Week 5 - Leaving Lockdown Low Carb Bootcamp

[BIWI]

Welcome to Week 5!

Here's the spreadsheet

Hopefully we can now put the horrible weeks 3 & 4 behind us, and get on with the serious job of shedding the pounds of fat

By now, hopefully, low carbing eating should feel like it's the 'new normal', and you should be getting used to it. However, there's also the opposite danger, that you're seeing carbs creeping back into your menus.

This is a good time to take stock. Have a think about the things you've been eating over the last week and ask yourself if they are really 'in the spirit' of Bootcamp. Are you really keeping your carbs low, and focused mainly on vegetables and salad? Are you really eating enough fat? And, perhaps most importantly, are you drinking all the water?

From now on, you should see the scales move again - albeit that the weekly loss should be in the range of 1-2lbs a week (possibly more if you have a lot to lose).

I really hope that you are finding that you're settling into this WOE, and that you're enjoying the food, not feeling deprived, and are seeing the scales/tape measure reflect your commitment.

At the end of this week we will be half way through Bootcamp!

@nowlook I am a devoted reader of easy to read crime fiction too, especially at the moment - currently reading my way through Hazel Holt’s books which are very cosy murders indeed. Can’t think of anything that’s really blown me away fiction wise recently but non fiction, then The Only Plane In The Sky - oral accounts of 9/11 and The World I Fell Out Of by Melanie Reid about her riding accident that left her paraplegic. Both harrowing but excellent.

I’m a huge fan of crime novels @nowlook, I’ve been reading DS Butler books, she has a couple of series which are police procedural types. I like them because they’re straightforward and don’t tend to have the perpetrator targeting the main protagonists, which I find gets a bit wearing after a while. Some likeable characters and the books are in kindle unlimited which makes for cheap reading.

Don’t ask me about books. I used to read pre dc and then the last 2 books I read were while pregnant with my first. They were ‘We need to talk about Kevin’ and ‘The Slap’ which really put me off kids...and reading ever again 😂

I optimistically took books on our first post dc holidays and packed them unopened again to come home. Some of my books have been treated to more than 3 holidays without ever being read. Now I more realistically take a couple of political magazines with interesting articles; which are about the length of my opportunities to read and attention span.

nowlook - try Q by Christina Dalcher, also Vox by the same author - both set in similar worlds to The Handmaid's Tale.

@VeryLittleOwl I loved Vox, good choice

I really enjoyed The midnight library by Matt Haig and although it came out a while ago The snow child was another one

Thanks all! I'll give them all a bash. It's been an age since I read anything non-fiction and although I've read some Holt (love!) and Butler before, there's plenty more to go at. Love Atwood, so Q should be up my street too.

Hope you find the love of reading again MrsK. I had a decade off (felt too self-indulgent). That said, your choices were always going to problematic given you read them when up the duff . Hve your tried Room and A Child Called It? . I can typically read a book in a day (humblebrag) but have never, ever been able to read them concurrently. I suspect those that can have something of the night about them

Hi everyone so sorry to hear about those of you with adult children/teenagers suffering so much. not been there yet but my youngest can be quite introverted and never really sure what he's thinking

Im a massive reader, it's my favourite thing to do. Just finished house by the sea by louise Douglas which I liked.

Midnight library is great.
Also hamnet by Maggie O Farrell
Graham Norton books, I loved all of them.
I also recommend Erin Kelly.

@cheeseisthebest

Im a massive reader, it's my favourite thing to do. Just finished house by the sea by louise Douglas which I liked.

Did you find you were able to read the same types of books during lockdown cheese? I genuinely couldn't handle a complex plot/allegory/social commentary at all.

@nowlook I really struggled to keep reading during lockdown at first. Couldn't concentrate at all and I wasn't commuting which is where I normally do most of my reading. I have managed to get back into it now and do really love escaping into a book.

Have just read Hamnet for my book club and absolutely LOVED it. But I love everything Maggie o'farrell has ever written. I feel like this one will stay with me, it was a tear jerker but beautiful.

Kate Atkinson is another of my favourites. The Jackson Brodie detective novels are fab, the first one is called Case Histories.

I have Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers on my bookshelf to read next. It came highly
recommended

My lockdown reading consisted almost entirely of romantic suspense novels, primarily Janet Evanovich and Elise Noble. Couldn't concentrate on anything heavier.

Thought of another good one I've read recently, Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan.

[quote ouchmyfeet]@nowlook I really struggled to keep reading during lockdown at first. Couldn't concentrate at all and I wasn't commuting which is where I normally do most of my reading. I have managed to get back into it now and do really love escaping into a book.

Have just read Hamnet for my book club and absolutely LOVED it. But I love everything Maggie o'farrell has ever written. I feel like this one will stay with me, it was a tear jerker but beautiful.

Kate Atkinson is another of my favourites. The Jackson Brodie detective novels are fab, the first one is called Case Histories. [/quote]
Omg yes. We have the same taste. I absolutely adore Kate Atkinson and Jackson Brodie

Yes I think I did read quite light hearted stuff during lockdown.
Authenticity Project is a nice book.

@ouchmyfeet slightly worried we know each other as I have just read hamnet too for my book club. It made me sob. I have twins which I think added too it.

Other books I have loved recently: midnight library, she'll seekers, little life. I love to read.

I liked midnight library, also love all Maggie O'Farrell.
I also love finding fellow bookworms!

@Bestbees don't think any of my club have twins! I cried a lot while reading it, had friends who have lost children on my mind throughout.

It's a great book though. Despite being desperately sad at points it really felt quite positive and uplifting to me.

@cheeseisthebest I'm almost finished 'Authenticity Project' and @Timetobuckup my dh has just bought me The Midnight Library' but I've got 2 books to read between them, one is a possibly crap novel called 'The Third Wife' and the other is Lionel Shriver 'The Motion of the Body Through Space' it's about a woman who hits 60. She was previously very fit and active, and her husband (who had been sedentary) turns into a self-obsessed triathlete.

My problem is that I mostly read in bed. My secret delight is an hour in the morning with a mug of rooibos tea, but more often it's 10 minutes at the end of the day, with my book falling on the floor as sleepiness hits, and then about 4 of the 10 minutes the next evening are spent trying to find the place where I stopped the previous day! Kate Atkinson's 'Life After Life' was a particular nightmare since each chapter had so many similarities!!

Food today:
B - coffee with cream
L - cheese and ham 'sandwich', plus crispy chicken skin
D - Jamie Oliver mushroom curry, with added green beans and cabbage, served on spiced roasted broccoli

I know the 5 a day is not a real thing, but I do judge myself if I've not eaten a wide range of veg or different types and colours. So today included onion, garlic, ginger, tomato, green beans, tomato, broccoli, mushrooms. And some left for lunch tomorrow.

@BIWI we seem to have morphed into low carb BOOKcamp

[quote venusandmars]**@BIWI* we seem to have morphed into low carb BOOKcamp* [/quote]
Yeah, sorry about that.

Let's take the positives: I've had lots of lovely recommendations and hopefully more to come

This is much more my pace than all the running fools stuff

Love it!
Who's the third wife I think I've read that.

And don't forget @BIWI is down the pub with her mate @venusandmars. We can do ANYTHING!

Amanda Prowse has written some really cheesy chick lit but the coordinates of loss by her is a very moving book.