Ongoing Low Carb Bootcamp Chat Thread

[BIWI]

Well done everyone who completed the Summer Bootcamp!

here is the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness if you want to continue adding to it

Obviously there are many of us who want to continue, either to lose more weight or just for general support to help with this WOE, so here is a brand new, shiny chat thread.

As for me, having slipped a lot a little when I was away, I'm firmly back on the wagon today.

And can I remind you, that if you haven't completed the survey we would be very grateful for your views/thoughts on how we can improve Bootcamp.

Hi Bootcampers. Have been lurking a bit and had a read of the spreadsheet... Have needed to lose a significant amount of weight for a long time and suddenly feel motivated to have a go. The only thing that has worked for me in the distant past has been low carbing, so here I am. Am pretty ignorant and have ?s.
Oats? can I eat oats / oatcakes / porridge at all?

No

No oats :(

And welcome Queenie

No oats but you can have leeks fried in butter with left over chicken drumstick meat diced into it with a generous spoonful of philadelphia melted through it before it is dump served on top of cauliflower and grated cheese added on top [yum]

I just had a lovely tea. I roasted cauliflower cut into small florets in olive oil until golden and crispy. Then mixed in some cream/Philly mixed with a little vinegar (had no sour cream) some spring onions chopped and 2 slices of crispy bacon in small bits. Then in oven dish and covered in grated cheese (not too much) then back in oven for 10 mins or so.

Today
B: leftover sausage, braised cabbage and a hard boiled egg with some mayo
L: tin of salmon mashed with mayo and salad
D: cauliflower bake as above.
I'm drinking a little wine

Potential diet crisis tomorrow. DH and I are going to a swish hotel for the night. A lovely gift from my family. Our first night away from our children (6,4 and 2).
It's going to be lovely but the food looks lovely!!

Musttidyup - it's a hazard! Can you choose the least carby and give DH the carbs? Or just write it off....

i've had bubble and sqeak for tea! leftover cabbage, sausages, leek, bacon - with coleslaw.

Oh no, LC fail. We ordered Indian takeaway for dinner and I chose lamb kebab with mushrooms and green pepper. Well the mushrooms weren't too bad but the green pepper turned out to be red pepper and the kebab came in a syrupy sauce. No rice or nan though, I had sides of okra and aubergine. However it was all delicious so I ate entirely too much. I suspect I'm going to have a carb crisis tomorrow.

Yes captainmummy i figured I could have astral or something and just ask for extra salad no pots etc. I start boot camp light Sunday so I'm hoping there are berries and cream on the pud menu. there will be wine.

Btw, what is a bulletproof coffee and what is its purpose?

Astral? steak

Right starting this today. Had full fat yoghurt for breakfast and am amazed I'm not hungry yet. Normally eat a biscuit after finishing my breakfast coffee Is a slice of lime in my water going to do much damage?

Hello I've been reading for a while and posted a couple of messages but want to properly say hello. I've been low carbing since early May and have lost 11lb so far which I know isn't particularly speedy but I am very happy with it as I normally fall off a way of eating after 3 months but am very happy with this. I first tried low carbing last year when we were struggling to conceive but didnt lose much weigjt as it was so hormonally effective that it regulated my periods and got me pregnant within 4 months. i got gestational diabetes during pregnancy (thankfully it didnt linger after birth)and had huge blood pressure problems, both of which were a massive wake up call to me as I know I'm down a bad path if I don't do something. I'm now determined to improve my health. I am a size 20-22 weighing just under 20 stone so I've a long haul ahead of me.

ericka asked a question about aldi. I don't know about the yoghurt but I do a lot of shopping there primarily: veg, nuts, smoked salmon and fillet salmon, cheeses (I know I'd probably lose weight faster if I dropped the dairy but whilst I can imagine a world without carbs, I can't imagine one without cheese...), salads including the big bags of spinach, and avocados which are cheaper than anywhere else I've found.

Cherrypi a slice of line in your water is positively beneficial as it will encourage you to drink more. Also try a slice of cucumber, it's the business!

Ooh will do stuntnun thanks.

I will be jumping back into low carb with two feet tomorrow. We are going to friends' for pizza and wine tonight.

4 weeks until the kids go back to school and I would like to look a whole lot slimmer.

Hello to all newcomers

Still going strong here. Yesterday I had bacon and eggs for breakfast, tuna mayo with salad for lunch, Babybel for a snack and gammon with a couple of slices of carrot and courgettes fried in butter for dinner.

Today I had bacon, egg and fried mushroom for breakfast, lovely scrambled egg with a little grated cheese for lunch and dinner will be cold gammon with salad. Also planning on making a crust less bacon and egg pie later to have cold tomorrow.

My scales need a new battery so no idea if I'm losing weight or what I weigh but maybe that's best as I get frustrated if I've stuck to this woe and don't lose or gain.

Just marking my place to catch up later. Have been on holiday and ate reasonably low carb though I mindfully enjoyed a risotto cooked by bro's girlfriend who is a great cook, and a lovely pudding at a particularly good restaurant. Both were worth it, as were the free flowing G&Ts! It wasn't a carbtastic holiday anyway though as we were eating salads and BBQs most days.

So I'm ready to get back to stricter behaviour this week.

Hope everyone is ok, I'll catch up on news when I get home!

loopylou - doesn't sound like you're having much veg with your meals, and there's quite a lot of processed meat going on there ...

Welcome back, Willie!

BIWI, usually I have a huge salad for lunch and piles of veg with my dinner, I did yesterday too. I think I am having enough veg. Tonight we're having lots of salad with dinner too. I do have a couple of rashers of bacon for breakfast every day, but compared to the junk I've eaten in the past my diet is much healthier than then I think.

Just realised what you mean BIWI, bacon, gammon AND bacon and egg pie. It was bad planning! We haven't had gammon for nearly a year except for once last week and I haven't made bacon and egg pie since last summer. Normally the only bacon we have is a couple of rashers for breakfast

OK - just so long as you keep an eye on that!!!

In the interests of complete honesty here goes...

B: Greek yoghurt and strawberries
S: pistachio ice cream (one scoop) and a fudge doughnut
L: chicken wings
D: lemon sole, courgettes and mushrooms fried in butter

when's the next bootcamp? or is it a case of getting off my arse and getting on with it right now?!