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[carorees]

Happy Birthday FatDog!

And congrats on reaching target despite all the ups and downs!

Hope you will have a (low carb) cake to celebrate!

Happiest of happy birthdays honeybun! Let the slim times roll ::0)

Oh well done FatDog! (you gonna change your name now to SlimDog?)and have the bestest birthday celebration ever! x

Just got home so I missed your BIG moment, or should that be SMALL moment? Congratulations on reaching your target, always a lovely feeling and belated birthday wishes,

Ballerina x

Congratulations well done and happy birthday too. Enjoy

recipe & accounts for Thursday, low-carb day one-hundred and nine, feed day

Thank-you @all for the good wishes. I was remarkably restrained! But, sadly, both the salad and the haggis are exceedingly carbiferous - special occasion fare only (and expect to be punished on the scales two days later) - but oh, so delicious! A few glasses of good red wine and six squares of 85% chocolate (in lieu of cake), and that's one contented FatDog.

........ Calories 1355.39 Carbs 72.71 Fat 59.41 Protein 31.10 Fibre 19.24

salade à la Caraibe, no. 2; the World In Your Kitchen, p126
sweet pointed cabbage, co-op, 26c/C3.9/F0.4/P1.8/Fi2.4/100g
......... 335g 87.10 13.07 1.34 6.03 8.04
watercress, co-op, thick stalks removed, 25c/C0.4/F1.0/P3.0/Fi0.5/100g
......... 42g 10.50 0.17 0.42 1.26 0.21
sweet red pepper, co-op, fine rings, 35c/C6.4/F0.4/P1.1/Fi2.0/100g
......... 187g 65.45 11.97 0.75 2.06 3.74
avocado, chunked, 160c/C8.53/F14.66/P2.0/Fi6.7/100g
......... 200g 320.00 17.06 29.32 4.00 13.40
mango, chopped, 56c/C14.8/F0.4/P0.8/Fi1.6/100g
......... 386g 216.16 57.13 1.54 3.09 6.18
cucumber, grated, 11c/C1.5/F0.1/P0.7/Fi0.6/100g
......... 248g 27.28 3.72 0.25 1.74 1.49
spring onions, chopped, 28c/C3.0/F0.5/P2.0/Fi1.5/100g
......... 83g 23.24 2.49 0.42 1.66 1.25
garlic, fine chop, 149c/C33.06/F0.5/P6.36/Fi2.1/100g
......... 12g 17.88 3.97 0.06 0.76 0.25
lemon & lime juice, fresh squeezed, 26c/C2.0/F0/P0.4/Fi0.3/100ml
......... 70ml 18.20 1.40 0.00 0.28 0.21
olive oil, 824cal/F91.6g/C,P&FI<0.1g/100mL
......... 50ml 412.00 0.00 45.80 0.00 0.00
total salade à la Caraibe, no. 2 1197.81 110.97 79.90 20.87 34.76
FatDog's portion of salade à la Caraibe, no. 2 216.84 20.09 14.46 3.78 6.29

Yum.

Happy birthday Fatdog I am an a it follower of you posts although I usually keep ny big nose out.Have a great day

Same here, your posts have brightened many a day. Have a good birthday and I will be joining you in a glass of red, or two or well a few, its weekend yea.


Chris x

Friday, day one-hundred and ten, repair day

Weigh-in at start of day wt. 115.4lbs (analogue scales corrected ~113.7lbs); 0.4lbs loss
... t.measures - ub. 29.0, w. 26.4, t. 32.0, h. 35.75 inches

And another unexpected loss... I really don't understand what is going on but I could get nicely used to this - just for the next couple of weeks, say, until I hit that 22.5 BMI (110.5lbs).

I need to start thinking about maintenance: I like my repair days and low-carbing (not least because they might save me from going gaga), they're my chosen WoL so I really don't want to stop them. But, if I continue 4:3 and LC, I'll need to up my calorie intake on the other days of the week (which, the odd blow-out excepted, might be a bit difficult) or up the carbs a bit (which doesn't make sense, though I suppose I could have a legume-fest every now and again - I'd rather enjoy that). Maybe I could just let rip a little over the week-ends, or do a Tim Ferriss binge on a Sunday. Hmmm - the binge is tempting.

Back down to earth - I will endeavour to be extra good today to mitigate yesterday's haggis and mango (that's the main carbiferous bit in the salad) indulgences... Rocket, tomatoes, cream cheese, linseed crackers - one mightn't think it very satisfying but it rather oddly is. But as it's Friday I'm going to give myself a wee bit of leeway and play with the cheese crisps again...

