Bootcamp Campfire Interim thread!

[MrsHerculePoirot]

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

Hello

Sorry to hear about the lack of sleep, halfthesize.

Eyesdomorethansee: with the pork, I would cut it off the bone into bite-sized pieces and do a spicy stir-fry, with vegetables like cabbage, (and whatever you have around, but cabbage and pork is a taste sensation as the Irish and Chinese know), and Chinese spices like ginger, chilli and fivespice. You could serve rice or noodles separately for others.

I have a night away from home with lots of meetings next week and am already dreading the inevitable sandwich platters. Help. I don't mind not eating in one-off lunch meetings because you can just eat later, but when you are at others' mercy for 48 hours you can't just not eat. Thinking about it, I have never ever been offered anything low carb in a working lunch. I might have to pack some tins of sardines and eat in bed in the hotel ;) (my workmates are teasing me because I have about 10 tins of sardines stacked in the kitchen cupboard)

Interesting article on exercising on low carb BIWI. it's DH's main reason for not low carbing with me.

So IPD shepherds pie all done and ready to cook later, smells good. Makes masses though so I have divided it into 2 and will freeze one.

Had 3 egg omelette for lunch with a chunk of cheese and 2 salami slices.

Went to visit my mum and fed her her lunch.

Vezzie, laughing at the mental picture of you guzzling sardines in bed. If you were having a midnight feast a la Malory towers wouldn't you have to press the sardines into slices of ginger cake? (bluergh)

Hiii

No breaky today.
L- dinner at lunch today... Roast chicken, carrot, white cabbage and a yorkshire, and a small amount of roasted squash... I was so full i only ate half of the meal.
D- ill most probably have 2 sausages and boiled egg :/

Wish me luck... Ive just started potty training my 18 MO eek! He's done 3 wees ( not on the potty so far)! Vanish and cloth at the ready lol!

could someone please link to the recipe thread?
There's not much on the LC recipe part of MN yet, and I can't find the recipe thread anymore....

Pork Casserole bubbling away, its not as LC as it could be (I used a half tin of tomatoes) but I have kept the spuds to one side and DH can have mash or refried potato. I have also used shallots, and we will have purple sprouting broccoli on one side. DH is in my -very-- bad books at the moment and so went to the shops with DD to give me some space to unpack the endless paperwork and brought me back a flipping chocolate bar!

My favourite one as well - I made him eat it.

Recipe thread

Thanks vezzie@ thought of you with your stash.

vnmum www.mumsnet.com/Talk/big_slim_whatever_weight_loss_club/1447493-BIWIs-Bootcamp-Recipe-Thread

x post with BIWI

So tonight we have discovered I don't like rainbow trout... :(

Rather, I can't link on my iPad, but google Tim Noakes. He is a south African marathon running guru chap, who recently went low carb, and completely shocked the running world. I know this because my DH is doing the London marathon next year, and also queried low carb and serious training.

Also, I think for him, he felt that he couldn't run more than 10k without carb loading, but since he's done more reading, and has seen lots of stuff online about it, he miraculously can. I think it was possibly psychological the first few times. He really thought he would find it harder, so did, IYSWIM. He has since subscribd to it, and althugh he may have a banana before a long run, he is more focused on protein straight after.

On the other hand, I cannot run, although am starting to feel like I may want to!

Odd day today. Despite a few false starts, AF arrived today. First proper since dd2, and my word it is heavy (sorry, TMI). Am hoping that's why I have found today harder. Nibbled a bit of scone. Had a corn on the cob. Irritated with myself. Ironically, I have also got to the point where I look so different than even a few weeks ago. Self sabotage?

thanks for recipe link!
will put it on my watch list

I have just had the nicest tea! Chicken breast wrapped in bacon, cauliflower cheese (from recipe thread) and green beans.

Someone mentioned upthread that tomatoes aren't brilliant but the tinned ones are something I use a lot in cooking. Are you all using them anyway or what are you using instead?

