Oh dear oh dear oh dear. 
I'm not finding it very easy to climb back on the low carb wagon. I've scrapped today as it's a total lost cause - there are opened bottles of white wine, red wine, dessert wine, madiera all over the house, and leftovers of various delicious things littering every surface. I am absolutely not sufficiently strong to resist, but I don't want to get into the 'well I can't start afresh until I've finished x y z'. 
Our meal last night (my b'day) was actually pretty good in a low carb sense - pot roast guineafowl with white beans and chorizo, served with cabbage and bacon. Only the beans are verboten and they're still nutritious and low GI. Did pea and mint soup to start which was bloody lovely, and molten chocolate baby cakes, which are downright sinful, to finish.
Saturday evening was a load of tapas, some of which were fine and others less so (Spanish tortilla was lovely but the spuds and onions are very naughty). These were bloody lovely though, and actually fine for low carbing:
- Scallops in their shell, removed, seared on a griddle and replaced into shell, with slices of chorizo piled around.
- Chunks of chicken cooked in olive oil with lots of garlic and a very generous amount of sherry.
- Wild mushrooms (dried porcini from sainsburys, bulked up with some chestnut mushies) sauted gently in butter and garlic and then served with a raw egg yolk in the middle, which you mix quickly in to form a 'sauce' that just tastes really subtle and creamy.
Food as good as you'd get in a fancy restaurant, for a fraction of that price. Recipes taken or adapted from Rick Stein's 'Spain' book, as is the guinea fowl recipe. If only I hadn't disgraced myself with lots of bread dipped in olive oil then I wouldn't be dreading the weigh-in tomorrow so much. This morning fully intended just to have the bacon, eggs and tomatoes of the fry-up, but when I saw all the bacon fat/juices swimming in the grill pan, I just had to drench a slice of bread in them and fry it.
I'm going to weigh myself tomorrow morning and hopefully that will shock me into compliance. Willy can you get the big stick into a state of readiness please.
Treelula that sounds really traumatic, hope you're feeling better now and that your brain has processed those upsetting images. Good on you for keeping a cool head and doing what was required at the time.
Sammisatt Happy Birthday!! 