Week 8 - Low Carb Bootcamp - Eek! Only 3 weeks left!

[BIWI]

Morning all.

Spreadsheet of Fabulousness is here

And the Weight Tracker is here

Three weeks left. So a chance to rid ourselves of another 3 pesky pounds!

Good luck all and hope the week is a good one.

Did you report it Lex ? I emailed this morning and posted in site stuff but no response so far.

I've had bacon and egg for brunch and a fillet steak with mushrooms, green bean fries, asparagus and tarragon butter. I'm making those pork carnitas tomorrow I think, have a big pork shoulder joint.

Re coconut ice cream, has anyone tried churning coconut milk in an ice cream maker? I've tried a couple of times making low carb (ish) ice cream without success, it seems as though the sugar is critical to the structure so it doesn't work without.

www.perfectworldicecream.co.uk Anyone tried these? It says that most of the carbs are unavailable, so still ok for low carb diet.

Sorry that some of you are struggling. This WOE isn't the easiest, and certainly not as a way of maintaining.

I think when it gets to the point that you're looking at things like red peppers or chick peas as 'treats' or 'forbidden' fruits, then it's time to lighten up a little.

And also, you need to think about widening your food/cooking repertoires a little bit. Given that we can eat cheese and cream and fatty meats, there should be no excuse for not enjoying our food!

I do, really, very much sympathise with you. But you can be totally confident that if you were doing any other kind of diet there will always be people out there who seem to be maintaining their size 8 figure without doing anything and eating whatever they want. Life just isn't fair.

I'm being a moany bitch because i'm ill BIWI. Everyone should ignore me. It's just that my go to 'sick food' is carby i suppose, so feeling unwell and not having my soothing porridge and honey or my spicey tomato, carrot and lentil soup feels horrible. I did make myself some swede and leek soup instead which was nice and had a good dinner of burgers with bacon, cheese, mushrooms and avocado and a nice rocket salad and a few cherry tomato.

I'm trying to avoid dairy so i suppose i have been enjoying this woe less. Because i am now in my 'healthy weight' i am finding no dairy in the week the only way i can continue losing weight.

The baby is poorly too with a temp of 38.6. Nothing i do soothes him :(

charlie no I didn't as thought it was just me or my crappy old iPad will do so now though

To add to my food diary for today I had 6 olives and 3 almonds as a snack, could not afford to be hungry when pulling hm bread out of the oven, will need a similar tactic tmrw as DCs want to make shortbread and rice pudding

I feel like I'm running out of steam a bit. I've lost a stone and I am absolutely delighted with that. It's weight I put on a couple of years ago at a very difficult time when I was signed of work with depression. I am now at the top range of my kind of acceptable weight. When the weight was dropping off in the early weeks I thought I would sail past my target of 10 stone 7, but actually I am still hovering a few pounds above that. I think I might be uber strict for the last couple of weeks and see where I get to.

I was very happy to find some brand new jeans for a tenner in a size smaller than I usually fit yesterday. Not moaning at all, just flagging a bit now

I feel the same Alma, not giving up but just CBA to put in loads of effort. I was thinking of a dairy free, very LC week too if you fancy company? Feel like I'm getting nowhere fast and would love to shift a few more lbs before then of BC.

Today:
B: eggs, butter Boursin
L: not a lot
D: pork, broccoli, asparagus, celeriac dauphinoise, berries and cream

Right, need to get in the shower before DH and DS get back from football otherwise they'll know I've been doing chuff all for the last hour.

Maybe we all need a bit of spring weather?

I am still a lb up on last Monday's weigh in, so I suspect last Monday was an aberration. I am also flagging. I am not sure of total loss since I started mid October but it is certainly at least what I hoped for so thank you, rather than moaning. It is more being at a crossroads of deciding whether to stick it out two weeks more or move to maintenance.

I have started noticing hair loss, which I read is common with a big weight loss (around 2.5-3 stone, I am guessing here), so I have ordered supplements and because I am battling exhaustion after long term stress and mental health issues I am seriously thinking shift focus to maintenance and general health and wellbeing ( meditation and exercise). The question is really whether to do that now or try and get that pesky pound off again and hopefully another one to have a bit of wiggle room.

gcalzske, not forgotten pancake recipe, DS is on the laptop just now so catching up on phone. Will link to recipe thread when I have done it

I think reading the recipe thread is good if you are flagging, btw - and trying new stuff. I made swede and spinach mash last night, it was lovely. I would never have tried that before.

Morning.

Despite vowing never to drink coke again, I did drink some diet yesterday in my alcoholic drinks.

Went on a mini day sesh with dp (9.45pm train home, so not too indulgent) and vowed to stick to red wine, but my resolve weakened upon the site of Hardy's and fecking blossom hill. Just no!

So stuck to jd's and makers mark. We booked in at a Caribbean restaurant with a 30-40 min wait, which gave us time to peruse the menu. We unbooked and came home and cooked our own curry instead.

Everything meaty is coated in honey/sugar sauces. Oh well.

