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.

MrsKoala - don't bother with food processor for cauli rice. (Far too much setting up and washing down!) A large hole cheese grater works well and only needs a rinse.

I know you haven't got much time @MrsKoala, and appreciate it's difficult when you're so under the cosh. But why is your DH getting home so late?! He really does need to try and help you out a bit more - or stop being so bloody picky! I think you've said before that he's on the spectrum (apologies if I've remembered that wrong), so I know he's not easy to deal with, but as he clearly manages to hold down a good job, he can try bloody harder at home, surely?

As @m0therofdragons says, he can have beans on toast if he isn't going to eat what you've cooked!

I will admit that with all the mozzarella, cottage cheese and Parmesan in my mum's lasagne makes it both cheesy and not the cheapest of dishes

Don't get me wrong, I feel better and not hungry so a bit of boredom is preferable to feeling crappy and starving. It's just tight at the moment and will be for a couple of months. So it's only short term.

BIWI DH's boss has quit so he's taken on some 'more responsibility' as they are not replacing her. He's worked the last 2 weekends as well. I'm trying to do everything as well as decorating fils flat to rent out and sell all his furniture.

BIWI - I don't know for sure if DH is definitely on the spectrum but he is extremely rigid and has a lot of sensory issues as well as organisation (but that is also to do with his dyslexia) a lot of people think he is, but he thinks he's fine . DS1 is on the spectrum and ds2 may be but at the moment it's presenting as ADHD, altho both boys are also probably dyslexic too and ds2 possibly dispraxic. Too soon to tell as he may just be a very young almost 5.

I have been craving cake and chocolate hob nobs for a while now and no amount of strawberries and cream is satisfying that!

Hi everyone (feel like adding unMNetty x x x here)

I’ve fallen off the threads...dealing with a really low mood for a week or two and that always makes me want to hide away from everyone and especially makes any kind of food or woe talk extremely difficult for me. Weight has fluctuated a little - have had more wine than I should have and drinking of water has fallen away - I’ve now updated sof with my stats. I find it so difficult in these dark periods to be able to balance my emotions and I’m aware that I sound worse than I should. I just wish I could be somebody else.

Big 💐💐💐 to everyone, hope you’re each looking after yourselves well.

(Sorry haven’t read thread as wanted to jump in straightaway before I thought better of it and slunk off again)

Thank you BIWI for the flowers and readyforsunshine (aren't we all??! Is this rain ever going to end?!) for the sympathy. It is interesting how this WOE makes you examine your relationship with food. I've realising that the hunger isn't so much the issue for me, it's having access to it. I'm not really a snacker, and can usually wait for my next meal unless absolutely starving, but I have to know the food is there if I want it. My fridge and cupboards are always bulging.

I made some of the low carb almond flour "biscuits" for lunch, and they were quite nice warm with lots of salted butter and a bit of cheese.

"access to it" should read "access to food"

  for you @Ninkaninus

I also suffer with low moods/depression/anxiety and it's shit. I do tend to find this woe good for helping to balance my moods for some reason. Perhaps a link with more even blood sugar. Hope you are now turning a corner.

Possibly a stupid question, but where's the best place to get psyllium husk (powder?) I looked in Holland and Barrett but couldn't see it. TIA.

Oh @Ninkaninus I'm sorry you aren't in a great place. I've missed you on here xx

@Leelaseye - I think you can buy it at Aldi. But your best bet is probably to buy it online

@Ninkaninus thank you for posting - that was brave . But don't run away - you'll see that others are struggling too, so you're not alone.

Hi, I don't post very often, but I do follow these Bootcamp threads religiously, because they have inspired me and taught me so much over time. And I still continue to learn with all the lovely recipes...

I think I posted on the last Bootcamp thread, but sometimes I feel its nice to have a little bit of a "success story" which might keep all of you on the weight loss/improved health journey, a tiny bit more motivated or give you that boast/feeling that this journey is entirely possible and OH SO very much worth it, from a "successe" (if there is such a word?)

So my story.....
I am female, 5ft, 4 inches, a lawyer with a fairly sedentary life-style which involved little or no exercise other than walking a fat black Labrador about a 2 miles a day back in September 2017 and then weighing in at 12 stone 12, and approaching 50. Fat, bloated and seriously carrying far too much fat around my middle. True apple shape. Buying clothes that covered me up and hid all the bulges/bits I was embarrassed about. My youngest was approaching 15 and I could no longer put the added poundage down to "baby" weight. And then my eldest stepson announced his engagement with a wedding in Sept 2018. I was SO not going to be the "fat step-mother" at the wedding!

