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Every meal should always be at least 400 calories..... the idea behind this is that 400 (healthy!) calories should be enough to keep your body going until the next meal.... regardless of what your emotional stomach tells you!!! ;)
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Um.... you forgot to post the link!
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Yes it is.
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Depends on whether you want sweet or savoury and whether you are counting calories as well as going low carb. I'm a sweet brekkie person myself. Pancakes made with either coconut flour or ground almonds are low carb but high in calories. Or you can do a half n half porridge with 50% oats and 50% ground almonds too..... Oh…
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It's also lovely with grated carrot and sultanas..... they add natural sweetness too....
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For flavour, I add a teaspoon of cinnamon to mine - I love the stuff. I've cut right down on sweetening so I just have two small teaspoons of Stevia. I also add 20g of pumpkin/sunflower/linseed and sesame seed mix for some Omega 3 and to give it a bit of "bite". Yummmmm...
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Ground cinnamon! I have it daily in my porridge, my black coffee and my low-cal occasional hot-chocolate..... yummmm
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I gained 7lbs over the Monday to Monday two weeks of Christmas and New Year (and husband's birthday thrown in there for good measure!) I re-started 5:2 fasting yesterday, plus calorie-counting and low-fat/low-ish carb which is how I lost 47lbs in the latter half of last year, so I should be back to my maintenance weight…
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Eating high fat quantities won't necessarily be a problem, it's when you mix it with carbs that it can all go wrong.
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lol I thought it was just me!!
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Why doesn't she want people to know she had surgery? When people ask me "What is your secret?" I reply honestly "No secret - I ate less, exercised more and didn't cheat!"
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If you are losing regularly on 1800 and are comfortable with the amount of food that that allowance provides, why change things? You'll lose quicker the way you are doing it anyway. As long as you eat healthily and don't fill up on junk, sounds like you're doing just fine..... Nice to know that you can have an occasional…
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I'm hopefully confusing my body at the moment... I've been following a LCHF diet for about a month, sticking to around 50-60 net carbs a day because I run so I didn't want to go too low. Yesterday had a higher carb day and today I've fasted..... let's see what the results are of THAT little change-up! lol Will let you know…
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I LOVE prunes.... but the sorbitol in them doesn't like me at all. I'm highly sensitive to it and can't eat more than a couple or I bloat, get very gassy and gurgly and spend the rest of the day running for the loo!
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There is a group "Low Carber Daily Forum" on here that you may want to join... you'll get lots of specific info from there. If all you are eating every day is toast, a jacket potato and some tuna with a little salad or coleslaw, then your diet is very restricted and mainly carbs, unfortunately. The skin of the potato…
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A couple of fat bombs for me..... or a handful of nuts....
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My fitness age is 30. Not bad for a 50yo granny!!!
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I've made those with just the bananas, oats and chocolate chips. They don't hang around for long!
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27" now I'm at target. Was 34" back in May when I started. I'm a pear, not an apple....
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Extra virgin olive oil, butter and double cream .....
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My motivation was my looming 50th birthday. I didn't want to be fifty and fat, I wanted to be fifty and fit and I stayed strong and motivated through the weight loss. I change the way I ate, I took up running, I calorie counted, went low-carb and low-cal AND did 5:2 fasting... SO many changes but I needed to do it so that…
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This is quite a good link.... but you have to experiment to find out what your own personal limit is..... http://www.marksdailyapple.com/press/the-primal-blueprint-diagrams/#axzz2kwmupjR1
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Yes it is fine to do intensive work on LC, just bear in mind that it may take your body a while to learn to swap from burning carbs for energy to fat so you may experience "the wall"! But persevere and I'm led to believe that it WILL transfer, looking for an alternative energy source if the carb store is empty!!!
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Hmmm.... I felt like that when I did the C25K programme and I wasn't on reduced carbs. It is possible that 60g isn't low enough to affect your glycogen stores so you are just feeling "normal" for a newbie runner. Runners all have duff runs, it's what makes the good ones good. The more you progress, the less duff ones you…
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As far as I know, without additional MFP programme downloads, you can only "quick add" calories, not carbs, protein, fat or fibre. If there IS a way, I'd like to know it too!!!
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I'm 50 and had never run a step in my life until May when I commenced the C25K programme with a view to losing weight. It worked but very rapidly I fell in love with running and now get out 3-4 times a week. My first 5K's were around 35 minutes but yesterday morning I managed it in 30:24 which was a new PB for me. This was…
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Get someone to take some photos of you from the front, side and rear. When I'd lost my first 28lbs, although I was in a smaller size pair of jeans, I didn't feel any different. My husband commented about my smaller bottom and I laughed and said he was making it up. He insisted it was a lot smaller so I asked him to take…
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Some people do re-gain their glycogen stores when transferring onto maintenance, some don't. Sounds like you do so therefore it would be sensible to go a few pounds under your target so that you can fluctuate without going over. I've been maintaining for five and a half weeks now.... and I am SO proud of myself for this as…
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Oh I'm soooooo glad you posted this. Breakfast is my favourite meal of the day.... specifically porridge with lashings of cinnamon. I'd rather eat nothing than have bacon and eggs.... I can't face meat first thing, nor cheese. I'm possibly going to try pancakes made with eggs and ground almonds but I'd rather skip…
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That makes PERFECT sense! Thank you for enlightening me.... I feel a lot more educated now, much appreciated x