Dp weighed himself this morning and declared his self to be in the 11stone club 'before you' he's gone from 12.12 to 11.13. He is looking a lot better. He was never big by anyone's standards but he was bloated looking.

I will get there eventually.

Thanks romey
Hubby decided to decorate dd's bedroom this weekend (lived here over a year and suddenly it's all 'urgent') anyhoo means no Mother's Day lie in for me. Me and the wee chick had 4 rashers streaky bacon, 2 black farmers sausage and 125g mushrooms fried in olive oil and fat from the sausage & bacon. A bowl of berries (I had 1 strawberry) and half an avocado each. She also had toast. Seriously she's 2 and not huge (50%) but eats more than me, difficult to count but I def only had 1.5 rashers of bacon, maybe a whole sausage. Big walk later to find ducks and geese and swans!

^she can be fussy but if I do a big plate she'll wire into 'mummy's'food. Makes it difficult to quantify sometimes but just happy she's eating!

morning gang and happy mothers day

I'm chugging along, its been a tough week ds1 has chicken pox and I've been trying to fit in 5 days running, but its done! DW had cards and kisses, She's currently out with MIL and Im cooking a big lunch with the kids - only issue is 'hick' I've already had two glasses of red and am now a bit pissed

Totally up for that Chester. Have a night out on Tuesday that I might try to postpone. Wonder if I need to be thinking about intermittent fasting to shift the final half stone

What a lovely dp you are! We are child free here, as dcs with their daddy, so dp and me still lounging in bed after a party last night. Stuck to spirits and the dreaded diet mixers

I have been informed that my breath smells of poo (lovely after effect of booze and shite mixers) but dp brought me breakfast in bed and a cuppa. Bacon, egg and mushrooms, with a kangaroo steak which I gave to him cos it was too early and strong tasting.

Am going to make a strong coffee and get my shit together, as we are going to eat dinner at BIL with two sets of in laws. We are dropping by a t my dm on the way to give her a lidls orchid.

Then tonight we are going to see Chappie at the flics. I'm very excited cos I love Neil Blomkamp's stuff. And Die Antword are in it and they are excellent.

Just found random carrots in the garden. They are sooo sweet. Had two tiny carrots - just 20g but so nice. Am going to try to just grow lower carb stuff this year. Ordered spaghetti squash seeds last night. Anyone garden?

recipe thread

gcalzske, I have added on the flaxseed pancake recipe. I am just about to make the flaxseed bread recipe which is the one above.

I certainly don't want to go back to large volumes of grain-based meals, but I am wondering if part of my reason for flagging is needing more texture variety.

Thank you for the ice-cream suggestions, by the way. I really do need a dairy-free, sugar-free alternative for DS this summer (and me - DD has said I need to come off my 'diet' to eat strawberries and ice-cream in the summer ).

I would love to garden, but unfortunately, I am still at the clearing and landscaping stage - that means, I have worked out where the vegetable garden will be, but the garden needs a good deal of clearing out and work first (and emptying out an old garage and having it taken down...which is on the cards for this summer, cannot wait, the best part of the garden for sitting out is/would be where the garage is). I have started by having some trees taken down, and have some (awful) Pampas grasses in my sights next. For quite some time, I have looked at it and just gone - oh my God - but now I am beginning to have a plan. It will take me two or three years realistically, though, but it is one of the things which I will feel better for getting on with.

Yes me! Sorry to crash the thread, I'm low carb but not doing bootcamp. I have allotments and am switching low carb veg this year. The lowcarb/allotment intersection of the ven diagram is very sparsely populated - maybe we should start a thread?

Sorry, xpost, that was to Gcalgske.

Thanks for ice cream suggestions was to Charlie, by the way - and gcalske, apologies, I realise I have been inserting a random z into your name.

It is funny, my mood lifted a bit today after writing that about sorting the garden - I think I need to get on with it!!

In fact, I am off to sort one of the planters as I got some compost earlier today. Small steps...

Evening all!

I'm not a MNHQ MI5er, honestly

Just perusing the hotel room service menu (it's just after 8pm here) and delighted to find that there are a lot of good low carb options. I have no idea, though, what kind of food I'll be eating at lunchtime when I'm working at a local research agency.

Had a mini meltdown in the garden centre - wasn't funny at the time but I can now. I REALLY wanted a fucking flapjack so badly. DH had a huge scone, DS had a ginger bread man and I was sat there almost in tears with a black coffee. I somehow didn't cave and feel good for that but, boy what I would have done to that flapjack given half a chance.

I really think the problem is the lack of scales action, if I was losing, being good would be easy but I'm not so the sense of deprivation is huge. So from tomorrow I am ON IT til the end of BC with the exception of some wine on Saturday when we are out for lunch with friends.

But for today, I have a glass of prosecco, celeriac dauphinoise and berries with cream...

I made celeriac tartiflette last night; I'd forgotten how lovely it is.

I garden Gcalgske, I love it. Just been talking to DH about getting a new big greenhouse too.

My pork carnitas have turned out delicious, just roasting veg to go with them for dinner.