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.

Evening all just checking in - finding it hard to eat today and get water down but think it's because I'm knackered with first week back at work

B - little bit of Greek ff

L - had chicken breast with salad from the deli left the tomatoes looked like a fussy eater!

D - big juicy steak with salad and loads of mushrooms in butter

Thinking even though I started on 2nd I'll keep doing bootcamp for another week hope this is OK?

Style - I bootcamp pretty much permanently apartfromalcohol

Style - you can do Bootcamp for as long as you like, as long as it's working for you.

HI all.
I am feeling much more human today. Actually got out of bed without any trouble - unheard of in the dark of winter. - so is it the diet or the SAD lamp? Mot sure - or maybe a combination. Anyway we will see if it lasts.....
Also the lightheadedness of yesterday and the headaches have gone. Yeah!
scrambled eggs smoked salmon and yoghurt for breakfast ( I was hungry)
then I had to force myself to eat lunch about 2.00 as I still wasn't that hungry by then.
Dinner will be chicken with leeks and whatever veg is left in the fridge ( feel cheesy cauliflower and swede comiing on and maybe a little carrot and broccoli (and they are old big carrots not small sweet ones! )
Need to go and cook. All this reading everyones menus has made me hungry.

I have been feeling utterly yukky since Monday - and today I don't feel yukky!

I am no longer tired, my stomach isn't bloated and I didn't almost fall asleep at work today (not a good thing to do, especially when you are in your first week at a new job)

I think I will weigh myself tomorrow just to see if I have lost anything....

My 25p chicken livers were bloody scrumptious...

I cut up a rasher of bacon and 2 slices of chorizo, fried them off...removed them out the pan and then fried the livers in the fat they had deposited. I added a sliced garlic clove and then chucked in a couple of tablespoons of double cream. Troffed it down with a mound of green leaves.

It was on par with Nando's chicken livers (if I do say so myself)...which is probably an ideal dish if I'm looking to go grab some sit down fast(ish) food whilst out and about with OH and DS.

I'm wondering if anybody else has suggestions re: suitable menu choices at chain restaurants or fast food establishments...?? I went past McD's earlier and will admit to experiencing a very slight craving for a Big Mac.

I'm surprised that I haven't been pining for booze as much as I expected I would do.

going to celeriac mash tonight with poussin and buttered leeks

drinking lots of sparkling water, and beginning to feel better

stocked up on greek yoghurt, cream, mushrooms, chicken drumsticks from Lidl

I am surprised that rum is a good low carb choice biwi, it is soooo sweet!

Checking in, B was 1+1/2 egg omelette with blue cheese, water. L was 8 cucumber slices with small blob of cream cheese and pate on ( cucumbers acted like a cracker) and water, snack was baby bel and 3 pork scratchings (home made). D was tuna Mayo salad with lettuce and water. I am really having to force food down, anyone else like this? I feel good though, just a bit tired sooner than normal.

Amaretto is too apparently Dosh!!

Drools

OMG!!!! On Monday morning I weighed 193lbs.

On Thursday morning (today!) I weighed 186lbs!!!!!!!

7lbs in 4 days!!!!!

I checked the Mount Gay website, as it is my rum of choice, and they said 0 carbs! Can't vouch for other brands, mind you. And certainly not Malibu, which is massively sweetened (and with high fructose corn syrup, which is the worst)

B - full fat yog and cup of tea

S - sausages and 2 eggs

L - celery, cucumber, smoked salmon pate

D - 5 sausages with sprouts and bacon cooked in cream sauce

Lots of water, no coffee. Feel great!

Day 10 for me.

I cooked the ipd butter chicken and onion bhajis. I'm really disappointed and won't be cooking them again. The curry tasted like a microwave chicken tikka masala and the bhajis were bleurh....

Marking my place as ive had to spend the day actually working rather than pretending to!

Feeling shattered tonight.

Going to need motivating and maybe a stern talking to if I'm going to stay off the booze this weekend.

Anyway, today:

B - a boiled egg and a chicken thigh
S - another boiled egg
L - salad with chicken thigh, some mature cheddar, olives and mayo
S - Greek yoghurt
D - Chicken, broccoli and fried buttered leeks

4ish pints of water and 3 teas.

Will be having another snack later.

Have been reading a couple of books which arrived today - Barry Groves and Catherine Shanahan and realise that I need to up my fat intake.

Didn't you believe me, Yama?!

Sorry for my late reply - work got in the way of my self-pity!

Thank you to everyone for your replies. To respond to a few questions:

I had about 40/50g of cottage cheese and maybe 20g of Philly. I have been adding butter to veg, but have been grilling meat - I don't know why, just because that's how I normally cook meat. I've been using olive oil on salads. I've just looked up the sausages and they were 5.3g per sausage.

I've been drinking as much as possible, but my job doesn't really allow for me to glug litres and litres - getting to the loo is the problem. Today (so far) I've had four pints of water and about 6 cups of fruit tea. I haven't been drinking tea or coffee.

I'm about midway through my cycle so no looming period. And since I weighed on Sunday I've done level one of the 30 day Shred four times, including today which I did NOT want to do but did anyway.

I appreciate all of your support :)

I did, I did BIWI. I just underestimated how much we need really.

Groves talks about all sorts of health benefits from fat and I'm actually rather angry that I'd been brainwashed into thinking fat = bad. I always thought I had an extremely healthy diet as I can be very disciplined. Except with alcohol of course.

Dh is lactose intolerant so I actually had to fry our leeks separately - pain in the arse.

I will get there. Gradually, I'll up the fat. The other day I started eating the fat on my chicken. Tomorrow I'll put extra virgin oil oil on my salad. Slowly but surely I'll up the fat.

Doshu - I've recently switched from vodka to white rum,and I've really noticed how sweet it is! Might have to switch back. I've also changed from slimline tonic to sparkling water, - gotta be better for me!

Breakffast today at about 1130 - egg and 2 rashers bacon.

Lunch - 2 celery with blue cheese
dinner - chicken stufffed with cream cheese and wrapped with bacon/creamy leeks/buttered cabbage. Lidl yoghurt.

WAAAAAHHHHHH I want some chocolate!

Well I did, or something sweet but I had some more water and tried to stave off the craving. It was still there so I went and gazed in the fridge averting my eyes from the biscuit box on the side. Didn't fancy anything savoury.

In desperation I had peanut butter (Sains Basics) on a stick of celery.

B: yoghurt
L: chicken salad with mayo, celery and Philly
D: celeriac crisps and roasted cauli and half a chicken breast

What do I do if the Sugary Twat comes a-calling tonight again?

Lucy I bet it will come off all of a sudden, don't despair.

What kind of sausages did you have?

Kick it in the nads, Nell

Lucy - I suspect it's just a bit of tweaking that you need. More fat and fewer carbs - go for hard cheese which is much lower in carbs, and lower carb sausages. Don't know where you shop, but if you can buy The Black Farmer sausages, they are very low carb.

It might be an idea to see if you can knock the dairy on the head for a day or two though, to see if that makes a difference.

Fruit tea is much better than tea/coffee, so all isn't so bad on the water front.