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

[BIWI]

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.

Excuse the ramblings

Well done you with your blood donations. It is something I keep meaning to do, but haven't yet. Respect

Thanks thought it was the least I could do after all the treatment dh had. Not a big fan of needles but it's not too bad and I feel glad to have done it afterwards.

That's so nice Guy, what a brilliant idea. X

Just catching up.
Guy that's a lovely idea. It's reminded me - if anyone is O-ve, then please, please donate if you can as the country as a whole is struggling to get enough at the moment.

My day examining went ok. It's one of those days which is simultaneously enjoyable and boring! I was right about lunch - limp sandwiches, crisps and fruit. I did forget about the cold pizza which was as thick as a doorstep and there were a few crudités. So, I had the inside of two sandwiches (ham and beef), a bit of pepper, cucumber and sugar snap. I did take my own pot of prosciutto, olives and halloumi and, as expected, it was commented on, but I just changed the subject.
Dinner is in the over - sausage casserole from the IPD cookbook with courgette.
I may have an alcoholic drink tonight, I have had two bottles of gin given to me that I haven't tried yet, one called elephant gin, which I've never heard off, and a bottle of tanqueray. I am going to need to be careful as I am in a bit of a "sod it" frame of mind with DS's birthday tomorrow.
Hope everyone else has a good weekend and withstands the worse of the temptations.

Mookbark- yes I'm o negative! Completely with you on that.

I don't think I've ever tried gin? I always think a gin and tonic looks really refreshing!

I've been growing my own veg for the first time, I've now got more lettuce than I know what to do with. Looks like another week of lettuce soup (this was really nice!) and salad Can't be bad though!

That's a lovely thing to do "Guy.
Today was
Breakfast. Herb Philly with cucumber slices and 2 Cherry toms to dip and some cheddar.

Lunch out and about so porky scratchings and a tub of olives and feta which I finished

Dinner. Roast beef and left over veg dripping in butter.

Black coffee (used to drink latte, this is a revelation) black tea. Water - getting there.

Today was a shocking day and I'm a little bit out of sorts. I bought myself a coyote to treat myself to later. Something good to look forward to.

Ha! Obviously I meant a coyo and not a coyote.

Hello bootcampers,

I'm still going to WW as I've rejoined a few weeks ago, before seeing the light (again) and realising I was a carb addict. I haven't cancelled, because I am finding the weigh in quite motivating. So my weigh in is today and I told the leader I was doing LC and asked if I could stay a member, just for the discipline of weighing in. She was cool - whatever works etc..

Anyhow, I lost 5.5 in my first week of low carb last week, and another 5 in my second week this week (I'll add both to the spreadsheet on monday if that's ok because I need to reflect my LC journey accurately.

Am v happy with 10.5 off (so I'm now 89.5 I guess?), and now the headaches and weirdness has gone it is much easier. We had salmon and cauliflower cous cous stirfried tonight and it was lush.

Twice this week I've been faced with TEMPTATION and coped. Meeting in cupcake cafe earlier this week was a doddle, which I hadn't expected. I just wasnt hungry at all so the cakes were like 'meh'... But today was really hard....

All the habits and emotional eating pulls kicked in. As a rabid remainer, I've been miserable and tired from staying up late. Wanted to drink Cava and eat chocolate desperately. But whereas the addict version would go 'fuck it, its shit, I'll indulge' the ketosis me goes 'you know it's going to be hard. today is a hard day. tomorrow will be different. Here, here's some cheese instead!'

I know I will fall off the wagon and through the looking glass again and be back in addictsville sometime soon. But if I can shed my first two stone to have a bit of a buffer, then I'll be chuffed as anything and hopefully be able to get back on the wagon again.

My two weeks will be up on Monday but I'm going to try to hold out for a full 4 weeks of alcohol free too, just for my liver's sake.

"One day at a tiiiiiiime, sweet Jebus....."

Weigh day for me. 141lbs if someone can pop it on the spreadsheet. Feeling good. Not hungry at all. Ever. It's amazing really.
10 days till hols. Will be happy if I can shift 3-4 more lbs xx

indiana I'm sure coyote is LC as well

Feel really depressed and heartbroken and went out to drown my sorrows with some friends, so this is really not turning out to be a good BC week. Tomorrow need to sharpen up!

B: scrambled eggs with cream and cheese, asparagus fried in butter
L: aubergine and tomato stew with feta
D: charcuterie and cheese, gherkins, salad
S: HB egg, flat white, three strawberries, one aperitif, four glasses of white wine

Deliberately went to French wine bar, was lovely.

