Week 6 - Pre-summer Low Carb Bootcamp - half way through!

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Morning all. Welcome to the first day of summer

Here's the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness once again, for you to declare all.

Thankfully a bit of a quieter week for me, once today is over, so I can concentrate a bit more on food and do a bit of cooking and meal planning!

Hope all is going well, and that the scales have been kind to you this morning.

I have acknowledged that I'm making my life difficult trying to skip or minimise breakfast. A bowl of Greek yoghurt just won't do it for me, it's not enough. I think for some reason I feel I should be fine without breakfast or that it would be better if I didn't need it but actually a substantial breakfast keeps me on track and makes my morning much easier. It's fine whilst I'm off work because I have time to do eggs, but our mornings are massively stressful when I'm working and we need to get two young children out of the house by 7am. It would be so much easier if I could do without breakfast but I have now established that I'm just sabotaging myself by trying to make that be true. So I'm going for a hearty breakfast every morning from now on and starting each day as I mean to go on.

One of the pounds I gained over the weekend has gone already so am feeling positive today.

I'm a pound a half lighter than at weigh in yesterday! Am tempted to update the spreadsheet but I won't.

Hearty breakfasts are definitely the key. I couldn't face one this morning and so had a bit of ff greek yog and a piece of cheese but I know I will feel hungry waaaay before lunchtime, which is when trouble can start.

I shouldn't have weighed again this morning. Was up a lot! I am sticking to yesterday's lovely drop and hoping things continue to even out for next Monday. Just goes to show how not linear weight loss is for all of us, as you experienced boot campers keep reminding us.

B Yog and cheese
L Leftover steak burger and halloumi with spinach salad and mayo
D LC sausages, salad, feta
S celery and homemade chicken liver pate with butter

Discovered a new thing yesterday. Was invited to a lunch at the client's but had packed my own lc lunch. COuldn't get away without eating anything so chose the saucisson starter. 7 thin little saucisson, 4 hunks of bread and those horrible cornichon pickles. What to do?? I ended up dipping the saucisson in the pot of butter. Was actually quite delicious!

I'm not a breakfast person at all. I just do not want to eat in the morning.

Nor me Primal - but I do get hungry by mid-morning so I sneak off at work and have it about 10-10.30.

No, I'm not a breakfast person either. In fact, the cream in my morning coffees will usually keep me full until 1-3 pm! I ate my first thing today at 1pm and that was mainly because I thought I should, rather than because I was particularly hungry. This wasn't the case before I did this woe.

I tried skipping breakfast, but it didn't work for me. I eat when hungry, which can be anywhere between 8-10am.

Today's meals:
B - creamy coffee, low carb pancakes with philadelphia
L - salad with cheese and olives
D - fried cauliflower rice with prawns
S - chocolate coconut fat bomb

I was good at the weekend and did some low carb cooking which makes life so much easier!

How do you do the low carb pancakes? I need some new ideas!

Cream cheese pancakes - you don't need the sweetener and they're lush with a knob of butter on. They are a bit omelettey so don't expect them to taste like crepes.

Had a lush dinner this evening, roasted belly pork with curried cauliflower rice, yum. How many slices of belly pork is a suitable serving? I had 3! I felt a bit of a glutton but it was so tasty!

I had the mayo/parmesan pork chops again tonight, with green beans. Going to have a small square of dark orange choc.

Brunch leftovers, meat, veg, celeriac dauphinois

Dinner fried prawns, fried halloumi, avacado dressed green leaves. Mayonnaise

Various black teas. Just about all my water.

Princessbananahammock I usually eat two big ones or three little ones. Like you I don't know if that is the correct amount but it feels about right for me

Today's food,
B - 2 hb eggs and butter, coffee and cream
L - tricky working lunch at external venue with the usual sandwich fest so I bought an m&s protein pot (2 hb eggs and spinach) and the ready cooked crispy bacon strips, and had packed some celery and cucumber to munch on
D - heck square sausage (2) in lettuce wraps with cheese, mayo and garlic mushrooms
S - several black coffees, some dark choc, babybel
Not enough water as didn't want to be up to the loos during long meeting and train journeys...

Hmm, slinking on in shame after bad incident with rest of bar of Green and Black's 70% which suddenly I felt need to demolish while working late on stressful project...nothing to do with hunger and everything to do with emotional eating...and work still not finished!

B: scrambled eggs and avocado
L: salad with creamy mayo dressing with turkey, mozzarella, avocado
D: pork belly again with sauerkraut and brocc
S: hb egg, cheese, too much dark choc (maybe 60g max - not the end of the world but I'm feeling a killer sugar rush)

I posted on the last thread by mistake.

