Week 2 - January Low Carb Bootcamp - the first moment of truth!

[BIWI]

Good morning! Already seen that there are some good losses, even for those in the dreaded week 3

Come and confess all on the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

I love this point in Bootcamp. It's such a leap of faith for so many people when they first start low carbing, because it seems so strange to eat all the fat we're told to eat. But then when the scales show the result, I love it!

now I really like asda's own brand of mayo.
The aldi one is horrible. (And I'm very pro aldi normally)

Chester sounds like you had a lovely day! You did really well for a birthday celebration glosses over the wine hopefully the scales won't bite back tomorrow!

nowitsenough sorry I'm sort of going backwards through the thread. I know you've already had lots of replies, but I just wanted to chime in! For many of us the transition between our 'regular diet' and 'Bootcamp' is hard. I'm 'lucky' in that I have another 'incentive' than weightloss, in that it controls my blood sugars so I don't have to be on medication for my diabetes. I can see the blood sugar levels coming down. However, this morning they've gone high again and my first though was 'Oh fuck it, I'll have a croissant then!' But I got a grip of myself and asked 'and how is that going to help exactly?*.

I'm fine once my body has transitioned, but in this in between phase it's one meal at a time, don't think too far ahead! I buy low carb food etc so the fridge is ready, but I don't think 'oh god this is forever/ x weeks'. It's just 'this meal' and I do my best to make the food nice.

Your DH has to get his head around the fact that this is different to any other 'diet'. You are training your body to use fat as it's primary fuel. You screw it up entirely giving it too many carbs. Then you yo yo between the carb burning and fat burning, the worst of all ways to be and you will put on weight.

You can have 'carbs' again, just not now.

[of course we are having carbs! but from veg etc! not 'carbs' bread/rice/pasta etc]

You can do it. You just have to get through the first couple of weeks.

now - hope all of this is helping you

But know that it all comes from knowing exactly how you feel because I've been there too. And I suspect a lot of us here have as well

for you.

Thanks BIWI I'm about to go shopping for some almonds, some nice meat and veg and cheese. Then after I've walked the dog I'll sit down and meal plan. Also going to try making Parmesan crisps

I'll have a read through the thread again for some easy recipes.

Good luck!

Oh, and if it helps, some easy recipes on my blog

Me again - sorry to hear you are struggling now listen to the wise people on here and you will soon be in control of those cravings - as other have said the planning makes a huge difference.
Delicious meal cooked by DH last night - slow roast pork belly with crackling, cleriac mash and creamy leeks. Yum!

planning IPD low carb moussaka for tonight.

BIWI thanks so much for your reply - do you know want before I saw your response I thought to my self - what would BIWI say and a upped my water intake as I think during the work week I a maybe neglected this rule a little. LO and behold over the weekend I have been much better.
For me the palpitations have gone too - my friend is still getting these but the explanation on your link has helped and is echoed by her old Atkins book.
So think we are back on track now!
Can't beleive Bootcamp is nearlly done -my mission for the next week is to try to make the healthiest choices I can - making sure the veg and water are plentiful.
Good luck everyone with the weigh in tomorrow.

Afternoon all, been AWOL for a few days. Had an evening out on Friday and made perfect low-carb food choices (which were REALLY tasty too), but did drink a fair bit of alcohol.

Ah well, back on it yesterday with some great food and a 5K run.

Today has been a 10k run and, so far, good foodwise.

B-Omelette with bacon and cheese
L- Griddled Aubergine with boursin mushrooms on top. (Delish)
D- Will be Chicken, Celeriac roasties and cauliflower cheese.

Im attempting cauliflower cheese for the first time, do i just melt cream and cheese together after boiling the cauliflower?

Also - Im very tempted not to weigh tomorrow as I know what im like, if the alcohol had caused a stall I might just throw in the towel. :(

Lunch - roast beef, roast swede, babycorn, broccoli. And instead of making proper gravy, dh basically poured a cup of bovril over it

Can someone take a look at this page and see if they can determine if any of the products are good?

It's one of the companies sponsoring FIS World Cup Ski Jumping, but it's (I think) German.

I noticed because they had LOW CARB on their number vests.

I know they won't be any good for Bootcamp as it's not really the ethos, but for us long term low carbers there might be something useful?

Apop. Basically, yes :). There's a million different ways to do it. I use double cream, grated cheese (with a little pre grated cheese to thicken it, but only a little as it has potato starch in it), mustard powder and ground black peppercorns. I steam or microwave the cauliflower, boiling it's fine but you waste lots of the nutrients and you have to be careful not to overlook it. Then if I'm in a hurry I throw the veg in the sauce and were good to go.bbif I'm not I out undercook cauli in a dish, pour the sauce over it, more grated cheese and seeds ( if not on BOOTCAMP strict) and bake it, if I have a bit of time but not much I will grill it.

