Week 5 - So-called 'summer' low carb Bootcamp - a soggy start!

[BIWI]

Morning all.

Here's the spreadsheet

Hopefully we will all have successfully navigated the dreaded weeks 3 and 4, and can move seamlessly into week 5, where the scales should be set to be kind to us from now on. The rate of loss will be slower from here on, but a weekly loss of 1-2lbs should be achievable.

I have an interesting week, as our kitchen extension gets underway. At the same time, I have family visiting from Canada, so providing for them is going to be interesting! I suspect we'll be visiting a lot of local hostelries over the next 3 days

Anyway, good luck everyone, and hope this is a good week for us all.

She did admit mention that she'd had rather a lot of wine too

We've not had any rain yet here in Glasgow but the temperature in the greenhouse did go down to 4.2C night before last (haven't checked so far this morning).

Spending time in the garden is helping me stop "habit" snacking even if they are low carb snacks

Almahart - fantastic whoosh!

We did 10 days all inclusive in Antigua last year and I thought I was going to balloon, but actually came back only 3lbs heavier and it vanished pretty quickly. For every day I ate carbs and sugar I did two days without and that seemed to work. It helped that they had an enormous and very varied salad bar at lunchtimes with freshly grilled chicken or steak, so lunches were easy. Breakfasts were easy if I didn't go anywhere near the corner with the pastries and toast and there was nearly always something meaty I could choose for supper and then load up with plenty of veg or more salad. The days I had 'off' were the ones where we were booked into the Italian, which was (a) harder to find low carb choices and (b) had chocolate fondant on the dessert menu. I did make sure that we picked sunbeds well away from the snack bar each day, though, so it wasn't so easy just to saunter over for sweet potato fries and ice cream every five minutes.

Oh, and another NSV for me - for the past three or four years I've had real problems with anything with peppers in it, green ones only to start with, but over the last year or so, red, orange and yellow ones too. Occasionally I say buggrit and have chicken fajitas, because I like them. DH made them last night (I didn't have wraps, just the filling with some asparagus) and usually I'd be suffering about 90 minutes after eating them. Nothing. Digestive system appears to be coping with them perfectly fine now

Morning. Period has finally arrived so ‘YOOHOO! I’m ready for my whoosh now, come and get me. I’m here. Waiting. Whenever you are ready. Annnnnnnnnnnytime you like...’

Still feeling bloody miserable though. I know it’s just hormones making me feel worse and it will lift, but bloody hell I feel crap right now. Though marginally less crap than I did a few hours ago so onwards and upwards.

Still KOKO. Agree about it feeling like March! Funny how much food choices change to reflect weather. I’m really craving soup today, might have a go at the spicy(?) cauli one on thread.

I’m doing that weird thing at the moment where my ‘fat goggles’ have adjusted to my new size and rather than that feeling of ‘wow, aren’t I shrinking’, I’m getting more of a ‘bloody hell, look at my belly flab-apron (flabron?) (flapron?), it just seems as big as ever and I know I’ve shrunk, I can feeeeel I’ve shrunk, so just how bloody fat was I?!!

It’s a bit like what some posters had put a few threads back about not really seeing yourself in mirror. Almost like a reverse body dysmorphia effect. It’s not like I thought I looked skinny, I knew I’d put on weight and hated it (clothes sizes alone from 8-16 on a 5’2 frame) but I’d obviously adjusted to it gradually over the years and had got used to a fatter default me. I also think because I carried it fairly evenly all over, and underneath have a bit of an athletic shape, it possibly didn’t look so obviously highlighted by ‘problem areas’. Well, apart from my apple tum

Sometimes I look in the mirror and can see that my face is much slimmer, almost showing bone work. Others, it still looks lost in a pillow of dough. And it doesn’t seem to be explained by previous days diet - so I don’t think it’s overnight water weight after drinking booze/not enough water etc. It’s just odd. Must be to do with the magic of how the body lets go of the fat/water in cells and whatnot changing our shape.

Sorry for the misery post! Needed to off load that I think. I’m not feeling demotivated by it, or like I’m going to fall off the wagon THOUGH I WANT, NAY, DESERVE MY FUCKING WHOOSH, just observing the weirdness of it all.

Having a phase of struggling a bit with life in general too (this too shall pass etc.) but I’m determined that my progress with this woe and getting closer to goal will NOT become a casualty of it.

I can be miserable about rest of life shit (as and when it happens) AND be fat, OR, I can be miserable about rest of life shit BUT be nearer/at goal and much healthier for it. Not to mention bonus self-awarded smugness/pride points for the achievement.

Misery with cheekbones rather than dough-pillow

Nice NSV VeryLittleOwl. I have noticed that I’m much less sensitive to certain things too.

Congratulations and commiserations where deserved/needed to everyone btw

Hope all non posting campers are ok too

Enjoy your holibobs TWOTW, looks lovely!

I am a non poster this week as my scales have gone batty. I understand their confusion (after my year of steady decline ) and sympathise with the heavy load they have had to bear.

However readings (within seconds of each other) ranged from 165 lb (most unlikely) to 181lb. No two were the same though the floor is hard. New scales required.

