Week 9 - Summer Low Carb Bootcamp - Wimbledon Fortnight!

[BIWI]

Morning all.

Come and fill in the spreadsheet

Only two weeks to go before we finish this challenge. Time to drop a few more pounds!

But go easy with those strawberries ...

We bought lots of Heck sausages at Gardening Scotland dh felt he had to, given he's eaten so many of their samples

From memory, I bought 2 packs of the 97% pork sausages, their "chorizo" sausages, and pork and apple ones. They were all scrummy - but the 97% ones were the lowest carb.

Today there has not been such a good day, a big wooble and tbh I fell of the wagon bounced along the floor on my butt in a very painful manner and returned to the fold to start full rules tomo. And all i can blame was a bad habbit that i forgot i needed to break so did it without even thinking. :(
Tomo is another day. Hoping to try bullet proof coffee tomo.

You can do it newstart there is a space here, right next to me on the low carb wagon.

Thanks MrsHP, I am hoping to walk away with a lesson about unrecognised bad habits rather then a complete fall off. Does seem I like to make things difficult for myself, another bad habit i need to break. I need to learn to find the easy path through life.

I walked at least five miles today and I'm knackered. I just wish this baby would go to sleep so I can have a glass of wine bath to sooth my poor sore aching hips.

B: strawberries and Greek yoghurt
L: beef salad in Subway. Not sure about the dressing though, they all seem a bit synthetic iykwim. I may become 'that crazy person who always carries a jar of salad dressing in her handbag
D: pork stir fry
S: no snacks today

Waves to shinybaubles welcome, glad you joined us here on the Dark Side mwah ha ha

Well, I finished my 3/4 day übercamp, cutting out cheese and yoghurt, and weighed myself this morning. I had lost 4lbs since my weigh in last thurs, when i decided i had sts for TOO LONG, from 153 down to 149.

Getting below the 150 lb mark for me is a big psychological boost as I really don't think I've been there, in "10 stone and single digit-land" in my entire 40s. Possibly also my 30s, seriously. Big happy dance round the bathroom, nekkid. The dog was like this I really noticed my lower tummy looked flatter and no bloating too.

However, I still have a massive way to go with the mental/emotional side to food. Evidenced by me "celebrating" by having a massive scone, with cream jam and strawberries when out with my friend this morning, barely 3 hours after weigh-in. Duh. Face palm. Numpty. (But I found it VERY sweet and didn't finish the beast, not that it salvages the stupidity)

B 2 egg omelette with bacon and mushrooms
S "Wimbledon" scone
L salad with a little goats cheese and red onion
S spoonful of peanut butter
D salad with oil, cucumber and coleslaw

Don't think I've drunk enough water today either (warm day here) so off to chug down a couple of pints before deciding if I can be arsed to paint my toenails in the unlikely event we get one more good day of weather.

I'm trundling along here but am suddenly starving! No idea why as I am eating well, can only put it down to hormones as I am at a funny age. I have snacked a bit over the last few days and, although they have been low carb snacks, I don't want to get into bad habits.

Today I have eaten:
B: Black farmer sausage, rasher bacon, 2 scrambled eggs with dash cream
L: Chicken thigh, M&S prawns with cocktail sauce snackpack, handful almonds (can you tell it was not planned and grabbed on the hoof?!)
T: Chilli beef mince, cauliflower couscous, guacamole, sour cream, salad
Snacks: Half a pack Thorntons diabetic toffee , Pork scratchings

I have drunk quite a bit of water but not enough and succumbed to some Diet Coke too

I bought some Heck sausages this very eve Beryl at Tesco. Think they are around 2g per 100g but will check, so not quite as low carb as the others people mention. Where does everyone buy the really low carb ones?.
Toomuch! I bet loads of us on here will get totally where you're coming from re the emotional side of eating. My mum's cake tin always came out when one of us had had a stressful day or to celebrate something (or whenever the kettle was on). Mind you, I don't think a bit of a scone should derail you too much. You've done brilliantly with the ubercamp ? and you don't seem (to me) to have eaten too much other stuff today. So, hopefully you will still be 149 tomorrow!

Well I've managed day 2 back on bootcamp after my rubbish week last week. I have eaten masses of (allowed) food though, so am absolutely stuffed.
Did braised cabbage for the first time ? so delicious I ate seconds from the pan such a pig am I

Away this weekend but will try to keep on track, allowing myself treats of G&T and a glass of white wine (but probably not at the same time)

Hi Timid - you posted while I was still typing Pls tell me where you buy yr Black farmer sausages ? couldn't find in Tesco

Hope you have a better day tomorrow NewStart
Let us know how the Bulletproof coffee goes!

maidofmuss you can get black farmer sausages from "Asda, Budgens, Co-op, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Waitrose and Booths stores.". I have got mine from Waitrose and tescos before - they might perhaps hide in the gluten free section if not with the other sausages?

Well done everyone! These are good for breakfast and freeze if anyone's interested - India and Neris breakfast muffins:

454g sausages
12 eggs
125 g double cream
125g water
170g cheese

You need muffin cases. Makes 12, easy, quick.

Cut the sausages up small, cook them. Divide them between 12 muffin cases.

Put 12 eggs plus the double cream and water in a bowl. Whisk them a bit. Pour the mixture on top of the sausages in the muffin cases. Grate cheese and divide it between the cases (like a garnish)

Cook for 15-20 mins. They rise like little soufflés and are lush. And they freeze so I take 5 out of he freezer at a time and that's breakfasts for the week. (Warmed for 30 secs in microwave)

Helen browning speedy sausages are good too

www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Helen-Browning-Organic-Speedy-Sausages/67196011

Just to keep me on the wagon I am posting everything that passes my lips!!!

