MariFleming2020 Member

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  • I'm starting today - big online shop delivered with turkey, steak, monkfish, chicken breast, prawns, Skyr (much lower in sugar than yogurt & Quark), egg-white & oat-bran. I have a cache of Stevia flavoured sweeteners to make my breakfast 'porridge' (oat bran, Skyr, egg-white) more palatable, and also Cytosport Whey protein…
  • I did it a couple of years ago to lose 6-7 lbs & was successful. However, I recently started it to lose 20 lbs gained over a couple of stressful years, and after the first 3 weeks I went into a plateau for 4 weeks - not an oz lost, despite being in a calorie deficit of at least 900 a day! (I was also tracking on MFP). I…
  • Added sugar is the problem - in fact fructose is the problem - which is half of Sucrose (glucose + fructose) and is the sugar in fruits. Fructose in fruits is OK as it is hard for the body to get at, usually being bound up with fibre. Fructose in fruit juices is NOT OK as the binding fibre has been removed. Many fruit…
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