2nd week of Lockdown Low Carb Bootcamp! But our third thread!

[BIWI]

This Bootcamp has gone crazy! I'm very hopeful that means that the results on the scales/with the tape measure etc will have been positive.

Here's the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

I love this week. For so many, it's a total vindication as well as complete reassurance that this WOE really works!

I hope, very much, that the scales are kind to you and look forward to hearing everyone's progress.

Also sorry for triggering tonic water chat when it's a forbidden substance

@Dailyhandtowelwash people tend to drink a little of what most satisfies them, so whatever’s their favourite - that way you are getting your calories/carbs’ worth, as it were. A lot of people enjoy a g&t very much so that gets mentioned a fair bit but others prefer a glass of lovely wine. I usually have a glass of wine with my dinner once or twice a week, or a measure of whisky or cognac of an evening, when we’re on lite but I might have less than that now, which is why I mentioned the tonic as that’s what I usually drink when I’m not having alcohol.

Morning all. Determined to up the water intake today, didnt do as well as I wanted to today.
Breakfast of greek yogurt, lunch will be some form of salad I think, and tea is a plain basa fillet that I will pair with a FLGV with added butter.

Kids are currently tucking in to fish finger sarnies, they smell lovely but I won’t be nibbling their leftovers like usual 😁

Oh my lord the hunger is real today!! Must be totm coming up.
Already had 2 sausages with spinach and mushrooms with big dollop cream cheese stirred in.
Piece of low carb toast with thick butter.
Still hungry so downing lemon and ginger tea
L will be green and cheese soup
D cottage pie - celeriac mash

I know hunger was talked about yest and I'm trying to increase fat to combat it but worried ill over do it - seriously feels like I'm piling fat in my gob!!

@Howdidthathappen1

Oh my lord the hunger is real today!! Must be totm coming up. Already had 2 sausages with spinach and mushrooms with big dollop cream cheese stirred in. Piece of low carb toast with thick butter. Still hungry so downing lemon and ginger tea L will be green and cheese soup D cottage pie - celeriac mash

I know hunger was talked about yest and I'm trying to increase fat to combat it but worried ill over do it - seriously feels like I'm piling fat in my gob!!

You really can’t overdo it on the fat.

For example if you’re really not satisfied after a meal, have a slice of cold butter, sprinkled with a little bit of salt.

I sometimes have a cheese sandwich. That's slices of cheddar with butter in between...

Thanks for the link ouch my DD is Clementine so I'll bookmark it for her upcoming birthday

Maudesmum are you doing BC Lite? Because nuts aren’t allowed at all until next Monday, and I’ve always assumed that means peanut butter as well.

See if you can get through without it until then, to give yourself a chance at a clean break.

For everyone the the alcohol y’all—and again, not allowed until Monday and it’s also not a requirement!—clear spirits will have no carbs, nor will slimline tonic (I’ll leave it to BIWI to decide if that’s “allowed” or not).

A small glass of white will will be roughly 2g carbs, a small glass of red roughly 3g carbs.

But as StuntNun says, just remember that every single time you drink alcohol, your body will burn that first and will not be burning fat.

Feel free to google how long it takes your body to burn off alcohol, by the way, then see how long it’ll be before burning fat—your real goal—begins.

@Ninkanink and @Oneborneverydecade thanks both of you, good point making even smaller targets. I’ll sit down later and work out some bmi/%lost targets.

I can't believe I have lost another pound today so have lost five pounds now in the first week. I think that is pretty good considering I have only 1 stone to loose as I know it's normally slower progress then

@Onelittlepiglet

Morning all

Just checking in.
B - Greek yoghurt and cream (have reduced my portion size as I don’t need much)
L - creamy green veg soup with a sprinkle of cheese plus half an avocado which was left over from yesterday.
D - lamb chops, asparagus, courgette and wilted spinach in loads of butter

I used to live in Barbados! It was mostly lovely but not the same as going on holiday there. The reality of tropical island life is not as amazing as you might think...honest!

