Hi All,
I am just about to start my 4th week sugar free and loving it, after 4 days my energy levels soared, no more draging myself out of bed I now bounce out. After 2 and a half weeks had lost 5 kgs, deluxe,
but this morning gained 1 kg, after reading the comments of you guys I am not to worried and think I need a low carb diet to kick things of again. Can anyone give a simple low carb and high carb  list of foods, have tried a few web sites but they just do my head in.
Regards Slim

andrew thompson wrote:Hi All,
I am just about to start my 4th week sugar free and loving it, after 4 days my energy levels soared, no more draging myself out of bed I now bounce out. After 2 and a half weeks had lost 5 kgs, deluxe,
but this morning gained 1 kg, after reading the comments of you guys I am not to worried and think I need a low carb diet to kick things of again. Can anyone give a simple low carb and high carb  list of foods, have tried a few web sites but they just do my head in.
Regards Slim

Well done Andrew

The best is a No carb diet to get your weight loss kick started

No carb means what it says, no carbohydrates...........that means.........if possible for you, cut pasta, rice, bread, cereals, potatoes, pumpkin, sweet potato, oats, barley, in fact no high, brown or low grain any carb of any kind.

So, breakfast......bacon eggs and mushrooms. No tomatoes, too much fructose.

Lunch......chicken of any sort and salad or vegetables.  Keep the carrots down too, they can be a bit high in fructose too. No mayo unless it's whole egg.

Dinner.....steak or fish, vegetables.

Snacks.............. Most nuts, although almonds are a bit high in fructose. I have a mix of walnuts and cashews.
You can have fried food and cheese, yoghurt and butter and full cream milk on a low carb diet too.

Whatever you do, don't have anything "light" or "skim" this is one of David's no nos, he says there are nasty things in anything light.

Hope that helps.
I only stay carb free for a couple of weeks as I get sick of bacon and eggs after a while.

But if this is too extreme for you, simply cut down on all these carbs, listed above and, as Bron says, keep to a high fibre carb list and multigrain...........Helgas..........is recommended by David as it has an extremely low sugar content.

Best of luck
cheers
Freda

Lyn wrote:Hi Freda, which brand of cashew nuts do you buy, as all of the ones I have looked at contain more than 3g of sugar per 100g

Hi Lyn
I get the large packs from Franklins supermarket. Yes, they say 6gms sugar per 100, but in David's book, he has a graph on nuts and seeds and says that nuts are ok..........Fig 2.7 on page 111 of the Sweet Poison Quit plan,

He says
 "Even the relatively high-fructose nuts (almonds and chestnuts) outgun kiwi fruit by three to one. You can't choose a bad nut, but the best choices  would be anything below and to the right of a cashew on the graph."

So, I suppose that the fibre in nuts outdoes the fructose and I do prefer the cashews and walnuts in flavour to other nuts.
cheers
Freda

Hi Bron,

I'm with you Bron, especially as I researched how they polish all the Thiamine off the brown rice to make white & the many problems in those poor communities around the world that do this, then wonder why they then have to spend money on fixing up the now almost starving polulation, although a cynic would think their Govts were thinking, if we do this to save money, then some of the poorest people we can't afford to look after may die, so why waste money on them, keping them healthy?  I'm on my soap-box now, but it's all about the almighty dollar. I may just have gotten my metaphors a bit mixed up, but you get the picture?  ( I hope)!!

Kev doesn't like brown rice, so I cook up 2 cups (of the dry rice) & put it in single serve portions in the freezer. I have some little round black plastic take away containers that are perfect. Kev cooks up the normal white rice (we use basmati, it's low GI) for himself, then leaves the rest in the fridge to have with the leftovers. I have grown to really like the taste now. Maybe when we have used up all the white pasta, (gonna take some time!)  I'll start buying the wholemeal type. I'll try it, anyway. 
At the mo', I'm in the throes of giving up coffee, as I can't stand the taste of it anymore without 2 or 3 sweetners in it.
As well as trying to do it to cut back on the number of hot flusshes I get. (They do seem to be lessening, sigh) I miss my milky sweet coffee once a day. I also still miss chocolate, & I wish Nadine would find someway of deflecting her mind, so she will stop talking about it. I think I'll just 'untick' the box to keep in touch with the topic for a while!! I guess she's allowed to do it in her own time, sigh.....bad Sylvia....sorry Nadine!! Just venting!!  The only other thing I miss is having my wholegrain bread whenever I want, instead of restricting myself to 1 slice per day, with maybe a wrap (wholemeal) as well (but not every day)...Enouth of that wallowing....Must take my own advice!!

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