Could we keep in mind that not everyone is doing low carb to lose weight? I’m fine with my weight, although I expect I’ll likely lose some due to cutting out all the sugary crap I had let myself get into the habit of noshing. I’m down about five pounds, in fact, but that’s not why I’m doing this. I don’t want to end up diabetic, that’s my sole concern. So can we keep the “low carb is NOT low calorie!!!” to a minimum? Post a recipe rather than scolding, that would be awesome.
The absence of gluten makes low carbohydrate baked goods hard to handle. I have what I consider a great keto friendly pancake/waffle mix.
I mix equal volumes of wheat bran, ground flaxseed meal, coconut flour, protein powder, and chia seeds. Once a month or so I put together a giant tub of this stuff.
I primarily use this as a waffle mix, using 1-1/2 cups of mix with 3 eggs, a quarter cup of coconut oil, 2 teaspoons of baking powder and 1-1/2 cups water. This makes four waffles in my waffle iron, and I eat one of these a day for breakfast with a mashed avocado on it.
You can also make pancakes with it, and in a pinch a half cup of this with a cup of hot water makes a hot cereal.
If you try this you’ll need to be a little cautious about portion size. Each waffle contains 3/8 cup of the mix and has 16 grams of fiber.
The thread is low carb in order to lose weight. So if someone is doing low carb and not losing weight the nice thing to do is explain the reason.
I wouldn’t have said anything to Chicken Finger if Chicken Finger did not lament a lack of weight loss. The comment was specific to that situation not a critique of low carb.
Low carb is also not going to help you avoid diabetes if you’re eating the same amount of calories, i.e., not losing weight. The American Diabetes Association warns people to stay away from sugary drinks because they are associated with Type 2 diabetes, but that’s because people who drink a lot of sugary drinks are more likely to be overweight. They acknowledge that a diet high in calories from any source increases one’s risk for diabetes. It’s not the carbs; it’s being overweight.
How about you let me worry about my weight and you tend to your own knitting? You actually know basically nothing about my height, weight, general health, specific health issues, diet apart from what I share here, levels of physical exercise and conditioning, genetic health background or anything whatsoever about me. With that in mind, pull your nose back and accept the fact that you’ve been asked, nicely, to keep what is meant to be a lighthearted and supportive thread endeavor from turning into yet another nitpicky, stupid annoyance fight on the Durp.
Oh, and also–you are not my doctor. I’m pretty sure you aren’t a doctor at all and have ZERO special expertise in this subject aside from what you hear from Dr Google. My doctor is very happy with my lifestyle choices and how I accomodate various health issues. You have been specifically disinvited from commenting on my health, diet or life in general. Please make a note of it.
Wait a minute. YOU are the one who initiated the exchange by addressing a response not even directed towards you in a thread specifically dedicated to the idea of low carb AND weight loss.
Add Celtic Knot to the list, and maybe to Clan Kerr, because we are Late, but in Earnest!
Mr. CK’s doctor has put him on what I guess is a keto diet. I couldn’t go with him to his appointment, he’s an introvert who doesn’t have quick conversations, and the Dr was in a hurry, so he didn’t get much information. Protein for breakfast, less protein for lunch, and no supper.
I’m hypoglycemic (reactive) so I can’t join him fully on the diet, but I am being sympathetic, eating more protein and some carbs from vegetables, and cutting starches and sugars. I will eat supper, because I can’t go that long without some food. School’s out after next Friday, so I plan to get out and walk, and take Mr. CK with me.
I had a beer tonight, and I’m still eating too much at night. No processed food, though, and my numbers are still going downward. All the fat is starting to upset my stomach, though.
That’s why I’ll eat the raw fruits and vegetables, great stress food, even if it isn’t low carbs it’s better than breads and cookies and peanut butter, and I’m sorry I’ll stop now.
Or your metabolism slows down. Short term dramatic changes can give your metabolism a boost, but I think the most important thing is to stay satisfied most of the time.
Meant to start yesterday, but totally forgot. Made a good start of it today, though.
To weigh in on the weighing daily/weekly issue…I weigh daily. This does a few things for me:
One, no surprises at the the end of the week. If I’m stalling or starting to edge upward, I want to know right away.
Two, it has helped me identify some foods that cause temporary weight gain. For example, if I have discovered that if I eat bell peppers, I will nearly always have ½ to 1 pound gain the next day. Not sure why, probably some irritant causing water retention. I know that if I just continue on my eating plan, in the next couple of days that will be gone and probably a bit more. If I only weighed once a week, and ate peppers the evening before my weekly weigh-in, I would probably wonder how I managed to gain even though I stayed on plan. This would probably lead to frustration. So for me better to track what I eat and weigh daily.