Seeded cheese crisps: grated extra mature cheddar (20g), ground linseed (10g), garlic and chilli flakes, fresh ground black pepper, water (10ml) - mix, splodge into four rounds on parchment paper and press into thin cracker thinness, ping for about 3 minutes (YMMV). I possibly burnt the linseed a little which gave the crisps a slightly bitter taste but, interestingly, this made them rather twiglet-esque, which for a twiglet addict was rather serendipitous. I think that sesame seeds would be even more yumptious, but I've run out of them... Need to reduce the calories for the next batch - I'll do just cheese. Hang on, I wonder what mustard or cumin or fennel seed would be like...

........ Calories 752.75 Carbs 11.96 Fat 52.19 Protein 30.84 Fibre 16.45

Doing my 'post this now and I can't have anymore calories' trick. Sleep tight, FatDog.

How about caraway seed nofatdog?

Saturday, day one-hundred and eleven, weekend feed day

Weigh-in at start of day wt. 115.8lbs (analogue scales corrected ~113.7lbs); 0.4lbs gain
... t.measures - ub. 28.9, w. 26.2, t. 31.8, h. 35.25 inches

Well, I'm swithering here - the scales initially read 115.4lbs but then moved on to 115.8lbs and stuck there - do I take the lower, waggier, reading or go with the gain? The analogue scales look pretty much as they did yesterday, but picking up anything less than a 1lb shift on them is unlikely. Hmmm. I could go for the lower and put the upper reading down to the eeevil scales-fairy, or go with the gain and put it down to the V&P vary-fairy (which, given my carborific indiscretions on Thursday, is perfectly reasonable; indeed the rise fits in with my wobbly hypothesis that "it's the carbs wot done it", all 72.71g of them). Ach, the higher one it'll be then. But I've decided to stop ignoring the changes on the tape measure, so I'm doing a waggy FatDog dance round the living room anyway.

Thus my report for the end of week 24 on 4:3 : 1.8lbs weight lost, and a slither off under-bust, double slither waist and stomach, and a half inch off hips.

If truth be told, the hips measurement might well be a further double slither off that. And, when I first did my waist this morning (using my 'close your eyes and dig your nails in' blind method) the tape read 25.5 inches! No muffin top, but I couldn't comfortably wear a skirt like that all day so went for the 'slack tape' reading, given above, which still had me staggering out of the bathroom in disbelief to check the tape in the mirror. Definite, measurable, shrinkage.

Lots of bargains needing used in the fridge, so methinks the menu will be butternut squash and sweet potato mash (40p) with stilton (35p for 125g), steamed cabbaged (20p), veggie sausages (50p) and onion gravy.

The mash was more like a soup(!) and / so the gravy didn't happen - but it all tasted rather good; no complaints from OH - "excellent", he said (methinks a man of questionable taste, but I enjoyed it too) although I was somewhat confused, as it wasn't what I'd meant it to be.

........ Calories 1668.72 Carbs 61.60 Fat 80.94 Protein 56.67 Fibre 19.71

Hankered after a pudding so went for some dried apricots - which rather busted the carbs - and was otherwise distracted and did some "munching in front of a video". Video was rather gubbing / moving in parts - would now recommend "The Corporation" to the (politically) converted and unconverted - but don't expect to see how you live in the same way again. Oddly, I've just noticed that Ferriss recommends that video at the end of his "spotting bad science 101" appendix.

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Sunday, day one-hundred and twelve, weekend feed day

Weigh-in at start of day wt. 115.8lbs (analogue scales corrected ~113.7lbs); 0.0lbs loss
... t.measures - ub. 28.9, w. 26.2, t. 31.8, h. 35.25 inches

Well, it might have been worse - it could have gone up! Think that this is still compensation for misdemeanours earlier in the week.

So, needing to keep things on the straight-and-narrow, I immediately go and over-do it. I'm not that convinced by the figures for turnips or red lentils in my dinner but, however benignly I read the numbers, I'm still stuffed when it comes to my carbohydrate intake today. And calories!

As a simple example,of my hopelessness, I succumbed and ate a tiny slice of my Flake "birthday cake" (I'd resisted it up until now): apart from being fairly horrid to eat, it was just an 8g sample but it made a serious dent in my carbs (4.5g!). At which point in my weak-willed carbocalypsed state, I near gave up and thought of a Ferriss 'binge', but turned to a "cheese crisp" (pinged cheese - not those dangerous potato things) and nut spree instead - I just hope that the damage won't last for more than a couple of days

So, the accounts are terrible - may be this is the blow-out that I didn't have on my birthday?

