Week 8 - Leaving Lockdown Low Carb Bootcamp

[BIWI]

Our last 2 weeks!

Here's the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

Only two weeks to go!

I'm feeling that a lot of us are struggling. But it's all about how to integrate what we're learning about low carbing and how that fits with day to day eating/meals.

Above all, though, who could possibly say that the meals we're eating could not be the mainstay of family meals?!

Let's see this last fortnight as a challenge: what's your most enjoyable/family-friendly meal, that they would never realise was a 'diet' meal?!!!

Tell me there's three weeks left @BIWI

Morning, fellow campers! I'm a pound down today despite a few (enjoyable) lapses in the last week, so I have still lost something every week so far, which remains my goal. I've been religious about water this week, and sure that has made a difference. Need to be back on it this week though. Food today will be:
B: 1/2 avocado and buttery egg
L: leftover bbq and salad
D: asparagus, green beans and spatchcock chicken with hollandaise sauce.
Need to make a birthday cake for DS 's 16th tomorrow too.

Forgot to wish everyone else good results today

Heading home today from a week gallivanting about between family stays and the campervan and I've been wildly off plan. Lots of beer and wine too.

I will weigh in tomorrow morning and log that, get back on the water and be super strict for as much of the remaining weeks as I can.

Not sure the link on the end of the last thread is working BTW.

Great idea on the family friendly meals BIWI. This is one of the major inconveniences of this WoE for me. If I only had to feed myself it would be a doddle!

Literally the only meal that I've managed to make and not had to substitute an element of it on my plate is shepherds pie with celeriac and leek mash on top. Even then I had to accommodate a fusspot who hates mince .

Really looking forward to hearing what everyone else makes to keep the family happy.

I am moving house a week today so we are running down the freezer this week and will be eating a lot of salmon and spinach. Had salmon last night with creamed spinach and buttery mushrooms and it was delicious. Mashed potato for the family.

Have a good week all, I'm off to weigh in

145.8lbs on Saturday - I'm not weighing this morning because the idiot down the road decided to burn off some gorse yesterday afternoon (illegal at this time of year because of nesting birds), he lost control of it and it went the length of his croft, nearly the whole length of the next croft and down the fence dividing them, I reckon nearly 2km of gorse burnt in total. Took eight of us to get it out and DH and I came back in knackered, reeking of smoke and in absolutely no mood to stand and cook pork steaks and FLGV, so we fished a pizza out of the freezer instead.

nowlook Sorry to hear about the inheritance issues. A friend's brother (in his 60s at the time) once tried to persuade his mother to change her will so a large chunk of her assets (everything other than the house) were split in percentages according to number of grandchildren in each part of the family - which would have meant 3/7ths going to the brother, 2/7ths to two other siblings and nothing to friend, who doesn't have kids. Fortunately she saw how unfair this would be and gave him the telling off of his life.

2lbs on, which is okay given the lovely week of holiday I've had. Had I weighed in yesterday it would have been a 5lb gain on the sheet so I'm very happy to settle for 2!

3lb whoosh overnight when I only just went back to eating properly yesterday shows how quickly we can turn things around in both directions really. It's always disappointing how easy it is to go off piste and see the scales move the wrong way really quickly, but nice to see it happen the other way sometimes

Have a good weekend everyone and KOKO. My main challenge this week is 4 litres of water. Every. Single. Sodding. Day.

Place marking. No weigh in for me today as an at in-laws for the first time in nearly 2 years. MIL is an amazing baker and there's always fresh cake & biscuits around so it's a test of my will power.

I did weigh myself yesterday and I was slightly up on the previous week but did have a NSV of getting into some summer jeans that so haven't been able to wear since 2019 on Saturday.

I am wondering if I've reached a weight my body is happy with and am going to struggle to lose the last couple of kilos that I'd want in an ideal world. But it is week 6 for me so will KOKO and hope for the best.

Hello everyone.

I can report 0.9lb loss today which gives me a total loss of 9.3lb. I'm extremely pleased.

I'm also pleased with the Fathead Pizza Dough which was fantastic. After my pizza I sat and watched everyone else eat sundaes and had no desire at all to have one myself and even thought they looked a bit disgusting.

Only a small loss me but it takes the total to just over 50lbs since the start of the year.

Quite a few of the meals I make feed the whole family. Last night I made chicken curry, everyone had rice and salad with it and I just had it with a big salad. If I make lasagna, I leave some meat sauce to the side and have it salad or veg. We really like roast broccoli at the moment - I cut it to small florets, grate in garlic and ginger, drizzle some sesame oil and then bake with some protein (salmon, pork chops, chicken), the rest of the family will have it with rice or noodles and I just have extra broccoli.

Well done on the losses
Only a small one for me can someone fix my % total on spreadsheet it is coming up #value must have pressed something I shouldn't sorry I'm line 11
@nowlook sorry to hear off inheritance unfairness been there too and just said nothing. My brothers divided farm between them and the girls got our mums rings my kids laugh at it.
My dad is still alive and lives on the farm and we go to visit but if my kids step on a part that belongs to one of my brothers he actually asks them to move that it's his. Its don't touch this or that.
I know my trigger to go off plan is dd1 can't stick to her arrangements which affects what everyone else is doing.
I got up at 8 yesterday headed off to beach with dd2 told her to just go to her bfs house before I got back. I then had icecream and kfc but drank 4l water and back on plan today.
Sorry for rambling but dd1 frustrates me.
Anywhere we plan she has to be back to go to bf or facetime bf. She spent all day wed thurs with him. He was to come to her Friday but because I gave out she told him not to come and then blamed me. . She told me I was a toxic parent and I have cried alot probably the whole 4l water from yesterday came out as tears.
Now I'm started again and not bank hol here in Roi so need to work.

