Good afternoon everybody.
Like @MissBeck, I'm only ready to jump on now (although not for such an exciting reason - congratulations on your DD's wedding)
For me, I had a crazy last week of term on week 1, so I kind-of did bootcamp light because it was too stressful to be thinking properly about food and also had to do things like work through lunch and then found myself starving at crazy times. Not ideal.
This week I've been on half term because I work in a school and although I've been quite/reasonably strict with food and done a lot of exercise, I had drunk alcohol (I know, I know!). None since Thursday (which doesn't sound like much, but I'm usually a big "yay-hay, it's the school holidays, pass me the booze!" kind of person.
Today is my weigh day and I managed 2lb last week and 1 lb this, which I think is a reasonable reflection of the weeks I had. I'm going to go hard the next two weeks as the rest of you move onto BC Lite.
In order to catch up, I have read both last week's and this week's threads in full. Thank you for all the delicious recipe suggestions. I've taken note of lots of yummy sounding ideas.
So some comments from the beginning (sorry if this comes across as creepy, just trying to catch up)
@Ifeelfat, you and I are not dissimilar in terms of height and shape, so fist bump to a fellow tall-y (I note there are quite a lot of short-arses on here, with much less weight to lose)
I really liked what @Thesoundofmusic23 said about carb creep in week 1 (possibly on day 1 - I'm very behind!). Yes!!! As someone who's done a few of these bootcamps now under different names, it's definitely true how the carbs can easily creep back when you're not "on it". Like @Bex5490, I've had good success on BC and put the weight back on again. I feel like over the last couple of years, I've lost and re-gained the same 2 stone. I know Christmas is looming, but I want to really tackle this is 2025.
This was mentioned later on in last week's thread @SpinningTops, but you asked about onion, and you said you struggled with shallot, but if you missed the person who said it later on in the week; like them, we use scallion shallots, which are the long pointy ones, and much easier to peel. I know @BIWI allows onion because it's the base of so many dishes, but I found I was just eating too many of them, and so shallots it is.
@Floralnomad your smoked haddock bake sounds amazing. I'm someone who really doesn't like or eat much fish (apart for a very few things) and I'm trying to change that because fish can be so good for us. That's on my list for next week.
I've also got a question. Sushi is one of the few fish dishes I like (actually, love!), but is there a low carb alternative to the sticky rice? (I think apart from that, sushi is quite LC-compliant????).
we tend to use cauliflower as an alternative to normal rice, but not sure if it works for sticky? Any advice from a more experienced fish eater very much appreciated. (TIA)
Sorry this is so long, nearly there. Just a couple of questions from this thread...
Magnesium and potassium can be found in foods like salmon, avocado, spinach and full fat natural yoghurt.
Does this also include FFGY @BIWI?
Finally, lots of talk about zero alcohol drinks helping a craving, but aren't they stuffed full of sugar?
That's it. Sorry for gargantuan post.
Good luck to everyone weighing in tomorrow, and well done for the losses so far.