Low Carb Bootcamp Ordinaire - Week 3

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Morning all!

The start of a brand new week. Hopefully it will be a better week - emotionally/psychologically - for us all.

Here's the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness for you to record your progress.

Hopefully we've all had a good couple of weeks, food and weight wise.

Be warned that we're now in week 3. Many, many, many low carbers (not just Bootcampers) find that the weight loss can slow or stop in this week (and also week 4)

If this happens to you DON'T PANIC! If you've been losing so far, then you know it works. Just KOKO (keep on keeping on) and things will get going again soon.

Good luck to us all [ flowers]

@Laska2Meryls I will be continuing bootcamp for the full 10 weeks (and beyond) and I’m sure others will too. Threads are always kept running between official bootcamps too.

Oh and the method is basically just to grate everything in the food processor. Except for the shallot because it’s better just to do that by slicing finely by hand. Then dress once it’s all been combined.

I’ve got a bit confused with weeks. Are we allowed nuts from tomorrow? If so I’ve got a good granola recipe and I’m so bored with plain yogurt for breakfast!

I also enjoyed at least half a bottle of wine 6 evenings out of 7 ... and was starting to have the odd lunch time glass as well when lockdown started. Apart from one lapse (two glasses of wine) during this Boot Camp I have abstained completely, and put the money I would have spent on one side to give to my favourite charity shocked at how much it is.

Athelstone, your comments reminded me of my upbringing too ... and I would love a pre Sunday lunch sherry right now . My 89 year old dad still drinks like that .....

Hello all. Hope everyone has had a relaxing weekend!

I woke up dreaming about a really sickly buttercream cake that I was desperate to have a bite of . But in reality, I’ve been able to walk past a cake made by the DCs without being even tempted by it, which is novel.

Finally had another 2 lb loss yesterday after two weeks of not seeing the scale budge . I’ve never been so relieved, I thought I was stuck there forever!

So that brings my total loss from 20th May tauntingly close to a stone, at 13lb off, 6lb of which was after official BC started so annoyingly not on the spreadsheet.

DP bought a huge long fillet of beef so I’ve been snaffling steak with mushrooms, fried in butter with cream sauces, FLGV etc all week. Amazing!

I've not touched any carbs yet. Doing okay aside from a little bit of rose and v dark chocolate both nights.

Not giving in and having everything available is unheard of for me so I'm proud of myself but resigned to the fact I'm not going to see the loss i was hoping for soon.

Working very hard on this project...

Hats off to you all talking candidly about alcohol. I'm not a big drinker at all as I believe I have a very addictive personality and find that when I start drinking or having alcohol in the house it doesn't take me long to start 'craving' it... then earlier and earlier in the day. So i we don't keep alcohol in and I only have one or two socially, which isn't often as i have no social life i do get absolutely merry at weddings though

Afternoon! Great chat about alcohol. Such a mad culture around it we have in our country. I’m similar background wise to others - with a family culture of drinking ingrained. Difference for me is that my dad became alcoholic. Left the family and had dysfunctional contact with his kids due to ravages of the binge/abstain cycle which was like Jekyll and Hyde sometimes. He died tragically at 56 having had and left a second family poor bloke. He died alone of alcoholic ketoacidosis. About 8 years ago now. He was a lovely man before he was swallowed up by alcohol. So obvs my relationship with drink is affected by that ! I drank as a teenager in a teenager way - bingey. Then abstained from about 21 to 34 coinciding with my dad’s death when I began having a bit of wine sometimes. That increased to everyday or most days when my daughter was ill for a couple of years and I just couldn’t cope. This last 10 months or so has been getting over that and getting back to a healthy weight following a couple of stone gain in those years. I’m doing ok with wine so far and hope to move to lighter weekend drinking - like a bottle across a weekend - because I do enjoy it and with kids I like the cut off between being on and off duty.
I discovered that Waitrose do a half bottle of my fave Pinot Grigio for 3.49! Having a half bottle helps me to ration my consumption. Looking forward to a glass on the weekend now!

