Jan '20 - Week 8 Low Carb Bootcamp - Springing into March

[StuntNun]

How has everyone got on this week? It's time to weigh-in and update the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness. We had a few newbies joining us last week so a quick reminder to ask any questions you might have. This Way of Eating really works but sometimes it can be hard to see the wood for the trees when you're in the middle of your weight loss journey so let's keep motivating each other.

@venusandmars my husband usually has to get up to pee in the night and tries to time it with my snores so he knows he hasn't woken me. He says now he can't tell if I'm asleep or laying there silently plotting his death for waking me I haven't told him that it's not such a big deal anymore - I used to get slightly murderous because I couldn't go back to sleep. Now zzzzzzzz

checking in - I've fallen off the wagon into major carby twattness. Grief has lead me back into the comfort of carbs. Main problem was that any meal planning, or even ability to do meal making went straight out the window. I've been comfort eating. Baguettes and donuts have been involved.

I've hardly drunk anything for several days and I feel very dehydrated.

Back on the wagon today, hydrating slowly, had mushrooms, spinach & eggs and feel much better for it.

clitterati grief creates all kinds of response so treat yourself gently in all ways. But interesting that lower carb seems to be an integral part of being good to yourself.

Later, much later, reflect on your post and notice how carbs did not help with grief or stress. Fill your freezer and cupboards with low carb soups / meals / ready-made items so you can easily reach for something nourishing.

P. S. I also understand that in these times other people offer support in the form of cake, sweet potato soup, wine etc. Accept with grace and love them for their efforts, and be tender with yourself for eating them all.

Lovely post venusandmars

I agree, Clitterati - be kind to yourself but accept comfort from others graciously . Been there, done that with comfort eating - and it was only once I managed to get back on the HFLC wagon (4 stone later on the worst occasion ) that I started to feel better (although which comes first: being able to get back on the wagon because my mood has started to lift or my mood lifting because I'm back on the wagon with HFLC ? .....I think the latter ).

Inspired by Rayna's organuary I have bought some oxtail.

Don't quite know what to do with it so I'm making my own haphazard version of an oxtail soup. It's simmering away at the moment and it smells wonderful. I've put onion, carrot, celery, garlic in the stock. I'll eventually strain the bones out and take the meat off. I might put it back in the soup, or I might keep it separate for some other use and just have a load of nutrient rich ox-tail broth saved in case of coronavirus

However, I make a plea (in light of my personal dislike of the period between end January and start of March) to re-time and re-name organuary as 'offal February'. just because it usually is so awful

I have some oxtail waiting for inspiration in the freezer, venus, so interested to hear how it pans out?

Absolutely pooped after yesterday's trip out - lungs are really painful again today, so that's that lesson learned.

I quite like Feb/March - it's the impractical dreaming time for garden planning. Buying too many seeds. Plotting big plots. Drawing plans. All full of potential, and never get round to half of it

I’m the same @AthelstaneTheUnready, fantasy gardening , don’t let me go on the Sutton’s website after a glass of wine !
2 weeks alcohol free , feeling good , had a sneaky weigh in and have lost 2 lb since Monday which is very pleasing
Will probably use that weight for Monday , as we’re going away for the weekend , and won’t be near the scales on Monday ( I’ll still be in the hotel )
Today’s menu
B 3 scrambled buttery eggs
L green salad with ham , cheese and mayo
D chicken breast with cauliflower, mushrooms , leeks and spinach in a cream sauce
Lots of water , and will cram in 2 more glasses before bed
Working tomorrow til 4 pm , then no hanging around and dashing off to catch the train ( hoping for a celebratory gin and slimline tonic on the train 👍)

Another 1lb down.
So, in less than 2 weeks I've lost a total of 5lb.
I'm pleased with that

Breakfast: bacon, spinach and egg
Lunch: chicken salad
Dinner: I've no idea yet. Ideas appreciated.

Woe is me! Those scales will not budge, the bastards! But significant NSV as jeans don’t fit properly. Have been under the weather for 2 weeks and so have done no real exercise so I shall bear with it. Just over a stone lost this BC. I suspect as always, my portion size needs attention.

Down to 10stone this morning (I started in October at over 11 and a half stone!)
This boot camp I’ve just done the whole KOKO thing quietly plodding on with the water every day and all the low carb (delicious) foods I’ve become used to now.
I’m beyond pleased 😀
Well done on all the losses and if you’re stalling just KOKO.
I find only weighing every 3 or 4 weeks better for morale!

@absopugginglutely congratulations, that's a fantastic loss!

That's absolutely fantastic @absopugginglutely

I appear to have lost 3lbs overnight. I don’t trust it.

