Week 6 - Low Carb Bootcamp - Drawing a Line Under It

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Time for the new thread ...

Am on iPad and have no time to link to the Spreadsheet, but please talk here! Will do links later (unless some kind soul could do them for me)

thank you birdinacage i might leave off the fat bombs for a while as i think i would over indulge on them!!

hope you feel better soon

Has anyone got the link to the video for the homemade LC mayo please? I think it was on one of the BC threads, but have been looking and can't find. Thanks

cousinsandra can't find it either but you need 1 egg, 1 cup of light and it must be light olive oil, or avocado. Juice half lemon/lime or 2-3 tsp vinegar, generous pinch salt.
you can add flavour, grainy mustard, garlic, chilli etc.
egg into jar, jug in my case, add juice, salt and flavourings pour in oil and let egg settle.
Then in with the stick blender all the way to the bottom and blitz for 20 seconds.
Magic stuff happens and mayo grows, move blender up as you go and blend a bit more.

I admit to guessing on what a cup is exactly, wondered if it was 240ml?
But everytime I make it it's been lovely.

Bread is my thing too and I have realised how much I was eating as i hardly have to buy it now.

Tolchock I am going to be mean but ditch the dairy. Can you give it up for seven days and see how you feel? If it's hideslu so you can reintroduce it. If you can't give it up can you limit yourself to one portion a day? I know it is hard but it's only while you're losing that you have to give it up. You hsve the rest of your thin life to eat it.

I just had a useful counselling session. Fingers crossed it really helps. Just had a lovely lunch of fried haddock and veg with avocado and tahini. YUm. I get the pleasure of smelling pulled pork slow cooking all afternoon now.

The low carb threads popping up are peeing me off. Sure it looks faddy if you are used to eating low artist but for god's sake read a book on it, have a look at the actual evidence. People are so determined it's a bunch of crap. Rarr.

My ipad hates me, sorry for all the typos. Autocorrect changes some very ordinary words to some very strange things! And I was referring to the low carb threads in aibu and Chat.

Supermum - you're not eating enough! This WOE (way of eating) isn't about depriving yourself. Honestly!

RoaringForties - thanks so much! Going to make it this afternoon - it looked amazing in the video and, not being the world's most gifted cook, seems within my limited capabilities! I can then impress my mother with my homemade delights...
Thank you

Think I'm getting the hang of this. Amazed that I'm not hungry. Any other 'diet' I've been on, I'm always starving and give into cravings. So far I've been ok and always full. The only thing I miss is fruit but if the weight keeps going down I'm happy to give this up for a few weeks.

I've struggled to lose weight over the last year and a half ever since starting HRT and gaining a stone and a half!

I'm hoping that this WOE works and is something I can stick to.

Hi

dont know if anyone minds me butting in and asking a question?

I was paleo-ing, and really enjoying it, but weight loss really stalled, i read more into keto, ( with the help from these threads) and gave that a try. first week was fab, 5lbs off.

Im tracking cals and marcos on my fitness pal and at least 75% of cals ( 1200- 1300) come from fat, 20% protein and 5% carb. they are pretty much perfect every day.

But the scale hasnt budged in the last 4 days. Is this the stall that happens? what can i do to get out of it? or its it just one of those things that happens?

Supermum put all your food on myfitnesspal and see how many calories you are eating.
I think you would need to add quite a bit if fat and some veg too.

re. the 'cup', looked it up in an American cookbook I had and said it's 8oz. Don't know if that's standard, but seems about right, and pretty much what you said at 240.

Oh my god, I have made mayonnaise!! It's perfect and pure white - amazing!!!

cousinsandra - I made that mayonnaise the other week too, it gave me a real feeling of accomplishment and I was really pleased with myself. DP was a bit at me, he's not into mayo though so probably thought I was a bit nutty to be so excited about it

Just wanted to say, if any of you who like celeriac haven't yet tried nigel slater's celeriac remoulade you definitely should. So good with steak, and burgers and probably with loads of other things too.

Thought you would like to see some happy evidence of this WOE doing us some good.
The low-carbohydrate diet and cardiovascular risk factors

cousinsandra it's great isn't it. I'm never buying mayo again.

