Summer Low Carb Bootcamp - at last the finishing line!

[BIWI]

Isn't 10 weeks a long time!

The Spreadsheet of Fabulousness is here one last time

Although this is the last official weigh-in, this thread will stay up for general chat/support until the next Bootcamp - probably in October.

I hope everyone has a good 'final' result.

Every Bootcamp is different, but this one has, I have to say, been remarkably well behaved . I've lost the Big Stick somewhere in the back of a cupboard!

While I know you're all here and reading because I know people don't read all the posts if you want to take the opportunity to meet @ShagMeRiggins (and me) for a lighthearted Bootcamp style & beauty event probably with gin thrown in for good measure send me a PM!

B - butter coffee
L - chicken and avocado salad, mayonnaise, olive oil
D - salmon and veg stir fry

Looking for inspiration for tomorrow's lunch. Going to PILs and I'm taking the food... I'm thinking maybe slow cooked lamb casserole with vegi rice and creamed spinach. Followed by panna cotta with black currents (pana cotta made with erithrytol not sugar). MIL is elderly and frail and needs tempting goodies to encourage her to eat. I think she's more likely to eat panna cotta than fruit and cream.

B: Eggs and almond flour 'bread' roll toasted and buttered
Coffee and cream
tea and milk
Water

L: pork scratchings and water
rosehip tea

D: Swedish fish. (Fish and shallots and apple cooked in mustard and sour-cream topped with chopped nuts) and roasted green beans and kale
tea and dash of milk
water

Total 5% is on offer at Sainsbury's, think it was £1.95 for the 500g tub

Hello all! Long time no post.

After plateauing for an age, and KOKO I've started to very slowly head downwards again. There is not a tiny hope I'd have stuck with it without knowing from you lot that this is normal, so thanks!

Good stuff that's happened: shopping from my wardrobe I'm in a few clothes I never thought would love me again. I've found a pusher seller of keto bread and shortbread at a local market so I have a loaf cut up in the freezer. Tastes good and I can stop at one, unlike real bread. I've beaten my mini goal, now my actual goal is 15 pounds away.

Sorry to hear about the losses on this thread

And one question. Is celery the magical answer to crunchiness? I feel like it's low carb but I'm wondering if it's too good to be true. Because it doesn't need cooked and is a cream cheese/Boursin delivery system.

You can have all the celery you like. Crunch away.

Tea is a very lazy "carbonara", 4 ingredients

Lunch omelette salad wrap
Dinner tuna salad.

That carbonara looks good. Trying to guess the four ingredients ham,spinach, courgette, cream?

Here's the sort of recipe
Cook pancetta or bacon bits until crispy
Add courgetti noodles and stir for a bit
Stir in creme fraiche
Stir in some form of grated cheese (I used Parmesan)
Black pepper too but that makes it 5 ingredients

Courgette, lardons, egg, garlic, olive oil, and the pecorino and Parmesan cheeses (but that’s more than four if we’re counting cupboard staples). That’s my guess anyway.

Meanwhile, loving Wistful Cat in the background of that photo.

Whoops, X-Post. And meant butter rather than olive oil anyway, so wasn’t even right with my own recipe version.

I would generally not use creme fraiche for actual carbonara but it makes a v quick creamy sauce
Wistful cat slurped up the leftovers happily (he likes cabbage and courgette...)

Carbonara looks great. Whatever the true number of ingredients.

4lb down again :) - according to crazy scales. (They have been refusing to register any loses all summer and now go for two big ones in a row.)

B: tea (forgot water!)
L: roast lamb, leeks in cream, courgetti in olive oil garlic and lemon, steamed broccoli, stuffed aubergine (garlic/tomato/shallot/oregano)
cheese
coffee with cream
1 dry sherry
Red wine
water

D: tea
water

(Special anniversary dinner here.)

I think I'm going to be having carbonara soon. Both versions sounded tasty.

