Week 7 - Summer Low Carb Bootcamp - Hurtling to the Finish Line!

[BIWI]

Morning everyone. Hope you all had a good weekend and that there wasn't too much cheating!

Here is the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

So we have four weeks left. Time to shed a good few more pounds if you stick to the rules

I go on holiday in less than three weeks, so it's nose to the grindstone for me from now on.

Ooh many are the things you can do with taleggio, couch - that's a lovely cheese for cooking. It goes all melty and fantastic.

Willy/crabby (and everyone else who is creative!), you should write a low carb recipe book! I neeeeeeeed one! I have no imagination...

Today for dinner I sweated leeks in butter and they were gorgeous!! Thanks for that.

I know there are lots of recipes here and elsewhere on the web but it takes aaaaaaaages searching for them and I don't like using my phone /iPad for recipes, prefer them on paper/in a book so end up with loads of loose sheets and can never find what I want. All the recipe books I can find are either low carb veggie or American.

Whinge over!

anything i cook comes from someone else's recipes, tbh!

thebestpossibletaste you're right about the american terminologies... one that is good and UK-based is the India Knight and Neris Thomas Idiot Proof Diet recipe book, though it doesn't have pictures . i love the moussaka and butter chicken

tonight i had some leftover chilli and was fed up with cauliflower, so i roasted some courgette and aubergine slices, then rolled them up stuffed with a spoonful of chilli and some mozzarella, topped with more mozzarella and baked until golden and bubbling. it was lovely

Brilliant Bullet thanks - I'll be trying those.

You can 'follow' my blog best and get an email when I publish a post, but that doesn't solve the paper problem. You could always print the recipes, if you've got unlimited money for printer ink!

Willie, that sounds lovely.

I'll have a look at India and Nerys's book, I'd forgotten about it.

Crabby, I do print far too many recipes off but can never find them when I want them. Need a folder, me thinks!

The broad beans tasted lovely, thanks Crabby for the recipe. I only had 3 beans though because there wasn't enough. DS and DP enjoyed them though! I had a bowl of beef stew from yesterday and a couple of sneaky slices of Serrano ham.
I did have 2 very small glasses of red wine this evening and about 6 strawberries. I resisted cupcakes, cake pops, doritos, chocolate fountain, marshmallows and cocktails. So I feel OK-ish about the wine and strawbs.

Well done for resisting bullet !

And several pages back... well done Queenofdreams for no longer having back fat. I was thinking about that today.

B - scrambled eggs, asparagus & butter
L - used up all odd ends of salad including avocado; mayo and cheese
D - courgettes, leeks, mushrooms & some tinned tomato all fried up together, served with a fried egg on top. Then strawberries & cream!

Big challenge tomorrow on trip to London. I can't take a packed lunch as the fridge is now practically bare! But I'm sure there will be salads to buy and M&S back at the train station for the way home.

I've lost 2 lbs since I last weighed myself (Tuesday) Yippee! Took Biwi's advice to drink more water and eat more fat.

Today's food -
B - nada as had early yogalates
L - Masala Omelette with chillies and buttered shallots plus salad
D - Pork Belly (roasted) with fresh spinach leaves.
s - chunk of cheese.
Lots of water.

I hope the cheese isn't going to be my downfall - only had a bit though.

What dressing do you use on your chicken salad Cider? And well done too on separating your eggs à la Crabby.

Evening boot campers!

I did an M&S shop today and stocked up on some bits and pieces.

B - two cold sausages and a hard boiled egg
L - a couple of slices of ham, some farmhouse pâté with chorizo, dollop of egg mayo, dollop of cheese deli filler and a few cherry peppers stuffed with ricotta. Love them.
D - a burger from M&S with a gruyere cheese melt, mashed turnip and creamed spinach
S - 2 tsps peanut butter. It was yummy. Thankfully jar was almost empty anyway!

Busy day tomorrow. Hopefully up at 6 to go for my c25k run. Then it's summer fair at school so I am helping set up in the morning and running tombola stall in afternoon. I will get home after setting up so will have lunch here. I will have to resist the cake stall though.

Well done on loss Millie!!

I have been using the Delouis mayonnaise and 'watering' it down a bit with olive oil. Otherwise I just have normal mayo. The Delouis is really nice I think.

tigerchair - I love peanut butter on celery and yet I dislike celery in any other way?!

Hi all - I'm excited as I was down a little bit again today and the next huge milestone for me is only a couple of KG (about 4lbs) away and it's a BIGGIE.

