Any one interested in starting a support group in Sweden?

[Stardust]

Hi:

I'm an American living in Ystad, Sweden, and I'm finding that lc'ing here is somewhat difficult. Lc'ing doesn't seem very poplar here and when you look for low carb products, you don't find them. So far I've found some sugar free candy ... Yuck!!! And sugar free jam, which is very good. Atkins products and other low carb products are not available here either that I am aware of.

I am posting this thread to see if there were other persons in Sweden interested in forming a support group. It's just a thought! Sorrying it's going to need to be in English if I'm going to continue to participate, because at this point I speak 95% English and maybe 5% Swedish. :rolleyes:

Okay, folks, let me know what you think! :p

[Karen]

Lc'ing doesn't seem very poplar here and when you look for low carb products, you don't find them. So far I've found some sugar free candy ... Yuck!!! And sugar free jam, which is very good.

Hi Stardust!

Good on you for wanting to start a support group in Sweden.

If you look through members journals, I think you'll find that very few eat a lot of manufactured low-carb products. Most just stick with the basics - fresh protein and low carb vegetables. It really is all you need to be successful with this WOE! Oh, and drinking your water and asking questions too! :D

Karen

[niclin13]

Hi,
I would love to start a group. I am just like you trying to find products sold in sweden and it is proving difficult, it not impossible. I can't afford to buy online due to shipping costs and I don't know how to live without chocolate.

any tips you may have are very very welcome

[Stardust]

Wow, I thought there was no another person in Sweden attempting to LC. My SO's family thinks I am nuts for the way I eat, but I am feeling so much better and they can't deny the results.

I have not found any real LC products. I know it's better we eat food as close to nature as possible, but it so hard when your read some of these recipes and want to try them. We need LC products in Sweden.

I have been thinking of a business I could start. I was very active in natural health and had home based business, but so many of the products I had in the US are not available here, so that idea is on hold until things open up. It has crossed my mind about LC or SF products. What about diabetics here ... what do they do for sugar free products? I would like to offer books, food products, education and in time, nutritional supplements for total health. Just thinking ... I have to finish my schooling to learn Swedish before anything else and I am starting my second term the end of this month.

I had read somewhere on this forum about a person from France having the same problem and he was looking into ordering products from the UK. I don't know all that they have available and it's an idea to check into.

So where are you from and are you a native? :cool: I have been living here for one year and lc'ing again after the birth of my daughter. I started back again in Jan 2002.

I am so excited to hear from another Swedish resident. Woo hoo! Best of luck to you and if you have questions or want to chat about lc or whatever, drop me a line.

If you dare, you can visit my journal under the *S* and it is named "I am a loser ..."

Ha det så bra!
--Lisa

[niclin13]

Hi Lisa,
it is so much fun to have found someone on LC in Sweden. I haven't actually started the diet yet properly (I am however testing and trying recipies out and so on).

I am half english half swedish and I live in Stockholm. The reason I am considering a low carb diet is not really weight loss (although I would love to lose some of my behind :p ), my reason for the diet is that I have Candida, i.e. yeast infection and I am not allowed to eat sugar. When I was diagnosed a was given a little pamphlet and told not the eat sugar in any form! I was misserable and so I started researching on my own and found that the LC diet should suit me. The reason I haven't started 100% is that I feel summer is an awful time to start anything life changing (I have to give up fruit and alcohol completly for at least 6 weeks and summer is not the best time to try that out I reckon).

I soooo agree with you that there is a need for LC products in Sweden. You mentioned diabetics but the problem with these products is that they still contain suger, just different types that hit the body's blood stream slower.

Have you tried ordering anything online? Also, do you know any good sites for LC in the UK. I figure it must be cheaper ordering from Europe rather than the US anyway.

Anyways, I need to get back to work but please stay in touch. Also I would love it if you started a business - I would definately be your first customer!!!

Take care // Nikki :wave:

[Stardust]

Hi Nikki:

I know all about candida ... been there ... done that. It sometimes can take longer. I mostly advised people to plan on at least months to rid the body of the overload of yeast. Also you need to stay away from caffeine. In American we have to stay away from pork, beef, and chicken because they are so loaded with antibiotics. I hope you are using supplements to help rebuild the friendly flora.

