Continued - Week 1 New Year Low Carb Bootcamp Chat Thread

[BigStickBIWI]

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

10 days is good.

This is only day 4 for me.

I drank right through Christmas and New Year up until the boys went back to school. It was the only way to get through it.

BIWI - I read your link.

This:
^'So how did these excessively low cholesterol guidelines come about?

Eight of the nine doctors on the panel that developed the new cholesterol guidelines had been making money from the drug companies that manufacture statin cholesterol-lowering drugs'^

My parents are both on statins.

I try to be a nice person/good mother/wife/sister/daughter Dosh, see I don't it's incredibly refreshing, I assure you

Thanks for the link BIWI, very interesting. I just always have believed what has been drilled into me by the media/government/schoolteachers etc; "Fat is baaaad, you'll get actual crisp 'n' dry that you buy in ASDA in your VEINS. Your horrible stinking VEINS. And no one will want to be your friend." That never actually happened, but you get my drift.

I think I need to be re educated in the whole thing. It's so hard not to think of all that butter sliding it's fatty way into your hips.

Could someone link to the fabulous creamy cabbage recipe please?

TIA

Evening all

Doshus 10 days will have given your liver a nice little rest- the organ equivalent of a 'spa break' if you will.

I'm just having the most delicious snack- ham, cheese and mayo in between two leaves of lettuce. Have you ever buttered a leaf of iceberg? I have

at spa break for your liver Noel

at the buttered lettuce leaf

on another culinary note i have today done the caulk rice which i suspected would be awful - had it all fried up with cumin seeds and butter and sprinkled with fresh coriander. with my chicken curry (which had cashews in by accident) was really so nice.

Just marking my place.

Hello everyone! Well I went to have my blood tests today, only to remember, once I got there and tried to check in that my appt was for next week. Duh!

B - mushrooms and two eggs cooked in butter
L - crayfish caesar salad (I picked out all the croutons and gave them to my brother, except half of a small one that me eating saved DD from a meltdown about, oh yes and half of one of her chips for the same reason).
D - pork belly, roasted veg

Being out and about has resulted in more tea and coffee and not enough water today. I am trying to make it up now, but aware that it will make me pee all night long!

noel I sometimes read your posts and think you are me! Was it you that said about weighing after the second pee of the day, but before breakfast and a shower? That's me. And Yes I have butter lettuce. And slices of cucumber. And cheese. And dipped pepperamis in cream cheese - so much better than cheese dunkers. I am a firm beleiver you can pretty much butter anything with sea salt crystal butter!

Yes, animal fat etc is good. Someone needs to tell the supermarkets that a lot more people are trying to find meat with more, not less fat on these days and they are missing a trick with cutting so much fat off most of the meats they sell.

inhumanexperiment.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/two-brave-men-who-ate-nothing-but-meat.html

I discovered a new and rather yummy chicken thing tonight. Melted some garlic butter in a saute pan and browned chicken thighs, added shallots and softened then turned heat down and put lid on. There is always a suspicious amount of water comes out of chicken, when it does crumble in an Oxo cube then put lid back and simmer till chicken is just cooked through. Add chopped mushrooms and allow to soften. Add a splosh of cream before serving. Served it with cauliflower mash and green beans.

Can I just point out (cynical science hat on) that while it is interesting to read all these nutritional theories and links, not everything on the internet is good quality science. It is easy to find connections with things but that is not the same as causality, e.g. I could say people who eat bananas die sooner than people who eat apples but that would not necessarily mean that the bananas caused it. Maybe the banana eaters group included more smokers and extreme sports enthusiasts. That's an extreme made up example but, as one who has to be sceptical about research and evidence as part of my job, I can't switch it off.

at buttered lettuce and spa breaks

What is this sea salt butter that you speak of? Just realised I've had NO BUTTER today. Had Philly, cube of cheddar and mayo though. and sesame oil. This time last week I would've had none of that - in fact I probably had nutella on white toast, galaxy, crisps, croissants and feckin fry-lite.

Sorry Xenia x-posted with you there. The comments about internet links was general, not aimed at you!

captainmummy you are a genius. The turnip dauphinoise was a big success. Dp, who claimed not to like turnips and asked me not to cook them for him had seconds

Adding myself to the thread. Am also enjoying a small gin. Sorry everyone. Awful week. I am sure yo be excommunicated but will watch from afar ....

evening all...
Just marking my place. This is very inpressive a thread in 3 days!!

Captainmummy I had the dauphinoise too, both DH and I loved it, may have the leftovers for breakfast topped with a fried egg.
I would never have thought of cooking turnips like that without you.

MrsH yes that was me perhaps eventually we'll all just blend into one big amorphous low carb mass

Mmmm to sea salt butter. From now on, I shall be buttering everything!

Nell this butter here. Best. Thing. Ever. There are other brands btw!

timid, no that's fine. I don't need everyone to believe fat/ meat etc is good (although I am sure it will help those on this thread and those who try to eat this way tend to feel very good).

In fact my position is that most people eat a very high carb processed food diet. If they move to a healthier diet even with some brown bread and dairy they will massively improve their health and minor variations at the healthy end such as whether you ever have bread or if you have dairy is not that important. If we could get the 60% of UK people who are overweight to change to healthy diet and ditched processed and junk food and drinks that is a huge victory whether people want to nuance that with high fat, high protein or brown rice. Notwithstanding that I do from what I've read (and I've read quite a lot about it) think the higher fat and protein diet is best for people, not least because we ate like that for 2 million years so it is how we are adapted for really. Indeed apparently when 10,000 years ago we stopped moving around and grew crops apparently we became 4 inches shorter and then on top of that we have the junk food of the last 40 years and the first generation for 10,000 years less healthy than its parents.

I suppose my point if it is good to find common cause with healthy eaters whether they are vegan or only eat meat/fish or have a handful of veg, carb and protein with each meal. All of them are doing a huge lot better than those filling their diet with processed foods and junk.

Anyway sorry I got a bit off topic.....

CaptainMummy I think we need to add that recipe to the recipe section - it is clearly a winner, I think you should get a prize for the most recommended dish!

xenia Thankyou for that, it was a really very interesting read

timidviper that chicken recipe sounds bloody lovely!

MrsHerculePoirot that butter FUCK YEAH....lucky i have a waitrose 10 mins away....i will make a visit just to get some

Marking....don't want to lose you all