Hello, massively struggling here. All motivation and determination has totally disappeared. Got an awful cough I just can't shift as well.

@ouchmyfeet that’s a brilliant result having been on holiday. I am up every Monday but have finished the last few Fridays slightly lower than the week before. I had a bigger jump on the scales this morning. A figure I haven’t seen for a while. Hoping for a whoosh tomorrow.

@nowlook the inheritance issue is a hard one. I don’t have any grandchildren so it is a straight 50:50 split. If we ever do have dgc my husband is adamant it is a still 50:50. I think it is nice to recognise each child individually with a small amount as they exist (or in my case don’t exist) in their own right. I hope we have many years to argue it out. I think attitudes will depend on age and how well off our dc are.

Nowlook that is a truly crap situation x

Just marking place. No weighing for me but I can get in to the jeans that didn’t fit me at the start. I wouldn’t wear them without a long top though. Gone down a whole bra size too.

Sorry to make you panic @nowlook

Yes, of course we have three weeks left

In my defence, 10-8 does = 2 ...

@nowlook when my lovely mum was putting her will together she decided to allocate amounts to people, so my brother and I received 40% each of her estate, and each grandchild (2) got 10%. In practice that meant I received 60% as both kids are mine and too young to inherit when she died and we did it cheaply without trusts etc, but it does seem the fairest way and my brother is very happy as he can see his niece and nephews money in accounts for them, its not ‘mine’.
Would this be a way to go possibly?

You see @ouchmyfeet

This is what I just don't get:

Great idea on the family friendly meals BIWI. This is one of the major inconveniences of this WoE for me. If I only had to feed myself it would be a doddle!

Unless meals are pasta/rice-based, in which case obviously they're off the menu for a low carber, there are few meals which have to have a high carb element.

I don't have small children any more and none of my family is a fussy eater, so I appreciate that does make things easier! But honestly, if I'm cooking then they get what I'm cooking.

So some typical meals for me:

• baked salmon fillets (marinated in olive oil and lemon juice, with garlic and ginger, wrapped in foil and baked for 15 minutes) with a large 'chef's' salad, which was lettuce, cucumber, tomato, avocado, lightly boiled asparagus, crispy bacon and a vinaigrette dressing. DH and DS1 had new potatoes as well

• roast pork with crackling, (pork was roasted on a trivet of shallots, and some water added to the roasting tin to make a 'jus'), with braised red cabbage, and leeks pan-fried with red pepper

• a tray bake of sausages and roasted veg - courgettes, peppers, shallots, whole head of garlic (broken into cloves), chillies - with some cherry tomatoes and halloumi added for the last 20 minutes of cooking

• cauliflower cheese (cheese sauce made just from cream and cheese) with whatever veg takes my fancy (apart from broccoli because it's too similar to cauliflower!)

• chicken thighs in a tomato, garlic and black olive sauce, with roasted tenderstem broccoli and celeriac chips

• meatballs in a tomato sauce (mince, shallot and a pepper all whizzed up in the food processor, shaped into balls and roasted in the oven with a drizzle of olive oil; tomato sauce made with sautéed onion and garlic, oregano and a tin of chopped tomatoes) with Parmesan; sometimes I'll just do this with veg, sometimes I give the men spaghetti/penne, and I'll have Bare Naked Noodles

• chilli, served without rice, with yoghurt, grated cheese and jalapeno peppers to go on top (I have to confess I don't take the kidney beans out of my portion most of the time!)

How could anyone think they're missing out on something?!

Sorry to hear you're struggling @cheeseisthebest. Is it being ill that's sapped your motivation, or something else?

@Andi2020 totally share your frustration re teenagers who think the world revolves around them. Have a year 10 doing no work for mocks, just out at beach all day and sleepovers at night (part of me has every sympathy) and a year 12 who is really stressed because he’s not doing enough work for his mocks.
Give me strength

2 pounds off, so a stone all told. Good stuff (and I am a week behind)

I'm sorry, nowlook. I'm a singleton parent, with my sisters both having 3. My parents have given to all their grandchildren quite generously over their childhoods, and have bailed out my younger sister for a lot of poor choices, but I'd find an unequal will pretty hurtful.

Thankfully, after a lot of very unfair complicated and pointless schemes, they just made completely straightforward wills, before mum lost capacity, so they figured it out in the end.

Thanks BIWI, I'm not what it is. Feel quite bored and fed up at the moment.
Those meals you have suggested are great and my children would eat those but not vegan husband! He can make his own food and annoyingly my youngest has decided he now doesn't like fish or sausages!

My daughter would eat all of it!

One and half off for me, which I am very pleased with.
@nowlook that sucks and I totally understand you feeling upset by it.
Omg with the stressful teens. Y10 dd got anxiety again and really struggled to go to school last week, needs to do revision. And 17yo dd got mugged on Friday evening and had her phone stolen whilst I was at work, trying to sort it all out was very stressful but she's ok thank god. my anxiety is through the roof.

3 weeks is good. I intend to be very strict and also do lots of core exercise.

Your poor girls, Dita! And poor you!