While on the one hand I'm envious of you - actually on the other, I realise (whenever I think about upping sticks and moving!), that what's so lovely about being in Barbados is that I'm on holiday, in a lovely hotel (or villa), next to the beach and the pool and not having to work or think about real life. So I'm sure that it's a completely different story if you work there.

@Doilooklikeatourist

It's one of our favourite holiday spots, and DH took me there (as a surprise!) for my 60th. We were hoping to go back this January, but obviously realised some time ago that it wasn't going to happen.

Lyrata - sorry not sure how to bold your name, I think the chicken liver peri peri recipe is fine. I adapt a devilled kidney recipe and used chicken livers instead. Any spice blend with chilli will work. I also sometimes add garlic and mustard. Any leftovers are also ok reheated the next day. I eat mine over a salad of green leaves or buttered cabbage.

@ShagMeRiggins

Athelstane have a therapeutic cry by watching Steel Magnolias. A weepy with laughs, so not extraordinarily depressing like, say, Sophie’s Choice.

nowlook why would you distrust your supermarket’s fish section? That alarms me! (And I added an exclamation mark so you’d see how genuine my alarm is.)

Really need to focus on the WATER today. I’ve been a bit crap this past week so it’s the primary goal for me.

KOKO y’all!

Sorry, t was clumsy early-morning phrasing @ShagMeRiggins. What I meant was that all the recipes say it needs to be super, super, fresh because it's a raw fish dish. Not only has it travelled from wherever to the furthest plaice from the sea, but it has also now sat in the fridge for a good three days. DS1 (14) is constantly opening and closing the door, so I've decided it's wise not to be an unnecessary burden to "our NHS"

I sometimes have a cheese sandwich. That's slices of cheddar with butter in between...

I often have a marmite sandwich which looks pretty similar to that - 2 slices of cheese with marmite in between.

I might try your version later!

@MaudesMum

Morning! I'm trying to break my peanut butter addiction, as it had become my late night snack, and even though its the type with no added sugar, it's still not great

It's also not allowed during the first two weeks of Bootcamp!

@BrassicaBabe

BIWI I bought DH some rum for Xmas. (Heard it was going to be the next Big Thing like gin has become). Not opened it yet. It's dark rum. Is it not really sweet/carby?

Nope! As a distilled spirit it's 0g carbs. But I'd double check by Googling the brand you've bought - or check it isn't a liqueur or something with added sugar/flavouring.

@Ninkanink

All the talk of tonics has prompted a question for @BIWI: please could you consider allowing slimline tonic on bc lite? Reason being I am trying only to have alcohol every once in a while as DH is abstaining as much as possible for health reasons (he had several heart attacks in December, not due to diet or lifestyle reasons as he is only 42 and relatively fit and healthy, just one of those things 😔😔 but it means he now has to be very careful). I love a glass of tonic when I’m in the mood for a drink but don’t want to have one, and given that lockdowns et al make for quite a challenging set of circumstances, I thought there might be a bit of leeway for sweeteners in that form...

You are allowed them in Bootcamp Light. I don't think I'd still be alive if not - I'd have been savaged by a band of marauding Mumsnetters! Just be mindful of the potential impact on your weight, but also your gut biome. (Michael Mosley talks about this I believe - it's something I need to read up more)

@Dailyhandtowelwash

I have another question (not thinking about booze a lot, promise). I'm not hugely a spirits person and like to drink with my food. Is a smallish glass of red wine much worse than slimline tonic?

I'd say it's probably better for you, but you need to remember it has carbs in it as well, unlike slimline tonic. Choose your poison!

But also, a note for everyone, seeing as we're talking about booze - alcohol is the easiest form of fuel for the body, so all the time you're drinking it, your body will stop burning fat and just burn the alcohol. A kind of double whammy - you have both carbs and something that's directly stopping fat burning

[quote ouchmyfeet]@tanoshii Nigella's clementine cake might work. In the comments someone has substituted the sugar for sweetener and said it came out okay

@MilesJuppIsMyBitch I massively upped my water intake the last two days (5 litres, it was hard at first but with the Waterlogged app I'm managing quite well now). The biggest impact has been on my constipation, which has cleared itself definitively . It's not something I normally struggle with so perhaps won't help but it couldn't hurt to try? [/quote]
Thanks @ouchmyfeet! I'll give it a try

@BIWI ah thanks I must have got myself all confused somehow as I thought they were allowed on lite but then I started doubting myself! I don’t drink a lot of it - I try to relax with herbal teas in the evening as much as possible, but I have it on standby for those save it for those days where I really, really want/need a drink but don’t want to have alcohol.

