Getting into a routine

Finding this less of a struggle now I have been doing it for a few months.

I always got in a panic about the idea of skipping meals as I thought it would make me climb the walls with hunger.

But in fact skipping breakfast makes me less hungry and has stopped the continual need to eat in the afternoons.

I get up and have a few cups of coffee with cream. I hardly think about food in the morning and not even any tummy grumbles till about 11.30.

I try and do my exercise in the morning, got a new glide machine with arms so looking forward to trying that.

Yesterday I ate 2 cold chicken wings while I was heating up my bone broth with cauliflower lunch. I follow that with a mainly lettuce salad plus the fromage frais which I make from hanging greek yoghurt. I might also have a spoon of that in the morning as it is a pro biotic.

After lunch I might have a siesta till 14 hrs.

Cup of tea with milk at 3.30 and start preparing supper for 6pm when the children arrive home from school.

I have one bowl of food for supper. Yesterday was fillet steak with pepper cream sauce. The radishes I planted are ready so I made radish 'chips', cauliflower, cabbage and courgetti noodles.

Then a cup of chamomille tea in the evening.

Scale has moved down 400gms in last 2 days.

The freedom from the endless need to eat is something I have never experienced before.

Turning Dieting on its Head

All the things I thought to be true about dieting are wrong.

So its no wonder I have battled with this for so long to try and get my weight under control.


Eat low calorie

wrong you need to consume good fats and oils which are high calorie.


Eat 3 meals and 2 snacks to prevent hunger.

Wrong food causes you to be more hungry especially high carb low calorie food.

Wrong on eating 5 or 6 times a day. Better results if you eat twice. Lunch and dinner.

Feeling hungry means you are losing weight.

Not necessarily you could have just run out of quick energy, glucose from high carb foods, you may not be able to access your fat stores, because your insulin is too high.

Insulin locks the fat away and does not allow the body to use it up for energy if there is glucose available.

You need to suffer and be punished to lose weight and only eat small meals with uninteresting food!


Wrong if you embrace good fats and oils and protein and green veg and only eat twice a day you will enjoy your meals and not have to go to bed hungry as you do on a low cal diet.


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Into Jeans again

Since about Jan 18 I have not been able to do up my size 16 jeans.

But yesterday I wore one pair and today the other. I have had them hanging up outside my wardrobe so I saw them every day.

The wonderful thing about this eating plan is that I know I will never not be able to do them up again and that I better get as much wear out of them as possible as soon they will be too big and I will have to throw them out.

I have jeans in all different sizes from 12 to large 18's with stretch.

So from not being able to get any on 3 mths ago I now have 3 pairs I can wear with comfort.

So that is major progress even though I have not seen much progress with the measure tape.

My body seems to use up its fat from the outer extremities first. So wrists are much thinner!!

I know eventually the body fat will have to be targeted as well and I just have to hang in there and wait for it to happen.

Reading Laid Back Guide to Intermittent Fasting. She lost 82lbs but went on to one meal a day or OMAD.

I dont feel ready for that not sure if I ever well be.

While I can comfortably go without food in the mornings now and dont even feel hungry till about 11. Its wonderful not to be thinking about food all the time.

My afternoons are continuing to be untroubled with thoughts of food or binging.

My metabolism has changed and I did not think it was possible for me to feel this way.

I am now totally trust worthy around food. I trust myself so much more which is a big break through.

Down into the next Kg number

Finally dropped 400gms and now in the kg lower and nearer to awesome weight.

Had over 11 days at the same weight which disturbed me a bit.

Wondering if the flax bread I am making is enough to push me off losing.

So stuck the ready made flax bread in the old freezer and will try and bring it out later. Maybe a slice at the weekend as I do enjoy a slice of bread.

Will monitor how I feel without the bread and hope to go back to losing steadily the way I was before I started making it.

Downloaded Gary Taubes Case against Sugar which I have not read before.

I definitely had an issue with bread and sugar but not so much fructose although when I was younger I did drink a lot of sugarary fizzy drinks when I got the chance.

Personally I think that the sweetners and diet drinks contribute to the cravings for carbs in the afternoons and evenings. They set the body up to prepare for incoming sugar and none arrives. So the insulin stays high and removes what little glucose is already in the blood stream. Leading to low blood glucose and subsequent hunger and binging on carbs.

Now I have nothing sweet at all and my appetite is much calmer and more manageable.

Hope to get to 10kg lost within next week or so.

Finding clothes in my wardrobe I can now get into. Size 18 faux leather navy jacket I bought 2 years ago and hardly ever worn.

Better start wearing the stuff now before it is too big!!

Feeling Better Every Day

Disappointed that I am not seeing a lower weight on the scale. Maybe faulty scale!!

However I am finding I have far more energy and am getting into clothes I have not tried on for years.

I am getting things done instead of putting them off endlessly.

I am having my bone broth at breakfast time when my DH has his breakfast so even though I am fasting I can still sit and consume the bone broth.

Trying to get some more bones to boil up another lot and will put chicken wings in the next one for a while to get some jelly into it when its cold. Will spice up the chicken wings and grill them for a meal.

Hopefully I wont spill half of the next batch on the floor as I did with the first lot. However it has done me 9 days. I froze 2 thirds and have the last batch defrosting now.

Finding my shoulder blades are freer to move together. So must have lost some of the fat there!!

