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

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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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I love sprouts just served simply - boiled till they're just going soft (I don't like them al dente), with lots of butter and salt/black pepper

someone said on here on an earlier bootcamp that their previously veg-avoiding dcs suddenly started loving veg with butter on it. presumably wouldn't work with everyone, but it does suggest that the simple addition of butter does something magical to veg that previously seemed bitter

I'm afraid that I can report that cauli rice with frozen cauliflower doesn't work! Our Magimix gave it everything it could, but despite the blades being so sharp they regularly cut me when I'm wiping them clean, they made as good as no impact on the frozen cauliflower. We ended up using the bag for curried cauliflower soup from the recipe thread and then going back to buying fresh cauli for rice.

frozen cauli is pre-cooked so no good for rice (sorry I'm too late for toomuch with that little nugget!) BUT you can freeze grated fresh cauli en masse and portion up for whenever you need it.

Tonight DH is working late so I'm having fried bacon and butter-tastic mashed swede for dinner. Chopped up together and eaten with a spoon in my pyjamas. Sexytimes.

I keep planning to restart the 30 day shred its quick to do but I come home, have a 'quick' on look on here and before you know it its time to walk psychopup, start cooking for the rabble and making packed lunches.

Sprouts are disgusting, put them in room 101 with mouldy blue cheese but I always cook them at Christmas. The first year DH had dinner with us I put a spoonful on his plate and told DCs to wait and watch. He hates all veg, never had to eat it growing up, and anything he doesn't like gets eaten first. The sprouts were quickly demolished and the kids fell about laughing telling him the deal is they only have to eat one - how evil am I

Ah it was Woolfey asking about cauli sorry.

Okay, I admit defeat on getting my roast belly pork to go crispy in the oven. Please, someone, what am I doing wrong? I left it unwrapped in the fridge all day to dry, started it in a really hot oven for 20 minutes, then turned the temp down to slow cook. It smells good but there's no way it's going to produce proper crackling.

Woolfey do you have a food processor? If so, put on the attachments for slicing stuff and shred your Brussels sprouts. Then fry in lots of butter, add garlic, chilli, cream if you fancy. Very nice, even my 4 year old will eat them like that.

Thanks Eva. My elephant has thrown the rider off completely this afternoon... as the rider, I am currently sitting on my arse in the dust watching it rampage into the distance to wreak havoc and trampling destruction with its hormental elephant rage.

There's a bottle of white chilling in the freezer right now, despite it being Tuesday. I've made a ragu and eaten LC so far today but am seriously contemplating spaghetti instead of courgetti to go with it. Looked in the mirror after my bath today and this bootcamp all the weight seems to have gone off my bust instead of my arse. This is not good at all... I don't want them any saggier! That's then got a little voice going in my head saying 'well you probably shouldn't lose any more weight then in that case... so pasta would be fine'.

I'm pretty sure this is hormonal - period is stop-starting and I am so full of fucking rage and anxiety (odd mix!) that I'm wound up like a spring. I also really miss DD but am simultaneously glad that she's not here so she doesn't have to witness my unhinged behaviour.

Can someone hit me with the stick please?

Sorry that was a massively self-absorbed shouting of my shit!

ah well i adore mouldy blue cheese

the mouldier and stinkier the better for me when it comes to cheese

i would probably try that one that comes with maggots in given the chance, but i think i would have to remove the maggots first

lookslikerain when it's done you could remove the skin and keep the meat warm, then whack the skin under a hot grill. you have to keep a close eye on it or it will burn

biwi has a way of doing it in the microwave i think though i might have made that up

Yay Trashy on your 4lbs off!

Gator I'm very much feeling your pain with the TOTM crap, as you can see.

Eva and LMiss you need that 'low carb medicalert' card I designed a few weeks ago. Seriously though it is not acceptable for friends and family to do this. LMiss I hope the lunch with your friend went better than you were expecting.

tea my non-low-carbing friend said the same thing about the berry crumble!

Pseudo I think your phone has me just about summed up this week!

crabby you know that carbs beget carbs , so it's not surprising that having eaten some you want some more. you know that you have two options

give into the carbs
don't give into the carbs

while the cravings are difficult to resist, you do ultimately have control over what goes in your mouth. you know all the rational reasons why getting back on the wagon is a good thing

stop watching that elephant rampaging - go and get another elephant (is this too much of a stretch of the metaphor? )

There you go...

