Week 7 - Low Carb Bootcamp - Fast Approaching the Finish ...

[BIWI]

Morning all!

Hope all who are ailing are swiftly recovered.

And hope all of those who have fallen off the wagon can climb back on with agility and aplomb.

We still have three weeks left, so a chance to get shot of another few of those pesky pounds.

Here is the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

and here is the link to the Weight Tracker

Good luck everyone

Evening all. trashcan - that whole family situation sounds unbelievably stressful. You are a legend for keeping on track. What to do about the bloody stagnant weight loss i don't know. I've just had a pile of cauliflower cheese for dinner, having actually not been great today (glass of wine at lunch, went for indian and asked for a 'thoran' dish they offer instead of wine. When it came out the thoran was a mixture of lentils, fresh coconut, and beetroot, so probably barely better than having rice. Was delicious though.

I've had a shit day here, this time all to do with some work I have been doing for a friend. I had to urgently try to get some work in once H and I separated, since he literally gave us nothing for months and getting regular money out of him has been a nightmare. Prior to that I was a SAHM, it's been good for me in the long run to start getting 'back out there' and it had to happen at some point, but to start with I have been doing some work for an old friend.

This old friend is a recovering alcoholic and has a small retail business, mainly retailing online but also to national stores. She is a very fragile person and VERY difficult to work with, but we have been friends for 20 years and actually up until now it has been okay. She's very loyal and a good person in lots of ways, but utterly exhausting to be around. She falls out with people all the time, can't take any criticism, and often misreads things or situations and launches extremely aggressive attacks on that person which she shortly then apologises profusely for. I have largely been 'in favour' but recently have had two or three incidents which - until today - I have brushed off.

However I'm starting to feel as though this is a different sort of abusive relationship to the one I'm just coming out of. I really cannot believe the message she sent me today because I tried to gently tell her that her behaviour during a meeting I'd set up was inappropriate. She showers me with "oh you're so amazing, don't ever leave me" compliments, whilst being unable to offer me any sort of reliable income, and then occasionally treating me like utter shit. I think I need to basically start putting massive feelers out for other work - I need regular income and this isn't it at the moment, and I'm not being paid enough to have to put up with the abusive messages I received today. I used to work in tv production and often had to deal with people like this but was getting paid a damn sight more!!!

I think you are right BIWI I really do think I have re-educated my tasted buds.I haven't craved bread/pasta or rice at all. Have occasionally thought about roast potatoes but the only thing I thought I really wanted was a piece of coffee cake and it was such a let down.

I'm not counting down to the end of bootcamp, I'm looking at this as a long term WOE. I love the food, the choice and variety is great and the taste delicious.

I'm sat here now feeling like I have a brick in my stomach, not pleasant at all

That's food (cake?) for thought Durham, as one of the hind that's annoyed me most is that I have never been able to benefit from the John Lewis free coffee and cake vouchers (as mine arrived just as bootcamp began). I'll stop thinking about them then!

Just logging on to say good morning to everyone.

trashy in the words of rudyard Kipling "if you can keep your head when all about you are loosing theirs..."

With respect to weights not shifting, I'm sure for me that water intake is at least as important as what I'm eating. Someone posted this week about high levels of ketones inhabiting fat burning and that's me to a t. Not enough water> high ketones> no appetite but no fat burning either. It certainly happened last week and I felt a bit down, could've got by on one meal and wasn't hungry, started drinking more and feel better and appetite back!

here's to a good weekend for everyone: helium I hope you get some space away from work and difficult others, crabby is your dd back?, let the BF babies sleep well and a visit from the whoosh fairy for everyone!

I was naughty last night, DH seduced me with carby treats. We both should have known better. Oh the shame. Twas yummy though. I promise I will be extra good today and drink all the water.

Hogwash - treats? yes cream and vanilla. i love Lidls greek yog, so much I eat half a tub in one go . Liquorice tea if you are craving sweet. Occassionally macadamia nuts.