Weird how your body decides where to use up the fat first.

I am not cheating at all on this eating plan. I know I can have 2 nice meals a day and my system is now content to wait until meal times instead of demanding starch and sugar during the afternoons and before bed.

Dusted off the DVD exercise boxes and will have a run through and see what I fancy having a go at.

Watched the Pilates for over 50's this morning which looks a nice gentle introduction to exercise.

Onwards and hopefully downwards next week.

Obesity ATM v bank vault model

I thought I would develop this further to try and explain obesity.

Every day we eat food. The food goes to our liver and is partitioned into the various needs of the body for that day. Anything over goes to glycogen and fat storage.

So every day money is acquired and you go to the ATM to make a deposit.

We are assuming here it is a smart ATM that accepts deposits and gives out cash.

The current account is linked to a deposit account. So anything over in the current account is automatically transferred by the ATM computer to the deposit account in the bank vault. Note not the depositor.

All the funds are deposited in the ATM so nothing is held back for emergencies or general running of the business.

When you are young this system works seemlessly. Funds transfer backwards and forwards between the 2 accounts and energy ( money) is always available on demand.

As you get older and lets say deposit more coins rather than big notes ( carbs v fat) the ATM gets clogged up, and the ATM controller decides to place more of the deposits in storage so there is less available for the day to day needs.

The bank vault ( fat stores) soon get full and overflow but the connection between the 2 accounts is lost. Funds only go into the vault and never come out and the ATM says no available funds.

The ATM continues to accept deposits which all now are going into storage and nothing ever reducing the storage amounts.

Then the Governments decides that notes are unhealthy ( fat causes heart disease and obesity) and tells everyone to only accept coins ( carbs) and the ATM controller has to do more work and so hires some more helpers ( more insulin from the pancreas).

If this carries on the controllers all go on strike and the ATM overflows and diabetes results.


So to bypass the clogged system the following has to happen.

Stop using the ATM and stop accepting coins. Eat fewer carbs 25 to 30gms per day and more fat.

So go to the teller desk and do the deposits and with withdrawals and use mostly notes ( fat) to deposit and to withdraw. Withdraw more than you deposit.

This is the low carb highish fat diet. If you eat too much fat you will feel better but your weight will stay the same. To reduce weight the body must be allowed to access the fat in storage.

Skipped Birthday Cake

Yesterday was invited to a birthday. Bring a plate. So I took three.

First had cooked cocktail sausages, second avo guacamole and third yogurt cheese with black pepper mustard and worcester sauce. Made some flax biscuits and cut cucumber to go with those.

So I had something I could eat. I also cut back on the carbs for supper and did not have my usual french beans.

So dinner was only 4gms carbs. Total for day 20.

Quite confused on my flax biscuit recipe. I made them from a recipe and it said makes 12 biscuits at 1 gm carb each. I made about 15 as I cut them smaller. However when I put them in the food tracker said they were 4gms carbs each. I know that the food tracker is now including fibre in the carb count which I do find confusing. If fibre is not digested and does not influence insulin then I dont understand why the old system does not apply and carbs, starch and sugars are listed separately to fibre. Made more sense to me that way.

 Not finding the scale moving at all for the past week. I did start eating avocados which I love but does not seem to suit me.

However I am still feeling slimmer than before. Got some nice comments yesterday about my flowery frock we had to wear for the party.

In the past I have fantasized about being put into an induced coma to lose the weight!!

I have even thought about stomach stapling and read about inflatable balls being inserted in the stomach.

Neither of the above are necessary. The over eating stems from a chemical hormone imbalance when the body cannot access the stored fat, it's locked away in a vault and the body is using the glucose stores like an ATM, deposits and withdrawals as necessary.

When the ATM runs out of money instead of switching to use the vault fat the body demands robbery and binging!!

Being now on fat burning metabolism I no longer have any need for afternoon eating even though I am eating less calories than I have eaten on past diets.

I no longer feel hungry after my lunch meal.

Made Bone Broth Yesterday

RMR is recommending bone broth so got some chopped beef bones yesterday to make my first pot.

Roasted bones first and put in pot with onion carrot and water. Maybe I did not simmer it long enough. Had about 5hrs.

Disaster as I went to strain it from one pot to another. Second pot ended up on the floor with a third of my bone broth!! Managed to save the rest. It has not gelled in the fridge which I expected it to. I read a recipe which said add chicken feet to the water. I have found that boiling up chicken wings the liquid will set to a jelly. So maybe next batch will add some chicken wings and can then remove them to make spicy grilled chicken wings for a meal. We dont get chicken feet inside the chickens anymore. So not sure where to buy them.

My afternoons are still a breeze. 12 lunch to 6 dinner with only a cup of tea. DH left his unfinished bowl of potato crisps in the lounge yesterday and I must have walked past them 30 times and never picked at one. That is progress. Previously I could not have resisted and would have probably finished off the bowl.

Am looking into my cupboard of smaller clothes and getting some of the things out.

Have put all the big elasticated trousers in a binbag and hope never to see them again.

I am looking forward with hope to each day now. Time seems to have contracted when it comes to needing food. I remember trying to only eat to the clock and go the afternoon without food but it seemed impossible. Now I can do it every day with no desire for an extra snack in the afternoon as I am not eating breakfast. Two meals a day is what will see me finally at an acceptable size.

Wish I had known this 60 yrs ago.