Week 6 - Low Carb Bootcamp - welcome to part 2

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Morning all

Here's the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness.

We've reached the half way part now, and I hope you're finding it a bit easier - no more carb flu, and getting used to a different way of eating.

If you've suffered from the week 3, 4 or even 5 stall, I hope that this week you'll see the scales start to move (downwards!) again.

I hope you all have a good week

Sounds an epic outfit athelstane! I had those kilt skirts with the built in vest thing attached. Made in nice sweaty polyester of course

not quite in time to avoid my mother sending me off to my first proper disco in navy corduroy knickerbockers and a turquoise silk shirt.

Fecking glorious!

Go ahead, laugh. That's what they all did then.

Rayna, the yellow of that custard powder... I can't stop thinking about trifle, but I know for a fact that if one appeared in front of me, there would be no way on God's good earth that I would spoon any of that filth into my mouth.

Kilt skirt with a built in vest? What the heck? I'm getting an image of a scottish construction worker, which can't be right?

Oh god, I’d forgotten the kilt with the vest...we’re not even Scottish 😊😂

Oh yes, I had the kilt with the wee built in chemise thing. Had forgotten about that. Was dragged to bloody sword dancing classes for weeks.

It also had a pin on it which I got my finger stuck in once during school assembly

I follow this thread as I find it quite inspirational the way you all support each other, I don't post as I don't weigh myself, although I'm low carbing, I just go by clothes.

But the kilt with the vest drove me to Post. Being Scottish it made me laugh out loud.

Thanks for the memory

Oh and my knickerbockers were a glorious burgundy cord. For a school disco I got given a matchin burgundy blouse with gold edging down the frill down the front. I knocked em dead that night,,,,

I must gave been fortunate - I had a proper kilted skirt kilt that my mum had made me, without the built in vest. There is a cute picture of me aged about 5 with my younger brother (3.5), in our matching Arran jumpers (also knitted by mum).

My P7 (end of primary school) dance would have been in 1973: my mum made me a purple patterned maxi length skirt in a fine corduroy (I can still remember her cursing as she tried to gather the ruffle for the bottom) and she also made me a velvet choker.

Athelstane you made me laugh with your reference to trifle being ‘gopping’ ! My DB was over yesterday and he used that word a couple of times and I just find it hilarious.
rshard I wasn’t the first to put the low carb bread up but I did make it at the weekend and posted about it. It is good isn’t it. The loaf in Tom Kerridge’s book looks similar so I might try that next.
I haven’t weighed yet because it’s been TOTM for me this last week but the thing I am getting my head around is the fact that I can see myself eating like this into the far future. What I am going to have to do though is gear up for some intermittent fasting I think because I must be the slowest loser in history. I am slower than the slowest tortoise stuck in non low carb treacle...although quite cheerful even so because of all the loveliness here. 🙂

I had a kilt style skirt when I was about 12 (but no vesty bit on it) and went to a disco when I was 11, wearing a halter neck top and maxi skirt. I think that was 1973 too, think I'm about the same age as you prettybird!

I’ve just made scotch pancakes (or just pancakes for those of you north of the border😉) for DP and I have not cracked. Not even a sneaky bite.

I was 12 somuchtobits - so very close in age! I was at the "old" end of the Scottish school year, with an April birthday (db, with a January birthday, was over 18 months younger than me but only the year below me. Nowadays he'd have been deferred which would have been much better for him long term as he was never mature enough )

Interestingly I can't remember what I wore to my secondary school dance: I presents there was one but there wasn't a tradition of "Proms" back in 1978

I then had years of my mum making me fabulous formal long dresses for the (many) balls at St Andrews Uni. I still (I think) have some of them packed away somewhere.

Yes to the arran jumper prettybird! I had one of those too.

The bread is really good blackmozart, I’ve put it away! Have you toasted it?

