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 ...

I've just mixed some Greek yogurt with some peanut butter and put it in the freezer. If I go back in two hours will it have turned into some Ben & Jerry's peanut butter me up?

Just a quick one as about to tuck into roast chicken and roast potatoes.

daisy I also think you need an urgent referral to a specialist pain clinic. A gp just can't cut the mustard with this, I think. Co-codamol is an opiate-based analgesic - it contains codeine - so I can understand her caution about prescribing more opioids. But honestly you need to be seen by somebody who really knows their stuff who can get you onto a combination that works for you. I've seen a specialist pain team in action and they're brilliant.

Bill I tried freezing my greek yohurt 'ice-cream- and it froze utterly, inedibly solid. Don't make my mistake!

Bill I love your name btw. Eric's wouldn't go amiss either.

Bill - I do hope it turns into something delicious. Do report back.

Had a slightly too relaxed Saturday of too strawberries, almond butter, double cream, 85% dark chocolate, red wine. Quite big quantities of each that might have been ok if they had been the only thing I was relaxed about but altogether I have probably had far too much. Tomorrow has to be stricter!

Black - I tried oil pulling with my new coconut oil! I managed 16 minutes before the neighbours knocked on the door and I had to stop. I quite liked it, actually. Once the oil melted it felt fine and I liked the coconutty flavour. Am hoping it also softens dry skin as it seems to have done for you.

Daisy It has also just occurred to me that a psychologist talking about weight gain with amitriptyline is a completely different kettle of fish to using it for pain. When it is used for pain it is generally given in a single daily dose, usually fairly low, taken at night. When used in mental health it is used more frequently and in much higher doses so please don't be put off using it.

Finally made it to Lidl today and got some greek yoghurt. I even managed to be good despite the rest of the family eating iced doughnuts! Today I have eaten
Brunch: Cream cheese pancakes with greek yoghurt and blueberries
Snack: M&S prawn and cocktail sauce snackpack
Tea: Thai green chicken with red pepper, bamboo shoots and water chestnuts

Not drunk enough water though

Crabby step away from the potatoes if it isn't too late

B - bacon and eggs fried in butter
L - lettuce, pepper and tuno mayo and grated cheese and radish
D - homemade burgers (just mince), green beans, broccoli and a small squirt of ketchup
Water - going slower today, but getting there!

Nobody try my peanut butter/Greek yogurt concoction. It was foul! Ah well, onwards and upwards with the experimenting! My fake chicken and egg fried rice this week was marvellous, so one hit and one miss!

Well guess who won Guess the Weight of the Cake at the school fair today. Proud... but also, oops, what an inappropriate thing to win. Its enormous. (2kg 75g to be precise!) The kids are pleased...

B scrambled egg & asparagus (DH walked past and said "What a stylish breakfast!)
L fried egg with salad (I should invest in my own chicken!)
D roast veg and fried up veg with a little cheesy sauce and smoked salmon

And as if that wasn't enough, DH is just off out to get an Indian takeaway for his own dinner. I suggested we got a takeaway earlier but he wasn't in the mood, or hungry at all, so I cooked my own dinner. NOW he decides it is a good idea. I've put in an order for a veg side dish as my Saturday night treat.

Too right as there is no Greek yoghurt left in the house so this is an Emergency!

How on earth are you going to eat all that cake Lily?

B: strawberries and Greek yoghurt, mushrooms fried in butter
L: chicken thighs and buttered cabbage (leftovers)
D: prawn tikka and cauliflower rice and a glass or two of white wine

The cauliflower rice was luvverly but I may have cooked it for too long as I wasn't sure how long it would take. DH and the older DSs had spaghetti carbonara which smelled divine but I'm off eggs due to DS3's intolerance / allergy. The smell of it was pure torture and I was somewhat discontented with my curry.

Oh dear lily, what an ill timed prize

Today we went out for the afternoon and wandered round a lovely RHS garden. Took a picnic with us

For breakfast I had a bacon and mushroom omelette, for the picnic cold roasted salmon and hard boiled egg and cherry tomatoes and for dinner tandoori chicken skewers with buttered green beans. I'm just enjoying my first drink this week - half a small glass of white wine.

Just had a lovely birthday meal with dh of steak (garlic cheese on it for me), roasted asparagus, sliced onion fried in bacon fat and coconut oil (bacon fat left over from the full Scottish breakfast cooked earlier in the day), mushrooms in butter for dh mushrooms are the food of the devil and I hate them and chips (for dh and not me of course ) and a bottle of a very nice 1999 Barolo

My "good" Bootcamping was then spoiled by a portion of my Granny's recipe of Danish rice pudding - a sweet rice risotto with chopped almonds and whipped cream folded through it

MrsHP it's too late.