As Durham says just upthread, your tastebuds change so much with a few days/weeks of this WOE, and when you do eat sweet things, they taste super sweet. used to love fruit (and still mimss it) but if I have a bite of apple now, that's all I can manage before my teeth curl up. Cakes/puddings/custard? No,- one spoon maybe, but no more.
Trashy - that is so stressfull. Good luck for tuesday.

Precious sorry to hear you've had bad news.

Trashy your mother sounds like a fucking nightmare, although I did laugh at the image of her doing the dying swan on the sofa while you and your DS looked at each other like ! Does your DS see how dysfunctional she and your brother are? at the hypocrisy of smoking skunk and getting cross about a bong! I hope that ss can get him into appropriate accommodation and that he can put some distance between him and the pair of toxic twats.

Helium I think you're being very perceptive about this business relationship mirroring the abusive relationship with xH. This woman sounds like a nightmare and you absolutely shouldn't have to put up with this shit.

Sarah that's interesting about the water - not feeling hungry link. I quite often feel like that during the day... I know I'm hungry but I can't face food (not low carb food anyway) and have to force myself to drink water. I'll up my water intake more and see if that makes a difference.

DD is back on Monday morning and I'm picking her up from the airport (and presumably will be expected to take xDP home too, despite him ignoring my last email which I'd very carefully crafted to not reflect how bloody exasperated I'm feeling with him at the moment).

Still, she's had a fantastic time and loads of wonderful experiences with a dad who loves her very much. This is what I keep repeating to myself as I rock myself back and forth, back and forth.

Food yesterday
L - cheese and tomatoes
D - squid puttanesca with courgetti
I bought a bottle of cava yesterday to drink tonight and stupidly put it in the fridge. It only took the suggestion from DP to crack it open and drink it last night instead. Then we had red wine too. Then I made berry crumble.
3 teas, 2.5 L water.

After a week of fails (I drank 16 cans of diet coke between Tuesday and Friday, and ate countless packets of crisps) I am back on board this week. I'll be checking in whenever I waver in hopes of getting the big stick I haven't been checking in because my greed took over and I didn't want to stop eating crap. I hope you are all well.

Yesterday I read this article on food addiction and it REALLY spoke to me authoritynutrition.com/how-to-overcome-food-addiction/ It's partly what brought me back actually. I'm thinking of sticking it to the front of the fridge while I adjust.

And this looks like a good recipe for cabbage soup www.xojane.com/healthy/eat-yourself-clean-magic-soup

I've also wanted to try a lettuce wedge salad since before I started this, so that will be Sunday lunch. But I may substitute blue cheese for something else as I really don't care for it!

Right, I'm off to listen to some inspirational Eminem!!

I really really really wish I hadn't decided to 'treat myself' while away. It wasn't worth it - and the really shit thing is that in the back of my mind I knew it wouldn't be, I was just looking for an excuse to eat carbs and sugar.

I am going to have to face the fact that I will have to completely avoid that stuff if I want to be well. It's daunting though.

Hello! I'm new, can I join in?

I've been low carbing for 14 months and I'm between 3 and 4 stone lighter.

Won't add myself to any spreadsheets though if that's ok

Welcome!

If you want privacy, just use and enter your weight into the weigh tracker - it's an individual tool and no-one else will see that.

She's been, she's been!! 3 days of ubercamp and I'm 2lb lighter than Monday but 4 lighter than Wednesday when I was so downhearted. I'll probably undo it all tonight because we're going for a chinese for DHs birthday, he said we didn't have to because I've 'been good all week' but life goes on and its a WOE so I'll have a bit of his rice and order extra veggies and pick the sweetcorn out of my soup

Sarah I think you're on to something with the water, I've been drinking nearly 4l a day and have been able to finish meals whereas last week I was wrapping half my dinner up to have at lunchtime the next day.

