Update - At Last

Hi there,

This is to let you know that I have been blogging on a new blogging site called Empower Network. Click on this link if you would like to know a little more.

However the reason for this note is to advise you to click on this link which will take you to a blog I wrote a few days ago and into which I added a couple of pictures. The old one was me before I started to  lose weight and the second was a couple of months ago whilst I was on a cruise in the Eastern Mediterranean.

My how times have changed haven't they? It was the High Protein Low Carbohydrate diet that definitely worked for me. It is not for everyone, I was talking to a friend who is Italian and under no circumstances could he ever envisage having a meal without pasta, yet that is one of the staple foods that is high in carbohydrates and so not allowed under this eating regime.

For me it worked. I was able to stick to it and lost the weight. I even found my tastes changing. At Christmas we did not restrict ourselves (that is my wife and I) but we found so of the so called 'goodies' that we had been looking forward to were a disappointment and we did not enjoy them at all. It shows how a lot of out likes and dislikes are learned and can be changed. Think about that for a while.

All the best.

Too Much Success.....

I never, ever, thought I would say this but my problem is now STOPPING the weight loss. I have reached my target weight (and a little more) and now have to stabilise. The problem lies in that I now have to re-introduce more carbs, but I have got into the method of not including them and so continue to lose weight. I like what I am eating. I like this low carb regime. 

At the weekend it felt wrong when I had 2 slices of bread with my breakfast. It was a bacon sandwich, and whilst it tasted fine, I found that by mid morning I was feeling hungry. That never happened when I just had a low carb breakfast. I found I was having to compensate for the extra carbs to stop feeling hungry. Crazy!!!

Well I did stabilise (my weight was the same this week as last) however that may have something to do with going out for a meal on Thursday and then attending a wedding reception on Friday, before weighing myself on Saturday morning <grin>.

To try and find a method to control this my wife and I have agreed that we will continue with the regime Monday to Friday and try and introduce more carbs at the weekend. I don't know if this will work or not but time will tell.

The upcoming cruise we are going on will blow everything out the water as we have every intention of enjoying ourselves but at least we have a method to get rid of the extra weight when we get back. It is also the reason why we have included an extra allowance on our target weights to take this into account.

Keep the faith and keep the carbs low. Enjoy.