Well done for sticking with us for four weeks! You are fat-adapted now and getting the full health benefits of this way of eating. Add your weight to the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness and let's see how everyone has done. Don't forget that it's typical for weight loss to pause at some point in weeks 3-5 but so long as you are following the rules you are still losing fat!
I know a few of you have been missing meals, whether by accident or design, so I'd like to start talking about intermittent fasting this week if anyone is interested? It's completely optional so don't feel that you should fast if you don't want to. I still think it's worth finding out more about intermittent fasting, how it works, when and why you might want to introduce it, and what it feels like to fast... spoiler alert it doesn't involve feeling hungry!
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Low-carb bootcamp
Jan '20 - Week 4 Low Carb Bootcamp - One month in!
StuntNun · 03/02/2020 06:35
Loving the “thin clothes” success and loving the giving away of “too big clothes”—great NSVs.
Brassica there wasn’t much you could do about that meal other than what you did, so good for you, seriously. Hard when faced with a festival of root vegetables.
Re Harvey’s tomato query, I’ve just made a Greek salad with beautiful farm tomatoes Because I really fancied it to dip in and out of this week, very busy. Three quarters already gone as my husband had it for lunch and my eldest son had two bowls at lunch 
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Point is, I’m not going to worry about the tomatoes because I’m the days I have that I’ll be sure to have loads of above ground green vegetables to even it out.
It’s worth being aware of carb counts but nobody wants to get back to a “counting” way of eating—god forbid—generally I try to get in fresh, healthy meals and in the long run it works.
WATER!!!
Definition of restraint? The ability to eat one peanut!
Yes, ha ha! But trying a mindful snack as an experiment could be a great learning experience?
Good idea @shagmeriggins Crisps are (were) my vice whereas peanuts are just a nice to have so reckon I could do that if I make a point of being mindful. This little LC birthday tea just went down well with the kids: chicken drumsticks, swede chips in garlic oil and yoghurt/ mozzarella/ lemon/ mayo dip with cucumber. They followed it up with cake mind you but not me of course 
God bless my lovely parents 
It’s my dads birthday today so we went round for dinner, and bless them they’ve read all about low carb eating while they’ve been on holiday in Greece and tonight they put on an absolute feast of Greek food for me and my sister who’s eating keto for epilepsy. She started eating keto 3 months ago and hasn’t had a fit or a migraine since 
Dad is a phenomenal cook and I think quite enjoyed the challenge of it
We had:
Belly pork stuffed with a sun dried tomato and garlic tapenade
Crackling crisps off the top of the belly pork
Massive Greek salad complete with loads of olive oil (huge step for my mum to embrace fat like that)
Halloumi wrapped in aubergine and grilled (these were awesome, stealing that idea!)
Huge bowl of olives
Chicken kebabs
Roasted Mediterranean veggies
We also had a pumpkin spiced pudding for pudding, which my mum made with double cream, egg yolks, a bit of sweetener then cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg etc, it was really light and lovely to actually have a pudding.
It was by far the nicest meal I’ve had on this WOE and the fact they tried so hard to accommodate us was just so lovely. My dad said he’d actually really enjoyed cooking it all and he didn’t miss the rice or potatoes he’s have served it with normally. I think it was a bit of an eye opener for him.
I drank FAR too much last night and I’ve been hung over all day and not able to eat much 
I weighed this morning and there’s a new number at the beginning on the scales I’m down from 20st to officially the 18’s now
... and I'd like the Halloumi/aubergine recipe!
How fantastic. And how wonderful your results are 
Just text my dad for the recipes
The aubergine halloumi wraps were thin sliced aubergine, covered in oil and grilled in a pan then the halloumi lightly grilled at the same time. Then wrapped the aubergine around the halloumi and baked it in the oven for a few mins.
Mums sending me the keto pud recipe in the morning :)
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