Week 1 - New Year 2014 Low Carb Bootcamp - And We're Off!

[BIWI]

Morning all!

I see several of you have already weighed in on the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

As of today, though, we also have our bright, shiny, new Bootcamp section on Mumsnet, including our own Weight Tracker, which will only show your own weight/progress.

You can either use the Spreadsheet as we have done before, which everyone has access to and can see, or you can go here and enter your weight.

Obviously you can do both!

When you're in the new Bootcamp, if you click on the tab that says 'more info' that will take you to a section which has loads of information about low carbing, as well as Bootcamp Rules

Before we get going formally, I have to make an important disclaimer:

I am not a doctor, a medic, a scientist, a nutritionist or a dietician. I have no formal training in food, dieting or low carbing. The information that I provide here is based solely on my reading on the subject, as well as my own experience. If you have any kind of medical condition and/or you are taking any kind of ongoing medication, you should consult your GP before starting a low carb diet

That done, good luck everyone!

Could someone please help me find the illusive oopsie rolls recipe, can't see it on the recipe thread

oopsie rolls

Bah! I am still weighing more than I did on Monday, begone period!

Well done to those of you seeing good losses already - very motivating :)

Today's breakfast = a boiled egg, plus Total with vanilla. Creamy coffee.

Will be out and about more today so need to be more on my guard - it's been easy so far this week as I've been working from home.

Happy Thursday everyone and thanks again for the yesterday.

Happy Thursday Team LCarbers .

Have officially gone gaga ....

Late for work - toddler and teenagers all kicking off about something on their own agenda ....

Couldn't think straight - had a few minutes to get breakfast into me ...

DRANK from the double cream carton .....

DH looks on in disgust amazement

:o MrsHugh

Well, I am well and truly energised - just went for a brisk walk interspersed with 50 yard jogs followed by coughing and wheezing run in the park - am now looking irradiated (I am so unfit it's untrue) but have a nice warm glow.

Into the shower and onto tackling the pit of filth that is DD's bedroom - I was looking online at schools with dyslexia provision yesterday (she was assessed just before Christmas and her current school is being a bit crap) and one of them had a link for Indicators of Dylsexia for children, one of which was 'a very untidy bedroom' - hah!

DD ate her fried egg - I put it on a piece of toast - but drew the line at bacon. So I had it all and it was delish :o

Hope you have a better day Helium :)

Thank you for asking, BIWI. I'm alright, really. Just dealing with a constant low-level anxiety/stress/sadness and finding it very hard to resist my usual coping mechanism. Haven't got back in the habit of managing my feelings differently, but hopefully it'll come soon. If I can get through the next couple of days then I'll be ok. Evenings are worse, I usually manage just fine during the day. Tonight I will pre-emptively distract myself with something else.

Good morning all. Yay for everyone with the encouraging losses already. :)

I won't weigh until Monday, but if I've not lost, I'll be blaming it on being all premenstrual. I've woken up famished, so I've adjusted original plan and will probably be stuffing my face all day.

Breakfast was two fried eggs, a mini salami, cucumber slices and a large bulletproof coffee with lots of butter and coconut oil. Still hungry...

L: Smoked salmon and a feta salad. Probably more coffee with coconut oil.
S: Cheese and olives and some Total, if I get desperate.
D: I want to try buttery bubble and squek made with swede and brussels sprouts, and shall fry some pork shoulder to go with it.

Athelstane - you tend to hold about 24h worth of glycogen; once your glycogen stores are full (liver and muscles, mainly) and all the cells in the body have all the sugar they need, then any sugar left starts to be converted to fat. :)

Today went well (so far):
B - natural Greek yoghurt. It might say it has 5g sugar/100g in it but it bloody didn't taste like it, I can tell you! Hard to eat - am I allowed to add vanilla essence?
L - tinned mackerel with green salad (lettuce, cucumber, celery and avocado) and olives
D - White fish, broccoli and carrots (DH cooked) - no sauce because whatever he was trying failed and was apparently foul. But I have enough fish left for breakfast or lunch tomorrow and I can make a sauce for it then (lemon butter ok? I'm not good at hollandaise)

It's only coming up to 9pm, so haven't found out if I'll need a snack later yet - we'll see! :)

Holger I'm a very anxious person and prone to depression (managed, to varying degrees, by medication). Do you find that you're worse in the winter? My depression always gets worse around November, so this year I asked for a light box for xmas. It's been a bit of a revelation for me - I felt better almost from the first time of using it. If you're interested I can tell you more. Can you plan a really delicious meal for tonight, to look forward to? I planned all my favourite dinners for this week so I didn't feel deprived - it helps get you through the first bit.

Am feeling shite again today, but I'm keeping the faith that I'll feel better over the next few days if I carry on eating the right things, drinking loads of water, being kind to myself and focussing on the positives (she says, with an increasing tone of desperation... ).

tea I'm totally up for a thread about children and low carb. I overhauled DD's diet back in the summer when I was low carbing and found it made a big difference to her mood and behaviour (she has aspergers).

Thanks Willie they look great , going to try them later

Steel enjoy your bubble and squeak - it's gorgeous!

Thumb vanilla essence is fine as long as you find one without added sugar. I take it you aren't in the UK?

Thumb try adding a big slosh of double cream to your yoghurt too, it takes the edge off that slightly sour taste. Some people put cinnamon in it. I use flax seed and vanilla with plenty of cream. Once we're on bootcamp light, it's amazing with flaxseed and berries in.

Here's to a better day today Helium.

Thanks for the encouraging kick up the bum yesterday Tiglette. I upped the fat and the water, sulked a little and today am 1.5lb down and interval training didn't kill me. Yay.

