Bootcamping in another time zone

[hazchem]

I'm bootcamping but live in OZ. I have found I get lost in the main thread because it all happens when I'm sleeping. I though I might do the food recording here in the hope there might be some others who are also not on GMT.
Day 1
Breakfast Egg and coconut flour pancakes
Lunch Grilled halmoui with salad including some tomatoes and mayo and humous
Dinner BBQ Lamb shoulder (in wine) with spinach, mayo, cucumber and tomotoes
Sancks/others stuff: I had about 4 coffees and teas yesterday which I have milk with. And then in the evening a fat bomb and some greek yoghurt :(

Day 2
Breakfast Lamb shoulder (in wine) with spinach, mayo, cucumber and tomotoes

Glad to have helped, haz!

Still can't find bloody celeriac but I've bought a few swedes...

Keeping on keeping on:
B= 2 cheese slices (woohoo! go me )
L = leftover salad from last night, plus an avocado, plus about 10 baby bocconcini. Yum. Then a handful of cherries.

It's a funny thing - normally I can go a few days without fruit, but as soon as I wasn't allowed to eat it, it became torture to not have it! Of course, if I'm going back onto strict bootcamp, I'll have to dump the fruit again too - but I might have to wait until cherry season is over for that.

Well maybe that is a good idea. DO bootcamp light until the end of cherry season. there isn't much point changing how you eat if it isn't sustainable or lead to guilty feelings.

I have been a bit fed up this week. I haven't gone off plan but as I'm back full time working again my water intake in back down to 1.5-2l per day. Not enough I fear.
I'm feeling a bit sick at the moment like a cold coming on or something. I take pain meds daily for my back and it still gives me lots of trouble so that's pissing me off too.
Anyhow today is Waitangi day so day off whoohoo!
B- Soft boil eggs with sausage soliders
L- Quiche with salad
D- will be bbq roast chicken with salads

Oh you sound like are having a rough time febes, I guess water is quite tricky while your teaching. Hope you feel better soon. Being sick on public holidays suck!

I guess this is the point where we each decide if we want to have this as a WOE instead of a diet. It's tough.

I've decided not to go away this weekend as I know it will be full of booze, and carby food. Going to stay at home instead and do nice things. I want to sort of break the back of the carbs thing so it can feel like I;m just eating this way without a diet.

A good weekend food wise for me. No wine :) I had a lovley treat of frozen strawberries and double cream. It was great to have something cold and to be honest very very sweet.

Had a night out and totally cheated! Wine, cider, spring rolls, dumplings.
Drawing a line over the lot.
Today was much better
B- Eggs and bacon
L- Tuna, mayo and lettuce
D- Fish with creamy sauce over salad- was totally amazing!

But was it fun??? and yummy?

I wish I ate more fish. I find it kind of scared of it. Cooking it. Love eating it.

I love fish.
I found the easiest way to cook it to start with was baked in the oven; butter some foil in a baking dish, place fish plus wine/lemon/herbs in, close the foil to make a parcel and bake for about half an hour. Works really well for salmon and trout, pretty good for some of the white flake fish, not so good for the white muscly fish (IME). Flathead, for e.g., is foul done like this, but bream is really nice.
Now I'm much better at frying fish as well, and prior to starting this WOE, I was a whizz at breaded white fish (using rice crumbs because I'm wheat-free).
Pan poaching fish is another alternative - works well for ray (or skate as it used to be called in the UK) but you don't find that too often in the shops here!

Mind you, I have troubles with fish here - I won't buy it from Africa or Vietnam or Thailand (heard too many dodgy stories about which rivers they come from!) so am restricted to Aussie/Kiwi fish, which is expensive. Blue Grenadier is a good white flake fish though, that makes lovely breaded fish, last time I did it with the parmesan coating and it was very nice with that. You need to have a lot of oil in the pan though to get the coating to go golden brown instead of sticking.
I might try the almond meal as an option - hopefully it doesn't taste too much of almond, I'm still not keen on it as a flavour concept!

Oh that sounds yummy to you shallow fry or bake the parmesan fish?

I'm .9 of a pound down. So still have,'t quite recovered from my gain of 2 weeks ago but getting there.

Shallow fry it. :)

No not worth it. The booze was awesome but not the food. Stodgy!