Thank you 😊😊 chuffed!

Charity quiz night tonight. I’ve ordered the chicken chips on the advice of my husband who suggested it would be better than the fish and chips or sausage and chips. He’s sitting here eating toast and butter so not sure why I deferred to his opinion.

Anyway, I’m thinking of taking along a little tub of Greek salad as I couldn’t get them to substitute the chips with anything friendlier.

Mostly I’m going to try not to drink too much. Might not be difficult—the wine at these things is usually crap.

I've apparently gained 2lb since Monday could be cycle related but also acknowledge that I have been exercising less (work and home life busy) and eating off plan - sugar demons still being exorcised. Never mind. KOKO.

I couldn’t get them to substitute the chips with anything friendlier.

I don't believe you. You are my role model assertive person, and I don't believe that when you stare down your nose and say you don't want chips, people don't back away flapping their hands, to run for salad.

In sick-bed news, I have been reading up on the effects of antibiotics on gut health and am pretty let's not even go there with the steroids

So have been gulping kefir, and made some sauerkraut with added ginger and garlic at the beginning of the week, and it is frankly gopping. I definitely used too much salt. It's christ-on-a-bike levels of gopping. I have to keep it in the shed because it stunk out the fridge.

However. I do feel much chirpier within an hour or so of eating it, craving it in fact.

Still not weighed, don't dare, but very glad to be back on LC wagon for all the healthy reasons.

I'm convinced @AthelstaneTheUnready that several long-term courses of antibiotics as a teen (for acne) wiped out my positive/good gut bacteria, which ultimately led to my IBS and also very-difficult-to-treat (and long running) candida/thrush.

So definitely worth investing in stuff to help your gut. It's also worth considering getting some decent probiotics - if you have a good health food shop ask their advice. Don't get something like yakult/actimel as they're just full of sugar. Also, live (natural) yoghurt will help you.

athelstane I'm a fan of kimchi, find it easier to eat than sauerkraut.

At an event all day today and tomorrow, free sandwiches and coke. Luckily I brought my own.
B - boiled eggs with butter
L - salad with cheese and avocado
D - chicken satay with Asian pak choi, mushrooms and broccoli

I don't believe you. You are my role model assertive person, and I don't believe that when you stare down your nose and say you don't want chips, people don't back away flapping their hands, to run for salad.

Ha ha ha. Yes, I’m assertive, but when faced with a village quiz run by mostly (very long) retired volunteers for a twinning association, I tend not to assert. They are lovely and doing a good thing.

I asked, they said sorry, we don’t think we can because we’re ordering it in, then offered all sorts like a crap iceberg with one cherry tomato, no dressing, and a chunk of cheddar. Bless them.

I politely declined and thanked them, but I’d rather bring my own lush Greek salad with kalamata olives from the farm shop.

I did have a weird exchange at the corner shop the other day where the fellow at the till gave me a pack of cigarettes (sigh, yes, smoking again) that didn’t have the shrink wrap around it.

So I asked for a different pack (because of potential tampering), and he got that pack but by that point he had become a bit flustered, hadn’t given me my change, and I suggested he should void the sale and ring up my purchase again with the proper items.

By that time there was a queue of three behind me (with small items) and bless him, he started to serve the person behind me!

I said “Why are you doing this, we haven’t finished.”

He said, “I’m serving the customers.”

I said, “Yes, but I am your customer.”

I did check with those behind me that they were—God forbid—happy to wait an additional 30 seconds. They were, but one dick of a guy purchasing two cans of beer at 10.00am said “well I can see his point”

Anyway, I guess that makes me assertive. Just so y’all know, the guy at the till is young and new, went to school with my kids, and was flustered but fine about it all. I reassured him he’d done a great job and understood why it all seemed too much. They’re not well-trained in customer service and he’s a lovely young man. I hope he takes it away as a positive learning experience rather than “Jocasta’s mum is an absolute bitch.”

Ps—my daughter is not named Jocasta. In case anyone wondered.

I hope he takes it away as a positive learning experience rather than “Jocasta’s mum is an absolute bitch.”

Feeling quite pleased with myself.
My DS1 bought fruit pastilles for everyone from the shop and I shared mine out between the kids instead of eating any

Today is my day one. Have meal planned, had shop delivered a d done a ton of inspirational lurking in bootcamp threads

This WAO worked for me 5 years ago and k lost around 2 stone. About half that back in I suspect. Can't actually find my scales following some recent home improvements but am not a big weigher anyway. I will trust in the process!

Quick q. Have Bullet proof coffees fell out of favour. They were popular in sure when I last did this but I can't see any mention on more recent threads.