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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Talk later ...

[TossedSaladsAndScrambledEggs]

Looks like - in farmfoods they are selling 1lb blocks of butter for £2...

[DurhamDurham]

Oooh BIWI I love it when you are being all strict and discipliney!!

[goodasitgets]

Someone posted about making cauli cheese with Boursin.. Help?! I've never made normal cauli cheese so if anyone has a good recipe?

[GatoradeMeBitch]

Yes you're right BIWI! I found a place that sells Total, so yogurt for breakfast and loads of water! Thanks

[goodasitgets]

I made a meatball thing which might be good (could be too carby)
Made with reduced price steak meatballs! I baked them in the oven, then made a tomato/garlic type sauce with wilted spinach and goats cheese stirred in

[EvaTheOptimist]

Snowie I don't know why you've slightly gained... do you want to list out your meals in time-honoured fashion?

I've been away for long weekend so weigh in for me tomorrow.

Big family occasion involved me getting some hostile comments about this WOE, which I wasn't quite expecting but I should have known, should have been on my guard. My immediate response was to just clam up, think I'm just not going to say anything and then this will be over as quickly as possible. Then I spent the next day being cross at myself for not sticking up for myself. On the other hand, least said soonest mended and all my rellys go away smugly thinking they're right? what do I care you can tell I'm really over this can't you

Especially as 24 hours later I had all the answers that I wished I'd said, pat and ready. Instead of tackling any individual point, I should have just said "This way of eating is not dangerous or unhealthy". Gaahhhhh

I AM over it - reading all your news since last Saturday has helped.

B - scrambled egg and mushrooms
L - salade nicoise (took the potatoes out) and grilled artichokes in oil, both from Waitrose at a service station, plus mayonnaise sachets.
D - leeks, mushrooms and boursin; with salad
S - small amount nuts and cheese

[BillyJoel]

2 pounds off for me! My goal of moving from obese to just merely happily overweight is getting closer and looking achievable.
I am deeeelighted.....

[trashcanjunkie]

congratulations zgaze that's awesome



feeling for you lovecat and all others with TOTM issues - mine were so heavy, I used to have to take a towel with me whenever I went out to sit on, because it just got embarrasing/annoying when bleeding on friends sofas. I am delighted that at the tender age of 36 I haven't had a period in three years, and won't ever again (hysterectomy due to cc)

eve am so on your behalf. Family are such entitled bastards when they get going. I actually think clamming up is the best thing to do. Your health and vitality will speak for themselves over the years [smug emoticon]

hi five billy

todays grub

B - Bacon and scrambled eggs

L - three slices of cornbeef and some olives

D - beef and baby spinach

4 litres water 2x herb tea with coconut oil

[thekitchenfairy]

Hello everyone! Will try harder to keep up with thread this week!

Last year the Feb month of birthdays, celebrations and wet half term at home threw me seriously off track. I am NOT doing that this year!! I have had no cake in fact surprised could not face it, but I have had wine and the odd accidental croissant -- DH purchase as I am 'always saying but high fat is good' and chugging the water and eating masses of green veg.

I have a milestone birthday this weekend and there will be all kind of indulgences, but the menu is lo carb and I am having a giant cheese tower instead of cake!

For the first time in 8 yrs I do not look 4 months pregnant and aside from menstrual flood hell I feel fab. Inches gone not lbs, so keeping on keeping on.

Made the most fab recipe...quick and even DCs loved it

Roast green beans in oil with a couple of cherry toms and olives for 30 mins
Top with grilled halloumi
Serve with leftover belly pork... Delicious!

[thekitchenfairy]

Before the big stick comes out the beans are a bit carby but broccoli also works... As do a few pine nuts added in right at the end!

[MrsHughJarse]

Sts this week . It might be my new gym going like willie said . I haven't cheated at all - and have cut down on cream . I am 5'10 and 11st 7 , so I think am a stone off goal although that goal was dictated by weightwatchers 20 years ago haven't been at 'goal ' since then
biwi any wise words about whether my goal is realistic ?

[MrsHughJarse]

[SarahBeenysBumblingApprentice]

Morning everyone!

Hope everyone has a good day.

[SayraT]

I am back on track properly today. One of your visiting professors left yesterday to head back to Brazil. He has been with us for a year now and we are all going to miss him. We had cake yesterday for him and I had a bit, I enjoyed eating it but I didn't enjoy after. I have discovered, through my cheating ways, that:

Chocolate gives me a sore head
Cake gives me indigestion
Bread gives me indigestion (this one one of my unavoidable carbs)

I am happy to never eat them again now this is probably similar to saying "I'm never drinking again" so please don't remind me I said this

Last night dinner was giant mushrooms chopped and fried in butter and garlic with cream then ground almonds, linseeds and cheese on top and under the grill.

