Inbetween BCs Thread #2

[SayraT]

We filled up the last thread and we still have 3 weeks to go until the next official BC so here is our new inbetween BC thread.

Link to previous thread

So, I was good yesterday and now all of my confessions are lost on the previous thread but I am going to carry on with daily weighing and food recording so this morning I weighed 225 lbs.

hello all

B - leftover kale with more butter and parmesan (really nice on Kale), 2 sb eggs with even more butter, s&p, cuppa, coffee with cream (up at 5am and not by choice!)
l - just scoffing mackerel, hm mayo, radish, cucumber, 2 hb eggs with more mayo
d - will be BBQ'd ( no sauce) chicken drumsticks incl the crispy skin, hm mayo, cucumber and not sure what else, might not need anything

off to get my hair cut, each time I sit in that chair and look in the mirror I think to myself ' I will be lighter next time I am here' i.e. in 7 weeks and due to BIWI and bootcamp I know that I will be. Wearing some lovely Hobbs trousers today (navy with two rows of gold buttons on the front) and before BC they were literally bursting at the seams/buttons, now they hang just right and a Mum at school complimented them this morning, nice to have a little boost

Nappy - on bus let you know when home, been in a bus for an hour traffic is sh*t!!!

BIWI would this recipe be BC approved? https://feasted.wordpress.com/tag/asian-meatballs/ I am not sure as dessicated coconut is 6.4g carbs per 100g.

Sorry I meant that I might have assumed this was a faddy diet before but now I see it can be a really sustainable lifestyle change.

I notice a lot of you don't mention vegetables such as aubergines, courgettes, carrots. Is that because they are higher in carbs so should be eaten in moderation? Carrots I'm guessing will be quite high, but not the other two, right?

This the one I eat, 7.4g carbs per pot, so quite high, but keeps me full till lunch it's also yummy so won't be giving up in a hurry!!!!

just carrots we avoid except maybe one or two in a big dish like shepherds pie then you only have a bit rather than a plateful. Courgettes & Aubergines you can have freely. Courgettes are good fried with eggs for breakfast or spiralized or peeled into strips for courgetti as a pasta subsitute. There's a moussaka recipe on the recipe thread with aubergine of course. I made an aubergine gratin last week which was lovely.

There's a list on the bootcamp page that list the main veg - focus on the ones that are 3g carbs per 100g or less

www.mumsnet.com/health/diet-and-fitness/low-carb-bootcamp

Plum switch to Total full fat greek.
It's half the carbs and really filling.

Thanks, Sayra, I am really curious to see how things go over the next few days - so hoping scales bounce downwards a bit more

I have been catching up on the thread, some really interesting comments, thank you .

I am one of the people who can't tolerate any off plan carbs at all, as I have discovered, so I really appreciate that people only post BC stuff, unless they are on BLC. It has been really important to me to work out what needs to go, even if other people can tolerate these and still lose weight (nuts, for example!)

I'm also really interested in the comments about ovulation - I used to track my cycle properly. I am wondering if ovulation may have explained my recent bounce up three pounds and back down again. I definitely gain a couple of pounds at TOTM. Going to keep an eye on that, for sure.

Finally, a bit of a breakthrough in recent weeks in terms of how I view food. I mean, I get that with this WOE I am not always hungry at meal times, but there was one night where I had walked four miles and I started to make myself a big dinner as I thought I must be hungry - then I checked myself and thought, am I actually hungry. And then made a salad. Similarly today, I was worried because I was literally in back to back meetings in different places till after 3pm, and had no idea how I would get something to eat. I knew where I could get coffee, but also that the coffee bar only did sandwiches. So, I decided to change how I thought about it - instead of thinking, argh, help, what am I going to do about lunch??, I thought, I will have an extra egg in my omelette in the morning and then that will last me till after 3. Which it did. Both of these instances were about me thinking I should be hungry, but realising I wasn't.

I just put half my dinner in the fridge for tomorrow, as what I really want is a cup of tea and a large glass of water because I did not get enough to drink with all the running around. I really a not hungry, I just think I should be as it is dinner time.

Amazed! KOKO everyone

i have a pulse setting, 1 speed and 2 speed setting on my food processor. which ones best for cauli rice?

I think it's the less string of the 2. You want it blitzed but not pulped (if that makes sense).

Less strong even

nappy no idea about your food processor, why not just try one of the settings. If it doesn't work then try one of the others next time.

The recipe could be ok, might not be. Why not work out the carb content using the ingredients that you would use and see what the carb count id per portion and then make a decision based on that. Or miss out the coconut and carrot and I think it should be fine, it also depends on how much coconut is used in the recipe and how many you are feeding. I.e. if you used 100g coconut at 6.4g carbs but the recipe fed 4 people then that is only 1.6g carbs each which is fine. On the other hand if you used 200g coconut (12.8g carbs) and that fed one person it might not be fine.

What is the carb count of the 200g ff yog? I think the total is about 4g carbs per 100g, I would only have 100-150g but only you know what else you are eating in a day.

Have you seen the list of resources on the spreadsheet? I think that you might benefit from doing some reading around the subject of LC to help you understand it a bit more.

just courgettes and aubergines are fine, I use both quite often. Courgetti is my go to pasta/noodle substitute and I love making melanzane, moussaka and other things with aubergine. I have a lovely aubergine in the fridge just now waiting for me to decide to use it

Mmmm deep fried aubergine crisps with baked feta.....

I love aubergine crisps

Thanks fat stacks, will try at the weekend, when I do my shop! X

Also, please can someone give me the scoop on caffeine? I have three pretty strong coffees each day, as well as 2 litres of water, should I move to herbal tea - need to keep some hit drinks, I find them soothing! thanks x

Hot not hit!!!

We're all on the celeriac today . Just had the celeriac chips from the recipe on the BC spreadsheet. Scrummy!

plumstone I use the lidl milbona greek style one. 200g is 6.4g carbs so not much less than yours.

Total FF Greek is 4g carbs per 100g.

fatstacks 200g worth of total full fat is 7.6g carbs so actually carbier than the Waitrose one plumstone is currently eating at 7.4g carbs for a 200g pot.

Also what does Celeriac look like ?? Is it a root veg? Would it be with carrots etc in supermarket?

like a parsnip coloured swede.

Its an ugly looking vegetable mini but I love it.

Nappy and fat stacks, I will try both, carbs or the lack of them are key but if it done not taste good then I become a grumpy plum or prune !

Where can I buy celeriac not wrapped in cling film, I did got it home and the next day it was beginning to go mouldy - being a lazy cow I cut that bit off and used the rest, but it was a tad soft - where can you buy them unwrapped - also any update on caffeine - how much is ok -if any? Xoxo