Summer Body Challenge Week 5 : Low Carb Weight Loss : Over 50

Hi everyone, it's Karen from the Jodi Grommer, welcome back to my channel and this is week five of the 10 week summer body challenge that I'm doing in collaboration with the transatlantic housewives of YouTube, which include myself at Busy Bing Marie, at

Maria Crocker and At Tina's Talk Time. And we all decided to get together to create a 10-week challenge to kind of motivate each other

and hopefully motivate anybody watching to try and lose weight, get fit, get healthier and hopefully

happier within that 10 weeks, but hopefully something that we can, you know, take forward

and do for the rest of our lives. So we're all doing different diets for want of a better word

Marie's doing fasting diet. Maria Crocker is doing Slim and World and Tina is doing a little bit of everything

Myself, I am doing the low carb diet lifestyle, mainly because I'm type 2 diabetic and there's been proven research that eating a low carb diet helps to lower blood sugar

and has been known to reverse it so you can come off medication

I do take metformin twice a day to help keep my blood sugars down

Hopefully, if I can keep this up, I can come off the medication. So low carb basically means just what it says low carb

So I've cut out bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, which sounds difficult, but it's not as difficult as you might think

and if you've watched previous videos you can see I'm eating you know decent stuff

I'm not cutting out carbs all together because that would be impossible

and I know a lot of people do keto diet which is very low carb which is around

around 20 to 30 grams of carbs a day which I would find quite difficult so a low

carb means under 130 grams of carbs a day but usually I'm around the 60 grams mark

So that's what low carb is all about. So we'll start the week off as we usually do

which is how did my week go? I'll do the way in towards the end

if you haven't seen one of these videos before. So how did my week go

Well, it went okay. I mean, this is the fifth week and I have blips every week

You know, I'm going to, but I decided that I would have the blip, get over it and just get back on track

So that's what I've done this week. On Monday, I had a really bad day

I didn't sleep very well on Sunday night and I was really tired

I went to work on Monday and I was very tired. And that hasn't happened for a while

And I don't know why I slept badly. I don't know whether it was because it was hotter or what

but I did sleep badly so I was really tired. I did take me, you know, me low cobble

lunch with us but I was in that we've got like a cafe canteen type of thing at work

and after I'd had me lunch I went and bought a four pack of Jaffa cakes not four

packets of Jaffa cakes it was a little pack with four Jaffa cakes in it but there

was actually 67 grams of carbs in those four Jaffa cakes which is you know really

high if you usually sticking to 60 grams and What I found was on the Monday afternoon, I hit that afternoon slump and I haven't had that

for five weeks. I felt tired. I could feel my eyes closing

I felt that tired and that was down to the jafer cakes

So I was tired already from not sleeping well and because I ate the jafer cakes because I

was tired and I wanted something, I felt more tired. So it was a spiral

So I finished Monday in not a very good place but Tuesday morning I thought right it's different day I felt more awake I'd had a better night's time so I just got straight up in a previous video so that was that was my week it's been a little good up and down

hard by a day one morning, which is quite legitimate for me to get up and cook smoked addict, but I really like it

And it is a low car, but it's good for you. It's a shame the house stinks of smoked haddock for about four days afterwards, but which is quite legitimate for me to get up and cook smoked addict, but I really like it

And it is a low car, but it's good for you. It's a shame the house stinks of smoked haddock for about four days afterwards

But that is a really nice breakfast. It high in protein so it keeps you feeling full stops you feeling hungry so you will have those you know those snacky issues For lunch on a for lunch on a couple of occasions this week I had salmon Now I bought the ready salmon from Aldi which is a lot easier than cooking it myself

And it, you know, it doesn't smell the house out of salmon

Warren hates salmon, so I get the ready-cooked. I think it was a chili one

And I had that with, I think I had that with a heart. boiled egg as well and some lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, celery, that kind of thing

And I also took a packet of little callow dark chocolate rice cakes, which I've talked about

before, but I'll put a picture in here. I didn't take them on that Monday when I bought the Jaffa cakes and if I had it done

maybe I wouldn't have ate the Jaffa cakes. So took the Kalo rice cakes with us

I had, for one of my teas this week, I had... I decided to have a burger with the other low carb bun I had

I've talked about the low carb buns again before. Very low carbs, a little bit chewy, better if you heat them up, if you toast them

So I had the low carb bun toasted, I had a Richmond no meat burger because I don't eat meat

And on top of the burger I had a fried egg which was fried and a little bit of coconut oil and some

cheese and that was actually really tasty. I had that with some salad and I felt full it was

tasty and I felt like I'd eaten something nice for me tea. One night this week I decided to try

some foods that I hadn't tried before because it's good to keep it you know a little bit

interesting so I did a little bit of googling on the internet and I came across it was a

lime tuna steak with an avocado and cucumber salsa So I thought that sounded nice. I do eat fish. I had bought some frozen tuna steaks on Tesco. You get them in a bag of, I think there's six