It was, and the sauce went quite thick as the cheese melted. The cat seemed to enjoy slurping it he likes to steal food off me

Tomorrow's food is planned
B - probably yoghurt and raspberries
L - garlic and lemon chicken, salad leaves, cucumber, crispy bacon, Caesar dressing
T - carbonara again to use up the courgette noodles
Snacks if needed - marmite cheese, Brazil nuts, egg mayo (I just keep a stash of stuff at work for if I get hungry so my drawer has protein powder, nuts etc in)

I know there's a national cauliflower shortage in the UK, but I made (if I say so myself) an absolutely fabulous version of cauliflower cheese last week.

300ml carton double cream
large pack grated mature cheddar (I would normally grate my own, but with no kitchen at the moment I'm taking all the shortcuts I can get!)
pack smoked lardons
bunch of spring onions
clove of garlic
juice of half a lemon

Peel and chop the spring onions, and fry them in butter along with the lardons, till nice and browned, and the finely chopped garlic.

Add double cream and stir together; season with black pepper

Add grated cheese and stir until cheese is melted and the sauce has thickened a bit. Add the lemon juice and stir till incorporated.

Add the cooked cauliflower to the sauce, or pour the sauce over cooked cauliflower, and then put under the grill to brown. You could also add more grated cheese on top so that you get more of a crispy top.

I might have to try that! I've been put off it by the versions ive had where the cauliflower is hard still, I like it falling apart

You can cook the cauliflower to however much falling apartness you want!

Actually, you've just made me think - you could make a mash with the cauliflower and add it to the cheese sauce, to make something like a cheese pudding. Then bake that in the oven.

I can't wait till I can use an oven again!

Sold shame I didn't get any cauliflower today

I'm so tempted to get out of bed and cook that. Better go to sleep quick.

Ooh some fab sounding recipes here! Especially the carbonara and the cauli cheese. I've got leftover cauli bits from the steaks we cut....

Bloody delighted to report 2.1 kgs down and first mini target met - BMI under 35!! And I feel so much better - no carb flu luckily (and if I'm a week in I should be fine now?), and the lashings of water seem to have made a remarkable difference to the blotchy open pores of my cheeks - or maybe that's the lack of booze, too!

Had an amazing fillet steak with roast cauli in butter, steak topped with blue cheese slices (from lidl - "for burgers") - YUMMMMMMM.

I volunteer at events which mean weekends outdoors with minimal facilities, so very happy to have done at avocado brekkie, creamy salad lunch and rolling snacks both days. And a chicken thigh!

Dinner last night was prob probably bit carby, but a planned one - mushrooms in garlic, prawn food yung and prawns with green pepper and black bean sauce. Left all the onions!

Smoked salmon salad today, with lemon mayo dressing. And bacon bits! And water water water (thanks ShagMe!)
And a morrisons order needed as the fridge is getting bare.

Three pounds down again. I have been super strict since my holiday and subsequent weight gain (which I didn't log) towards the end of Bootcamp. As previously mentioned I've been reading up on the Fast 800 and putting some of those principles into this woe. I know this diet has been designed specifically so we don't have to weigh count food. However*@BIWI does make a suggestion that we might like to weigh some stuff at the beginning so we can see what a portion is. So that's what I've been doing which has resulted in an awareness of calorie content and made me more aware of where I need to reign in the portions (cream, cheese, ) and where I can go wild (celery, greens). I know it's obvious and @BIWI* has been telling us, but I creep very easily without that extra discipline. Will continue weighing for this week but my portion judgements are getting better and I'm not hungry. Also I'm fasting 8/16 most days. Sorry to ramble.

Oh I've lost 22 pounds now since beginning of Bootcamp.

Morning
Great losses and recipes

Has anyone ever had a reaction to Truvia, which is calorie free sugar substitute? I was awake from 2 to 4am and I think it was that, I did not even like it 😀