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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 1921270" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Yesterday, on Day 40, I found <em>very</em> difficult. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The most difficult days are the ones I don't resist morning hunger, and have a calorie-loaded breakfast. This means by afternoon I have a very small balance of calories left, say 200 or less, and getting through the afternoon and evening is <em>very</em> tough.( If this was a forum in Spanish or French or Italian, or Greek, I would write with a lot more emotion on that one! But in English - well - to say "very tough" is emotional enough? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I had breakfast yesterday because I had a piece of business writing to do, and needed to have some brain synapses firing (or whatever they do) for a business exchange via email. I really couldn't do it well on just a coffee and cream, like I am getting through this morning, and other mornings, with. I can really only work part-time doing this low-cal thing, and I admire folks HUGELY who can work fulltime semi-starving (and admire their workmates? I work at home, alone. I can't imagine it otherwise.) I am not an overly productive person on 800 calories a day. I see it as largely taking time out of being a productive person. Then, yes, two months is a very long time. And why it took me a very long time to find 'the right time' to do this again. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Ditto on not being able to walk like I usually do (up and down dale etc). I just can't do it much. As time passes in this two month period - at all. (Just some mild walking for 15 minutes.) I watched a youtube about the classic Newcastle the other night, and shook my head in wonder at the folks going low-cal AND keeping up an active physical regime. I just couldn't do that. I am very physically active normally, fit, I would say, but I need the full complement of energy from food in order to be that. (But I am normal-weighted, and muscular, so maybe that is the difference between having lots of fat stored, rather than 'just' sick fat cells in the wrong places like I do?)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I have been able to keep up 'strength resistance training' (for me - I make a point of lifting heavy things in my daily life, which I prefer and is rather practical, over lifting weights). My muscles are still good - on my legs and my arms. Some ab action. And the fat-stripping makes my muscles much more defined, even in a post-menopausal older broad like me. Herr Svea remembers this happening during 'the Nostramo' low-calorie diet a few years ago. So I can see that I am not losing muscle, significantly at least.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">As on the Nostramo (the paleo low-cal diet in the subarctic), my butt has gotten uncomfortably lacking in padding. Sitting in the bath on the hard surface is very uncomfortable. I need cushions on hard seats when out at cafes. (I have a classic type two fat storage thing going on - I don't put weight on around my butt, my hips and thighs like many - healthier - women, but on my belly, straight out in front. My legs are the last thing to have fat on.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">But having healthier blood glucose readings is a dream. It makes it all worth it. And why I am doing it, after all. For how long it will after post-Sulaco I have no idea. We shall see.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 1921270, member: 150927"] [FONT=Arial]Yesterday, on Day 40, I found [I]very[/I] difficult. The most difficult days are the ones I don't resist morning hunger, and have a calorie-loaded breakfast. This means by afternoon I have a very small balance of calories left, say 200 or less, and getting through the afternoon and evening is [I]very[/I] tough.( If this was a forum in Spanish or French or Italian, or Greek, I would write with a lot more emotion on that one! But in English - well - to say "very tough" is emotional enough? ;):).) I had breakfast yesterday because I had a piece of business writing to do, and needed to have some brain synapses firing (or whatever they do) for a business exchange via email. I really couldn't do it well on just a coffee and cream, like I am getting through this morning, and other mornings, with. I can really only work part-time doing this low-cal thing, and I admire folks HUGELY who can work fulltime semi-starving (and admire their workmates? I work at home, alone. I can't imagine it otherwise.) I am not an overly productive person on 800 calories a day. I see it as largely taking time out of being a productive person. Then, yes, two months is a very long time. And why it took me a very long time to find 'the right time' to do this again. Ditto on not being able to walk like I usually do (up and down dale etc). I just can't do it much. As time passes in this two month period - at all. (Just some mild walking for 15 minutes.) I watched a youtube about the classic Newcastle the other night, and shook my head in wonder at the folks going low-cal AND keeping up an active physical regime. I just couldn't do that. I am very physically active normally, fit, I would say, but I need the full complement of energy from food in order to be that. (But I am normal-weighted, and muscular, so maybe that is the difference between having lots of fat stored, rather than 'just' sick fat cells in the wrong places like I do?) I have been able to keep up 'strength resistance training' (for me - I make a point of lifting heavy things in my daily life, which I prefer and is rather practical, over lifting weights). My muscles are still good - on my legs and my arms. Some ab action. And the fat-stripping makes my muscles much more defined, even in a post-menopausal older broad like me. Herr Svea remembers this happening during 'the Nostramo' low-calorie diet a few years ago. So I can see that I am not losing muscle, significantly at least. As on the Nostramo (the paleo low-cal diet in the subarctic), my butt has gotten uncomfortably lacking in padding. Sitting in the bath on the hard surface is very uncomfortable. I need cushions on hard seats when out at cafes. (I have a classic type two fat storage thing going on - I don't put weight on around my butt, my hips and thighs like many - healthier - women, but on my belly, straight out in front. My legs are the last thing to have fat on.) But having healthier blood glucose readings is a dream. It makes it all worth it. And why I am doing it, after all. For how long it will after post-Sulaco I have no idea. We shall see.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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