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Low-carb diets

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Week 6 - Summer Low Carb Bootcamp - We've Passed the Halfway Point!

418 replies

BIWI · 03/06/2013 07:51

Morning campers!

Lovely weather at last.

Here's the spreadsheet of fabulousness

Come and confess all.

The last couple of weeks have seen quite a lot of slippage and falling off the wagon - a euphemism for cheating! - so I'm not expecting that we're going to see many fabulous losses this week. Indeed, I think many of us are going to feel a bit downhearted when we step on the scales today.

BUT NEVER FEAR!

There are still 5 weeks left, which is plenty of time to get properly back on the wagon and shift a few more of those pesky pounds.

Good luck everyone!

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ChippingInWiredOnCoffee · 03/06/2013 19:25

In addition to my normal, bootcamp friendly food, I had 3 strawberries and 2 glasses of wine (one red, one cava) yesterday and I'm a kg (2lb) heavier today?? Hopefully it will have buggered off by tomorrow!

TreeLuLa · 03/06/2013 19:29

Checking in
Grin

halfthesize · 03/06/2013 19:42

Thanks for new thread.

So back from my holiday and to say I ate and drank my body weight in crap is an understatementBlush
So the scales were very unkind this morning!!
Been super good today

B- coffee
L- Prawns
D- Burger and salad with mayo and cheese
shed loads of water....

ZimboMum · 03/06/2013 19:48

Haven't read the thread yet, will catch up later. But 3lbs down this week. Wooohooo. C25k week 1, day 1: done. Woohooo.

B: bacon and eggs
L: salad with cheese ham and olives and mayo
S: chicken wings
D: chorizo, few cherry toms, brocolli, olives and parmesan - meant to have pasta with it but bleeugh, don't fancy it. Woohooo!

Water water water.

Yama · 03/06/2013 19:48

No problem Esker. The chorizo is nice too but much smaller than the Lidl one. Let me know how the free range chicken tastes - it's something I have tried yet.

BIWI · 03/06/2013 19:50

Brilliant, Zimbo! I started C25K Week1/Run1 today as well. (Or more accurately, re-started - having been injured I've been told to go right back to the beginning)

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TheChocolateTeapot · 03/06/2013 19:52

Forgive me BIWI for I have sinned. Was chugging along quite happily til I was totally derailed by sodding half term. I seem to have disappeared off the list - please can I go back on as I promise to be a saint for the remaining weeks of the Bootcamp. Weight today - 170lbs.

QueenofDreams · 03/06/2013 20:14

Ooh we've ordered a big old box of organic grass fed meat. I'm seriously looking forward to that. I shall be properly Primal from Wednesday until the box runs out Grin

CrabbyBigBottom · 03/06/2013 20:18

A good day here. I even managed to resist almond and orange cake being thrust under my nose by xDP. [proud]

Last night we really wanted something 'pudding-y', so I simmered some frozen berries (redcurrants, blackcurrants, blackberries, raspberries, 5.1% carbs) then added them to total greek yoghurt. A big slosh of double cream as well, and some milled flax seed. Then ground vanilla beans. It was absolutely lush!

B - a few mouthfuls of last nights 'pudding', and discovered something - the flax seed must have swelled and absorbed some of the moisture, leaving the whole thing with an ice-cream consistency. It was even nicer. Smile
L - omelette with pesto, cheddar and little tomatoes
D - salmon fillet baked inside a covering of buttered leeks - we'd run out of foil to make parcels, and they had no skin so I didn't want them to dry out. I sweated the chopped leeks in butter first, then piled them on top and around the (still half frozen) salmon fillets. Covered the baking dish and baked for about half an hour. The fillets were lovely and moist. Served with roasted broccoli and a shallot butter cream sauce.

I made a load more of the yoghurt and stuck it in the freezer - DD has just pronounced it better than ice-cream!

