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

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BIWI · 10/02/2014 07:37

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.

Flowers
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SteeleyeStan · 12/02/2014 17:59

That all sounds like a lot of sense, Willie.

Horrible horrible horrible weather. I do hope you're all fine and safe, and so are your homes and loved ones. :(

AthelstaneTheUnready · 12/02/2014 18:01

[pressed send too soon...]

... i.e. before, during and after MT.

I too am unsure of MN etiquette if someone goes AWOL, but may message anyway and risk being uncouth.

STILL not caught up, just skimmed; am also feeling all 'wrong' today, but inclined to blame the fish I had at lunch [bleurgh face]

teaandthorazine · 12/02/2014 18:03

I don't think the weather is helping with all the comfort-food carby cravings! I've just come in soaking wet from the station, it's freezing and blowing a gale outside; it's sooooo tempting to jump head first into a vat of chocolate (perhaps not literally!). I have three pairs of socks on, people!

But...instead I'm going to fry up some chicken thighs in coconut oil, then a bit of steak as well. Ds and I are going to share steak and fried chicken Grin - feels decadent! I'm doing roasted broccoli and steamed Savoy cabbage, slathered in butter, to go with it. I think it'll be pretty comforting!

EwanHoozami · 12/02/2014 18:19

Sweet thing cravers: Chromium Picolinate is often recommended for helping curb the urge. It's apparently good for controlling blood sugar metabolism. I've gone back to using it after a wagon fall bought my sweet cravings back. Seems to have worked..

Double meat, tea - sounds goooood! love a bit of coop & turf.

Willie That makes such good sense about the hunter-gather brain reward thing. I suppose our huntery-gathery ancestors would have got pleasure from their paleo-style diet so I'm going to make like a cavewoman and get happy off a chicken drumstick Grin

EwanHoozami · 12/02/2014 18:19

...hang on that sounds all wrong. Scratch that. Confused

CrabbyWinterBottom · 12/02/2014 18:23

Willie you are very wise and self aware. I totally agree about the evolutionary advantage of being attracted to sweet tastes and easy energy, and eating as much as possible for lean times ahead. Big is beautiful, still, in cultures where food shortages are not such a distant memory.

I don't have the history of disordered eating so much, but definitely a history of seeking solace and comfort outside of myself whenever I feel bad... drinking, eating, other drugs in the past. The more clean living I get in other ways (don't smoke or take any recreational drugs any more), the more I want food and wine to press those buttons and 'soften the edges'. I find it very difficult to just 'sit with' a feeling, if that makes any sense. Particularly anxiety and frustration.

Crisis averted, anyway. I mashed up some butter with garlic, black pepper and loads of thyme, and slathered it all over and inside the roast chicken I bought today because it was reduced. That's in the oven. I used a Y shaped peeler to slice wafer thin slices of celeriac, then melted some of the herby butter on a baking tray and tossed them in it. Sprinkled with smoked paprika and salt and baked until they were crispy burnt. Had them with leftover alioli mixed with lemon juice. They were just the thing!!

Steel sorry you're having such a stressful day with the moving.

Nux glad you like the chicken. Smile

Chester DH will be fine - they won't land if it isn't safe. Where's he flying in to?

GatoradeMeBitch · 12/02/2014 18:46

Hmm, I think I'd better buy some chromium then. I'm irritated with myself because I'm starting to see results - so immediately a bit of my brain goes 'Look, you've got a bit of leeway now! Have a creme egg!'

Actually I think part of the problem is I have gone back to my usual routine of looking in the fridge at mealtimes, and then deciding what to have. And I'm leaving meals late. I had dinner at 10pm the other day. I need to go back to meal plans, to make sure I'm getting variety.

DurhamDurham · 12/02/2014 18:49

I have been to M&S to buy our Valentine's Day dine in for two meal. I know it's a bit naff but it's a tradition of ours Grin
I will be going slightly off piste carb wise but I think I made good choices. I got a started called 'Runny Eggs' which consists of eggs, spicy sausage and spicy tomato sauce. Main is rack of lamb and for a side I went for the veg pack. Not too bad so far.
Desserts were all very carbs so I thought sod it and went for one that I could cheerfully have inhaled on the spot. So I chose salted caramel cheesecake.
A bottle of Cava and some chocolates were also included in the deal. I will stick to one glass of Cava and let dh drink the rest. I may not let him eat most of the chocolates, but I will let him half his share.

