Week 6 - Summer Low Carb Bootcamp - we're racing on!

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Morning campers!

Here's the spreadsheet

Some good losses reported already this morning!

Four weeks left, so we could still see a good half stone disappear if we're vigilant.

The hot weather looks like it's disappearing this week, so hopefully anyone still struggling with water retention should find some relief.

But good luck to us all

Wow ilove that sounds amazing! I might do something like that with soya mince for dinner though I do have the ingredients for fathead pizza

DD and DH went to the market today for fresh veg, and brought me back a bag of macedemia nuts the size of golf balls! They are so creamy and tasty - nothing like the ones you get in Tesco at home. I'm now enjoying one with a post lunch coffee on the terrace, while having a MN fix. As soon as the sun is off the pool, I'm in there for the rest of the afternoon :) I'm amazed at how easy it's been to have a low carb holiday without feeling deprived. Ok, have probably eased off slightly in that I'm not going hysterical if there are sliced onions on my salad in a restaurant or the stuffed peppers are red rather than green, but apart from a slight vegetable relaxation, I'm totally just sticking to it, and feeling good.

So if you were going to a wedding what would you do food wise? The meal is basically carbs on carbs (veggie option) so I need to pick at it for politeness and take something in my bag. Just a load of cheese and olives?

Ooh she just told me there are mozzarella and feta parcels as canapés so maybe I can hoard them and pick the pastry off in the bathroom

Ada you can either take a big handbag full of snacks or accessorise with LC treats. Pork scratching necklace, bracelet of LC sausages, broach of salad leaves with a burger centre piece, earrings of olive strings and a hat covered in delicate flowers made of salami.

Old all gripes are relative, I'm lucky I don't have any littles while I'm lying in bed DH has taken bunny to the vet, DS is cleaning no the dining room floor, DIL is doing washing. I too am still in my nightie. DH is relocating me and the ventilator to the decking and sunshine, bliss

C4 fuck it I'm wearing the accessories. A fascinator made of babybels and an upside down pot of Greek yoghurt maybe

OK So fathead pizza - I made the dough but it's more than I expected so can I either freeze the dough or make a huge pizza and freeze some of that?

Hey everyone,

I've been quiet the last couple of days, as you know it's been a really shit week!

I've stayed mostly on track, a couple of emotionally driven spoons of peanut butter but other than that I've been eating to appetite although I don't think I'll have lost weight this week but that's the last thing I'm thinking about at the moment.

Dad took a turn for the worse and was rushed in for emergency surgery at 2am this morning. He's recovering and minus a gall bladder, but essentially his pancreatitis started to cause a few of his other organs to shut down so they decided whipping out his gall bladder might make his pancreas pipe down. It seems to be working, he's stable and doing well.

However, I now know where I get my obsession with my weight and poor body image from. Dads been nil by mouth for a few days, and every time I've visited him all he talks about is how much weight he's probably lost due to not eating he genuinely sees it as a good thing. He's always been obese and it has bothered him for as long as I've been alive at least, he has always talked about weight and weight loss and lies through his teeth about what he eats all the time, especially to my mum who has always policed food. I realise now I've grown up with that all my life, makes me so much more determined not to be like him or my mum and get to his age and hate my body and still have a fucked up relationship with food. Blah.

Anyway, DP decided to drag me out of my funk today and we went to a local fine foods market. I've bought my body weight in cheese and olives and stopped for lunch at a Greek stall where I had halloumi salad, then stopped at the pub for a creamy coffee and a gin and slim

I also stopped at mum and dads house to pick dad up some stuff, went upstairs to my old room and grabbed some size 14 and 16 clothes to tide me over until I can afford to shop.. only gone and fitted into a size 14 play suit I bought when I was 18 evidence attached! It's got some stretch in it though so I'm probably at 16 top, 16/18 bottom at the moment

I feel much much better for going out and spending time with DP, more in control. I've shoved a ton of flax crackers in the dehydrator just now and my lunches for next week will be a block of speciality cheese from the market, butter and flaxcracks

Jiminny well done for going through all of that and not being a carby twat. You are the bootcamp hero, you have been an inspiration to so many people on here we all would have wept buckets if you'd gone off the rails. I'm so glad you've uncovered the root of your disordered eating, it's so much harder fighting a battle if you don't know what the enemy is, your poor dad will be very disappointed when he weighs himself because the surgery will cause massive water retention. I usually weigh at least 10lbs more the week after surgery even if I've not eaten anything.
The playsuit looks good, you do realise that the wedding dress is going to be a size 12 or even smaller, which is amazing. I can't wait to hear about your wedding menu, I presume it's going to be all LCHF.

Namaste bitches

C4 wedding menu is decided and yes, its low carb friendly it's all big sharing plates :)

Canapés are all different but there's a lamb kofta and a duck one that's low carb, Starter is baked camonbert with artisan breads but I've ordered veggie ducks to dip in too for anyone not wanting bread, main is a roast dinner with all the trimmings (turkey or beef or both!) pudding is pavlova but with extra bowls amid strawberries and cream on each table photos attached!

Idea is these massive sharing platters are out on each table and everyone passes them around the table like a family Christmas dinner

ilove that's a great burrito recipe, will definitely be trying it out.

C4 I think you should totally start your own line of LC accessories!