Also, I have lost a quarter of the weight I need to lose to be at my goal weight (it has taken 20 weeks). I probably shouldn't say this out loud (in case I jinx it!!) but it's actually feeling do-able!

That's brilliant chipping and Millie my scales don't seem to be moving but I do seem more streamlined and the skirt if truth getting a tad looser, so encouraging! Today's food def not one for recipe thread. Had leftovers so I made fishcakes with potato (with breadcrumbs)for tribe and used leftover cauli for mine, no breadcrumbs. Theirs looked fab and stayed together in the pan - mine disintegrated into something resembling hash. Mind you, still tasted fine. Prob the cauli was just too watery.
Just realised hv done an ubercamp today without really planning it as had eggs/mushrooms for B\L and no dairy or wine - not even the last two pieces of chunky raw chocolate in cupboard. Amazed - out tomorrow night so imagine will be a v. different story!

I had a bit of a shock today, my hips at 10 inches wider then my waist. Although i kinda love mfp when i put that it, it showed i had lost only 1 off my waist but 3 1/2 off my hips. But still 10 inch difference is depressingly huge! :(

Yeah insomnia, blooming marvellous. Really tired but can't sleep.

Just checking in to say thank you Willie and BIWI and everyone on this thread.

Weighed in yesterday, 136, only8lb down from Jan, but i have been triaining hard and several more inches have gone. i am also due on, so although I've had a super strict week, not surprised I didn't lose any more. Bikini gate has arrived and for the first time in years I am not filled with horror at the thought of summer clothes.

I've not posted much this BC as the rotters at work have banned MN, but the support is amazing. I love my WOE, and while the carbs will be off the menu, I shall be doing a with-wine version of bootcamp for the next 10 days!

Am 11 stone 13, it is literally decades since I have been under 12 stone, so I am very happy with this, even though I am only losing very slowly now.

I was amazed by BIWI's 1950s medical account of low carbing!

Have a fab holiday kitchenfairy and well done sun - am hoping to slip under that 12st marker by Monday (know I keep posting that but helps to keep me focussed!)
Today's lunch
COld chicken breast from M&S withhome made coleslaw (shredded ingredients last night ready for dressing) - bemused at how much looking forward to eating it. Like others hv said, food does seem to taste so much better - can really taste the sweetness now in tomatoes, carrot now when I hv a tiny bit!
Hv a good low-carb day all!

black - hopefully a lot of that weight will fall off quickly if you get back on track. Post yr food to keep motivated? I find it really helps me - and reporting the first slippage or two to stop a landslide.
new hv same difference maybe 11 inches if I look at tape measure closely am really hoping this WOE will slim down my thighs and arse - always seem to lose that last if at all. Why is that? Stubborn fat deposits/locked in fat stores? (there's a frightening thought)

(sorry if posts are a bit disjointed - posting from phone and seem to stray slightly into txt speak!

Have started the day well, 3 eggs in coconut oil, a mint green tea & 2 pints of water so far.

Ohhh a fellow food blogger :) I love food blogs! I was featured on Marks Daily Apple a wee while ago, and have had loads of new visitors since then, its mad. Havent posted any recipes while Ive been on the dirt track and the wagon trundled off without me ... need to get that sorted!

good start, blackaffronted. don't think too far ahead when you're trying to get back on track - just concentrate on the next meal, or today.

maidofmuss i agree about wanting to whittle down thighs and arse - i am a proper pear shape, i don't know about you. weight comes off my tummy pretty easily, especially with this WOE which reduces bloating and tummy fat particularly. hips and thighs are more difficult, though jillian michaels and running are helping me.

that said, from reading the robert lustig book 'the bitter truth about sugar' (can't remember exact title), he talks about hip/thigh fat being 'healthy' fat for women, and that does make me feel a little bit better (until i'm trying on jeans and they all gape at the waist and are too tight on the thigh)

by don't think too far ahead, i don't mean don't meal plan or do a proper low carb shop - obviously do those things. but just concentrate on getting through lunch for now.

BlackAffronted - I was thinking we hadn't seen you for a while! What prompted your fall off the wagon? And what stopped you getting back on it? It's useful to see if there are any triggers that you could identify for next time. Because as we all know, there will be a next time!

Aha it was your blog Black! I couldn't remember whose it was but I had a read of it when you posted the link and it's great. I'd been toying with starting one about low carbing and reading yours gave me encouragement so thank you! I've been blogging for a couple of years, but about nature/photography with occasional food posts thrown in. The food posts have always gone down well so I thought it was worth a go. I could really get into food photography, I reckon - I've been having great fun!