Today

B: Coffee with cream
L: Roasted veg (aubergine, courgette, tomato and shallots) with feta cheese
S: FF yoghurt
D: Sausages with left over roasted veg from lunch

[WillieWaggledagger]

mrshughjarse i think you're now within the range of 'healthy' weight? so that last stone might take longer to shift than before. that may account for the STS this week as well as the exercise. your 'goal' weight sounds realistic in terms of numbers, but obviously only you know your body type/shape/frame etc.

just make sure you don't get too fixated on the number on the scales though - your body doesn't care about that and it might decide it prefers a few lb heavier, especially if the 10st 7 was from 20 years ago and your physique may well have changed in that time. if you do find that you're having to really restrict your eating in an unsustainable way to reach the 'magic number' then it might be a better idea to look at toning/shaping exercises (and it sounds like you're doing that anyway) and thinking about how your clothes fit instead

[teaandthorazine]

Morning losers!

Sorry to hear you had a hard time from you order family Eva. There is SO much misinformation out there about low carb eating, and people just take in in unthinkingly. My parents came round for dinner last night so I cooked spicy chicken thighs in white wine and thyme with lots of whole garlic cloves to squash into the 'sauce', with roasted broccoli/peppers/courgettes, followed by the famed berry crumble. I mixed cranberry and blueberry linseeds into the almond topping. My mum loved the crumble, my dad (king of stodgy puddings) was slightly less enamoured and suggested that a good sprinkling of Demerara sugar on top would've sorted it .

They are both overweight, my dad's on statins, my mum has long-term health issues including severe anxiety and depression - they both eat pretty badly with loads of sugar and white carbs. Lots of puddings, very little veg, 'low-fat spread' (Drs orders). When my mum is going through a bad spell she survives on cigarettes, tea and white toast. When she's feeling better you can tell because she takes more interest in food - unfortunately that means buying tins of ambrosia rice pudding and layering the jam on top! I would LOVE to get them eating better, and we've talked about low carb a lot, but they are set in their ways and will never change.

All we can do is show how this WOE benefits us, and let others make their own choices I guess. But it's tough when people you love insist on eating shite, and you can see it reflecting in their bodies and minds...

[GrumpyCrossPatch]

I had a really busy week work wise last week and haven't kept up with the thread very well. Have skim read some of it on and off and wanted to echo all the good thoughts and wishes to Helium if she's around.

I have lost a pound this week which is fine as I have had a week of carby twatdom. Sushi takeaway on Friday, small slice of cake for a colleague's birthday on Saturday (work was so mental it was the only thing I ate in 13 hours!) and bread and butter pudding made with brioche on Sunday. It's the first time I have really gone of piste in a major way and I enjoyed the food but want to get back on track. Going to run hard today to help get rid of the glycogen!

MrsHughJarse your target sounds sensible and I was aiming to get to my pre-DC weight too. However, as we've gone on I've realised that Willie is right and that I seem to weigh considerably more even as I shrink. I've adjusted my goal to pre-DC size now as that seems more realistic.

[WillieWaggledagger]

i find that with this WOE i look much better at a given weight than i did when i was the same weight but eating carbs. because i don't feel/look bloated, my face isn't puffy (i literally seem to swell up when i eat more than a small amount of carbs), i feel lighter and more energetic, which shows physically too, and my skin looks better

[LittleMissDisorganized]

Hi everyone,
Sayra I do think that your GP should know about your heartburn...
and Eva I'm so sorry you went through that. I'm meeting a friend this afternoon with her little boy who even by text was very negative whilst arranging it. It probably doesn't help that I was already feeling hurt as I heard nothing from her all through my convalescence. I'm now thinking WHY did I mention it - it was just to be honest about not meeting for lunch tbh, rather than making excuses. I got a series of fairly aggressive texts and I just stopped answering in the end, texts, is a ridiculous way of talking about anything. I haven't slept very well, with it on my mind, and I'm dreading it...
Sigh. tea your post was really helpful too. You could be describing close relatives of mine.
What was mentioned a couple of weeks back (I think it was trashcan "under fire" then...) about how when we (I) take control of our food issues it threatens others, because of their own.
Anyway, need to get moving. Will check back in later on.

[CrabbyWinterBottom]

1lb on this week, which is unsurprising, especially as yesterday I had that bowl of pasta pesto I was craving, and then had beef stroganoff with rice in the evening. And chocolate.

It's all gone a bit wrong.

[PseudoBadger]

Don't worry Crabby! Oops my phone thinks we should call you Carby :o
Today is a new day, don't give up

[GatoradeMeBitch]

I've woken up with a headache. The damage yesterday was about half a packet of chocolate digestives, then I started on a tub of caramel icecream. The thing was - and I'm genuinely not trying to convince myself - neither was satisfying. The biscuits tasted greasy, and the icecream was sickly.

I'm going to make another berry crumble today, to mop up the last of my sweet cravings, but I am happily back on the wagon

[HumphreyCobbler]

MrsHughJarse, I always retain water massively at the beginning of exercising.

I have come down with the terribly vile virus the dc have been suffering from. How kind of them to share.

Still, have stayed on the straight and narrow, measured my thighs again and have now lost three inches. Hurrah. My stomach has stayed the same but it is more squishy, I can fold it into my jeans really easily (tmi). Does this mean I have lost some visceral fat do you think?

[HumphreyCobbler]

forgot to say I listened to my self hypnosis cd by Paul McKenna. I find it really helpful to stop the emotional eating/self loathing combo that is so damaging to eating well. I also like the visualisation exercises, they are great.