D_Aphrael
Sat, Apr-28-12, 07:24
Hi Everyone,
I've been lurking around this forum since I started back on low carb about 3-4 weeks ago and I've been eating a relatively clean 20g a day diet in that time apart from 3 days last weekend when I went a visited about half of my family. I don't see them all that often so I didn't want to wade in and start making all sorts of dietary demands. Since them I'm back to clean eating and still making good progress.
I live in the UK and about 3 years ago dropped from probably over 210lbs (I never knew for sure) down to about 140. This was a combination of things including a bit of low carb, then having too little money to spend on food to actually eat low carb - but luckily too little to maintain my massive eating, plus an active job. I maintained that fairly well but since I got a desk job (and more money) it's been slowly creeping back. I'm now 20lbs up on my lowest weight.
Now I have the money too, and live in a really convenient locations (3 groceries in walking distance and a local butcher) I decided I was in a prime point to low-carb again and get that creeping weight back down. Motivated largely by the fact that I can't button up my favourite jeans anymore.
It has been awesome! I can't even describe what it's like to be eating so many things that have been massive 'no-nos' for the last 3 years. Like bacon, cream, crackling, and cheese. And this morning -albeit with much effort and discomfort - I got those jeans on and done up, but I still have a ways to go. It's brilliant and I look forward to continuing.
Plus my Mum has played copy-cat over the last week, despite being a natural skinny-minnie, and lost that last stubborn couple of pounds she's been trying to get rid of and is now a total convert.
Has anyone had any experience with people not liking the fact you're succeeding? A friend (I'm pretty sure) intentionally sabotaged me when I went round for dinner at the beginning of my second week.
She offered to cook a curry, I said that'd be great but I wasn't eating rice at the moment so I'd just have the curry on it's own. When I arrived starving hungry and with no other options she'd mixed the cooked rice into the entire curry. She's trying to do an intense low-calorie thing at the moment and just keeps falling of the wagon.
I'm already appreciating the support here, thanks already you guys!
I've been lurking around this forum since I started back on low carb about 3-4 weeks ago and I've been eating a relatively clean 20g a day diet in that time apart from 3 days last weekend when I went a visited about half of my family. I don't see them all that often so I didn't want to wade in and start making all sorts of dietary demands. Since them I'm back to clean eating and still making good progress.
I live in the UK and about 3 years ago dropped from probably over 210lbs (I never knew for sure) down to about 140. This was a combination of things including a bit of low carb, then having too little money to spend on food to actually eat low carb - but luckily too little to maintain my massive eating, plus an active job. I maintained that fairly well but since I got a desk job (and more money) it's been slowly creeping back. I'm now 20lbs up on my lowest weight.
Now I have the money too, and live in a really convenient locations (3 groceries in walking distance and a local butcher) I decided I was in a prime point to low-carb again and get that creeping weight back down. Motivated largely by the fact that I can't button up my favourite jeans anymore.
It has been awesome! I can't even describe what it's like to be eating so many things that have been massive 'no-nos' for the last 3 years. Like bacon, cream, crackling, and cheese. And this morning -albeit with much effort and discomfort - I got those jeans on and done up, but I still have a ways to go. It's brilliant and I look forward to continuing.
Plus my Mum has played copy-cat over the last week, despite being a natural skinny-minnie, and lost that last stubborn couple of pounds she's been trying to get rid of and is now a total convert.
Has anyone had any experience with people not liking the fact you're succeeding? A friend (I'm pretty sure) intentionally sabotaged me when I went round for dinner at the beginning of my second week.
She offered to cook a curry, I said that'd be great but I wasn't eating rice at the moment so I'd just have the curry on it's own. When I arrived starving hungry and with no other options she'd mixed the cooked rice into the entire curry. She's trying to do an intense low-calorie thing at the moment and just keeps falling of the wagon.
I'm already appreciating the support here, thanks already you guys!