Thought we needed a shiny new thread for the New Year.
The thread is intended to support people who are already on the diet or want to start losing weight / gaining health benefits by low-carbing.
Here is a simple explanation of this way of eating and how it works.
www.dietdoctor.com/lchf
You do not have to count calories, weigh anything, exercise furiously or feel hungry.
You do have to cut out sugar and sugar-substitutes and avoid starchy foods like potatoes, bread, rice and pasta.
You need to eat lots of vegetables (especially those grown above ground) and protein which can be cheese, eggs, meat, fish etc. You can eat olive oil, butter and other natural fats. You can eat limited amounts of fruit, dark chocolate and some alcoholic drinks in moderation.
You need to avoid anything labelled low-fat and most processed food and drink.
Here is a link to the Mumsnet low-carb bootcamp thread, for those who want to lose weight more quickly than the diet adopted by most people on the existing Gransnet thread.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/low_carb_bootcamp
Here is a link to the original Gransnet thread - though there is absolutely no need to plough through it before you start. 
www.gransnet.com/forums/dieting_and_exercise/1214778-Support-and-ideas-for-those-on-low-carb-diet
We aim to help each other by offering ideas, recipes and support. Welcome aboard!
Blame that *Lazigirl!
Yes, quite disgraceful.
Don't be bringing luscious Portuguese custard tarts to this thread 
sorry for the disgraceful thread hi-jack!
Lazigirl Thank you. I am sure I will very soon sniff those out. I have an excellent antennae for things like that. And they do do that sort of thing very well in foreign parts. 
Thank you dustyangel and shysal. Would love a bit of sun so keeping fingers crossed.
One language teacher told me that people tend to learn food related things first.
Husband has just made me a Gin & slimline Tonic. Which I will have with some nuts and definitely not low carb dried fruit. 
Have a great holiday Jingl! 
Hi jingl, it's been rainy today but is set to improve rapidly tomorrow. The weather report does say specifically that the Porto region will stay cool and cloudy, 
Although that is much better for sightseeing than too hot. I hope you have a good time.
Ah well bee is abeille in French and abeja in Spanish so that figures. B and V are pretty interchangeable in Spanish so abuelo and avo also make sense. I speak a bit of Spanish because my son has lived there for years, but most of it is food related. Funny that.
Have a nice time Jing. All those sardines. Yum!
dustyangel what's the weather like there? I'm going to Porto on Tuesday.
Yes I am Mamie and I think you are probably right. I can understand some written Spanish because of the similarities but the pronounciation is completely different.
On the other hand an Abelha in Portuguese is a Bee. 
Languages are fascinating.
Well welcome to the thread proper dustyangel. Your dinner sounds lovely. Are you in Portugal? (I think from reading other threads that you are).
Was pondering that Avo must be ever so slightly related to Abuelo.
Thankyou Mamie. You salad sounds lovely.
You have probably guessed that I'm a lurker on this thread. I enjoy your and Anya's
recipes and find the thread very helpful. DH and I are more or less low carbers. More for health reasons than weight loss although DH has lost a stone over the last year and I've lost about 10lbs. He has high chloresterol and diabetes type2 and although his doctor thought the diet a bad idea at the beginning he has read up on it and come round to it. My chloresterol levels have gone up. 
We had a lazy version of watercress soup (freshly chopped vegetables with extra watercress - from the supermarket) for lunch today with a small piece of Brie to follow. We will be having fresh Turbot fillets with asparagus and probably small whole imported sweet corns for dinner. Natural yoghurt and raspberries to follow.
I don't miss bread, potatoes, pasta or rice at all but I think we have bemused a local restrauranteur by a 'diet' of refusing bread and potatoes but accepting wine! She gave us a look, patted her very flat tummy and said, " I eat lots of bread". Actually the whole family eat very well including bread and potatoes and they are all slim. They are also very active and I've never seen any of them drinking fizzy drinks or eating processed sweet products. Definitely a message there.
Absolutely - no politics shop in the mess.
Lunchtime salad is pear, walnuts, leaves, avo, artichoke, cherry tomatoes and roquefort.
I would start practising for France if I wasn't confident EU vote will be to stay in.......Whoops - off thread. 
I think beer is something to avoid tbh. Wine maybe? (Practice for France)
Today is egg and bacon for breakfast, pear and roquefort salad for lunch and roast chicken with cauli saff mash and braised chicory for dinner.
Ha ha! Only in exchange for forced labour in the gulag garden.
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