Week 2 - October Low Carb Bootcamp - how did you all do?!

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Morning!

Here's what you have all been waiting for!

I love this week, because there are always some fabulous results - and those who really didn't believe it was going to work are always amazed!

Stab you're absolutely right, but I also struggle to speak up. At work I don't even try, I just skip the food.

Which is odd, because normally I'm a right loud-mouth at work. But only about professional things actually, not personal.

It's been observed on BCs before, but this WOE doesn't half make you examine your behaviours!

MrsGareth glad to be of service. As you say, all cupboard staples so it's a great one to have up your sleeve. Avoids all the sugar filled ultra processed ready-mixed stuff you can buy.

B: 2 eggs scrambled on some smoked salmon
L: leftover chicken on salad with mayo and mustard as yesterday, plus yogurt.
Snack of Manchego cheese on a very long drive. Got my water in by lunch but have a large bottle of sparkling on the go now.
Excitingly my hotel for tonight has a Marco Pierre White steakhouse so maxing my budget on extra sides, seeing as no wine allowed bloody bootcamp! Rib eye with Béarnaise on its way , green beans in place of chips and cabbage with bacon on the side! I'm sure there'll be hidden carbs but doing my best, just need to stay strong at breakfast. Will swim first thing.
Have decided if lunch is all carby sandwiches tomorrow I can eat any suitable bits then dodge out to get on the road where I can pick up something better at a services.

Thank you, I can’t do the bullet proof coffee because I don’t have a blender. Well I have a hand blender but not sure how I’d do that?

Anyway today has been much better on the veg front and I’m not err blocked up anymore!

B: Greek yog
L: green salad with 2 slices of Brie and a bit of saint Aguirre cheese spread.
D: 6 meatballs with butter fried leeks, mushroom and Brussels sprout small amount of passata and s sprinkling of Parmesan!
I’ve had my 3 litres too!
Snack: pepperami and cream coffee

Ps. I haven’t looked at my body for over six months (couldn’t bear it)
I caught a glimpse this morning and was pleased to see a flat, much smaller tummy and already a waist!

B: Yoghurt
L: Chunk of cheese before I dashed out the door at 11.30 and two packs of Fridge Raiders chicken bites in Tesco's carpark at 2.45!
S: Chilli omelette and a shedload of green veg

Coconut porridge turned out good and was extremely filling!
Breakfast : Coconut porridge
Lunch: Omelette with cheese and a couple of sliced cherry tomayors
Dinner: Coconut porridge with 125g Bluberries

I'm not shy about it per se, but I've never had a single dietary requirement in my life and it takes a little getting used to!

I absolutely understand, KondoKonvert, and thank you for taking my post in the way it was intended.

I want us all to be at our best with this WOE. Sometimes that involves speaking up, even when awkward or out of comfort zone.

Happy you had a nice meal and have lovely friends.

About dying hair, I got ice white hair which I dye blond. I hade my first white hair before I was twenty! It’s genetic, my mum and great gran was the same.

@StabMeReapers thanks!

Yes, it is important that I state my needs. It's not like I'm demanding Mariah Carey-esque requirements like kittens in my dressing room .

@AthelstaneTheWhoooOOOooo it's weird isn't it! I'd rather just bring no attention to it than have people analyse what I eat. My eternally slim sister was quizzing me about it at the weekend and I eventually had to ask her to stop because it felt like she was putting pressure on me to explain my choices.

I don't need to explain my choices, I'm a grown up and I can do whatever the fuck I want 😂😂

Interesting to read about people’s different approaches to telling people about their woe. I

Today’s food
B scrambled eggs avo salmon
L Greek salad mayo
D roast chicken cauliflower broccoli

Tmi feeling bloaty and full up today , but can't remember when I last pooped. Certainly wasn't yesterday and I'm a daily kinda person. Couldnt be bothered with dinner. So just had some cucumber slices as "crackers " and conveyed some pate and cheese in that way. Was lovely and light feeling!

I have had a few teaspoons of cream though and that normally goes through me like nothing on earth! And so BC friendly.... 🤣😂😳💩

Interesting chat about telling people about your way of eating. I have always hated people commenting on what/ how much/when I eat, I just think it's so rude and none of their business. Obv different if you decide to tell friends but I wish people would keep their uninvited opinions to themselves!

Lunch: bolognese with a big salad
Dinner: pork curry with veg

Well done to all the losers! Haven't read the thread yet, but I know this works, so I'm sure there are lots of you! I'm so behind on the thread, still catching up on last weeks thread !
I did weigh in yesterday though, lost 3lbs, was hoping for more, but period starting on Sat stalled me. Recently I have been getting ill every month around my period and this month was the same, spent the last 3 days feeling rubbish with flu like symptoms, would have loved a bit of comfort food in the form of bread and cakes, but pleased that I stuck to low carb.
Had a delicious dinner of lamb chops, roasted pumpkin, roasted green beans and sprouts and have got leftovers for my lunch tomorrow.

stabmereapers is it childish to snigger at we can’t envision a world where 1/3 sausage fills us up

@nonononon re the grey hair. I went through a brief phase of dying my hair, then thought 'this is tedious and it does not fit with my view of walking gently upon the earth' so I stopped. I now look blonder than I did 15 years ago. The brown hair still lightens in the sunshine, and it mixes with the grey, and who knows whether they are blonde streaks or grey ones... I have highlighted look that I would have paid £££s for in my 30s!

wibblytummy I get you completely. I was at a family event today. There were good choices for me - greek salad with feta and olives, crudities with avocado dip, ham and cheese rollitos - and yet I still found myself at one point with crisps dipped in hummous… I don't know why but they were in my mouth.