It is funny that many people do think sugar free means it won't impact your blood sugar, but it does to some extent and I am aware of that, but Dr. Atkins has sugar free products containing Splenda (tastes great and can be used in baking) as the sweetner and from what he has found, it does not impact the blood sugar levels in a negative way. Also, caffeine affects blood sugar. That makes me feel for diabetic persons thinking they are doing well by drinking coffee with artifical sweetner. They are not doing themselves a favor unless they are using Splenda.

I haven't checked out any sites yet in Europe for lc products. I need to ... it's just that I have been short on time. My daughter keeps me running here and there. Time will be cut shorter yet, as I start school in 10 days.

Well, I am assuming I don't have to ask if you speak Swedish. lol One day I am going make it to Stockholm for a weekend. It looks to be such a beautiful city.

It would really be fun for me to have a little shop to sell lc\sf items, plus grains, breads and such that don't impact blood sugar as bad. Nice little dream to think about.

It's great to meet you and best of luck on controling Candidias Albicans.

--Lisa

[mkm]

I am also low carbing and living in Swedish. Have lost quite a lot of weight thanks to it. I also gained a lot of weight after having my daughter, but did not understand the reason until I started to read about carbs/sugar and it's impact upon bloodsugar/insulin.

I'm reading all the different recipes around the internet, and it seems that there are some many more products you can buy in other countries. Looked at an online shop in the UK, but first the prices was outrageous and then the additional fregith to that - can't afford it.
What I really would like to have is some sugarfree syrups and desserts - but can't find hardly anything that is sugarefree where I live. It's sugar in almost every food that is not "pure".

There is a Swedish mailing list for low carbing at:
http://www.kanalen.org/kolhydratiker -
if any Swedish speaking people are interested...

Regards

--Maria

[Stardust]

Thanks for letting me know there is another person doing LC in Sweden. Whenever I mention LC to anyone, they think I am crazy. They are on the low fat craze and I think look what that did to America.

I use Hermatese (SP) sweetner, but not a lot. I also use FUN saft to drink from time to time and I have used it to make LC jello, since that is not available in Sweden. Maybe you could use that like a flavored syrup. I miss Atkins' syrups.

I also use pork rinds as a filler in meatballs, chips, lc french toast, and as a coating like for fläskschnitzel or other breaded foods. Yummy!

Check out my journal and maybe you can glean some ideas from there.

I am going to check out the link you sent to the site. I am surprized it exhists. It's a good thing.

Lycka till!
--Lisa

[mkm]

Originally posted by Stardust
I use Hermatese (SP) sweetner, but not a lot. I also use FUN saft to drink from time to time and I have used it to make LC jello, since that is not available in Sweden. Maybe you could use that like a flavored syrup. I miss Atkins' syrups.

I also use pork rinds as a filler in meatballs, chips, lc french toast, and as a coating like for fläskschnitzel or other breaded foods. Yummy!


Thanks for the tip. I had actually not thought about using FUN Light! I will definitely pick up a bottle next time I go shopping.

And pork rinds - do you actually find them in your shop? Or do you ask for them especially? And exactly what shall I order so I get the right item? (I'm sure my local grocery will bring home some, if I ask them to). How do you prepare them? From what I've read - it sounds like a really tasty low carb snack.

I have sort of gotten hooked upon peanuts (and peanut butter) and I try to restrict myself so that peanuts are not going to be my new addiction. I just love them...

Hälsningar

--Maria

[Stardust]

Hej Maria!

I love your avatar. It makes me think of Midsommar. I can't wait until summer is here again.

Fun saft is a good alternative. If you use very much of it and start to stall, then you will have to take a look at the sweetners affecting your weight loss.

When I have a recipe that calls for bread crumbs or sometimes flour, I just substitute crushed pork rinds in the same amount. I use my blender to crush them pretty fine. For the fläsksnitzel, I beat an egg and added seasoning to that. I dipped the meat in the egg and coated it with the crushed pork rinds. I fried the meat until done. My boyfriend even thought they were pretty good. You can look on this site and other sites for recipes using pork rinds. I found a good one here for french toast and another pizza crust, that I cut up and use like bread sometimes. I am able to purchase the pork rinds at my regular grocer.

Here is the information on the pork rinds:
Brand: Lycka Snacks
Name: Ägte fläskesvär (replace the ä with the Danish AE)
Size: 175 g packet
Address of company: LYCKA SNACKS AB
Holmevej 14
7361 Ejstrupholm
Denmark

I hope these ideas help.

