The inbetween BC BC for those who didn't do as well as they should on the real BC

[SayraT]

Ok, some of us (me) didn't do very well on the real actual BC and some others just feel the need to have a little extra push before the next real BC so this is our inbetween BC BC

I'll start, I'm currently 222 lb and want to be 217 lb by the start of the real BC (11th May). I will be recording my food daily to keep on track, I am also going to weigh daily.

Food

B: Flax wrap with butter, coffee with cream
L: M&S salad, ff yog
S: S&V peanuts (none left now so I'll have normal nuts or none at all)
D: Cauli-rice with hot smoked salmon

Why do I find this WOE so hard sometimes?! I love it, I know that it works so why am I not doing it?!

Everyday I start off with good intentions then they fall by the wayside, yesterday I bought some chocolate from Lidl, it comes in a pack with 11 little mini bars in it. Each bar is ~6g carbs. I thought I could have those as an occasional treat, yesterday I ate 4 of them!

In the interests of being honest here is my food for the past few days, I will start recording food daily again along with weight. My weight is up a but today but TOTM is due so I think that is why nothing to do with the crap I've eaten

Yesterday

B: Fried eggs (x2) and mushrooms, coffee with cream - good
L: Bratwurst sausages (x3) - good - should have had some veg
D: Pate on lettuce leaves - good
S: FF yog with berries - good, mini chocolate bars (x4) - not good

Monday

B: Digestive biscuits with cream cheese frosting (x3) - very very bad, FF yog with berries, coffee with cream - good
L: Bacon and sausages - good
D: Cheese omelette - good
S: Rowantrees randoms - very bad

Sunday

B: Yog with berries, coffee with cream - good
L: Breaded garlic mushrooms, gnocchi machiati, red wine - very bad but very tasty (was my dads 70th birthday lunch at an Italian restaurant, I could have made better choices but I enjoyed what I had).
D: Digestive biscuits and butter - bad
S: Carrot cake - bad (was dads birthday cake)

Saturday

B: Bacon, egg, sausage, coffee with cream - good
L: Nothing
D: Chips and cheese - very bad
S: Carrot cake - bad

So today I weigh 225 lbs

Food for Today

B: FF yog with berries, coffee with cream - good
L: Bratwurst sausages, cucumber sticks with mayo dip - good
D: Egg fried cauli rice with prawns - good
S: Brazil nuts, babybel - good

Have you finished your Thesis yet Sass?
Sometimes self sabotage is a way to get you concentrating on worries that are not proper worries rather than making you deal with the issue at hand

Ooh well done all who've had a visit from the Whoosh Fairy or the Tape Measure Fairy . Hope one of them will pass my way soon.

Sayra I love your honesty, and your food diary.

I can't believe I watched DS1 stuff away a plate of pizza & chips last night, and didn't even try to steal a chip!

B: Bulletproof Tea with a splash of soya milk
Two roast beef slices rolled up with philly cheese
Slice of Emmental cheese

I was full after half my breakfast, so I've brought it with me to work to have for lunch. I doubt I'll need a snack before then.

D: Think it'll be Thai meatballs with cauliflower rice and salad, or maybe what we call in our house Walloped Chicken with salad.

Walloped Chicken recipe if anyone's interested: put a chicken fillet in a plastic bag & bash it with a rolling pin until it's thin, like an escalope. Marinade in lemon juice, sprinkle with black pepper and a bit of parsley or coriander and fry till cooked through. Lovely!

Will catch up later. Going dairy free this week #hard

Bollocks I meant Sayra not sass

Dark I think you meant me, not sass. I am writing my final chapter just now (when I'm not on MN ) then I just need to wait for supervisors comments and some (very complicated) statistical analysis to be done (by someone who knows what they are doing, not me!!).

There is no point in not being honest Drama I find that if I don't write down what I eat it is too easy to forget those little extras. I need to start writing it down again and be more focused.

I am hoping that once my thesis is finished I can concentrate on me a bit more. I should be able to have a couple of weeks off in May before I start a new post-doc position in June. I would use that time to do more exercise and get myself back on the LC wagon properly.

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mrsk I don't think i need to see the play- I live it!

Mine is since the last 3 dc's. I can't pronounce words either. Unless I know it and even -then-- I just don't seem to have a grasp of how certain letters would sound together.

I best shut up now, before I sound even less intelligible than I already do.

Believe it or not, I do get in the 120's for IQ.

It's obviously just English

And language
And technology
Oh and cooking........

Unintelligible!

