Week 6 - Low Carb Bootcamp - We're Past the Halfway Point!

[BIWI]

Morning! In a rush, so not much time to post - off to Leeds today so have to go for my train.

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So glad I got through yesterday. Feeling much better physically and mentally already. Amazing what a difference a day makes.

Just had lovely breakfast - two poached eggs sprinkled with a tiny bit of cheddar, half a left over sausage sliced, left over mashed swede and celeriac patty and mushrooms all fried in lashings of butter. Feeling ready to face the day now.

Fridays are odd as I am off with DS and we generally meet with friends. Today we'll be out most of the day so not sure what food will be available when but I am fine to go without if there's nothing suitable.

Tea is belly pork strips, although I could do with a way of cooking them that won't see me lose any more teeth. Ideas?

Great night last night....thank goodness the boss said we could all just come in whenever we wanted! I'm going in for morning coffee at 10

Dinner was good and I did manage to avoid some carbs but not all. Starter was a goats cheese tart which I ate the inside of, it had beetroot though so that was probably higher carbs. Main was chicken wrapped in bacon with mashed potatoes and veg, so I left the potato, luckily the guy next to me said "oh yeah you don't like mashed potato do you? I remember you saying that before". Dessert was a cheesecake with marshmallows in it, I had a spoonful but it was too sweet so left the rest.

I did consume calories in the form of red wine but I think I needed the instant energy from the wine to keep up with the dancing

Dancing was fab, the people who had never done it before picked it up quite quickly but with ceilidh dancing it doesn't matter at all if you do it wrong.

Today

B: Coffee with cream
L: ? got some vegetables to take but nothing else
D: Another night out tonight so again need to see what there is and avoid carbs

Avoiding wine tonight will be fine, I don't drink a lot anyway and normally drive cause I live miles away from the city. Last night people kept saying "are you drinking?!"

And I weighed myself yesterday and today and I am now a whole stone down, I will bear that in mind for Monday weigh in if three nights out in a row cause me problems. Got yet another night out on Saturday which i organised ages ago "because we don't do enough" it just ended up being on the busiest week I've had for ages.

trashcan that's really interesting! I shall make sure my mushrooms get sun in future!

eva I did animal nutrition at Uni.... we never touched on changes in nutrients from cooking veg/processing foodstuffs (it was animals rather than humans!) but I do find it all very intriguing...

captain I used to spend hours a day outside every day of the year! it made no difference to my Vit D levels, in fact my GP said we only have a very short window of time in the UK per year to get Vit D from the sun as the sun is only strong enough during the short summer months and if we have a bad summer, then we can't get enough full stop.. I still make sure I spend time outside in the sun but take supplements and my GP recommended I gave the rest of the family multivits as well as she feels everyone should take Vit D supplements and that boosting other levels won't hurt either.

Morning all,
Steeleye I'm sorry you're feeling triggered... I hope you are keeping safe and looking after yourself.
Eva " substitutes for the way you use dairy " - that's really wise. Soya milk is low carb. Soya yogurt has polyols which are the not-quite-artificial sweeteners that they put in Atkins bars and diabetic chocolate etc. But, carb wise it's a gram or so more per 100g than Total. That's ok. And I haven't found I've needed to snack and I'm like someone else said, I like cooked cheese in things but otherwise don't really eat it. I think when I initially gave up dairy, it seemed huge. Then when I started to think about it I realised it wasn't going to be all that terrible. Maybe I'm getting there now...
Thank you, and also to Willie, for helping me think all this through, I am really grateful :)

I've got a couple of days without commitments - going out on the bus to the shops (still a big deal for me), going to snuggle with some arty stuff in front of the curling and an evening where DH isn't going out so we can spend some time together - looking forward to it. :)

Sorry everyone, will come back later to do a proper post - just SMS to say that I've been given a box of hotel chocolat pralines for something work-related (nice!) - and they are TOO SWEET! Will be going in the bin

Also...scales are sts BUT I realised this morning I can now remove my favourite black work trousers without even undoing the zip! Soooo....non-scale victories anyone?!

Hope everyone's ok, will try to catch up later

I've got a 13th birthday tomorrow which is sure to include cup cakes. I don't mind that so much but I've said I'll take her to pizza Express/Nandos/GBK on Sunday. It's going to be challenging.

light I took my ds and friends for birthday treat at Nandos last night... It's actually surprisingly friendly for low carb. I had butterflied chicken with ratouille there were other veg sides or 3-4 LC friendly salads. I have to say my meal was yum!

Quick question peeps. I'm not well and haven't been eating or able to keep water down and I think it is affecting my breastmilk supply as DS3 is crying at the breast. Would it be okay to have some Coke mixed with water to sip to try and get my hydration and electrolyte levels up or is that completely stupid?

Stunt - I think it's more important to rehydrate and balance your salts and sugars so go ahead. Hope you feel better soon!

StuntNun - no it's not stupid. Your hydration levels are more important at this point than worrying about carbs. Hope you're feeling better soon

StuntNun, I am in the same postition and I have been drinking squash.

I must say, the illness inspired whoosh fairy has been, my stomach looks as if it has lost a few inches.

Popping in to SMS, not about food really (babybels and spicy chicken broth today, not very hungry) but more to let you all know I am down to the last two for the job! They just called and asked me to go to a second interview next week.

Hooray! It was the pick me up I need, as have been slipping into carby twat-dom the last couple of days with biscuits and sweeties on hand at work due to general tiredness/illness/lethargy.

