Week 5 Low Carb Bootcamp - Come and Shout Your Shit!

[BIWI]

Here's The Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

And The Weight Tracker

By now, if everyone has been following Bootcamp/Bootcamp Light rules properly then we should all be keto-adapted, and should be burning fat. Yippee!!

Hope everyone has a good week.

Mum it's even nicer after a night in the fridge. Firmer. Stodgier. Mmmm....

Mmmm, not mum.

Hello all, just come to shout my shit of the day - I put a little belt on with the dress I am wearing today, the last time I wore it was the second week in January. I reckon it needs a new hole by about 2 inches!! So, despite the fact I am still the same weight, good things are happening.

Have bought the world's most anti-social lunch into work - big pile of salad with both egg mayo and chopped garlic sausage - but it's friffing delicious!

Hope you're all keeping dry and warm - I'm down on the coast in Dorset and the weather is something else!

Am bearing the crumble and choc tart in mind for next week when I have family coming over. That is if there is a Somerset left to come to! Horrendous.

After promising to be so good on Monday it didn't go that well in the end! DH made us a cuppa and cut us both a slice of Xmas cake. I had eaten half of it before I remembered I wasn't supposed to! . Finished the rest too. And then had wine with dinner. And althgh food was fine yesterday more wine was had!

Back on track today. Not great on the water though.

Hugh just seen your picture.

Blimey Woolfey that's a bit close for comfort!

for Cider and Heir and all the other bootcampers at risk from the weather.

My house is now a clotted cream free zone

Who .... < daringly wags finger at biwi> ... Started the avocado / Roquefort conversation ??
Have now braved mad weather dodging fence panels to go and buy some .....
Of course avacado still hard - so still need to wait !nutter

Aaargh Woolfey and Hugh! It is blowing a gale here in East London, I am watching the bastard enormous dead bastard tree in next door's garden with trepidation. Last real storm we had it took the roof off the shed with falling branches - sadly as next door is 3 rented flats the landlord couldn't give a shite about getting the tree lopped so we have this every time there's a high wind... At least we're on top of a hill; half the town would have to be underwater for us to be affected, and we do have the Thames Barrier, I should be grateful for small mercies.

Stay safe, all of you in flood zones

Second day of ubercamp no weight loss yet:
B: tea, BPC, oven baked bacon, mushrooms fried in butter
L: thin cut steak with spinach in butter, BPC, small piece 85% chocolate
D: two roasted chicken thighs roasted, courgette fried in butter
Coming in at 3% carbs, 20% protein, 77% fat and totalling 9g net carbs according to MFP.

Completely off at a tangent .... too scared of Style and beauty threads
Anyone tried Levi 'curve' jeans .... ? Any good ... looking to replace ancient and according to DD1 - seriously embarrassing bootcuts but have tree trunk legs so skinnies don't fit and look ridiculous

I've got a pair of curve jeans. They're nice. They don't bag at the waist as much as other types :)

I want crumble!!!

I am desperately craving comfort food, and the carbier the better. I just had a moment of agony thinking about a chicken sandwich on lovely crusty bread.

I think I may have to let myself have the low carb comfort food to alleviate the premenstrual madness.

poor crabby

it is totally understandable that food is comforting - not just from a social/upbringing perspective, but also from an evolutionary perspective - we need food to survive so the fact that it triggers pleasure responses is to our advantage (like sex )

i think there was an experiment iirc where they suppressed the pleasure responses to help people lose weight, and they all became horribly depressed because they had no pleasure in anything else either (not just food) and no motivation to do anything

makes sense if you have to go out and gather/hunt food, but not so helpful in a world of 24/7 supermarkets

Thank you Willie. Does that mean I should have crumble? [hopeful]

I know I shouldn't. I've just got that insatiable urge to eat. Not because I'm hungry, just for the feel of it. I feel all wrong! (as an elderly lady I used to work with would say).

I'm having a very stressful day with our house buying malarky; nothing major going wrong, but many little things going less than well, and everything feels very unsure. I want to drown my worries in a vat of wine and ice cream. That crusty bread would go well, too. As it is, I whipped up a load of double cream, and now my coffee is more melty cream than coffee.

I like a lot of low carb foods, but never really found that comfort element in any. I think therein lies its success too - it's not "emotional food" and doesn't get the brain chemistry singing the way sugar/starch does. But sigh.

haha no not necessarily!

it's just what i remind myself when it all feels so bloody difficult and it's only sodding food! (i do have a history of disordered eating though). but round my period i also get the urge to eat ALL THE THINGS

is there anything else that will distract or help you feel comforted a bit? i save up crappy tv programmes on the digibox and if i have time watch one with some knitting (to keep my hands busy)

i guess the carb comfort/pleasure thing might be explained in an evolutionary way (in my entirely unscientific and unreferenced thinking!)

carbs are easy, quick energy, so the body will send greater pleasure signals for that. also in nature, sweet things tend not to be poisonous, so it is helpful that we respond to that. of course sweet fruits etc wouldn't have been available all year round - only in summer/autumn when you need to bulk up for the lean times, so putting on weight would have been a good thing and the pleasure responses would have encouraged that

blethering on...

having had disordered eating patterns in the past (restricting and overeating food), i find that thinking about it as i described above helps alleviate the guilt and self-flagellation that comes with my problems with food. i'm not craving or overeating certain things because i'm bad or stupid or disgusting - it's partly (on a personal level) a learned response to certain situations, but also there are good reasons why the body and brain want certain things, which are rooted in survival and perpetuation of the species

With all the Valentine's Day/Easter chocs around this berry crumble cannot get made fast enough!

Confession - I ordered Haagen Dazs Dulce de Leche icecream in the shopping order. I wasn't planning to eat it nowish, I just wanted it in the freezer. But it got lost en-route to me. It's probably for the best.

Hi All,

Just wanted so say Hi and that I'm still here , not in the boards much but lurking and quietly losing weight :-). Wanted to say a big thank you to Biwi and Crabby for their lovely recipes (Shepherds Pie and Kashmiri Chicken respectively) and to give a big cheer to Chester for sticking with it. Well done :-).

I want to eat all the things tooooooo. I am during-menstual, if that's even a word, and DH is flying into the UK tonight and i am scared because of the wind

Perfect cross-post

pre, peri and post MT, Chester, you're allowed all three excuses [innocent face]