........ Calories 1900.98 Carbs 71.22 Fat 96.50 Protein 44.69 Fibre 17.76

The herb / spice list below might look intimidating but it's actually a cobble-together of the seasonings in the Niter Kibbeh oil and Berbere paste that the original recipe calls for. It worked too - "delicious" was the verdict all round.

Ye' atakilt W'et, Ethiopian mixed veggie stew; adapted from CBB's World Vegetarian Classics, p174
carrots, co-op, prepared, 35c/C6.0/F0.5/P0.7/F2.8/100g
......... 400g 140.00 24.00 2.00 2.80 11.20
mangetout, co-op, 40c/C4.2/F0.2/P3.6/Fi2.6/100g
......... 300g 56.80 5.96 0.60 10.80 7.80
tomatoes, tinned, chopped 15c/C3.0/F0.1/P1.0/Fi0.7/100g
......... 400g 60.00 12.00 0.40 4.00 2.80
lentils, red, 332c/C51.0/F1.3/P23.8/Fi5.0/100g
......... 150g 498.00 76.50 1.95 35.70 7.50
onion, red, co-op, fine sliced, 35c/C7.6/F0.2/P1.3/Fi1.4/100g
......... 126g 44.10 9.58 0.25 1.64 1.76
garlic, minced, 149c/C33.06/F0.5/P6.36/Fi2.1/100g
......... 10g 14.90 3.31 0.05 0.63 0.21
tomato puree, 410c/C18.1/F0/P4.8/Fi2.5/100g
......... 45ml 184.50 8.15 0.00 2.16 1.13
sunflower oil, 125c/C0/F13.8/P0/Fi0/15ml
......... 60ml 500.00 0.00 55.20 0.00 0.00
ginger, dried ground
......... 2ml 0.00
cardamom seed, fresh ground
......... 5ml (approx 18 pods) 0.00
cinnamon, dried ground
......... 1ml 0.00
cloves, fresh ground
......... 2 of 0.00
nutmeg, dried ground
......... 0.5ml 0.00
fennugreek seed, fresh ground
......... 1ml 0.00
turmeric, dried ground
......... 1ml 0.00
basil, dried
......... 2ml 0.00
cumin seed, fresh ground
......... 5ml 0.00
black pepper corn, fresh ground
......... 1ml 0.00
coriander seed, fresh ground
......... 2ml 0.00
chilli flakes
......... 2ml 0.00
allspice, dried ground
......... 1ml 0.00
paprika, dried ground
......... 10ml 0.00
total for Ye' atakilt W'et 1498.30 139.49 60.45 57.73 32.40
FatDog's1/5 portion of Ye' atakilt W'et 299.66 27.90 12.09 11.55 6.48

Method: 1. cook the onions without oil on a medium heat until softened - stir lots or they'll stick (or use a non-stick pan and then transfer them to your big lidded casserole pot); 2. add the oil, garlic, herbs & spices and stir well until the aroma is delectable; 3. add the veggies and mix until they're well coated, then cook a few minutes with the lid on; 4. add the stock, lentils, tomatoes and tomato puree; 5. bring to the bubble then reduce to a low simmer and cook with the lid on until the veggies are soft and the lentils are done, the longer the better methinks; 6. serve on top of turnip rosti.

I'm pretty certain that red lentils aren't that carbiferous - but all the silly packet side nutrition data is for cooked weight, not raw (I'm supposed to get the lentils separated back out of my stew to weigh them once they're cooked how?) - and them figures above are the only ones I can find for raw (three different sources but all equally daft).

turnip rosti, FatDog & VBF recipe
turnip, peeled and grated, 24c/C5.0/F0.3/P0.7/Fi1.9/100g
......... 560g 134.40 28.00 1.68 3.92 10.64
sunflower oil, 125c/C0/F13.8/P0/Fi0/15ml
......... 90ml 750.00 0.00 82.80 0.00 0.00
s&p 0.00
total for turnip rosti 884.40 28.00 84.48 3.92 10.64
FatDog's ¼ portion of turnip rosti 221.10 7.00 21.12 0.98 2.66

Method: 1. have a kitchen slave (aka best neighbour) grate your turnip; 2. coat with oil (but next time do not allow the VBF to add the oil - she does not understand the word moderation - I'd have used half the amount) and season well with salt and pepper; 3. pack flat out onto an oiled baking tray; 4. cook in a pre-heated oven at 200C for 20 minutes then up the temperature to 230C for another 10 minutes or so to brown the top nicely.

