Bootcamping in another time zone

[hazchem]

I'm bootcamping but live in OZ. I have found I get lost in the main thread because it all happens when I'm sleeping. I though I might do the food recording here in the hope there might be some others who are also not on GMT.
Day 1
Breakfast Egg and coconut flour pancakes
Lunch Grilled halmoui with salad including some tomatoes and mayo and humous
Dinner BBQ Lamb shoulder (in wine) with spinach, mayo, cucumber and tomotoes
Sancks/others stuff: I had about 4 coffees and teas yesterday which I have milk with. And then in the evening a fat bomb and some greek yoghurt :(

Day 2
Breakfast Lamb shoulder (in wine) with spinach, mayo, cucumber and tomotoes

Just checked the pack of Green Beans and it's only 2.2 grams per 100g so under the magic 3 grams

Dinner was yummy scotch fillet on the bbq swede chips, garlic ailoi and salad. :)

B- creamy mushrooms and bacon with a fried egg
L- will be salads with cold meat
D- Beef with buttery spinach

TOM started today. Glad I'm not having any cravings for sweet things. I am not snacking at all so must be in ketosis. Officially back to work in 2 days though so that will be the real test.

Me too Febes. I am partly blaming that for my weight gain.

I'm going to really spend the next months sticking to bootcamp solid so by the time I hit POAS time again I've lots at least 5 kilos.

B: mushrooms, green beans 2 eggs, butter, 1 coffe with cream one without one tea with milk.

Yay for me! Managed breakfast!
B - 1 egg omelette with double cream, mushroom and cheese
Not sure what lunch is going to be as I'm about to go out to the zoo with the boys, last day before the elder one goes back to school tomorrow.

L lettuce, mayo, cheese, cucumber, stick of carrot, olives, sliced toms

D) Chicken stirfry I used a "Malaysian" stirfry frozen veg mix as it had the lowest. And had it with the slender noodles that are low carb/no carb. added some coconut cream to it because it wasn't fatty.

Evening snack) coconut cream, yoghurt and double cream, i wont have it again.

Ketosis copped it today.
Lunch fail - started well with a Babybel cheese and a protein bar but then went horribly wrong when DS1 refused to finish his admittedly enormous banana, and DS2 only managed a small bit of it, leaving me with nearly half a banana. I should have binned it, but just couldn't.
Further fail as it got hotter and hotter - we were waiting until 2:30 to pat a baby wombat (you just have to, don't you?!) - so we ended up having ice cream. Lime and pineapple split for me and DS2; DS1 had his own.
Drank lots though!
Yet more fail on the way home - stopped at fruit stand (was dropping with tiredness) and bought cherries - then ate lots some.

D - prawn salad. Very nice.
S - hard boiled egg and Boursin in iceberg lettuce wraps. And then some cheese.

Obvs the sugar has brought back the late night starving routine again.

Hey ho, back on the wagon tomorrow...

B- Silverbeet with bacon and mushrooms and an egg
L- Salads with cold meat
D- Beef with buttered greens

I am being positively saintly eating and waterwise but I am feeling blah this week. Must be due to TOM as I am fitting into new trousers but I want to feel slimmer

When are you comming to visit us for real BIWI I'm sure I've ask HQ for a special Mumsnet Academy session in the survey :)

You gotta kick those protien bars thumbwitch :) Loads of water over the next day or two and you get back into Ketosis.

febes your meals sound yummy

Not sure the protein bars were the problem, Haz!
But yes, they're supposed to be only for a treat. I only took it because it was an easy protein/low carb lunch snack.

B - slice of cheese (yes not much but better than nowt)
L - leftover prawns in garlic and butter with a chopped avocado and chopped cucumber, mixed with the remains of the home made tzatziki.

Done at least a litre of fluid today so far, so going better. :)

If only, haz! We were supposed to be coming to Oz this summer, but as DH is redundant at the moment (voluntarily), things are a bit up in the air!

BIWI hope things stablize for you guys soon.

Yesterday
b) Eggs and green beans
L) stirfry as above but no noodles

S) cheese
D) bacon and eggs and a bit of lettuce
S) fat bomb

Today
B) broccoli and eggs in butter, coffee with mlk, coffee with cream about 2 liters of water already. (it's 26 degrees inside the house already)

First official day back to work. We had a first aid course with lunch of bread rolls and slices for after. I took my own yummy left over lunch of taragon chicken and cabbage. Much better!!

B- Bacon, mushroom omelette
L- Taragon Chicken and cabbage
D- Beef stirfry with cauli rice
We ate at 5pm with the kids so I might have some mascarpone cheese and cocoa later.

Oh mascarpone cheese and cocoa sound really tasty.

It was

Where did everyone go???
I posted on the recipe thread by mistake the other day. Am back at work now (teacher) didn't drink enough water today.
Ran with the kids for 10 min though. Nearly died!!!
B- Bacon and mushrooms with fried egg
L- Salad and cold meat
D- will be BBQ with salad and courgette bake thingy

I'm in hiding after being carby twat over the weekend. I'm lucky almost a pound down seeing dominos featured as part of saturdays menu.

Sunday was a better. I tried the macapone and cocoa very yummy febes

Today is going well
b) Mushrooms, eggs, butter and coffee with cream
l) lettuce, salmon, mayo, cheese, cucumber and coffee with milk.
oh and about 3L of water.

Also been a carby twat and lost some incentive - but trying very hard to get back on track again.

Weight still hovering around the just-above-12st mark, I'm trying to get it below but oh it's hard to keep going!

I tried to make swede crisps the other day but it all went horribly wrong and they ended up crisp all right, and black as soot! Inedibly so. Haven't tried again yet.

So, am a wee bit disillusioned and not doing so well but trying to keep going.

So what's the alternative, Thumb? Back to calorie-counting? Low fat foods with all manner of artificial ingredients - never mind the sugar!

This stage of low carbing is tough, because you've shed water weight, emptied your glycogen stores, and your body is shifting itself into fat-burning mode rather than carb-burning mode. From 4 or 5 weeks onwards, though, you will be burning fat only, so you will see your weight loss start up again. But only if you keep your carbs sufficiently low. If you keep pushing them up by cheating, all you're doing is delaying the process.

I'm not sure why I'm finding it so hard this time. I have boot camped before and it was really successful. I lost weight pretty much every week and felt great. I don't know what is going on with my head space that makes me "give in". In the last year I've put on approx 25 kilos so I need to sort it out. I have an appointment tomorrow with a psychologist and I'm hoping that I can talk though what ever is making me hold onto this excess weight.

BIWI - I have never calorie counted in my life. I have only ever dieted once before in my life, and put ON weight. This is a novel experience for me and so it's not, possibly, that surprising that I'm struggling with it.

Realistically one of my problems is that I KNOW how it works, I KNOW about the good foods, I taught people about them for years fgs; but I have troubles relating the practice of what I preach to myself. I've known for years that I need to cut down on sugar intake; but I've let all my "If I reach X weight, I'll definitely do something about it" weights slip by - and the ONLY thing that made me go "WAH!" was realising that my jawline had almost gone missing, and was segue-ing into my neck. Guess what - that is no longer the case, so that extremely disturbing visual impetus has gone.

So. I'll get there - I know that even one slip halts ketosis, realistically - but it's one hell of an adaptation for me.

At least you KNOW though, Thumb!

Best advice I can give you at this stage is to make the decision to stick with it, plan for it, and then stop stressing about it. It's a WOE not a diet. Some weeks will be good, some will be bad and some will be downright ugly.

Thanks both to Thumb and BIWI it's the conversation need to have at this stage too.