@MsOmelette - fantastic progress!

@NotwatchingSpooks at DD's holiday request!

@Howdidthathappen1

I know hunger was talked about yest and I'm trying to increase fat to combat it but worried ill over do it - seriously feels like I'm piling fat in my gob!!

And the problem with that is ...?!

Try drinking more water too - but at this stage of Bootcamp, it could still be genuine hunger, so just eat something (low carb, obviously )

Great news @wanderlove!

Sorry for the cross posts there, but it was just easier to start where I'd bookmarked and work through all this morning's posts!

Just caught up on this morning's posts during my lunch break!

I didn't have enough fat or salt in my evening meal yesterday and really noticed the difference. Felt hungry when I woke up. To make amends, I've had a very well-seasoned cheesy bacon and mushroom omelette with a plate full of spinach cooked in lots of butter and salt. Feel so much better now!

As I recall, there are quite a few of us BCers who are less able to moderate alcohol consumption. The idea of having a small glass of red is fine, but there's absolutely no way I wouldn't continue to have all the other small glasses of red until the second bottle was finished. As such, it's got to be water.

Oh God, feeling the holiday love here too. I've got a couple of holiday lets and I've had a flurry of summer bookings over the past week, so it seems everyone's got the same idea. I've got two weeks blocked off the calendar in November for us to go away and I really, really hope I'm going to be getting on a plane to Mauritius to recreate my honeymoon 10 years on rather than still stuck on the north coast of Scotland with horizontal rain and 70mph wind like usual in November.

Found half a Boursin in the fridge and mashed it with the sprouts for lunch. Absolutely epic.

What I meant was that all the recipes say it needs to be super, super, fresh because it's a raw fish dish.

Phew! Consider me suitably unalarmed nowlook

@VeryLittleOwl

Oh God, feeling the holiday love here too. I've got a couple of holiday lets and I've had a flurry of summer bookings over the past week, so it seems everyone's got the same idea. I've got two weeks blocked off the calendar in November for us to go away and I really, really hope I'm going to be getting on a plane to Mauritius to recreate my honeymoon 10 years on rather than still stuck on the north coast of Scotland with horizontal rain and 70mph wind like usual in November.

Found half a Boursin in the fridge and mashed it with the sprouts for lunch. Absolutely epic.

Ha! Epic sprouts and boursin made me chuckle.

I'm disappointed about the summer and haven't looked at anything else (and everything nice will have been snaffled). We moved last year's holiday to this summer- a villa for 12 of us; all DH's family and booked by MIL as a treat following FIL's death in 2019. She'll be gutted if we can't go. Still, bugger all to be done about it!

Just wanted to share a recipe. Ive just had this for lunch and it was gorgeous. I didn't add salt but it tasted quite salty anyway, I think it would also be tasty with a bit of chilli too.

Corned Beef Cannelloni - from the Idiot Proof Diet cookbook

@VeryLittleOwl

Oh God, feeling the holiday love here too. I've got a couple of holiday lets and I've had a flurry of summer bookings over the past week, so it seems everyone's got the same idea. I've got two weeks blocked off the calendar in November for us to go away and I really, really hope I'm going to be getting on a plane to Mauritius to recreate my honeymoon 10 years on rather than still stuck on the north coast of Scotland with horizontal rain and 70mph wind like usual in November.

Found half a Boursin in the fridge and mashed it with the sprouts for lunch. Absolutely epic.

We want to buy somewhere with holiday let's in the future - would you recommend it?

How many sheep do you have? I read your posts and have visions of you being in the hills with sheep everywhere 😁