Hälsningar!

[SwedenSM]

I am an American living in Sweden and I also thought I was the only low-carber here!!! :wave: HEJSAN!!!!

I'm married to a lovely Swedish man and have been living here for 5 years now. I started on Atkins, lost 20 lbs. during Induction and became pregnant with our darling Danibear (Danielle). I did a modified Atkins during the pregnancy and did so well, I had the full approval of my caretakers. For the first time, I didn't have gestational diabetes and only gained a healthy 9 kilos for the whole pregancy (instead of my usual 50 lbs.) Danielle is 15 months now and healthy as an ox! :p

I've recently been diagnosed with hyperinsulinaemia and started on Protein Power 5 wks ago. I am EXTREMELY resistant to weightloss because of my condition and would love to offer/receive some encouragement.

Niclin13, can you find Dietorelle chocolate where you are? The bars are 75gr and very satisfying. I never eat more than 25gr at a time (approx. 5 carbs), but that is quite enough. If you like to cook a little, I have many chocolate recipes.

Actually, I have all kinds of recipes to offer. I belong to a forum for stepmoms and post a weekly recipe 'column' (extended posts) with LC recipes. Now even the non-LCers are using my recipes and I've been asked to compile a cookbook for sale to site members. Ask me anything-- if I don't have it, I'll find it and if I can't find it, I'll try and create it! :yay: Oh, I'm soooooo happy to see other LCers here!

Alyx in Småland

[CarbinCopy]

Hej tjejer!!

I am also in Sweden! I must agree, it is very difficult to find low carb/no sugar products.

I have access to Dietorelle, light and dark chocolate, all of their hard and soft candies. Even Weight Watchers candy, which, I am not sure is sugar free? The only kind of sugar substitute I have found is Aspartame.

Does anyone know if we can get sucralose in Sweden?

I have looking at lowcarbing for almost a year now, and have finally made the decision to go through with it. I don't know how to do induction. I have read the rules. But I am so afraid to make mistakes that I end up not eating at all, which can lead to serious weight gain, as we all know. Cutting out bread and pasta in Sweden is like asking someone to stop breathing. Bulle anyone? EVERYONE HAS BULLAR!!!!

A little about myself, I am 26, from North America, overweight, married (swedish husband), no kids (yet), and my name is Kimberly! I live in Hammarö, right on Vänern!

I would love to know how you girls did induction ... is the Dietorelle chocolate ok to eat during induction?


I am not the type of girl to go out and eat bok choi, fiddle heads and wine vinegar dressings. I am not a gourmet in any way.

Do any of you have a sample "Swedish" menu for induction?

Good idea to start a little club! I'm in!

Vi ses!

Kimberly

[Darnia]

Hej Kimberly and everybody else!

Sorry, can't help you with your questions. I just don't eat or drink anything sugary - no real sugar, no sugar substitute - as they only make me want the real thing anyway. It was extremely difficult the first week, but now I don't have to watch myself so closely. I used to be a chocoholic and it's wonderful to be free!
Good luck to you! And don't be afraid to eat!

[mkm]

Does anyone know if we can get sucralose in Sweden?

I have looking at lowcarbing for almost a year now, and have finally made the decision to go through with it. I don't know how to do induction. I have read the rules. But I am so afraid to make mistakes that I end up not eating at all, which can lead to serious weight gain, as we all know. Cutting out bread and pasta in Sweden is like asking someone to stop breathing. Bulle anyone? EVERYONE HAS BULLAR!!!!

I would love to know how you girls did induction ... is the Dietorelle chocolate ok to eat during induction?



Hejsan!

I do not think it is possible to get sucraclose in Sweden unless you import it yourself.

And I agree with the difficulties to eat low carb here: It seems almost like some sort of crime not wanting to have potatoes, pasta or "kakor och bullar"! I am so tired of ordering food in restaurants and even more tired when we stop for a snack during our trips: All you can get is white bread with a tiny piece of cheese or prepacked sweets. I always keep a packet of nuts in my bags.