There's either four or six tuna steaks in the bag and they're packed in twos, but I only took one out

And the recipe did call for you to grill the tuna steak with lime and garlic. You'd marinated it in, which I didn't do because I was wanting to do it quickly

and the tuna steak goes in the oven, the frozen one, not on the grill. So maybe

it's next time I'll try it with a fresh tuna steak and, you know, use the marinade. But for

this time, I put the tuna steak in the oven, which was cooked for, I think it was 20, about

20, 25 minutes, was, you know, and that was nicely cooked for me. And the avocado salsa

which was avocado, cucumber, tomato, a bit of chili pepper, some lime juice and salt and pepper

and that was really, really tasty. I would definitely have that again

So the tuna and avocado of salsa was really nice, but I decided to make a dessert that night as well

And this is also something that I'd never tried before, but I have heard

and this was a keto chocolate chia pudding, or pudding, as we say, and Gates said

And it's basically, I'll put the links to the recipes for these below, so you can go have a look and make it if you fancy it

It's basically chia seeds which if you've never heard of them are tiny little black seeds and they're really good for you

They're full of all kinds of nutrients and protein and things like that

So it was chia seeds, coconut milk, peanut butter, some cocoa powder, water and some vanilla essence

And it's a really interesting texture, let's say, on the... on the chia pudding

I did make the mistake after making it of putting in the fridge for half an hour

which you're not supposed to do. Because the chia seeds in the chocolate mixture

kind of solidify, so it went quite, not hard, but it would have been nice there if it was a little bit

I don't wanna use the word sloppier, but a little bit more soft

So next time I won't put it in the fridge. But I added a couple of strawberries to that again

I'll put a picture. And that was really nice. It satisfies my chocolate craving because I do like chocolate

It satisfied that. And Warren enjoyed it as well. So the chair chocolate pudding, I can highly recommend

So I have had some really nice meals this week as well. And I think that's the key to sticking to something like this

I have been a little bit, like I said in the first week

I was writing everything down. I was writing how many calories. how many carbs, how much protein

I was doing that all manually with pen and paper and Googling the different ingredients

on, you know, Sainsbury's website to see what the nutrition was and stuff

And that just got a little bit time consuming. So I'd heard of Carb Manager

So I decided to download the Carb Manager app. So I'll talk a little bit about that

There is a free version of it. So that's the version I've been using

and I just going to show you it on my tablet here so you can see what it looks like When you first sign up to it it ask you to put in you know if you male or female what your height is what

your ages what your weight is and things like that and then it asks you to choose

your macros which I'll just show you now this is the bit where low carbon

especially keto gets a little bit confusing so this does help you so I'll just

show the screen now I don't know how well you can say that

I might put some photos in here if this doesn't work out very well. So it asks you decide if you want to lose weight, maintain a gain muscle

So I said I wanted to lose weight. You can choose your own calories

So I've chosen 1,400 calories a week. Then it says, looking good, at this rate, we estimate that you will lose 3.3 pounds per month

Which is fine because if you lose weight slowly, it's more like. to stay off then it asks you to choose your macro goals which is where I get a little bit

confused so it's got options here I'll just click the little down button you can see

there the different options and now it says you can choose low carb high fat it goes

right down to high carb low fat now I went for a middle ground low carb moderate fat so

No, actually I chose the low carb high fat. Yeah, I chose low carb high fat

And it gave me that I should be eating 42 grams of carbs

88 grams of protein, which is what the recommend you should eat

Not the NHS guidelines. This is people who believe in low carb and keto way of life

And the fat, 50, I think that says 58 grams of fat

Now I am no way a medical professional. This is just something I've researched on my own and I'm doing for myself

If you're interested in a low carb keto lifestyle, you may want to speak to your doctor first, you know, to get the, to get the all clear before you do it

This is just me saying this is what I'm doing. So those are, you choose your macro goals

So I thought that was quite good because that does help. But what is good about the carb manager

app is it'll you get you get your daily you can have a daily log of what you're eating so this is

what I was doing with pen and paper but you can actually do this on the app I've got it on me

tablet you can also get it on the desktop and you can download it to your phone as well

and it gives you at the top it gives you a guideline of what you've got for the day so

that's telling us how much protein how much fat how much carbs how much calories and as I

put things into the daily log it'll tell us how much I've got left so there you can see

it's got room for breakfast lunch dinner it's also got snacks you can put your daily

workouts in there and it can put your water intake in there so it's quite a

comprehensive daily log if you want to add anything for your breakfast you just

click on the add breakfast button and you can type in here in the search bar what it is

you've eaten, so say I was eating a, I've already put some things in here. If I was

eating an egg, you can see in here it's got very large egg, which is what I bought, and I can

just tap on that and it'll tell us how many calories, protein, fat, carbs, whatever, and you can

add it to whatever meal you've had it in. If you've got the premium version of carb manager

you type in something you want to eat it'll also give you the option to look at brands

that does this on the free one as well common foods but it also gives you recipes so

if I put in egg in there what see I put in tuna I wanted to make a meal with tuna

search it also gives the option on the paid version to click on recipes so if I

clicked on recipes it's going to give me all the recipes to do with tuna and if I had the

premium version and just click on that and it'll tell us the ingredients and how to make it

which could be very useful so I'm just going to show you a day that I did last week

if I can find it in fact this was yesterday I have changed my macros a little bit

today from what they were yesterday because I think there were a little bit My calories were a little bit low