To follow Sayra's honest example I will own up to missing off a few snacks that I had over the last few days. Extras since monday morning include: three packs of pork scratchings, two glasses of prosecco, packet of biltong, more cheese than is probably advisable despite being technically allowed, and also about four spoonfulls of extra thick cream, which comes into the 'technically allowed but not in those quantities' category. .

I am also up 1lb in the last two days. So bang on it today as I need those scales to keep going down.

B: tea with splash milk, two celery sticks with pate, slice ham, salad leaves cuc and mayo.
L: will be ham and cheese salad with olive oil and mayo
d: not sure yet. maybe omelette.

Am 0.5l down, have a 2l bottle of water I have promised myself to get through before i start on my lunch.

Hope today is a good day for everyone!

babs at least your snacks were LC ones

I went to the carvery last night. I had roast beef (normal dry as hell, but it was perfect) turkey (dry as hell) and gammon with cabbage, carrots, swede, cauliflower and peas.

Resisted the mash, and the roast potatoes and asked for wheat free gravy. Unfortunately it was only just edible, so next time I will just have to have normal gravy and suffer.

Dc's had ice cream, which I didn't so much as have a lick of. And I very boringly had tap water.

(Ignoring the piece of low carb cake I ate at lunch)

True, true!! But feel I've got back into the habit of snacking and I'd knocked that on the head as soon as I started this woe. So need to continue the no snacking and just have lovely meals with lots of fat and veg.

Before anyone mentions gravy being carby.

Life is too short for many things, but 2 specific things whilst being on this woe.

1, peeling shallots
2, forgoing gravy.

Sass I ask for melted butter.

I only thought about salt and butter after I had finished gcal doh!

But tbh I lurvve gravy. I like my food to be swimming in it. Did I mention I'm a northern classy woman.

I don't go that often to be truthful as dp is a bit of a foodie and he HATES it. Which I can understand as it is pretty average at it's best.

I've not been for probably a year and they've added new dishes...... Chips and beans!

With a roast?

Even I'm classier than that!

Proud that only my littliest wanted the chips and no one wanted beans. They all picked carrots.

Yeah shallots are a right bastard to peel aren't they sass

I did it for a few weeks babs but I just use regular onions now. Meh.

Since we're being honest here, I'm going to confess to having two large glasses of dry white wine last night. Why? Because it was a beautiful sunny evening, I was feeling good & I felt like it. So there . But I'm paying for it today, I feel really rough. I won't be doing that again.

Actually, I've found that I really can't drink on this WOE. I used to be able to put away a whole bottle of wine no problem & my off switch was the bottom of the bottle . OK I'd only do it at weekends, but I was very conscious it was too much, it wasn't helping my weight at all & neither was the snacking that went along with it. So I did Dry January, was part of a fabulous, supportive thread on here - in fact it ran for five threads and has only just petered out. DJ really helped me break the habit & I've been so much more controlled since, just having wine on either a Friday or Saturday night, not both.

So three weeks ago, my first Saturday after starting low carbing, I decided to relax with a few glasses of wine. I was surprised to find I simply couldn't tolerate it. I only managed a couple of glasses before I started feeling tipsy & sick so I put the bottle back in the fridge & went to bed, only to wake up to the hangover from hell next morning. So last night I really should have known better.

Please don't flame me - I know I'm not supposed to drink on bootcamp proper and I promise I won't . I'm treating the weeks building up to BC as gradually learning how to eat this way, what to do & what not to do - and I've learned that drinking wine is a complete no-no!

Are you covering your shallots in boiling water before you peel them? I find it makes a bit of a difference, but they still are diddly and annoying. I just use leeks for everything oniony in recipes now.

drama lots of us find that! Its a bit of a shock the first time you drink when LCing, suddenly you are a cheap date!

That's what DH said!

DramaAlpaca, I was the same the other day and even worse we were staying with friends!! DH said well it's obviously because you're off carbs, there's nothing to soak up the booze ... Oops ??

I'm really annoyed with myself, on a train to meet boss for a 'posh afternoon tea' and even though I've requested a bread free tea (no idea what I'll get), I've eaten chocolate on the train and wasted 27g of carbs. I haven't wanted or had anything like that for ages so why now ?!?

I suggested to DH that he might like to swap onions for shallots when he's doing the cooking - his face told me exactly what he thought of that idea.

I have been cheered up just now by the arrival of my beautiful green dress from ASOS!!! I won't be able to try it on until this evening, but I've opened the packaging can tell you the colour is gorgeous. I will report back.

I couldn't find the link to the dress, could you post it again please ???