Week 2 - Pre-summer low carb bootcamp

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I don't think that BIWI has managed to post a new thread so I'll do this one.

I don't have the wise words of BIWI so I'll just say that by now you should be more in the swing of lcing so just keep it up and remember, only 1 week until bclite.

Hopefully you all have a successful weigh-in but if not, don't be disheartened. Post for some help and we will do our best.

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Ooh thanks ilove! Your moussaka looked lovely

omg.

OMG.

So it's date night tomorrow.

I tried on my standard go-to date night dress this morning and it was at least 2 sizes too big for me

We havent been on a date for a couple of months while DP has been changing jobs and I've been focused on LCHF, so I havent worn anything "nice in that time.

I thought fuck it, I'm going shopping

Went to tesco before work because I don't want to spend a fortune on clothes right now due to personage shinkage, but I managed to find this dress to try on and they had it in a size 22 (my normal size), happy days.

Tried it on, it was way too big, so I grabbed a 20. STILL too big. I thought surely I can't be in an 18 already so grabbed one and tried that...

STILL TOO BIG.

Ladies, I just bought myself A SIZE 16!!!

I also had to buy a new bra because frankly, the ones I'm wearing you could happily fit a couple of tennis balls into as well as me ... the downside of weight loss is loss of boobage

DP has looked at the menus for all local restaurants (his turn to choose) and bless him, chosen a restaurant I can eat loads of stuff from

Menu here - it's like it was written for a low carber!

Instead of rice or chips etc I'm just going to ask for a house mixed salad as the side instead.

Start I'm thinking gambas but without the bread, then main of tequila chicken or something else for starter and maybe sea bass? Too much choice!

Yay! Great result, Jiminny

I bloody love butter but have been buying spreadable low fat butter stuff which sort of tastes like it but not completely. Loving the butter revelation on this woe

I think I'm having too much cheese. I'm up a pound since Monday. I know there will be normal fluctuations but I would have expected more loss by now as I'm following the rules. I've not done any actual cooking this week (apart from Green aubergines and courgettes, and hardboiled eggs) as I'm on holiday at home and didn't feel like it... Have been eating huge salads with Halloumi or feta or mozzarella for dinner, and salads with other cheeses for lunch. Today I will go through the recipe sheet and plan some meals without cheese. Am vegetarian, so meat not an option.

grilled aubergines, that should have been!

Jim, happy dancing for you!

Have finally got round to putting my carbonara recipe from the other night in the recipe thread as well.

Jiminny, that is fantastic news. A huge well done.

Ilove, cows almost make me (a confirmed athiest) almost believe there is a god. I mean, steak, butter cream and shoes from one animal!!! (Apologies to vegetarians and I do buy local farmed, ethical meat from a farm 15 miles from our house. And all their other stuff is from local farms too, I have to say grass fed beef is just amazing).

Today I have had some Greek yogurt and a chai tea with cream and coconut oil.

I think lunch will be either an omlette and salad or a cheese salad.

Dinner, whatever I find in aldi that I fancy. I'm tempted to get some lamb mince and make some koftas.

I've been toying with the idea of an instapot for over a year. I did a cookery course last year and loads of people on it raved about them, but I just have memories of my stove top one exploding 20 odd years ago - I've never used one since. Plus the space is an issue. But I'm very tempted.

patient I was wondering about this, I've always been a but paranoid about keeping butter out of the fridge ... do you leave yours out all the time?

What's the best cheese sauce for cauliflower cheese you guys have used? I've seen variations on butter, cream cheese and double cream ... any other ingredients that seem to work quite well (obviously with some seasoning)?

RedBeanie i make cauli cheese by melting butter and adding in par-boiled cauliflower intil it all browns slightly. Then chuck in half a pot of double cream, a handful of grated cheddar and half a handful of stilton. Mix it around, stick it in a dish then sprinkle a bit of cheddar over the top and bung in the oven on 200 degrees for 30 mins. Heaveeen.

beanie I tend to use 150 MLS of double cream and a large handful of grated cheese, heat gently and stir briskly at the end. Don't bother with anything else, and it's lovely. Gives me enough for a whole cauliflower.

ilove and ada yes the taste of real butter is such a revelation! at hugging cows.

