The Banting/LCHF Thread

mister · May 15, 2015

Mephisto_Helix said:
P.S - the WW low carb ready meals, the shepherds pie especially, are awesome if anyone was wondering.

The shepherd's pie is yum, but my stupid branch has not had it in stock since I bought it weeeeeeeeeks ago

SmartKit · May 15, 2015

Mephisto_Helix said:
I slacked off for a couple months and i'm glad to say that today was week 4 of being back to the right way and once again I feel good. I'm not financially challenged anymore either so I am stocked extremely well this time around. A total of 8kg's and 7cm's in these 4 weeks .....

Naturally that allowed me to have a 'treat' so I got one of those Atkins Advantage bars (the 2g net carb ones) and while it was tasty as all hell, whew did it pull a number on my guts, lol. Also bought an awesome book yesterday, don't know if it's been mentioned here yet - Low Carb Is Lekker. Chock full of banting recipes (with good pics).

P.S - the WW low carb ready meals, the shepherds pie especially, are awesome if anyone was wondering.

Been following Low Carb is Lekker on the web. I'll be trying the lasagne this weekend!

swift412 · May 17, 2015

Screwed up big time yesterday, bought pork bangers on an impulse and didn't check the ingredients/nutr info. Needless to say, 10g carbs/100g and eating half the pack (250g) for breakfast, along with all the other stuff that's been sneaking in to my meals (being too generous with the onions, "spicy" sauces that have more sugar than chilli etc) I got kicked out of ketosis. Not fun!

Today's plan: gammon, olive oil, salt, pepper, cauli, broccoli. Nothing else.

faniebraai · May 17, 2015

Today's plan. Smoked Snoek on the weber. Brocolli salad

faniebraai · May 17, 2015

faniedry said:
Today's plan. Smoked Snoek on the weber. Brocolli salad

FlashSA · May 17, 2015

faniedry said:
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Looks good!

I made one of those pizza's again - half left for brunch tomorrow

Captain Beer · May 17, 2015

I'm keen to try the "pasta" recipe in Noakes' book, but I've heard that psylium can have some negative side effects?

OMB · May 17, 2015

Captain Beer said:
I'm keen to try the "pasta" recipe in Noakes' book, but I've heard that psylium can have some negative side effects?

like what?

swift412 · May 18, 2015

Yesterday's lunch & supper. Was hoping there'd be leftovers for lunch today but nope

Captain Beer · May 18, 2015

Ol' Mean Bastid said:
like what?

Allergic reactions, constipation, esophageal obstruction...
So I thought I'd check with you guys first.

marco79 · May 18, 2015

The wife and I have been banting for the last 2 months. I feel much better and she is only now beginning to feel more energetic. We cut out all sugar, and are using xylitol when needed in cooking. I bake banting breads about 3 times a week. Our dinners mostly consist of meat or chicken and veggies.

Only problem is we haven't been loosing much weight. I lost 3 kg and she's down 1.

faniebraai · May 18, 2015

swift412 said:
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Yesterday's lunch & supper. Was hoping there'd be leftovers for lunch today but nope

Fekkit nicely done. How did you prepare it?

faniebraai · May 18, 2015

marco79 said:
The wife and I have been banting for the last 2 months. I feel much better and she is only now beginning to feel more energetic. We cut out all sugar, and are using xylitol when needed in cooking. I bake banting breads about 3 times a week. Our dinners mostly consist of meat or chicken and veggies.

Only problem is we haven't been loosing much weight. I lost 3 kg and she's down 1.

What you guys drinking?

FlashSA · May 18, 2015

marco79 said:
The wife and I have been banting for the last 2 months. I feel much better and she is only now beginning to feel more energetic. We cut out all sugar, and are using xylitol when needed in cooking. I bake banting breads about 3 times a week. Our dinners mostly consist of meat or chicken and veggies.

Only problem is we haven't been loosing much weight. I lost 3 kg and she's down 1.

Cut the banting bread for 2 weeks and see if that changed things

faniebraai · May 18, 2015

FlashSA said:
Cut the banting bread for 2 weeks and see if that changed things

you, banting bread is fine for maintenance, but if you really want to lose weight you have to be a lot stricter.

Lager · May 18, 2015

Dafuk is banting bread?

FlashSA · May 18, 2015

faniedry said:
you, banting bread is fine for maintenance, but if you really want to lose weight you have to be a lot stricter.

Yeah - I eat a lot of banting bread now that I am in maintenance. When I was losing and being strict - I never touched any sweetner or banting bread mixes. I literally only put natural, real food in my mouth: eggs, cheese, cream, a bit of veg, fatty meat, butter. That's it and I lost 26.

RanzB · May 18, 2015

Lager said:
Dafuk is banting bread?

Bread made with replacements for the carb-heavy flour. Like coconut flour or almond flour.

FlashSA · May 18, 2015

Randhir said:
Bread made with replacements for the carb-heavy flour. Like coconut flour or almond flour.

But the problem with it is that those replacement flours are quite heavy calorie wise - so it affects weight loss. While we don't count calories on LCHF, weight loss still requires a calorie deficit to happen.

RanzB · May 18, 2015

FlashSA said:
But the problem with it is that those replacement flours are quite heavy calorie wise - so it affects weight loss. While we don't count calories on LCHF, weight loss still requires a calorie deficit to happen.

I don't disagree, but he did ask

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