Week 6 - Little Black Dress Low Carb Bootcamp - On the Downhill Stretch

[BIWI]

Morning losers!

Here is the Spreadsheet of Wonderfulness for your viewing pleasure

Four weeks to go!
Short but sweet OP today, as I have to go off to work early.
Hope everyone has a good week.

Thank you everyone for the reassurances re fat and pork belly strips. Was so pleased I had 4 for a late lunch .

Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - Mixed grill: greasy spoon/Comstock Dibbler stylee' (burger, frankfurter, fried egg, salad (instead of chips - lettuce and cucumber) slice of bacon plus 2 tbsp brown sauce and fried onions)
Dinner - leeks and mushrooms sauteed in butter with double cream - absolutely delicious - topped with chedder and baked chorizo.
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Glad your son is safe Viper

The pork belly strips are really good Lavender.

I have one compartment in the freezer that only has pork belly strips and lamb chops in.

They are really tasty, and filling.

D bolognaise made with turkey mince, shallot, garlic, chilli, courgette, leek, tin toms and some passata, mushrooms. It's still cooking and smells good, tum is rumbling!

caramel - beware of the brown sauce - there will be a lot of carbs in that amount! A 15g serving, which I would assume is 1 tablespoon, is 4.2g

Im still here, still doped on my tablets, but low carbing like a good girl. the only slip up - although a conscious one - was when DS came home from school. He had made fruit cupcakes as one of his topics - he had to choose the recipe and got graded on result.

He was so proud and made me a cup of tea and gave me a cake. He knows I am low carbing but how can you say no? I weighed up the guilt trip from myself versus being a good, supportive mum. Mum card won. And the one I had was lovely.

But no more. Back to good girl again.

biwi I sent you a PM, did you get it?

Any suggestions for the tastiest alternative for a cup of tea?
Lavender, I was recommended white tea for the matter of no milk substitute, it is not so strong as black, if I do not look in the cup, I easy can forget it is not my normal tea.

I am trying to find what I missed about pork strips, still scrolling upwards, no luck is it a recipe, I tried pork belly from Waitrose, but I did not see any pork strips - where to get those? Thank you.

And my biggest joy today - I put on jeans which I already was about to forget about - and they felt loose!!!! Hurray!

BIWI Yes.

Half way through eating, it hit me that brown sauce is essentially apples with added sugar.

Plus the sugars from the fried onions.

Well done on the jeans NotAgain

Not again, the debate re pork belly was how often to eat them and are they too fatty. Answer - loads, and no! . Lidl sell them.

Pilates was ace, loved it.

Tea is yet more bloody gammon ham (will be glad to see the back of it) and salad. Am also having half a glass of red wine. [guilt]

How does everyone cook the pork belly slices? Slow-cooker? Roast?

Breakfast - coffee with cream, 2 coffees with milk at work.

LUNCH - lettuce with pate, cream cheese or mayo. Few nuts. packet radishes.

Dinner was cream cheese pancakes filled with mushrooms and ham, with cream and leeks on top. Greek yog.

Another coffee with cream.

Lots of dairy today.

On the good side, I was given chocolate cream cake today at the desk, (a birthday) - on the way to my desk (up 6 flights of stairs) I dumped the cake in the bin. Not even a sniff. Birthday girl thought I'd had some, I didn't jeopardise my diet, everyone's happy.

Came home from work today famished. I had a good lunch and didn't feel hungry until i had my tea and then just didn't feel satisfied so after the lettuce chicken fajitas i had some mini sausages, a babybel, couple of swigs of cream and some olives. Don't know if it's to do with lower fat today or just using more energy at work

I coat the pork belly with roasted paprika powder and roast in the oven. Sometimes with a sprinkle of walnut oil but not always. Nothing else.

I did Jax. Wasn't quite sure what to make of it!

I had a hectic day at work today and am amazed at how most provided lunches are totally inedible on this WOE. Today it was all sandwiches, wraps, crisps and made healthier by the addition of fruit! What made it worse was that we had a lunch provided for a meeting at 12noon then I whizzed over to the local hospital for another meeting at 1pm and they had an equally inedible one there!

Managed though with the aid of a good breakfast (sausage, bacon and scrambled egg) and taking a little bowl of salad and full fat prawn cocktail) with me. Tea was roast chicken, swede chips, creamed leeks and broccoli. Did succumb to some Diet Coke though, I must rein myself in again.

We are going to visit DS this weekend and are staying in a Premier Inn we've never been to before so I don't know how I'll do food wise so want to be good in the meantime.

Have a busy time looming as we are away with friends next weekend too.

Work lunches can be utterly hopeless can't they viper! I went on a course where they provided lunch packs containing a sandwich, packet of crisps, apple and kitkat! Fortunately I had a hard boiled egg and mini cheese in my handbag

Yep. Definitely a business opportunity in low carb lunches!

Well last nights fearful munchies ( which I had massive slices of roast beef with horseradish)
Was apparently the onset of epic hideous middle of night migraine.
So was up at 3am in massive pain. Sorted with codeine eventually but felt crap all today
But not one cheat...
Bacon ( nitrate free!) eggs and mushrooms.
L- salmon fishcakes Thai style with salad and lime juice.
D- keema mince and chunky cabbage salad.
Tons of water, lots of painkillers and 500 calories of walking which was done in foul weather to boot!
Have PMT so think I'm retaining water ....

Weigh in tomorrow

hello all. Still sticking with it. I must get up my courage to weigh as I could put myself on the spreadsheet. I am definitely thinner than when I started though. I don't regret not weighing really , as I have stayed pretty much on track for a good few months now and I think the plateaus I landed on would have put me off.and I should have given up the cheese and the sweeteners a lot sooner

Although I don't post too much I think that is partly because it has become a real habit with me now, rather than a new way of eating. Even DH has now read the book

Piffle - where did you find the nitrate-free bacon?

Hello all
I usually grill my pork belly strips - takes about half an hour till they're brown and crispy.
I love rooibos tea & it comes in different flavours too. Dragonfly Tea do a Cape Malay rooibos chai which has cinnamon, ginger, cardamom etc - delicious and spicy and doesn't need milk. Their earl grey one is nice too, also fine with no milk. If I have the plain rooibos I want milk with it so that defeats the object.
I have had a couple of days working in the city centre and being disorganised with lunches - I've found it is very hard to find low carb lunches to buy. Found some eventually but they're not cheap. I was a bit that Subway only offered low fat mayonnaise and no french dressing. It made me realise I've been very lucky with the sandwich shop I normally go to (£1.80 for salad made to order with cheese or meat). Also that I need to be more organised.

Morning all, flying visit.

Pork belly, I buy strips from the butcher then slam in the oven for hours and hours on low. Delicious.

Brown sauce is carby?! Why oh why had I never realised that. Doh and damn.

Vnmum, spotted you've started work this week, hope its going well.

Viper, good to see that DS is back safe and sound.

Hope everyone has a good day today.

BIWI, I thought (or assumed) that all organic bacon would be nitrate free. Will check my packet. I know that Laverstoke Park bacon is definitely nitrate free but haven't bought any from there for ages so can't remember how pricey it is.

Am really cross with myself. Weighed and am back to where I started before Bootcamp. Plus went out last night and made poor choices on the carb front.
Today is my wake up call
Carb creep is setting in and it stops NOW

BIWI I was just hopeful that this organic, non sugar choc would be a healthy choice and not too carby. thought you might check out carb content and report back that it was a fab thing... I am still on my wonky back tablets and lets just say it makes my thought process a lot little skewed.