The Dietorelle chocolate contains sugar alcohols and I should be very careful with it during induction. Some people can handle it, other have to count even the sugar alcohol carbs as full carbs. And you ma7y get gassy. I have the dark Dietorelle chocolate without problems (2 g of carbs after dedecution of sugar alcohols) but the milky one makes me gassy and gives me cravings (suppose it is because it contains less chocolate and more sugar alcohols/gram).

Lycka till!

Regards

--Maria - native and genuinely Swedish! :)

[Stardust]

Hi everyone! It's great to see more people from Sweden lcing.

CarbinCopy, you don't have to fix fancy meals. You can keep is simple with real food. Try having grilled meat or fried meat with a side of steamed veggies and butter or salad with real dressing. I have my mom send me packets of Ranch dressing from the States. Yummy! You should check out the journals of those of us living in Sweden to see what we eat. You are welcome to pop by mine anytime.

I can only eat very little of the Dietorelle or I am in the bathroom for hours. I have stopped eating it, because I cannot stop with just a little bit.

Best of luck to you!
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Hi Maria!

Nice to see you around! I have not been active in the other group. I read the emails and some I understand just fine and others are totally beyond my capablity in Swedish. With a two year old at home, I don't have much time to myself, so I don't have time to look up many words. I am starting Svenska A this coming term and maybe I will be understanding more soon.

You are making such wonderful progress! Congrats!

Vi hörs!

[CarbinCopy]

Thanks girls! But could someone please tell me what they mean by sugar alcohols?

Are they carbs or? I read that they don't count towards carb levels, but other places that they do.

SO many different answers to this question. :)

[mkm]

Link to article about sugar alcohols:
http://www.lowcarb.ca/tips/tips010.html

They are definitely YMMV.

[HeatherL]

I'm in Borlänge!

I've been LCing since January 2003, and have lost 40 lbs so far! I've went from a size Swedish 56/58 to a size Swedish 46/48! (Which is a size 28 to a size 16.)

I suggest we start up a Yahoogroup since I'm not too into forums like this. Anyone interested? I'll post a link to the yahoogroup I make for LCers in Sweden!

Hugs,
Heather
253-213-140

[HeatherL]

Here is the link:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lowcarbersinsweden/

I find mailing lists like yahoogroups so much easier than forums.... :)

Hugs!

[Stardust]

Hi Heather, Thanks for sharing the information with everyone. Is this the same group mkm, Maria, belongs to? I belong to same group Maria does.

Thanks!

[HeatherL]

I don't think so as this group is brand new, started it after I posted about it yesterday :)

Would be cool to have a get together and stuff when the group loses a certain weight (we can have monthly challenges) or something!

Heather

Hi Heather, Thanks for sharing the information with everyone. Is this the same group mkm, Maria, belongs to? I belong to same group Maria does.

Thanks!

[HeatherL]

I don't find it hard to LC in Sweden - I find it easy! Sure they don't have LC ice cream, but Dietorelle has LC/SF choccie and candies! I find it easier to LC than to do WW or Richard Simmons programs here in Sweden. :)

[mkm]

There is already a Swedish lowcarb list:
http://www.kanalen.org/kolhydratiker
It is pretty active too.

--Maria

[Stardust]

Hi Heather:

I agree it is not so bad lc'ing here now, but when I first started this WOL and trying to figure out how to read the labels here. Ack!!!! I bought some sugar free jam and the nutritional info was based on 100 grams and I was used to it being in tablespoons. All foods nutritional value being figured on 100 grams was so strange to me. I had no concept how much that was.

At least here we are not tempted by so many processed and franken foods. We have to eat more naturally. Speaking of that, for the first time in two years I had my mom send me a care package with Splenda, koolaide, and sugar free jello. I am spluring. lol Soon I will have a couple Atkins syrups. Yum!

Good luck to you on your Yahoo Group.

[Darnia]

Hi Stardust,

I can understand if you felt confused not knowing how much 100g are! The smart thing about it is that if it says 23g of fat, then you know that it's also 23% fat and you can calculate your grams of fat even if you eat 437 g of the food. What annoys me very, very much is that not all foods (especially sweets and chocolate) tell the nutrional facts, just the ingredients.

When I started doing this I got out my old food scale and I try to weigh as much of my food as possible (but I cheat all the time, of course...).

I also agree that we should try to eat more natural foods. That's one of the things that appealed to me about this woe.