Hhm, I may have to give that bread another try. I made it last year using freshly opened flaxseed and it had a distinctly fishy taste to it

Today's food:
B: creamy coffee and 2 sausages
L: chilli with celeriac rice
D: not that hungry and have work to do, so 2 Parmesan/rosemary biscuits and a slug of cream.
S: creamy coffee
W: 3 litres

Today’s food was
B - total yoghurt blackberries
L - ham cheese salad mayo
D - sausages swede broccoli few carrot slices

I think you're probably about 7 months older than me, prettybird!

My mum also made some of my clothes. I remember a long skirt (with a flounce on the bottom) and a cheesecloth drapey top I had for school concerts.

My food for the day

B- Egg muffins
L- Prawn and Mayo salad
D- LC Moussaka

And I had 2 mini babybels.

Hardest part was the thought of no milky tea or coffees so managed to drink one coffe this morning and one tea this afternoon, had a lot of peppermint tea instead.

Rshard I did! I had a bit of butter on it, and a bit of almond butter. Yum. I’m glad it’s in the freezer as otherwise I might demolish the lot

B mushrooms and goats cheese
L salmon and lettuce
D celeriac chips, cucumber and tomato
W 2.5 litres. Started off so well and then drank nothing for about five hours in the afternoon.

Thanks for the laughs and flashbacks guys, I had the kilt with built in vest too and knickerbockers (mine were a kind of wine coloured tweed)

I made the low carb bread yesterday using Aldi's ground flaxseed with pumpkin and sunflower it made it nice and nutty. Mine keeps well in fridge and I toast slices with butter and marmite.

Thanks blackmozart and nekobus. I’ll gave some toasted for breakfast tomorrow and then I’ll slice and freeze. That ground flaxseed with pumpkin and sunflower sounds lovely

I once told MIL that I loved trifle and, bless her, she assembled a master piece for our next visit based on what she had made for many a family meal but with a 21st century twist ... homemade Madeira cake, glugs of sherry, all sorts of berries &, I seem to recall, pomegranate seeds on top. No, no, no! I wanted strawberry Swiss roll, jelly, a small amount of tinned fruit, custard & cream, ie all of my favourite puddings rolled into one, or at least it is if you eat it with ice cream on the side. M&S make a very good "nasty" trifle which I can practically inhale.

I'm going to start listing all of my food again and would appreciate any input

B - rocket with a glug of olive oil
L - smoked mackerel, an avocado, a little gem lettuce, some cucumber & pepper, a bit of Brie & Doyle
S - pork belly with cabbage, cauliflower & courgette
Snacks - 5 rashers streaky bacon, a bowl of sprouts with butter, one smarter, one creamy coffee, a slice of butter.

Well, trifle is one carby food I would happily never eat again, I can't bear it whether it's posh or Birds, even worse if it has alcohol in it.

Food for today
B half a Lidl protein roll with butter, soft cheese and marmite
L - chicken (cold, skin on) salad with mayo
D - chicken (hot, skin off) with more salad and mayo.

S - pork scratchings
1x coffee with cream, 2 x tea with splash of milk (both made by friends, probably skimmed). I reckon I'm only having milk in about 4 or 5 cups of tea over a week though (would have been 4 or 5 a day pre BC), either made by colleagues or at friends houses, at home it's almond milk or herbal/Rooibos teas.

As for main meals I'm finding it easier to eat salad as I can have fat in the form of dressing. Veg are ok in a cheesy or stir-fry type sauce but try as I might I still can't bear them plain with butter, I'm a steamed veg person at heart.

Argh, can't sleep. This is not like me at all!

Food for yesterday:

B: cheese ham & tomato omelette, coffee with AM&C
MM: coffee with double cream (out, everyone else had cake and scones 😇)
L: cauliflower soup & slice of ham
D: dinner out - chicken supreme with celeriac purée and weird pickled oyster mushrooms (tasted quite sweet) broccoli with hollandaise sauce

Respectable amount of water. Day 12 sans alcohol.