OH merci ! Bonjour vous tous ! Thank you for your responses, Barbara, Janet, JustJo and Skimo. Oy, "woe" as a way of life. Not such a great acronym, LOL. Anyhow, which kind of Atkins you ask - well --- still trying to stick to the "induction phase".
It's a huge change for us, because as you know, bread is sacred in France. You mark it with a cross on the back with a knife before eating it, and you can't put it on the wrong side for some reason (the devil will get in ? ) (we're not religious, but still not allowed to put the bread down the wrong way), and without bread, how are you going to mop up the delicious sauces and clean your plate, as is required for every self-respecting French citizen ? That's why I've implemented new household rules. It is henceforth considered impolite NOT to lick your plate. (Alternate solution, have the stew with it's delicious sauce in a bowl, and eat with a spoon).
Anyhow, we cut all the breads and flours, grains and sugars, most fruit, etc. out as suggested by Atkins (my husband, fabulous for him, is now frequently losing his pants) I've been counting carbs using fitday - and trying to keep them under 20 mg per day. Some days that's just impossible, because we love tomatoes. Its very easy to go over 20 mg just by having a few too many string beans or broccoli, or eggplant or too much artichoke. Also very hard to pass up the beautiful summer fruit. The peaches are to die for, so we share a peach now and then (in crème fraîche !) . Still trying to work that all out. Gradually I've been upping the fat. At first I'd forgotten about the fat element of the conversation.
Also gradually upping the exercise. It was very hard for me to get out at first, so tired residually from the chemo, now it's much better, except I wilt horribly in the heat. It's so so hard going up the hills - I feel like I'm carrying two 50 pound sacks, which of course I am. I'm totally heat intolerant, so I try to go out either in the morning or the evening. (I still can't get my husband to walk with me. He sorely needs it, but when he's ready I'm sure he'll start coming along.) But I can't say my weight has budged much since the initial dramatic and very rapid loss of the first month and a half.
In the beginning the weight was just falling off - very linear too, 200 mgs/half pound every single day - and now after the initial 11 kgs/23 lbs, the scale it's pretty stuck. Which is why I'm interested in the intermittent fasting idea. My tummy sticks out like I'm fifteen months pregnant, and I don't see any change in that since the beginning, but I know something is different inside where no one can see, because I can bend over now without being winded. I would dearly love to get down to 135 pounds (or even to 120 pounds which was my weight at 17) and to wear beautiful dresses again. Also I'm an opera singer (or was before my cancer) and would love to be able to put myself back out on the market again, so to speak, and audition and sing concerts, for which I need to look great...
P.S. I'm also counting calories, I know it's not recommended, it's just very hard not to count calories when one is using fitday to count carbs. I notice also it is rather difficult to eat more than 1200 calories or so without the carbs. Perhaps 1200 is too low. I'll keep trying different things. Whatever it take to get this bleeping plateau to budge.
Last edited by pivoine : Sat, Aug-02-14 at 11:05.
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I agree that even if you don't see it yet, giving up all wheat has helped you inside and your waist will continue to shrink. I blamed every fat deposit I didn't like on Tamoxifen. 
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