[Stardust]

Darnia, I now totally agree about the ease of the math end of things by computing nutritional information for 100 grams. When I was new here and it was strange to measure foods by weight when I had measured it by volume my entire life. I have adapted myself somewhat now. lol

You probably have guessed, I don't have a food scale, but it is on my wish list for my birthday (to help uncomplicate things and keep me on the straight and narrow) and I also want a pedometer, so I can track those steps.

All of you posting here are doing so well. Keep up the great work. I am hoping to weigh before the end of the month and have a nice loss. I have not weighed since the end of June.

Lycka till allihopa!!!

[CarbinCopy]

My swedish is limited ... and very new to lowcarbing.

I will join the group, for sure, I am up for challenges.

And I am definitely into getting together!

Glad you found us Heather!

:)

Kimberly

[Stardust]

Hi Kimberly!

The group Maria talks about is in Swedish. I have been studying Swedish for three terms and sometimes I understand what they are talking about and other times I don't have a clue. lol So my Swedish is limited too.

I looked at Heather's group and the first post is in English, so maybe there is hope for us.

[HeatherL]

There is already a Swedish lowcarb list:
http://www.kanalen.org/kolhydratiker
It is pretty active too.

--Maria

Cool, I had no clue. But is that in Swedish or English? Not that it matters, I'm fluent in Swedish, but is it based on Atkins or just low carb in general?

//Heather

[HeatherL]

Hi Kimberly!

The group Maria talks about is in Swedish. I have been studying Swedish for three terms and sometimes I understand what they are talking about and other times I don't have a clue. lol So my Swedish is limited too.

I looked at Heather's group and the first post is in English, so maybe there is hope for us.

The group I made is totally in English :) Sure, you can post stuff in Swedish, but it's main language is English :)

[mkm]

Heather,

The list is in Swedish. It's general low carb and definitely not just Atkins. Lots of nice, friendly and helpful people there (too). :)

Regards

--Maria

[HeatherL]

My swedish is limited ... and very new to lowcarbing.

I will join the group, for sure, I am up for challenges.

And I am definitely into getting together!

Glad you found us Heather!

:)

Kimberly

Thank you for writing me on Amerikanska, about this forum! So glad there are more LCers in Sweden than I thought!

Heather

[HeatherL]

Heather,

The list is in Swedish. It's general low carb and definitely not just Atkins. Lots of nice, friendly and helpful people there (too). :)

Regards

--Maria

I read the site and applied for approval to the yahoogroup. The more LC lists, the better!

[Fransson]

Hi all.
I am in Sweden, Stockholm (sort of). A native.

I have been doing Montignac some years ago (with success at that time). Montignac is a lot more known here as he is translated and more adapted to the Swedish way of eating. Otherwise the official view is ALL low-fat and low-cal.

Atkins is not translated to Swedish (as far as I know). I read his book this summer (in english) and I am considering whether I should go for it or not. It would be clumsy as I really can't use the recipes and I DO think totally in grams and liters, so I get no real feel for quantities etc.

Anyway, I am here and, as I said, a native. And I am familiar with the Atkins concept. If there is anything I can help any of you with, like translations or carb contents of local foodstuffs I am ready to help. I have access to a fairly extensive nutritional database with the dietary information on lots and lots of local stuff.

Best.

[HeatherL]

That is so cool, thanks for your help! Tack ska du ha!!! :)

/Heather

Hi all.
I am in Sweden, Stockholm (sort of). A native.

I have been doing Montignac some years ago (with success at that time). Montignac is a lot more known here as he is translated and more adapted to the Swedish way of eating. Otherwise the official view is ALL low-fat and low-cal.

Atkins is not translated to Swedish (as far as I know). I read his book this summer (in english) and I am considering whether I should go for it or not. It would be clumsy as I really can't use the recipes and I DO think totally in grams and liters, so I get no real feel for quantities etc.

Anyway, I am here and, as I said, a native. And I am familiar with the Atkins concept. If there is anything I can help any of you with, like translations or carb contents of local foodstuffs I am ready to help. I have access to a fairly extensive nutritional database with the dietary information on lots and lots of local stuff.

Best.

[gilibel]

Hejsvej!
I saw you gals mentioned Splenda/sucralose.

It is actually possible to get in Sweden, according to this website:
http://www.sugartaste.com/

You have to order it through a company though (if you have a friend with privat firma, that would do the trick). Not cheap, $9 a box but still... I haven't ordered it yet, but I will. The company is situated in Malmo and deals with brewery essences etc.

