Week 2: Pre-summer Low Carb Bootcamp - come and weigh-in!

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Morning all! I'm excited to see what the scales are telling everyone this week - it sounds like we've had some great results so far!

Here's the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

Here's to another successful week

And well done Burser
Many years ago I was stuck in a similar trap, it's not an easy one to get out of but completely achievable .

Argh! Sorry, don't know why my phone keeps posting twice today.

Thanks for all the good wishes everyone. First session of radiotherapy was fine. They spend longer getting you into position than the treatment actually takes. It's on my breast as a precaution as I was diagnosed with breast cancer in Feb. Hadn't spread thankfully and was caught really early and successfully removed. All a bit scary at the time obviously but could have been so much worse. Thank God for mammograms - it was found on my first one here in the uk.

Back home now for a treat of a cup of tea! Then off to Sainaburys.

Thanks, I will try frying with the coconut oil - does it make everything taste of coconut though? I looked up bulletproof coffee and I find the idea of putting butter and oil in coffee sounds repulsive; is it actually nice??

I have aubergines too, going to make moussaka.

Glad it went well, Cider!

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Just curious to know if anyone else doing this has no gallbladder? I had mine removed last September.

I also am like Wintersea and So in that I am in my fifties. Got divorced earlier this year and hoping to lose weight and get back out on the dating front.

Titsalinabumsquash aubergines are one of my favourites. Cut little slits in and stuff slivers of garlic in. Pour over olive oil and roast till soft. Can do this on the BBQ too (wrap in foil) Eat with cheese crisps like a dip.

Slice up and roast with lots of olive oil and a few shallots and cherry toms until golden brown. Use to top a big salad with cider vinegar / olive oil dressing.

Or roast slices until crisp (ish) and use to scoop up baked feta (half a block of feta topped with olive oil, chopped shallot, chopped tomato, oregano and wrapped in a foil parcel and baked in the over for 25 mins) works great in the BBQ too!

Half an aubergine and score flesh. Pour over olive oil. Roast till soft. Scoop out flesh and stuff. You can stuff with lots of different things but my favourite is chorizo.

I fry some chorizo, mushrooms, shallots with garlic and smoked paprika. Then add in spinach until wilted and finally some cream cheese. Pop filling in halfway and top with Parmesan. Bake until golden.

Aubergine parmigiana is lovely too but a bit higher as has quite a bit of tomato.

Slice oil and griddle the aubergine (good mixed with courgettes too)
Layer with a hm tomato sauce (passata reduced with oregano, garlic and basil until thick) and fresh mozzarella and Parmesan. Bake until golden and bubbling.

Thanks Xotic, glad to hear you're past this. It's always reassuring to hear of people getting better. Mine started when I was 14, got better, got worse in my late 20s, got better in my early 30s, and now I'm 36 and it's been coming and going fairly badly the past two years. Hopefully the counselling work I'm doing will eventually help me kick it for good! :)

Glad to hear it went well Cider

laser depends on your coconut oil. Normal Extra virgin/organic/cold pressed tastes of coconut. You get lightly steamed organic too which doesn't (biona cuisine is the brand I get) or processed / highly refined which has no taste (KTC is the brand I've seen most widely available).

Butter and coconut oil in coffee is yummy if blitzed in - like a creamy latte - but by no means mandatory. If you have plenty of fat in your diet you might not want to try a BPC. Bulletproof tea (chai is my favourite) is lovely too!

boldlygoingsomewhere love that you managed a low carb option in your dream! Way to boot camp!

Thanks, it's cold pressed, I think extra virgin. I picked it up in Aldi on impulse this morning. I love the taste of coconut! Is bulletproof tea made the same as the coffee? What do you use to blend it?

Food for me yesterday was a bit disastrous. Started ok with HM courgette soup (ham bone broth) out the freezer. Then had a maternity committee meeting which I'd forgotten about so running about like a blue arsed fly to get hubby and DD dinner ready and forgot to make myself something. Ended up in the cafe at the hospital for a cathedral city cheese stick and a Big Mac no sauce, no bun on the way home. Too much processed meat, not enough food. Argh.

Today will be better. Have boiled eggs for a salad for lunch.

Thank you for the aubergine recipes Gcalgske. They're a favourite in this house and we eat loads, even DC (6). Most of my recipes included honey though. :(
Titsalina definitely grill or fry them first. They will be much improved. You'll also sweat all the water out avoiding soggy mince.

Am in an M&S cafe, had the veggie 'spaghetti' and beef bol. The bol was fine but the veg was grated rather than spiralled and just steamed,no butter so pretty awful really, we wont get everyone doing lchf with that kind of offering.

Chuffed with myself for not eating the wee biccy that came with my pot of tea. A minor victory but still, progress all the same.

Linseed pizza time

Good luck today Cider, well done Bursars that is a great achievement :)

I am making my current face LC lunch of celeriac & smoked salmon dauphinoise. So tasty!

Oops missed a page! Glad today went ok Cider and hope all is well.

LaserShark you're right, the idea of butter, coconut oil is absolutely revolting but, trust me the reality is not. Someone told me about them years ago and I just thought they were mad but I have to say I really like them.

Can someone tell me about the chai tea please - is it the same as BPC but jus twith tea?? Ta

Hi everyone! Lots of inspiring losses and menus, thanks.
My weight stayed the same could someone kindly put me as 180 again on s/sheet thank you.
I had a stressful week with my Mum in hospital (and DS birthday party, different kind of stress) but I've had a word with myself, Life will always be here so I need to focus on BC and not make excuses.

Gcal thanks for those aubergine ideas. I'm going to try some of those.

For all those who are skeptical, as I was 30 minutes ago, about courgetti can I just say: it rocks. I'm a total convert. Might even get a spiralizer. Brilliant pasta substitue and a lot less heavy in the stomach.

Boot camp just got easier.

BursarsFrogs You can get past this and learn to manage your relationship with food. I suffered with bulimia nervosa my 'cure' from that cycle was 'cured' by getting divorced from my EA ex. I would still find I would sometimes binge but not to the extent and I didn't do anything about it. Following LCHF diet has really helped my relationship with food, not sure why but now if I go off plan I can draw a line and get back on without spending a week eating the house and then hating myself afterwards. I do believe these things stay with us but we can gain control over them rather than the other way around.

Cider glad it all went ok.

I love courgette 'pasta' too though don't have a spiral user - just peel off ribbons with a potato peeler...
Glad you are in the clear Cider
Friend just diagnosed and am so worried about her.
Out last night and managed to avoid wine and bread but ate far, far too much cheese...
For all of us with dodgy scales, I am torn between averaging and taking the highest of 5-6 readings, which someone up thread suggested. As long as that highest reading is going down, Sh be ok?!
We'll have to compare post 50 notes roundthebend !
Still got my gallbladder, just losing my marbles...

Spiral user!
Thought I'd corrected that before posting!

margaritas I'm also surprised by how much I like courgetti! It's so quick to stirfry. I bought a julienne peeler which doesn't take up as much kitchen space as a spiraliser.