Week 8 - Summer low carb Bootcamp - three weeks to go ...

[BIWI]

Morning campers!

Here's the spreadsheet

Sounds like a bit of a mixed week, so hopefully the scales (or tape measure!) have been kind to you, otherwise @MrsTerryPratchett is going to need a bigger patio!

Sorry to hear about the surgery @Sittingonthesidelines, but glad all is well. Hopefully he'll be home soon.

And hope that your surgery went well @NigellaAwesome

So we're in the last three weeks - still time to lose a good chunk of fat. But only, of course, if you stick to the rules ...

Good luck to everyone.

I'm off to a smear fete today too

Just sat having my highlights done so will report in on north west prices afterwards! Just the first very few greys coming through here but I can leave my highlights almost 6 months before I feel dowdy and cave in to a fresh lot! Fair reddish blondish brown naturally.

Not had the best week but a good weigh in after a 7 mile run today puts me 3lbs to target. Had guests and days out this week and away in a cottage with family next week so may be a challenge as I seem to have lost any ability to be strict.

I have to get through a village fete, toddlers party and a beer festival today so not looking terribly low carb, but making a picnic for a day out tomorrow to avoid crap.

I've been missing for a few days and there has been lots to celebrate- people into new stone brackets and into wonderful onederland so congrats. Also I think a new poster chillijam I'd suggest checking the rules, making sure you're drinking the water and see how it goes. How much you lose at first will depend on how far from this you were eating before; the worse and carbier the previous diet the more dramatic the initial results.

Thank you, yes maybe I’m not having enough water

Really tired today just slept for two hours with my toddler despite coffee!
Still can’t get out of bed!
Is this keto flu? I don’t feel I’ll.
So far today I have had
B: omelette with salami and butter
L: 5 sliced pieces of brie
1 x pint water with fresh lemon juice in it
D: will be bolegnese with salad greens

It could be keto flu but also that's not enough water - it's a minimum of 2l, which increases according to your weight. At my weight, I'm on something like 3.5l (might just be 3l now)

I'm currently on my 4th pint of water as I've been out working in the garden (although now on watching the TdF)

Definitely try upping water, Chillijam - I'd also up the veggie count, as the only ones I can see is the salad greens with supper?

I had a strange experience at lunch today. I ordered something I didn't expect to come with chips but actually did. I ate one chip, didn't much like the taste of it and left the rest. That has NEVER happened to me before, I can normally inhale chips like an anteater. I then thought that since I'd been so good about the chips I might get myself a small chocolate bar when we did the Tesco shop. Didn't find anything I fancied, came away with strawberries, blueberries and double cream as a treat instead. Something really seems to have reset inside me this time.

Chilijam - are you going to have sliced courgettes (I use a cheese slice round the outside of the courgette and discard the seedy centre) fried in butter with your bolognaise? And is it a bolognaise sauce made with plenty of hidden veg? That will up your veg count.

@Chillijamntuna

B: omelette with salami and butter
L: 5 sliced pieces of brie
1 x pint water with fresh lemon juice in it
D: will be bolegnese with salad greens

Not enough water - and where is your veg?!

Thank you BIWI plugs a bottle of water and goes to make huge bowl of greens :)

I had two big tests today.
I went to a fete with rhubarb gin for sale and loads of hand made cakes. I sat there while my husband and daughter ate ice cream and sweet drinks. I just had water.
Then instead of my planned Bolognese I had a burger with bacon and a slice of blue cheese but gave the bun, chips, awfully sweet dressed salad and onion rings to my husband.

I’m now sat with a salad of rocket, celery, cucumber and 2 cherry tomatoes with a home made dressing of shit wine vinegar, grated paremesan, mayonnaise and Dijon mustard and a pint of water.

You're getting it!

Haha I've just realised that I said "shit wine vinegar"
Thanks pretty bird.
I feel so much more invigorated having had loads of water and vegetables.

I'm a bit cack-handed with all of this at the moment.

Feeling really in control and enjoying this woe this week. Swerved pizza yesterday - my fave food in the world and dh and dd had McDonald’s on the way home from a swim meet and I had a black coffee and made myself a salad when we got home. We don’t often eat McDonald’s but dd smashed it in the pool today so deserved a treat

I had a ploughman's and skipped the bread (bar one mouthful which was delicious.) Sob. So cheese, coleslaw and salad. Fuck me I hate eating out and not having something properly made for me

Had tea (black) while everyone else had ice cream and waffles.