Talk of bacon this morning inspired me to bake the best HFLC bread buns managed so far. (Have tried many this year)

It made an amazingly good BLT sandwich. Attempting to attach picture for the first time:

I'm like a demon. Had a caesar salad for lunch and forgot about the croutons and ate them. I'd been doing so well

Thanks for the support. I'm trying to just smile at, and ignore the 'starving myself' comments now.

Weighed myself today and finally lost a stone yay!

DH has seen how well I'm doing and decided to low carb with me. I like that we are doing it together.

I'm going to Orlando for 2 weeks this year and although I want to relax food wise, I'm so worried I'm going to put loads of weight back on.

Also our fridge has broken over night and can't get a new one until Saturday. Absolute nightmare for this woe. My mums advice was to just have pasta and beans on toast for the next few days.

oh that bread bun looks good Wildheart. I am getting a bit bored with food now and really need to make something else. The constant sheets of rain are making me want mugs of tea and packets of biscuits. Today i'm poaching haddock and eggs and having with cauli and broccoli for dinner. DH will have peas and new spuds.

DH has decided he doesn't like the IDP moussaka anymore as too oily/rich. He also has stopped eating peppers, courgettes and aubergine (altho he just picks them out rather than refuses the dinner - but still it means he's hungry and half the dinner is left on his plate). He wont eat anything topped with mashed cauli or have cauli rice. So the meals are getting limited.

And I can't find a bloody celeriac anywhere!

Hey everyone - You'd have been so proud of me - very virtuous and only had my coffee at our breakfast meeting then retired to my desk with my yog and strawberries with cream....

Only to eat a ham and cheese half sub at lunchtime. I went down to lunch with my salad in my hand and thought fuck it. I cant eat another salad... I cant even say I'm sorry I thoroughly enjoyed it.... I am completely back on track and am drinking water and have dinner all planned, chicken and veg.

Will take any gain on the chin.

@18pagesfrontandback I have heard it called a gunt. I can only imagine that comes from the gut that hangs over your... you know what! I think I prefer Flapron... more genteel. Im going to win the lottery soon and will have it all chopped off and lifted. #truefact.

Right have a good if soggy day all X

@1Wildheartsease that roll looks lovely - could you please post the recipe

@MumbleLumble excellent news! Second what everyone else says about ignoring the annoying colleague (easier said than done I know)

@18pagesfrontandback I bet you no one else notices the flapron (am the proud owner of one of those myself) we are too hard on ourselves

Kept to plan so far - we've been out walking since late morning, stopped for a coffee but had a large, late breakfast so no lunch. Just had a pre-dinner snackette of olives, salami, slice of Gouda, few cherry toms, some almonds and pistachios and a cheeky glass of pink fizz. Chin chin

@Youwanapizzame "gunt", no, just no. Agree with you that flapron is a vast improvement (the app keeps correcting that to Clapton 😭). Well done for putting the sub sandwich behind you - but why are you fed up with salad? Are you adding enough mayo/olive oil etc?

Never mind the picture 1Wildheart where’s the bloody recipe?! That. Looks. Frickin. YUM.

I haven’t tried any low carb bread recipes but that’s the most convincing looking LC bread I’ve seen! On its own merits it looks lush, never mind for LC friendly stuff.

Agree that ‘gunt’ is a no And I’ve been known to break out the C word on occasion (I know, I don’t seem the sweary type ) but gunt is just wrong.

It’s just one of those words and should be on the banned list. Never heard of it before so grateful for the enlightenment though

My son has just tried one of the bread rolls and gives a thumbs up. (It is hard to explain how great a review that is!) He reckons that most people would assume that it is 'normal' bread.

I've posted the recipe on the 'vegetarian' bootcamp recipes. (Is it cruel to mention bacon there? We did fill one with fried halloumi and that was great too.)

Thanks TWOTW and I agree that we are too hard on ourselves. At least I can tuck it in my knickers I guess. #brightside

Ooh lc bread recipe!!

Whatever happened to the lc rolls that Lidl used to do? Are they still around?

I just opened these on the bus - found them in Sainsbury’s

OMG they are actually like crisps. 1.5g

@MumbleLumble you want to 'relax' on your holiday to Orlando - but relax with what? Steak, mushrooms, salad? Shrimp with stir fired veg? A few glasses of wine? All good.

But if you want to relax with donuts, fries, muffins, coke... all bad.

Whereabouts were they Almahart? I’m getting a bit bored with pork scratchings atm. I wish they would add some more flavours. Would love to see salt & vinegar and other flavours available. In the shops rather than online. And not eleventy billion hundred quid for a few hundred grams in a poncey glass jar

Just a 6 pack multi-pack, variety of flavours couple £max, high street shop/supermarket.

WHY ISN’T ANYBODY PROPERLY CASHING IN ON THE LOW CARB MARKET?!?!?!

And not the air popped ‘pork crunch’ crap that sticks in your throat and feels like you’re trying to swallow a bowling ball

I might chuck some sarsons on my next pack

Hang on, wasn’t there some kind of salt and vinegar sprinkling powder you used to be able to buy? Or was that one of those should be illegal 80’s type products?

Lidl stopped doing the low carb rolls just after I had started enjoying them toasted as a treat There was a campaign to re-instate them but to no avail

18pages they were with all the snacks by the checkout (it was a mini Sainsbury’s)

I’d never seen them in there before

re Lidl rolls