Hi all! Just jumping in cause I need support too! Especially my aching head!
The DH and I have done low carb seriously in the past, and much less seriously over the past few years. We decided that the new Eades book would be our trigger to buckle down and stop messing around (at least for about 6 weeks
).
After reading I had to give up caffeine, I persuaded DH we should start on Sunday, so I could ease off coffee and Diet drinks for a few days first. Also gave us time to read the book and buy all the stuff. We bought *everything* even tracked down that Enova.
I don't have anything new to contribute except to agree
with the sentiments expressed above in this thread:
recipes? what's with that? why not just give us guidance? Or at least give us guidance *and* recipes. I've been reading the Eades blog to gain a little extra insight as well. Which is good or would never have noticed that the recipes in Weeks 1-2 contain dairy, and in Weeks 3-4 don't at all.
We're just eating meat, not too much and a tiny serving of some vegetable thing (ideas from glancing at recipes). I ate a miniscule cheese sample at the grocery store today - and DH just about stabbed me to death with his eyes. He said, "is that one of your 3 shakes? or is it your one meal? seems like a small meal!" <insert glare> So we're really really serious about this. <sigh>
Enova? Yeah, I read the justification, but there doesn't seem that much research. Not as much as compared to everything else. But we're trying it for now. If you notice - without your evening meal, and without the enova, there's barely any other fat all day (except from the heavy cream thank goodness). Weird. After all that stuff he wrote about how important saturated fat was to de-fat your liver, and we're barely eating fat. (we're already making plans for weeks 3-4 - which is sort of a meat fast
).
Oh, and I'm trying to learn more about iodine. Lots of good threads around here about that - so trying to catch up.
Good luck all! Hang in there!
(oh, and is anyone else surprised that Splenda is allowed? some of the shake suggestions include using splenda sweetened sodas. I know Splenda is not as evil as Aspartame, but it sure doesn't feel 'natural'.)