Morning all.
Here, hopefully, is the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness Let's just hope this one works 
So we have three weeks left. Still time to see a good loss before our final weigh-in. This weather, I think, makes it all easier - so much easier to choose a salad when it's hot. And barbecues are perfect for low carbing (if you're a meat eater, of course!)
We had a barbecue yesterday and we had:
home-made chilli burgers (12% fat organic mince, chopped shallot, chopped red chilli, dried oregano and salt and pepper, whizzed up in the processor to combine). I had mine without the bun, obviously!
chicken thighs, skin-on, that had been marinated in a spice mix (ground cumin, ground coriander, ground ginger, turmeric, chilli powder, oregano, salt and pepper, all mixed in with olive oil and fresh lime juice to make a paste that was then rubbed all over the chicken)
coconut cod** - a lovely recipe I found in one of my barbecue books. Fish marinated in coconut cream, that had been infused with lime, garlic, ginger, shallot and lime juice - bring all that to the boil and simmer for around 10 minutes; cool and then use as a marinade for the fish, which you then cook on the barbecue in a foil parcel.
And sausages. Because you can't have a barbecue without sausages!
Anyway, plenty left over, so I'm taking chicken and sausages to work for my lunch.
Hope everyone has a good week.
Great to hear about your ideal blood pressure, @chocchip88!
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Low-carb bootcamp
Week 8 - Low Carb Bootcamp - only 3 weeks to go!
BIWI · 02/07/2018 07:34
I've just had another nsv. My knickers fell down going round Tesco 
Well as we go into another week where I an luckily still on holiday and cant weigh in I have resorted to trying on a pair of size 10 fat face chino shorts to gauge any weight gain.. Am pleased to report that although they are a bit snug they do up and I can sit down in them .. These are not my shorts btw but my v slim DHs ( who often finds mens small shorts just too big ! So annoying !! Grrr)...- its ok they look unisex enough! Anyway v pleased at this .I dont reckon id have actually lost any weight but hoping to have maintained my14lb BC loss. Apaart from yesterday when a muddle up resulted in me being served some baked butter beans for dinner along with my grilled fish ( Love these so couldnt resist a couple of largish spoon fulls ) I have stayed LC mostly grilled meats and fish but, but on the moderate side. Lots of tomatoes , a little fruit and a fair amount of 
has been had.. one more week of holiday to go . Hoping my' return home' WI monday week will be ok
It sounds like you're doing really well @Laskia5772. Hope you're having a lovely time.
@waswittyonce and the knickers 😳. How on earth did that happen?? And how did you respond? Simply step out of them, pick them up & tuck in a bag then continue shopping?
destinydaughter you're sounding a little more upbeat
, onwards and upwards, except in the weight department of course.
I found myself thinking this morning that if I lose another 4 pounds before the end of bootcamp I'll have hit the 3 stone mark.
It's like it's ingrained into me to set myself up for a fall, expecting 4 pounds in two weeks at this stage is unrealistic.
prettybird I'm in awe of how you've ended up off plan for a while and managed to get back on relatively quickly and continue on.
I can very much be all or nothing and it's helpful to see that that it doesn't have to be that way.
leapinglizard I weight every day too which has its pros and cons. I like seeing patterns in how my body fluctuates and coming to terms with the science behind it. I hate seeing unexplained fluctuations of 2 pounds and over that messes with my head. Overall weighing regularly is more helpful to me than not as it stops me deluding myself how fast the weigh will come off but occasionally that scale has too much negative power all given to it by moi
I was out last night and decided in advance to choose wisely but more freely than I have been. It was just as well because the menu made the rules impossible to follow.
I only went for a main course, ordered extra veg and ate half of my side of noodles.
I had wine and a G&T, slimline of course.
I feel I've set myself a little test by knowingly going off plan and I've passed it by getting back on track today!
Lone survivor do you mind me asking why you can't stand the idea of low carb baking?
Nope, don’t mind at all, but keep in mind this is a personal response, and I know many feel differently about it.
At its simplest, I find it quite triggering. I don’t like recipes or pictures of low carb baking, so I avoid them in cookery books, I skip righ past them on here. Given that sugars and starches got me here in the first place, I have zero desire to emulate that look or mouth feel with alternative versions.
Further, nothing has convinced me that low carb baking and low fat cooking aren’t the same side of the coin (for me), just dressed differently. I spent decades of my life knowing the fat grams of everything, and put huge effort into trying to make extremely low fat food taste nice. There is probably no food I don’t know the fat grams of. Low carb baking would seem to require the same effort and diligence, and the same reliance on manufactured ‘food’, that low fat food used to require. In my mind, stevia and fake flours are no different from the one cal fat sprays I used in the past. They are used to make something attractive and to pretend that one isn’t being deprived. For me, having lost a shit ton of weight in the last year, it’s vital that I don’t look at food as treats or rewards, or celebratory. I like it to be good and tasty, obviously, because my body deserves that, but it doesn’t need something that is emulating the very thing that made me sick in the first place. In the last year, I’ve learned that it’s not only about WHAT I eat, but also how I feel about eating it. I’m working hard to get to a place where food is good quality fuel. Good quality protein, masses of veg, good quality fat. It’s there to nourish me, to give me energy, to run my body well. It’s not there to cheer me up, comfort me, calm me down, replace sex, keep me company etc etc. Yet at one time I probably expected it to do all those things. Losing weight has given me headspace to think about what I want to feel about food, rather than being in the thrall of something that I had a constant love hate relationship with. I used to be in a constant push/pull battle with food, and it’s so liberating not to feel like that any more. For me, I needed to put some hard boundaries - what I believe 12 step programmes call ‘bright lines’ around certain foodstuffs. Anything that looks like a cake or dessert is so far over these boundaries that I don’t even relate to them any more. I know that some veg and fruits will sit nearer the boundary and I might hope that some day I will feel well enough to move the boundary a little further out. But the other stuff - nope, that’s so far off piste I don’t see it.
You can see I feel strongly about this
Talking about daily fluctuations (I too weigh daily), this morning I was nearly 3lb up 
I'm hoping it was just fluid retention as a result of being a bit queasy last night after drinking some cucumber water that I'd drained from salted grated cucumber (I was making tzatziki) and it turned out to be very salty 
@LeapinLizards luckily I was wearing a long dress and it was a big store with a loo. I felt them slowly sliding down and manage to sort of grip them with my knees until I got to safety. They then went in my bag and I carried on shopping
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Ooops, went paddling in the village stream and ended up in the pub with half a thatchers in my hand. Tomorrow isn't going to go well
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