Trash hope you can get your son away from your mother's bad influences. Mine had/has MH problems but thankfully lives 1000 miles away and I get one royal visit every other year they come home more often but are too busy seeing people they fell out with in the past/shopping to visit as I'm a disgrace because I dared to get divorced which is a joke when I think of the things that went on when I was a kid but heyho I can't change the past and they no longer upset me. DCs have little to do with them but that's mainly because they're crap grandparents and never took the time to get to know them which proves she knew. God this thread is like a bloody confessional

Crabby I bet you can't wait for DD to come home. Whatever you think about your ex he sounds like a good dad. Mine's seen DCs twice in 12 years.

Welcome Samantha congratulations on the weight loss so far but beware - we're all mad

Notsoskinnyminny - no need to eat the rice at all! You can navigate around the menu without rice or noodles - which to be honest, will be carby enough without them.

Stir-fried beansprouts make a surprisingly good substitute for noodles.

advice please ...Chinese or Indian best ? ...and what could I order from either one ?....DH is saying He is deprived because I am on this WOE....:) ....so thought I may treat him, IF there is something I can have :)

IME, Indian is best. Order something dry - e.g. a tikka or a tandoori dish, and then a vegetable side dish, e.g. spinach or cauliflower or mushroom bhaji (obviously not the ones with batter!)

No rice, naan, chapatti or poppadoms though!

Gatorade This is an amazing lettuce wedge salad

We are being very retro tonight; steak, asparagus and salad followed by low carb crustless cheesecake with a few strawberries

Thanks biwi....is vegetable curry out ?......if I was to have Chinese is there anything that is ok ish ?

gatorade cheesecake sounds great! can I have recipe plz ? :)

The trouble with a vegetable curry is twofold:

• it will most likely have carrot and potato (and sometimes peas in it, which will make it very carby

• the sauce will be made with a lot of onion, which is also quite carby - and you don't know if it's got sugar in it, as it sometimes can have

Remember that veg of any kind will have carbs in it, whereas meat/fish are carb-free

Ok thanks biwi il stick to bhaji..:)

Sammy The cheesecake I make is very simple:
360g cream cheese
250ml double cream, whipped to soft peaks
vanilla extract
sweetener to taste

Whip the cream. In a separate bowl use the electric whisk to beat the cream cheese till soft, whisk in vanilla and sweetener then fold in cream. You can add lemon zest and a splash of juice if you want to add another flavour to it.
Refrigerate for at least half an hour before serving to firm up
Serve it topped with berries, sour cream or whatever you fancy

Sorry should have said it is a crustless cheesecake so I put it into ramekins as it is hard to serve in slices without a base.

You can also layer this mixture in little glass bowls with berries to make a pretty dessert

Sounds LOVELY Piscivorus

Trash I think you are doing brilliantly well.

Congratulations Heir, wonderful news!

Exciting countdown to seeing DD again Crabby! Do you want to tell us the latest irritation from xDP or are you trying to forget it?

I was away for work Weds - Fri. I almost managed to stay low-carb, managed it for all but one meal. But, I ate absolute tonnes (eg, I'd bought nuts as well as biscuits for meeting room snacks - then just ate LOADS of nuts in the meetings.)

The second evening meal out I ordered a butternut squash and walnut wellington... I had no idea wellington meant pastry! Oops. So that was my big fail. (I know butternut squash is a bit carby anyway...)

So... now I'm home I'm giving it a little while before I dare step on the scales again.

Today... I'm very proud because I organised a "sort-of" demonstration (a photocall for the local press on a don't-build-houses-on-our-field issue) and 150 people came including the local MP! (and crucially, the local press photographers! Though that was a nervous 10 minutes as they were late). I have a cringe going on because people said "are you going to say something to everyone Eva" and I said "Oh No I'm too shy!" so the local councillors stepped forward instead and did the Speechifying. WHY did I let myself down there? Aaagghhh

... and then... DH was helping another school mum put up a polytunnel at the school. At 12.30 I checked my phone to see he'd texted at 11.00 to say, please come and help after the photocall! So DC and I dashed round to the school. Lots of hard work including digging ensued... DH took the kids home for lunch. I felt I couldn't leave the other mum to it on her own so I stayed helping until the polytunnel was finished. Got home at 3.30pm; having done all that with no food since BREAKFAST!