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.

Can I ask...how many eggs are too many eggs?

Today I had bacon and eggs for breakfast, fried chicken breast strips with salad and mayo for lunch and for dinner we're having cottage pie made with mashed swede with cauliflower.

Bloody hell, picked up a small bag of macadamia nuts as I was hungry and seemed like a good option. Checked carbs, fine. Snarfed the lot and was reading back of packet.
HOW MANY CALORIES???
On the plus side, they are like little balls of butter and I'm not hungry for dinner at all, so might just have a bit of salad for some vits/fibre.

Lurking those tortillas look amazing, I am definitely trying them! Today I made BIWI's celeriac & leek mash, it was delish, and I say this as someone who doesn't like celeriac, really lovely, thanks BIWI you are a genius!

B - green smoothie (almond milk, spinach, 1/2 avocado, spoonful coconut cream, 1 large strawberry)
L - 2 skin on chicken thighs, green salad, hm mayonnaise
D - 2 black farmer sausages wrapped in streaky bacon, the mash, few sprouts/broccoli

Baddz for low carb I think the answer is 'there is no such thing as too many' although some people report hmm 'digestive disturbances' if they eat a lot. I am sure BIWI the wise or another more suitably experienced low carber will be along in a bit to confirm or deny.

I eat between 2 and 4 eggs per day depending on what I have for lunch, brekkie almost always involves eggs, hope that helps

I've had a lovely evening. My husband is away with work so I had a friend over for dinner. I made courgetti and broccoli in pesto and prawns in garlic butter served over pan fried salmon. It was all so good! My friend isn't low carb but she loves all that kind of stuff (especially butter!) so she said the meal was delicious. The salmon in particular was such a revelation. I'm so used to baking it in foil, but the flavour was so much better when fried in butter.

Instead of bringing any food as a thank you gift, my friend brought more tea for my collection! Now I have green tea with pomegranate; cranberry, rose and vanilla and a very fancy one that is flavoured like nutty chocolate. Feeling very spoiled.

I've finally settled on a high waisted bikini for my holiday. It covers the bit of my stomach I don't like, and I've decided that I can't do much about my thighs in the next few weeks, so I'll just try to deal with them. I'm feeling excited now and counting down the days!

Amapax - get 30 day shred that works miracles on thighs!

Nutty chocolate flavoured tea you say? Please tell us more, enquiring minds need to know

I'm eyeing up this one amax...

www.asos.com/pour-moi/pour-moi-chelsea-high-waist-control-bikini-bottom/prod/pgeproduct.aspx?iid=4813704&clr=Floralmulti&SearchQuery=High+waist+bikini&pgesize=36&pge=1&totalstyles=166&gridsize=3&gridrow=1&gridcolumn=1

In my opinion 'Egg bound' is a misnomer - eat as many eggs as you want to. As far as nutrition vs cost they are pretty much the perfect low carb food. If you are having digestive problems drink more water, eat more fibre and try flax seed.

Interestingly, MrsS, I have the 30DS and have been doing it regularly. However, I'm now on level 2 and I'm getting a very uncomfortable pain between my shoulder blades after I do it. I'm not sure what to do, but it's not a good pain. In any case, my thighs are just naturally big. They are very strong, but big. It is one of my biggest frustrations.

This is the chocolate tea,Charlie: www.twinings.co.uk/tea/loose-leaf-pyramids/nutty-chocolate-assam-pyramids
It is very nice. Quite a robust flavour, and very posh seeming!

Beyond, that is super cute. I'm now having some second thoughts because I wonder if that little ruffle would help to disguise my thighs. I am contemplating posting a photo in my chosen bikini, but remain embarrassed of my thighs.

Amaxapax that looks like a nice change to my gingerbread one, thanks

Off to search ocado...

