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Sign up for Little Black Dress Low Carb Bootcamp! Week 1 starts on Monday ...

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BIWI · 27/09/2012 10:46

Lots of people have already said they're up for this, so come and sign in on this thread, so we know who we all are! The wonderful WilleWaggleDagger has taken over the job of Spreadsheet Management, and you may find that your name is already on the Spreadsheet of Wonderfulness:

link to the spreadsheet

You will also find the rules and some important info about allowed veg on the tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet.

But to give you a brief summary of things:

We start on Monday, with two strict weeks of low carbing. It's important that you are strict about it, to get your body used to it and for maximum weight loss. We are also, in these two weeks, getting our bodies to switch from burning carbohydrates to burning fat - which means you will become ketogenically adapted.

There are only 10 rules to follow, and the idea behind these is to keep Bootcamp as simple as possible. There is no need to count carbs or weigh your food (unless you particularly want to). In summary, these are:


  1. Eat three, proper meals a day


  1. Avoid processed food


  1. Eat lots of fat


  1. Make sure you are eating vegetables and salads with your food


  1. Be careful about dairy (apart from butter, which is unlimited)


  1. You must drink a minimum of 2 litres of water per day


  1. No alcohol (Sorry - I did say it was strict!)


  1. No fruit


  1. No nuts/seeds


10. No sugar or artificial sweeteners

Here are the rules, with the reasons/explanations as well


One of the most important things about low carbing is preparation.

This is not an easy diet to follow if you leave you food choices until you're starving, or if you are out and about. You will quickly find that the world of on-the-go food and snacks is all about the carbohydrates! Think about what you're going to cook next week, and plan your food choices and shopping accordingly. There is no need to cook anything different for you from that which your family will be eating, although carbohydrate-centred meals (e.g. lasagne or risotto) are obviously out of the question. Focus on meals that are based around meat/fish and vegetables/salad - your family can always have potatoes with theirs, or some other form of carb.

If you're out and about, buying low carb food can be difficult. However, places like M&S Food are getting better - you can buy pre-packed cheese in individual portions, or packets of ham/chicken/prawns, for example. Olives make a great snack, and they are very low in carbs.

It's really helpful to know something about the thinking/science behind low carbing

If you can, try and do some reading up about it. Good books are:

Dr Atkins "The New Diet Revolution"
Dr Charles Clark "The New High Protein Diet"
India Knight/Neris Thomas "The Idiot Proof Diet" (there is also an IPD recipe book, which has some great recipes in it)
Dr John Briffa "Escape the Diet Trap"
Gary Taubes "The Diet Delusion"/"Why We Get Fat"

There's loads of information online, and this site is really useful

.... and obviously there will the LBD threads. We will have one weigh-in thread, and I will start a week-by-week chat thread.

DISCLAIMER

I AM NOT A DOCTOR. I AM NOT A MEDIC. I AM NOT A SCIENTIST. I AM NOT A NUTRITIONIST NOR A DIETICIAN. THE ADVICE I AM GIVING HERE IS BASED ON MY OWN UNDERSTANDING OF LOW CARBING, GLEANED FROM MY OWN READING AND EXPERIENCES OF LOW CARBING. IF YOU ARE IN ANY DOUBT AS TO WHETHER LOW CARBING IS SUITABLE FOR YOU, OR IF YOU SUFFER FROM ANY MEDICAL CONDITION OR TAKE LONG TERM MEDICATION, PLEASE CHECK WITH YOUR GP BEFORE YOU START.
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BIWI · 27/09/2012 10:46

So sign up here if you're joining:

BIWI

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PrincessSparkle86 · 27/09/2012 11:26

BIWI im in... Starting weight is 86.7 kilos... Id like to get down to 70 anything lower than that is also great!! Onwards and downwards... Wohoooos :)

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cathyandclaire · 27/09/2012 11:43

I'm in Smile By Xmas my body will no longer be 33% blubber!

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WillieWaggledagger · 27/09/2012 12:08

signing in, thanks BIWI!

i will fully update the spreadsheet on sunday afternoon/evening with everyone's names

excuse the self-indulgence but i want to get this down to remind myself. i am sort of maintaining in terms of the numbers on the scales, but i still have a wobbly layer of fat and need bootcamp to keep me on the straight and narrow. i hope to run three times a week and do shred three times a week.

the most important things for me are:

  • no sweeteners (hides empty diet coke bottle on desk... the cause of this is the half bottle glass of wine i had last night)


  • no cream (i find it very easy to overdo it and it makes me feel sluggish)


  • no chocolate (i do only eat the 90% variety, but i find it increasingly hard to limit myself to one or two squares, and feel myself slipping into dodgy eating behaviours... and the (albeit small) amount of sugar interferes with my sleeping)


all the other rules i have much less problem adhering to
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noddyholder · 27/09/2012 12:10

Thanks BIWI I am stocking up in preparation x

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Collywibbles · 27/09/2012 12:10

Me please - am not going to be a lurker this time!!

