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

[BIWI]

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!

I tried doing nothing and resting when I did my back in, whilst waiting for the all clear from the fracture. It gave me bad depression. Besides still and calm aren't in my nature.

Oh no, BIWI.

Now you've looked me up I've got to stick with it, haven't I? But there is cake in the fridge and it is calling to me.

Half way through, well done folks. I've finally started downwards 1lb off for me which makes 8 in total!

crabby it is mostly fluke I think, but we eat with her as much as possible and if we have something new DH and I have loads and make a fuss about how much we like it and that she might not like it until she is a big girl which always results in her saying 'I do like it I do, I do, pleeeeease let me have some'...

letssee will anyone else eat it? If not bin it!

Big article in the Daily Fail about a new weightloss system involvin high fat, low carb..........

I have 1 veg loving child who asks for sprouts etc but hates spice of any sort. A v mild korma is her limit.

And 1 who will eat raw veg (brocolli/cauli, coleslaw) and likes green beans, peas, carrots but not brocolli or cauliflower, although I made spiced cauli soup and he didnt realise it was in there! He loves spicy food.

DH took us out for dinner tonight as 'last night of his holiday' and it was bloody Thai food.

Tomorrow is a new day, new start.

Everyone else is in bed, MrsH, and they won't talk to me again if I bin it. Also it's far too beautiful a cake for binning.

However I am going to be strong, and have a few raspberries instead. The power of internet strangers, eh?

Good plan letssee and you can go to bed feeling all virtuous and wake up feeling all thinner inside!!!

Love your reverse psychology there MrsHP!

Jax I love Thai food. When we lived in SW London there was the most fantastic Thai place called Montien. Their cashew chicken was one of the best things I've ever tasted. Not very low carb though, I guess. I am at your veg-eating children!

I am also slowly slowly slowly trying to get my Ds (7) to try some more LC stuff. He is pretty fussy/careful/not adventurous. He is also a bit of a carb and sugar monster, loves anything sweet/chocolate (I blame his father, Glaswegian, Irn-Bru runs in his veins )

Small successes over the past few months are that he will now have a bit of cooked turkey or chicken, he now likes baby sweet corn and mangetout (as well as peas/carrots he had before) and he has now tried fish - but his favourite is battered from the chip shop of course. He does love cheese/yoghurt/peanut butter. But absolutely refuses to try eggs in any shape or form. I would love him to have an eggy breakfast instead of cereal but not yet. (I am not giving up, slowly slowly wins the race).

I am so dumb I didn't even notice the reverse psychology. It just felt a bit like living with Alexander the Great: Oh, there's this knot. I'll go ahead and cut it through, then.

Raspberries and cream eaten. Hope that's okay. Virtuousness abounds. Goodnight!

Letssee I was meaning MrsHP's reverse psychology on her daughter to get her to eat the veg. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

Crabby - sorry, my brain has obviously stopped working. That proves it's bedtime, then.

Queen, where did you order your grass-fed meat from?

My kids are eating more LC food these days, but sadly are able to buy their own sweets & stuff, and they do :( I managed to put them off eating bread though, by telling them it contains chicken feathers! Eldest DD was almost sick They all eat yog or eggs for breakfast, havent bought cereal for awhile now. I rarely cook rice or pasta for them, but they do have potatoes or sweet potatoes with their dinner. They all love fruit though, but Id rather that than biscuits/cake.

Zumba was cancelled last night, only found out after walking down there! So I got an hours walk (takes half hour to walk there) instead, and then I did my 4th 7-minute-workout followed by a lovely Epsom salt bath.

Its so warm here, I cant be bothered with proper cooking, so its salad for lunch and dinner today - good job I love salad

Also, has anyone been following the Smash the Fat guy I linked to the other day? here. He is eating well over 5,000 cals a day as an experiment to show that calories are not equal. He should have put on almost 10lb by now, but he has only put on 2lb in over 2 weeks of doing it, and his waist is actually 2cm smaller then when he started! So those worried about portion sizes shouldnt worry!

black we've ordered the meat from Eversfield farm. The meat all gets butchered and packaged up on the farm, and they send it out by courier. Obviously it's more expensive than ordinary meat, but it really looks like quite good value for what it is. Ocado will be stocking their stuff from next week and doing boxes of meat from £40-£50 in price.

Hi black ? I've had a quick look at the Smash the Fat guy. His food diary is amazing ? all smoked fish, walnuts, mega amounts of coconut oil etc to up the calories with a few green beans so his carbs are really, really low...

(which is, of course, the point)
No way I could ever manage on so few veg but it does reassure me about eating so much fat!

Still ploughing along here - yesterday was a 'fast' day so just had 3 hardboiled eggs, a tomato, a tuna steak and some cucumber, but today we EAT! BAB of eggs, mushrooms and bacon, to be followed this evening with a ribeye steak with a mushroom, cream, garlic and Parmesan sauce, with shredded lettuce.

The weather is beautiful so am going to spend the day outside, filing up pots with compost, and then burying seeds (I feel that the term 'planting' is a little too optimistic, given previous results) in them.

blackaffronted that's very interesting. and it must be quite hard work to eat that much food too, which shows how much easier it is to self-limit with low carbing

mind you, with low carbing i find that some days i'm ravenous and eat enormous meals, other days i'm full quite quickly and eat smaller meals. this must be what "normal" people eat like!

He is making most of his cals up with nuts, he eats loads of them! and loads of coconut oil too. I agree he is eating too little veg, but I think he is just making a good point.

maidofmuss when you look at his food diary you could eat a much wider variety of veg for fewer carbs overall. although his % carbs are low, his actual grams of carbs is much higher than e.g. atkins induction. obviously he can tolerate that, but i couldn't. maybe he only likes green beans! (I haven't looked at his other days, only the one BA linked to)

Black at telling them bread has chicken feathers in it!

Also, I read 'the Smash The Fat guy' as smashing a fat guy, rather than the guy who's smashing the fat.

Another lb off this morning. I wasn't going to weigh this morning but the flaxseed yesterday must have worked its magic as a gentle bulk laxative, and I thought "well that's got to be worth a lb..." (Tmi, sorry)

Well I'm in a good mood this morning, can you tell? it's a lovely day, and boo hiss to carbs.

Happy Tuesday everyone.