For all of you who are having trouble with people sticking their uninformed beaks into your eating habits, I just had an idea. Trash you were saying that you can't remember the facts under pressure and I thought 'ooh she needs a leaflet or something' and then I thought of this: home educators can carry a little card around stating that you are a home educator, with the relevant legislation on it to wave at people who accuse your child of truanting. I've designed one for us lot. We can keep it in our wallets and just smilingly hand it over as soon as the person starts spouting the usual shit. And just think... if we're in an accident and go to hospital, they can read the card and know not to feed us IV cake or anything. wink

My name is ___ and I am a low carber.

As there are a number of misconceptions about low carbing, some of which you've just shown that you currently subscribe to, let me clear a couple of things up...

1. We do eat carbs, plently of them in fact. We get them from vegetables, nuts and a variety of fruit.
2. Pasta, bread and rice are jolly nice, but they are not in any way essential. They are foodstuffs developed to feed vast numbers of people, cheaply. We don't need them to be healthy.
3. Sugar is not a food group. I know that's hard to believe, but any dietician, doctor or scientist, when pressed firmly, will have to admit it.

If you still want to know more about it (as I'm sure you wouldn't want to argue against this way of eating from a position of utter ignorance!) you could start with these scientists and doctors....

At least if you don't actually do it, you can imagine handing that to them and their resulting expressions, and it should give you a little inner smile.

Crabby I shall pelt you into submission with pats of butter. Pasta will not increase the size of your bangers

Willie I know you're right. I've gone a bit haywire.

Carbs beget carbs. They do, don't they. I need to think about that whilst I pour a glass of wine.

Ewan!

good point ewan

pasta goes straight to tummy and thighs

I might as well sellotape linguine directly to my middle.

Hello all... I am home.
It went ok actually. It made me realise how rubbish texts are as a way of discussing something. Mostly we talked about her little boy and for today, I avoided having to have anything of a hard discussion, I am prepared to but once I know what I'm wanting to achieve by it and from a place of emotional strength. Cowardly perhaps, I don't know...
Thanks for the encouragement earlier, I really appreciate here.

Willie yes, I'll have to do that. It has kind of crisped round the side but is a little flaccid in the middle. Does not look too appetising.

Crabby I'm seriously considering using your medicalert card this weekend when the inlaws descend for lunch. I'm cooking though and it'll be mainly LC with a loaf of bread for the carby twats. They will bring up our WOE because we do need some carbs (potatoes, pasta, rice, bread) in our diet, you know...

lookslikerain cut off any bits that actually have crackled (if any have) - kitchen scissors work quite well - as they would burn of course

i am a coward and avoid any discussions about this WOE if they are likely to be confrontational (i'm not a very good ambassador, sorry). any criticisms that come my way just get a non-committal 'indeed' or similar. nod, smile, ignore

Was sad today when I tested my BMI and realised I am a stone above the higher weight for my height.

I have lost half a stone so far and imagined I am much thinner than I really am. Although I'm pleased with my loss, have further to go than I thought. Funny how I have got used to being this size.

Anyway, will keep on keeping on, the food is so nice.

Just had omelette cooked in butter with garlic, mushrooms, goats cheese & chopped parsley - with dressed salad. Yum - best diet WOE I have ever done

Crabby as well as carbs begetting carbs, I suspect wine begets wine... :) might the one be connected to the other?

Someone upthread mention low alcohol wine - just wanted to point out that it has more sugar than normal wine (as they stop it mid fermentation so it doesn't turn so much sugar into ethanol

When I was in treatment they said that cravings attenuate. It's SO true, that if we don't feed them - true of carbs I think as well as the alcohol and drugs and eating disorders people were there for - they don't get worse, they get better. You still get waves but the peaks aren't as high. So when we cheat we reset the attenuation and have to start from the high, frequent peaks again.

It's true in my experience too... I don't crave or even think about alcohol hardly ever any more. I don't know that I'm considering lifelong abstinence of high-carb foods but I find it helpful to remember this truth.

I need a treat. Tonight I'm having peri peri chicken and cheese coleslaw maybe with sine fake fries.

I've found a bottle of cider. I'm still boot camping. I want it poured over ice. Like now.