New Year, New Start: Week 1 Spillover thread

[prettybird]

Looks like we are going to need a wee Week 1 Spillover thread, before I start the Week 2 thread on Monday.

Here's the link to the original thread:

https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/lowcarbb_bootcamp/3133466-New-Year-New-Start-Boot-Camp-Week-1-Now-we-get-down-to-it-in-earnest?watched=1

.....lots of great advice and support on it. We are all in this together.

Here is the link to the
Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

I'm having to (wo)man a cake stall at the rugby club at the moment Was asked to do it as I'm in the clubhouse Mumsnetting doing Registration, so I could hardly say No.

Have got my iPad set up in front of me as I am cooking so I don’t stray!!

New discovery time - I am drinking Hotel Chocolat’s Teolat cacao infusion, with cacao and peppermint. So a fancy herbal tea. Got it before Christmas and in a desperate attempt just now to stop myself drinking another cup of coffee with milk, dug it out from the cupboard. It is surprisingly nice with the mint being slightly softened by the cacao. It has 0.1 carb per 100g and there is only 30g in the box. They do a chai version and possibly one with ginger as well.

I have something ghastly to tell you all...

... cheese. I can't eat cheese.

Haven't had any for nigh on two weeks only because it happened not to be in the planned meals. Had a (large) lump of blue last night, and this morning... red splotchy face, a huge hormonal spot bump on each cheek (clown placement) plus two on the jawline.

Googling tells me this is normal for people sensitive to cheese, after cutting it out for a bit.

This is DREADFUL.

However. Will wait until the reaction's died down and then try again with non-cow dairy. Am not giving up Roquefort, whatever happens to my face. Will just have to eat it on days when I'm not expecting to see anyone the next day.

Oh Athelstane I really feel for you. I’ve been thinking about at some point trying to cut out dairy but can’t quite bring myself to do it because of cheese. I hope it turns out that goats cheese or sheeps will be ok. That’s actually my favourite. Good luck. 🤞

...maybe re-introduce it gradually?

I went through a phase in my teens and periodically since when I had issues with certain cheeses (strong cheddar, Brie in France, camembert in the UK ) - my lips would swell up and be really uncomfortable.

It hasn't happened in a while though touch wood

Thanks, both. If goat or ewe turns out ok, I'll experiment with some cauliflower cheese sauces and let you know how it goes!

I had noticed for a while that too much cream made me blotchy, but hadn't connected the two.

Are there any cheeses you have found 'safe', pretty?

Wow that's so interesting how we have such different reactions to food! I'm feeling much less bloated and windy not eating wheat and my skin feels softer too.

All cheeses are safe for me at the moment - but for a while I was wary of the cheeses I mentioned (confusingly, I got reactions to Brie in France and camembert in the UK ). Haven't had a reaction in years - and I eat a lot of cheese (All sorts: from cheddar to goats cheese, dolcellate to Epoisses, Emmenthal to Stilton, Brie to Tome de Savoie.

Re cauliflower rice the nicest I have tried is Iceland frozen, much nicer than fresh.

It took me until Friday to really get back into the swing of this woe, had been keeping low carb but probably more maintenance than weightloss.

Actually, in one respect today was good for me: being stuck at the rugby club while dh and ds were refereeing and coaching respectively albeit having to look after the cake stall meant that I drank 2 of my 3 litres of water over the afternoon as I had nothing else to do while I was there and couldn't even graze on low carb stuff like I do at home

Have got home and had a pepperami, 2 slices of salami and some Emmenthal I know that's a bit processed meat heavy Tonight we're having cold roast pork and I'll make sure to have plenty of veg: probably some asparagus and some cauliflower and maybe yet more some buttery brussels. Might also do some more celeriac chips while the oven is on for dh and ds' chips.

Glad you're back in the Zone ASD - keep it going.

That's right, list all the cheeses YOU can eat at this disastrous point in my life!

