Week 6 - New Year Low Carb Bootcamp _ Where I start to wave my big stick again

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Morning all

Here it is - come and confess all

Now. Three things have come to my attention.

1. There is a lot of baking going on. Sweet things and bread substitutes.

Please remember that we are trying to avoid sweet things and that we are trying to avoid using artificial sweeteners.

1. A lot most of you are falling off the wagon - either 'accidentally' () or because situations arise where you have not planned ahead or deliberately.

This is not a very forgiving WOE. Lapses/cheats like this will have a big impact - at the very least you will not see any weight loss for a while - most likely, though, you will see a gain of around 3-7lbs. You really have to plan ahead and make sure you do everything you can to stay focused and avoid the carbs. Going out for a meal or to dinner at a friends does mean that you have to think about what's going to be on offer. You cannot assume that low carb options are going to be available (although most restaurants should be fairly easy to navigate).

1. There is a lot of moaning about seeing a weight gain or not losing.

May I refer you to 1 and 2 above?

Please, please, please go back to Bootcamp/Bootcamp Light rules. They are there for a reason!

I can tell you that almost every time someone posts "I don't know what to do, the scales aren't moving for me/I've gained half a stone and I don't know why, because I'm being really good/have been following the rules" this is a massive signal that, actually, they haven't.

Fat is key.
Water is key.
Too much alcohol will stop weight loss.
Dairy - especially cream and cheese - can be an issue for many (yoghurt is better tolerated)
Artificial sweeteners are to be avoided.
Fruit should be severely restricted.

We have only five weeks of Bootcamp left, including this week. Let's get serious and back on track.

I have made pork mince meatballs but at the moment it is sauceless. Any ideas for a low carb sauce.

And I have courgette peels for spaghetti. How do I cook them??

Have updated the spreadsheet of shame (rather than ignoring the numbers and pretending they would go away !

I knew it would be bad this week, I had a whole weekend off the wagon traveling and at a wedding. I had a 3lb gain not the worst thing in the world but still not ideal. still onwards and upwards that was my first blip. I'm nowwhere near a goal weight so this is going to be it for sometime now.

Skandi

Sorry it's not working for you the way you want.
Have you measured yourself? I didn't lose for a few weeks but dropped 2 inches off my waist. I know you are similar size to me.

How are your stress levels?

Sending huge hugs

Ahem - sauceless pork meatballs are waiting for inspiration!!

What's in the pork meatballs, Ruprekt?

Apart from horse, obviously

horse, pork mince, shallot, garlic, egg to bind.............

skandi1 - apologies for the exclamation mark instead of the 1 in your name - makes it look like I was shouting at you!

Here's an interesting piece about stalls and some suggestions for what to do although note that this writer doesn't allow that you are in a stall unless you haven't seen weight loss for 4 weeks (other writers I have seen talk about 6 weeks)

How about a tomato sauce then? Your ingredients so far should be relatively low carb.

Tin/carton chopped tomatoes. To a medium-sized saucepan, add 4 tablespoons of olive oil, then add the tomatoes. Season with salt and black pepper, and add any herbs you have to hand/like - ideally oregano and/or basil.

Bring to the boil and simmer gently till thickened a little. Add two finely chopped cloves of garlic and cook for another few minutes until time to serve.

Or - make a stroganoff-type of sauce. Same as the above, but add a generous helping of paprika and then some sour cream/yoghurt.

I meant goulash, not stroganoff!

Also, could do a mushroom sauce? Finely chopped mushrooms fried gently in butter, seasoned, with some garlic added and then a generous dollop of cream. If you have any tarragon that would go well in it.

Mushroom sauce sounds good.

Am worried about tomato sauce as it can be too carby.

And what do I do with my courgette strips?

Is it not a stall then if you bounce up & down the same couple of pounds?

Fry the courgette in butter :)

Fry your courgettes in olive oil

No, not a stall until you've gone for a significant period of time without seeing any loss

Hello, sorry to hear of your frustration Black and Skandi, I hope you start to see results soon.

Today for me was Greek yoghurt for breakfast, chicken soup and salad for lunch and then poached eggs with mushrooms and spinach fried in butter, quick and easy when I get in from work.

Happy Birthday Bullet!

Bye for now.

Thanks for all the birthday wishes!
I decided to just have a day off of LC, I'm going to start bootcamp again tomorrow but I want cake and fizz today :)

Happy Birthday bullet, sure we can't tempt you to swap the cake and fizz for a LC muffin and some sparkling water?

What's that you say? Oh ok then

Happy Birthday Bullet

Hello all,
Happy birthday to bullet you share yours with my DD. - I have heroically made a triple chocolate cake that she has taken with her to Brownies - so hopefully it will be all gone when I go to collect her and I won't be tempted.

I can't keep up with this thread, but I wanted to share my latest "pudding" - chocolate orange yoghurt - made using Lidl greek yoghurt, vanilla powder, chocolate extract and sainsburys valencian orange extract. Yum.... - but it looked a bit odd with all those colours mixed and the vanilla powder flakes so def not one for the food porn thread. Still the smell was just like a chocolate orange.