Continued - Week 1 New Year Low Carb Bootcamp Chat Thread

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Last one filled up really quickly, so here is a brand, spanking and distinctly thinner thread for you to fill up.

Can you have sugar free jelly? Yey!!

Yes sugar free jelly.....thank goodness for something sweet.

Thanks for the links BIWI

Lots of cancer in my family so I was interested to see what research had been done. Will Google some more.

valdeeves soya milk is ok in tea as long as its the unsweetened one. Bearable anyway.

I think that you're not really meant to have the jelly yet until the end of the 2 weeks. My two weeks ends tomorrow . I figure jelly is better than the rest of the Christmas chocolates!

Is it wrong to have braised creamy cabbage for breakfast

Kind of looking forward to the weigh in tomorrow.

Hoping to have maintained the 8lb loss (though I have been doing bootcamp since 27th Dec - so 2 weeks instead of 1)

Hi all

Thank you so much for the and support earlier about my spectacular falling off of wagon!

I really did wake up feeling rubbish today, and the kindness of strangers as they say is sometimes the most touching of all!

Gless asked why it is I want to low carb.

The superficial reason I think is that I'm a shorty and that when I carry extra weight, it really shows. The other thing is that I love my food, and often feel a bit out of control with it. (As evidenced by this weekend!) I have yo yo'ed a lot over the years (not by that much - only back and forth between the same ten pounds), but enough for a friend of mine to say this weekend that I was a bit 'Oprah Winfrey'!?

Of course, now I realise that 'loving my food' is actually a poor euphemism for being addicted to carbs and sugar.

I've been reading so much thanks to this thread, and I realise that there's nothing to be proud of in 'loving' food that's bad for me.

The other thing, which Gless and others pointed out, is that what I was doing was classic emotional eating - a habit I've nicely crafted over the years. I absolutely turn to carby and sugary food when I'm down; I've read about why that's the last thing you need during those times - now I just need to absorb it.

The final other reason that I want to low carb is that I'm 35, and sadly, don't yet have children. I was with this ex DP for three and a half years. He absolutely didn't want children, and so we've split up. (I still care about him a lot, which is why this weekend was painful.)

I guess then I just want to get my weight down and try and keep my body as healthy as it can be - to hang on to whatever fertility I have left!

There is no new bloke on the horizon, and it could be a good while before I meet anyone, nevermind get to the kids stage. So, it's all a bit worrying. I may not be able to wave a magic wand and meet someone, but I can at least take control over what I eat, and make sure I'm healthy.

So - the burger and creme eggs and cakes and crisps and booze was really not a good idea, for lots of reasons.

I think I might be the only single person on this thread. I'm also slightly whenever I dwell on the fact that I don't have DCs to design meal plans for. And everyone seems to have such supportive DHs and DPs helping them with this WOE! I mustn't stay down like this though and must chin up. Thanks all for the again x

Eek! Didn't realise what an essay that was. Many apols!

I weighed myself at MILs house today as we don't have scales. My weight is the same which is fine as I'm not trying to lose weight and I am eating more veg than I should be were I trying to lose, but my jeans are hinging off!

Why are we allowed sugar free jelly????

UnMNetty (((hugs))) Novelty. You're having a tough time. Apologies if you've read Idiot Proof Diet already, but they wrote something in there about emotional eating that has really resonated with me. Say, for example, something goes wrong and you get angry about it, then immediately hit the biscuit tin until you feel calm again. I do/did this, and would then feel wretched both emotionally and physically from eating crap and feeling too full. IPD explains it as punishing yourself for a lack of control (over whatever went wrong initially) with a further lack of control around food. A double loss of control!

They explain it better, but it's really helped me lately, and that's after years of emotional eating and reading around the subject.

Anyway, today I am cross because the enormous Sainbury's beef joint that was to be a delicious Sunday roast and then lunches and snacks for the week was revolting. Gristly, tough, tasteless, just bleurgh. The first go at celeriac mash was OK though and the creamed leeks were nice. I did have the corner of a Yorkshire pudding but nowhere near the full-on binge my disappointment would have caused only a couple of weeks ago.

I have no idea what the scales will reveal tomorrow - I don't feel any thinner - but I am not binging or craving carbs, so am not bloated or full of regret half the time, which is very good.

I am following the rules (apart from that Yorkshire nibble) but have no idea if it's working. I guess time will tell...

B - sausage, bacon, tomato with scrambled egg and cheese

L - celery and wasabi dip

D - Mmmmmmmm Celeriac, bacon and cream bake

DH boiled the celeriac, fried the bacon, added cheese and cream. mixed it all together and baked in the oven. Crispy and crunchy on the top.
Served with rocket and sour cream. Lush.