B - coconut milk and flaxseed mix (to whoever asked, yes, I find this filling. I use the Sainsbury's coconut milk, it is very creamy)

L roast chicken thigh, cucumber and Mayo

S cheese and olives; also soya latte during a meeting

D courgette and bacon with pesto

Trying to get the water down, remembered all my supplements, worked at home this evening to finish presentation for tomorrow so trying to unwind. Colleague who I have not seen for a while told me today I was looking well; why do people always say that when you are exhausted? This morning I actually put lip gloss on my eyelids by mistake, it looked surprisingly okay, but was a bit sticky. Definitely looking forward to the weekend!

Evening all. I'm feeling quite low. I remember now why I avoid clothes shopping, having embarked on the mission to smarten up, I've been to buy bras today. I'm now the not so proud owner of four brand new 40 E bras. Sigh. The thing is, I can totally see the weight loss, but when you're mid journey, I think you look far from good. For one, when I'm in denial about my size, I'm in denial And to an extent, ignorance is bliss a cream cake when I'm on the journey, I'm hyper aware of my shape and skin. And although getting my wardrobe in order is an important part of feeling good physically, I find the experience super demotivating. The mirrors are awful, I know this, and the 360 view, but even when I ignore this, and plough on, the fucking bastard new bras are cunting well torture to wear. I wore my new boots and a new cardi, and I still had to really fight internally not to think negative thoughts about my lovely body. The fucking effort it takes is immeasurably difficult, day after day after day. All I wanted was to fall face first into a massive sugar fest. And then, the awful realisation automatically kicks in that this won't help, and I'm left floundering.

I'm finding excercise hard this week, as I've been demotivated by a head cold, and I think, after last weeks excercise success, my body is in revolt. Everything kinda hurts a bit.

And still I'm fat. It's like the opposite of the poem (Angelou I think...) 'and still I rise'

And then my mind wanders, and tries to blame it all on hormones.....

Perhaps it will all disappear next week and I'll be on top of the world again.... We'll see eh?

Oh, Trashcan, I know just how you feel. I lose some weight and start feeling good, and then do sonething like clothes shopping which brings with it the stark reminder that I'm still not the size I want to be, and things still don't fit as nicely as they would two stone from now. It's so crap. Well done you for not falling victim to the siren song of the carbohydrates. I hope tomorrow is better.

trash sure you look great. I know the feeling though.
Today's food:
B: flax coconut 'yoghurt' with raspberries, coffee with almond milk
L: 2x boiled egg with butter
D: pulled pork with coleslaw

Re. Fat bombs chocolate truffles could be considered a fat bomb. I like Hestons recipe for ganache which is just equal quantities of cream to chocolate.

Also you can make a lovely df ganache with canned coconut milk. I roll them in toasted unsweetened desiccated coconut. Yum.

Hi, haven't been logging in the last few days.

Looks like I'm not going to get to my target weight by Friday when I go to Rome,but hey I'm still 10lbs lighter than I was on 19/1 :)

So, what I want to know is this. Is it possible to eat low carb in the country of pasta, pizza, gelato and tiramisu (meant as a flippant remark, as I know Italian food is way more than that), but any tips?

Today breakfast was: smoked salmon and cream cheese, plus two coffees
Lunch was a chicken and ham salad
Dinner was baked spicy chicken with vegetables.

aaaargh got the flu (proper flu i think. not a cold) feel shite. Had a honey and lemon :( Feel like death warmed up.

Ijustwant - When i was last in Rome the food was basically LC if you don't have pizza/pasta. We ate in a few little Trattorias and kept getting pissed off that when you ordered a steak/fish it came with no accompaniments. They looked blank when we sat waiting for the extras to come. As if we would just eat a piece of meat on it's own. But they apparently do. I would have a steak and order a side of spinach. The pasta was always seen as a starter so friends who had it would have their brought out and eat it before my 'main' came out . You can order plates of cheese and cold meat for lunch. As for the puddings, it wasn't really an issue for me as i'm not keen - even at the Gelateri i only had lemon sorbet.