I've been feeding DD a much lower carb diet - a sort of low GI/low-carb hybrid. I did it because she's an absolute sugar junkie, and always has been (despite her not even tasting anything with sugar in until a bit of chocolate on her first birthday Hmm). I've always limited how much sweet stuff she eats because she has weak tooth enamel, but it's a constant battle with her. She's very very fussy about her food and quite restrictive in what she'll eat (she's 10 and has just been diagnosed with Aspergers). Anyway, I tried her on a modified version of this WOE, and I couldn't believe the difference - far fewer mood swings, not constantly asking about food and when the next snack/meal/treat would be, eating a wider range of veg because they're drenched in fat and drinking much more water. Before, she would have pasta and rice quite often and I've cut that out, so now she still eats loads of beans (she likes all sorts - butter, cannelini, kidney, black) but I've been giving her more meat and even bigger portions of veg. She loves meat, cheeses like feta and halloumi, fish and fat, so I reckon she's a natural low-carber. Grin

Has anyone else modified their children's diets?

Today she had:
B/L - a plateful of chicken livers, cooked for her by her dad
S - feta cheese
D - salmon fillet with a few leeks, and loads of peas
S - some of the frozen yoghurt

CrabbyBigBottom · 03/06/2013 20:18

Wow, epic post, sorry! Blush

Doshusallie · 03/06/2013 20:24

I have really tried crabby but my two eat lunch at school and tea at childminders during the week.

Having said that..... I spoke to the cm today. I have asked her to not take them to the sweet shop after school (fgs) and if they have to have a pudding after tea, to not let them have thirds (fgs) and for it to not be 3 different types of cheese cake with sprinkles, chocolate sauce and whipped cream (fgs). She is wonderful but overweight as are all her kids and to be quite honest I think her meals are diabolical.

Ruprekt · 03/06/2013 20:53

Lol Dosh!! GrinGrinGrin

I changed my no veg meal BIWI.

Sausages, broccoli and buttered swede.

I am considering lower carb for boys but it is more difficult. Wink

CrabbyBigBottom · 03/06/2013 20:55

Dosh that's not good, is it - aren't childminders supposed to provide healthy food?

School dinners are pretty shit, too, I think. When DD was at school I used to give her a thermos flask with hot food in - something like beans with chorizo - but the other kids used to take the mickey out of her for eating strange food. So even though she loved that and hated sandwiches, she wanted sandwiches instead. Sad We never did school meals because she's so limited in what she'll eat. The result was that she didn't eat her lunch most days and would come out of school starving hungry and in a complete melt-down.

CrabbyBigBottom · 03/06/2013 20:59

Ruprekt when I told DD she wouldn't be allowed any biscuits or sweets for a few weeks trial period, she cried Sad She perked right up though when she found she could have smoked salmon with creme fraiche for breakfast! Grin

LilyAmaryllis · 03/06/2013 21:03

OK I have cooked celeriac for the first time! And I've cooked with cream for only the second time (celeriac dauphinoise). It was freaking delicious BUT I'm finding it seriously hard to believe this will result in weight loss. (I've been using mayo/frying/roasting/not-holding-back on cheese/eggs/greek yoghurt but cream seems a whole step further.) I feel I may still just about have some blood left in my fat stream...!

BobblyGussets · 03/06/2013 21:11

Hello, I haven't totally fallen off the wagon.

I have stayed the same for a couple of weeks, despite the initial great loss, but I think this is due to a couple of days off and the fact that I like big portions. This is a problem, isn't it? Even though we are calorie counting, I still can't have a big pile of food, can I please? I know the answer already.

I have a handy friend who is training for a triathlon, so she makes me go on tortuous cycle rides up big hills and swimming on a saturday morning when I could still be in bed.

I'd like to repeat the thanks to BIWI and Willie too. Thank you.

Ruprekt · 03/06/2013 21:21

Bobbly......I know what you mean about portion sizes.

Today I have started 5:2.....today was a fast day. Not that I have really fasted but not eaten as much as on other days.

