Week 8 - Autumn Low Carb Bootcamp - How Many Of Us Are Left?

[BIWI]

Last week's thread was very quiet. Hopefully that's just because you were on half term and were on holiday/doing other things!

Here is the Spreadsheet of Doom Fabulousness

Hope you are all safe from the storm this morning, and here's to a good week for all of us.

Good Lord, what is wrong with you people??!! SPROUTS??!!
Sprouts are vile things, they are the devil's farts!

Can you all please keep reminding me that I need to knuckle down now as I have no major social events coming up to derail me for a week or two.

I used cabbage as I don't like sprouts either.

Thanks for that Crabby, I sent your recipe to my sister who is also low carbing and she had it for lunch too

Making celeraic, cauliflower and curry soup for lunch.

toomuchicecream its in the train station opposite Burger King called Tutti Frutti - they make their own ice cream and its the best! (They also do cake and homemade chocs but not so appealing to me...)

whodunit thanks for sharing. I often think about licking crisps too Where do you get protein bread?

I have the odd cuppa with milk in it, but tbh I drink it so strong there's barely any milk in it! That and sugar free squash (which I drink really weak) are two things I haven't given up.

I really fancy porridge this morning...

Oh goodness. I have had to endure enforced carby twatness over the last couple of days - working in Wakefield in Asda and very little to choose from. Tipped me over the edge and I have eaten some seriously shit stuff. And served me right that my blood sugar dropped through the floor yesterday and I felt absolutely terrible.

Anyway, on the way home now and hopefully to better things.

a little earlier than usual, but i have a day off work tomorrow so hopefully probably won't switch on the computer...

Biggest Loser of the Week: Timidviper
Biggest Overall Loser: whodunnit
Biggest %age Loser Overall: Maryz

well done on making it to week 8!

Awww BIWI it's shit that it's so hard to not eat carby crap isn't it?

Stew for tea - yummy!

I find it quite frightening, to be honest, just what an effect eating carby stuff has on me. I often used to suffer from low blood sugar - generally shaky and feeling really weird - but never had any clue what caused it.

I had a mocha a couple of days ago while out with my mum and it tasted horribly sweet, I couldn't taste chocolate or coffee, just sugar. Stupidly I drank it anyway to be polite but I got very dizzy shortly afterwards. It makes me wonder just what it did to my blood sugar.

Profusion-Organic-Protein-Bread-

Auntie maggie don't know if the link above will work but you will be able to find it from here. I got a pack of slices for £2.50 which is dear but notif you only eat two slices a week. You can get it bul on amazon, but I found it in a health food shop somewhere near te muscleman section if I remember rightly ( there is whole different world out there, you now..... lucky I don't get out much!)

Hope we all survived halloween I was drooling over my DD3's haul especially the twirl. I love twirls. I really do. But not three days backpedalling worth of love. Twas tricky not to dig in , but my DD would have had something to say if I had. Ho hum..... back to my broccoli.....

God my typing is getting worse! You get 5 slices of bread for £2.50

I'm gonna have to order some from Amazon... cheese on toast!!!

One one left in stock on Amazon

It doesn't list the actual number of carbs though.

Profusion bread from the profusion website.
The pack is 250g and you get 5 pieces (each being 50g)

Typical Values Per 100g
Energy 1065kJ/256kcal
Protein 20.5g
Carbohydrate 10.5g
of which Sugars 2.3g
Fat 12.1g
of which Saturates 1.5g
Dietary fibre 11.2g
Salt 0.95g

The profusion website gives you four links to buy the bread. I am not a salesman for them, honest.....

This is the low carb bread I bought at Waitrose last week www.livlifefoods.co.uk/

The trouble is that I don't want just one slice, I want lots so it is dangerous for me

Yes, you are right, timidviper. It is too easy too just keep popping another piece in the toaster.

I have also just ordered some very low carb swedish crispbread that half the amazon revieweres say taste like cardboard. Hopefully it does and so I will need to pile on the toppings and not want more than one piece. I'd be better with a bit of crunchy celery as a base, really, wouldn't I?

Um... I don't want to piss on your parade, but 5g carbs for one slice of bread is a lot of carbs considering we are supposed to be sticking to veg that is around 3g of carb per 100g.

I can't talk as I'm eating vast amounts of almonds at the moment (and hence have lost very little weight this bootcamp). I don't really mind though as am near my target weight and just love my food and the fact that I'm eating well and maintaining. If you're serious about losing weight though, you need to ditch the bread, sorry.

Just checking in. Been very poorly (Bell's palsy) and been on steroids which have made me eat anything and everything.

Today I'm starting to feel much more in control (have finished the meds) so will 'restart' on Monday, to co-incide with going back to work after half term.

I know I've put on weight, and id guess its a lot by how tight my trousers are, but I'm not going to weigh as it'll upset me. Will just get myself back on track, and have a re-read of Briffa.

And while we are on the subject...

Whodunnit if you are still managing to eat your 'treats' and lose weight, then great, but the point about bootcamp is to break our addiction to sugar and sweet stuff, and that includes artificial sweeteners as they can provoke an insulin response, are artificial and processed, and take us away from the real food ethos that bootcamp is about. Stuff like atkins bars, diabetic jam, no sugar sweets etc really aren't helping you or anyone else.

As I said, I'm not throwing stones from a glass house - I've been eating fruit crumble every day and made yet another shallot tart yesterday - I must be single handedly creating a boom in the almond industry at the moment.

Oh JeSuis sorry to hear that. Are the palsy symptoms resolving now? Don't worry, all that steroid weight will drop off once you're back on bootcamp.

I agree crabby, also for me it reinforces the idea that treat = food, and even more that treat = sweet food. I've found it easier just to stop all that completely, and my cravings have entirely gone :)

Crabby Yes , thank you. I had some horrid problems with my hearing on that side, which was worse than the droopy face. Also totally lost the ability to taste anything which I think contributed to my carby steroid twatness.

I have to have a brain scan tomorrow though, to see if anything there caused it, and I'm very scared!

Thanks for the ice cream tip Maggie - next time I catch the train into town...

Soft and kind !

Hahahahaha at BIWI going soft! I'm sure the big stick is twitching as we speak!

You are absolutely right Crabby and not pissing on my parade at all, I agree with you. I tried the Waitrose bread just out of curiosity but decided that it is fairly pointless and not a good move. I agree we need to break our addiction to sweet and stodgy and am amazed at how much my tastes have changed since doing this.

ImATot I do wish I could read your name without singing the Tots TV song! Sorry to hear that you've been ill, hope you are better soon x