God I need sleep just realised I put vnmum instead of Nigellasguest re the recipe link

Bath and bed I think, night all x

Viperidae I haven't cooked much over the summer that required them, except my bolognese for the lasagne. DH has contained to eat them regularly with his salad and has continued to lose weight and so I now have them occasionally or when the alternative is worse (bread, pasta etc). I used less than I usually do in my bolognese, eg I made the mince with stock and rather than just chuck in a whole two tins, I added it small amounts at a time until it was the least I required. I have some casserole recipes that use them, so probably will use half the amount and not have this as often as other recipes if that makes sense. I've been tracking my food using my fitnesspal and so can see my total carbs - on the lasagne day I only had salad as my greens for the day rather than other carbier veg as well to try and keep it more balanced if that makes sense.

Hello all!

Have been pretty good this weekend apart from a couple of glasses of red wine. I would have had cranachan for pudding on Sat but I was saved from myself by a combination of incredibly slow service in the pub we were in and DD going into an exhausted meltdown, so we had to leave without pudding. I haven't drunk enough water, though, so am necking it now. I was v with DH because we stopped at a service station at beginning of 1.5 hour drive to get me water, and DH came back with 2 types of flavoured water (boak) and a Coke. Not impressed. He said the flavoured water was 0 carbs, and it was, but it tasted vile - sweet and artificial. I never did like flavoured water even before low-carbing. And there weren't any more garages to get me proper water from, so I was v grumpy.

Have been reading IPD and I like it! Phase 2 looks interesting but I'm not there yet. Might help with maintenance, though, when it comes. Did IPD shepherd's pie for dinner with the egg and bacon mixed into the cauliflower mash and it was divine. Mmm.

Also, I tried on some of Mum's jeans (she has been on the fasting diet and had bought new clothes) and I can wear a size 10! In both Tesco and Levi's skinny jeans! V pleased with myself. Haven't weighed since Thurs am - forgot on Friday and there aren't any scales at Mum's. Am hoping for a 9 tomorrow - last weigh-in was 10 stone 0.5.

Evening all
Just checking in after my first shift back at work and first day back to the Woe.

B Greek yoghurt and strawberries
L tuna salad with mayo
D roast gammon with lots of veg

Too immature I made the same thing tonight, delicious isn't it? An going go have leftovers for breakfast.

So I'm staying in Birmingham working this week and am trying to plan where to eat in the evenings - I'm thinking maybe this place

Maggie, have you thought about contacting before and saying you are wheat intolerant and is it possible just to have a salad with some of the sandwich filler?

AuntieMaggie - that link wouldn't work for me. However, if it's a steakhouse, then you should be quids in! Just ask for a steak with a salad.

Morning everyone!

After a difficult weekend with the wrong food and too much booze, I am back on the straight and narrow. I am just starting period and have a 4 months preg stomach so am going to desist from weighing, but will use this week to undo some damage then weigh next Monday.

Last few days of the school holidays here. There's a real September nip in the air too. Brrrrrrrrr! Casserole recipes look good. I am also hopeful of finding some good winter veg in the shops soon. Celeriac will become my new best friend.

Have a great day. I think I might have to drink bad coffee at softplay. Horrors!

Morning! Joining you back on the wagon, sybil. It does feel like going back to school today. And suitably grey outside as well.

It's funny how I really look forward to the straight and narrow on this diet. No depressing low fat crap, just yummy food and all my favourite things like cheese, meat and, er, pork scratchings! I wonder if I'd find it harder if I had a sweet tooth.

Hmph. 10 stone 1. I was so good all weekend! 'Snot fair. Still, I think I might, might, have lost an inch off my hips. And my waist isn't any thinner but the thinnest point seems to have moved lower down my torso, iyswim. I am getting a bit worried about my tummy, though - 2 pregnancies in quick succession seem to have buggered it a bit. There's lots of loose skin or flab or both. I must focus on exercise and see if that helps.