We're home from hospital now, 10 stone on the scales so a pound lost, if hoped for more since I was eating so little and walking so much!
Lots of comments that my bottom and abdominal area are looking much flatter and smaller though so that's great!

Glad to be back home and back on it, I really want to see that 9 on the scales though!

I'm on day 9 of my LC journey. I've been having about 100g full fat Greek yoghurt with a spoon of Linwoods mixed flax and nuts for brunch cos I can be arsed making eggs. Yesterday I just wasn't hungry AT ALL, so I decided to run with it, and had a cube of cheese and some sugar snap peas for dinner.

I've been reading quite a lot about fasting while doing low carb too, and I fasted on Monday, which may explain why my appetite was so very low yesterday. I've tried both, separately, and it also tried LC while having weekend alcohol and carby treats. After the first couple of weeks, neither really helped me with the carb/sugar addiction. So I've decided for a more committed strategy this time.

I am introducing a fast day as after two weeks I would like to introduce a bit of alcohol and fruit, but am worried about this setting off my sweet cravings. I've found the fasting has the effect of immediately resetting my cravings and appetite so it might help me manage a balanced low carb WOE. I need to be able to do this for life, ultimately so I need to tweak it.

Anyone else doing a fast day as well?

Wilf - I just can't do fasting. I've tried before but my body just seems to hang on to fat and I feel rubbish without losing. The fact I can eat as much as I want is psychologically the best thing and means I eat a lot less, but only if I am eat regularly.

B - buttery scrambled eggs
L - 2 lc sausages, spinach and mayo
D - slow cooker on with a shoulder of lamb, garlic, Rosemary, chicken stock and anchovy paste. Serving with broccoli cheese and then mash for the family.
S - cheese (good stuff is winking at me!), celery and pate
Lots of black coffee, lots of water

Wilf I'm not doing a fast day but I'm doing a 16:8 (ish) fast some days as I'm not hungry in the morning generally. I've just eaten lunch now and, other than coffee with cream this morning, haven't had any before that since dinner last night.

I felt rather (quietly) smug sitting at my desk this morning as my colleagues tucked into one after another chocolate that someone had brought back from holidays whilst I wasn't even vaguely tempted! A couple of months ago I would have probably had one every time I walked past. A real NSV for me

Wilf I'm like Mary and often do an inadvertent 16/8. I think gcal does sometimes, too. I think this woe is really suited to that.
So, today:
B - two creamy coffees.
L - two hb eggs, mixed salad, mayo and dressing.
D - garlic roasted cod with roast veg
S - 1-2 spicy chai lattes.

I've booked a gym session for tomorrow night to learn how to lift weights! I'm a runner by inclination, but off it at the moment as I have a poorly foot, so thought I'd give this a go. Wish me luck. I guess the main thing is not to drop the weight on my foot.

wilf, I successfully followed the 5:2 way of eating before doing bootcamp. I decided to give bootcamp a try as I think need to reset my eating habits long terms- on 5:2 I was still eating too many 'treats' and bowls of pasta on non-fast days because they were allowed. I have PCOS though which is strongly linked with insulin resistance so I thought I would actually need to reduce my carb intake for a while so I could eventually find my own equilibrium point without dealing with cravings.
I'm amazed at the fact I have had no rice, potatoes, pasta, bread etc for weeks and how good I feel! I think once bootcamp is over I may introduce smaller amounts of carbs again like sweet potato but follow it with a fast day to encourage my body to get back into fat burning quickly.
It may take a bit of experimenting as I suspect that I am very carb sensitive.
I've also had the odd 16:8 day when I haven't felt hungry and that has been easy.

I do low carb pancakes using coconut flour or ground almonds and with almond milk or just coconut oil instead of milk. Yummy with cream cheese! You can find loads of recipes online!

I'm not far enough into this yet to have a fast day, but I can quite easily skip lunch as long as I know I can have something nice later! I still need a treat when I get home from work, but that is just habit/emotional eating.

Well done, boldly, pasta, potatoes etc. are evil!!!

Yes I've also recently done a couple of accidental 16/8 fasts. When I wake I just eat as soon as I'm hungry but not before (easy for me because I work from home) when I did deliberate meal missing though I ate too much at the following meal. My meal size is definitely decreasing over time.

B fage ff yogurt. (I was hungry but felt a little queasy this morning so didn't want much)
L. Left overs from last night - fried prawns, fried halloumi, avacado dressed leaves, Mayo.

D roast beef. Roast swede. Roast cauliflower. Pan fried sprouts with shallot and streaky bacon.

Hello all. Just checking in.
I'm koko but have had a couple of things i shouldn't have