Jan '20 - Low Carb Bootcamp - The finish line!

[StuntNun]

We've reached the end of the Low Carb Bootcamp so how did you do overall? Add your weigh-in to the Spreadsheet and let us know your plans. Would you like to keep losing weight over the coming week and months? Are you thinking about giving weight maintenance a go? Have you considered introducing intermittent fasting? This thread will continue until the next Bootcamp starts so there will be plenty of support for you.

But I've got a flat which DH will sort around some point.

Cue me all “ooh, having a flat is a bit of a step up from merely a ‘room of one’s own’—then getting what you meant Brassica

Ooh A sick tummy today desperately googling COVID and diarrhoea bur recovered to have monkfish curry and a beer.

All my veg are in tubs but spinach is looking good, mixed leaves are looking good, radishes are doing well. And we had a couple of glorious salads of the thinnings. I've also planted peas, which might not do well because they are not in deep enough soil. But I find it hard to resist a raw pea fresh from the pod.

Parley, chives mint grow like weeds in the cracks in our paving. Drive into out driveway, open the car door and it's like stepping into a fresh pesto!

Garn, boasting about your romaine riches

Besides, it's illegal

(Glossing over the fact I posted my parents a huge box of green veg not so many weeks ago).

Hope the stomach is still recovered Venus? I do love minted potatoes - have just split my totally potbound mint into quarters (sliced right through the bugger), and back into pots. Two are going to neighbours down the lane. Not letting that run around the garden strangling things.

B: coffee
L: eggs of some sort
D: massive mushroom, courgette, tomato, cheese sort of omelette

The scapes finally started moving again and I’m pleased to report a 3.4lb loss this week.

School from home again this week -at the moment it feel relentless and like it going to go on forever (especially as DS is shielding so I worry it will be a long time until he can go back to school).

Envious of everyone’s veg growing - Venus I like the idea of growing veg in tubs and may give that a go.

I went out in the car to the shops today (usually walk but needed to go a bit further afield for some things). I've barely driven anywhere for 5+ weeks and it was so weird. I felt as though I had jet lag, the kind of thing where you get off a long-haul flight without much sleep and are driving home from the airport. I felt a bit dizzy and not quite connected. Everything was familiar, yet different (6 weeks ago the trees were still bare, now everything is leafy and vibrant). A car came quite close to me and I wanted to move away, as though it wasn't observing the correct physical distancing... And it seemed as though most people were driving cautiously, 60mph instead of 80, like a road full of novice drivers who'd just passed their tests. Very strange.

Anyway:
B - avocado
L - left over cauliflower rice with fried eggs
D - pork belly with red cabbage and rhubarb stew

Yes, you did read that correctly! I was looking for a recipe that used rhubarb without adding sugar and that's what I came across. I made it yesterday (had a bit old red cabbage left from last week's veg box) and I thing the tartness will go well with the fatty pork.

It's dh's birthday tomorrow. I asked whether he wanted anything special for tea, expecting him to say steak or salmon. No. He wants spaghetti!

So it'll be smoked salmon and salad for lunch, and for dinner - spaghetti with lemon zest / juice, parmesan, basil, and toasted pine nuts. Courgetti for me. And I've bought a wee strawberry tart for his pud.

Plus a pre-dinner zoom call with dc and dgc with antipasti - anchovies, roast peppers, olives [the lovely Tesco chimichurri ones], some locally salami (with fennel seeds). Hey you'd almost think it was my birthday!

That sounds like a lovely birthday meal venus! Especially the antipasti, if I’m honest.

My husband’s birthday is Sunday and I haven’t asked but might do fondue as our scheduled Saturday fondue did not go forward as I cannot be fucked to cook anything these days. I’m very lucky my husband happily cooks—he loves it—so I normally do lunches for everyone and he downs tools in the evening and whips up a feast. Bish bash bosh style (I like to cook early and slowly and potter here and there). He’s much better about clearing it all properly since he returned. Lockdown has been good for us as it’s shown how many of our dissatisfactions has to do with outside pressures getting to us and how little it had to do with us as a couple. We’re really good together so have been actively working on how we handle the pressures differently when they inevitably arise in future. Lots of calm talks about our “needs,” if that doesn’t sound too wanky.

