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

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

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Lots of books and authors i love on this thread especially Maggie O'Farrell and Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie books (but I hated Life after Life). I have really struggled since the start of the pandemic / DD being ill and can't bear too much peril or heartbreak (so haven't read Hamnet yet...) my friend bought me The Authenticity Project for my birthday which I thought was a bit cheesy at first but ended up loving it. I am mainly rereading my way round the Discworld at the moment, but the best book I have read this year was The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne, it's so good!

Thank you for your good wishes re my DD. She has been into school today for half an hour and had a great time walking home with her friends. We are just going to take it really really slowly, but I am so proud of her today. It's so sad to see how many of our kids are suffering, and the lack of proper MH support for them. We have been lucky that her CAMHS counsellor seems good and we 'only' had to wait for 7.5 months from referral to counselling starting.

Got to fess up right away coz I promised myself I would and not just run away from this Bootcamp. Decent lunch.walk with a friend early evening them home to finish my water target. DH brought me four squares of Lindt 90% I've eaten all four squares without even noticing. Sigh.

I’ve got 19minutes of the midnight library left of my audiobook - really enjoying it. Hamnet next on list.
Makes the numerous dog walks my mad spaniel needs much more bearable

I need help!!

My mother is coming. ...... Now things are opening up she is coming to visit. She will comment on my WOE and want to order fish and chips and Chinese food.
I love her but .......
She is my food issues on legs

Oh no timetobuckup!
Ok you can do this, grit teeth, meal plan, either she eats what you're having or she gets herself something else.

@Timetobuckup so don't tell her. Cook bacon / egg / sausage / fried egg / mushrooms fore breakfast, or smoked salmon and scrambled eggs.

For lunch have cheese and ham salad, or avocado / tomato / mozerella, or ham and cheese omelette with tomatoes, mushrooms, broccoli.

For dinner have roast meat with cauliflower cheese (the BIWI recipe with 300ml heated cream, as much grated cheese as you can melt in it, teaspoon of wholegrain mustard, squeeze of lemon juice), or steak and salad with blue cheese sauce, or moussaka (it's on the recipe thread). Have your meal plan done in advance so there's not too much room for manoeuvre. Plus have a good look at local takeaway menus and know which choices you will make. Refuse the fish and chips and opt for a chinese or indian or turkish.

Plan, plan, plan. And do not discuss your food choices with her. If she comments that you're eating too much fat for breakfast, have an avocado instead. You'll have a fridge groaning with salad and veg, so she can't say it's not healthy.

If there's a 'need' for pudding have whipped cream, strawbs / rasps with a little grated chocolate. Stick hers on a meringue nest.

Make the almond and cheese muffins, and have them spread with cream cheese and butter.

Noting the book recommendations with great interest.

nowlook i thought shuggie Bain was phenomenal. Also if you read the first two, The Mirror and the Light is a must.

I also fell into a hole of reading (quality) true crime books last year which may be up your street? I came across this list, realised I’d read 4 of them and have since downloaded a further 7 or 8: www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g19094206/best-true-crime-books/

So sorry to hear of self-harming issues. My heart goes out to all of you going through it

I’m another suffering with work-induced painful tootsies - I think my feet have become trainer-shaped. I’m going to take BIWIs / dita’s advice and try the smart plimsoll/trainer option - if anyone gives more than a single hoot they can go fu...I mean reconsider their perspective

Good advice venusandmars

I loved The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. A really easy entertaining read. Now reading the Architects Apprentice wishing I was in Istanbul.

Thursday murder club was good.
I also liked Three things about Elsie which is similar.

@Timetobuckup

I need help!!

My mother is coming. ...... Now things are opening up she is coming to visit. She will comment on my WOE and want to order fish and chips and Chinese food.
I love her but .......
She is my food issues on legs

Have you ever heard of nominative determinism?

Buck up!

If she's anything like my mother, the following could put her off:

• covid outbreak linked to chippy;

-anyone "carrying on with" or "knocking off" someone from the Chinese.

If neither of the above works, there are options from the Chinese you can have.

Timetobuckup Chinese takeaway can be managed on low carb. I have spare ribs no sauce, something in black bean sauce is lowish carb and bean sprouts for a side instead of rice. Fish and chips is harder but at a pinch could you just have the fish and discreetly leave the chips? Or have a half chicken instead?

Thank you all

Especially @nowlook I actually laughed at the buck up

It is 2 days and I can do this! I do appreciate all the advice. She will just have to eat all the snacks on her own.

@thehoover I have shuggie bain and just about to start it. Have heard really good things.

@Timetobuckup I do the same as Stuntnun, Chinese is dry salt and pepper ribs to start, chicken in black bean and I do cauliflower rice from frozen in the microwave. Fish and chips is a real pain tho. We go to the coast a lot and lots don’t really do any alternative. The local one to our house is conveniently next door/joined to a kebab shop, so when H has a chippy tea I will get a tray of doner meat or a shish kebab and salad.

Shuggie Bain is a tough read but unputdownable Language is pretty fruity but very realistically Glasgwegian. Also I recognised a lot of the locations even though the sort of lives that were lived were a different world to my middle class Bearsden/Milngavie mentioned in the book ) upbringing. Albert Drive, where the book starts, is one street and a couple of blocks from where I live: my local newsagent (run by a lovely Asian family who always ask after ds) is just beside where he describes.

I got the book for my birthday and my dad is currently reading my copy. Dh will read it next.

Just so anyone reading (out loud) knows... Milngavie is pronounced as Mill-guy. It's important!

I was thinking of you today @prettybird as events in Pollokshields unfolded!

I’ve just read ‘those who are loved’ by Victoria Hislop and it was excellent. For those who like psychological thriller type books ‘blood orange’ is good.

Today I have had
B: yogurt with nuts
L: lamb with roasted veg
D: chicken drumsticks with green beans

Snack: I’ve just had a small glass of red wine and two pieces of low carb bread which was surprisingly nice!

We were getting messages from ds demanding that we went along to Kenmure Street (especially as he couldn't get there himself, being up in Aberdeen) but we couldn't tell him why we couldn't get there: a) we were going to the bathroom supplier and b) the guy who'll be fitting it was coming to confirm our design ideas so that he can quote for it (we've told the bathroom supplier to quote trade prices to him so that he's responsible for everything).

I walked along later and although the incident was over, the place was still hoaching with police.

Well, you've got to admire his delegated fervour!

Do you have a final layout now?

I’m taking notes on books as am determined not to lose my mind as well as my bodily functions this lock down 😂 I don’t even know what kinds of books I like anymore. Nothing depressing about kids is my main rule, followed by nothing frightening or with horribly fetishised violence against women like Karen Slaughter. I like factual books about history and politics and dry witted funny observational fiction books iirc - as it’s been a while.

Must say my braised cabbage was a triumph. H was dubious and the first few mouthfuls he wasn’t sure then he said it grew on him and he loved it. I made plenty so will have the rest with roast pork belly at the weekend. Would also go nice with duck breasts I think, or venison, maybe with a little spice in like cloves or juniper berries. I may try adding some dried cranberries when I’m at maintenance (as I remember they are the lowest carb dried fruit? I ordered some special ones at Christmas which are supposed to be lower carb as they are dried in apple juice rather than sugar or something).

Omg yes Karin Slaughter. They are grim aren't they.
Sorry this lockdown???? I thought lockdown was done? Have I missed something??!!