This weekend I plan to eat impressively well, go for a walk on the beach (if they have cleared the landslides up, eek!) and sort out our horribly untidy flat. PMA and all that

Woo hoo! Brilliant news, Heir! Fingers crossed that you are The One that they want

I'm just in a Mexican street food place. Hate eating on my own. The music is ace and I just want a margarita ! I've ordered Guacamole and fennel pork scratchings. God knows what they will be like.

Lovely news, Heir. Fingers crossed it all comes good.

Stunt, I agree with BIWI that all bets are off when you are ill. If you are drinking coke, try putting a bit of water in it to make it flat (easier to get and keep down) and a pinch of salt to help your electrolyte balance. It's rotten being ill, but doubly so with a BF baby. Get better and let the carbs take care of themselves til you are feeling yourself again

Someone linked to a lovely roasted broccoli recipe with garlic, parmesan, lemon and chilli. Oh my word. It is AMAZING. I'll never do boiled or steamed again.

Rubbish cold here with dripping nose so I've had some medicine as I am out to the opera tonight so cant sneeze through it. Now a DVD for the kids beckons as I have a wee snooze. Got to love half term.

Have a good evening everyone

I can't testosterone these re fried beans set before me. I never even ordered thrm

Thanks guys, I went for half apple juice half water in the end, just sipping at it not like my usual habit of downing pints of water but I'll need some sodium as well, maybe I'll suck a couple of salted almonds. I suppose lucozade is ideal but I can't stand the stuff. It's doubly bad as DS3 is just getting over the same thing so he wants to feed more than usual to sort his sore tummy.

OMG spell check or what!!

Anyway, for the first time in my life I have left most of the refried beans, the pork scratchings that were really puffed up fancy crisps and both tortillas just ate the filling. Is this progress? It's very new to me.

Heir that's brilliant, I'm so pleased for you and glad it's given you a boost. Do you think the application I'm waiting to hear about at the moment might join you?!! Enjoy that positive feeling this weekend - you don't need biscuits to feel better, you can feel good about yourself anyway.

StuntNun : Whatever works when you're that poorly. If you feel like cheddars/ toast (just things I've managed when I've been that unwell) then have them. Oral Rehydration Solution (Dioralyte) is essentially made of a litre of water, 6 dessert spoons of sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Those have the vital molecules to push the water through your small intestine, as you probably know with your other hat on. You can then flavour it as you like, a good slug of hi-juice type squash if you have any is a good thing to flavour it with and take away the taste of the salt (and not too awful on the way back up). Flat coke/ lemonade is fine if that's all you can manage but it is a bit short on salt.

Anyone else watching the curling? It's a bit one sided. DH and I watched the second half of the bronze match this morning and it was brilliant. I'm munching egg-in-a-bowl-instead-of-a-cup as explained by our (mostly) Scottish posters with the peppery version of boursin (which is 2-for-1 in Sainsbury's at the moment in case anyone is interested). I did lots of walking earlier, and was in M+S where I didn't buy anything not allowed, including clothes, as I agreed to get to a stone and a half with DH for that. 17.5lb as of this morning. Almost but not quite!!

goodness, what a lot I have missed., disclosures, sharing of addictive pasts, " addictive shape-shifters" , falling off wagons and arms outstretched to nurture back on. What an amazing bunch..... there must be a book in it

Oh god, I just woolfed a chocolate chip cookie. What can I do to limit the damage?

It was out of despair at the mess after having the ceilings plastered. I only bought them for the workmen

I glugged a pint of water and have got some sausages frying. This won't derail me too much, will it?

Don't be crazy ....,it will be ok - don't panic , I reckon just be super low carby tonight / tomorrow . As my DDs would say "chill" x

Thank you MrsHugh! x I think I was getting a bit overwraught from being too hungry with not being able to get into the kitchen - a bit of bad planning!

Sausages and buttery egg and I am fixed - phew!

stunt bananas are supposed to be very good when you've been vomiting as they're easy to digest and full of potassium and something else, try a couple of small slices and see how you get on but don't have any dairy as that will feed any remaining bugs - that was the advice we were given last year when 60% of the school was hit with the norovirus one week - god it was grim, I'd only been there 3 wks and there were kids vomiting everywhere.

heir fantastic news about the second interview.

lighthouse laughing at the testosterone fuelled beans

LMD I admire your retail restraint. DD's come home from uni and the shops were still open so we went for a mooch and a natter and I managed to come home with another pair of boots - they were reduced from £140 to £60 and I've only got about 30 pairs so I really did need them they're nearly as nice as the half price Vivienne Westwood's DD bought. Her excuse is she only take a 2.5 so whenever anything fits she buys it.

Sybil hope you're feeling better as well and enjoy your night.

MrsHughJarse A few of us have been suffering, I wonder if it is down to LCing. I'm on HRT and hadn't had anything for nearly 6 months so I was totally unprepared for last week and had to rummage through handbags yes I have a problem when it comes to shoes and bags I haven't used for years to find tampons.

DH's manflu has almost gone so we went to the beach with psychopup, 'park on Morrisons' said the wise wife adding 'I'll nip in for a few bits to get the ticket validated' 'that's wrong, I'll park on the street and pay' said honest hub. We came back to the car an hour later, cold and windswept, only to find a £25 ticket on the windscreen the ticket had blown over on the dashboard, probably when I got out and wasn't visible to the little hitler who did us 10 mins after we parked, the street was empty in both directions so the barsteward must've been hiding, and the moral of the tale is always listen to and obey wifey

Have a good evening everyone and remember if you can't be good then sip or suck it slowly and drink lots of water before bed