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!
Anya we did the Hairy Bikers Diet a year or so ago. Excellent recipes , I agree. DH lost a stone, me absolutely nothing. ! I think it is aimed at hairy men, of which DH is one .
Thanks for the drink suggestionsMamie I will do that but with Ty Nant or an English water.
I haven't seen it in England (though I would think it must be available) , but Perrier and Badoit do fizzy water with added lemon or lime here. There isn't any sugar in it and it is very refreshing. I always put it on the table when we have visitors.
The chickpea flour pizza was OK, but a bit worthy. We made one with tomato, mozzarella and basil and the other with slow-cooked mixed peppers and onion, sausage and parmesan. We only make them about once every couple of months so I think we might just stick to the spelt /rye mixture that we normslly use.
Am feeling guilty about our lovely bread-oven which doesn't see much use these days.
The annual May day village walk is coming up and I will need ideas for nibbles to take to share. I went out to try it out with a couple of friends yesterday. We got hopelessly lost and ended up scrabbling over loose stones which won't work when we have got the rest of the village (elderly and pushchairs) with us. 
Partly, Anya! I had a starter as a main: prawn, lobster and avocado salad - didn't eat the bread. Small glass of wine, but succumbed to a mini pud of passion fruit Eton mess. Cream and fruit OK, I guess, bits of meringue not - but it was a small one!
In the evening I had a couple of poached eggs, tomatoes, beetroot, avocado, a plum and natural yoghurt , so not too bad. Today's a Fast day but I don't feel that well: dull pain/discomfort on RHS under my ribs. I have a hiatus hernia and mild diverticulosis (not to be confused with diverticulITIS ) so wonder if that could be responsible. Also notice discomfort after coffee sometimes, so I'm wondering if it's one of my 'don't-go-to' things....pity, as I love the smell and taste of real coffee! 
I'm still thinking of that apricot and pistachio pudding Rowan had.
Rowan I eat out often and endeavour to make it as easy as possible to stick to low-carbing.
For example I never/rarely go to a teashop, cafe type of place as I know all that will be on offer is sandwiches, pies, pastas, etc. I aim for 'Modern European/English' style places, or a good gastro-pub - they're likely to have fish/meat, interesting vegetables and salads.
A whole lemon sole, or top quality burger, with veg/salad does me fine! And wine 
I succumbed to half a slice of carrot cake with my cuppa yesterday afternoon at the Royal Academy after walking VERY briskly there from Victoria. The cake was unnecessary and I shouldn't have given into temptation, but....it was yummy!
Then after the exhibition we went to a Turkish restaurant where I did eat a couple of pieces of bread and shared a bottle of white wine with DH. Starter was a salad of walnuts, mint, leaves, cucumber and a dressing of pomegranate molasses (whatever that is, but it's SUGAR and carbs!) Main course of various veggies including artichoke hearts, broad beans and lots of others. Healthy and yummy.
Dessert was four apricots stuffed with cream cheesy thing and sprinkled with pistachio nuts.
So there were carbs but nowhere near as many as usual when I eat out!
Today is a Fast Day and I've eaten nothing so far. Dinner will be cold chicken and a mixed veggie salad. I get very cold on Fast Days
If I ate what you ate Shysal I would be skeletal! 
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