Continuing thread for week 1 Low Carb Bootcamp

[BIWI]

I know we only have another day or so before the next thread, but the last one was almost full!

You've just reminded me, I love M & S tuna pâté!

We are having BBQ for lunch, as I found some charcoal in the shed that needs using, and the weather is really nice. I have marinated some chicken for kebabs (in olive oil, garlic, oregano and a squeeze of lemon) and am doing butcher's meaty sausages and burgers. With a mixed salad with mayonnaise, and ds can have a bun with his burger. Ds (16) will be doing the BBQing!

Tuna pate sounds delish holger, I’m going to try that.

Went for a run with dd this morning, haven’t been for a few weeks and with a lack of carbs wondered how it would be. I needn’t have, it was great. And when we got home dh made us poach eggs, I had mine with half an avocado and some salmon. Also, I was full of energy and have been pottering non stop.

Is this day 1 of 61? So looking forward to weighing tomorrow

@Wombatoo Thank you for the tip re the naked noodles having a fishy smell before rinsing - I didn't know that!

*@Hippadippadation * Thank you. I think I'll weigh myself tomorrow as I'm curious to see what's happened. However if / when I don't lose as much as I expect, I might only weigh every 3 weeks or so.

After my mayonnaise from hell efforts, I'm trying a new recipe called slow cooked Brussels Sprouts www.ayearofslowcooking.com/2010/10/very-best-brussels-sprouts-ever-slow.html .

Not to everyone's taste, I know, but I'm a big sprouts fan, and the description in the recipe sounds fab. Apparently it has even converted sprout haters. Downside is that it stinks the house out, so I hope it's worth it!

I'm loving the accounts of people who grew up in the sixties (my vintage)' and later decades. I remember it all well. One of the other things that I think is prevalent today that didn't exist then is what I call food porn, i.e. magazines and tv programmes dedicated to food, and recipe books - all high on the visuals, with sexy photography and food-styled to within an inch of its life. I adore cooking and have umpteen recipe books, and the trend does seem for the intro to a recipe to be written in pink prose, e.g. NIgella, Nigel et al.

Like others, I particularly enjoy baking, and once I feel safe enough with this WOE, I shall continue to bake just to enjoy the process, and give the results to friends, or share them at clubs I go to.

Thinking about snacking. We don't really snack. Never have. DD doesn't either, except she has recently started asking after school (I think because she sees all her friends getting things the second they come out of the gates). So sometimes she gets a piece of cheese or fruit. She is the most energetic child I've ever seen... all her teachers agree, it's ridiculous. She could walk 11 or 12 miles in a day at 4 years old & still be leaping around & begging for a second story at bedtime. She has a hearty appetite at mealtimes but eats lots of veg. We don't generally let her have rubbish food like sweets except as a weekend treat, & crisps to go with a sandwich sometimes. Party sweets are rationed, they are all in such large portions now. There used to be one sweet in a party bag when I was little, & now there's a bagful! (I feel old.) I worry that the other mums will judge me, or think I'm judging them, when I don't let DD eat the entire bag on the way home like her friends.

Place marking as I always get lost 😊

Hello everyone, so interesting to hear everyone's stories of their childhood food (80s child here). Is it too late to join the Bootcamp?

Yesterday was hard

I had a boiled egg and some ham for breakfast.

Nothing at lunch time as we were helping friends decorate their new home - I was on glossing duty. The others had shop bought sandwiches but there was nothing suitable for me.

We ate tea at 8pm - curry - I had a chicken shashlick ( I didn’t eat the curry sauce) and saag paneer.

I was so bloody hungry I wolfed it down and the 10 mins later threw it all up ☹️

And now it’s Sunday an after a shit nights sleep I have woken up with tonsillitis and a raging temp

Sending DH to M&S in a minute to get me some fresh Chicken and veg soup which is low carbish.

Tonight for tea I will be having duck breasts with Swede sprouts carrots and courgettes.

Not at all! Check the rules on the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness (first post of the last thread) and dive in

DH has made me some pork scratchings. Yum It takes about a day (!) but pretty easy. And much cheaper than buying ready made.

hairybarsnacks.com/site/how-to-make-pork-scratchings.php

Checking in, not feeling great today.

B none
L prawns and a babybel
D haddock broccoli baby corn

Drinking my water and having a bit of a rest this afternoon.

Hope everyone has a great day

Thanks pretty and holger.
I think I'll leave it on (unless BIWI comes along and waves a big stick at me!)

It's interesting reading about people's food history. I was born in 1980. We ate a mix of home cooked and convenience foods when I was a child - but mainly fairly healthy stuff. I was quite thin until my late teens. My parents worked away quite a lot and I used to make unhealthy food choices then. My brother and I used to also eat pretty substancial snacks after school and then have dinner after. As a young to mid teen my parents didn't really give me that much down time (or at least criticised me for taking it) but if I was eating I would be allowed to sit and chill. I think that had quite a big affect on my relationship with food. I saw it as a way to relax and unwind. By the time i was at uni I had a very unhealthy relationship with food. Fad diets and bulemia. I was an out patient through most of this time. I'm recovered now though. I've been putting on weight steadily for years now (with the odd patch of short term weight loss). My carb intake had increased massively lately. I've always felt better with low carb eating (never tried high fat before though) but somehow I let myself ignore this and got myself in a big carb rut. No longer!