I feel annoyed at myself. I feel disappointed. I feel fat. None of those feelings are worth the little taste of soggy crisp and processed chickpea.

I've been living this woe for long enough to know that I'm right back on it, and that weight gains can be temporary fluctuations, but my advice to you would be sit on your hands, walk away from temptations, drink water, nibble on cheese..

I've never had a single dietary requirement in my life and it takes a little getting used to! Oh yes! I have close and friends and family who have live threatening allergies, I'm accustomed to scrutinising packets / ingredients, I used to creating food that accommodates everyone else's needs (preferences). I'm not at all used to asking that for myself. I feel faddy and fussy. But actually I have to be honest to myself and to a way of living and eating that makes me feel good and well. OK, one small slice of cake won't raise my blood pressure catastrophically, but cake every day will.

So it is my right to quietly ask for foodstuffs that keep me healthy, and to play my own part in rejecting the things that don't.

Had a lovely supper tonight of cold pork, crackling and loads of buttered cauliflower florets and brussels.

I always struggle to have the required FGLV , so I prepared a whole head of cauliflower (dh had a wee bit) and plenty of brussels, so that I've got leftovers to enjoy tomorrow morning.

I’m two pounds down since BC started. I’m happy with that.

I can never get my crackling to crackle properly , despite fannying around with paper towel, salt, hairdryers, temperature up/down/up etc. I just hope for the best now and rejoice if there is a small patch of crunchy stuff.

Reading people's views on discussing this WOE in real life it strikes me that due to carrying more weight that we want, probably most of us have a somewhat more stressful relationship with food than usual. Or at least, somewhat more stressful experiences of other people commenting on food choices. The criticism opinions tend to be incoming and one-way only, and so on this already stressful topic it can feel really odd to start handing them back / expressing views of your own about food.

When I hit my late teens I got really large, and everyone had something to say about it. I, conversely, did not get away with trying to state anything because I was large and therefore had got it wrong, and so the quieter I was about food choices the better.

@Athelstane
Re crackling.. have you tried lemon juice? Make sure the skin is dry, then rub lemon juice over the top and then sprinkle with salt. Don't know why but it works.

I always struggle to have the required FGLV , so I prepared a whole head of cauliflower (dh had a wee bit) and plenty of brussels, so that I've got leftovers to enjoy tomorrow morning.

I've taken to cooking a whole head of cauliflower in the microwave at regular intervals. It's so easy, takes minutes, and I get leftovers (though I have been known to eat the whole head).

@AthelstaneTheWhoooOOOooo I, conversely, did not get away with trying to state anything because I was large and therefore had got it wrong, and so the quieter I was about food choices the better. you've definitely hit the nail on the head there as far as I'm concerned. And I like the seasonal name change.

Now that I haven't tried, Nonononon, thank you! On the list for next week.

Sidelines, that's why - ever since starting low carb - if I must comment on my choices it's always been in terms of health, not weight. Which as I get older, becomes truer anyway, so

I really struggle with telling people I am on a diet/eating a certain way. I think it’s because I’m fat and I think if I tell people then don’t automatically lose two stone in a week, they’ll think I’ve failed AGAIN. And also I think many people, certainly in my circle of friends and family, would view LC as a fad and start with the unnecessary comments, both to my face and behind my back. This time only DH and one close friend know what I’m doing. If I lose a fair chunk of my chunk and people ask how I’ve done it, I will tell them but find it difficult at the early stage, most probably because this is not my first rodeo and I know I struggle to stick with it long term.

Anyway, I am still well in the zone, back from early morning circuits and ready for the day ahead, if a little tired after a crap night’s sleep.

B: Greek yog, cream, orange oil
L: cheese crusted omelette with various veggies
D: Diet Doctor pesto chicken (DS’s absolute fave meal), cauliflower rice

I had to sit down in an acting class yesterday because I felt light-headed. I felt light-headed because I'm really congested so my inner ears are affected and all the movement we were doing threw my balance off.

A class mate who knows I'm low-carbing - I only told her because she's trying to lose weight herself - was adamant it was because I don't have enough sugar in my blood.

Okay, yeah, people can be annoying when you tell them you’re low-carbing. And it’s not as though I wear a medical bracelet with my food choices in it .

But hey, I’m half-French, half-American (basically every Brit’s nightmare) and a very direct person (also very nice, the two are not mutually exclusive). I see no reason to broadcast, but certainly no reason to hide.

I’m proud of this way of eating as a choice. I like what it’s done for me. I have no hesitation answering when people ask what I want to eat, whether that’s at a friend’s or at a restaurant.

And if someone gets up in my grill about it, I equally have no hesitation why they’re so interested in my food choices or asking how what I put in my mouth affects their lives.

Ps—a hairdryer for crackling?!

Pps—sniggers at venusandmars’ sniggering

Almost zero sleep last night, all good currently unappealing, time to have a cup of tea.

WATER WATER WATER, y’all!

Good morning all.
I am relieved that my DSD had a party so we won't be going to MIL's next weekend, they're coming here so it's much easier to control what I eat at home.
Im going to my Granny's (98) next weekend for lunch and she always makes loads of desserts, a big roast etc (I know she's amazing) and she is my achilles heel. I can't not eat her food so Im not quite sure how I will swerve all of the puddings, cakes and carry foods cooked from scratch.
I may have to pass them to DH when no one's looking.