So I decided I needed to "diet". But typical diets and I did not match. For one, I hated cottage cheese (still do, tastes like cotton wool as far as I am concerned!) and the idea of having a shake or 2 for meal replacements was hideous. Bleurgh. I therefore started to research online and came across Keto diets and this forum and having researched I started this WOE. I read everything BIWI and others had written on MN, and read, amongst others the Diet Doctor website and then started. I won't bore you with the details, but by the time of the wedding a year after I started, I had reached 9 stone 7 and then made my goal, 8 stone 12 (around about midway for by BMI) by end of Nov 2018. 4 stone in total!

I have stuck with that weight, there or thereabouts for the last 7 months and gave up smoking for my new years resolution for 2019 and remain smoke free and (relatively) carb free since. I feel absolutely chuffed with myself. I added in 3 or 4 moderate swimming sessions a week, which has been great to tone up and prevent any (more) saggy skin, plus I now have a more slim line dog, albeit she didn't quite follow the LCHF diet herself, she has just been dragged out for more exercise as I have more energy!.

It is ABSOLUTELY doable, grant you, you need to commit, you will have wobbles, but overall why not commit, ITS FOR YOU! This WOE is now so ingrained, I barely even register pasta, maybe have the odd slice of toast with a cooked Sunday breakfast now and again and if honest , the only potatoes I genuinely miss are a really, really skin-on-crispy jacket potato. Which I do have every now and again. That's maintenance for you!

But other than that, I feel I can genuinely pass on most carbs. am just so cross with myself I didn't find this diet earlier. But so glad I have now. I am now a size 8/10 from a 16 and even my feet have shrunk.... I was a size 6, now more like a 5. Who knew you could loose weight from your feet, but I guess that makes sense. Now for continued maintenance, which quite frankly is my scariest bit. Good luck to you all. KOKO.

Wow! That's brilliant. Thank you for posting such an inspirational story @Cloverleaf1

Sorry you are feeling down Ninkaninus. I have bipolar and I rapid cycle. I find this woe makes my mood as even as it can be, but even so I do get low for a while and stop posting - then I get hyper and post loads and feel like a dick. Hope you feel better soon.

Greebo - part of dh relationship with food and never allowing himself to go hungry or refusing to eat food he does not really enjoy comes from his mum who was starving/starved as a child. Till she was 10 was due to the war and living in utterly desperate circs (she was maltese and had a terrible time during the war) and from then it was due to her dads cruelty till she left home. As a result she was a hoarder who particularly hoarded food, yet deprived herself of it - keeping it for 'special occasions' etc. She often spoke of the feeling of deprivation during our mealtimes and made ridiculous amounts of food for DH and enjoyed watching him eat while saying she wasn't hungry. It was the most awful dynamic to watch and I think it has had a knock on effect with DH. for you.

For you nink, such honesty in your post.

Wow cloverleaf, fabulous success!

Sending warm thoughts to those feeling low.

Inspiring @Cloverleaf1

Lunch. Lamb and a FLGV
Dinner. Sausage, bacon,eggs,tomatoes,mushrooms.

Just popping in to log food!

Lunch: chicken mayo salad
Dinner: sausages, celeriac mashed with butter and cheese, leek and cabbage with a mustard and cider sauce

Snacks were pork scratchings, rollitos and olives.

I did have a can of cherry coke zero on the walk back from town and am drinking a glass of red atm.

@venusandmars and @BIWI I definitely want to stick mainly to plan with just a few treats but I'm worried about the food options. Theme park food choices aren't the best!

Thank you for the non fridge suggestions. We actually went out for dinner tonight and it was surprisingly easy to find something to eat. Made a massive mistake though. I ordered chicken wrapped in bacon with cheese and asked for green veg instead of chips and onion rings. BUT didn't realise it had bbq sauce on the chicken! I scrapped as much as I could off but couldn't get it all off. So disappointed.

@Cloverleaf1, thank for posting you're story. I love a success story! You've done amazing.

I love the food on this WOE. Steak and salad with creamy peppercorn sauce, and strawberries and cream for pud? Food of the Gods!

@MrsKoala are there meals that you could batch cook for your dh, things that he loves like spag bol, or curry. Freeze them and give him spaghetti, and you can have veg... or you can have a lovely moussaka and he can have curry with rice.

Perhaps it would help if he knew that Monday was chilli, Tuesday was curry, Wednesday was tuna bake etc. Then he would eat the food he likes and you could meal plan around it......

Thanks for sharing, Cloverleaf - really motivating :)

I've eaten an entire Boursin cheese today, half on my salad at lunchtime and the other half, unplanned, this evening, when DH came home and said he felt like pizza, so I had it melted over asparagus. Still only 4.5g of carbs for the whole 150g, but I think I might try and have a dairy-free day tomorrow!

Mumble, that's happened to me a few times. Stuff coming coated in crumb or batter that wasnt stated on the menu. It's such a pain