Morning all
Here's the Spreadsheet
I love this week, seeing how much weight people lose, and especially as it's always such a surprise for newbies and those who feared that this WOE wouldn't work!
I hope you've all seen good results.
If you haven't - don't despair, but have a think about the week just gone. Look at what you were eating/drinking and consider how well you followed Bootcamp rules.
Any problems, as ever, post them on the thread.
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Week 2 - May '18 Low Carb Bootcamp - my favourite week!
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BIWI · 21/05/2018 07:20
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Divette ·
21/05/2018 07:29
Thank you BIWI for the new thread and thanks for everything you’re doing for us BCers. I do read when I get chance, don’t get much time to post but am here and LCing my head off! 
6lbs down for me. 4lbs down for my DP who joined me until the weekend when he had all sorts of things he shouldn’t (toast, rice, baked beans, bread, potato salad, pasta and an ice cream literally as big as his head!) He was surprised this morning he hadn’t lost as much as me...that’ll teach him! 
I’ve added my weight to the spreadsheet but the blue column still says 0 while I’ve noticed others show their loss. Any ideas?
Thank you!
BIWI ·
21/05/2018 07:32
It's changed now, @Divette! Great result, and hopefully your DH will have learnt his lesson
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BIWI ·
21/05/2018 07:34
Yay!
Oh, and by the way, from your post on the other thread - pork scratchings are perfect low carb food, so don't worry about snacking on those!
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BIWI ·
21/05/2018 07:42
Oh, and for all of you saying 'it's water weight', yes some of it is, a lot of it is the fact that you have used/are using up your glycogen stores - that's the energy that your body stores from carbs, in your liver and muscles. By consuming fewer carbs, you've used up this excess. A small part of the loss will be fat.
From now on, it will be fat that you're losing, which is why the rate of loss will slow down. Your glycogen stores account for anything from 3-7lbs, I believe.
This is why you see an initial loss low carbing that's generally higher than any other diet - any other diet doesn't use the glycogen.
Incidentally, when you hear people talk about marathon runners 'hitting the wall' or distance cyclists 'bonking', what they mean is that they have used all their glycogen up, for energy. It's why there are so many high carb gels and drinks that people use for these kind of events.
When we're fat-adapted, we won't experience that (in case any of you are thinking about running a marathon or taking part in the Tour de France ), because we use our body fat for fuel. And even elite athletes, who have very low body fat levels, have enough fat to fuel them.
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farine ·
21/05/2018 07:47
Morning all
3lbs down for me (but not recording on spreadsheet). Pleased with this as I never experience whooshes on first week.
Hoping for a 3lb loss this week too.
Happy weight loss day everyone 
exitlight ·
21/05/2018 07:49
Thanks @BIWI for the new thread.
-6lbs for me, even with my half a week of not enough water (If one is honest, one is still building up to the amount one is supposed to be drinking...
...don’t know why I’m finding it so tricky but getting there so, yay)
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