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Low-carb bootcamp

Join discussions about low-carb bootcamp plans, meals and progress. Consider speaking to a medical professional before starting any diet.

Week 7 - Jan 22 Low Carb Bootcamp

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BIWI · 27/02/2022 19:28

Evening all. Slightly earlier than usual as I'm taking to my bed with Man Flu. (The most serious of all colds, don't you know?!)

Here's the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness as ever

So this is our last two weeks. Still time, though, to get rid of a few pesky pounds. Perhaps time to consider going back to strict Bootcamp, if you've been following Bootcamp Light over the last few weeks?

Next week I'm going to try another recipe from Keto Kitchen, which looks lovely - Spicy Cottage Pie. I like a good shepherd's pie, and this one sounds very tasty and a bit different from what I usually make.

Thank you for all those you who delurked last week!

Here's to a good week for all of us Flowers

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Jezzballs2000 · 01/03/2022 11:49

@pinknsparkly ooh yes a welsh rarebit cauliflower cheese would be great!

Jezzballs2000 · 01/03/2022 11:51

@ShagMeRiggins you're so right! thank you xx

NigellaAwesome · 01/03/2022 12:11

@Jezzballs2000 I think eating a couple of boiled eggs on their own is likely to attract attention and comment. But if you had them chopped up with some little gem and a couple of tomatoes and cucumber, then an egg salad isn't remotely out of the ordinary.

pinknsparkly · 01/03/2022 12:33

@ShagMeRiggins - I've not got any low carb bread, and am avoiding getting any as I still am was a complete carb monster, but bread was my particular downfall! I don't trust myself yet to have any in the house Grin But cauliflower rarebit sounds lush, I'll give that a go! Probably at the weekend now as I've not got any cauliflower in....

Fleecy · 01/03/2022 13:13

Joining @BIWI and @Batshittery - I've finally tested positive, albeit faint. Had symptoms since Friday! DH was positive Thursday, the kids Friday for one and Saturday for the others, me not until today. Not sure what to do about MIL's funeral. Obviously we will still go (you were allowed to go with Covid before the rule changes) but might have to return home with the kids after the service and before the wake. Such a shame - I genuinely love his family and want to be with them on the day. But it is what it is! We will all test on the morning and go from there.

@pinknsparkly hope you avoid it or if you're going to get it, that it shows up soon and goes away quickly too.

Has anyone ever made a successful meatzza? I'm sure I remember seeing a recipe for one but I can't imagine it being anything other than crumbly and greasy.

Fleecy · 01/03/2022 14:08

Oh no! You weren't allowed to go with Covid - you were allowed to go if you were isolating as a close contact but not if you have it. I know it's guidance now, rather than law, but it seems wrong to potentially spread it, as you don't know people's individual vulnerabilities. DH tells me it will be shown on screens outside the room (it's a small chapel and there will be a lot of people there), so we will have to watch it outside from a distance Sad

Jezzballs2000 · 01/03/2022 14:37

Oh @Fleecy i'm so sorry, funerals are hard enough without the added element of Covid. sending Flowers

@NigellaAwesome very good advice. it made me laugh the idea of furtively shoving a boiled egg in my mouth. In the end i didn't eat them and had smoked salmon on toast with butter and cream cheese. I'm going to just accept the carbs and be very good about everything else.

SummerSazz · 01/03/2022 18:33

Had my BUPA medical - was still one pound off my target weight for that. And they weighed me with clothes on 😫.

So I am overweight (no shit Sherlock) but my cholesterol is good - excellent for HDL but a bit on the high side for LDL so was advised to eat less cheese 😄. Need to shift a bit more weight which will bring my waist to height ratio back in line should have booked it for end of March and hopefully I'd have been all good by then

Muscle body % is bang in the middle of good which is great as I've not done any exercise since Nov when I fractured my foot.

My diabetes risk is 1.3% over the next 10 years so v happy with that and low risk of heart attack.

Sorry to hear of more covid +ves and the impact on your funeral @Fleecy - hope you can work out a way to attend from a distance

venusandmars · 01/03/2022 20:02

@pinknsparkly well done on avoiding the low carb breads. I like the shneider brot as an occasional 'rye' type bread e.g. with smoked samlon but it's not BREAD. The same with SLC bread. I find it a bit pappy and tasteless, none of the crunch or the 'toasty' smell you'd want with real bread. So much better to miss it out altogether. In fact, a few weeks ago I had a SLC roll with fried egg and crispy bacon. I really wished I'd just had a plate of bacon and eggs. The roll added nothing.

@SummerSazz well done, a lot of that sounds really positive and a big incentive to KOKO

Andi2020 · 01/03/2022 21:18

@fleecyFlowers that is such bad timing for you.

Jezzballs2000 · 01/03/2022 21:41

@venusandmars lol i've just bitten the bullet and spent £15 on SLC bread in time for a weekend away. I am not expecting much but I figured it would be useful to have in the freezer.