I have done well through today, right up through tonight. I had ice cream. The good news is that there wasn’t much ice cream, and that there is no more ice cream. Calorically I think I’m still under for the day. Could be worse I suppose.
I had my first break last night but I think I managed it pretty well, a pair of Trader Joe’s blueberry waffles with butter and a tablespoon each of real maple syrup. That was my dessert after a dinner of baked lemon chicken and a huge pile of pan grilled asparagus, which was all I’d eaten that day. Having, basically, no sugar for several weeks has been an adjustment and I’ve managed to get my body back to my normal one meal a day regimen with some snackage in the evening. I’m feeling pretty good with it, although my prothrombin numbers kinda freaked out the anti-coag team and now I’m gonna be monitored like a microscope. Argh.
Lots of cheating going on. That’s OK. The important thing is to not let it defeat you. Know that a cheat or two or three does not mean you have to go sit on the sidelines. You can re-boot as many times as it takes.
That said, I’ve been good. Facing Day 6 today will all the optimism I began with and then some. So much of this is mental. If you head is in the game - and stays in the game - success will follow.
With that in mind, here is a stupid trick I invented to keep myself invested: Pick 7 ways weight loss will benefit you personally. It could be clothes fitting better, compliments received from others, blood sugar or A1c improvements, more energy, whatever. It’s not hard to come up with 7. Once you have them, rank them by how meaningful they are to you. Next, assign a day of the week to each one, starting with least meaningful and progressing until the 7th is your most meaningful. So now you start focusing on these benefits, with a new focus every day. Start with the least meaningful, then you will progress day by day to Day 7 (whatever day that may be), after which you re-set and re-focus. The gimmick is that you spend some time throughout each of those days being mindful of that specific benefit you will enjoy from this journey.
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Not stupid a all, I think that’s brilliant. Something I’m going to try for sure.
I’ve fallen off the wagon a couple of times, but have climbed back on. I think there will be lots of eggs and cheese in my future. Along with steamed veggies and green salads, I find those are the easiest to make up quickly.
I’ve been doing pretty well. Lost 5 pounds in five days (yes, it’s water, I’ll take it anyway!) and haven’t felt ravenous. Keto sticks started coming up positive on Tuesday night and went strong until last night.
Now this kinda ticked me off. I’d been sticking to the planned diet successfully all week, and was well ahead on both calories and weight loss. Last night when I sat down to dinner I was over 600 calories ahead, even with the meal I was about to eat. So when roomies offered pizza I ate one small slice, then had my chicken.
Even though this only brought my daily calories up to 1200, my evening keto check still came up negative. Even more annoying, this morning’s did as well.
This is the trouble with dieting, one short -seemingly reasonable- slip can undo so much work!
Did very well since yesterday. And just completed my 16 hours! High protein and fat brunch is in front of me now!
Stayed on the wagon for most of the day, but bought an evil coke-a-cola on the way to the grocery store. Le sigh. I knew better than to leave home without eating.
It tasted like nirvana, but I have to say I felt like crap afterwards. My body was not expecting that sugar dose. My carbs were extra low otherwise, so it should balance out. But I’m not expecting to be happy about the keto stick tonight.
Oh well,I got myself some salmon and poached it for breakfasts. That will bring my morning iron dose down from 2mg to .7mg. And it will increase the protein boost.
Thursday I had my calorie balance up to 51% protein, but today it will be only 23% because of the soda. Argh!
Stuck to my carb restriction yesterday but got a little carried away with allowed foods. Too much bacon, too much cheese.
So far today just a corned beef and swiss omelette (declined the toast and hash browns that came with it).
First weigh-in tomorrow.
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I have a tin of corned beef in the cupboard. And there are a couple of small cabbages in the veg locker. Maybe I’ll boil up some corned beef and cabbage for dinner tonight. I don’t know if I’ve ever had it with canned corned beef.
I had two more beers last night, some chips and salsa, and then some popcorn. My numbers were still down this morning, but I completely blew low carb.
I don’t think I’m going to be able to keep up the high protein/high fat, though. My upper intestine is all WTF and my poor little gall bladder has lost its mind. I have to eat a lot more vegetables and cut back on the meat.
Yeah, cutting out carbs means adding tons of low calorie vegetables to keep stuff flowing. You don’t want to break something when you got to crap.