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Omelet said:

Lo Carb does not mean NO carb. :-)
It's just restricted.

It's like any other diet tho', it's not always easy to stick with.

Sticking to a diet is a problem for me. I love to eat.

Becca

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Omelet said:

Lo Carb does not mean NO carb. :-)
It's just restricted.

It's like any other diet tho', it's not always easy to stick with.

Sticking to a diet is a problem for me. I love to eat.

Finding things in low calorie, low refined carb food groups that
I really love enabled me to lose 18 lbs in four weeks in August.
I think the heat helped too. I know I've mentioned it ... (heh) but
I craved watermelon and every time I lay eyes on it I eat every
bit I can fit in my belly. Also cucumbers and green peppers with
onion dip (Daisy light sour cream and Hidden Valley Ranch dip mix),
wheat chex cereal with the same dip, Dannon Light and Fit yogurt
with fresh blueberries, and full fat Breakstone's cottage cheese are
things I ate during those times. I always have to have meat around,
and last month it was braised beef with carrots and very dark, strong
broth, roasted chicken legs, and baked salmon.

I never tell myself I can't have anything. I tell myself that I can have
anything I want to eat once a day, around dinner time or a bit earlier,
then snack on the above foods. What I found is that as time goes on,
I can fit less and less of that "anything" in, as my stomach has shrunk.

The list of foods would not appeal to everyone, for sure--point is,
find your list, and think of it as adding delicious things rather than
removing things from your diet. (Add enough watermelon and other
raw vegetables, even with delicious dips, and you just can't fit anything
like a grilled cheese in ...)

My sister lost a bunch of weight just eating steamed broc before lunch
and dinner. She loves it, and it filled her up and took the place of more
fattening things.

cybercat said:

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Quoted message said:

Omelet said:

Lo Carb does not mean NO carb. :-)
It's just restricted.

It's like any other diet tho', it's not always easy to stick with.

Sticking to a diet is a problem for me. I love to eat.

Finding things in low calorie, low refined carb food groups that
I really love enabled me to lose 18 lbs in four weeks in August.
I think the heat helped too. I know I've mentioned it ... (heh) but
I craved watermelon and every time I lay eyes on it I eat every
bit I can fit in my belly. Also cucumbers and green peppers with
onion dip (Daisy light sour cream and Hidden Valley Ranch dip mix),
wheat chex cereal with the same dip, Dannon Light and Fit yogurt
with fresh blueberries, and full fat Breakstone's cottage cheese are
things I ate during those times. I always have to have meat around,
and last month it was braised beef with carrots and very dark, strong
broth, roasted chicken legs, and baked salmon.

I never tell myself I can't have anything. I tell myself that I can have
anything I want to eat once a day, around dinner time or a bit earlier,
then snack on the above foods. What I found is that as time goes on,
I can fit less and less of that "anything" in, as my stomach has shrunk.

The list of foods would not appeal to everyone, for sure--point is,
find your list, and think of it as adding delicious things rather than
removing things from your diet. (Add enough watermelon and other
raw vegetables, even with delicious dips, and you just can't fit anything
like a grilled cheese in ...)

My sister lost a bunch of weight just eating steamed broc before lunch
and dinner. She loves it, and it filled her up and took the place of more
fattening things.

This is great advice, thanks.

Becca

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This is great advice, thanks.

Welcome! Once you see the first loss, it's easier. I thought
I was stuck with the weight I had gained from quitting smoking
then sustaining a back injury that gave me sciatica so that I had
to quit the gym. Hope you find a way that works for you. I hated
feeling heavy.

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Becca said:

Omelet said:

Lo Carb does not mean NO carb. :-)
It's just restricted.

It's like any other diet tho', it's not always easy to stick with.

Sticking to a diet is a problem for me. I love to eat.

Becca

I'm moody about my eating habits. :-)
My problems occur when cravings hit!
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cybercat said:

"Becca" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

This is great advice, thanks.

Welcome! Once you see the first loss, it's easier. I thought
I was stuck with the weight I had gained from quitting smoking
then sustaining a back injury that gave me sciatica so that I had
to quit the gym. Hope you find a way that works for you. I hated
feeling heavy.

Ouch, sorry to hear about your back injury. I hope it gets better, with
time. Quitting exercise would be rough on me, I am addicted to aerobics.
I do it 5-6 days a week, for 1 1/2 hours at a time. I lift weights about
4 days a week. Aerobics is an addiction, just like donuts. lol You
would think I would lose weight, but no such luck. A personal trainer
said that 85% of weight loss is in diet. Diet? Sonsabitches!

Becca

"Becca" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Ouch, sorry to hear about your back injury. I hope it gets better, with
time.

Thanks, it happened in 2001 (when I did the double header down the steps
sleepwalking ...) and I have not felt sciatica in six months, so I think it
is healing.

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Quitting exercise would be rough on me, I am addicted to aerobics. I do it
5-6 days a week, for 1 1/2 hours at a time. I lift weights about 4 days a
week. Aerobics is an addiction, just like donuts.

I need to get that addiction! I love weight training and sprint-walking
(jogging sucks to me, I would rather run as hard as I can then walk
to rest, then run again) and will never forget the last time I left the
gym and limped into the chiropractor's office with that familiar but
really odd pattern of numbness and burning that is sciatica. I have
my dining room set up as an exercise room, with a bike and ski
machine and one of those "bean" things you use to cushion the lower
back while doing crunches and such. I have started! Just have to hope
the pain won't kick in again.

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lol You would think I would lose weight, but no such luck. A personal
trainer said that 85% of weight loss is in diet. Diet? Sonsabitches!

Becca, I LOVE hot dogs and popcorn and breakfast meats and eggs,
and eat them all. But this recent heat, and whatever else got me motivated
to change my diet by adding things I love that are basically full of water,
and has made a big change. Went to the doctor yesterday and my bp was
116/65--after being up around 140/90 much of the time for a few years.
(Some of this is attributable to the physics of losing 20 lbs, no doubt.)

It had to be the vegetables and fruits taking up the space that the salty
fatty stuff would have. The dip I make--just Hidden Valley in the packet
and 16 oz of Daisy Light sour cream--is salty as hell, and tasty too, but
I guess the bunches of cucumbers and peppers and the water and fiber
in them make up for it somehow. The cool thing is, I get to snack and to
me they are delicious, as is the water melon and cantaloupe. Just the idea
of having a big plate of something with positively wicked onion dip (this
is what the HV dip-specific packet mix tastes like) to pick at while
watching
the tube, while still losing weight, is a delicious, adolescent pleasure!
And the
extra hydration has made my skin more dewy and healthy looking too. It's
a shot in the arm!

Per food: just fried up four pounds of pork loin that I did not notice was
injected with saline until I got it home. It's Smithfield brand, and fries
up
almost like breakfast meat. Bought it whole, fried thin slices for my
husband
to eat on sandwiches (it's not bad as long as you don't ADD salt) and
chunked
and browned the rest and tossed it in a pot of sauerkraut for me, mmmm! What
the hell, I got a good bp reading yesterday might as well BLOW IT OUT today,
MUhahaha!