Jan '20 - Week 7 Low Carb Bootcamp - The Last Month

[StuntNun]

You know the drill: weigh-in; update the Spreadsheet; let us know how you've done. Everyone fall in!

Place marking! Back later

Early start - Ff yog on train. Was at a five hour workshop which was running late so we had a ten minute break to grab food. Got my tuna and egg salad out. It was warm greasy smelly and had leaked. And I couldn’t find the fork. I couldn’t face stinking out the too wit it so had a couple of baguettes and crisps. First cheat this boot camp. Not going to hear myself up about it

In other news I’m down to 10’9 which is quite a good weight for me and looking forward to another four weeks :-)

Venus that's an amazing loss! Well done.
I often think men don't grasp the fact that you are changing your lifestyle for the better and not just for fun.

My ex was an abusive prick would complain if I wore makeup, ate healthy, said I didn't want a takeaway because why would I say no. He was a nightmare (I'm not saying your DH is that bad!)
Since he's left I've started wearing makeup again, I don't buy any takeaways and I'm low carbing with you lot.

Tell DH to do one. You've done amazing.

Quick question!
Can I have gravy?

Not if it's thickened with flour/cornflour, no!

No problem! I've got chicken and veggies, which I topped with butter instead of gravy. it feels decidedly naughty but it's not!
The kids had a roast (usually have it Sunday but I forgot to take the chicken out)
No carrots for me though. Just broccoli and cauliflower.

That sounds like I've melted butter and poured it over my food! I didn't I just put a knob of butter in my veg

Had absolutely delicious braised duck legs for dinner , with celariac dauphinois
@HerRoyal , you can make a lovely gravy using the meat juices , some veg stock , boil it up , and whisk in some cold butter , simmer it for a couple of minutes , it might need some gravy browning ( probably has carbs though ) to make it a good colour , but it tastes delicious pale

I melt butter and pour it over my food. All the time!

Ponders....

Is it the fat in food that sometimes leads to a loo emergency?! I had rump steak with a good covering of fat 2 hours ago. I am sending you this message from the loo! This isn't the first time this has happened. Although doesn't happen everytime.

TMI?! We're all friends here aren't we

Oooh. Maybe that explains my bowel movements.

I'm usually a once every 3 days kind of person. I've had 2 today.

Another one here who gave into twattycarbiness. Was on holiday for a long weekend and didn't manage to stick to it. BUT am now looking up new recipe ideas and planning my shopping list so that I get back on the wagon asap.
Have really noticed how incredibly bloated and sluggish and uncomfortable I have felt eating the carbs though. So why I did it to myself is even more unfathomable!

Gravy can be thickened with butter or cream, depending on the type of gravy.

Low carb flours don’t thicken that well in my experience (almond flour for example, texture not quite right for a special gravy, fine for the odd thickening or other recipe, and anyway nuts aren’t allowed until Week 3).

BUT...like venusandmars I’ve done this a long time (though not at goal weight) and I sometimes bend a bit.

Made a Coquilles St Jacques for six on Saturday. The recipe called for a roux with 1 1/2 oz of flour and butter for the cream sauce. I did use flour and I had one portion of the six and I’m okay with that. My meals throughout the day and week were exemplary. I STS this week but don’t think it was due to 1/6 of 1 1/2 oz of flour. Much more likely due to not hitting water targets and my body loving 180lbs at the moment.

Having said that, I don't recommend this for those who are starting out. I haven’t had flour in any sauces or gravy for quite some time. This was a major exception, point being it’s not my Normal, which is why I’m okay with it.

Elpheba I’ve discovered that while health and fitness are my main drivers, vanity does okay its part. Not proud of that, but it’s true.

When you write of knowing you will feel bloated and sluggish after eating carbs and wonder why you do it anyway—because you know it doesn’t make you feel good but that’s not always enough to stop you—ask yourself what you have on for the next day or two and how you’d like to look!

Again, pure vanity. But I can still be Obese and look better with a slightly flatter stomach than I would with a 4-months pregnant stomach. And it does stop me more often than not from being a Carby Fucker.

Following my earlier post. Tbh dh is a lovely sweetheart. He is supportive understanding, accommodating. He just does not get this way of eating, and he can't seem to fathom what I eat and don't eat.

I do think this woe is baffling to a lot of people.
I've been looking into it for months before taking the leap. It goes against everything that gets drilled into you, so of course it takes a lot of retraining your brain to accept that it's ok to eat cheese and butter and even bacon, and that salad doesn't have to be bland!

I woke up to a lovely sunny day . Only to find out I am much fatter than Harvey Weinstein 😱😱😱

New motivation to crack onwards.

My back has seized up this morning. I'm in agony and can barely move.

Anyway. I managed 4.2 litres of water yesterday.

Breakfast today ham and lettuce rolled up and munched quickly.

Lunch: scrambled egg and spinach

Dinner: chicken in a creamy cheese sauce with flgv.

I love that it’s getting lighter, roll on March

Back on it today, bf of ff yog and berries, lunch lc bread and avocado and dinner will be corn beef hash

Bad day for veg yesterday Will need to work hard at having a FLGV today.

Sunshine here too but it was still bloody cold and windy cycling to work. Come on Spring/Summer!!

After disappointing feedback from the mirror yesterday, today I am comfortably in trousers that are in the thinner half of my wardrobe. I couldn't weigh myself yesterday on the only-scales-that-I-trust so that will have to wait until tomorrow. But I'm happy with the trouser victory.

@venusandmars I also have a lovely, clueless husband. I will never convince him so have to work around it at home, which makes my LC'ing imperfect but it's either that or divorce!

Today:

B - Mozzarella, spinach, eggs
L - Tuna salad
D - Bolognese with cheese

Snack - natural yoghurt.

@HerRoyalFattyness Sorry to hear about your back - horrible type of pain to have.

Just a word of caution - your breakfast looks pretty low fat. While I appreciate you probably don't feel like being in the kitchen much, just remember you do need to keep the fat levels up.

I don't think you're alone in the husband stakes @venusandmars or @CheddarGorgeous! We've heard from several Bootcampers over the years about husbands who simply can't - or won't! - get the hang of low carbing.

What's even more irritating, from an observer's perspective, is reading about husbands who are Bootcamping, yet refuse to read anything about it, therefore cheat left, right and centre when they're at work/out of home. And yet the buggers still manage to lose weight!

B - Left over chef's salad (chopped chicken, cheese, ham with mayonnaise) on salad
L - buttery spinach soup (velvet heaven)
D - crispy duck 'pancakes' well it is pancake day! dh will have the real pancakes I'll have something more like a thin omelette, with cucumber and spring onion