I'm going to be sooo good until Friday, I'm going to be like an especially good low carb nun. Practically evangelical. Then I will get right back on the wagon on Saturday.

HeirToTheIronThrone · 12/02/2014 19:21

Grin at Ewan and the happy chicken legs

Dinner chez Heir tonight is salmon, asparagus, garlic butter greens and hollandaise. Yum yum yum. Mr H is also having a baked potato, the fool.

ChesterDrawers · 12/02/2014 19:24

Just spoke to DH. He's flying to Heathrow. He assures me the plane will be fine as 'Man U and Arsenal are still playing' Hmm. So that's that sorted then!

PseudoBadger · 12/02/2014 19:24

I'm having a Crabby night tonight - making the Salmon with dill sauce (that auto corrected to dull!) and then maybe this crumble lark.

teaandthorazine · 12/02/2014 19:33

The coop and turf (thanks Ewan!) was fab. I can thoroughly recommend Aldi's 21-day dry-aged rump steak; it was meltingly good. Only £3.50 for a good-sized piece as well, definitely cheaper than most places and appears to be excellent quality. So there's my little Aldi ad for the day Grin

crabby' your post below struck a chord with me - especially the bit about living 'cleaner' these days but still needing that 'something' to indulge in... Food (and to a lesser extent, booze) are my only remaining vices - if I clean up my act there, what's left?!

MrsHughJarse · 12/02/2014 19:33

gatorade Grin at Creme egg .... Am from same mould ... My jeans are feeling loose so I poured myself a Wine ... may not drink it , depends on how long my pork belly takes in the oven !

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BIWI · 12/02/2014 20:18

MrsHughJarse - you have spotted the obvious flaw in my plan, i.e. the procuring of a perfectly ripe avocado! I'm hopeless at judging the buggers.

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PseudoBadger · 12/02/2014 20:28

A very un-arty photo of my version of Crabby's Salmon in a dill, shallot and butter sauce

Week 5 Low Carb Bootcamp - Come and Shout Your Shit!
PseudoBadger · 12/02/2014 20:29

Hmm

Week 5 Low Carb Bootcamp - Come and Shout Your Shit!
GatoradeMeBitch · 12/02/2014 20:36

That crumble really hit the spot, thank you! My only problem now is the fact that I've had one helping, and there are about 8 helpings left... and they're calling to me...

GatoradeMeBitch · 12/02/2014 20:38

I'm going to brush my teeth, I hate eating when I have toothpaste mouth, that always works.

humanordancer · 12/02/2014 20:40

A whoosh, a whoosh, a real life whoosh! Grin

EvaTheOptimist · 12/02/2014 20:51

I can't believe your fat- protein-carb ratios Stunt they are brilliant!

looks like yummy salmon pseudo

I might follow your lunch suggestion of cauliflower cheese tomorrow MPR

When there are no vices left because we're all eating and drinking sensibly there is still the new vice in town: spending too much time on MN

Doshusallie · 12/02/2014 20:51

2 boiled eggs

Lettuce "sandwiches" of ham and mayo, with cucumber slices

Pot of full fat yoghurt I nicked from a premier inn breakfast bar (7.5g of carbs per pot though!!! Shock)

Tine of mackerel fillets in sunflower oil

G&t (slimline) x 2

3 Heck (from tescos v low carb) sausages with courgette, mushrooms and broccoli with butter

Just had to write that all down somewhere

Doshusallie · 12/02/2014 20:51
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PseudoBadger · 12/02/2014 20:58

Sorry for posting pic twice, the first one didn't show up straight away

Piscivorus · 12/02/2014 22:02

Just popping in for a quick shit shout! We have battened down the hatches here as we are on the coast, smack in the middle of the 100mph danger wind zone (near Blackpool) and it is blowing a hooley out there. Have had a couple of loud bangs outside so we know we have some damage but we're not going out to check what until tomorrow!

Ooh Blackpool is on the news as we speak!

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