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

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

Baked cavelo nero? Spread it out on a baking tray, oil and season and bake until crispy.

Baked mushroom
Coleslaw and massive green salad

Ooh Swede chips?! I didn't even realise you could do that. I have lived a very sheltered, and potato based life, for far too long!
And serving everything separate as a build your own is a fab idea. DS2 is obsessed with "sprinkle cheese" and loves doing it himself.

I'll make my own coleslaw too!

I’m having home made burger and coleslaw tomorrow night too @HerRoyalFattyness!

What’s a “low carb burger”? I understand sausages that are lower in carbs, as so many sausages can be packed with carb fillers, but surely a burger is just...meat?

I generally get 15-20% fat mince and shake my own patties. It makes me happy.

shag I found some in my freezer that had loads of sugar in. From when my ex was doing the shopping. The meat content was practically zero. They were manky, scrawny little things that were grey even when cooked.

'Shake your patties' does sound very rude!

I used to love making burgers as a kid. Although I distinctly recall ketchup featuring in the process. Also many forays into the spice rack, not always well advised.

The joy of 70s Dad weekends when Mum was on call. I loved those weekends.

1lb on since this time last week down to my last Sunday craziness.
The rest of the week I've been less than 1000 cals, IF, and 0-5g carbs per day

Oh and I've got a set tasting meal for lunch tomorrow. Still. It's just one meal I tell myself

Shape! Shape!

Grey burgers sound so grim.

Brassica you remain a mystery

I'm about to make an appt for HRT investigation. Mood has been low this week, no cheating involved but I've been VERY sedentary and not done any running. Maybe it's all just a "February thing" and on Sunday I'll have a new least of life, energy and weight loss

shag indeed they were. Then he'd wonder why the kids wouldn't eat his food. Because it's shit mate.

Been shopping for some bits that didn't arrive with Asda. My mum net me as I can't push the trolley. "Do you need cooking oil?" No mum
"Do you need pasta sauces"
No mum
"Do you need this ready meal"
No mum.

I need Swede and cabbage and mayonnaise. I need meat and I don't care if it's not lean. I don't want 5% fat beef mince.
And I need cat food. No mum, I'm not spending 6 quid on posh cat food. My cyar's will eat Felix thanks.
No mum, I'm not buying myself an Easter egg.
No mum I don't want Muller light yoghurt.
No mum I don't want "light" cheese.
Honestly. She's terrible. Just let me buy the food on my list!

Optimistic great post yesterday!

DoILookLike there's no joy like the joy of a new omelette pan, I've had one recently too. I actually remember many years ago DH (DP as he was then) saying "You know what's great about you moving in....your omelette pan"

Pretty much ate the same yesterday as the day before! Today started well with a swim and then a late breakfast of manchego cheese and two boiled eggs at my desk after about 14.5hrs fast. Need to do more IF next week.
L: tuna mayo on spinach with oil, tomato and cucumber, then Greek yogurt with tsp of almond butter.
D: rib eye, celeriac chips, cavolo nero.

May or may not have wine tonight as DH hasn't got any "allowance" left if he wants to complete February in the green zone on Drinkaware, which we both use to track units. I've got plenty left of course thanks to bootcamp; also just think of all those months of beer festivals and his wine drinking I suffered through while pregnant with him not caring

HerRoyal I definitely think we can shop quicker now, so many aisles we have no need for, even if we do read packaging more carefully! I do occasionally look at people's trolleys and have a real, "blimey do people routinely eat all this shit day to day" moment. I was quite overwhelmed in a petrol station recently when I realised it was absolutely stacked full of oversized snacks, sharing bags that are never shared, etc.
There was a MN thread recently about a guy who had a wobbler because he'd run out of snacks and wasn't allowed to eat the kids ones (spoiler, he'd had plenty of his own but just eaten them all) and from the replies I was really struck by how normal it's become to continually eat highly processed nutritionally poor food outside of and in addition to meals. Not say I don't/never have but it's hard when some people think "moderation" is two biscuits in a morning, crisps at lunch, a chocolate bar in the afternoon and a cake after dinner when others think that's a week's worth of treats and some would have the whole pack of each of those. Even the waste from all the packaging on it bothers me!