I'm veggie so I eat this a lot, but I put a ton of different veg in it.

Thanks for the link BIWI, I'll have a good look at the recipes

Well, I bought spinach, mince (for batch cooking something), chicken breasts, cream, pate, brie, feta, eggs, almonds, nice salad dressing, a lemon for putting in water, cucumber, cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage. Then I went for a reasonably long walk with the dog

Quick easy meals are a real problem for me, we have a lot of mince, but I always make chilli Really fancy making a nice mince in gravy sort of thing, but a bit worried I'd want dumplings Also need to find out how to make moussaka, as I love it!

chipping I had a dream the other night that I met you I can't remember what we did though.

Now, I like to make a really easy ragu with beef or lamb mince. Just fry some pancetta, add the mince and brown it, then add a tin of chopped tomatoes and some beef stock and let it all simmer for twenty minutes. You could add in veg, but I just serve it on fried courgette ribbons. It's really quick and delicious.

I've just had the nicest late lunch. Waitrose sells pots of crayfish tails in dill mayonnaise. The whole thing is something like fewer than 2g carbs and I had it with some hb egg and avocado. The crayfish were rich and sweet and it felt like such a treat. I highly recommend.

Was just checking out the fridge ready for my ocado order coming and made a batch of kale crisps with the rest of last weeks bag of kale, seasoned with salt and chilli. Made my Mayo for the week and had the crisps with the dollop which wouldn't fit in the jar, yum, chips & dip.

Late up so brunch was bacon, egg, mushrooms. Dinner is an M&S Turkey roulade with mushroom & spinach stuffing, will have with cauliflower mash and buttery mixed greens.

Its made Chipping. Enough for two so ive put some aside to have with something else later in the week - it'll be ok wont it?

Liveinthepresent glad to hear you're back on track!

now there's a lovely recipe for moussaka on the recipe thread (it's from the Idiot Proof Diet recipe book), but it requires lamb mince, rather than beef mince.

chippingin I've had a quick look. If you click on the second tab along (qualitatssiegel) you get pictures of all of their products. Then if you hover over the first tab on that page (Sortiment) (means range) you can select "low carb.one" The strap line on that page just under the pictures of the products means "the brand for egg white rich, reduced carbohydrate nutrition". There are 4 product groups - protein shakes, low carb museli, flavoured nibble thingies and protein bars. The flavoured nibble thingies are vanilla/almond, coconut or latte machiatto flavours. If you click on the tab that says "weitere Informationen" (more info) then you get a picture of the packaging with the full nutritional breakdown. The carb (kohlenhydrate) and egg white (ei weiss) percentages are highlighted to make them stand out.

Is that the sort of info you wanted? If you want me to look at any other pages on the site, let me know!

Can I just say I made my own pork scratchings today....OH. MY. GOODNESS.

That is all. (for now)

How do you make them?

Struggling to drink water today.

Breakfast was 2 HB eggs and a creamy coffee.
Lunch was avocado mixed with a Boursin portion, salad leaves & cucumber in an oily dressing with some butter chicken breast & mayonnaise.
Dinner will be salmon, roasted celeriac, buttered brocolli & possibly something with courgette & aubergine as I need to use them.

Dd1 wanted chinese food tonight as she's off on a school trip for a week. I thought I would have some duck with cucumber, lettuce wraps and spring onion, along with a little stir fry of my own. But no, just looked on the side of the duck (sainsburys) and it's full of carbs!
I presume it's the flavour/marinade? Maybe I could just avoid the crispy outside bits? ?
You've probably done this before BIWI (and other long termers) but I'd love to know how you came to lchf and your journeys.

B - cuppa, cc pancakes with butter, not filling enough as then for snack I had
S - avo mayo, olives, babybel and coffee with cream
L - grilled cheese 'sandwiches' made with the cauli pizza base recipe, avo, mayo cucumber - brilliant and the DCs loved them
D- pork stroganoff, buttery turnip mash and buttered greens

Bit heavier on the dairy than usual

Feeling prepared for the week ahead as made kale chips and beef jerky which is super tasty and much cheaper than pepperami

Big test later will be when I pull homemade sourdough bread out of the oven, deliberately didn't make any the last 4 weeks but freezer stash is out and DCs have sandwiches for packed lunch

Today I've had 3 rashers of bacon and 2 fried eggs for breakfast (late), an early afternoon snack of paté and cheese and some brie. For dinner we're having roast pork shoulder with cauliflower and broccoli gratin (just cauliflower cheese with cream and cheese and broccoli) and cabbage fried in butter with a little bacon. Does that sounds ok? Is it possible to have too much meat?

I've had 4 decaf coffees, 2 with a little cream and 500 ml water so far. I know I need to drink more