I had real bread today and think I scraped in under 50g of carbs (i don't normally count but was trying to assess the damage!). Boiled eggs have been out away and saved for tomorrow. Thanks for the various pep talks!

I'm now home having offloaded the toddler and the husband for the night to my mother in law and watching Married at First Sight on my own. Luxury!

NigellaAwesome · 01/03/2022 21:43

How are all the covid patients doing?

venusandmars · 01/03/2022 22:38

@Jezzballs2000 I recently went to an event where 'a sandwich' was the best option for taking and eating (not something where I could practically eat a punnet of salad and avocado and mayonnaise and egg and ham). I had a SLC roll in the freezer so I made it up with slathers of butter, mashed sardines, mayo, cucmber and tomato. That was the first time I'd really enjoyed and appreciated a SLC. It's not all bad Grin but it's expensive!

@everyone wondering if we should have a BC COVID virtual ward? Something like a virtual retreat where those of us who are virus free run around with little nutritious dishes? some bone broth chicken soup with cream; little pots of full fat yogurt and cream with a couple of squished berries; guacamole on cheese; tiny portions of celeriac topped shpherd's pie? --only asking in the hope that if I get COVID someone will turn the virtual into reality and turn up at my house with all the above00

venusandmars · 01/03/2022 22:38

Correction

@everyone wondering if we should have a BC COVID virtual ward? Something like a virtual retreat where those of us who are virus free run around with little nutritious dishes? some bone broth chicken soup with cream; little pots of full fat yogurt and cream with a couple of squished berries; guacamole on cheese; tiny portions of celeriac topped shpherd's pie? only asking in the hope that if I get COVID someone will turn the virtual into reality and turn up at my house with all the above

SpellitwithaY · 01/03/2022 22:55

Hi all sorry so many of you are poorly. We had it at Xmas so I feel for you.

1st proper full day on today although I've barely drunk anything. Did try when home but dismal effort. Food was excellent though and will do the same thing tomorrow.

Pork belly for dinner though. Yum 😋

Pisseslikeahorse · 02/03/2022 06:19

*@Fleecy - sorry for your loss, I hope you and @BIWI * feel better.

I spent the first Hr of some H&S training yesterday talking about about COVID and its added pressures on life quite an eye opener hearing other peoples feelings.

I'm struggling this week as I keep on wishing for the finish line instead of enjoying the journey, will have a good look at the spread sheet and cook something new for the family.

Frenchpoodle · 02/03/2022 07:01

Sorry to hear about those with covid Flowers Such crappy timing @Fleecy - hope that you manage in some way (even at a distance) to be with MILs family on the day. Flowers also for @BIWI and anyone else who has been hit.

I’ve been a terrible low carber over the past couple of weeks. Recovered from Covid myself, which then lead to lots of wine during the week (celebrating? commiserating?) which then led to a load of rubbish eating. I wouldn’t have minded so much if I had of enjoyed it, but I didn’t particularly Hmm

Back on the wagon this week and am posting food for accountability

Monday:
L - mushroom omelette
D - saag paneer (delicious!)

Tuesday:
L - ham (not great - panic eating between meetings)
D - duck ragu with buttered cabbage and garlicky green beans (even more delicious!)

Also back on the Water Water Water

There are so many frightening and distressing things going on at the moment - Going off the wagon food and drink wise hasn’t actually give me the comfort I’m looking for. Looking after myself and eating well makes me feel much better, in control and able to focus on any small things that I can do.

FrenchBoule · 02/03/2022 09:54

@BIWI and @pinknsparkly sorry to hear you have the virus. Horrible thing to have,hope you’re not too bad with it. Wishing you speedy recovery 💐

@queenofcauliflower sourdough won’t do much damage 🙂 I miss mine, half a freezer packed with it and baking for friends/family every week.

@Fleecy, sorry for your loss, hope you’ll be ok by Friday 💐

Not much more to report here, busy week this week.

KOKO everybody 🙂

queenofcauliflower · 02/03/2022 12:43

Hello everyone,

1kg down again this morning - bouncing about all over the place. My first mini goal is to get under 113.7kg as I was at the start of February before I went off piste then under 108kg as I was in February last year which was my lowest point of a previous bootcamp. Then I'll feel like I am losing real weight, I'll be able to fit into some smaller clothes and not be just yo-yoing around.

@Fleecy, so sorry to hear your news. I hope you will manage to attend in some way. My parent died in November last year and the funeral was just as the omicron variant was gathering pace. We had real issues with relatives coming from abroad and also my (only) sister had to come to my house to do an LFT under cover of darkness (thankfully negative) as she was so worried that our surviving parent just wouldn't cope with the idea of her having COVID, let alone her having it! I hope all goes as well as can be expected.

I absolutely love saag paneer @Frenchpoodle!

