Thought we needed a shiny new thread for the New Year.
The thread is intended to support people who are already on the diet or want to start losing weight / gaining health benefits by low-carbing.
Here is a simple explanation of this way of eating and how it works.
www.dietdoctor.com/lchf
You do not have to count calories, weigh anything, exercise furiously or feel hungry.
You do have to cut out sugar and sugar-substitutes and avoid starchy foods like potatoes, bread, rice and pasta.
You need to eat lots of vegetables (especially those grown above ground) and protein which can be cheese, eggs, meat, fish etc. You can eat olive oil, butter and other natural fats. You can eat limited amounts of fruit, dark chocolate and some alcoholic drinks in moderation.
You need to avoid anything labelled low-fat and most processed food and drink.
Here is a link to the Mumsnet low-carb bootcamp thread, for those who want to lose weight more quickly than the diet adopted by most people on the existing Gransnet thread.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/low_carb_bootcamp
Here is a link to the original Gransnet thread - though there is absolutely no need to plough through it before you start. 
www.gransnet.com/forums/dieting_and_exercise/1214778-Support-and-ideas-for-those-on-low-carb-diet
We aim to help each other by offering ideas, recipes and support. Welcome aboard!
Of course! There are quite a few veggies now and I am sure one of them will be along soon. Are you there Wilma ?
The weight loss sounds very good so far.
Well done, seacliff - 3.5 pounds in 4 days is brilliant.
I weigh myself every morning before eating, if only to track my weight pattern and take the average over a week.
I could do with losing the same amount as seacliff, but would be happy with 3 stone. Would take me to an OK weight, if not as low as when I was young.
Great to be able to encourage each other. Some great recipes and ideas too.
Bbevan cream cheese and hummus with celery.....D'ohhh. Obvious combo, perhaps but I didn't think of it, even though we have celery and I eat the stuff raw! Thank you
The pork cheeks, leek and onion casserole was good - cooked it in red wine, had it with lentils and I had a small portion of those. Followed with natural organic yoghurt. Must try the lamb tagine whitewave describes.
I'm actually looking forward to the challenge!
We soon discovered that the way to beat boredom was to cook more varieties of veg, and present them in different ways. Tonight we had big haddock fillets, served with garlicky spinach that had a few sesame seeds in it and some spices,, then baby leeks and spring onions and asparagus spears in a hollandaise sauce. We don't eat like that every night, only when the weather is bad and I can't get outside to garden, and I have found that some nights we both want different things so we both cook what we want. That never happened on the 'normal' diet. Last night I had poached chicken and lots of salad that included cold cooked veg, DBH cooked himself sausages, eggs, tomatoes and mushrooms and topped it with sautéed cabbage and spring onions that I had made for him earlier in the day. Anything goes, really. We don't have things like spag bol or shepherd's pie anymore, we don't miss them, I never thought that would happen.
DS still can't get over being served spaghetti squash with a mixed squash sauce/topping. However, he is very health-conscious for a just-21-yr-old, and lives on chicken or fish stir-fries, with one pizza a week.
I do miss cheese, but I just think of being dairy-free as yet another diet aid. I'm in no hurry to lose weight fast, last time I did that my face looked haggard. However - MiL has been on this diet very strictly for a year now because she has diabetes, and she has dropped from a 20 to a 14. She is barely recognisable.
Eggs of all sorts. Full-fat yoghurt and red fruit. Smoked fish.
Egg and bacon day here.
Just tried Pippa's_(?) Cheese scones.... lovely 
thanks for that recipe. Now need to hide them as DH's eaten three already 
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