Had

Packet of ham and beef
Sausages, broccoli and buttered swede

Next fasting day will be Thursday.

couch25cakes · 03/06/2013 21:25

Lly- I really wasn't keen on the celeriac dauphinoise. Bt the moussaka that I made tonight is amazing- cant wait for lunch tomorrow!

BIWI · 03/06/2013 21:27

Bobbly - sounds like you're suffering from the fabled week 3, 4 or 5 syndrome!

I would worry more about 'a couple of days off' than big portions.

Calories/portion sizes may come into play as you get near your target, but at this stage, you don't need to worry too much about it. (Obviously this isn't an excuse for you to pig out though Grin)

Lily - have faith! Just be aware that for some people dairy can be a problem, so I'd keep the cream/cheese under surveillance - i.e. don't cook with it/eat cheese at every meal/every day. (By the way, that's nothing to do with its fat content)

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HeirToTheIronThrone · 03/06/2013 21:32

Snap Ruprekt - sausages, broccoli and mashed swede with butter in the Throne household tonight too. Have Greek yog and a salad with olives and chopped bacon prepped to take to work tomorrow, and about to start my third pint of water since I got home (after about 7 at work).

LilyAmaryllis · 03/06/2013 21:33

Thanks BIWI I'll have faith and steel myself for a non-dairy day here and there.

NewStartNewStory · 03/06/2013 21:37

kiwigirl42 Will be interested on the BCAA and how it helps your fibro. Am facing possible fibro diagnosis and laughed at my gp when was told to stop training to help it. I was told last year to use or lose my mobility after fracturing a couple of vertebrate. So tbh would rather keep going then stop. Just days like today when the pain is enough to make me want to cry with tiredness by the end of the day and i have been rubbish and run out of the amytrip I am supposed to take for it

I have been bad the last few days food wise. A party, a wedding, training. Too much in too sort a time. Not enough planning/feeling like it was not really suitable to be fussy about food.

Currently curled up with co-codamol, ice pack, hot water bottle and a few metres of physio tape to hold me together. Best bit. training tomo and I can't skip it. thank goodness this is a rest week and that is the only training session that is essential other then the 1hr daily physio stuff. Actually I love my life. I just forget i am not super human and that determination and pig headedness is no replacement for rest. Besides if i am going to be in pain doing nothing i might as well be in pain doing stuff I love. yes my physio is constantly telling me off, as is my gp Grin

The plan of action:
GP for pain
lots and lots of water
yoghurt and a couple of low carb sausages for snacks to come with me to training
scrambled eggs for breakfast.
Salad for lunch
Cauliflower in cheese sauce for tea.

Good in theory, hopefully works in practice.

MrsHerculePoirot · 03/06/2013 21:44

Hello!

kiwi glad your migraines are getting better. I would warn against MFP as there is 17g of carb in one tbsp of honey alone and you said that was just one ingredient in the crumble so not sure how it thinks it was only 16g in total!!

crabby yes my DD is deffo low carb naturally I think - she loves veg, especially as it is served drenched in butter, she loves meats, fish and cheese but doesn't really like potatoes. She does like rice and pasta etc... She sometimes has a small bit of chocolate with fruit and more often will leave the chocolate when full which I think is a good sign!

CrabbyBigBottom · 03/06/2013 21:46

Blimey New I am full of admiration for you! When my back is bad I don't want to exercise. I'm a lazy bugger. Blush

CrabbyBigBottom · 03/06/2013 21:49

MrsH I alway wanted one of those fabled vegetable-loving children. Grin I wasn't big on veg as a kid either, so I'm hoping it'll come with time. She loves peas and sweetcorn, likes mushrooms and broccoli if it's just the very ends of the florets (no stalk!) and cooked in oil. That's about it - I give her small amounts of other veg and god it's a bloody palava to get her to eat it. Hmm

And this was the child who would suck lemons and eat rosemary straight from the bush, but wouldn't tolerate a vegetable! Hmm Hmm