Week 8 - Summer Low Carb Bootcamp - Only 3 weeks left!

[BIWI]

Morning campers.

Come and confess all on the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

So only three weeks left. I know that things have been moving quite satisfactorily for some of you, so hopefully these last three weeks can see a few more of those pesky pounds disappear.

I had a bit of an altercation with some sticky toffee pudding this weekend (at the PILs) so I've got my work cut out over the next few days to undo the damage!

Off for a run shortly ...

I'm peckish tonight. Just had some smoked salmon pâté.

I think I'm peckish as when I went to do dinner I discovered that DH hadn't left quite as much shepherds pie last night as I thought! He is away - lucky for him! So my dinner was smaller than I would have liked.

Nobodyputsbaby - BIWI will be after you with her big stick for that jelly!!! It's a no.

Drank all my water and I am now off to bed with The White Queen. The book. Not a real white queen.

Tomorrow will be a good day. No cheese. No booze. Def no sugar. Will reduce my tea intake to two a day.

Night all. And thanks for the pep talks. [smile ]

Beryl you poor thing and your mum too. That is utterly insane

Oh Beryl I am sorry. That sounds very stressful. Your poor mum. The food issue sounds disgusting for diabetics. My dad is diabetic too and was in hospital last year but managed ok food wise. He could choose salad so I think he did that a lot.

daisy - if you're only eating salad then you will be eating a really low level of carbs, and that's pointless. You are also getting too many carbs from things like yoghurt and peanuts.

Beryl - it's pants, isn't it? My dad was in hospital a couple of years ago, with a problem that he was being treated for. The treatment was steroids, which completely buggered up his diabetes. His food in hospital was shocking - and his blood sugar levels were up as high as 25 - yet nothing was done. No evidence of 'joined up' thinking at all!

Nobody - are you doing Bootcamp? If so, no strawberries, no jelly and no Diet Coke! Honestly. You need to drop those.

Ah. I thought from that marks daily apple article that different dairy had different effects?

I have reduced it overall but I can't see how to cut out dairy completely for the next few months. Or longer. Or would it just be to break the stall and then I could reintroduce some??

Sorry to sound defeatist but despite all the benefits of this WOE it is still a huge struggle when out and about and if I make it more restrictive long term I can't see how to do it without getting so I just give up.

Beryl that's awful about your mum's food. What if you asked for your mum to have a consultation with the hospital dietician? About the urgent need to keep her blood sugars low. She would presumably say the food choices currently available for you mum are not suitable and coming from someone official it might go down better.

That's awful for your mum Beryl, I thought hospitals had to arrange for suitable food for anyone with different needs. Can you take food into her at all? Even if it's only tinned food so she can at least get some protein?

BIWI the 100% cocoa chocolate isn't sweet, it's pure cocoa mass with no sugar added and it's incredibly bitter.

decaff - let's have a look at what you've been eating.

List out for me all your meals over the last 3/4 days, along with what you've been drinking. Let's see if there's anything obvious.

Also - how tall are you? How much weight do you actually need/want to lose?

Thanks.

Breakfast omelette with asparagus and leek. Garnish of grated cheese. Sometimes mayo and leaves.

Lunch is some combination of leaves and mayo, and olive oil, cucumber, chicken slices or egg mayo, olives or precisely 10 cashews

Dinner is no spag Bol from the low carb recipe section or prawns fried in coconut oil on leaves with garlic mayo.

I add celery sticks with peanut butter at the end of a meal if I'm hungry but try not to snack between meals.

I drink only water or coffee, usually decaf, which I add cream to. Some days none, some days 2. Have 3 litres water but more usually 4 a day.

Haven't had alcohol since the start of this. Only added nuts 10 days ago in an effort to reduce dairy. Haven't had any berries or seeds. have 2 squares of dark chocolate a week!

Apart from yesterday which was my first cheat.

Feel like I have followed all the rules but must be missing something
somewhere!

Am looking to be 10 stone 7 ideally so about 17 pounds to go.

Beryl - if your Mum's eyesight is at risk, then you need to tell her that you are going to complain before she leaves. Include in the complaint her fear that the staff will take it out on her. Involve her eye consultant (maybe just copy him/her in).

If your mum really doesn't want a complaint made, just tell her that you are putting in writing your concerns including that you will hold the those responsible for care responsible if her sight deteriorates about how they are failing to let her manage her insulin appropriately, given the atrocious dietary choices she is faced with.

God Beryl how awful about your mum's hospital care. They must be able to provide gluten-free meals - at least that would exclude bread and pasta? I also think that you should complain anyway, and copy in her eye consultant.