Lunch was 3 boiled eggs mashed with butter.
Dinner will be pork chop (loads of fat) with plenty of low carb veg.

Interesting post, Lego. It made me think about what we are feeding our children. Now that we all know the dangers of a high carb diet, we should do our best to ensure that our children eat a truly healthy diet (not low fat!) and are educated to know what a healthy diet is.

Obviously we are all here because we want to lose weight, but have along the way discovered other health benefits of a low carb WOE. But what would be a good healthy diet for someone like my ds, who is slim and doesn't need to lose weight? Definitely avoid sugary crap/processed foods, eat good fats, some protein, veg and salad, but how many and what sort of other carbs?

@Escapepeas - shame you don't live nearer!!!!!

Just checked the stats for that lovely tuna paté and it was actually 0.5g per 100g, so even better! I did think the original figure I gave was a bit high, must have confused it with something else.

There was also a crab paté and a salmon paté. These are quite nice for those days when you want to feel as if you're having something a little more interesting.

Afternoon all. Week 1 almost done!

I can cheerfully confirm that my lasagne with the courgette sheets was a triumph. I have carbed it as 60g for the whole thing, which I have divided into 10 small portions. I even remembered to take a photo for you all.

Oh my goodness tmi but has anyone had constipation? I've never had it as bad! I've beem drinking water and eating veg but I think I must have not done so well yesterday. Baaaad morning!

Is it actually constipation, or are you just not needing to go as often? Lots of people find it's quite normal to not have to go every day.

If you're properly constipated drink more water, lots of it, eat lots more roughage, and if you need to there are a couple of supplement-type foods which you can take which I can never remember the names of but someone will be along to advise, I'm sure.

Welcome ferntwist It's not too late to join us.

Jumping Yes, it can be quite common. Pysillium husks were useful for me. Others have had success with magnesium.

Also, welcome to Lizard. I can't answer about the cauliflower mash I'm afraid, as I have never tried it.

Lizard peppers are a bit carby for bootcamp.

re the cauliflower mash, I'm sure you can freeze it, as I freeze cauliflower rice and it's fine.

I feed my kids a "balanced" diet, ie they have mash etc but I don't use any low fat stuff for them. They do eat carbs (they love their porridge for breakfast), but probably not as much as their friends and no crap processed stuff (unless it's Treat Friday - they take turns each week to choose dinner and a treat. This week it was bloody Barney Bears which DD2 crumbled all over the back seat of the car - but that's another story!) They also don't snack. If they ask for a snack, it'll be cherry tomatoes, babybels, cucumber, fruit etc that I'll offer them.

I know there are people who feed their kids LCHF but I don't feel the need to do it for mine. I'm just happy with mine eating "real" food. They're very good at self regulating and won't gorge on stuff or finish their plates if they've had enough - even if it's ice cream!

@StuntNun my family of four would divide a Mars bar up between us as a weekend treat! Not one each, which I suspect would be normal now. Luckily I now hate most chocolate - I’ve made myself into a snob about it, which means I have a couple of hand-made ones once in a blue moon. Similar with ice cream actually - I think it’s quite a useful tactic.

Today lunch was broccoli soup with some blue cheese. Dinner probably chicken stew with some courgettes and mushrooms.

@BIWI I carb counted my vindaloo sauce, and the whole comes to about 58g of carbs. The big villain was the onion, actually.

Still, if that does 8 portions it’s 7.5 per person, so probably doable in maintenance or even Bootcamp Lite maybe?

I might try reducing the onion.

grumpy try replacing the onion with shallot, not sure of the exact amount, but it's definitely lower carb than onion

Ds (17) snacks on the Lidl equivalent of Muller fruit corner yoghurts, chicken bits (I have to buy him 3 packs a week as he's wanting to up his protein) and the odd slice of toast. Unfortunately he has a fair bit of Irn Bru and/or lemonade (the latter when he is trying to avoid caffeine because he gets migraines). I suspect he buys himself cans at lunch time - he's stopped taking in a sandwich made from home made sour dough bread with salami, salsa and peppers and, I think, tries to buy "healthy" options from Bagelmania.

Breakfast alternates between choco rice (Lidl's Cocopops) and my home made granola (rolled oats, lots of chopped nuts - Brazil, almonds, pecans, ground almonds, flaxseed, salt, cinnamon, generous slug of olive oil, coconut oil, not too much maple syrup, 2 lightly whipped egg whites, baked until lightly browned and crispy and then cranberries, raisins, currents, dried blueberries stirred through it). Followed by a slice of toast and butter.

He then walks 1.5 miles to school.

He has learnt to make himself nice rich scrambled eggs (plenty of butter and finished off with cream) before a rugby game to give him sustained energy.

Little by little