Hi all, my first post on this thred, I spent the past couple days reading through the entire thred from the start.
I have around 30 -40 kg to lose, last year around October I decided to try the banting thing. I started by doing everything near perfect except I continued drinking beer, only Castle Light but with year end functions etc, I drank a few almost every day and over weekends brandy and coke.
Turns out this didn't work at all, I lost nothing as in not even 10g and gave it up after about 2 months. Luckally I fully realized that I'm not losing because of the alcohol and decided to give it another shot this year.
I started again this past Monday and I'm more dedicated than ever, I did however cheat a little this past week to get rid of all the evil stuff in the house, but decided from tomorrow I'm 100% in and will be very strickt with what I consume.
This past week I cheated by eating a entire watermelon, I had 2 slices of pizza, a entire packet of biscuits with my coffee, some slap chips with my stake the other day and I had a couple of good craft beers. Though I cheated, I still lost 1.8 kg for the week, so there's my motivation already.
Part of my plan is no alcohol as in not a drop for at least the first month, there after I'll maybe have 2 Castle Lights or a Whiskey as a treat from time to time.
Through this thred I saw that a lot of you are struggling with pasta and bread, luckally I have never been a lover of bread and pasta, in the past I whent for weeks, even months without bread and pasta without missing it at all, bar the odd garlic bred or braaibroodjie with a braai.
Luckally I also don't have a sweet tooth at all, I have been drinking coffee without sugar for years, so won't even need sweetner to make coffee/tea drinkable.
P.S. For those of you who struggle to drink 2 - 2.5L of water per day, try infusing your water with some fruit, vedge or hurbs. Basically what I do is take a 5L bottle, chuck in a couple slices lemon, some mint leaves, some cucumber and maybe a slice of orange then fill it up with water and cool in the fridge. I don't have a problem with drinking plain water, but water this way tastes even better and goes down easier.
P.P.S. By the recommendation on this thred I had my first meatza Friday night and it was awesome, I can see that happening at least once a week though I will also try the cauli pizza base as recommended.
I have around 30 -40 kg to lose, last year around October I decided to try the banting thing. I started by doing everything near perfect except I continued drinking beer, only Castle Light but with year end functions etc, I drank a few almost every day and over weekends brandy and coke.
Turns out this didn't work at all, I lost nothing as in not even 10g and gave it up after about 2 months. Luckally I fully realized that I'm not losing because of the alcohol and decided to give it another shot this year.
I started again this past Monday and I'm more dedicated than ever, I did however cheat a little this past week to get rid of all the evil stuff in the house, but decided from tomorrow I'm 100% in and will be very strickt with what I consume.
This past week I cheated by eating a entire watermelon, I had 2 slices of pizza, a entire packet of biscuits with my coffee, some slap chips with my stake the other day and I had a couple of good craft beers. Though I cheated, I still lost 1.8 kg for the week, so there's my motivation already.
Part of my plan is no alcohol as in not a drop for at least the first month, there after I'll maybe have 2 Castle Lights or a Whiskey as a treat from time to time.
Through this thred I saw that a lot of you are struggling with pasta and bread, luckally I have never been a lover of bread and pasta, in the past I whent for weeks, even months without bread and pasta without missing it at all, bar the odd garlic bred or braaibroodjie with a braai.
Luckally I also don't have a sweet tooth at all, I have been drinking coffee without sugar for years, so won't even need sweetner to make coffee/tea drinkable.
P.S. For those of you who struggle to drink 2 - 2.5L of water per day, try infusing your water with some fruit, vedge or hurbs. Basically what I do is take a 5L bottle, chuck in a couple slices lemon, some mint leaves, some cucumber and maybe a slice of orange then fill it up with water and cool in the fridge. I don't have a problem with drinking plain water, but water this way tastes even better and goes down easier.
P.P.S. By the recommendation on this thred I had my first meatza Friday night and it was awesome, I can see that happening at least once a week though I will also try the cauli pizza base as recommended.
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I will prob ease off the strictness and reintroduce banting bread again as I miss it a lot and have done most of the hard work....