Things ok here, although I'm feeling a little flat this week, don't know why. Tried on a nice pair of size 12 per una trousers today in a charity shop and managed to do them up! I couldn't actually move in them, mind you, but I bought them anyway as a motivation.

Also, when I arrived to pick DD up, one of the other mums said
"Ooh you look well, have you been away?". I said I've lost over a stone and they said they could really see it in my face. Hooray!

B/L - tuna and 3 cheese patties with salad leaves
S - manchego and little tomatoes
D - prawn and pork spicy stir fry with pak choi, broccoli, mushrooms, courgettes, beansprouts and a few baby sweetcorn/sugar snap peas (I know they're a bit carby but the pack was reduced so I bought them and gave the majority to DP because he's not keen on courgette.
P - yoghurt 'ice-cream'
2 cups tea, loads of water.

I read something earlier that made me laugh and hoped it might help
"Eating one bad thing and then saying screw the healthy eating is like saying hey I dropped my phone, I'll stamp on it until it smashes"

That's a good one emuz

I've also heard it's like getting a flat tyre and then slashing the other three

BIWI - ah I get you.... mmmhhh... Yesterday was salad twice cause a combination of the heat and not being able to eat till 7.30 meant salad was just easiest, somedays I have salad twice cause the others have pizza or suchlike and I haven't a "ready meal" prepared.. Ok.. will have a rethink as to how I can deal with those days - thanks!

Those are brilliant analogies!

beryl I am so sorry to hear about your mum's care. Do you know how much longer she will need to be in hospital at all?

decaff - looking at your menu, I'm wondering why you're so worried about dairy? You don't look to be eating much of it!

It doesn't look like you're eating much veg, and your protein isn't especially fatty. I wonder if you need to eat more fat? Certainly if you're hungry/needing to snack, then this might be an issue.

I'd certainly cut out the nuts for the time being.

The other thing I might suggest, decaff, is that rather than tinkering with what you're doing - dropping something/cheating - that you stick to the same thing for a while and give it more of a chance to work? I know that you want to get shot of the weight, but I think you have to be a little bit more patient! (I know it's very easy to say that).

Looking at the spreadsheet, although you haven't lost much, you have lost consistently, which is important. Slow and steady weight loss is much more sustainable in the long run.

decaff - how tall are you?

All that drinking water yesterday must have done me a favour. my scales are showing 72kg which is a 1kg loss.

I am hoping to get veg and cheese sauce for tea tonight. salad for lunch.

Green beans are too high carb iirc?

Morning all! Just about to stick a pork joint in the slow cooker to make pulled pork for dinner tonight. Putting it in wraps for the rest of them, having mine with salad & grated cheese. Looking forward to it already

Green beans - a quick Google says 8g carbs per 100g, so they are on the carby side

thanks Biwi i suspected so.

I haven't posted as yet this week. I've been meaning to and then suddenly realised that it was Thursday..don't know where the time has gone.

Beryl how terrible for your mum and it must be so distressing. It sounds like she's getting shoddy and inept care irrespective of whether a complaint has been made, so perhaps by complaining things will improve - hopefully?!

I'm pleased ..very, very pleased.. to report that I've lost another lb since Monday. I've been very good, not cheated, drunk lots of water and eaten fish, salad, and good green veg for mos of the week. And except for a few glasses of champagne (to celebrate the end of my dd's GCSE exams), I've watched my alcohol and dairy intake.

It's my birthday next weekend and I wanted to have hit the magic stone loss from when I started "dieting" (10th March - on another WOE before I switched over to LC). I was 11st 5 lbs then, and today I'm 10st 6 lbs. So it's looking quite likely.

Thank you so much BIWI, Willie and all you lovely LCers - this WOE has been transformative.

Morning all. Where has the lovely summer gone??? Upside of the rain in the night means I don't have to water the garden though!

14 7 on scales this morning. Über camp Buda-style started. Buda-style means I will have three cups of tea per day with a splash of milk. I won't be having yoghurt or cheese or cream.

B - half of frittata. 2 cups of tea
L - salad with smoked mackerel and mayo
D - garlic and herb chicken breast with roast veg and chorizo and some greens fried with leeks

Water, water, water.

I like those analogies too.

Congratulations on your (almost) stone Millie!

Well I've STS since Monday, which is a bit disappointing. Apart from a third of a bottle of prosecco on Tuesday I've been good, I think. Maybe a bit too much of my yoghurt 'ice-cream' - I have been having it every day. I think I'll make a ragu today.