Horrible evening yesterday, I had a late lunch of various things from Tesco and something disagreed with me and I spent the whole evening puking. Feel a lot better this morning but very weak and shaky. I couldn't face BPC so had a strong tea. Luckily I'm working from home today so can lie on the sofa!

Trashcan i can totally sympathise with the clothes shopping experience horrors. I am also in total denial most of the time and since i have lost nearly 3 dress sizes i think i could give kate moss a run for her money!

Then the awful realisation hits in and i think i must have been fecking massive before i started. Also i am not as firm and some bits now look worse as others look better if that makes sense. I have less hips but now my overhang and top wobbly bit of belly look massive and very wrinkly in comparison.

However i can absolutely promise you, you def look better and its just your mind playing tricks with you. I am sure you rock your new clothes, get plenty of wear out of them as they soon will be too big and you dont want to be donating stuff that hasnt had a proper wearing to death first. Chin up, next week will be better, i just know it.

Boxed up tonnes of stuff for storage last night and the house looks massive again and relatively clutter free. Will be loading the van and driving it up to storage. Estate agent coming sat to take pics.

Ds actual birthday today so we are having a little party with friends at local soft play, which will be followed by more cleaning and organising.

Good luck everyone. Sympathises for those feeling ill, today i shall have carb flu but i dont deserve any sympathises as that is self inflicted!

So behind with the thread, so hope everyone is ok. Will try to catch up later but wanted to SMS a bit.

Yesterday I did my massive sponsored walk so I have very sore feet, legs, bum today - ouch. Managed pretty well with food although the scales are still being utter bastards.

Food was:
B: Boiled egg, one and a half Black Farmer sausages
L: three ricotta bites, about 10 olives, an Atkins bar (1.5 net carbs)
D: prawns in tomato sauce with courgetti and cheddar, two glasses of red wine

Today's plan, apart from walking like a penguin:

B: boiled eggs, butter
L: Not sure
D: Chicken curry, cauli rice

I've got a bit of a sensitive issue going on.

DH said he would cook on Sunday, as it's Mothers' Day. Without speaking to me he went out yesterday and bought an M&S meal deal of pork (fine) broccoli (fine) carrot and swede mash (hmm) stuffing (NO!) Yorkshire puddings (NO and WTF - with pork???) sticky toffee pudding (seriously?) and cream (oh good, something I can eat).

I really don't know what possessed him to do this, as he knows how hard I'm trying and how much it means to me. I feel really quite cross as he's just decided I should have the day off without even asking me and seemed quite pissed off when I said something.

What am I going to do? I don't want to cause a row but similarly I don't want to eat something that I know is going to make me gain.

Sorry for the epic post.

Thank you sass for the link.

I'm in that 'almost but not quite' with my clothes. My bigger ones are all worn out and tatty (I don't have many) and the decent stuff is still just out of reach fit wise.
It's ok in the winter as you can hide under the coat etc, but I'm feeling all fed up because everything looks shit and/or doesn't fit/is uncomfortable

KOKO eh?
Good day yesterday food wise, mince tonight!

Question if i am dreaming of eating big bowls of cake mix and coffee butter icing am I deficient in anything or is this just the bastard sugar craving?

Think it's probably just sugar bitchy,
It's probably best to ignore it but if you can't you could try a coffee set custard? Needs a little sweetner but wouldn't be too bad. My recipe is 300mls extra thick cream in a sauce pan, let infuse with coffee grounds (in a muslin bag) on gentle heat with 1 tbsp sukrin gold (brown erythritol or sweetner of your choice) until coffee flavour is as strong as you want it and sweetner dissolved. Then whisk 3 egg yolks in a separate bowl, pour cream over yolks, stirring continuously, return mix to pan and stir until thickened. Decant into ramekins or old gu pots. I leave in the fridge and they set up lovely. Also brill just as a vanilla custard or earl grey flavoured.