ASD, there does appear to be a 'swing of things', doesn't there, and I think I'm getting a grip on it. I was working all day outside and didn't even think about eating until after I'd got home (though honestly, the short shower of maggots may have had something to do with the lack of appetite). It's just beginning to seem... easier.

Congratulations Putty. You can indeed continue with Bootcamp Light while pregnant. I did that with my fourth pregnancy and it was pretty easy. If you have morning sickness you may end up eating more carbs during the first trimester but once the sickness passes you'll be able to get back to low carb. I recommend taking a pregnancy multivitamin to make sure you're getting your vitamins and minerals. Staying low carb is a good way to minimise the effect of GD. I had a pregnant friend with GD over for lunch one time and fed her steak and salad with vinaigrette. She was amazed that her BG was only 4 after eating.

Don't panic Athelstane it might not be as bad as that. When I cut out dairy I became very sensitive to milk but once my gut lining healed I found I could tolerate occasional exposure. So now I routinely have almond milk in tea or coffee but if I'm out and I have a hot drink then the milk doesn't bother me. It's only if have it regularly that I start reacting. When you're reintroducing cheese start with aged hard cheese as these will have the least effect on you.

I can't remember who asked why men lose weight on a higher carb intake than women. The truth is that it is generally easier for men to lose weight than women. They have a higher proportion of muscle so their metabolism gives them an advantage. They don't have oestrogen hormones priming them to hang onto their fat stores. They don't have periods causing a temporary increase in calories and water retention each month. They're less likely to have low level thyroid issues. And they're less likely to succumb to comfort eating.

Sorry

Don't say sorry, prettybird, I thought it was funny! Hence the grins!

Thanks, Stunt, I'll leave it a while then and try again but not with hard cheese because that's so meh compared to a gorgeous stinky blue with powdery bits

Checking in - today's been better than yesterday, and I'm hoping that by tomorrow I'll have at least dropped those rogue couple of pounds that popped up on the scales this week. Two long walks with the dogs over the weekend must surely have helped.

B: Scrambled eggs & bacon
L: Coffee with cream
D: Curried cauliflower soup (recipe from the spreadsheet - bloody lovely!)

SometimesMyArmsBendBack I know jelly babies are the advised route out of a hypo, it's just that I've found that it spikes me too far the other way and I need to inject...and that starts a cycle of up and down that I cam do without. I don't know whether it's that I'm particularly sensitive to sugar or that my liver dumps sugar but my quest is to have just enough to gently bump me up a little - the celeriac last night seemed to work nicely. I've also reduced my long-term insulin by two units and so far today everything's just fine.

I've never cooked with celeriac before. I'm embarrassed to say I always thought it was a fancy word for celery. In the veg aisle of supermarket, where do you usually find it? Is it with carrots & onions etc as a root veg?
Also, where do people get almond flour from? I am having to plan ahead with these new foods since I live in the sticks.

NSV: went for lunch at MIL's and resisted the roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, wine and delicious looking pudding. She knows I am low-carbing so did some extra cauliflower and I had a couple of dollops of extra thick cream for my pudding

LeapinLizards, celeriac is usually beside swedes and carrots / parsnips. Although my local Sainsbury's delights in regularly moving stuff around.

They are ugly critters that look like the vegetable equivalent of brain

I buy big 2.5kg bags of ground almonds at my local Asian supermarket.

Beryl thank you. For the almond flour, do you make it yourself? I have been looking for a packet of almond flour. Hope you are feeling a bit better

Ground almonds = almond flour

Well just about. They are interchangeable, I find.

Asda have jumped on the flavoured sparkling water without sweetener bandwagon. This one is lovely, really cucumber-y but they had quite a few flavours at £1 a pop.

I found this article on oestrogen, can't remember who was talking about the oestrogen fat link but this was quite informative
paleoleap.com/weight-loss-women-part-2-estrogen/

It's been a good weekend food wise, but I've had a sick child and barely left the house so am feeling a little sluggish.