Lycka till!
/Gil

[SwedenSM]

I posted in early (feb) '03 and kept looking, but no replies so I stopped looking at this forum :(

I tried to join the yahoo forum but it says there is none by that name (low carbers in Sweden) Guess I'll have to try the other, but my Swedish isn't that great either. :lol:

Great to see you here!

[HeatherL]

Hi Alyx - sorry about not replying, I don't always get emails from here for some odd reason. The Group was taken down due to it being inactive.

[gilibel]

Hej Alyx! :wave:

Well, I 've had this thread bookmarked just in case, but some people seem to have left the forum, others have been absorbed into other "sub communities"... I have regular contact with Darnia (Uppsala), Heather (Borlänge) and Nille (Trondheim, Norway) through my (and their) journal(s). We are a quite silly gang, together with Judi Smurf from Germany (of Mexican origin)... We also have this "European thread" (started by Becky in Spain who is no longer on this board, but elsewhere) that has been vivid but now gradually dims down. We have taken our "European New Year's Challenge" here (http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.com/viewtopic.php?t=17089) instead, where there are more participants.

As for this board, sometimes Fransson (in Sweden) shows up in her journal, sometimes Titanic (from Copenhagen, Denmark) shows up...

The Swedish Kanalen mailing list I'm on, Kolhydratiker, is quite vivid (the same one Maria mentioned before.)

http://www.kanalen.org/kolhydratiker/ or
http://www.kanalen.org/mailinglistorutanmedlem.php?frame=1#kolhydratiker
(can't find any really good links for it right now, as they seem to have not updated the subscription info for a while...)

Not that "supportive, cheering-filled-with-smileys-kind of attitude in it mostly, more down to the bone of LC general/research/dry facts - but we do have our occasional chocolate and deli desserts threads too, including some serious OT sillinesses.... LOL)

Then there are these Swedish ones as well:
Forum för Kolhydratiker (http://pub32.bravenet.com/forum/show.php?usernum=2693634657&cpv=1)
(not very active at all....)

And this one, Glykemiskt Index (http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glykemiskt_index/), which is is a "breakout" from Kolhydratiker, more focusing on Montignac, GI etc than Inuit and Atkins (which is Kolhydratiker's main focus).

Please joint it if you wish! You don't have to contribute if you don't want to. If the Swedish gets over your head sometimes, just mail in and ask for clarifications. Or come visit my journal by all means, we do share many tips&tricks there as well as in Darnias, Nilles etc (incl. lots of rubbish and general silliness...)

Må gott!
Cheers! Hejsvej!

/gil

[Da Rosa]

Tjaa tjejer!

I'm here, I'm here!! :wave:

I'm so happy that theres other lowcarbers here in Sweden :D

Got to go for now, but y'all can so count me in :thup:

OXOXOXOX :daizy:

Priscilla Da Rosa

[Stardust]

Hej Da Rosa!

Welcome! I am sure you will find lots of tips on this site and meet great people.

I have had contact with Maria and Heather and they are quite nice. I did belong to one of the Swedish low carb lists, but it was too much for me to keep up with, as I was going to school and had a two year old at home. I am sure there is much useful information available on these lists.

You are welcome to drop by my journal anytime to look for tips or meal ideas. Right now it mostly handles on pregnancy. :) My daughter is almost 3 years old and my second child is due July 19 ... just 15 days to go!

Lycka till!

[mkm]

I'm so happy that theres other lowcarbers here in Sweden :D

Welcome to the wonderful world of low carb Priscilla! :wave:

I would suggest you also joined some of the Swedish low carb groups, if you understand Swedish. They are not overly active nowadays, but gives lots of answers about specific Swedish issues.

I am on maintenace myself now.

Good luck with low carbing!

[plavala]

HEJ HEJ!!!

Happy I have found you all. I am in Stockholm Sweden for 6 years.
I started with Atkins about 2 years ago, then switched to BFL which really did alot. I lost ALOT of inches and went from a size 26-28 jeans(Lane bryant) to a size 24 in 3 months and didnt lose a pound! I gained muscle and loss bodyfat. My body shrunk. After that I started BFFM (Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle), that was cool. My BF% decreased but NOT my weight. I finally, found that I had to decrease my caloric intake a bit more and work on a caloric deficiency and that has helped me lose 10 pounds on 2½ months. I am now between sizes but closer to 22 jeans and I am wearing 18-20 blouses. I use to wear 22-24 and even 26.

I think Atkins was easy to do here in Sweden. But, when it comes to lowfat stuff, Sweden is lacking. I had to do ALOT of improvising.

In the last 6 months I am noticing more low fat stuff on the shelves of Maxi and ICA and the like. I even found a cottage cheese(Valio) with 18g protein in one serving. Yogurt was easy...I eat lots of that, fruit, veggies etc...

We need to do our own thread maybe. Give ourselves Challenges.

Anyway, glad to have met all of you and hope we can eventually meet...in Sweden! :cool:

[Stardust]

Hi I just saw you here. Somehow my subscriptions got all out of whack.

It sounds like you are doing so great. I think lcing is pretty easy here too, but sometimes I would like a frakenfood as a treat. lol Anyway, the real food helps keep me honest.

If you start a journal it is much easier to keep in contact with each other.

Best to ya,

[plavala]

Hi I just saw you here. Somehow my subscriptions got all out of whack.

It sounds like you are doing so great. I think lcing is pretty easy here too, but sometimes I would like a frakenfood as a treat. lol Anyway, the real food helps keep me honest.

If you start a journal it is much easier to keep in contact with each other.

Best to ya,
OK! I bite. How do you start a journal?????

[Stardust]

Hi:

Here is a link explaining how to start a journal. Let me know how it goes. How to start a journal. (http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=172775)

We celebrated Eli's birthday today and it was a blast. The kid wants for nothing!!!

Vi ses!

[Zuleikaa]

Help!!

I'm from the US and I'm looking for cast iron rosette irons that make swedish fried cookies in the shapes of the irons used.

Here's a US website that sells the cast alumium ones so that you'll know what I'm talking about: http://fantes.com/rosettes.htm#molds.

Cast iron molds are no longer made in the US, the only ones available here are cast aluminum which don't work as well.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Are they available in Sweden still? Is there a supplier where I can order them directly?

If they can be purchased there but cannot be ordered by me directly, I don't speak Swedish, of course, I am willing to pay all charges involved in their procurement.

Thanks for any assistance you can give me on this search.

[plavala]

Hi:

Here is a link explaining how to start a journal. Let me know how it goes. How to start a journal. (http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=172775)

We celebrated Eli's birthday today and it was a blast. The kid wants for nothing!!!

Vi ses!THANK YOU for the link. I am so glad the party was a huge success!!!!

[Stardust]

Help!!

I'm from the US and I'm looking for cast iron rosette irons that make swedish fried cookies in the shapes of the irons used.

Here's a US website that sells the cast alumium ones so that you'll know what I'm talking about: http://fantes.com/rosettes.htm#molds.

Cast iron molds are no longer made in the US, the only ones available here are cast aluminum which don't work as well.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Are they available in Sweden still? Is there a supplier where I can order them directly?

If they can be purchased there but cannot be ordered by me directly, I don't speak Swedish, of course, I am willing to pay all charges involved in their procurement.

Thanks for any assistance you can give me on this search.


Hi there:

I'm trying to find some info for you. Are you wanting the forms that make little tart bottoms or the ones that look like cookies (the ones that look like cookie cutters). I haven't used them myself, but I have eaten the tart bottom ones.

Do you bake these in the oven or fry them in a skillet? Like I said, I have not used them myself. I have enlisted the help of my SO's mom. She is looking for what I described in cast iron in one of her catalogs. Maybe we will have luck.

If you can give me a little further, it might help.

[Stardust]

THANK YOU for the link. I am so glad the party was a huge success!!!!

Thanks.

I hope as is well with you.

[evasweden]

Hi,
Another Swede to join (Vallentuna north of Stockholm). Is this forum still active in any way?
A tip on yet another lowcarb group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/lowcarbsweden/
This (I think) is a revival of Heather's group, but with a slightly different name?
We have tried to open a database there with recommendations for lowcarb restaurants in different towns in Sweden, but so far the result is poor. Maybe you all 'veterans' :) could help out here and pour some more reasonable restaurants into that database?
I think it is ok to post entries in English, if you prefer.

