As the title suggests today is the first day of my change for life. After researching and years of yo-yo dieting I came to the conclusion that dieting does not work, what I need is a complete change of lifestyle. I have PCOS which means basically I’m insulin resistant.
I think my downfalls are going to be bread, crisps, chocolate, biscuits and cakes 🤣 so everything I need to stop. I’m not very good at planning and I am on a budget. With a husband that can has a fast metabolism and 3 adults/teenagers in the house it’s going to be so hard.
If any one has any tips I would be truly grateful. My breakfast was an omelette, as you can see I’m not very imaginative and I prefer plain food 🤣🤣
Hi, I’m in week 2 and what helped me is just following a 2 week plan that someone else wrote; in this case DietDoctor, plus coming to this forum as often as possible for tips and tricks and motivation. I had a boiled egg this morning- my daughter has asked me to go for a scent-free breakfast after too many fry-ups recently 🤣
I wonder how many of us can name the date we went low carb. For me it was 10 December, 2019.
For hints, dietdoctor.com, carbdodging.com. Also go healthunlocked.com/nhsweigh... and look at the daily diary. A lot of us post our daily plans there. Look out for the ones who say they are LCHF or keto.
I am making a lot of salads following this template at the moment (maybe not as big as I am eating more than one meal most days)
I have lost 1.5 stone following the diet. My husband is 6’5”, eats like a horse and weighs 75kgs when wet! It’s not fair, but it is how it is. He has porridge for breakfast I have 3 or 4 strawberries with Greek yoghurt. He has a jacket potato I don’t. As soon as you see the results you’ll be hooked. Go for it.
Try not to get hooked up on the traditional ideas for breakfast. The word literally means breaking one's fast, so could happen at any time and doesn't need to mean cereal, toast, or now eggs. You can eat absolutely anything from a salad to a curry.
I, personally, never eat breakfast - I don't really class it as fasting, just eating when I'm hungry and not eating if I'm not hungry.
If you prefer plain food, it's easy, meat, fish, eggs, full fat dairy, vegetables (mainly above ground varieties), the occasional berries, a few nuts and seeds. Simples!
Thank you for the advice I think I am hooked on the traditional thing like toast for breakfast & sandwich for lunch. I’m gonna change this perception I’ve got and only eat when hungry 😄
Well done for making the switch. Some people go a whole lifetime and never figure out that dieting doesn't work!
Are you mainly responsible for the meals? If so, just switch everyone over to LCHF. I doubt they'll complain when they see all the good stuff it involves. And if they do, tell them to go and make their own meals
As for the budget: you'll probably find that once you stop buying biscuits and other prepackaged crap, you'll have more money left to spend on proper food. We had a straw poll about this sometime back, and most people reckoned their food expenditure didn't change at all, despite buying better-quality ingredients. My guess is that this boils down to (a) vegetables are really very cheap, and most of your trolley will be full of veg (b) you tend to eat less on LCHF and (c) carby stuff might look cheap, but because it's neither filling nor tasty you end up spending more to make it palatable, and to make meals big enough.
Oh, +1 to the "humungous salad" suggestion. When I was in keto/VLC mode, one of my favourite "treats" was to go to a local restaurant where they served a salad (aimed at 2-3 people) topped with meatballs, cheese, and excellent dressings. That was about right for a low-carb meal-for-one
I am very new too! A couple of experiences last year taught me that breakfast doesn't have to be the things we have been brought up to think of as breakfast foods. The first was having some young members of my extended family living with me for a few weeks, and the Latvian one insisted that the best breakfast was the leftovers from dinner from the night before. This was a very strange idea to me - I thought breakfast meant porridge, cereal, toast, or full English. Then I went to Latvia for a long weekend as a wedding guest and realised that this is normal there. Breakfast is best as a well balanced meal just like dinner, and much more satisfying.
Once I found that my coeliac disease includes being intolerant to oats as well as the usual cereals, I decided to eat Latvian breakfasts, and now I am adopting LCHF this is making breakfast much easier. I am eating a large breakfast of vegetables (cauli, courgette, green beans - all in season at the moment) with cheese, eggs or meat or fish cooked extra the night before. This is working well for me.
Interesting! Any improvement in your coeliac symptoms?
In many Asian countries, breakfast often involves leftovers from yesterday's dinner too. The breakfast-cereal concept is both very new (early 1900s) and a bit of an aberration.
My small remaining symptom cleared up as soon as I gave up oats, which was a couple of weeks before I started "real" low carb, and during those 2 weeks I was eating plenty of other carbs (buckwheat, quinoa, a little brown rice) so no, low carb doesn't have a direct effect on the coeliac, that is just the cereals rather than carbs more generally.
Interesting that leftovers applies in Asian countries too. And I agree about the breakfast cereals - they were invented as a health food fad in Europe, and marketing managed to make them "normal" - the same as low fat stuff today.
Wishing you well on the low carb journey! Looking forward to seeing how you do! 👍💪
Frozen veg or fresh veg? What do you think is best?
It depends what you're making, frozen veg can be a bit mushy. I prefer fresh everything, but frozen veggies have their place, as they save time and won't go off.
Frozen has it's advantages. It's always picked at it's best, and frozen very quickly so it probably has more nutrients. And it's very convenient.
That being said, I almost never buy it. Much prefer cooking from fresh. But if you like it or find it simplifies things, then there is no reason not to use it.
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I hadn't even noticed! 
