Week 2 - January Low Carb Bootcamp - my favourite week!

[BIWI]

I love this week - when we find out how much people have lost, and all those of you who haven't really believed it will work are proved wrong!

Here's the spreadsheet

I hope that the scales have been kind to you, or that your measurements have gone down and your clothes are feeling looser!

I look forward to hearing about everyone's progress.

Here's to a great week 2 as well

Lidl have the echallion shallots in at the moment.

Last night I had a real sulky tea moment. I’d cooked a chicken in the slow cooker. Smelled divine. It was like eating ash. Drier than ghandi’s flip flop as they say. Could’ve wept!

Give me a nice crispy roast chicken any day! But sorry to hear that. I hate it when things turn out to be disappointing.

I love my chicken roasted in a chicken brick. Must be started in a cold oven, so ideal for if you're out as you just put the oven on timer, for an hour and half plus 15 minutes before you eat (last 15 minutes out if the oven resting, still in the brick). Doesn't need any basting and results in a lovely moist chicken with crispy skin.

@prettybird I've never heard of a chicken brick (off to google).

Well I've put on 0.5kg this morning, hope it time of the month related and will keep drinking lots of water. For me the upsides is daily weighing still outweigh not doing it but -aaargh.

This is a chicken brick

Morning all. I love roast chicken too. I cook mine the delia way - really high and fast. Gives lovely crispy skin and the meat is not dried out at all. I think the times for cooking meat are usually all too long because everyone is paranoid about being ill. Which means it ends up really dry.

Yesterdays food was
B- salami, cheese, cucumber
L - 4 egg spinach and cheese omelette
D - IPD moussaka

Today i'm a bit lost wrt what to eat. I fancy boiled eggs but I have nothing to go with them. Maybe I could dunk some green beans? Lunch will probably be some kind of curried cauliflower soup concoction and some cold poached chicken and mayo. I'm just wandering around staring at food and fancying none of it.

Morning all, I haven’t weighed yet this week, keep forgetting.

I don’t think I feel slimmer but I wore smaller knickers yesterday so that’s a good thing lol I was doing well at the beginning of jan - doing the shred each day but I’ve slacked off that. I tend to struggle with January so this year I’m staying on my anti depressants and keeping my head down lol

Also awaiting my new blender so I can have the odd bullet coffee!

Have a good day all x

Morning everyone am going to keep posting to keep me on track - thanks prettybird for your vote of confidence in me !
Day 2 for me.

Today -
B- creamy scrambled egg and ham
L- tuna mayo and avocado salad
D- roast chicken and veg ( this is my secret weapon as it’s huge so am hoping will provide several low carb meals !)

Must get the water in .
Also can anyone advise how long a babybel needs in the microwave to do its melting thing ? I needed a snack yesterday about 5 as we don’t eat dinner until 9.

My extravagant solution to constant shallot chopping rage is to buy pre chopped frozen ones with my ocado delivery. Very handy and I use them in lots of recipes but sparingly as easy to just tip a few out .

I've been putting 3 babybels in for five minutes and they come out nice and crisp on that.

Got some new mechanical scales, so I'm recording my first week loss at 3 lbs. Although as that is across two different sets, it really could be anything! But as long as the number keeps going down!!

I make "normal" coleslaw. White cabbage, carrot, onion and mayo. I have a decent sized bowl as a meal on its own. I find it filling and satisfying and clearly a good veg count. I was worried about the carrot and onion being "sub optimal" so I weighed everything out. The meal was 8g carb overall. BIWI please come along and yell at me if I've got it wrong, but as a complete meal that didn't seem too bad?

Now I want a chicken brick !
The question is would it get used often enough to justify the space in my already cluttered kitchen?

Thanks for Babybel info notlost

B - Avocado, cheese and chorizo rollitos
L - sardine and cream cheese pate, salad
D - chorizo and veg stir fry (with whatever comes in the veg box delivery)

Does anyone else get hot flushes on this woe? I'm well past menopause (and didn't really suffer too much then), but in the evenings in particular I've got my jumper off, then jumper on, then jumper off again. Even in this cold weather. I tell myself that I'm burning fat - may not be true but it's a nice mental image

Can we use red cabbage in coleslaw?

Yes @MrsKoala - it's 3.5g carbs per 100g

@BrassicaBabe that carb count for the whole meal is fine. But try using shallots instead of onion and then you'll lower the carb count even more

@Liveinthepresent - I share your pain. I'd love a chicken brick but simply don't have any cupboard space for it. As it is, my giant pressure cooker has to live on the worktop as I can't get it in the cupboards.

@venusandmars no idea about the flushes! All I know is that when I low carb I don't (or only very rarely) suffer from them, compared to eating a high carb diet. It could be something to do with fat releasing hormones? @StuntNun might have a scientific perspective on that

Hello. Please can I be a late addition? I did so well last year and lost over 2 stone between low carbing and running. Unfortunately I have had an injury and a persistent sinus infection for the last two months and have put back on a stone. Wine, cheap christmas chocolate and bagels with honey or jam seem to have been my go-to comforts which obviously explain a lot!

So yesterday I tried to start day one again but discovered an about-to-go-out-of-date apple and blackberry pie that we shared last night. The rest of the day was good. Today I am on it with a better mental space. Still feeling crap with this sinus issue and so cannot run yet so I know it will be a slower loss.

I am hoping to lose 30lb and want as much of that as possible to be gone in the next 5 months as we have some big celebrations coming up.

Can I do the spreadsheet option that just shows the amount lost rather than the starting weight?

Thank you and good luck everyone!

Morning. Had a bad, bad, bad start to the day. New scales arrived as recommended by @AandL. They are a thing of wonder, but they have my weight at 5 lbs higher than my trusty "stand at a certain angle and you're lighter" old analogues.

I'm not going to get too morose (massive liar- I've been moping for two hours now). It's DS1's 12th birthday today and we're having an early tea at a chain pub which serves baked camembert and steak amongst other things, so that will be lovely. It will be my first time in a pub since the start of bootcamp, so my main challenge will be ignoring the call of the wine witch. I am resolute .

Can you not drive, so that you know you can't have a drink?!

@BIWI yes, I'll be driving, but that would still allow me to have a small glass. I don't go to the bar, so have primed DH not to ask me what I want once we're there but just to go ahead and get a(nother) sparkling water.

Nope. Zero tolerance for drink driving is the best way forward! And what's the point of one small glass? Especially when you know it will stop you burning fat?

Hi,
Is it allowed to join in halfway through this cycle, or should I wait until the next one?!
Clocking in at 74.4kg, I'm on day 3 of LCHF/Keto.
thanks,

Just realised I made a mistake in converting my weight from kg to lb yesterday, so it was down 4lbs rather than 9lbs. I've changed it. I'm not downcast - the 9lbs felt wrong and 4lbs in a week is nothing to sniff at (even if water weight at first).

Weighed again this morning, and was 2lb heavier than yesterday, despite having had a really good day.

Hopefully just a blip, and I was running late for work so couldn’t retake it.

@nowlook I have been thinking about that too. I have also ordered the fancy scales like @AandL.
They are due to be delivered today and now I'm dreading if they make me heavier than my old ones!
I know I will have lost the same amount but I might need to edit my starting weight. Will be as morose as you if its a big difference. I'm fat enough, don't need any bonus pounds!

@condamine I can't bring myself to adjust the starting weight! The only saving grace is that I was happy at 8st 12 on my old scales, so should be equally happy at 9st 3 on the accurate ones. I'm willing to bet it won't turn out that way, though

Best of luck when yours arrive. It's a bit like using a digital pregnancy test; no amount of squinting will change the display!