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 do feel like a twat about the frappuccino, it's not something I'd normally have even if I wasn't LCing.

And it's made me feel like I'm tripping my face off. Sugar is a bastard.

kohl love the swearing, you'll fit right in here!

LC doesn't have to be too expensive. Do you have a good local butcher, market, Lidl or aldi in reach? Buy veg in season, buy the cheaper fatty cuts of meat, look for bargains you can freeze. I actually spend slightly LESS per month since LC-ing on our grocery bill, cos of less wine junk etc.

Don't do what I did and pop into M&S for a few nice bits for LCing. £99. Nearly had a heart attack till I remembered there was some boxers for DH, a top for me and some undies (smaller size!) for me along with the food.

And I bought some 3 fo £10 meat stuff. Lots of salad. Bought lots as did the fatal shopping when hungry trick. It's all good though. Even my big treat is some raspberries and blueberries!

Hoping to get to Lidl this week.

Fabulous day here. A glass of wine would be lovely. But is NOT happening. Might have a few raspberries mixed into some cream later.

Food today
B - slice of cheese and some egg mayo
L - fridge bare of salad so an odd combo of ham, chicken kebab, olives, cherry peppers stuffed with ricotta
D will be gammon with left over veg from last night - swede and carrot mash and roast veg

B.....none

L....bacon, sausage, egg, mushrooms and an avocado

D....roast beef, cauli cheese, broccoli and swiss chard

Someone on another thread has just called me CrappyBigMouth, Willie - maybe I should change to that!

Thanks Buda!

B-pork chop and cheese
L-moussaka with buttered swede and courgette
D- roast chicken and salad with a huge dollop of mayo

My scales have been stuck for days so I really hope to see a shift tomorrow

B - greek yog
L - pranw mayo salad
D - salad leaves, cucumber, chicken drumsticks, coleslaw, eggs, pickled gherkin
S - chicken satay (3g carbs)

Managed to get hold of some celeriac & reblochon, so am making the tartiflette tomorrow, really looking forward to it!

Im taking DD to the hospital tomorrow, which will mean lunch on the hoof - whats the best thing to buy on the High St?

Take some eggs, ham, salad in a tupperware, babybels, olives, chicken pieces, cooked bacon... Not all of these obv. (Unless you want to)

B - greek yog
L lettuce, chicken-and-chorizo pate, mayo
S Few brazils/pinenuts
Dinner - not hungry, so picked at the roast pork and crackling. Propb some more yog later.

Low carb on the go is the most difficult thing I find, black everywhere is sandwich sushi or pasta salad orientated. M&S do have some things (prawns n dip are nice) or of course you can buy a bag of salad and some cooked chicken/cold meat from a supermarket. But I tend to take my own if I know in advance. Like today, was on a trip with scheduled stop at a cafe in a park, but I knew unless the soup was an option, there would be very little I could eat. And I didn't really want soup on a warm day like today. So I took my own wee box of stuff.

B 2 eggs scrambled with butter and cream
L salad with feta, ham with Philly cheese roll ups, a babybel
D meatballs with a big blob of mayo, assorted green veg, couple of baby sweet corn (that Ds didn't eat)

BIWI, captainmummy, thank you, please, have a look at it:

Sunday
B full fat yoghurt
L salmon steak with salad
D cauli cheese (two helpings, it was yummy) and two HB eggs

Monday
B coffee with cream
L 10 little mozzarella balls with a tomato and handful of black olives
D 3 scrambled eggs with cheese and butter

today
B coffee with cream
L 4 scrambled eggs with cheese and butter
S caffee with cream
D green beans salad with feta cheese, then 3 slices of cheese rolled with ham

2,5 - 3 litres of water every day
Maybe its not enough - in the morning I wake up thirsty, with a dry mouth.

I did not cheat - no sugar, bread, pasta, etc. (only tomatoes, some onion in salad)

Black I made the tartiflette last week and it was gorgeous despite the fact that I don't like cheese! We live in a very non-cosmopolitan area so finding reblochon would be a challenge and I used Brie instead which just melted into the cream beautifully.

I take a packed lunch to work (although today's is in the fridge for tomorrow as I didn't get around to eating it!) and it contains leftover chicken, chorizo and bacon in mayo, homemade guacamole, homemade coleslaw and salad leaves. I treat myself to a bottle of fizzy water too - luxury!

Ohhh I dont like Brie :( does the reblochon taste similar?

I've had a lighter-eating day after yesterday's celeriac dauphinoise blow-out.