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Lorelilee · 27/09/2012 12:33

I'm in! Having been L-Cing since June and need a kick start.

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LittleFrieda · 27/09/2012 12:59

Thanks for this, looking forward to Monday.

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halfthesize · 27/09/2012 13:02

I'm in and looking forward to itGrin

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EwanHoozami · 27/09/2012 13:12

Thank you for adding me! Thanks

Great intro BIWI. the Briffa book is indeed a really useful introduction and certainly provided me with my lightbulb moment.

I'm three weeks in and five kilos down and am looking forward to my fortnight of dicsipline.

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Poppy1234 · 27/09/2012 13:29

Hello! Would love to be a part of this. Thank you so much for doing this BIWI. I don't have a great deal of weight to loose more a bit of post holiday poundage but I am convinced of the health benefits and would love to attempt bootcamp to get into the frame of mind so it becomes a way of life. Totally agree with WillieWaggledaggar, I convince myself I am being super good with my 90% chocolate and then eat far too much of it. I have a bar of Hotel Chocolat 100% in my desk drawer and it's hard work!

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MrsHerculePoirot · 27/09/2012 13:39

Signing in!

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CaptainMugwash · 27/09/2012 14:15

I'm in & looking forward to it! Spreadsheet looks amazing. Would like to loose 7-10lbs ideally. Going to treat myself to some proper scales, instead of mine which are so tiny its a best guess what they read anyway - and can alter the result by leaning slightly!

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Livelongandprosper · 27/09/2012 14:21

I'm in! Please add me to the spreadsheet, I weighed in this morning at 129lbs. The first bootcamp was a wonder for me, I lost over a stone and broke an addiction to sweet things that had been making me ill.

My eyes still like the look of sweets and cakes and puddings though and this was my downfall as since then I've had an operation and been off work for 8 weeks. Being inactive and eating the gifts of cakes, biscuits and chocolates from kind visitors (I didn't eat everything I was given and did ask people not to bring them in the end) has put 7 lbs back on and started up the blood sugar highs and lows again.

I'm going on holiday on October 13th and I want to be at least 5 lbs lighter by then. The most important thing for me though is to stamp those sweet things back down where they belong - they give me hot flushes, headaches, irritable stomach.... the list goes on. I know from last time that if I can stabilise my blood sugar I don't crave the sweeties.

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tartiflette · 27/09/2012 14:30

Count me in. I WILL get down to 9st

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butterfliesinmytummy · 27/09/2012 14:34

Sign me up please, need to take action. I'm 188 at the moment and have a milestone birthday in 9 months time. I've done low carbing before and like many, the sugar swings are my downfall so need to eliminate them completely.

Looking forward to Monday!

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Doshusallie · 27/09/2012 14:46

Signing in.

The no alcohol will be my main challenge.

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jammietart · 27/09/2012 14:57

I'm in too having lurked on LC threads before. Would like to loose 10 lbs which I think would put me firmly in a size 12. My downfalls are alcohol and fruit.

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ForSaletotheHighestBidder · 27/09/2012 15:24

I'm in, however have school reunion smack bang in the middle of the 2 week strict bootcamp. May not be able to avoid alcohol completely. Blush

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butterfliesinmytummy · 27/09/2012 15:24

Just signed myself on to the spreadsheet - is that right?

Never mind the diet rules, I haven't got the spreadsheet rules yet Blush

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BIWI · 27/09/2012 15:27

Grin

I'm sure Willie will sort you out soon. (That sounds really weird ...)

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ForSaletotheHighestBidder · 27/09/2012 15:35

Oops- 176 lb as at today.

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coldcat · 27/09/2012 15:43

Hello everyone ....been a lurker long enough also, so count me in....hoping for a loss of 10lbs - 1 stone. The padding layer must go!

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sybilfaulty · 27/09/2012 16:11

Hello everyone

Thanks for the thread and the spreadsheet girls. I'm in and looking forward to it. I may change name in honour of the Great British Bake off, but am happy to remain Sybil on the spreadsheet. I'll weigh on Monday morning and we'll go from there.

Hurray! Much looking forward.

Cheers >

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Limonata · 27/09/2012 16:24

Hello - I'd like to un-lurk and join too please... been low carbing since August (thanks to this thread - thank you BIWI!) but need a kick start, as like others I have trouble with a) avoiding alcohol and b)avoiding lots of dark chocolate... the Lindt Sea Salt one in particular...
Am 9st 11 as of this morning, I'd like to get down to nearer 9 though. I LOVE the LC way of eating. Since doing it I have slept better, have improved PMT, skin looks better, more energy.. the list goes on. God knows how good I'd feel if I could knock the booze on the head..... Wine

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