Jan '20 - Week 10 Low Carb Bootcamp - One more week of Bootcamp

[StuntNun]

Welcome to the last week of our ten-week Low Carb Bootcamp. Don't forget to weigh-in and update the spreadsheet and let's focus on staying on track this week. Next Monday will be the last Bootcamp thread but, never fear, we all stick around and keep chatting away until it's time for the next Bootcamp around May.

My motivation to get to target by mid May has now disappeared as our trip to Oz has had to be cancelled

But I'm still HFLCing - just means that I can get to my target weight and "set" it before we do finally go (probably next year, possibly at Christmas and maybe even 2 years time)

I'm still at 17st 7.
I'm not looking forward to the foreseeable future.
I have significant mental health problems, including voices, my team can't come out to me and schools are closing (not that mine are in anyway) so I'm stuck with DS2 at home. I love him I really do. But he is HARD work. The school were just starting to consider there may be more to it than just being bad, and now he's not going to receive the support he needs.

Oh Carby that is tough.

Social distancing with a partner who has to go in is still valuable, you are preventing yourself infecting others. So keep it up, all.

And at the very least, the lchf is a good displacement preoccupation, better than biscuit barrel mining! I don't think anyone should revitalise anything that is helping peoples' health, mental or physical.

I am off to plant things in our newly-formed flowerbeds. Heartbroken that having fixed up a chunk of the garden, we won't get to show it off with a party. But next year will come.

Stay tough everyone. It's a shitty situation, but we can cope if we remain positive and kind.

Does your son have an EHCP carbyless? My sons SENCO called this morning and asked if we would be sending him in next week, we won’t be but it’s helpful to know the option is there. I’m going to write a timetable table with DS today (ASD and multiple other SEN), the routine will really help both of us.

I’ve lost a bit more and have now lost 31.5lbs, exceeded my 30lb target for boot camp - the lack of shopping for snacks has really helped.

Sorry to hear of your dilemma @HerRoyalCarbyLess - if there's anything we can do to help you just ask here - even if it's just to have a moan, whine or rant.

I completely understand the need for comfort - I've found myself over the last couple of weeks thinking about buying supplies for baking cakes. I never bake cakes! Even before I started low carbing!

Really sorry to hear about your holiday @prettybird - although it did seem that it was going to be inevitable

We've had something of the opposite dilemma; my very lovely SIL has 2 daughters (and 4 grandchildren) who live in Sydney, and she spends 6 months of the year living with them. She was due to return at the end of April, but brought her flight forward to tomorrow, to make sure she could come home - worrying about borders being closed, etc. But her daughters have had last minute wobbles about her safety if she comes to the UK and they all had a very difficult and emotional conversation (I think it was more argumentative than that, reading between the lines) about not wanting her to leave. Unfortunately, although I think she would dearly love to stay with her family, neither daughter has a big enough house for her to be self-isolated. And as she is 71, this is obviously a big concern. So although it may seem dangerous for her to come to the UK, when she gets back, she does have her own, 3-bed house. The downside of that is that it's 200+ miles away from us, and about 50 miles away from her other brother. Anyway, she has decided to come back, and we should be picking her up from the airport on Saturday. It's been a really hard decision for her - and it must be awful saying goodbye when there's a possibility it might be for the last time

glitter no, nothing. He's 4 and in reception and it was literally a week ago they said "oh, he doesn't seem to be growing out of these behaviours, we'll have to get the SENCO to have a look at him"
And then 2 days.later we had to self isolate! So nothing was put in place.

I've sorted a routine as he needs structure, and so do I as I'm autistic.
It's going to be tough though. I've had a screaming fit twice already today off him. He hates being stuck in.

Oh lord @BIWI , that’s tough on your SIL
my son is just outside London , and I’d love him to come and stay with us til this is all over , he is in IT , so can work from home ( and has been for the last week , ) even with dodgy rural Welsh broadband
Im Still trying to low carb, but I’m quite certain that stress must have lots of hidden carbs that are somehow absorbed by the body

I love baking. I think I may end up baking lots of cakes for other people

Crazy times eh? I've got one sick child. Wish they were testing. Is it, isn't it?! We'll stay in for a fortnight then head back out again and get it? I know it's serious so I should be careful what I wish for, but kind of wish I could get it, get sick, better and then back on with life!

