A couple of things...

The weight you want to lose may seem like a mountain, but if you don't have a lot weight to lose, it will feel like it's slow going. Percentage wise, it works out to be the same as some one who started with 100 pounds to lose. Ten percent of ten pounds is a pound, and 10 percent of 100 pounds is ten. Can you dig it?

If you are an active reader of this forum, you will have seen this repeatedly. Keep your calories up! 10 x 12 times your weight is the norm. Have a look at these links and if you are not an active reader, become one.

Fat and Keeping Calories Up

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Start with increasing your calories and using fitday.com to keep track. Without knowing what you're eating, I would say it's the calories and not the carbs that you should be looking at.



There are sooo many vegetables! Broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, asparagus, snap beans, spinach, snow peas, daikon, radishes, peppers, mushrooms, cucumber, tomatoes, Swiss chard, radicchio, endive, lettuce of all sorts, mustard greens....the list goes on.

'Ya have to rethink what a sauce is. You have to keep your mind open to new possibilities with everything in this WOE. It is one of the biggest tools to success.Taking on the new and wanting everything to be the same is defeating you.

Mayonnaise: thin it out with water, flavour it - herbs, curry, wasabi, soy sauce, ginger, lemon or lime, horseradish, sesame oil... Commercial mayonnaise thinned with water can be heated too. You can use mayonnise and flavourings as a coating for baked, broiled or grilled meat and fish.

Olive oil with: lemon and ginger, lemon and soy, ginger and soy, pureed roasted red peppers, basil and garlic, roesmary and tomato...

Heavy Cream: reduced and spike with any of the above flavourings

Hollandaise: Same as all above

Cooked and pureed cauliflower makes a sauce too!

And last but not least. LC is not a quick weight loss diet. Enjoy the many other good things it brings and come to welcome weight loss as a great benefit.

Karen