I'm sure reader but I'd have to find one first! However, if I did I'd be sure to cook it in butter.

betty heartbroken is the right word!

I laughed out loud at coyote - which was much needed after a day like today. A lot of cheese has been had as an attempt to keep me away from anything more harmful, although I had a pimms at friends house and only after finishing it realised it was made with non-diet lemonade....

Good on you Guy with the donating, you have reminded me I should be giving too (O-neg).

Anyhoo, not to bad a day eating wise:
B - hb eggs and butter
L - soup of leftover cauli and broccoli with the fat and juices saved from a roast chicken then blitzed up with cream. B nice
D - not so nice. leftover salmon with courgetti in coconut oil, and some spinach and pak choi with cream. Won't be trying that again just didn't quite work
S - Brie, babybel, pimms

There will be alcohol today so I need to minimise how much I have and sneak lc food to prevent chips passing my lips as a result.

Annoyed that the dodgy weather means a planned byo outdoor party has decamped to the pub for the day. I had all the food sudden and now we are supposed to buy lunch/dinner st the pub instead.

Strategies:
Eat big scrambled egg brekkie
Eat early lc lunch
Buy one large bottle water for every 2 alcoholic drinks
Drink only g&slimlinetonic apart from the one glass of celebration champagne
Have lc snacks packed to graze on and somehow do that without looking stupid.
Frantically search menu for lc dinner or leave a bit early to finish moussaka st home.

Hmmmm

Guy I can recommend gin. They say nectar is the drink of gods, but I disagree.
Wilf well done, that's a fantastic loss.

I'm trying to avoid the news, etc at the moment as it's just too depressing. I know it's not a solution, but I've just had enough of it at the moment. I did watch the last leg last night, which did at least make me laugh a bit about it because if you don't laugh, you'll cry.

DS2 was up at the crack of dawn, as usual, so we've given him his presents and he's retreated back to his bedroom. I think he especially appreciated the Monopoly money we got him - he had asked for money.
Anyway, back to the thread.
B - two creamy coffees, possibly a small cheese omelette with the left over egg from doing DS eggy bread.
L - salad with something
D - not sure, something sufficiently yummy that I won't be tempted by the boy's domino pizza. I might get a couple of juicy steaks from the farm shop. Does anyone have an ideas for a dairy free sauce? I would usually do a peppercorn sauce with cream. Otherwise, I'll have the sauce and DH can have his plain.
S - birthday cake, maybe. We have a shop here called the cheesecake shop, I don't know if anyone else has one near them? As the name suggests, they do really lovely cheesecakes. DS wants one from there, it may not be a traditional cake, but I reckon I can stick a candle or two in it.

I forgot to say yesterday, but I did my first weights session. Felt a bit of a pillock surrounded by big, muscly men and there's me at the squat rack, with the bar but no weights on it! But I reckon, everyone has got to start somewhere. Not as ashy today as I thought I may be.

Ashy = achy, but tbf, I'm not ashy either.

Blimey - just woke up from a really vivid dream in which I was staying at a hotel and had the most enormous breakfast with toast and jam and all sorts…. In my dream was panicking about the ticking off I was going to get from BIWI! Ridicuous…..

Ah, not, you've had the lc dream! I think many of us have had a version of it, mine involved a lot of cake.

DH and I went out for a 'what the fuck just happened' dinner last night, and I went massively off piste.

Partly it was unintended - stuff I'd ordered arrived with elements that hadn't been described on the menu (I hate it when that happens), but partly it was a real 'fuck it' moment.

However, today and tomorrow we're invited to barbecues, and barbecues are generally pretty good for low carbers, so am back on the wagon, very seriously. I'm going to a posh do at Henley on Friday and have a dress that I have to fit into, so that's my target for next week!

Wilf bloody well done. That's a fab result.

Parking my self firmly back on the thread as I need some discipline. Food gas been fine but I have had gin and slims three times this week. It's not healthy nor us it going to do me any favours on the scales.

If someone could slap me in the face with a wet fish, I would appreciate it. Or a coyote.

Consider yourself slapped!

Just one glass of process yesterday at a rugby do had me buzzing - I don't think I can drink much while LCing as I will be off my face!

Nothing in the fridge this morning and I've had to have milk with my coffee because there is no cream and no coconut oil!

Off to make some tuna mayo for breakfast...

I am having the worst day today, my DD hasn't slept in 4 nights and I'm just mainly crying from stress and exhaustion, this last few weeks of hospitals, illness, financial worry and stress have hit me like a truck. I'm hiding in my room away from everyone.

However, I can announce that this morning I saw 9 on the scales for the first time in years. 9 stone 14 lbs.