Week 2 - Low Carb Bootcamp Jan 2014

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Wow! So much nattering that we've filled up the thread before the end of the week!

Here's the link to the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness for tomorrow morning.

And, for the Weight Tracker I'm not quite sure what happens with this link I think that you will be asked to enter your weight for this week and then you will see your individual graph.

I hope you all had a good week last week, and very good luck for week 2.

Hello everyone. I'm struggling a bit although keeping to it. Just not having the time to come on here and I think I'm missing the motivation that gives me. However, even through very stressful week have kept to low carb, if not strict bootcamp. Just keep thinking 'what's the alternative do doing this?' I would be so depressed if I gave up.

I'm tired of frying stuff too. I put an enormous chunk of butter on top and the Sirloin is pretty fatty.

gosh - so many posts to read through - though it's good to see the board so active!

blitzy so sorry for your loss, am thinking of you and your family

woolfey and others who post their daily eatings - do keep doing this, it gives me ideas which i badly need!

Mlig yes i also plan to keep on with bootcamp another week or so, maybe till i actually manage one week straight without lapsing. you asked about increasing your fat intake (ages upthread) - i have mayo with everything, avocados every day, butter on anything hot - but i hear you about fatty cuts of meat (and i must be the only person on this board who hasn't tried pork scratchings!)

crabby wow - just wow! at that cake!! there's no way i could attempt anything similar, but thanks for the cake topper link - it's perfect! sounds as though you'll be up to your eyes during february, the time will (hopefully) fly in for you. hope you have a great weekend and can dodge the temptations strewn in your path

lovecat well done! it's seeing real evidence like that makes it all worthwhile - very encouraging!

there have probably been another 1000 posts since i started typing (have been interrupted by the need to prep dinner) - and in other news, tonight's the night! chester's chicken is finally in the oven!

good luck to all you losers over the weekend, have a good one

I don't feel like I'm in ketosis. I can usually tell within a couple of days. Does it matter? I'm losing because I put a pair of jeans on today that didn't fit me last year so I'm chuffed about that. I've got beef stew in the oven. It's for the next two days at work. I'm struggling with veggies tbh. My rack is full of then but I can't get my head around cooking them in butter or smothering them in cheese. It ruins the flavour for me and makes them claggy.

Just have the veggies plain, lighthouse and put the sauce on meat maybe?

Library that meal looks really yum!

I bought some awfully posh pork crackling today (it came in my shopping) and it's 0g of carb per 100g.

I bought the salted one and the chilli one, and I won't feel deprived when watching the telly later.

Steeleye wow good luck not going a little bit crazy over the next few days before your appointment. I had a similar wait for blood test results (which were fine in the end) but scared myself silly on Dr Google and started weeping during a school church service (arghh)

All this talk of eggs in cups... today at lunch I decided to try it. First mistake I boiled TWO eggs not one. Mashed them in a bowl with butter, mayo, salt, pepper, (cress and a bit of chopped tomato - southern wuss take on scottish tradition). It was lovely at the time. Shortly after lunch I had to walk to the post office, brisk 20 minute walk, and from there to school pick-up. By the time I got to the post office I felt really sick, a kind of there is too much fat in my system nauseousness. Felt really sick all through school pick-up and journey home... and absolutely NOT like eating EVER AGAIN.

Just the one egg next time I think

I think dinner may be a (very) light snack sometime much later on...

Lighthouse - If you are sticking to BC and staying low-carb, you will be in Ketosis. I dpn't get any 'signs' anymore, but I believe in this WOE.

Re veg - can you stir fry them? (cabbage, brocolli, carrots, leeks) Or just boil them (broccoli, cauli etc and add a knob of butter?

There is a rather wonderful new cookbook just out called 'The Low-carb Revolution' by Annie Bell. The recipes are fabulous - just devoured the Cheat's Meatball Moussaka - and, most importantly it has carb counts for every portion.

Haven't been following the Bootcamp as I am still maintaining after losing 70lbs on bootcamp in 2012. But I'm wishing you all luck!

Breakfast - usual rooibos with coconut oil
lunch radishes with slices of cold butter, bag of salad, cheeese (only a bit, trying to cut down dairy)
dinner ( having jsut done stirfry peppers/veg and noodles for dc with packet over-sweet chinese sauce for chinese new year) Mine is 'pasta' (shirataki noodles) with leftover sausage, bacon, mushroom in butter and cream sauce . Dairy is not being given up easily...

I guess I can stir fry and take them into work. Maybe broccoli and abit of bacon. I'm fast running out of plastic containers!

Who ordered the pasta from Holland and Barrett? I wonder what it turned out like?

Phew, just tried to read all the posts today.

Thumb my DH was put on Insulin (has type 2) & advised to eat high fibre carbs - he put on loads of weight, kept having hypos. He took it into his own hands, researched himself and found the LCarb way - nagged me for a year to do it, I am only just trying it now, can't believe how stubborn I was. Can't believe how wrong the expert diabetic dietician was at the hospital and the dabetic GP who wrongly prescribed insulin. His blood sugar levels are much lower now.

No weight loss this week for me, think the totm is approaching - decided as long as I end the month lighter than I started it I will be content.

for Blitzy, thinking of you.

What's Chester's chicken? can someone tell me, I'm too lazy to scroll back through 29 pages.

Eva my egg in a cup is always two eggs

Notsoskinny it's in the recipe thread too, I'm sure, but in a nutshell it's chicken coated in parmesan. Very nice!

Thanks Eva. I already had a routine appointment scheduled for a bit later, so the urgency is freaking me out. :(

Egg in cup sounds like something we used to make to put on bread when I was small. I never thought of making it to eat it on its own, but sounds like a great idea actually.

I've had a slightly non-BC moment today following the hospital call. I reached into the cupboards and made myself a "brownie" out of an egg, 100% cocoa, vanilla, coconut flour and coconut oil. It wasn't actually very nice, but I ate it anyway. Meh, not the worst thing in the world I, guess.

Lighthouse - it was me who got the 'pasta' from H & B (and posted about 12 times about it!) I've got it for tonight. Just off to cook it now.

confession

You know how I've been moaning all week about how my weight has steadily gone up and up and up since I got home at the end of last week? Well, I've not owned scales before so someone suggested finding a flat surface rather than the severely sagging, carpeted bedroom floor. So my £3.99 Argos scales and I wandered the house looking for somewhere flat and ended up in the barn on the flagstones. It appears I have lost 12lbs in total since starting bootcamp, not lost 8, put on 5, put on 3...

I KNEW I felt better, I just couldn't work out why the numbers were going upwards

Just checking in to say oven roasting steak on top of the vegetables was an enormous success. (Apart from the broccoli which I should have added 10 minutes from the end (but actually it was delicious just a bit over-charred)). I'll be cooking via this method again. Often. I suppose you could slow roast belly pork like that over big chunks of turnip and garlic or roast some nice lamb cuts over aubergine and shallots and torn mint leaves.

If only I could have a great big glass of red wine to wash it all down with.

Athelstane - 12lbs is amazing. That's lovely news to make your weekend go with a swing.

Just had a square of 85% chocolate. It was great.

Ooh ilovemy, I saw the annie bell book in the works yest for a £5, will get it next week if still there then.

Isn't it, Library?

I was all ready to dive into a barrel of wine tonight, after an extremely frustrating week at work, but not now! I did have a cocoa, but am mostly eating stacked cheddar and butter and salt and pepper, and have roast chicken for later.

What happens to wine when you cook it? This sounds amazing but Gordon uses a bottle! www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/5032/beef-bourguignon

PseudoBadger - what make of choc is it?