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.

Kale crisps are the bomb. I usually toss them in a mixture of olive oil and chilli oil plus salt then bake them at 120C for about half an hour until crispy and starting to blacken around the edges. They're so more-ish.

Another one up for a helping spine here.

I have good days, and then a rubbish couple.

I remember someone in the LitterTray once saying that they didn't want the most interesting thing in their cat's life to be the contents of their food bowl. I know how that cat feels...

I'm so bored tonight I could scream! Have nothing to talk about an no desire to bother. TV is driving me nuts. I'm pretty certain that the constant internet scrolling makes me anxious but I can't stop. Weight today was ever so slightly green on my average graph thingy. But I am struggling with the fuckits. I'm trying for the 100g of jelly beans from earlier today don't become the opening of the door to totally lose control.

Tempted to just go to bed and wait for tomorrow.

I'm not sure I've got the mental strength for a BC. I could possibly manage BC if there was a healthy wine allowance.

Bed's a good thing, Babe. Am going myself at half eight. Pint of water, curtains drawn, book, candlelight, and I'm usually snoring within 15 minutes. Even if you don't nod off, it's comforting.

Actually Athel, that's not a bad idea. Currently sticking with wine on the sofa. Logic being there is less carbs in wine than chocolate biscuits.

DH at the other end of the sofa. I'm unreasonably furious with him because he gets to carry on his life as normal.

Not only did I forget to take the scones to my parents, my mum left a bag of stuff out for dd which included a pack of Jaffa cakes, my cake/biscuit of choice. I've just sat here and ate all 24 🙈

That reminds me, today I read about Jaffa cake gin. What do you reckon? It's got to be a massively good idea or a sodding terrible idea 😩

Well gin is I think the only alcohol I don't actually like, but if it was Jaffa cake vodka I'd say massively good

Oh wow. Jaffa cake gin. Save me.

I will definitely be having a G&T tomorrow plus (likely) some wine.

I am craving salt and vinegar crisps - if there are any low carb alternatives that are nearly as good, I’m all ears!

OH so good to be sharing our feelings somewhere honest.

Today I was surrounded by people who are doing online pilates, craft things, decluttering their entire fucking life.

Meanwhile I was in a fury at dh for putting the dishwasher on and making a noise. Grr. Grr. Grrrrr If only I could growl like a dog I would. And yet I know, I know that I am in such a fortunate position (overall). I have almost no income but we will be OK.

It's like the story of someone going to hospital with a broken ankle, It hurts like buggery. The in A&E you are surround by people who have been in awful traumatic car crashes and are smashed to pieces, or people with life threatening cardiovascular issue. You can look at them and see that they are worse off than you are, but it doesn't stop your ankle from hurting to buggery.

Is there some kind of gentle, self-loving, self care, 'soft slipper' camp that we could do? One that is underpinned by all the bootcamp principles, but which allows us to embrace it as a way of being kind to ourselves, and which might also deliver a soft punch in a velvet glove?

I think I could do that. Heck, I think I could lead that. And personally it would help from falling head over heels into a vat of Jaffa cake inspired vodka cocktails.

Thanks for the company everyone. I cannot tell you how good it is to come on here and find that I'm not alone in the struggle (except at home where everyone is slim and fit and eats everything!)

Venus, all that crafting and constructive stuff doesn't save you!

I've been using work meeting time to crochet little squares for a blanket; I've taken up some Callanetics again, built a raised bed in the garden, grown veg from seed and planted them out, decluttered the kitchen, volunteered as a local helper... and I still feel like howling at the moon.

Pig of day coming up ahead - will be absolutely strict as strict, as can't afford any post-carb mental slumps.

... oh... and... thank FUCK I live on my own...

DietChic Sainsbury's sell salt and vinegar pork scratchings. They're luvverly.

Hello all. How are we finding lockdown? I'm currently at one of the low points of the emotional rollercoaster and finding it really hard. Not helped by my DM becoming really needy and demanding. She lives alone and was getting really down so I caved once on a sunny day and let her in to the garden for a socially distant visit, but she's interpreted that "visiting is now fine" and keeps "popping round" and letting herself in, and has started campaigning to have the DC for a sleepover. Plus I'm her entire support network and I'm finding it a bit much when I already have two kids depending on me for everything - and DH, to a large extent.

Anyway. Boot camp stuff. I'm largely sticking to LCHF, but drinking more than I should - always LC options, but still, not ideal. My own baking is hard to resist - have made cupcakes and cookies with the DC at their requests, and had to bake bread a couple of times for the carb eaters in the house when we'd ran out and couldn't get to the shops (we had to completely isolate for a while due to DH and I having coughs). I can leave shop bread alone quite happily, but my own is a different matter!

