High Fat-Low Carb eating

50 kg is 7.87 stones, so just under 8. It's all the hacking and slaying.

Now realised that what I wrote is a bit rude.
It is not necessarily low for you. I have an auntie that size, and she is normal weight for her.

I'm 9 stone 8 lbs, but am small framed.

thatbags. I think that portion size matters a lot.
50kgs is 7 stone 7 lbs. That is low.

Anya. Seaweed has iodine, which I may need. So thinking to regularly eat it.. Do you mean that you bake the kale?

Very similar to Atkins isn't it. Which is the only way DH has ever lost weight (apart from the time when he was cycling for about 2 hours a day). You have to be prepared to give up anything with added sugar and anything with flour in. Then your appetite reduces. But it is a big change for many.

It's about controlling your appetite. Yes, portion size is very important, but you can obviously eat a bucket load of salad compared to a much smaller portion of nearly everything else.

One way to stick to smaller portions is to eat something satisfying that seems to 'fill you up' and signals to your brain that you have had enough. Sugars and high GI carbs don't do that by themselves.

There's been too much grazing encouraged in recent years, which, while they may be smaller portions, are often unneccessay.

I tend towards a low-carb diet but bags is right it's all about how much of anything you eat.

There was a research doctor who lost a lot of weight eating only 'fast food' burgers, chips, etc - he monitored the portions and kept within a certain calorie intake.

I think I have a high fat and a high carb diet. I weigh 50kg. Portion size is what makes the difference to one's body weight, I reckon. Nothing else. I realise that is an unfashionable view to hold but it is the one I hold, nonetheless. Works for me.

Over 3 years I've gone from 69kg to 61kg (9st 8lbs) size 12.
That's with increased exercise, portion control, and reducing sugar as much as possible.
I still eat some carbs but low GI - brown bread rather than white.
Still eat ordinary pasta and white rice though, but in smaller quantities than I used to. I tried brown rice but it just wasn't the same and the flavour didn't seem to 'go' with the dishes I cook. I rinse the white rice thoroughly before cooking and that removes a lot of starch anyway.

Anyone tried crispy kale? It's nearly out of season but takes a few minutes in the oven and tastes like a healthy version of chinese fried 'seaweed'.

After a year of low-carbing I am 9 stone, BMI 21, size 12.

It's dead easy, jingl. Blanch the leeks (whole) to soften them a bit. Cool them quickly under cold water, make a slit down one side and carefully unroll them. Voila!

I'm 9 stone 11 pounds (62kg).

I struggle to keep under 10 stone - am conscious of everything I eat!

that went wrong. unrolling leeks

You are actually willing to spend time unroling leeks?!

10 stone 1 and three quarter pounds. I want to be 9 stone anything, but I can't shift that last 1 and three quarter pounds.

I just reduce cream and grated cheese to make a sauce for lasagne.

The Hairy Bikers method of using blanched leeks unrolled into sheets instead of pasta is absolute genius!!

You start us off then jings - reveal all!

Yeah alright. Ignore that then.

But we're talking low carb jura so cornflour is no go.

I wonder how much we all weigh. No one ever seems to say.

I make bechamel with half-skimmed milk and cornflour, with herbes de Provence and pepper- for lasagna or endives au jambon (chicory with ham) etc, works very well.

I love fruit and gorged as normal on our strawberry and raspberry crop last year. In winter it is normally apples and oranges. I could never give that up and actually in the sugar programme last night they said that sugar in whole fruit didn't count.
My rhubarb patch is completely redundant, I can't think of any rhubarb recipes without sugar. I will give it to my neighbour for her market stall!

Thanks Mamie I'll use that as a guide for my muesli.

I'm not adverse to a little fruit sugar for breakfast only and never drink fruit juice anyway. Like Gill I have very little fruit in my diet unless you count fermented grape and juniper berries!

We buy a five cereal base; oats, rice, wheat, rye, barley. We add mixed dried fruits; sultanas, goji, dried cherries, cranberries (unsweetened), cashew, brazil, almonds and walnuts.
Obviously the dried fruit contains natural sugar.
I think cutting out fruit juice at the start of the diet probably made a huge difference to us.
Actually re-calculating in lbs, over the year I have lost 35lbs, not quite 1lb a week!

Gill I wouldn't worry too much about giving up bananas. My breakfast for two of the five days was a small banana plus yoghurt, and I still lost weight.

Mamie I like the idea of home made muesli for breakfast, as an alternative. There are lots of recipes for this, but is there one you recommend?