And the turnip nutrition data is actually swede nutrition data - if anyone has reliable turnip info I'd be grateful to update this.

Oh, and the more I read Ferriss, the more I realise he's utterly bonkers (self declared "mad-man", can't remember the page) but also seriously inspired! YMMV.

Mein Gott FatDog, you are shrinking even more! Still green with envy at your ever diminishing waist measurement but well done, you must be so pleased with yourself. Wish I could be a bit more disciplined regarding my carb intake, I know they are probably my downfall!

Thank-you @callyanna - I do believe that my fantasy target of 25 inches for my waist might just be attainable after all! Would be good to get into children's clothes again - can save a fortune, and I always think that wee lassies' frocks have far nicer designs than the grown-ups

Monday, day one-hundred and thirteen, repair day

Weigh-in at start of day wt. 115.4lbs (analogue scales corrected ~113.5lbs); 0.4lbs loss
... t.measures - ub. 28.9, w. 26.2, t. 31.8, h. 35.25 inches

Report at the end-of-week 16 of low-carb : total low-carb weight loss 22.4lbs, and last week 1.6lbs lost along with up to half an inch in shrinkage! So, similar to Saturday's report, that's a slither off under-bust, double slither waist and stomach, and a half inch off hips. Jolly dee.

I'm getting *so* (unreasonably) impatient: I was beginning to mutter the "stalled" word under my breath this morning - all because I've been bouncing around the same pound for *five* days. I'm embarassed at myself, seriously!

Dinner for the next few days will be driven by the OH's haul of bargain veggies on Saturday - mainly ready prepped winter veg mixes, so think roasting and / or souping is on the menu. Oh, and a huge savoy cabbage that best neighbour brought round last night - though I think that will last a few days before having to be used - it's got AWL's borlotti bean stew written all over it.

So roasted veggies with stilton sauce it is. I had to resort to some nuts before the roasting was complete - as licking my fingers after mixing up the veggies woke up the hungry monster with a vengance. Note to self: 900g of veggies might look a lot on a roasting tray but once they've roasted and been served between three, they don't look like the centrepiece of a main meal at all...

........ Calories 531.51 Carbs 22.46 Fat 36.70 Protein 26.27 Fibre 10.16

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Tuesday, low-carb day one-hundred and fourteen, feed day

Weigh-in at start of day wt. 115.6lbs (analogue scales corrected ~113.25lbs); 0.2lbs gain
... t.measures - ub. 28.9, w. 26.2, t. 31.8, h. 35.25 inches

The eeevil scales fairy was at it this morning: 115.8, or 114.4 (yes please) or 115.6 and it kept switching off after just two readings. New battery time methinks. I lumped for 115.6lbs for the truly unscientific reasons of a) middle for diddle, b) not quite as painful as 115.8, and c) not as daft as 114.4. I do love my analogue scales though - they're showing me, quite convincingly, as 7 stone 13 and a bit / a smidgen off 50kg: I can do it! Anyone want to join the 49'ers club - aiming for 49 kilos before Christmas? If the tall girls are allowed their 69'ers club methinks we shorties should club up too

I suppose if my "wobbly hypothesis" holds water at all, the 0.2lbs gain is due to Sunday's over-carbing - which is a consolation of sorts: I'm not the stalwart that some of you folks are, tolerating random flat-lining and increases, I *need* reasons or I get *michty angsty*.

I also need @Carorees to yell at me, methinks, to get these data sorted so we can see what's going on. Except, in this case, it's more of a "bleepin' get on with it" rather than a "get a grip" that's required.

We were meant to have OH's lovely leek & cabbage mix bargains in some form with a 'cheesy lentil and carrot enhancement' for dinner tonight, but sadly the bargains had de-bargained themselves into compost fare in the fridge. So, best-neighbour's cabbage offering of the other day came to the rescue and it was a re-run of AWT's borlotti bean and cabbage stew (first run on day 48, 10th August, up-thread). But nuts and cheese had to come into play to whack the hunger pangs later, as the stew is not very calorific (originally a repair day number), which lead to a slight, but probably survivable, over-indulgence.

........ Calories 1554.13 Carbs 55.37 Fat 80.35 Protein 56.66 Fibre 22.28

Thank-you @callyanna - I do believe that my fantasy target of 25 inches for my waist might just be attainable after all! Would be good to get into children's clothes again - can save a fortune, and I always think that wee lassies' frocks have far nicer designs than the grown-ups

Grrrr!...........25" inch waist...............grrrr!,,

Ballerina x

So jealous it hurts. Fat dog I hate you (not really)