you go!

"Doctors Devise New Diet That Can Help Asthma And Arthritis

(The Independent on Sunday 06-19-06)

Scientists claim to have discovered a new diet that not only ensures weight loss but also tackles diseases and could even prolong life, according to a new report.

Doctors and scientists, who have been testing the diet on themselves for three years, say it can have health benefits on diverse conditions ranging from asthma to heart disease.

Dr James Johnson, who co-wrote the report with colleagues from Stanford and New Orleans universities, said the diet involves eating normally one day and then cutting food intake the next day to between 20 and 50 per cent.

Dr Johnson, who reports having lost 35lbs in the first 11 weeks of being on the diet, said: "We have observed improvement in a variety of disease conditions, starting within two weeks, including insulin resistance, asthma, seasonal allergies, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, infectious disease, periodontal disease, and cardiac arrhythmias."

For people who want to lose weight, according to the report, the diet has the psychological advantage of not subjecting them to permanent food deprivation. But the scientists said what they call "up-day, down-day" dieting also has health-promoting effects.

"For three years we have experimented with an alternate day pattern of eating in which intake is limited to 20-50 per cent of estimated daily requirement one day followed by ad lib eating the next day," the report said. "This alternate day calorie restriction appears to have health-promoting effects in the absence of weight loss."

The report added: "Based onabroad range of calorie-restriction studies in animals in which virtually all diseases are delayed, prevented or ameliorated by calorie restriction, we propose that this dietary pattern will delay, prevent or improve a wide variety of human diseases, including multiple sclerosis. ' "