No pictures today, here's why:
Food today:
30g salami
Takeaway crispy duck,
Cucumber
Spring onion
Mayo
Butterscotch gluc pudding
MFP: 21g carbs Inc meds.
Yes, I slept all day so I had someone else cook for me, although tbh I wasn't actually that hungry once dinner arrived. Still ate it though.
This is the second or third tine I've had duck while on plan. Seems to fit in with it well. The hardest part is throwing away the hoisin sauce. Best of the sauces.
Well, I also did my first low carb megastore shop today. I'm wary of the site as on past incarnations of this diet I've ordered sugar free sweets and chocs, low carb breads and pittas and bake mixes - and stalled myself or gained, while dashing to the loo as a result of all the polyols.
So, my rules for low carb shopping are: no sweets, chocs, breads or anything that might tempt me to binge.
No products sweetened with anything ending in 'ol' - especially maltitol.
I will not eat polyols, they stall me, bloat me and do terrible things to my insides. Any label with 'of which polyols' under the carb count gets put right back by me.
No baking mixes. I can bake my own treats without chemical ingredients to lower the carbs. I use gluc which is simply ground up vegetable fibre, and I may introduce small amounts of almond flour.
So, I bought:
1 carb ketchup (sweetened with splenda)
Walden farms BBQ sauce (splenda)
Davinci sugar free syrup (splenda)
Walden farms caramel syrup (splenda)
I've looked around and haven't yet seen anyone stalling on the davinci and walden farms brands, I want their products to flavor baking mixes but if I notice problems I'll know to cut them out.
In the main I'll still be using my candarel tablet and flavouring essence method which clearly works well for me.
Today I found my loss tracker from the last time I did Atkins, over on another forum. It surprised me. I remember that attempt as being full of stalls - in fact I only had two sts in three months. I was actually losing at a rate which, looking back, I can see is good. It just wasn't fast enough for me and when I stsd or only lost 1lb I started trying to 'tweak' my eating plan. I went on the fat fast, lost 5lb in one week then stalled the next as I went back to induction eating. I tried eating under 1000 cals per day and my loss slowed.
In the end the harsh rules I was putting on myself were too much, I fell off the wagon and didn't get back on.
I was so daft. I was losing well and regularly even if at times it slowed down or paused. I've I'd stayed on the diet I'd be skinny as anything right now, even if I'd only lost one pound a week the whole time.
So. I'll be going off plan again for a couple of weeks at the end of July - and if I have special days out or whatever then I will go off plan for them as long as the frequency is only once every couple of months. I know I can lose any regain, even if it means a week or two without loss.
It's not a hard plan, especially compared to others. There are no foods I 'need' that I can't have on this plan, and if there are foods I fancy I can have them during those occasional breaks. I don't need to change what I'm doing or try other plans or incorporating other plans into my diet unless I stall for at least 3 weeks.
Just keep swimming. If I'd done that last year I'd be thin.
Saw a quote on another forum today:
Looking back, you'll never regret what you -didn't- eat.
So true. Sometimes you might really want an off plan food but, come the next day, you'll regret eating it. You'll never regret having chosen not to.