Jim awesome news on the size 16 and lovely dress. You will have such a super evening, beaming away in your SIZE 16!!! dress.

Daisy yes maybe try less dairy, it can definitely stall some people, including me if I have too much (other than butter, thank goodness!) plus keep the water and fat up!

Oh, Stilton...that sounds nice, Jim

Red yes I just keep the one I'm using on the counter all the time and it's fine, doesn't go off/rancid. I gather it's a stable fat in that way. I just get the 250g blocks and hence get through one well within a week. I keep the spare blocks in the fridge till I need them.

Just keep it in the shade / cool-ish part of the kitchen, for me it doesn't melt to a puddle even in a hot day. Not in the UK anyway!

Thanks Imustbe. For people asking about leaving butter out of the fridge, you can get lidded butter dishes in different sizes. We've got some quite tiny ones, from an independent china shop but very cheap, and the butter is gone before it gets the chance to go off.

Just been catching up with the thread, it has taken forever. I stopped to jot down a few responses on the way but I think they've all been covered now. They're below anyway.

style roast, mashed, chipped,raw in a coleslaw, as a dauphinois, I love celariac.

Yes ILove I definitely feel better on this way of eating, both physically and emotionally.

Yes it lowers blood pressure

Ilove I love your anology. And your wagon Jim, spot on.

Re chiselling babybel the answer is yes

Redbeanie I hate milky tea so personally wouldn't like it creamy. I used to have skimmed milk in mine and was very loath to give it up but I did and started drinking it black. It took a while, but a year on I'm a convert.

Sayrrat he/she's beautiful and what a lovely place to ride.

Dog belly Jimminy

Jump in Kate

If I get constipated it usually means I'm not having enough water/ fat. I do go less often and way smaller quantities on bc though (probably tmi)

Have a lovely night Jim.

Yesterday I had a Lc sausage and olives for breakfast.
L a sausage and scrambled eggs with the garlic pepper someone recommended a while ago. Thanks it was fab
D left over pork chop, cauliflower cheese and cabbage from last night.
Water and tea.

Again I was out for tea yesterday and drank my black tea and chatted to everyone having cream cakes. I did have to stop myself finishing off Ds's chocolate cake because I hate waste but it was a momentary aberration, easy to resist.

Wow Jim, well done, you must feel awesome today! Such an inspiration

Sorry yes, just to add re the butter thing, as daisy said, mine is a lidded butter dish, not just a bottom saucer-only type one.

Mine is is one

butter dish

Just catching up with the thread.

Jiminny awesome news on the size 16, that's fantastic!

Dinner last night was garlic chicken (www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/garlic-chicken) with creamed green cabbage (www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/creamed-green-cabbage) - really delicious!!!

Leftover chicken for lunch with lettuce and loads of mayonnaise.

Well done jiminy! That must feel amazing!

I love - thanks for the moussaka recipe- I'll be trying it out tomorrow

Thanks all. I have a metal butter dish with lid so will start keeping it out. Much easier. It should be ok for the kids to have butter on their bread rather than marg? Thinking I'll stop buying it.

Thanks for the cheese sauce tips, sounds like I don't need the cream cheese. Will have to think if something else to do with it!

Also forgot to say Congrats to Jiminny, you must be so pleased!

Morning!

Thank you for adding those recipes ilove. You don't fancy a vistor over the weekend do you ? I'd be ever so quiet and not get in the way! You wouldn't have start a thread about me in AIBU, promise!

Jimminy you must be chuffed to bits. I bet you look gorgeous in that dress. The link to the menu actually links to the dress BTW!

Red I picked up a butter dish ages ago in Asda. It matches my Emma Bridgewater canisters - I couldn't justify the expense of an EB butter dish . If you are worried you can always cut the block of butter into half/thirds and put that in the dish to keep it nice and soft. But it should be fine with a whole block.

Don't say that about HM yogurt Adalind it makes me feel all efficient and housewifely making my own . Never mind the cost! And if DP knew I'd just typed that he would collapse on the floor laughing.

No idea about food today. I'm not desperately hungry enough to know what I fancy yet. There's a first .