I have been doing lowcarb since mid Dec (a bad time to start in Sweden with Lucia, Christmas, New Year and then a Christening party of my brother's daughter on top of that...), but so far I have lost 6 kg, which I think is quite good considering the timing.

I feel much better in my body, less hunger, a more comfortable stomach, less tired. I do agree that it is not easy here with everyone taking on a lowfat-highcarb attitude, but I think this might be slowly changing. Will go to California this summer, and from what I have seen on the web it will be pretty easy to find lowcarb restaurants, shops etc. I guess I will have to try out some of those products. If you can give me any advice on what I shouldn't miss, please let me know... :)

Take care and have a fatty day! :)
Eva

[Stardust]

Hi Eva:

Some of us are still around here.

There are people who participate in the forum from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.

I don't know how much help I would be with adding restaurants to your list. It seems to me that so many of the restaurants serve the same type of food here, unless you go for Thai, Chinese or McDonalds. :) I guess you see we have lots of options here in Ystad. lol

You're making great progress and I know what you mean about it not being easy. My sambo's mom thinks I am nutso for not eating bread, potatoes and such, but she does really try to accomodate me when we eat with her.

Wow, California, huh! I am a born and bred California girl. Where are you headed in California this summer?

If you want you can visit my journal and we could share other info. You never know what new product might pop up! You might want to start a journal yourself.

Ha det så bra!

[gilibel]

Hi Eva!
Welcome!

I'm still active here, know lovely Heather too, but I'm not writing much LC-orientated talk at the mo, unfortunately... We are a small but steady gang from Sweden, Norway and Denmark still hanging on to this great forum, since 2003. I guess the most diligent LC-er of us would be Nillesen from Norway... You will find her as "Nille" in the bootcamp. "Titanic"/Jolly from Denmark is another longterm participant.

Bestest of luck, Eva!
LC is the greatest thing. Nothing has ever made me feel better or lose weight in such a pleasant, healthy and yummy way than Atkins et al.

As for restaurants... I still wait for LC-specialized ones. Even thought of opening one myself here in Malmo, as another silly business thought... Well it will surface one day, in one or the other regime, that's for sure.

Cheers! :wave:

/jeels

[evasweden]

Hi,

Thanks for your support! Will have a look at the journal, thanks for the tip, this site is not one of the easiest to navigate...

Opening a restaurant in Malmö would perhaps be a great idea, if it is not premature? You would need enough lowcarbers to get started, don't know how large a community it might be down there?

When I was recently in an ordinary grocery shop (Konsum) I started to think how different that shop would be should it carry only lowcarb products. Just imagine... no bread shelves, virtually no processed food, no light products in the dairy department, perhaps a larger selection of high-quality vegetables, meat and fish. On top of that almost the entire candy department including coke, fanta etc would be gone...

I wonder who is going to open the first of that kind of shop here, and when? It will be very interesting to see if I can find such a shop in California.

We will be going first to San Francisco, then rent a car to go down to San Diego, where we are switching houses with another couple. We'll be there for three weeks, so plenty of time to shop around for interesting lowcarb products.

Cheers, Eva

[evasweden]

Hi again,
Anyone there?
On Tuesday I went to a surprise party for a collegue who will soon turn 50, and decided I wouldn't be too strict on the lowcarb regime. We went to a Korean restaurant with a buffet, so I gathered it wouldn't be too bad. I hade some Korean soup, some Korean vegetables like kimchi and others, followed by some meat: thin slices of steak, chicken leg, etc.
The non low-carb dishes were limited to 1 deep-fried shrimp, 1 tiny Thai springroll and finally a small piece of her birthday cake (orange mousse).
I thought I would get away with this slight slip, but not so. The next two days I went up 0.9 kg!
Have you also experienced such severe effects after small diversions from the low-carb menu?

This morning I was down a little again, but I reckon it will be a week before I am back to before her party..
Thanks, Eva

[Nico78]

Hi all!
I live in Göteborg with my fiancee, I'm italian and I have been living here for almost a year.
I started Atkins last summer but then I went back to Italy for holidays and I fell off the wagon!
I find very difficult to shop low-carb here when everyone seems to eat lots of potatoes and bread every day!
Do you know of any online store that delivers to Sweden? Like European store?
I want to buy flax flour to make the bread!

Eva: maybe you gained weight not for what you ate, there are fluctuations anyway!

Nico