I've eaten some daal lately, which I found in the freezer and didn't want to waste. It was delicious (I do love daal) and I consoled myself that lentils are one of the better carbs. DS has been set a school project to make and taste his own dips - not ideal at a time when ingredients are scarce and we're trying not to waste food! We made some guacamole together, on the grounds that I'd eat it when he inevitably didn't like it (he's a fussy bugger) but he was apparently turning the salt grinder the wrong way because the top came off and dumped all of my pink Himalayan salt into the avocado. Such a waste!

Writing it all down I can see I actually haven't been that good, but at least I've resisted the urge to fall face first into a barrel of chocolate, as I've been severely tempted to. I don't even normally have a sweet tooth, I think it's just a comfort thing. Weight wise I'm at the top end of what I'm ok with - just over 10 stone, I'm happier when just under, so I need to keep an eye on that and not let it creep up any further.

Having said that, does anyone have a recipe for a low-carb cheesecake? I have a tub of cream cheese to use. All the ones online seem to be full of sweetener.

Apologies for the long post, well done if you got through that.

This is a very difficult time for lots of people. I am sure no one minds long posts - they are usually the most interesting.
I am on week 8 and still trying to lose a pound a week - it obviously feels more slow going now than at the start but am sticking to it pretty well and weigh in tomorrow - Saturday. I may have just stayed the same weight this week but we shall see. I have it dead easy here as have worked from the house since 1994 and only have student sons here so compared to the days when we had small children around it is a walk in the park..... and I have a garden and I don't have covid 19 so feel quite lucky. Even so I wish there were a magic wand you could use or washing your face in the 1 May morning dew (tradition - my father always took us out to do that and I've done it already here.....) and you magic away all the weight at once......

Lol. This is the only safe place on MN I think. Like the Friends episode when they build a fort from cardboard boxes

Very true BrassicaBabe, I'd have got torn apart for that post anywhere else on Mumsnet atm!

Thank you Stuntnun! Those sound right up my street - I will have a long look in Sainsbury’s for them. A bit of crunch feels essential - I do miss crisps a bit.

No “Keto” brownies this weekend - I need to be a bit more consistent as am just STS endlessly but will have some wine this weekend. Probably in about 26 minutes in fact.

Lunch is chicken thighs and spinach. Evening meal Gin. And perhaps some Heck Sausages.

@DietChic For crunch, try these:

seriouspig.london/shop/

I can recommend the Crunchy Snacking Cheese 🧀 but they also do salami and crackling 🥓

I've managed to keep the weight off, and also lose another 3lbs which I'm happy with. Another 7lbs will take me to the healthy BMI range, and then I'd like to lose another 7lbs on top of that and I think that will be enough.

My arse is flat now, so need to do some squats or similar to see if I can get a bit of shape back to it 🍑😁

Nice to check in; I've been dipping in and out but not quite getting to the end of the thread!

Big well done to Riggins for reaching "overweight"

Having lots of fantastic LCHF meals... and lots of other things I shouldn't like home made muffins, pudding and custard, plus near weekly takeaway pizza and beer (all in the name of supporting local business). Floating at the top end of acceptable, about 4 lbs up from BC and half a stone over target. I am reigning it in, gradually.

I'm furloughed while DH is busy WFH but we have DSD staying helping with the toddler so I've been able to run plenty and I'm onto my second 30 days of Yoga with Adriene programme. For the first time since last May, in April I drank fewer units of alcohol than I ran miles - both had increased considerably

Lost a chunk of tooth to pork crackling...take care guys!

I've been enjoying "Golden Crunch" - puffed pork scratchings, which I can usually not not always get in Sainsbury's.

The problem is that dh also likes them

On the pork cracking front I like "Awfully Posh" range. Amazon do them in boxes of 12 bags. Sadly they don't do the small snack bags like several of the supermarket ranges. They are very good though and no nasty additives.

Oh rayna poor you. Every time I open a bag I think this is it I’m going to loose half a tooth here. Hope it’s not painful.

I don’t even like the crunchy bits I enjoy the soggy salty bits more.

I’m not going anywhere near a pork scratching while dental services are suspended.

I ended up sobbing in the shower today. Superficially the reason was yet another fucking turnip arriving in the veg box. I’ve cooked about 12 of the buggers over the last month, and I don’t even like them. Huge nasty smelly things. In fact though, the issue is that the bastard turnip chosen and delivered to me by someone else represented how little control I feel I have just now. In any other circumstances I’d have popped out to Lidl for a bag of spinach and not given it another thought. Anyway, that led onto providing entertainment for the entire street by shrieking at DH like a banshee before I realised all the windows were open. I’m now collapsed on the sofa all blotchy faced with a splitting headache. If I drank I’d be face down in a bottle right now.