B- greek yoghurt and avocado
L - carrot and coriander soup, asparagus with butter. (I know carrots are frowned on but this soup was 3.6g carbs per 100g, seemed ok to me)
D - fried egg with salad

Look no cheese! maybe its possible.

Tomorrow afternoon I head off for 2-and-a-half days away for work. Could be interesting finding food and rejecting temptation. It will be the first time that a tub of greek yoghurt is something I consider an essential on the packing list!

Today's food;
B - Greek yogurt
L - chicken curry and cucumber slices (no idea what curry was made with though as it was a school dinner (occupational hazard for me) so may well have had a fair bit of sugar snuck in)
S- prosciutto, small handful of nuts
D- roast chicken, creamed spinach, mushrooms in butter
Now - decaf coffee with cream

Have a murderous headache though as I did yesterday which I think is sugar withdrawal.

mrsCoyote it looks like you might not be eating enough, I would add in my salad/green veg, have some of the eggs for breakfast and add in some fish/meat in the evening maybe?

willie completely agree about the some days I am hungry and others not - like normal people listening to our bodies! Yesterday a not so hungry day, today a hungry day!

Yesterday:
B - three slices of bacon
L - none, not hungry
D - pork steaks, salad
S - mini-pepperami and cheese

Today:
B - three slices of bacon
L - prawn and avocado salad
D - rib steak and salad
S - cheese with salted butter...

MrsC - looks ok, except there is an awful lots of dairy! Cheeese, cream, yoghurt in almost every meal. Dairy can stall weightloss in some people, so it might be worth you havin a look at the ubercamp menus. There is a meat based and a fish based (from memory) and they are dairy free. Even if you change just one meal from cheese to fish might help.

Black I have no idea about reblochon as I hate cheese! I will eat brie as it is very mild and has a smooth texture whereas most cheese feels bleeurgh in my mouth. I guess you could use any cheese in it but maybe one of the more cheese-y people could tell you.

B - 2 sausages and a hb egg
L - ham, cheese, celery, mayo
Tea - 2 chicken breast wrapped in bacon stuffed with cheese with buttery leeks.
Snacks - PB, nuts

I've just done a water calculation and if I'm many to be drinking 4l a day then I'm not getting that. My big glass only holds 400ml and I'm maybe only drinking 5-6 a day. Maybe that's why I've stalled?! I know now I need 10 of these a day (slosh)

Cider It is a bit hard to explain without completely outing myself so forgive if this is kinda vague (and a little confusing)
Physio exercises: some to stretch and loosen muscles, some designed to strengthen and some rebound work
Flexibility work: to keep muscles working and not seizing
A little basic ballet type work for posture
A little stamina work
Fair weather Hill walking
-ill advised-- tumbling
A little "impact training" best way i could think of describing specific sport without describing specific sport
Very low level weight work (think lightest arm weights on ankles kinda level)
Normal walking
Some very gentle core stength work when can be arsed

I should really start doing some less impact work like pilates and swimming and i would like to do something like zumba. But based on this weekend i would not manage zumba and manage to walk atm so i think it might require stepping up the low level weight work to strengthen some joints first. Oddly i was in a huge amount of pain and got off training early but took ds out onto the moors for a slow and gentle walk well on my part. Ds was like some wild creature off, gone, wet and muddy which really helped. And kept me away from temptations. Didn't drink enough though.

Blimey New, how on earth do you manage that lot when you're in pain!

Wow New.... I feel inspired by your activity.

I had a setback yesterday.. was rear-ended (ooer!) by a ditzy driver - left me reeling. Worse still was the abuse that she heaped on me in an attempt to deflect from her driving mistake. Not nice at all :(

When I got home, I self-soothed with copious amounts of alcohol, but couldn't face food at all.. and today I (almost on auto-pilot ) found myself stuffing my face with little dim sum prawn dumplings I had steamed for the family. They were yummy but I feel horribly guilty.

I shall weigh myself again tomorrow and go to yoga. Off to a gig on Thursday and I know that we're doing steak sandwiches before hand. I'll be good and have steak san-sandwich.

Also, I have a recipe question. Someone posted a Lesley W recipe for celeriac which I tried out - I've never had celeriac before and loved the flavour but I'm not sure if I got the texture right. Is it supposed to be soft like dauphinoise potatoes or still retain a bite?

Millie - the nice thing about celeriac is that it can be eaten in do many different ways: crispy like chips, soft like dauphinoise, creamy mash, melting fondant

And commiserations about the car accident - it must have left you really shaken.