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Lots to get my head around

by Bobshouse on 05 Jun 2014, 05:22

With this low carb stuff. I am sitting here munching my way through my breakfast and enjoying it. I think I have sorted lunch by swapping my baguette for rice cakes which I can get easily. I am thinking about stocking up on different fruit for breakfast and yogurt for puds. My other option, as already said, is to give up breakfast and do 16:8 on feed days. I also need to give up making cakes. We always have something in the tin and have done all my married life. The biggest problem I can see is this is beginning to look like a diet and my head is rebelling. The fasting I like because I don't have to devote too much thought to it. The other side of it is I cannot imagine a life without bread and cake. I can just about do it three times a week but making it possibly permanent is scary.
I have lots more reading and thinking to do before I go ahead with this. The other side of low carb is the difficulty I will have sourcing non standard things like oat bran or wholemeal flour.
So at the moment? Need more time to research then who knows?

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Re: Lots to get my head around
05 Jun 2014, 12:07
I don't want to be discouraging, Bobshouse, but I have exactly those reservations. Initially what I loved so much about 5:2 was permission to eat what I like - bread, cakes, cream, cheese etc etc. on 5 days a week. I cling to this. I am not prepared to diet, not ever again. I know it won't work for me. If I take weight off by doing without cake etc, I will put it back on because I am simply not prepared to live a life without cake etc. Living as you do in rural France - how could you ever replace baguette with rice cakes. The whole idea is preposterous!
Re: Lots to get my head around
06 Jun 2014, 02:01
You're right. It won't work if it's considered punishment or life long deprivation.

The idea of low carb it is to get some feel for the amount that you CAN eat without causing cravings, a plateau (if you've more weight to lose), or worse, gain weight if you are in maintenance. Once you've learned the amount that avoids these issues for you, it's easy step to apply that knowledge to your favorite foods.
Re: Lots to get my head around
06 Jun 2014, 05:51
Thanks ladies. It is how I feel really. Eating rice cakes is punishment for me...fresh baguette and camembert haunts me! I don't think I am a slave to the carb monster but I do enjoy my cereal and toast for breakfast on feed days. I feel I am over complicating things by reducing carbs when I am very happy with just fasting. The problem is I read all that is posted and it makes me feel I need to change. Experience has taught me I cannot succeed by banning stuff and finding weird foods is impossible here. I also have a very limited budget and have to shop carefully. A baguette at 49cents is affordable and does us both for lunch. Rice cakes are expensive as they are only available on the organic shelf. So, the chickens will feast on organic rice cakes today and I am going to ignore all the threads about anything other that fasting.
Thank you for helping me to see where I was going!
Re: Lots to get my head around
06 Jun 2014, 08:27
And baguettes are made locally and are part of the culture. Rice cakes are made from rice grown on the other side of the planet, highly processed and transported to France. It doesn't make ecological sense!

I'm glad you have come back to a simple 5:2. Let's enjoy food. Let's fast 2 days or 3 if you want to, and on the other days, rejoice. You live in a land of wonderful food with hundreds of years of tradition. It's one of the reasons perhaps that you live where you do. The camembert is locally made and I would love to try it!
Re: Lots to get my head around
06 Jun 2014, 15:01
Chickens enjoyed the rice cakes which I will never buy again! Back to loving life!
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