Group LLC Holiday Challenge!

Zano, I replied to your message about muscle cramps. Take a look at your potassium and magnesium intake! Add some natural potassium rich foods like broccoli and cauliflower. If that doesn't help, look at taking a supplement. Calcium could also be an issue if the potassium doesn't help.

Hi All. I'm new to MFP so sorry for posting this off-topic question here. I read about this low carb group here on MFP and I'm just a wee bit confused about how you join it. Do you all just post messages with "Group LLC" in the subject line so other low carbers can find them via search, or is there a sub-forum for it. Sorry, still browsing through MFP to find where everything is.

Hi all,

Spent the last two days driving, eating crappy & just having stress filled days. My crappy eating - led to serious stomach distress - thankfully all is better. I just found out we are due for yet another ice/snow storm (ARRRRGGGHHH!!!!!) I will be trapped in the house for at least 3 days - Praying for spring & sanity. I don't even want to think about the scale :sad:

Okay...so we're a little quiet here. Hibernating. I know I've been hibernating. I hibernate when things aren't going well. Things weren't going well. The scale started going the wrong way. Then I couldn't get it to go the right way. So I went into hibernation mode until I could sort things out. I figured, why get on the boards and whine and moan? Nobody wants to hear that.

So, now, I sorted things out. And the scale is going in the right direction. So, I'm around.

Is anyone else around? How are things going for folks? How did induction go for folks who were on it?

After all that angst, I'm actually still on track to meet my valentine's day challenge goal. I guess its a good think I picked a modest goal, right?

Hi LLCers!!

I too have been in hibernation on this thread. I'm here everyday - just don't have much to say.

@Tatiana, glad to see you are still on track. I know how we can sometimes get side-tracked.

@Zano - I'm glad you are still around living low carb.

I'm happy to report that I have met my valentines' day challenge. My starting weight was 228.2 - this morning 217.4 - I lost 10.8 lbs . :bigsmile: I am VERY EXCITED!!!

I will continue on my journey to reach my next mini goal of 210. Hopefully that will happen real soon.

Have a fantastic Sunday. I'm off to get chores done so I can be free to watch the football game later!!

Happy loosing everyone!! :flowerforyou:

Thanks Tatiana. It has been a challenging journey. :ohwell:

You hang in there!! I know you will be successul and will reach your goal!!! :flowerforyou:

Thanks Calie I found the new LC thread :flowerforyou:

I started at a different school this year and the year has been pretty stressful in some ways but better in others just less time to do things. I am back to making time to record and I am seeing a new bariatric doctor here in Las Vegas that is a strong believer in low carb so it's nice to have a doctor's support.

Any book nerds out there that love low carb books? I am finishing up Gary Taubes new book "Why we get fat and what to do about it" and it is sooo validating. I am actually learning a lot about metabolism and the roles of hormones and insulin. I thought I had read it all but this book has some great evidence to support the low carb lifestyle.

As a plan I follow Primal with a little Carb Addicts thrown in on days I just have to have an enchilada. It's working for me. I have lost 55 pounds doing this so far. My goal by summer is under 300 only 26 more pounds to go!:drinker:

Happy Sunday all!:drinker:

I am down another pound today so that's 5 this week yay!:drinker: I see the doctor tomorrow and I think he will be pleased to see my 9 pound loss these past 2 weeks:happy: I got lucky he is a strong believer in low carb.

Been cooking my low carb meals for the week today and I just have two more to go. I have made green beans, kale, spicy chicken burgers with cheddar, low carb lasagna (I like George Stella's recipe but modify it with more veggies and chicken instead of beef since I am allergic), and I am doing some mashed cauliflower. For breakfast I made a crustless zucchini, bacon, and swiss quiche. I will probably do chicken taco salads later in the week but they are a quick fix. I find I stay on track better if I cook my meals and portion them out in microwaveable bowls so it is easy to just warm them when I come home beat from work.

Have a great week!:flowerforyou:

Yay on the exercise Tatiana!:drinker: That is what I am working on this week.

House is good neighbors are bad, they all have dogs they let bark 24/7. It's against HOA rules but I have called them and they seem to do nothing.

My sister finally got a job with social services for the state she is an eligibility worker for ongoing cases. We are doing pretty well now that things have settled back in with two full incomes again.

Hey Everyone!!!