I had it at 1,200 calories, which I think for me is too low. So you can see here, it gives you coloured pie chart of what you've had for the day

And yesterday, it said I had 64 grams of protein left because it was given as 120 grams of protein a day, which I think is too much for me

Fat it was saying 80, 90 grams. Sorry, I haven't got my glasses on

I kind of seen It was saying I went 37 grams over the fat And for calories it said I had nine calories left I had one thousand one hundred and ninety calories and net carbs I had 18 carbs left I only had 42 carbs

that day so that it's quite interesting and you can see there the things you know

that I've put in there and it tells you for each meal how many carbs you're eating

which is quite useful so I can see there for dinner when I had the tuna

tuna and avocado salsa and the chia pudding and I went 230 calories over what it recommended I should have for me dinner

but it said I had two grams of carbs left so that is quite interesting you know if you want to get

a little bit more deeper into the carbs for some people it may be confusing so to start off with

just you know cut down on bread pasta rice and potatoes and then maybe when you get a bit into it

you might want to look more into things like macros and stuff like that now it's time for the

weighing so I'll just put in here me getting on the scales as you can see I lost

three pound this week I don't know whether that was because I had used the carp

manager for two or three days I have done a little bit more exercise this week I've

been doing the fabulous shalee's fabulous 50s I've done a few of them work out

I've especially been concentrating on the standing abs workout and the arms workout because I need to tone up a little bit

I've been walking to work every day So I don't know whether that helped us lose three pound, but altogether over the I think it's five weeks now

I've lost half a stone so that's seven pound and I'm really pleased with that

Warren's also doing this my husband and he's lost ten and a half pound and he's also really pleased about that

So you know if the low carb does work and it is bringing me blood sugar down as well

I've been doing the finger prick test. You know, now and again, I haven't done it that much this week

because I'm running out strips, I need to buy some more. And it's hovered around the six, seven, it went to seven point five

but you know, that's pretty good for me. This is the part where I talk about what I learned this week

And I think I was actually, I read some, I read something on the internet and I'm just going to read it here

It says, most women give up on diets after weeks, two days and 43 minutes. I don't know where they get the two days and 43 minutes from

But I thought that was quite interesting because it, you know, it is week five and I have been

starting to get a little bit, I've been getting a little bit complacent with it for a couple of

weeks, but I've been getting a little bit bored with what I'm eating. I tend to be

latching on to the same two and three meals every week and I'm eating all all the time. And I think

that does lead to you getting a little bit bored with you. diet and I think that's why a lot of people give up because the missing things that

they would have eaten previously and if you want to make this you know a long-term

lifestyle then you've got to find a wide variety of foods you can eat I know I

know a lot of snacky things that I can eat which I've talked about in a previous

video which again I'll link below if you want to listen to that particular one

but for me I think it's the dinners you know you're even a meal your tea

whatever you want to call it I need more of them I need more variety

So I think I might sign up to the premium version of Carb Manager

just so I can look at the different recipes on there. I think it's only something like £3 a month

I'll put the details below. I'm not affiliated to it at anything and I'll let you know next week how I get on with that

But I think that will help us get a little bit more variety in my diet

And also on the YouTube, there's a YouTube channel called Low Carb Love

She's an American woman who has lost £100 on the low carb lifestyle and she has tons and tons of videos on low carb recipes which look really, really nice

There was something she called an egg roll skillet. The other day that I was watching that looked really nice

I would have no egg in it. If you're American, can you tell me what an egg roll is

Because for me, an egg roll would have egg in it. So if you know, let us know in the comments below

but yeah there's some really good recipes on there so if you fancy you know looking at some

more on low-core recipes you might want to have a look at that so i'm quite happy with me seven

pound um weight loss i'm definitely not as tired as i used to be my stomach definitely feels flatter

might not look flatter but it feels flatter and i can tell in me my trousers my jeans that i have

firmed up the top of my legs in my butt probably from all the walking so i'm happy with the way

your things are going. If you'd like to watch the other transatlantic housewives, remember

Marie's doing fasting, Maria's doing Slim and World and Tina's doing a little bit of everything

then don't forget to go ahead and watch their videos now. I'll put the links below so you can do that

I hope you're joining in with us. Please let us know how you're doing, you know, what diet you're doing

what tips you've got, or if you want to ask me any questions, I'm happy to answer them

So that's all I've got for you this week. I'll see you again next week

So happy weight loss. Bye for now