The fish was frozen white fillets a bag of 6 fillets for $10. We had another one tonight. I just defrosted and pan fried in butter and then made a mushroom, courgette and cream cheese and pesto and a bit of cream. IT WAS AWESOME!!

Right I'm getting fish on shopping day then.

Oh that sucks when you off message and it's not even yummy.

That is a shame, febes!

I was a leetle bad tonight - I felt the need for just a touch of alcohol, so had my glass of water, with a splash of mixed berry vitamin water and another splash of Pimms - it was fabulous! in fact it was so nice, I had to have another one. So in all, I've probably had one shot of Pimms tonight

Other than that:
B - 2 slices cheese
L - 2 egg, cheese and mushroom omelette with chives followed by cherries and cream - OMG the Tassie cherries were in Coles yesterday and they are LUSH! We (all of us) ate through half a kilo in one day - even Ds1 was getting into them, and he's not a massive fan because of the pit, but he was prepared to cope with it for these cherries! DS2 is a MASSIVE cherryaholic - he does the full on "num num num" noise while eating them (cut into quarters) and just posts them like letters into his mouth, so he's often got 3 or 4 quarters in there at once! - so anyway, I bought more today, ostensibly for the boys but of course now they're here I have to have some too.
s - bodytrim ultra low carb bar - I'm finding that it really works whenever I feel like real chocolate, this one is nice enough to take that feeling away. (flippin' expensive though, at $4.50 a pop!)
D - mince thing from the other night with leftover leek and swede gratin. Really nice! Haven't felt the need for anything else yet either, so that's a good thing. :)

Will weigh in later...

NOT Losing weight here. What do I expect???

B- half avo with mushroom and bacon
L- prawns with coleslaw and mayo
D- Omelette and feta with coleslaw

Total bootcamp until my trousers of truth fit!

B) left over roast lamb cooked in the lamb juices/jelly stuff in the pan with green beans Super yummy
L) Left over roast lamb and salad and sour cream
d) swede chips burgers and spinach.

Yes I've decided to bootcamp no slip ups until my sons b'day party on the 8th.

had a weird thing today. I really wanted to have a snack. to sit and eat something but I really wasn't hungry. Had water ect and after about 20 minutes had a piece of butter and that shut me up.

I need to buy a swede. Lots of talk about swedes and its making me drool.

I usually buy my swedes one at a time - but yesterday I bought 5 at once!
Kind of makes sense though - I never bought spuds one at a time, always a bag full.

I found you! Somehow I lost this off my threads list.

From way back, that fat bomb thing sounds amazing, hazchem. I fell off the wagon a bit recently with regard to chocolate [hangs head]. It is so hard to stop wanting sweet things. I'm going to look into the magnesium thing, though.

I've been doing really well with eating tons of greens though! I found a really simple salad recipe, not even a recipe really -- just gave myself permission to buy those lovely big organic salad mixes, and now I add avocado and broccoli and oil and shredded Romano/Parmesan and take it all to work in a big tub. I can eat that all day

Truthfully I realized I'm not really bootcamping though, have just been trying to change how we eat for a while now to avoid a lot of gluten and carbs and emphasize greens and protein. Can I still hang out here?

Hooray your back

Fat bombs help with the chocolate thing as does 85% chocolate :)

Come and hang out of course. and share other yummy foods too.

Oh yay

Hahahaha yes I did find that eating chocolate helped with the chocolate thing! In the moment it was extremely satisfying.

Going to bed now ... but do you all think exercise helps you stay on the wagon? I have been contemplating the shred, with dread. I ought to go to the gym but I am unmotivated and don't want to lug gym clothes around in this weather (we are covered in snow, worst winter ever). I wondered if exercising regularly would nudge me naturally toward better eating.

Also, wikipedia is telling me a swede is a rutabaga?! Are they good? I've never had one.

I think exercise is really good to help you feel better and to stay healthy I don't think it helps lose weight. I think it's good to do exercise. Or move in an active way.

Food wise really good here.
B) salad smoked salmon boiled egg and sliced cheese. I got up this morning went to the fridge and it was all laid out on a plate with a note saying your valentines breakfast. :)
L) omelet, salad, mayo, cheese, a slice of roast beef

I'm TTC at the moment and just realised my BMI is so high that I wouldn't be able to use one of the birth options I'm thinking about. I need to lose at least 7 and more like 10 kilos to be under there level. It makes a bit angry at myself because I have lost the baby weight before and then I was a dick and put it all back on.