Lost a lb I think but that was based on wine and pepperami. Sorry. My take on comfort eating. Back being healthy today:
Roasted chicken leg
Buttered leeks
Roasted kale crisps

Sorry everyone is stressed and having horrible times x

Hi everyone. I thought I’d pop in to say hello as it’s coming to the end of bootcamp. I’m so sorry that some of you are feeling really low at the moment, this situation has blindsided us hadn’t it?! Guess we need to keep finding little things to make us smile ... I picked a couple of daffodils and white camellia flowers to have in a bowl next to me while I worked at home today, made things seem a bit brighter. Not hugely important I know, but I’m also feeling proud! I’ve carried on eating right over the last few weeks, slow but steady loss, am now 222lbs, a 22lb loss, whoop, and am in the 15s for the first time in a decade, whoop again! I thought I should let you know so I didn’t muck up the wonderful spreadsheet with a blank @ShagMeRiggins and also I wanted to say thank you for your lovely lovely message a few weeks ago, I really appreciated it. Take care all, we’ll come out the other side of this and maybe even stronger than we are now. Un-Mumsnetty hugs all round

Here’s something that cheered me up a bit today
My first bluebell of the year
Plodding on

Brilliant @Harveywoo! And thanks for dropping by and letting us know

I’m still on boot camp and will put my weight in the spreadsheet shortly. I agree it's tough with everything going on but keep it up everyone. We are almost there.

12 2 this morning! Don't think I will get into the 11 stones for Monday, but I am definitely continuing low carb, if only because with everyone at home all day and baking mad kids, my carbs would go off the scale!

I sort of feel that when my world is a little out of control at least I can make choices about food.

B - yogurt
L - avocado and blue cheese salad
D - sort of kedgeree made with hot smoked salmon, cauliflower rice, spices, eggs, with spinach wilted through it.

I haven’t posted for a while, but stuck to the rules most days. Total loss just over 5lbs. I’ve got really good IF pattern going and that seems to be helping.
I drank about 3-4 glasses of wine during the 10 weeks so very pleased with that.
Anyway.
Keep well everyone

I drank about 3-4 glasses of wine during the 10 weeks so very pleased with that.

I find it’s often very pleasing to drink 3-4
Glasses of wine, Mandelinka

No cauliflower in the shops. Any ideas how / if I can make 'rice' from a cabbage??

M&S had some frozen cauliflower rice when I popped in this morning, if that's any good?!

For rice from cabbage I’d chop or put in food processor as finely as possible and fry in butter.

But that’s kind of my answer to everything.

So I’ve lost 6.9 pounds in total not what I thought (I thought I’d lose more after this time) but hey I’m much happier now and fit my clothes better :)

Just over a stone. Thanks ladies. Look after yourselves. I nearly fell into a big bag of potato chip sticks but pulled back just in time!
I did allow myself a lot of maltesers the other night but I just found out that my work is scaled back for the foreseeable so had to really..

Evening all, what a different world we are in, from 9 weeks ago, when we all started. I hope your all safe and well. I’ve had to close my business due to corovirus , so very relieved by tonight s announcements.

I’m still 11 lbs down, sticking to Hflc, but as we are all at home now and socially isolating (my daughter is in the vulnerable group) the days do seem to revolve around food and I suspect that I’m going to work hard to not creep into carbs.

Anyway hope your all okay.

Another here who is self employed. With 3 out of 24 pieces of work going ahead in the next 3 months :(

However, I have just created a new dish - cabbegeree - a cross between cabbage rice and kedgeree. Shallot sliced and fried in butter, add cabbage (whizzed in the food processor), cumin, turmeric, garam masala s&p. Stir in poached smoked fish, and some spinach. Top with chopped coriander, and medium-soft boiled eggs... Delicious!

I drank 3 -4 glasses of wine last night @Mandelinka

Business closed now , at least we know and the govt are helping

Anyway ... 11st 1 this morning , not quite in the 10s but a half stone gone
I’m very pleased with that