I've just had my lunch of FF cottage cheese, bacon fried in butter, nuts, leaves & EVOO. I'm planning JO'S salmon nicoise for tea (recipe recommended by @venusandmars many bootcamps ago and I love it). However I've just discovered my black olives are mouldy - gah!

1l water down so far, 3l to go.

SpottyBumPony · 02/03/2022 15:05

Any ideas how we could 'low carb' this recipe...
Leek and Mushroom Crumble

Jezzballs2000 · 02/03/2022 15:42

i saw that too @SpottyBumPony!! Looks so good. I reckon nuts and parmesan instead of the flour and butter crumble and the rest pretty much as the recipe states.

BIWI · 02/03/2022 15:44

The link didn't work for me, so I've c+p the recipe:

Nigel Slater’s recipe for leek and mushroom crumble

A warming, nutritious, crunchy midweek treat

Trim 850g of leeks, discarding the tough dark green leaves, then slice them into finger-thick pieces. Melt 40g of butter in a deep pan or casserole over a moderate heat and add the leeks. Cover with a lid and cook for about 10-15 minutes without letting them colour. A regular stir as they soften will prevent them from browning.

Cut in half 150g of chestnut or brown cap mushrooms. Roughly chop 400g of tomatoes. When the leeks are soft, add the mushrooms and tomatoes to the pan. Continue cooking, still covered with the lid. Preheat the oven to 200C/gas mark 6.

Roughly chop the leaves from 20g of parsley. Pick the leaves from 15g of tarragon and roughly chop them. In a small pan, warm 250ml of double cream and add the herbs and a seasoning of salt and pepper, bring to the boil then immediately remove from the heat.

Stir 2 tbsp of plain flour into the leeks and mushrooms and continue cooking for a couple of minutes. Stir in the warm herb cream, then transfer to a baking dish.

Use a food processor to reduce 250g of plain flour and 125g of butter to fine crumbs. (If you prefer, rub the butter into the flour with your fingertips.) Stir in 100g of grated Cheshire cheese and 1 tbsp of chopped thyme leaves. Scatter the crumble over the filling and bake for 30-40 minutes until the filling is bubbling. Serves 4

If you are concerned about the leeks browning, place a piece of baking parchment over the top, then cover with a lid. The paper will encourage them to cook in their own steam and reduce the possibility of caramelising.

To cut down on pans, you can cook the leek and mushroom filling in an ovenproof dish that will work on the hob as well. An enamelled, cast-iron casserole will work very well.

Follow Nigel on Twitter @NigelSlater

Firstly, I wouldn't bother using flour to thicken the leek and mushroom mixture - I'd cook it down a bit (without using a pan lid) so there's less moisture in it. And second, I'd use less cream, so it's less runny.

Third, for the crumble topping, try using almond flour instead of plain flour.

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BIWI · 02/03/2022 15:49

@venusandmars

Correction

@everyone wondering if we should have a BC COVID virtual ward? Something like a virtual retreat where those of us who are virus free run around with little nutritious dishes? some bone broth chicken soup with cream; little pots of full fat yogurt and cream with a couple of squished berries; guacamole on cheese; tiny portions of celeriac topped shpherd's pie? only asking in the hope that if I get COVID someone will turn the virtual into reality and turn up at my house with all the above

@venusandmars Oh yes please!

DH can cook, but only when he's had advance notice/time to think of something - so it's been a bit hit and miss what there is to it. I sloped down the kitchen and looked mournfully into the fridge, only to be told that there was only enough of the leftover from last night (that I didn't want because I was asleep/not feeling great) for him and DS1. Hmm

Still, I've been living mainly on painkillers, coffee and gin for the last couple of days Blush

I know Omicron is supposed to be a milder variant, and I would (genuinely) say that it is like having a cold. But it's like having one of the most truly horrible colds you've ever had.

I won't compare it to flu, because I've had flu a couple of times, and that genuinely is dreadful.

But oh my goodness. The sore throat is something else. Every now and then I have to sneeze or cough, and it feels like I'm just ripping the surface off it every time. DH has been a trooper and gone to two different pharmacies to get various remedies, but nothing really works. Or at least not for long Sad

It's DS2's birthday on Saturday and at this rate doesn't look like I'll be well enough - or rid of the infection - to go.

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RagzRebooted · 02/03/2022 18:00

That's rubbish @BIWI sorry you're still feeling rotten.

Today
Breakfast (11:30) - SLC hot cross bun with butter (found in the freezer, they weren't brilliant TBH but needed eating)
Lunch - very small crunchy apple with cheese, peanut butter and a couple of seed crackers.
Dinner - Thai Red chicken curry and shoogled cabbage

SpellitwithaY · 02/03/2022 19:48

@biwi have you tried a numbing spray? I think there's one called chloroseptic. Its literally a numbing spray for the throat and I've found it very effective in the past.

B - egg muffin
L - salad with crab stick and cheese
D - pork belly slices roasted, cauliflower cheese and broccoli

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