Week 4 - Low Carb Bootcamp - apologies for the late start!!!

[BIWI]

Sorry all - first day back at work and I had a horribly early start, so this is the first chance I've had to set this thread up.

Here's the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

Will be back later this afternoon to catch up!

B - half avocado, scr eggs, brie spread with butter
L - out, least worst option was salad with roasted squash (about 10 small cubes) and feta
D - good old courgetti bol with pork & beef mince and butter added to the sauce with parmesan on top

visiting various relatives today, dodged the biscuits but had too many cups of tea - have put some herbal tea bags in my handbag for future use

feeling a little pissed off with life at the moment and stupidly taking it out on myself with food - yesterday I had half a piece of toast with marmalade and two of the bendicks choc mints I had bought for Christmas. It is totm as well - need to get a grip, I can't give up on this and go back to how I was - plus want to lose before Christmas so I can relax a little knowing I can lose again afterwards. Sigh, tomorrow is another day I guess. KOKO

Hi Dartmoor,
From memory the little yeos have 'no added refined sugar' and are sweetened only with fruit juice and fruit purée (I love them, I miss them) but they still have quite a lot of sugar in.
Sugar is sugar regardless of the source, yes fruit is better for you than sweets because they have vitamins / fibre etc as well as sugar but when it comes to getting into ketosis and losing weight your body can't tell the difference between an apple and a teaspoon of Tate and lyle.
You could do Greek yogurt with double cream and a low sugar fruit purée (strawberries are quite low) in its place once into bc lite?

Today:
Coffee with cream
Eggs (3 small) mashed with butter
Cauliflower cheese with bacon and spring onion

Hello there, today had
B: egg, bacon, tomato mushroom fried in butter, creamy coffee

L: out at ASK, had chicken bacon & avocado salad, next time will ask for no dressing and just put oil on. Creamy coffee instead of dessert

Early dinner: at firework party. Dodged crisps, had carrot sticks and full fat dip, 2 sausages without the hot dog buns (not special LC ones)

Late dinner: half pack Waitrose Goan fish curry (3.7g per 100g) - that's ok occasionally right? Had it with ff yogurt (lidl 10% fat Turkish one)

Tell me if I'm slipping up with the ready meal, know it's ideally fresh stuff but no nasties in the ingredients and just need something sometimes on standby. Lowest carb ready meal I could find - anyone else got any different ones?

Gcalgske on threads I'm watching your post shows as coffee with creameggs (3 small), I had visions of you massively falling off the wagon and scoffing 3 chocolate eggs for breakfast

Yesterday was an odd day foodwise, but I did manage my water.

B: 2 boiled eggs mashed with half an avocado and a big old chunk of butter
L: black coffee, pack of M&s bacon strips
S: chunk of cambazola
D: at bonfire party - three sausages, no idea on carb count, a few gluhweins which I know will have contained sugar
Late snack: yogurt and cream, two squares of 85% choc, a few red wines

So all over the place really and am out to lunch today. Will stick to gin and slims and do my best with food.

Whiffy that carb count is fine - you were lucky to find a ready meal so low! Most of them are much higher than that.

Sitting at the airport waiting to catch my flight, and wondering what kind of food awaits me

My IBS has started to rumble which isn't a great sign, and tells me I've been overdoing the carbs as well as indicating that I'm a bit stressed out with stuff right now

I've got so much to do over the next few days I don't actually know how I'm going to fit it all in.

I suffer with IBS when too carby and when nervous/stressed too BIWI, it's horrid isn't it. I have to thank you for Bootcamp pretty much eliminating something I thought I was stuck with forever.

I hope the trip isn't too awful foodwise (or otherwise!), and you can get everything done

Have a good flight, BIWI. You're right, it's very hard to exert any control over food choices in Moscow. I remember going there with my Dad years ago, and we were offered all sorts of things that I'd never really wanted to eat before - but it's considered really offensive to refuse, so couldn't. I did draw the line at eating baby lamb's tongues though (that was in a hotel so didn't count as anyone's hospitality) because they weren't rolled, just sliced and I could see the tastebuds...

Bad weekend. Away camping for someone's 50th Birthday, almost zero control over food - tried to keep it clean but failed :(

Breakfast - don't go there.
Lunch: not great - Maccer's double cheeseburger sans bun or sauce (so just beef and cheese) but also had to have a slug of DS2's milkshake as had really bad oesophageal constriction and needed some liquid to wash it down. At least I didn't have DH's tango.
Dinner: turkey thing (with courgettes, mushroom, butter, beans, leeks, coriander, Boursin and double cream) with courgetti.

Not expecting great things from tomorrow, if I'm honest. :(

I hope you're feeling a bit better today Lex

I've stuck it over this weekend but I did have wine last night.

Dinner today is braising steak with veg.
I've made lamb curry to take to work for lunches next week.

Good luck for weigh in everyone

*stuck at it

wombat a little yes thanks, DH away for 5 weeks at a time at the mo and DCs driving me mad, everything is negative, whining, resisting and it is wearing me down, did me proud at remembrance day parade this morning though

B - smoked salmon (peat and heather one from waitress, lovely smokey flavour, I find most so called smoked salmon is not smokey at all), 2 buttery scr eggs, half avocado, 2 cups of tea (one out, tried for a coffee but cafe didn't have any cream)
L - lc crackerbread toasted and spread with gallons of butter, 2 slice havarti, 3 slices salt beef, dill pickle, another choc mint as of course they are open now
D will be lc sausages, roast or mashed swede, some sort of green veg with butter

Just had a sort of eggnog: egg, mixed spice, coconut oil, cream, hot water all blitzed up, went nice and creamy and frothy

Charlie I wish. Love a cream egg. Just bad typing :(

Good to know about the Waitrose Goan curry, Biwi, it was mighty tasty. I've stuck a couple in the freezer for emergencies as you can microwave from frozen.

Had an ok weekend as far as bootcamp goes, do find it harder as we're usually out and about and then there's the wine...

Yesterday
B - avocado with dressing
L - bunless burger and salad
D - cottage pie made with cauli mash on my half
S - 85% choc bar, babybel

Today
B - 2 eggs with butter and chorizo slices
L - was at kids party so had 2 hb eggs with delouis mayo when I got back, managed not to eat party food
D - roast pork with crackling, cauli and broccoli
S - small white wine, 85% choc, more chorizo slices

Not holding out much hope for tomorrow's weigh-in as although I've kept things low carb I have been v hungry may have overdone the snacks.

B - leftover tuna & egg with mayo & avocado coffee with cream
L - salad with mayo
D - pulled pork with roasted veg & few carrots.

Think I'm eating too much cream & Mayo which is the unhealthy fats. Suggestions for more 'healthy' fats please?

Water only 2l - feeling sluggish. Monday tomorrow so back to being a bit stricter with myself.

Billionaire

Why do you think cream and mayo are unhealthy fats? Have you done any reading about low carb/high fat diets? Unless you're eating hydrogenated fats/trans fats, then there's not a problem with eating the fats that are in cream and mayo - they are natural fats!

Other good fats to be eating are butter, olive oil, lard and coconut fat. You can eat plenty of them.

Dairy can impede weight loss, so if you're not seeing movement on the scales, then definitely have a look at this, and cut out the cream for a while.

And you definitely have to up the water.

Week 5 chat thread here