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Dieting & exercise
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!
Ha Ha, mamie. Just before reading your post I decided on a change of plan and made burgers
Help! Where is that recipe of Mamie's - a chocolately dessert type.
I can't find it anywhere 
and wanted to try it tomorrow.
I didn't use any sugar just eggs and chocolate. 
It has been quiet on this thread for a few days, so thought I would wake you all up. 3lb more to lose and it will be 2 stone !!!
Weight loss has slowed a little but that is fine by me.
Mozzarella stuffed chicken breast with Parma ham this evening plus a green salad. I have never felt so well. Sleeping better, no acid reflux and masses more energy. I may even go for a further stone , If the clothes budget can stand it
Well done BB! You have done so well!
Fine thanks BB and I meant to say well done to you as well. Brilliant weight loss.
You're doing so well BB!
Mamie I must have missed the strawberry cake incident - what happened?
In the slow-cooker right now I'm batch-cooking chicken & fennel:
Thinly sliced red onion
Thickly sliced 2 fennel bulbs/heads?
Topped with 8 chicken thighs (bone in, skinless) browned in olive oil and butter & sprinkled with our friend Za'atar
One lemon quartered
Seasoning
BTW I get my Za'atar from Ocado
Riverwalk we had people to dinner who brought a lovely strawberry cake from the patisserie. It had quite a bit of icing which was obviously very sweet and was the first really sugary thing we had had for months. We both had a really restless night with hot sweats, racing heart and busy brain, upset stomach in the morning and then three days of weeing a lot. Can only think it was a sort of reaction. All fine now.
I have just bought a pair of trousers a size smaller than usual!! It is just that the scales don't seem to register a significant weight loss. Still I am happy. Out tonight to a local taverna, for chicken kebabs and salad, the others will have loads of chips with theirs, made with delicious Cyprus potatoes. 
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