Ongoing Low Carb Bootcamp Chat Thread

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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.

I had also been wondering about Chipping , hope she comes back to this thread!

B - scrambled egg, mushrooms fried in butter
L - left over cauliflower cheese with green salad
D - smoked mackerel, salad & mayonnaise
S - greek yoghurt and strawberry. But that was just being greedy.

LOTS of water. LOTS of going for wees.

I'm wearing a nice summer-y knee-length skirt. Such a thing would have not have been possible two months ago, I would have been too fat to wear such a thing. Hooray for small victories!

Yesterday there was a village fashion show (as a fundraiser) - models were local people but the clothes on sale afterwards were only in the sizes they had worn (10-14). The organisers said "we need some plus-size models for next year" so they could have some larger sizes on sale. I thought, I ought to volunteer for next year. Then I thought... ha! maybe next year, I won't be plus-size!

Well done Ruprekt that is a big loss!

Lewis post away! I love reading other people's meal plans because my own meals are mostly very boring

I thought I would try a variation on the yoghurt & peanut combo, since Prettybird was meh about it.

I mixed peanut butter with some double cream, and it sort of resembled a very light fluffy butter, with crunchy bits in. I must say, I was a bit 'meh' about it as well.

I am still a bit about the Sainsbury's claim that their basics peanut butter is 3.9g carbs/100g. I spent quite some time today in the peanut butter aisle, and the consensus is that the crunchy peanut butters which do not contain sugar are about 7.3g carb/100g, so I fail to see how the Basics one, with added sugar, is 3.9g.

I think the moral of the story is that I need to step away from peanut butter, which is a bit of a shame, as I bought 2 jars of it today.

If you have time do watch Fat Head on youtube - even if you just watch the last half.

Beryl I can now spot fellow low carbers as they are studying labels with reading glasses on ends of noses round Sainsbo's Especially down the 'specialist' aisles.

Xenia... do you have a link... there are loads of clips named 'fathead' on there.

I'll have you know that I don't need reading glasses!

you'll see me then... glasses on end of nose

I am a bit sceptical about the peanut butter numbers as I was excited a few threads back about an organic almond butter with carb count of 6.5g per 100g. Just looked again at it and the ingredients are 100% almonds. So think 3.5g per 100 would be hard to get to with added ingredients.

Now curious about what fathead is. Must look it up on youtube and find out!

Evening all, here's my day:

B: mushrooms fried in butter, scrambled eggs with cheddar and smoked salmon
L: mozzarella, 3 cherry tomato, avocado salad with basil oil.
D: can albacore tuna with mayo and spring onion, with roast veg (courgette, leeks, Aubergine, bit of butternut squash) with a bit of goat's cheese crumbled on the veg
S: peanuts

Looking at it there's a lot of cheese. I've never tried dropping dairy as I love cheese and couldn't contemplate this WOE without it. I am losing at on average just over a pound a week which is fine for me if I can eat cheese. If I dropped dairy i might lose faster but I'd really feel like I was on a diet...

I'm currently wearing a nightie I got while pregnant which sounds awful but I lost loads of weight during pregnancy so during pregnancy I weighed less than what I do now, but put it all back on afterwards (I'm currently a stone and a half more than I was straight after the birth). I truly missed a trick in not capitalising on that weight loss but the sharp end of new motherhood hit me quite hard and when my glucose tolerance test after the birth was clear I did exactly the wrong thing and ate tons of cake.

well, mostly I need cheap meals (no money til pay day) so I'm thinking meats with frozen veggies for dinners and eggs for lunches at work with things in such as omlettes with added meats / things

should I make the omlette in butter instead of oil?

I can't bring myself to eat breakfasts - any ideas what to have? It will need to be at work (fully functioning kitchen but no time to make anything until lunch hour)

how about tuna salad (cucumber, lettuce, tomatoes (3 baby ones), mushrooms, spring onions) with tuna over the top and some salad dressing - which dressing are we allowed? is caesar too carby?

one problem I forsee - I don't like fatty meat... I HATE the skin of chicken etc and find it slimy. Is this going to be an enormous issue?

