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Missed the cut-off but here in spirit

Missed the cut-off date for the competition but I'm with you all in spirit.

Doing a 'Dry January" so figured may as well try a low-carb diet and attempt to lose some weight in the process.

Beginning weight: 76.7kg - Jan 12th

Food is low carbs. Mostly salad for lunch. Dinners are meat + veg. Alcohol: 0 :moon:

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Reply 1

TheTipsyTarsier

Keep going Reuby

What meat for tonight?

Reply 2

Reue

Offical 'Reue's low-carb diet' started on Tuesday with a tonne of veg:

Reply 3

Reue

First meal is chicken wrapped in bacon, peas and mashed swede with pepper:

Reply 4

indigobluesss

Original post by Reue

Offical 'Reue's low-carb diet' started on Tuesday with a tonne of veg:

What is that in the cling wrap?

Reply 5

Reue

Original post by R Dragon

What is that in the cling wrap?

A 'thins' sandwich. Still pretty carby but a hell of a reduction compared to the 4x slices of white bread I used to have everyday.

Reply 6

Reue

Wednesday was roast turkey, fried mushrooms, broccoli and red cabbage:

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Reply 7

Reue

Original post by TheTipsyTarsier

What meat for tonight?

Tonight was steak fried with spring onions, leeks, mushrooms and green beans:

Reply 8

TheTipsyTarsier

Original post by Reue

Tonight was steak fried with spring onions, leeks, mushrooms and green beans:

Want

I had tuna and egg. Meh.

Reply 9

username360639

You're making me hungry. They all look really good :coma:

. Good luck with your low carb diet!

Reply 10

Reue

weight today: 75kg

Plans for low carb were almost sabotaged by a decision to have a meal out at Pizza Express. Opted to go for their healthier pizza which had a relativly low carb count (theres a hole in it under that salad):

Reply 11

Reue

Weight today: 74.4kg

Dinner for Saturday was steak, leeks, mushrooms, spring onions and spinich:

Sunday lunch was McDonald's Chicken + Bacon salad. Dinner was Roast chicken smothered in Frank's Hot Sauce and spinich:

Reply 12

Reue

Weight today: 74.4kg

Dinner was piri piri chicken with broccoli, mushrooms and spinach:

Reply 13

Reue

So it's been 1 week since starting the low carb diet.

Total weight lost in 1st week: 2.3kg or 5 pounds.

Reply 14

Mackx

Original post by Reue

Total weight lost in 1st week: 2.3kg or 5 pounds.

Wow thats some really impressive weight loss, good job!

Reply 15

Reue

Weight today: 73.7kg

Dinner was more Piri Piri chicken with cauliflower, mashed swede and chili fried peppers:

Reply 16

LadySmythe

All this food looks lush! I'm now very hungry after seeing it all. Well done on your progress so far!

In to watch :h:

Weight today: 73.1kg

Dinner was chicken + cheese, chilli fried mushrooms with spring onions and broccoli. I've also replaced the lunchtime sandwich with a 2nd apple to further lower carbs. Suspect that alot of the weight loss at this stage is still water loss so trying to drink more water as well.