Don't be disheartened, you asked a question and got answers. Sometimes we hear things we either don't like, don't agree with or just find too honest to deal with at that moment in time.
Your BMI is looking better than mine and we have both lost approx 5kg. This tells me that you are in fact losing weight at a good healthy pace, like me.
I don't want to preach or upset you but please be happy with this lose, as I am with mine. I believe that sometimes you get disheartened and impatient (remind me of my husband in some respects) which then depresses you.
Keep it simple and it will work. I do believe that our bodies do retaliate at some stages during a new
Way of Eating. If you still lose or maintain whilst eating carbs then jolly well eat them. I've maintained, for over a fortnight now, no exercise at all (which is definitely doing my head in, as I do it because I love it) I've eaten bread, pasta, carbs, mince pies and drunk some wine.
I'm going to leave you alone now, all my comments are made with good intentions, so please don't shout at me if you don't like them.
Happy Christmas.
From Caroline
(a carb lover)
Announcement On Low Carb Dieting
by johncs2013 on 19 Dec 2013, 19:13
However, there has been a few comments in this forum today in response to another thread which I started earlier on today, and I have found those comments rather depressing to the point that I'm still feeling a bit upset by them. The reason for that is because a number of people have commented that my current carb intake is still not low enough for that to be considered as a low carb diet. To me, that is just making me feel as though I have failed in terms of trying to achieve my goal of a low carb diet and am now incapable of achieving that goal.
It must be remembered though that what is low carb for me, is not necessarily going to be low carb to someone, especially those who stick to the really low carb Atkins style diets that they advocate. To me, it has felt as though my efforts to reduce my carb intake has not been good enough in the eyes of these people, yet my carb intake is far lower than what it was before I began this WOL and far lower than at an point in my life beforehand. To me, that is an achievement which I will recognise for the rest of my life and because of that, I cannot allow that sense of achievement to be taken away by people on this forum who believe hat his hasn't been good enough for their liking.
However, these people have made their point and from that, it is clear that low carb dieting is just now something that I can continue to try to put in place. To me, there are things that people have natural talents in, and things which they don't, and in which they find a real struggle to even attempt that, let alone get any sort of decent results which will always be well below the standards of people who do have that natural talent (you can't for example, ask a chef to work as a plumber when they have no formal training or natural talent for that). For me, low carb dieting was something that I really hated before joining this forum and the comments on that other thread have now just made me hate low carb dieting even more.
Because of that, I have decided to ditch the low carb idea and go back to what I have always felt more comfortable with, a at is just going by e flow of what like to eat. At he end of the day, the promise of this WOL is that we can eat whatever we like on our non-fasting days, and that is what I intend to stick to from now on. or now, just be grateful that I'm not sitting down and eating a pile of carbs tonight as my means of telling you all where to stuff your advice on low carb eating.
Lower Trend Weight Limit: 70.0kg (11 stone 0 pounds)
Upper Trend Weight Limit: 73.0kg (11 stone 7 pounds)
Last Weigh-in Date: 1 Mar 2014
Actual Weight: 74.3kg (11 stone 9.8 pounds)
Trend Weight: 72.6kg (11 stone 6.0 pounds)
Body Mass Index: 24.83 (actual) / 24.26 (trend)
Current Method: No Fasting
Low Calorie Days: As Required
Trend weights calculated from Libra Android App