Oh god yes, the waste is ridiculous.
We are eating and spending far less now ex has moved out.
He would drink 4 cans of monster energy drink a day, eat a large sharing bag of crisps as a snack, if I ever asked for a chocolate bar, meaning a regular chocolate bar he's come back with at least three large sharing bars and kick off if I didn't eat them
I'm so glad he's gone.

Anyway, breakfast: cheese and ham omelette
Lunch: I'm going to have a cheese and broccoli crustless quiche.
Dinner: burgers and homemade coleslaw

brassica less than 1000 cals seems like not a lot. I'm small framed and don't need a huge amount of food but if I eat too little then I stop loosing weight. I sort of imagine that my body panics about not getting enough and holds on to the fat. It also conserves energy by making me slow down and feel sluggish. Maybe I'd lose weight if I stuck to it longer term but eating 1000 cals makes me feel a bit deprived emotionally so eventually I have to eat more.

0-5 carbs doesn't sound like much in the way of green veg. Are you on an egg fast or something? Apologies that I haven't read back.

There have been a few good links to stuff on long-term weight stalls and 'set point'. It can just take a bit of patience and persistence. And maybe spring and the joie de vivre will works its magic. I've got my fingers crossed for that too

B - boiled egg mashed with butter
L - tuna, avocado, salad, mayonnaise
D - left over moussaka with broccoli and buttered leeks

@BrassicaBabe I really, really think you need to stop stressing and obsessing over this - and chopping and changing between different ways to eat! And have you given up that Diet Coke yet?

Keep things consistent. Follow Bootcamp rules - and try not to stress about it. We're all in this for the long haul. You haven't got a huge amount to lose so it's bound to be slow going. It could, also, be the case that you've reached a weight which is ideal for your body. Just because you don't want to be that weight is a different matter!

I'm really not chopping and changing. Since 20th Jan I've been IF, limited alcohol, reduced cals, reduced DC. Only one crazy moment of off plan eating last Sunday. I might be obsessing and stressing though.

I've got a pic from last summer which I can't seem to attach. But the "spare bit around the middle" in this pic from this week def wasn't there. And clothes that I wore last summer are too small.

You've not answered the question about whether you've given up the Diet Coke..... 

That aside  I'd also remind you that ilovecherries stalled for months and months , despite being really strict and not drinking any alcohol. But she KOKOed, kept the faith and eventually the scales started moving again.

And we do change shape as we get older. I'm currently frustrated that although I'm back to the same weight that I was in January last year, I can't wear the belt(s) that I wore at the time or rather I can but they're at the very last opening and are still tight

Easter eggs are in the shops now?!

Tayma nothing says love like an omelette pan.

shag yep. Earlier and earlier each year. Especially as Easter isn't until April this year.

It's horrible weather out and I need to go get the kids. I don't want to go. I want to stay home where it's warm!

HerRoyal unless your relationship with your mum is otherwise fraught, it might help to think of her in a “god forgive them, they know not what they do” kind of way.

She’s as much a victim of the low fat processed propaganda as the rest of us and is probably on diet “autopilot” with her suggestions.

You’ve just started and this is a long haul flight. My prediction is after the first two stones come off (which is when many people really notice the weight loss—nobody is going to notice 2lbs in three days except the dieter—she’ll be asking you more about this way of eating, with interest.

Not really the point, but great bra Brassica. I know bras and yours is doing its job well.

I don’t think you’re chopping and changing but I do think you’re on a rollercoaster of frustration. Which is why it’s great you share that with us here.

And re the packaging and processed food convo above—amen to that. It astonishes me the differences between how I used to eat and how I eat now when I eat

I look at people’s trolleys or dinners or snacks and think “Jesus, you’re killing yourselves.” Not in judgement of them as humans, but in concern for the fact that real fucking food—even the fattest of it—must be better for us as a species.

Most of us live in a world so far removed from nature and survival instincts, it’s shocking.

I’m not perfect, god knows, and I’ve been shit this week (‘nuff said), but surely the first step is an attempt to eat more of what’s real and has an identifiable source.

I mean, in which country does the Cheesy Wotsits tree grow?