Then back to Uncle's house for tea and birthday cake of which I had a small slice (sorry, but birthday cake is as close to a sacred ritual as I get.) It was veh nice but I feel wiped out now.

I’ve had FLGV , WATER WATER WATER , no wine ( on a Saturday night !!!!! )
But
I did have a slice of cake ( and thoroughly enjoyed it )

I'm in the land of maple syrup, breaded and fried everything and portions the size of a planet. Been doing my best (and feeling like a very picky eater) but today at last was glorious...
B - ham and eggs (refused the fruit, juice, toast, jam, syrup, waffles)
L - picnic from a farmers market with ham, cheese and loads of organic micro greens and leaves
D - roast chicken (with the skin on) spinach, mushrooms and a side of broccoli, more spinach, green beans, asparagus. I avoided the bread but purloined my share of the butter to add to the veg.

I have been missing green veg so much!

Sounds like you're doing really well @venusandmars!

@MrsBertBibby I hate being in that situation too. Although to be fair, it is usually easier to stay on track with low carb, rather than low cal/fat.

@Chillijamntuna glad you're getting it! It takes a while to get into low carbing, as it's so different from how we've all been told to eat for years.

I’m at a cafe and have just had a lovely lunch (DH had the sour dough - weep!)

It was 2 eggs, chorizo slices, avocado, paprika and some kind of tomato sauce that tasted a bit Mexican.

I’m wondering if I can make this at home?

That’s sounds lovely chilli, sometimes I find ‘simple’ things eaten out are so difficult to replicate at home - so annoying!

WATER! WATER! WATER!

Big whinge coming up -do feel free to scroll past I just need to ‘get it out!’

MrsBB*
At least you found something I guess! I think meat/fish/ eaters really underestimate how bloody hard this is for vegetarians and throw in ‘no eggs’ eating out is beyond difficult and it’s not any kind of pleasure for me at all Which in itself would be bearable if social life in the UK (and probably most other places) didn’t revolve around coffee/meals 😩

I’m struggling with feeling VERY FED UP of it all at the moment. I’m only eating carbs from veg (and small amounts from tofu/cream/cheese/few almonds) I’m drinking water... and my bloods still aren’t getting into the normal range (that might be my meter though) my weight went up a little last week and is hovering between 109.9 & 108.8 (up into 110 yesterday) kg obviously...(if it was lb I’d be giddy with pleasure!!) (started at 112.3so down about 3kg🙄in 8 sodding weeks with masses to lose - I should be around 52kg)

I have NO ENERGY, no motivation (didn’t have either before boot camp either, but I was hoping it would improve on BC) I just want to sleep my head is A FOGGY mess.

I’m bored bloody witless with salad for lunch (I make a GOOD salad with plenty of greens but also cheese/tofu/vegan mayo/basil infused olive oil) and vary it as much as possible, but it’s still salad. Veg sausages (tofu LC) and veg for dinner, veg in cheese sauce. Veg roasted & mashed celeriac.

I ENVY meat eaters their spag Bol, chilli, meetzas, chicken 50 ways etc Protein , Fat & no carbs ....but I simply cannot go back to eating meat/fish after 30 years of not. The thought alone makes me feel ill.

I REALLY REALLY believe this WOE is good for us and good for weight loss etc I’m
Just (once again) really not sure how I as a non egg eating vegetarian can sustain this for the long term.

It’s not the cake/crisps/bread that derail me it's the complete lack of being able to be spontaneous/eat out (with enjoyment) & boredom

I spent ages today looking for recipes for vegan low carb / there are loads, but their idea of low carb is properly screwed -banana/beetroot breakfast bowl, chocolate nut granola etc

It’s nit helped by s friend who is diabetic too. He’s a dinosaur stuck in his ways. His idea of going low carb is 2 weetbix instead if three, digestives instead of shortbread, sweetener instead of sugar in tea and drinking lots of no added sugar squash and his blood sugars are better than mine!! (But he is taking the meds I don’t want to take)

I just want to fall face first into a latte and a very nice piece of cake 🍰☕️

...I don’t (today st least) but I want to!

Sorry to hear you're struggling, @ChippingInLowCarbing

I found some lovely recipes in a Sainsbury's vegetarian magazine yesterday - see if these inspire you:

Mozzarella and pea salad

Sorry for repeat post - takes so bloody long to upload photos I thought it wasn't working!

Here's the next one - grilled cauliflower steaks with Feta, oregano and lemon

And three different dips - green goddess, cacik and beetroot, cumin and lime hummus: