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Bootcamp Campfire Interim thread!

929 replies

MrsHerculePoirot · 20/08/2012 23:36

We could keep chatting here until someone starts a new proper thread...

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PrincessSparkle86 · 01/09/2012 18:57

and BIWI i'm so in for the little black dress bootcamp!!

BIWI · 01/09/2012 18:57

Oh, and I will be retrieving the big stick from the cupboard when we start on 1 October. You have been warned ....

Grin
PrincessSparkle86 · 01/09/2012 19:06

HAsn't anyone hidden that yet? lol

BIWI · 01/09/2012 19:27

Oh no. I have had it firmly hidden from all of you lot!

SharonGless · 01/09/2012 19:28

Eek BIWI I'm afraid, very afraid. Defo up for LBD Bootcamp from 1st but will be trying to get off the half stone I have put on due to the holidays ( which is mainly due to alcohol)

Like you have enjoyed my holiday to the max an am suffering for it now. Back to work in the morning and hoping some of my new clothes fit me. I haven't kept any "fat" clothes to spur me on.

Onwards and downwards low carbers.

SharonGless · 01/09/2012 19:30

Just had a chicken madras from takeaway but made my own cauliflower rice so halo shining hides the glass of vino Rosso she is drinking

NigellasGuest · 01/09/2012 19:31

RoryCeiling you could try boiled celeriac mashed up with double cream?
I'm not looking forward to the real cold weather due to comfort food cravings but think it should be easier on this WOE than on Low calorie diets, because so much creamy stuff is allowed!

Im definitely up for the LBD bootcamp starting 1st OCT! Would like to drop another half stone at least.

BIWI · 01/09/2012 19:39

Rory - welcome!

Celeriac does make a great potato substitute - in many dishes. I use it to make a dauphinois that is really lovely. I also use it as a mash. If you look at this thread you'll find a recipe for shepherd's pie that uses celeriac mash.

Mashed swede is lovely, as is mashed cauliflower.

BIWI · 01/09/2012 19:41

Thinking about all of you who are looking forward to warming, winter dishes, a stew made with shin of beef would be perfect low carb fodder. I'll have a play around with ingredients and work out some carb counts. But using shin of beef (which is a fatty cut of meat perfectly suited to long, slow cooking) with shallots, celery and swede is probably a good starting point.

BIWI · 01/09/2012 19:41

There's also a lovely recipe for beef korma in the IPD cookbook.

SharonGless · 01/09/2012 19:52

Biwi what's the celeriac dauphinois recipe pls?
Am going to put some of my recipes on the LC Recipe section when I get a min

PrincessSparkle86 · 01/09/2012 19:54

Celeriac Dauphinoise...sounds luuuurvely! I'll be looking out for that recipe Grin

BIWI · 01/09/2012 20:18

I've c+p this from an old thread:

Peeled a whole celeriac, then used the food processer to slice it up. (I have two different blades, and I used the one that does the thickest slices, but they were still quite thin).

Piled all the slices into a casserole dish.

Crushed four cloves of garlic into it, added salt and black pepper, and then a 150ml of double cream.

You actually need twice as much liquid, so I used the tub to measure the same quantity of milk (semi-skimmed). Ideally, in terms of the carb count, it would probably have been better for me to use 300ml of single cream, but I didn't have any to hand.

Stir everything round so that the garlic gets stirred into the slices of celeriac.

Then I put the lid on the casserole and cooked it for 5 minutes on high in the microwave. Took it out and stirred it, then another 5 minutes on high.

Then bake in a hot oven (c. 200) for 20-30 minutes, till it's cooked through.

Take the lid off and grate some cheddar cheese all over the top (as much as you like), then back into the oven without the lid until it's nicely browned.

That made enough for 4 people. Not that anyone else in this house is getting their hands on it!

SharonGless · 01/09/2012 20:22

Thanks BIWI have planned next few days meals but will do that with shin beef casserole.

BIWI · 01/09/2012 20:24

I also like doing a 'boulangere' with celeriac, which is celeriac, onion (or shallots) and chicken stock. I like both dishes, but as I have an issue with cream, this one suits me better.

I'm going to experiment with this tomorrow so will report back!

fufulina · 01/09/2012 20:25

Meg and Vezzie thank you for the sleep solidarity! To be fair, I'm being very painful. She feeds once or twice between 6 and 6, usually, but the last couple of nights she has been super unsettled. Am assuming teeth. I am very consistent with bedtime, and settling (patting bum, not taking her out of cot), so I have faith it will come good, as it did with dd1 at about 8 months. I was just moaning! But thank you.

Out for birthday lunch today (mine and DH, mine is next week, his was last week), and had delicious steak, with green salad substituted for fries, and bearnaise. too delicious. As were the three glasses of red and the dark chocolate mousse. BUT, instead of then going mad and ordering a dominos (so wrong!), we had a delicious salad for supper. And it was not a hardship! I wanted the salad! This woe just keeps surprising me.

Also just order the IPD cookbook. Am too excited.

LBD bootcamp (which would makes me cry; am so over the cost/availability of babysitters in my neck of north London), deffo up for it. And I love the rules, BIWI. Love them. I am also going to try and cut back on dairy for bootcamp; am determined to be 70kg by Christmas!

Happy weekends all.

hazchem · 01/09/2012 20:29

Ekk just watching super skinny v supersized and they are saying 50% of all meals should come from carbs and that rice potatoes and pasta are good carbs! Makes me feel a bit sick even thinking of it and I've only been eating like this for about a month

hazchem · 01/09/2012 20:31

Vnmum That is ace! Check you out in you new jeans :)

HumphreyCobbler · 01/09/2012 20:35

I have just watched that too for the first time.

What a shocking load of crap! How is it beneficial to do this to two people? I couldn't really believe what I was seeing.

The carb stuff was referencing the fact that she didn't eat enough to fuel her exercise. I am sure she could have exercised on enough fat, protein and veg/nuts actually. And not looked so emaciated.

fufulina · 01/09/2012 20:46

Oh, and in other news, weird side effects of this woe discussed with DH today. I am so less windy (!), so TMI, but true! And I no longer need to blow my nose all the time! Would love to understand the physiology behind that, if anyone knows? (no pun intended!).

EyesDoMoreThanSee · 01/09/2012 20:55

As I said above DD is two and wakes every 2-3 hours. It's hell and quite genuinely threatening my marriage. We have tried pretty much everything but she will not sleep alone or past eleven. Melatonin didn't work and so now have a sleep psychologist to try and help. Affects DD as much as it affects us.

fufulina · 01/09/2012 21:04

eyes, sorry, I completely didn't acknowledge your post re: sleep. Your dd's sleep sounds soul destroying. I completely get why it is impacting your marriage. I think pre schoolers, even perfectly behaved, make marriage terribly hard work, so sleep issues just compound that. It one long tag team scenario. But sounds like you have got the right people involved now?

hazchem · 01/09/2012 21:09

I'm not sure why I watch it humphrey In fact I ended it switching over because I saw that awful Gillian McKieth was on it. trying to get a womans rugby team to loose bum inches and I just thought to myself what the hell are we telling society (and girls) when a group of woman who play a really physical game like rugby are working to loose bum inches. What is wrong when we think that fit healthy sporting types need to worry about the size of their arsed.
Just watch watched someone break a world record (and an aussie bronze). The para olympics are really inspiring. More so then the olympics were for me. Something about the athletes having disabilities makes the more extraordinary and more ordinary. So somehow sports seam more accessible.

HumphreyCobbler · 01/09/2012 21:12

it was fascinating though, in a macabre kind of a way Blush

eyes, god it sounds hard. So sorry. Sleep deprivation is hell for everyone concerned.

NigellasGuest · 01/09/2012 21:38

my sympathy to you Eyes.
What a tough time you're all having. I can think of a few things worse than sleep deprivation, but not many. I hope the sleep clinic are supportive. My DCs are teens now but I remember those interrupted nights like they were yesterday.

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