Good Evening!

Novelty- im definitely an emotional eater too! Ive read that whats contained in the foods were eating when we do it is defo the last thing we need when emotional as the sugar etc can make u feel more depressed Sorry to hear your not feeling your best at the moment... Remember we're here when u need to vent ??

DS1 is going back to school tomorrow... Woo!
Todays food has been: brunch: 3 scrambled eggs with butter
Dinner: 2 small chicken breasts pan fried with some garlic, olive oil and italian herbs. I simmered some savoy cabbage in vegetable stock theb added it to the chicken in the pan with fried bacon and mushroom (i dont know what to call this but it was gorgeous)!

Slatternly- i hope your day back at work tomorrow goes well

Novelty sorry you're feeling down. Keep on chatting here to us. Have you got anything nice planned this week that you can look forward to?

Slatternly - it is horrible when work makes you feel like that. Do you think it will be a lasting thing, or will it all be OK again in a bit? Can you remember what your DH said that had you giggling about it all the other day? I would say to try and eat something, or graze a bit if you can, you don't want to find yourself having a rubbish day and falling into the carbs tomorrow. Can you have something at home that you know you can eat when you get back to look forward too? (LC obviously!).

Hello!

Sorry to everyone who's feeling a bit shit :( I always turn to carbs or booze at the first sign of stress, which explains a lot of my problems.

I have had the most glorious day of food and I feel like I should have put on loads:

B: Fry up. Eggs, bacon, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes. Delish.
L: Lettuce wraps, prawns and mayo
D: Roast pork and celariac and swede 'chips'.

Somewhere up thread celariac chips were mentioned. To whoever it was thank you! They were just ... I don't have the words. Gorgeous. I feel fat as a big pig but so what: taste sensation!

Haven't been back on the scales, will brave it in the morning. Don't want to though.

Evening all. Fairly shitty day here as well culminating in massive row with DH over something utterly trivial. We are both sulking. Have been massively tempted by buttered toast and a glass of wine to make me feel better. However, have resisted so far. My day:
B: scrambled eggs with spinach and bacon fried in butter
L: Leftover mince from yesterday's dinner, with more spinach
D: cauliflower rice (thanks for that, it is great), with prawns and more spinach!
S: this evening have had cucumber rounds with goats cheese spread on as a snack in place of my usual buttered/peanut buttered toast. Have to say that I am still craving the latter. I think the only thing stopping me from just saying 'sod it' is the fact we have a weigh in tomorrow!

Have a very early meeting tomorrow so will be weighing in super early but may not have chance to put it on the spreadsheet til the evening. Have to leave the house about 6.45. Not looking forward to that one bit.

awww, novelty what a crappy time you're having I hope this is the start of something positive for you.

At least you're making those connections between how the food makes you feel long term as well as short term.

I'm not looking forward to the scales tomorrow as I've been fluctuating between a loss of 5lb - YAY! and 2lb - .

Crappy day today as I'm frantically trying to get this bastard essay done so no time for cooking.

B: scrambled eggs, bacon and mushrooms.
L: a bratwurst
D: erm, a bite of another bratwurst and 2 coffees with cream and sweetener to keep me going.

but typing that has made me realise how not hungry I am, so I suppose that's good eh?

ugh, I best get back to it

Bloody Nora, has just taken me about an hour to catch up on one day of posts. Spect OGL (our glorious leader) will be creating a new thread for week 2 soon?

thatgirl so glad your DS is home nd will soon be on the mend, how stressful for you

novelty. All here for you sister, (creme egg!!!!!!!!?????)
B - Greek yoghurt
L - celery and cucumber with pate and Stilton
T - family tea with the boys - tacos with grated cheese, soured cream, guacamole, chopped tomatoes, shredded lettuce, salsa, fried beef mince. I used baby gem leaves instead of the tacos and avoided the chopped tomatoes. Boys loved making their own.

Played squash for the first time in about 2 years this afternoon and am starting to ache already - am not going to be able to move tomorrow, which will be interesting as have a hideous meeting in central London.

Just hard boiled my eggs ready for tomorrow's lunch and breakfast too. I do find the cooking in the morning hard so planning on a continental style in the morning.

doshusallie why avoid tomatoes are they bad. ?

I thought tomatoes were ok

I've felt rotten all day today in a kind of non-specific way, vaguely achey, nauseous and so flipping cold so have been truly shit but will get back onto it tomorrow.