I have eaten "low fat" diets for ever (well, when I diet, I mean... if I ate low fat forever I'd not be 21st!) - it's a really difficult thing to get into my head; where to "add" the fat?!

Definitely omelette cooked with a generous knob of butter.

One of the nice things about this diet is tasty food!

What does celeriac taste like?

I am awful for trying new food - especially vegetables... I need to be more adventurous

I've only just got in to cooked red pepper (but now they're out, I guess!)

Celeriac is BLOODY LOVELY! Make the chips... i don't want boring old potato chips any more.

is it like celery? I don't like celery - it's way too stringy!

Have you tried crisp chicken skin? It's much nicer . I don't like flaccid chicken skin either.

Lamb chops (try the bag of frozen chops from Lidl if your budget is tight) cooked so the fat bits are crispy. (Fry in a bit of oil/butter for c.3 minutes on one side on a high heat, turn down and turn over and cover and fry for another 3 minutes. Deglaze with a thimble full of Marsala if you have some, if not just deglaze/bubble for a couple of minutes).

I don't really like crisp skin either but it's all right... I think it's more changing my mind about it; since I was a tiny child, my mother removed the skin on roasts etc because it's "bad" for you... that's a good 25 years of input to reverse!

not like celery really... no stringyness at all.

Lewis if you're on a budget then slow cooking is your friend - cook fattier/tougher (much cheaper) cuts of meat on a low heat for a long time, and the fat all dissolves off and into the sauce. The meat becomes meltingly tender and not fatty at all.

Do you have a slow cooker? You can get one for £15 - £20. You could batch cook and then freeze portions/eat leftovers for the next few days.

Negroni is it the Meridian almond butter? It's gorgeous and 6.5% carbs. I was gutted today when they didn't have any in Sains! I bought a huge bag of raw almonds for £6 and am going to try making my own.

Rup well done that's an amazing loss!

Well done on the skirt Lily - definitely hooray for the small victories, they're what keep us going!

Food today;
Didn't eat at all until about 1.30pm as just not hungry at all - think it's the heat.
L - mozzarella, parma ham, little tomatoes, manchego, olives
D - leftover roast chicken, chorizo, broccoli, shallots, mushrooms and little tomatoes, all fried up in olive oil and smoked paprika.
Small glass red wine

I have 2 slow cookers - one eeeenormous one and one for "normal" food!

I only know how to make 3 things in it though; pork and apple casserole, beef casserole and chicken casserole

This book is only about £3. It's great!

Here are a couple of slow cooker recipes...
squid puttanesca dead cheap and don't be put off by the thought of rubbery squid, it's meltingly tender cooked like this.
a fairly mild chicken curry
curry made with lamb shanks - nice cheap cut of meat.

Hunters chicken is a fantastic slow cooker one too, and you can bulk it up with beans for the rest of the family. I'll make it soon and stick the recipe up.

I went completely off-WOE with last night's meal out. Bread, mashed potato and sugar was consumed with wild abandon! DH actually did pretty well with his choices, apart from a small amount of pastry. But it was a much anticipated meal out at our favourite restaurant and it was worth it! Interestingly I woke up starving hungry this morning. I can see how easy it is to fall off the wagon after a carby meal. I'm going to be superstrict when I get back from holiday. Today is doomed before I even start because my kids went to a pick-your-own-fruit farm yesterday and the fridge is full of gooseberries and strawberries.

B: Greek yoghurt
L: haggis (only a tiny portion), bacon and fried mushrooms
D: scallops, ox cheek bourguignon with mustard and spring onion mash, pistachio and gingerbread tiramisu, half a bottle of red wine, a couple of glasses of port

Sounds lovely, StuntNun! Just beware of the carbs luring you back, though!

Ooh Stunt that sounds absolutely gorgeous! This WOE wouldn't be worth it if we couldn't have the occasional treat and step off the wagon for really good food now and then. I think the point is that I would be very discerning about my carbs now - I would never again bother eating shit bread, tasteless mash, overly sweet synthetic tasting cakes or soggy pastry if I could possibly avoid it. So much food we eat just for the sake of it, or because it's there and easy to eat. I'm much more mindful now.

1lb off this morning, which only takes me back to where I was ten days ago, but that serves me right for drinking too much!