Anyone lost 20 pounds lately? How?

GayathriSundar · Jan 24, 2008

pmahensa,
Congrats on losing the weight and sticking to your diet. :wow
I followed the same diet when I was pregnant and had gestational diabetes. And I tried this diet before I got pregnant too.
I have to tell you that this diet and the exercise is a guaranteed weight loss regime.

Have you tried cracked red bulgar wheat from whole food? This has almost the same amount of carb as rice but high amount of fiber. Now fiber also reduces the rate at which food is converted to glucose. I cook 1 cup of this cracked wheat with 2 and 1/4 cup water in the electric rice cooker. I eat it just as rice (with dal, veggie etc). I found it more fulfilling that rotis. Actually eating cracked wheat will lower your blood sugar even more than eating rotis (even when using whole wheat flour for rotis).

Oh and our doc suggested adding protein supplement powder to rotis.

I need to follow your diet to lose my baby fat!!! Oh I am in dire need of inspiration to lift me out of my always tired-sleep deprived-tired caring for my 1 year old son gloom. shakehead

pmahensa said: ↑

I'm doing the lowcarb/low-gi the vegetarian way .. eating everything but in moderation .. it is very hard to sustain in the long run not to eat indian staples such as rice and roti and I'r rather develop a lifestyle that I can sustain over a long period of time and also not have to cook separate items for my husband and myself!

1/2 cup of rice for lunch is a very small quantity ... I have a set of measuring cups
and contains just 22 grams of carbs. Since my lunch goal is to have between 30-45 grams of carbs the 1/2 cup of rice is not a lot, especially compared to what we regularly eat .. before this diet I would easily eat a cup or cup and half. I use basmati rice being north indian, boil in microwave and then drain off the starch.

I alternate between rice, rotis and low-carb tortillas. So I am not eating rice every day.

Yep I am also concerned abt fat content since my dietician told me I can have unlimited amounts of cheese. So I buy low-fat sliced cheese and also low fat string cheese. And eat healtly nuts such as almonds, walnuts and in limited quantity, peanuts.

The key to losing weight is to eat more protein and less carbs. Being vegetarian this is hard, because even the most protein rich foods such as daals contain more carbs than protein. For example, 1/2 cup of cooked beans contain 15 grams of carbs and 8 grams of protein. The best sources then become cheese, which has no carbs, or nuts (1/4 cup nuts have 5 grams of carbs and 5 grams of protein). Or soy based products such as nutrella and soy burgers. But if you are of child-bearing age, you have to watch out for the soy as it can decrease fertility. So definitely not something to eat everyday. And if you eat them, eggs are really good. 1 egg has 6 grams of protein and no carbs.

The diet plan I have posted earlier puts me at the most at 1600 calories per day. Norm al woman needs about 1800 per day and around 2200 if you excercise. So weight loss will definitely happen. The additional benefit is that since the balance of protein and carbs in your diet is better, it conditions your body to lose weight even without excercise .. sounds too good to be true but it is true ... due to a medical condition I cannot excercise for the past 1 month, all I have done is walk 15 minutes after each meal and still lost 4 pounds in 1 month !
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Happysoul1234 · Jan 25, 2008

Hi Gayathri .. you're right abt the diet ... i started off doing low-carb to lose weight and then went to see the dietician because I am pre-diabetic... and this has really really helped with the weight loss ... especially around the tummy!

Thank you so much for the idea on the cracked bulgur wheat. Next time I am at whole foods, I will surely pick it up!

latha kulkarni · Jan 25, 2008

Hey Pooja

your posts are really encouraging.

shravanthika · Jan 25, 2008

Hi gayathri,
How abt the cracked wheat we get in Indian stores?Any Idea?

puni88 · Jan 26, 2008

Hi,
Now a days, I have replaced upma rava with cracked wheat.
The upma comes out good.

~Punitha

sunikrishnan4u · Jan 27, 2008

Hi everyone,

I am Suni, new to this forum. I also have PCOS for almost one year. I am not overweight, my US doctor said no need to reduce weight etc. But under Indian standards, I am a bit over weight, planning to lose 15-17 lbs, from 137 - 120 for 5'4".

I am trying to excercise daily now, I also tried low carb, high protein diet. Yes I did lose weight, but then it started coming back the minute I returned to normalcy. So now trying to fomulate something which is suitable for us, our kitchen .

Thanks a lot for inspiration in the forum, we will together lose all the extra weight!! :cheers. I am planning to update regularly, as I can see, I can easily get inspired by you, high spirited girls here

arty

Regards
Suni

GayathriSundar · Jan 28, 2008

Hi Shravanthika,
The cracked wheat available in Indian stores is quite good. If you have never eaten cracked wheat then it is better to start with these.

But I have observed that the cracked wheat from Whole Foods has more fibre.

Gayathri

shravanthika said: ↑

Hi gayathri,
How abt the cracked wheat we get in Indian stores?Any Idea?
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amudha71 · Jan 28, 2008

hi nice and encouraging to hear this , i have to give this a try and will keep u guys posted , need to lose weight 15-17kgs
bonk

Anandchitra · Jan 30, 2008

Pmahensa
How many egg whites can one have ina day? can u find out from dietician. like boiled egg after removing the yolk just white?

aarathichandu · Feb 2, 2008

hi

iam aarathi and after my delivery i have increased my weight by 10 kgs..
one day i purchased sona belt and it helped me a lot..
i lot 5 kgs and 3 inch loss with that belt....and another thing which helped me is that i drink capcicum corriender juice early in the morning.....from past 1 and half year i tried and now i lost nearly 12 kgs...

bye .......