Hi all, I haven't joined the bootcamp as I'm just starting out and don't have that much to lose. I'd just like to be a bit healthier and cut out the main carbs ( bread, rice an grains). I've just started today and wondered if anyone can say if it's a good start to eating a low-carb diet.
Thanks

Breakfast- banana omelette (2eggs+1big banana)

Lunch - Crayfish and tomatoes with lemon and olive oil

snack - 1 piece of 70% cocao and an apricot
half an iced latte

dinner - homemade burger (mince beef, garlic, chilli, red onion and paprice cooked in coconut oil), sweet potato chips (oven roasted in coconut oil) and lettuce and tomatoes. Also a big dollop of shop bought mayonaise (i can't give it up).

is that okay? Do I need to calorie count it all too?

oh and later I will probably have a handfull of pistachios and maybe another slice of 70% chocolate.

Thanks again.

I've just seen the homemade mayonaise - looks yum. If I make a batch will it keep or should I make it as I go?

And that celeriac remoulade is amazing!

I was in town today and spotted Ketoslim high protein bar. I decided to try it (there were lots of other foods to try there but everything was to take away)

It was not chep, £2.59 in Whole Foods in London which is very expensive place to shop, however I think it is worth considering. I looked at all other bars there and this one was the only one of less than 10g per bar!
THis one has 2g sugars in 60 g bar.
I ate it, it was very nice, just enough sweetness, no artificial sweeteners.
I was satisfied and didn't get hungry for ages.

I had this one - Chocolate Almond Crunch Bar
www.naturesplus.com/products/productdetail.php?productNumber=99638

I would definitely use it if I had a trip into unknown and/or no chance to carry fresh food with me.

Buns your day reads more paleo than low carb, which is fine, it works for lots of people. It's just slightly different. The sweet potato and banana are too Carby for proper low carb, but I guess if you don't lose weight you'll know what to cut! Welcome by the way.
I have to try that mayonnaise.

Anti I believe you that that bar was nice, but oh my god, did you see the list of ingredients?! Frankenfood!!
I can also recommend inspiral it's hideously expensive on the whole but they do some nice products, including kale chips in different flavours.

The mayo makes me 3 servings and lasts for 3 days in the fridge (I actually haven't left it any longer as it's too nice!!)

If you missed the link Here it is.

Have decided to cut down on the dairy too after cheesy Monday.

B total yoghurt ( down to £2 in ASda this week)
L guacamole with little gem
D chicken stir fry with cabbage, mushrooms, peppers etc. coconut cream. Blue dragon coconut cream is 1.8 g but I noticed in Waitrose yesterday that theirs was about 6 g carbs.
Have had a couple of coffees with cream today but am going to cut out that and the yoghurt tomorrow for a day or two.

2 litres of water. Need to get one more in before bed.

CAUTION - this post contains discussion of cheating so don't read if it triggers you to eat. It's also pretty whingy & overdramatic

OK. I haven't posted on this thread because have been hiding. The scales have not been going in the right direction. So now I'm in a spiral of Bootcamping plus little added extras. But one of the reasons I wanted to talk about cheating on this thread was because this isn't 'tee hee naughty me I've eaten ... and it was delicious' It's binge eating almost as a form of self harm, if that's not too dramatic. I'm literally stuffing food down that I don't want to eat, while crying, by myself & then I hate myself afterwards. Attractive huh! It has got better on bootcamp, in that it's one ice cream rather than the whole box, but it's still stupid self sabotage and I don't know what to do.

Has anyone dealt with this? Any tips, or even hand holding? I know why I'm doing it, there's some really crap stuff going on at the moment which I'm really stressed about, and I can literally only talk to a few people about it. I'm so scared of going down this spiral again. It felt great to be in control of my eating, and losing weight & it's all slipping away.

It helps to write it down. So in the past few days (since Sunday) I've eaten 2 magnums, 3 slices of a chocolate mousse cake (mainly 70% choc & eggs, but about 50g sugar in the whole cake so not exactly great) and an entire bar of Lindt 70%. I've also been drinking lots of diet coke & not enough water. And my weight this morning was 2/3 pounds heavier than last week.

Sorry to anyone who hates talk of cheating, I just really wanted to get it out there. I don't think I've ever been honest with anyone about my eating. It's massively unhealthy I know, and I was hoping for some support on this thread. I'm looking into getting counselling, but it's way to rich for my blood at the moment (I'm so street!)

locatblil hand firmly out from me - I have been there and it's a terrible feeling if self loathing . The last time it happened for me was Easter - when I was famously almost face down in a chocolate 'trough' of shit chocolate and could not stop myself despite knowing it was putting weight on me and despite everything I know when I am 'lucid' . And - we are talking - as much as you are talking about - but everyday .... For several days until I 'got a grip' . I was a total carbytwat .
But - at the moment I have controlled it - I think this WOE stops that constant deprived feeling which leads to binges ... But hey , it's still early days - so no smugness here .
Each day is a new day - the fact that you have posted it means you are ready to c