Enough of that, for now. Thought some of you might be interested in an update.

Glitter veg in pots is a great way to start. And even if there’s not much yield, it’s soooo satisfying eating your own delicious homegrown food.

Besides, it's illegal

Never stopped me before! Not you, from what I can see, ha! It sounds like you’re reasonably rural but surely you can justify an essential needs drive to somewhere other than Iceberg Heaven and satisfy your salad requirements? Tesco Express is heaving with spinach, romaine, arugula

Tonight is Make Do Burgers, ShagMe style which for everyone else is mince mixed with egg and dried onion soup packets then fried, but I’m shaping them like hot dogs to fit the brioche rolls nicely and adding fried shallots on top.

I’ll season mine with good old Salty Sam (our family name for the Schwartz all purpose seasoning, which is amazing) and have it normal-shaped with a slice of melted cheese and a massive salad. Chips, both potato and celeriac will accompany (otherwise the burgers and salad will be lonely? )

And hey—whisper it—haven’t weighed in a while but put new batteries in the scales and I’m 3lbs down and not Obese anymore.

Celebrating being Overweight, yee hah!

Ooh! Ooh! Also, I got on the treadmill!

Paging @SophieRay...

Nice one on the 3.4lb loss Glitter

pork belly with red cabbage and rhubarb stew. Recipe please venus

Lunch has been pork scratchings and pepperami. Got another work call starting at 6. Will probably go on until at least 10. Dinner might be the roast chicken that the kids are having or left over doner. I need to get a 5k run done according to my plan but I can't see that happening

Well done ShagMe. Haven't done one today, couldn't get out of bed this morning .

I thought it was a good idea giving up wine but just seem to be having a scone and alcohol free beer on an evening instead - think the red wine would actually be better??

Food wise today: breakfast 4 baby bel and 2 pepperami, lunch 3 meatballs, dinner garlic chicken with chopped tomatoes, mushrooms and kale

Work call from 6-10? I hope your work is international. Otherwise, someone’s taking the piss, Brassica.

Congrats Glitter!

Venus, I felt the same driving the other day - I'm usually in the car most days but have barely used it for months now so it feels really weird to be moving that fast, a little like vertigo. I'm definitely driving more slowly now it's a rarer experience for my eyes/brain/motionless body to have to compare info and work out what's happening. (moving! not moving! but moving! but I'm not moving!)

Lovely to hear the marital concord and food-bonding

Shag I can justify a big shop in the big (hah!) town at the weekend, since I'll have run out of just about everything by then. I shall return with two tonnes of broccoli and some spinach, I think. And some kefir. And greek yoghurt. And proper butter. And lemons. And cream. All that fancy city stuff.

And WELL DONE YOU on being overweight!

IT shit here. Some stuff needs to be done when everyone else goes home.

I miss my car. I miss driving. I love driving, being in the car on my own, listening to my audio books, mind clear,

Today I have snacked way too much. Mini bags of pork scratchings and pepperami. Had chicken and cauli for dinner. The kids bought it up while I was on my call. Got wine now. Still listening to folks whiter on.

No exercise today so that means the sneaky 2lbs from the weekend will have stuck around. (But only 2lb this weekend, not the 4lb like last weekend)

Hello, I'm wanting to join the thread and any bootcamp coming up soon. I became such a complete pig during the lockdown that I realised something had to change. So I'm back on low carb. I did it in 2012 and went from 119kg to 109kg. But I've slowly worked my way back up to 118kg so have started again. I'm not finding it too difficult, apart from remembering to drink enough water. Much easier when stuck at home as not such a risk of needing the loo on my commute.
Us there an official bootcamp going on soon ? Or are we just doing our own thing? I'm on day 12.
Thanks and hello!

