Weight / Fat loss

Three days in to low carbs and struggling to get below ~70g of the stuff. This kinda diet is tough to do on a budget but I'm gonna keep slogging on for now. Enjoying eating lots of cheese and oils and yoghurt, but am trying to keep it varied with beans and nuts, which I think are pushing up the carbs (along with the yoghurt).
Concerned about cholesterol and eggs, is this valid?
Probably just gonna have to start subbing in more soy day-to-day.
Overall though, I've only been over 2k calories 4 times since 4th November, and while I don't have scales, I know that it's a significant improvement on some of my terrible snacking habits and I feel positive as a result.
Next steps:
-Get up to 100g/day of protein consistently
-Buy scales
-Don't quit

Are you actually in calorie deficit at the end of each day though?

Buy protein shake - should be able to get 27g of protein out of one 30g scoop. Can also buy cartons of egg white etc etc

bulk powders have a black Friday sale on so cheaper than normal.

I've eaten less than 25g of carbs each day this week and don't found it a massive issue, just not sure about it's benefits long term.

Yeah I'm generally aiming for and often hitting my myfitnesspal target of 1600kcal a day, which is set quite aggressively, so should be at a deficit. Why?
I've been accepting that I should give shakes a try, yeah. It's been a silly point of pride having never gone for them before, but I'm not so bothered now, especially now I'm taking a sport moderately seriously for the first time in my life

AFAIK the only long term studies of keto diets have been on epileptic children, who benefit from a diet of no carbs. The only reported issue was with bone density, but this is a side effect of anti epileptic drugs. A tablet of Nuun a day, should help with minerals has been my thinking?

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Three days in to low carbs and struggling to get below ~70g of the stuff. This kinda diet is tough to do on a budget but I'm gonna keep slogging on for now. Enjoying eating lots of cheese and oils and yoghurt, but am trying to keep it varied with beans and nuts, which I think are pushing up the carbs (along with the yoghurt).
Concerned about cholesterol and eggs, is this valid?
Probably just gonna have to start subbing in more soy day-to-day.
Overall though, I've only been over 2k calories 4 times since 4th November, and while I don't have scales, I know that it's a significant improvement on some of my terrible snacking habits and I feel positive as a result.
Next steps:
-Get up to 100g/day of protein consistently
-Buy scales
-Don't quit

here's my myfitnesspal log starting on the day I began my 2 week maffetone no carbs test, on the 1st Nov I moved to my own macros with more carbs.

feel free to take a look and see what I ate as it might help. bear in mind for my weight/height my basal metabolic rate sits at about 2100 kcal a day and I tend to exercise 3-5 days a week to burn around 200-700kcal per session which is where most of my deficit comes from. the daily goal thing is not set properly for most of it (until i set it to 2000kcal) so look at the totals not the goal amounts.

i've not been a saint and some days i forgot to log everything but you can get an idea of how i've followed this kind of thing and managed to lose 1kg a week (avg.)

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/hatbeard?date=2015-10-17

#livinglikeaking

Do you find it hard eating the same things, over and over?

I mean I like the sound of the first 5 days but it's a cycle of the same food and wonder how quickly that becomes 'boring' ?

Damn. Did you actually have a shit during that week?

nothing's getting backed up with the amount of coffee I drink.

now i have a mega protein shake in the mornings i can change the flavour depending on powder i use a little bit but eggs and bacon did get boring after 2 weeks

now i tend to have a salad with either goats cheese & parma ham, tuna and mayo or chicken and mayo for lunch in the week and maybe another protein shake post gym with the odd cheat lunch if i've had a big workout and want something a bit more carb'y

dinner i try to have chicken breasts twice a week, prawns another, steak or mince once or twice and I am a fiend for chicken wings so i tend to have them once a week as well but have made a healthyish breading for them which comes out ok in the oven so it's not as bad as fried chicken. I probably have too much saturated fat so I'm trying to eat a bit leaner but not making any drastic changes just bit by bit. I'm lazy though so struggle to get enough greens as they include more pans for cooking so more washing up.

my chicken wing recipe is of my own devising but not bad:

2 tbsp chia seeds
2 tbsp coconut flour
1tsp paprika
3/4 tsp cayenne
1/2 tsp cumin
1 tbsp pepper corns
15g parmesan cheese

chuck it all in the spice mill attachment for my blender and blitz it for 5 seconds.

stick chicken in a ziplock with 15ml of olive oil, shake to coat chicken in oil, add spice mix 1/3rd at a time, shake to coat, stick chicken on a baking tray at 230c for 30 minutes, serve with hot sauce.

@Dammit, just saw your mention of running a page or two back. Sorry man, I can't commit to running with anyone who claims to be slow and is very likely less slow than me. My self esteem couldn't take it. Plus running round Forest Hill is painful enough without added shame/humiliation.

I am slowly starting to get back into it and went for a trot last night. I am still woefully doughy and out of shape. Had a beer last night and ate pastry today too. *fat thumbs up

Iceburg lettuce cups are a good way of serving a proetin I think.

Minced turkey with onion, bulgogi, garlic. peppers fried and then use the lettuce as serving vessels.

Chicken above look great.

I was just interested to see how you went about avoiding the repetition of each meal. I've started adding stuff into my protein shakes.

Eggs and bacon?

Is that my new nickname?

@HatBeard cheers, that helps. I don't eat meat, and I was worried that I would be missing out on a huge chunk of protein that way, but it's encouraging to see, at least on that day, it was more eggs and cheese.
Also, regardless of what I eat or don't eat, that chicken looks great

I'm currently making a cake and only put 2/3 of the cake mix into the tin and into the oven so that I could eat the rest of the cake mix out of the bowl.
Someone sellotape my mouth shut.

http://www.pnas.org/content/111/47/16647.full

only put 2/3 of the cake mix into the tin and into the oven so that I could eat the rest of the cake mix out of the bowl.

I should take up baking, if only to be able to do this.

If you're not shitting blood... you don't drink enough coffee.

Ladies

http://cyclingtips.com.au/2015/11/the-holidaze-lets-talk-about-holiday-weight-management/

I've just self-diagnosed myself as a skinny fat person.

I'm 5'10" and around 69kg. I ride, I run and I maintain a diet of 50% healthy goodness 50% shit.
A rack of thinly veiled ribs with maybe an inch or two more than I'd like of stomach fat.

What do I do? Cut out the bad food and drop weight?

The internet suggests I should go lift heavy things. I'm not gonna do that, I hate the gym.

This is great, thanks.
(So I should still eat biscuits alongside cheese... )

Eat less
Move more

Couple of heavy weights sessions in the gym so far this week, commuted every day at a high tempo, cut out all refined sugar and cereal bars etc, a kilo heavier than when I weighed myself on Monday. Whoops.