Tea, we have been lower carbing the kids for a while - boiled eggs for brekkie, something other than sandwiches some days for lunch and cheese and fruit as snacks. Their behaviour is better (they're pretty good anyway but they seem to concentrate and listen more!), their dry skin is better and they stay fuller for longer. All good things I reckon!

Off for a long day at the fun factory now. Will try to be virtuous and avoid the Christmas junk that everyone else is bringing in so that they don't eat it at home!

I was STARVINg when I woke up this morning - weird, I'm not normailly. All good now after greek yogurt and a load of water.

Thumb can I suggest this recipe for hollandaise, it has been a REVELATION, just need one pan and that's it.

For 2 people:
125g butter
2 eggs yolks
1 tablespoon water

Put all these in a pan together (helps to chop the butter up a bit rather than one big lump). Heat very gently, whisking all the time, till it thickens as much as you want it to. Take off the heat, add lemon juice (recipe is half a tblsp but I like a bit more) and season. AND THAT'S IT! It makes enough for both me and DH to have a good dollop.

Have salad with avocado, parmesan shavings and dressing for lunch, supper will be celeriac gratin with leeks, lardons and brie melted on top [dribbles]

Low carb kids thread up and running. No more crappy cereal chez tea!

Thumbwitch just to say that white fish is not a fatty fish, so you need to make sure it and the vegetables are slathered in as much butter as you can take. (or add something else fatty to the meal) Apologies if you did that anyway.

Crabby - Thanks, Im sure I will, it sounds lovely. :)

I've been following some Scandinavian low carbers for a long time, and lots of them have kids and have them eat the same foods they eat themselves - maybe with more berries on their yoghurt and not trying to limit the types of veggies on offer, though. I wouldn't see a problem with that. But I have heard some of them have been told off by HCPs when they've dared to use the words "low carb". There was even a piece in a newspaper some years ago of a dietician saying kids who are forced to eat low carb should be take in care. (I think she was forced to back down on that, but not sure.)

Yeah Eva, I know - as I said it was due to have a cream sauce but dh buggered it up. I have to share mine with ds2 (15mo) so didn't drown it in butter, but can work around that if similar happens again.

Heir, THANK YOU! An easy hollandaise recipe will be a godsend x

Crabby - thanks, and no, I'm not in the UK, I'm in Australia :)

It's all in the wording ..... No one would feel the need to pass comment if we said we were lowering the sugar content of DC's diet ....
My gorgeous team DDs aged 17, 15 and 3 ! And DH - mental age of 13 I think ! ..... Are not yet convinced , but starting with breakfast and one step at a time !

( will start at weekend - today was disaster !!)

Morning - I am still sooo sleepy, over 11 hours last night and only up once to the loo and straight back to sleep. I sleep a lot anyway - due to recovery and neurological medications - but that's an awful lot. It's lovely but I don't really have time and I miss DH by being fast asleep before 9pm.

I've been really positive but a bit of a weepy day today. Like Holger I have been used to using food to deal with my feelings and so I expected them to flow over at some point. I have healthy coping mechanisms these days - now is the time to use them (Before sugar it was alcohol - and 18 months sober and being overweight is much better than being enslaved to drink to make me feel better - now I'm cutting out sugar, so where next?? I know - hopefully healthy coping.)

Yesterday was:
B: 2 scrambled eggs and bacon
L: grilled spinach with cheese and a small amt of sundried tomato
S: yogurt and vanilla
D: lemon chicken not-pasta - with the courgette "papardelle" - they worked really well so thank you to all the posters that encouraged me to try them.

2.8L water (I really tried)
2 coffees with unsweetened soya milk.

I'm glad I'm not headachey or sick but the brain-fog can leave any time it likes

Fell asleep last night before I could drink all my water!

I don't know what I'm having today yet, but dinner will be lamb chops with plenty of veg. The dc seem to have adopted an lc woe- I always put the food on the table and we serve ourselves. I have noticed they take meat and veg and only put carbs on their plate at the end iyswim. They eat lots of fruit etc though before anyone worries:).

They have boiled eggs and soldiers for breakfast at the moment, with cereal and toast to start and then berries. I usually finish their eggs if they leave any.

I am not sleeping very well and I know I must as its part of this woe! Trying to help that with running. And nothing except water after my morning cafe and cream:)

morning everyone! i haven't time to read the whole thread but just wanted to check in and say hello, it's really encouraging to see so many working through this together - i haven't weighed again yet but have managed to stick to bootcamp, am inordinately pleased with myself!

it's because i really don't feel hungry anymore - last night i caught myself at 11pm going to the kitchen for a snack a la nigella, and i realised it was just habit, i wasn't actually hungry - still, i came away with a mini babybel and it did the trick!

am going to aim for earlier bedtime tonight as i am definitely feeling a bit under par - i didn't do bootcamp lite, just started on monday - and i do start the day with a weird, hungover kind of feeling.

B: eggs, bacon, mushrooms (yum!)
L: smoked salmon, avocado, baby leaves, mayo, grated cheddar
D: celeriac mash, chicken & ? courgette perhaps - not sure...

hope everyone has a good day, am off to try and catch up with the rest of the thread now...

Had surgery on my shoulder in November, and just had the all clear. Been signed off by physio too, can go back to moderate exercise. Still need to build up strength and range again, used to row, and not ready for that quite yet, plus river is scary fast and flooded, but really positive stuff. Low carbing going well and that news, tis all good.

Right, best crack on!

pistey that is good news

important question:

were you able to knit/crochet with your shoulder?