Thread: Things I learnt this week

hmmm my late night water drinking - was a rubbish idea! I was awake half the night wanting to go for a pee - I should have gone but it was too cold - so I stayed awake - keeping it in!

I was tired all day as a result.

2 atkins shakes, one for brekkie and one for lunch and then cabbage and bacon for dinner. Probably under 20g of carbs but I really couldn't be bothered today.

Looking forward to the weekend!

You've done well piglet to have just 2 shakes and a meal - I'm very impressed - of I have a shake / meal combo I need at least 3 shakes! Lol x

hoho - I just couldn't be bothered to move to get anything to eat. I curled up with a laptop on my knees and edited reports all day - I only moved to chuck more logs on the fire.

I guess laziness is the best diet!

Oh... A real log fire! How lovely! :-) ... My friend used to have one when he lived further outside Belfast and used to use peat at times which he bought from the collectives working on the Sperrins... Such a great heat and smell...

Something I have learnt this week:

Eating a massive bowl of sugar free jelly may be tasty and only 0.5 carbs but is the equivalent to downing almost 2 pints of water in a very short time......
Here I "go" again!!!

Originally Posted by pigletville

hmmm my late night water drinking - was a rubbish idea! I was awake half the night wanting to go for a pee - I should have gone but it was too cold - so I stayed awake - keeping it in!

I was tired all day as a result.

2 atkins shakes, one for brekkie and one for lunch and then cabbage and bacon for dinner. Probably under 20g of carbs but I really couldn't be bothered today.

Looking forward to the weekend!

Aha!!

I just learnt from you that the shakes are meal replacements. And I learnt yesterday that the Atkins bars aren't.

I don't think the protein shakes are meant as meal replacements per say. But better than having nothing if not in mood for eating or pushed for time etc. though I dunno about Atkins branded shakes. They might be proper replacements.

Today I learnt that i can eat absolute rubbish in a low carb version.

Birthday weekend so I made a trifle - SF jelly with a very thick Atkins Vanilla shake as the custard and whipped double cream! No need to add any sweetner to the cream as everything else was so sweet.

Fake chocolates can be made by mixing 1tsp of cocoa, 1tsp of granulated splenda mixed up with cream to form a very thick paste.

To my shame the only leafys I consumed were in the form of salad - but I got through the day under my 20g of carbs.

I'm not advocating this - it's certainly not clean and green but it was nice to feel a bit indulgent.

Happy Special Birthday Piglet!! And oh my !! How deeelish and wonderfully creative your concoctions sound!!! (mouth well and truly watering lol)

Hope you have an amazing year ahead!!! Hope you and OH are well? Xx

Happy Birthday! I too was almost totally veg-free today, but I had kind of run out and I had this wonderful steak from a farm shop, so I just ate that. On its own!

That trifle sounds lovely. I keep meaning to buy some Atkins shake powder for those mornings when I just don't have time and haven't planned ahead properly. I.E. most mornings.

Belated Happy Birthday Pigletville, may your successes grow while you shrink.

Morning PV, belated happy birthday to you

thanks all - W-IW tomorrow - not expecting a whoosie - although I think I deserve one!

fingers crossed that the fairy makes a visit

Originally Posted by pigletville

thanks all - W-IW tomorrow - not expecting a whoosie - although I think I deserve one!

She may be dusting off her tutu as I type

Fingers crossed