B - mushrooms, bacon and eggs fried in butter
L - mashed avocado with salt
D - lettuce, cucumber, cherry toms, radish, chicken and lamb on the bbq all served with mayo
S - babybel, some emmenthal slices smothered with butter

Drinks: 3L of water, three teas and two coffees - need to cut down on the tea, but exam marking season is upon me and it was my distraction!!!

maid I get the Black Farmer sausages at Morrisons or Booths but I am up in the North, millions of miles away from most of you.

Haven't seen Black Farmer sausages here either (NE Scotland) but I dont eat sausages that often so tend to treat myself and get the "meat only" hand made ones from my (fabulous, but I would say that living in Aberdeen Angus land) local butcher.

I have also had Debbie and Andrews sausages (label has green and red wellies on the front I think) and they were good too.

maid thank you for your kind words. Frankly that scone would be enough to throw an entire bootcamp of MNers out of ketosis. It was like Gigantic Sconeosaurus created in Area 57.

Ooh sausage muffins DO sound good sam thanks!

at Toomuch's Sconeoesaurus
Thanks all re where to get Black Farmer sausages! Will look out for them next time - and may well give those sausage muffins a go, too, Sam. Like idea of making a batch then microwaving for a speedy breakfast.
Viper ? I LOVE Booths (am from Northern parts too). Used to work there every summer

I have fallen off the wagon again :( I have some horrible lurgy - sore throat, runny nose, headache, upset tummy and I just want some flippin sleeeppp. Feckin birds shouting at each other since about 3 am and DS has his nighttime cough again and DP has been huffing and puffing and tossing and turning all night - I nearly smothered him. Toast and biscuits are the only things that dont make me want to vom
I'm very disappointed in myself on the one hand but on the other I feel tired and sad and don't care :( ugh. Sleep while DS is at nursery I think.

I will catch up on the thread when I feel a bit better - hope none of you chickened out of the bulletproof coffee!

morning all I weighed myself again this morning just to make sure I was as low as yesterday - can't believe I'm finally under 90kg. I was 75kg for years before I had DS and about 80kg afterwards which was actually better as I didn't look so thin (am 6 foot 3 so although it sounds a high weight its got a long way to spread!). I'm aiming to get to 85kg, take stock and then see about a few more pounds.
I'm going to stay eating like this, perhaps more primal, as its such a healthy way to live.

I had slow roasted pork belly last night over watercress I'd dressed with some of the pan drippings. God, it was salty and lush. Highly recommended! The pets were like flies trying to get a taste!

williewangledangler are you a knitter? I use ravelry which lets you like posts!

Maid thank you for hoping that I'm feeling better x
Thanks Beryl glad you like it!
Welcome shiny.

Mince recipes; funnily enough I made a Ragù sort of alla Bolognese yesterday! I'll be posting the recipe on the blog probably today. Another mince recipe that I love love love is a Nigella version of a Turkish lamb pizza. I could eat it every day. I might try adapting that to low carb - maybe using the cauliflower base that people have mentioned. It uses pomegranate molasses though, which are carby-delicious.

Well done MrsHP and Toomuch on your losses we'll skim over sconegate!

Congratulations Stuntnun and Kiwi!
I don't think I'm going to be up there on that podium with you much longer... I've gone a bit off road lately. I can stick to the food fairly easily, although my dairy-free attempt lasted a grand total of one day , but the wine is my weakness. When I'm feeling positive and on an even keel I can resist the booze during the week no problem, but when I've been feeling out of sorts all day, I really long for that 'all is right with the world' feeling which a glass or three of wine brings. So I eat the right things but then sabotage myself by drinking too much.

Also, I have NO willpower when I'm hungry, which is why this WOE works so well for me, as I can eat lots. But I've been getting into the habit of having breakfast/brunch, then not eating a meal again until dinner. It means I'm starving hungry by late afternoon and much more likely to dive into a glass of white. I know what the problem is and yet I'm still doing it. What's more, there's half a bottle of white in the fridge that I know I'll be edging towards by 6pm.

There's a cupboard full of chocolate downstairs (which DP visits very surreptitiously in the evenings, trying to mask the sound of the foil rustling and the chocolate snapping... 'I can hear you!!' ) which I can resist totally, but somehow my brain won't admit that the wine is sabotaging the weightloss.

Grrrrr. I'm a fucking pain in the arse at the moment. 'I'm all wrong!' as a lady I used to look after used to say.

Give me a whack with your big stick please BIWI. I think I'm going to be a carby twat on Sunday, too, as we have people coming for a long boozy lunch. I'm going to make tapas type dishes and we'll bbq some fish, weather permitting, but I may be unable to resist tortilla, sourdough bread, jewelled bulgar wheat to stuff in the fish, etc. Also, there shall be copious amounts of prosecco and white and red. Maybe I should just accept the carby twatdom, write off this week and start afresh on Monday? My weightloss has slowed to nothing anyway.

Kiwi that's brilliant, congrats again!

Bullet sorry to hear you're poorly. Go back to bed and let your body rest.

Crabby my weird tip for cutting down on wine intake is to buy one of those boxes of wine, the best quality you can get. I love wine and I must have over 40 bottles in the house but we actually only drink one or two bottles at most per week between me and DH. With the wine box it keeps for weeks so if I want wine I go and pour myself half a glass. If I want more after that then I can go and get more but I don't have the 'half a bottle left must drink it before it goes off' conundrum to deal with.