Jiminny I think not being a carby twat at stressful times is half the battle. Wedding menu looks lovely.

Been to my mum's baptism today & she did a spread afterwards, so I ate my bodyweight in rocket salad, mayo and crunchy cheddar! That cheese is delicious, you lot must try it if you've not already.

Food today:
B - microwave scrambled eggs & chorizo (I don't think I'll ever get fed up of this breakfast, it's delicious)
L - rocket salad, tomato, basil & mozzarella salad, mayo, gouda, crunchy cheddar, 1 strawberry that DD2 didn't want
D - got chicken thighs & a bag of salad at work to last me all (my 3 day) week

Jiminny loving your wedding menu. I really really want to go wedding dress shopping with you

jiminny that sounds very stressful, glad they have operated on your dad and hope this is the start of recovery for him. As for fitting in a size 14, well done, you must feel amazing!

I feel like I have stalled a bit and let in some carb creep, forgetting to drink enough, bingeing a bit etc, plus I don't think I "got it" straight away, so I have decided to go back to basics from tomorrow and do strict BC again. Not sure how long for, but we have now booked our holiday for the end of August and it would be awesome to have comfortably lost a dress size by then.

C4 don't worry, I'll be taking photos of every dress and asking you guys for opinions so you're all coming shopping with me if you can stay on the threads until the end of September!

Where are yoe going, Old Books?

@JiminnyCricket you don't think you'd get away without us all seeing your dress choices do you?!

copperas my parents live in Hungary so we end up there every year. It's a double edged sword of cheap hols & free baby sitting vs the stress of staying with DM I am actually dreading it in some ways as she will praise my weight loss to the skies while simultaneously providing me as much cake etc as poss and like Jiminny's mil she will get really snotty about me not "enjoying myself"

Thanks star for That, I'll definitely make my own next time.
I've been ok today, it's the odd spoon of stuff off the kids plates, and wine really that are pushing me off track. I'm still down on last week I think, Friday to Friday I lost 3lbs.
Today not terrific, as dh cooked. And the kids were driving me mad.

B bacon and
l. Tinned Salmon mayo in lettuce leaves and leftover fajita chicken plus guacamole. There was honey in the guac I later discovered.
D. Roast lamb, with loads of garlic and harissa pkus celeriac mash, salad, spinach. Too many toms and red peppers in the salad really.

Apart from that I basically put a whole spoonful of Swedish glace ice cream in my mouth whilst dishing up for the kids, without thinking.

New day tomorrow, I'll do better.

Mmmm fathead pizza is glorious

My mother certainly equated love with cake. Refusing food was rejecting her. But she was a really good cake cook so not much refusing went on. Are there any low carb Hungarian delicacies you can ask for?

copperas it should be very doable, they eat lots of meats and cheeses with salads so that's fine. Main meals tend to have a heavy carb component, potatoes or dumplings or pancakes, but I can always just eat the meat and veg or ask for salad instead. They use lots of fat But the cakes... Sigh ... I will have to remember how shitty a carb hangover is!

Totally agree about the fathead pizza. Pizza is my speciality so today I made a large standard bread dough pizza for oh and a fathead for me. Mine tasted at least as good as my normal one, maybe nicer. oh tried an edge, reluctantly parted with, and pronounced it nice but he will stick with bread base (good). Other than that I have had feta salad with pesto dressing and scrambled eggs with Greek yog and blueberries (weirdly edible combination)

Jiminy, hope that's the turning point for your Dad now, and you look amazing in that jumpsuit.

Food for today
B: fasting
Lunch: HM breakfast burrito and green salad; the biggest Macedamia nut I've ever seen, and coffee
Dinner: barbecued seafood and green salad, coffee and a square of 90% chocolate

I've also walked 4 miles at a clip, swam steadily for an hour, wandered around a local village and climbed 500 steps to a monastery. My bum cheeks feel like they've had a workout.

Grilled grapefruit sounds awesome C4, thanks for the suggestion. Pneumonia sounds very scary, are the antibiotics helping?

Boldly I have to make bread for DS3 and DS4 because they are allergic to soya. The smell of fresh baked bread in the morning used to be somewhat testing but eventually it subsided. Now it's a nice smell to me but doesn't make my mouth water any more. I have noticed a change in my eating habits over time. When I first went low carb then I would rejoice in the occasional cheat such as a soft baked cookie or some fresh bread or a favourite pasta dish. But I have been eating those foods so infrequently over the past four years that they aren't really on my food horizon any more and they don't tempt me. I think that's one reason why I dislike all the low carb versions of carby food, they prolong that attachment.

Adalind I would eat before I go, i.e. a big breakfast or lunch, pick at the wedding food, and have an emergency bag of nuts or similar in my bag to keep me going.

Sorry to hear about your dad Jim, hopefully he's on the mend now. You look fab in your photo.

It was DS2's birthday today. I had two Pringles and a piece of birthday cake. I enjoyed every mouthful of cake so that makes it worth it imho.

Not bad food day
B: creamy coffee and a pack of seaweed crisps
L: carvery so gammon and turkey with veg, cauliflower cheese and a tiny bit of stuffing.
D: 2 hardboiled eggs, ham, radishes and bit of jarlsberg
Stunt i don't know how much you have to avoid grapefruit but mixed with lemon juice and salt it's an awesome marinade for ceviche ( lovely wealth salmon!)