Super Strict Leaving Lockdown Low Carb Bootcamp Week 1

[BIWI]

Good evening!

Trying to get ahead of everything, as I know tomorrow will be a real rush with people signing up, etc.

Here's the spreadsheet with many thanks to the ever lovely @AthelstaneTheUnready for her sterling efforts

We are all off/furloughed so we are keeping strange hours, bed v late and not getting up till late so I’m doing 2pm till 10pm as my non fast bit. Does that make any difference to the efficacy of intermittent fasting?

I am new to this. Please could some one look at my meals to make sure I am new to this.
Just to mention that I am a vegetarian.

Breakfast

200g Greek Yogurt

lunch 200g mixed veg
50g peanut butter
2 teaspoon coconut oil
2 teaspoon soy sauce
salt and pepper
lemon juice

tea 120g Brussel sprouts
125g feta cheese
2 teaspoon harissa pate
1 tablespoon olive oil
spinach

Yesterday
Breakfast
200g full fat Greek yogurt

lunch

home made soup 1 carrot, 1 onion, punnet mushrooms, hot paprika, thyme, veggie stock cube , lemon juice

tea 3 egg omelette with spinach
I drank lots of water and did a 24 mile walk.

OOPs didn't preview and my introduction doesn't make sense! I am new to this!!! :)

Me again I just tried accessing the spreadsheet and it says 'access denied' and I don't have permission to access it any more. I can still see my name on it but I can't change anything, what do I need to do? I'm not all that savvy with these things.

@ExShield

We are all off/furloughed so we are keeping strange hours, bed v late and not getting up till late so I’m doing 2pm till 10pm as my non fast bit. Does that make any difference to the efficacy of intermittent fasting?

No I don't think it makes any difference - the hours you're not eating, i.e. you're in a fasted state, are the hours your body will be burning fat and also moving into autophagy, which is a process of repairing itself.

@notacooldad

I am new to this. Please could some one look at my meals to make sure I am new to this. Just to mention that I am a vegetarian.

Breakfast

200g Greek Yogurt

lunch 200g mixed veg
50g peanut butter
2 teaspoon coconut oil
2 teaspoon soy sauce
salt and pepper
lemon juice

tea 120g Brussel sprouts
125g feta cheese
2 teaspoon harissa pate
1 tablespoon olive oil
spinach

Yesterday
Breakfast
200g full fat Greek yogurt

lunch

home made soup 1 carrot, 1 onion, punnet mushrooms, hot paprika, thyme, veggie stock cube , lemon juice

tea 3 egg omelette with spinach
I drank lots of water and did a 24 mile walk.

All looks OK - but a couple of questions

• are you not introducing intermittent fasting?
• do you know what the carb/calorie counts are for each day?

Can any of you lovely people suggest me a low carb low cal curry sauce recipe. I have some Konica noodles for dinner tonight and I want something to drown them in

@Numbsmet - you need @AthelstaneTheUnready to charge to your rescue! Hopefully she'll be along soon

BIWI
Yes I did the IF. Yesterday I had breakfast at 11am, lunch at 3pm and tea at 7.30pm

Today I am doing the same.

Yesterdays calories came in at 968 according to MFP and today's are
projected to be 971.

I didn't count the carbs, just tried to go off low carb choices and use what food I had in.

I’m also having problems accessing the spreadsheet. Finally managed to get a new battery for my scales this morning to keen to input my starting weight even if it’s a few days late

Notacooldad you walked 24 miles? Bloody hell!

Notacooldad you walked 24 miles? Bloody hell!
Yes, On the lovely moors of Lancashire. My son is furloughed and is in training for a long distance walk. I'm feeling it today though!!

Kudos!

Anyone having problems with the spreadsheet want to try again? Looks like the permissions reset for some reason.

@AthelstaneTheUnready thank you ☺️ it's working now!

@notacooldad I've walked from Preston to Blackpool a total of 4 times, willingly. That was 16.4 miles each way. 24 miles?! I take my hat off to you

Impressed by a 24 mile walk notcooldad!

NumbsMet etc—very sorry I haven’t caught up on the thread yet so if it’s been mentioned...well...

Good fats can come with butter, olive and other oils, mayonnaise, but don’t forget about meats.

Seek 15-20% mince rather than 5% lean. Seek pork belly. Seek oily fish such as mackerel. If you get tinned tuna, get it in sunflower oil and then add a mayonnaise brand that is naturally low carb such as DeLouis or Hellman’s. (then for crunch add chopped shallots or water chestnuts or cornichons, I’m my expert humble opinion.

Make up a batch of the tuna and plop it over raw spinach leaves, and then add a French vinaigrette or EEVO/red wine be age/salt&pepper/Dijon on top of that.

It’s how we get great fats in, plus nutrition, plus you can always add hard boiled eggs or cucumber or cherry tomatoes etc if you like.

This combination might be too high fat for the calorie part of this first week, but it ticks a lot of boxes for future meals.

@ShagMeRiggins thank you so much ☺️ that's very helpful. I think I'm going to have to dramatically change my thinking to be successful at this, as I conditioned myself to avoid high fat for years. I imagine a lot of people taking part are the same way!

I don't eat red meat or pork but I love chicken and fish so that part will be very easy, cooking with chicken thighs instead of breasts will be nice! And your idea to use water chestnuts is brilliant!

Thank you ☺️

NumbsMet - you'll learn to treasure the chicken skin as a treat - and if there is a piece that isn't quite crispy enough, you can pop it in the oven for a few minutes while something else is cooking.

Feck there's a lot of calories in mayonnaise!! No wonder I didn't lose weight with HM coleslaw

L: tuna mayo, salad leaves and cucumber
D: don't know yet
Exercise: ROWING!! Back on the water for the first time since March. Very excited!

@BrassicaBabe I had the same realisation with halloumi for my lunch. I'd normally have a whole pack to myself but I checked and that's 700 calories on its own! So I had half a block with some salad leaves instead.

I'm only doing 12:12 IF as due to breastfeeding through the night I wake up ravenous. But I have already noticed that I don't need snacks between meals and am not tempted to eat after my dinner either!

I feel quite foggy today and the thought of eating anything savoury also makes me feel a bit queasy, but had a chicken salad so still on track.

I normally get a major energy slump mid afternoon, and it's verrrry hard not to eat something sweet like I normally would do to get me going a bit. But I'm not hungry at all which feels unusual - I'm always hungry!

Thanks for the tip of Oxo/Bovril, having a cup of Oxo has actually given me a little boost and is helping I think.

@prettybird it's so sad that I got so excited when I read that 😂 it's the little things I guess! Like I will be hopefully one day soon, as long as I keep this up! I just read a comment at the top about an oxo cube or bovril and my mind is blown, I think I may actually be able to do this now.

@AthelstaneTheUnready

I can’t access it either.