@whitershadeofpale that's a great sounding way to cook cabbage. Gonna try it.

Hi All,
Just checking in for accountability:
3x cream coffee
3x litres water with lemon juice squeezed in.
Lunch: green salad, almonds, 2 slices of goats cheese, 4 tomatoes, half an avocado.
Dinner will be beef bolegnese.

I have quite an acid reflux problem at the moment so I need to get some medicine from the Drs for it tomorrow. Also I’m going to buy some keffir Yeo valley yoghurt (6.4g carbs per 100g) so if I just have 50grams o hope it’s okay?

With FLGV**

@Laska2Meryls

please please please ....

Are you down on your knees?

"quite refreshing here to see people talking candidly about alcohol without the usual MN backlash.." Laska this thread has a cloak of invisibility from the usual MN Bollox

On one hand I'm "yeah, I've found my people!" On the other it's a bit sad that so many of us have what we'd each define as a personal to and fro with alcohol.

But my forerib was a triumph!
Dinner: beef, coleslaw, a bit of horse radish.
Snack: bit of cheese
Evening ; not sure yet. Over ate at lunch!

Looks AMAZING BrassicaBabe!

@BrassicaBabe

Kill. Me. Now.

BBQ with in-laws is staggeringly dull sober. No really. I'm currently hiding in my bedroom on a protracted pretend trip to the loo!!

😂😂😂 try and see the funny side!

Checking in before weigh-in tomorrow, I am sure I havnt lost anything. The scales were stuck during the week and I feel quite bloated today. Plus I have awful hayfever so not living myself right now at all!

Biwi if that is what it takes!!

Brassica that looks so lush!

Brassica that looks amazing!!

So sorry to hear about your dad @devoncreamtea. I have had a few friends who have had alcoholic parents and it really has had such a lasting effect on them.

Well I will fess up to having had a couple of glasses of red every Saturday. Other than that I’ve stuck pretty well to both BC and also 16:8 so I’m hoping I haven’t done too much damage but who knows.

I am rather excited to make a few changes tomorrow and have already bought a small cantaloupe melon. I will only add in a small amount of fruit each day but i miss the cold freshness of fruit so that will be nice.

Anyone else looking forward to any of the changes? I might also have the odd small amount of nuts but tbh my appetite is still very much reduced. This only seems to have happened this week. Today i didn’t eat until about 1.30 when my fast was actually over a couple of hours before. Not sure if I will have lost anything on the scales this week though due to AF, week 3 etc etc.

Ummmm - melon isn't on the list of "allowable" fruits on Boot Camp Light Iirc, it's really just berries.

....and even then, it's in moderation.

If it's still warm and sunny next weekend, I'm planning on trying to make an "ice cream" of whizzed up frozen summer fruits with mascarpone, as a nice meal for Father's Day.

Ahh isn’t it? Damn! I will have to leave it to the boys. For some reason I remember cantaloupe melon being on the lower end of the carb list for fruit. But I am happy not to have it.

That berry combination sounds good. Strawberries and cream, is that allowed? That seems too good to be true!

Strawberries and cream is very much allowed - you just can't sprinkle them with sugar. But with your readjusted taste buds, you'll find the cream plenty.

I love a mix of berries (strawberries, my favourite raspberries and a few blueberries--as they're relatively high in carbs). In a pretty dessert bowl (my mum gave me a heavy lead crystal John Rochas bowl one year for Christmas), it feels really special.

How exciting! I would never have sugar on then anyway so I’m not missing out.

I have prepared this granola it’s my favourite low carb one. I replace the sweetener with 1/3 cup of desiccated coconut and a tsp of cinnamon. The egg white and flax meal make nice crispy clusters. Lovely with Greek yogurt and a few raspberries.

BIWI it's actually Monday, a real one, tomorrow