What has happened to the rest of the group? I hope they come back here soon. It is kind of lonely here. I want to know how everyone is doing. Come back and check in.

Tatiana, I'm still hanging around. I know I don't post often - but I do check the thread daily.

I'm glad you didn't give up on your goal for the V-day challenge. Almost getting there and getting there are similiar. You set a goal and did your best to attain it. The pounds that you lost, no matter the number, is still considered a success because they are GONE!!!

Have a great week everyone!! Keep going and stay focus on your journey!!

Hey mom216!

Good to hear from you! I know you wanted a loss, but maintaining---particularly under great strain--is an awesome feat. I can't tell you how many times that stress, for me, meant scones! And cake! And more scones! Did I forget to mention scones? I'm sort of being funny about it now...but it certainly wasn't funny at the time. Not with the scale going up, and up, and up, and my pants getting tighter and tighter and tighter....

So I wouldn't so much say you fell off the wagon. You've sort of just...stopped the wagon. Putting some new shoes on those horses. You'll get it going again. I know you will. I have faith in you.

That's interesting Amy! I'm interested in how the up day down day feels. I often think about it...but I'm not sure if I have the will power to do the down day. I'm a bit of a chicken when it comes to even the slightest bit of hunger...

I like the discipline of Atkins induction...although I never get through all his various rungs. Being a simple person, I like the simplicity of low carb, and Atkins and his rungs and the adding 5 back in, and the CCL...never seemed simple. I just like: keep starch and grains lowish, most of the time, and experiment from time to time with what works best for you. For me, potatoes and rice are fine for maintenance, although I tend not to be able to lose weight on them. And I seem to be intolerant to wheat. I also like Atkins because I find that I actually feel better on a high-er fat diet. I could do without all the meat (I don't really care for meat so much and prefer beans), but I like the emphasis on fat. For some reason, it keeps my mood up. I don't know...even though I'm at a relatively low weight, I'm still pretty squeezable (although, no one in my life seems to be complaining!). I think, perhaps, all that dietary fat keeps me at a pretty high level of bodyfat...which is perhaps right where my genetics seem to want to keep me. That's right...I'm blaming it on the genetics, and not my hatred of exercise...

Hey Amy. I'm feeling like perhaps this thread has died a peaceful death. Maybe the title with "holiday" in it isn't doing enough to attract new people? We all sort of come in and out depending on what's going on in our lives, and without new people injecting their excitement, its hard to sustain liveliness....if I felt like being a leader, I'd start a new low carb thread. There are certainly plenty of low carb people on MFP...paleo, atkins, no sugar people, south beach. They just may not call themselves low carb ("fanatics! fanatics! I love carbs! I eat tons of vegetables and fruit! I just stay away from breads and sugar...") An adequately labeled thread with a wide enough umbrella should certainly attract enough people to sustain a decent conversation. But I'm not sure I feel like being a leader right now...

But as for me, I am trying something that looks like your up day, down day...Intermittant fasting. I think so, anyway. I'll be trying it two days a week. It looks pretty much like up day down day, because the "fast" goes from dinner one night to dinner the next night, so you are eating every day, so technically speaking, my "down" day will end up being the day i only eat dinner. I think that will be easier for me than eating sparingly all day. I've done it a few times in the past, and its not bad. When you know that you can eat a normalish sized meal for dinner, getting through the day is pretty easy, as long as its a work day where I'm mentally occupied all day.

Maybe the thread will pickup--but I've been hoping for that for over a month now. Or maybe someone will start a new low carb thread and I'll see you there. By the way...someone has started a paleo support thread. Paleo folks tend to be a little more on the fitness side/getting lean side of things than the weight loss side of things...I'm talking averages, not totals however....but they are there and they are active, so I am having a good time.

Hi!
Are you all still here?

I really like MFP and the friends I've made here but I am now looking for a low-carb group. There don't seem to be many here. In fact, I am surprised at how opposed people are to this way of life! Different things work for different people and this is the best way for ME!

I've been a member of MFP for over a year but most of my weight came off before I joined this site--over 80 pounds. My weight loss stalled last year and then the weight started to creep back so, when my weight was back up 14 pounds, I decided to research the low-carb lifestyle and decided on Atkins.

I have done the research online and the book should arrive today so I can read it and do everything right.
I started Induction last Sunday and will not weigh again for another week but I know I am feeling better and I am NOT fighting the late-night cravings I always had!