I'm writing off this weekend and I shall start afresh on Monday and hope that my metabolism has been reset in some way.

We've done huge amounts of cleaning, planning and shopping in preparation for the two couples coming for lunch tomorrow, and now one has announced that she's on call (as a midwife) for her boss who's 40+ weeks, and t'other has texted to say that their young baby has been really unsettled (the implication being that they may not come). Grumph! I know they're both unavoidable but I wish they'd told us before we bought all the food!

Looks like we'll be eating herring all week then...

The thread has moved on way too fast for me to catch up! I am back on the wagon after a couple of days of badness and I will rejoin the convo on the new thread. Still feeling a bit frazzled and poorly so I'll see y'all Monday :)

accupuncture? Needles?

bullet hope you feel better soon.

Crabby - that must be so annoying but at least you have a tidy house!

Bullets - hope you feel better soon.

I am currently feeling the effect of the bottle and a half of bubbly and the bottle of red that we shared yesterday

morning morning - another day for all of us so no feeling guilty!

do you know, I haven't had any chocolate since this all started (well, hardly ) and I had a square of 90% Lindt last night. I could really taste the different flavours in it - it was really fruity and delicious. Still stunned at how much better my tastebuds are when I'm eating this way

Kiwi it is true isn't it about the tastebuds - amazing! I also found it taught me to feel my blood sugars rising when I have something carby or sugary which I didn't used to feel (presumably because they were always high!), it is a wierd feeling, but something I am glad to be able to identify.

Just wanted to say, you know how I wanted to get the lbs number on the scales to go under 10. Well this morning they did!!!! Between my carby idiocy last week/week before I am 7 lbs down by sticking to the rules!!! I reckon I might even get under the next stone mark by my holiday at the beginning of august if I can stick with it. That would be AMAZING!

I've lost 7lb by being diligent as well MrsHerculePoirot I'm hoping to lose another 7lb by 21st July. Then that's my stone gone hopefully!

Well done Bill & MrsHP!

NewStart - acupuncture needles are so incredibly fine that they don't hurt at all. Honestly. It's not like having lots of injections!

Well done MrsHP and Bill for your diligence. Annoyed with myself that I haven't been.

Have decided to über camp from tomorrow until we leave on Thursday. Eating far too much dairy at the moment. And we won't mention the wine. But I am fed up waking in the night due to too much wine so knocking that on the head.

Food yesterday
B - mashed avocado with bacon and a slice of corned beef
L - salad with pâté and cherry peppers stuffed with ricotta
D - BBQ - lamb steak, sausage, small slice of haloumi and half of a small peppered steak with salad
S - yoghurt, cream and strawberries
Wine. White. And red. Lots.

Today
B - yoghurt, blueberries, flaxseeds and cream. Yum.
L - will be cold meat and pâté and salad
D - roast pork with crackling, cauliflower cheese, roast veg and mashed swede and carrot. A bit carby I know.

Crabby - I could come and help you eat all the food you bought if your guests don't arrive? . Anything to help!

Cider, I'll stay off the wine if you do.

Morning all, well done bill and mrshp on losses!!

I tried the bulletproof coffee and I liked it! Could not be bothered to get an electric whisk out so just put mug of coffee in bowl with teaspoon each of coconut oil, butter and double cream and hand whisked. Probably not such a frothy result as with proper whisk but fine com I really enjoyed it. Will see if I can move to having these for breakfast now!

Hi all :)

MrsHP that's BRILLIANT

I'm feeling very low today and very much like eating the entire tin of homemade cookies (that my niece made that are sitting on my kitchen bench, she's staying with me).

You might have noticed that on a billion other threads I'm evangelical about this WOE and sending people over here all the time - I really believe in it BUT but right now it's not doing it for me and I am fed up of it. I am bored of the food, I'm fed up with having to avoid social situations, I'm fed up of not being able to meet a friend in starbucks for lunch or whatever, I just want to go back to life how it was :(

I have only lost 2lb this entire calendar month I've had a couple of 'cheats' - but truely tiny ones, a bite of a biscuit (twice), and a couple of bites of things last weekend (literally tiny tasting bites) and nothing else 'bad' inbetween. I haven't had any alcohol or chocolate or large amounts of greek yogurt. It is ridiculous.

When I went away earlier in the month I had a couple of semi planned off piste things (as detailed) and still lost weight, so I was thrilled. But a week or so after 'put back on' a few lbs (hence the overall 2lb loss) for no apparent reason.

I'm sticking to the vegetarian rules, I've pretty much cut out cheese (sadly - other than my blip the other day), I do eat almonds and occasionally macadamias - but honest to god if I cut those out as well it leaves vegetables....

Fed up of fedupski.

Going to make a coffee with cream and try to avoid the sodding tin of homemade peanut butter & choc chip cookies. Wish me luck.