Hi Rainy. Welcome. No official BC going on at the moment. We're the chat bunch left over from the last BC. There's often one in the May. But all bets are off this year. Most people aren't up for the effort needed to get through a strict BC. In fact, you'll find some pretty regular transgressions going on here. But lots of us are still pretty much LCHF and are bumbling along. So so join in. I'm pretty sure the xls with all of the rules is in the OP

Bacon and egg for breakfast, fried hard in lots of butter.
Steak for lunch.
Smoked salmon this evening.

I am a couple of pounds up from my lowest which I will put down to eating the “Keto” brownies made with sweetener. Tasty though. Damn them.

All going fine here (in my week 9 now). I think it is working for me because I also track what I eat but we shall see over time.....
I am glad everyone else is doing okay. I try not to eat breakfast as intermittent fasting seems to make me feel better (and eat less) although I know it differs for different people and probably is not the Bootcamp rules (I wasn't in the last one).

DietC, sounds lovely, very similar to what I eat. I had 2 salmon fillets yesterday and a dressed crab (and veg). Today I think will be steak. I eat a bit of cheese too although I don't think my body likes dairy products so 3 baby bels is sometimes lunch. 9I am not very active - only did an hour of lawn mowing yesterday and I do a tiny bit of yoga stretches on the floor every day - ideally outside in the sun although that is probably off the agenda as it will rain every day for the next month)

I am deep in carb hell! Just saying.

Hi, Rainy! And welcome. water is REALLY important

Siet, sweeteners are nearly as rubbish as sugar, for reasons I forget but that @StuntNun will know.

Xenia, I find I have to track occasionally if I'm drifting off, but once in the mindset, can thankfully leave it. That's the great thing about @BIWI rules - just eat the stuff on the green list and move on. No need to track or weigh amounts.

Missing breakfast is fine once you're in the swing of things and don't feel you want it. It's just a rule so that while people are 'fat-adapting' they don't get hungry and revert to the same old same old.

OY! Explain yourself!

Artificial sweeteners are worse for some people than others. Some people have an insulin response to artificial sweeteners which will increase hunger levels and slow down weight loss. The impact of sweeteners on gut bacteria may increase the amount of calories you absorb from food, again slowing weight loss. Finally, part of this way of eating is opting for whole, unprocessed foods and losing our taste for sweetness by avoiding sugar and sweeteners enables us to taste the natural sweetness in other foods. You won't believe how much sweeter foods taste once you've adapted to no sugars or sweeteners.

You won't believe how much sweeter foods taste once you've adapted to no sugars or sweeteners.

My mother is still surprised each year that I don't want sugar sprinkled on gooseberries.

Yes, it all works very well. I agree with BIWI that if you just eat this way it is better than tracking the food. It is just post menopause and not being active (I even work from home normally) I have found even just eating like this I can over eat - eg I had pork belly and ate a double portion easily so a bit of tracking seems to help me.

One of my sons has been vegan for years (student son who is here currently) so he has absolutely masses of veg and the other eats similarly although he does have his chocolate boxes and still has Easter egg left and chocolate rolls (he is as thin as a rake and always has to work to stop himself being even skinnier so I am not too worried about his bit of chocolate around and more importantly not tempted by it at all at the moment as am off sugar)...

I'm a week in and 2lb down . Although I admit to being a bit disappointed as first week of Bootcamp last time I was 5lb down, but this time I keep having non alcohol lager and a scone on an evening. DDs fault for baking the scones - she loves to bake but then doesn't eat what she makes and I can't just waste it .

What does everyone else have as a 'treat' on an evening?? Feels like I need something as a reward for making it through the day for some reason!!

DDs fault for baking the scones - she loves to bake but then doesn't eat what she makes and I can't just waste it

SophieRay! Did you just baker shame your own daughter?!