Week 2 - Low Carb Bootcamp Jan 2014

[BIWI]

Wow! So much nattering that we've filled up the thread before the end of the week!

Here's the link to the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness for tomorrow morning.

And, for the Weight Tracker I'm not quite sure what happens with this link I think that you will be asked to enter your weight for this week and then you will see your individual graph.

I hope you all had a good week last week, and very good luck for week 2.

Good news - I've lost 5lbs. Bad news - I had lost 8 a few days ago but 3 have reappeared. However, I am not dwelling on the bad news bit since a) I've had the cold from hell and everything about my body has gone a bit haywire this week, b) I wasn't able to do (keep down) the three meals a day strictly, and c) I feel so very very different anyway - all sort of gathered in and taut and precise.

So hoorah for 5lbs and hoorah for finally beginning to feel more human, and hoorah for finding I will be in better shape recovering than I was before getting ill!

(p.s. I would measure, but there's no heating in my house and I only have an old metal builder's tape measure, and the thought of unwrapping my cosy layers to wrap a freezing bit of metal around my waist... )

Morning all. Didn't post yesterday as I was waiting to check that my weight loss had 'stuck' (and that it WAS the woosh fairy and not the dehydration fairy as BIWI suggested that visited me on Sunday morning after a splash bottle of prosecco on Saturday night). Whoosh indeed! After 2 weeks of full bootcamp (I'm all or nothing, if I'd done a soft start I would have binged so just started a week early instead) I have lost 11lb! I am thrilled and a total convert. And now absolutely have to stick to it because I keep waxing lyrical about smothering everything in butter. If I don't lose the weight everyone will definitely think 'well what did she think would happen smothering things in butter and putting cream in her coffee?!'

I also feel my attitude to food has changed. Whenever I see people trying to lose weight in other ways (like my colleague who just brings fruit in for lunch) I feel very smug. I had tried everything in the past, and can't believe I expected ww/sw to be sustainable. I am no longer manic about food. I consume it, it doesn't consume me. I was the biggest bread and pasta fan and now I really don't understand why. It's so bland! Just like eating cardboard with your proper dinner. Why have spaghetti instead of deliciously olive oily peppery courgette-i. It's even quicker to cook!

I think I may have become a radicalised lcer thanks to BIWI and bootcamp...

Whoosh fairy :) 1.6lb down (I think mainly because I hadn't been to the loo for a few days). Now 20% lighter than I was at the start of September :) 16lb to target :)

Can I join please? Im not sure if i've added my name - I am hopeless with speadsheets. If not could somebody add me please, I am 189lbs today.
Thanks

WARNING - TMI INVOLVING BOWELS

Had a bit of a runny bum a few days ago and haven't been properly since. Still getting the urge to go every morning but all I'm passing is an eggcupful of porridgey-consistency. Sorry

I'm assuming as it's not hard I don't need a stool softener - what do I take to have a really good clear out??

Maybe that's all that there is? I don't go to the loo as often now and there's seldom much there when I do.

Jax, enjoy your relaxing day, you defo deserve it. Hope you feel better very soon.
Me the,I hope you are also feeling better, panic attacks are the work of the devil.

Yesterday I had
B- scrambled egg and 2 bits of bacon
L- broccolli soup
D- nandos chicken salad (without dressing) but I did eat dh's left over chicken skin.
I drank 4l of water and 2 cups of green tea

Today I plan on eating
B- ff yog with splash of cream
L- cottage pie
D- ribeye steak, mashed turnip and broccolli (yum).
Snacks if any will be, cheese, celery sticks and pepper slices.

Calamity, I was blocked up, didn't go to the loo for around 2 weeks. I bought some tablets from boots and have been taking one before bed for the past 4 nights. Well, let's just say they worked this morning (I should have weighed myself after), I feel about 4 stone lighter now!

Gerry, fab loss, that's great! Know exactly what you mean about feeling smug, btw. I know it's not something to be proud of but it does happen - you feel as if you've found the magic key!

I find myself inordinately interested in the contents of other people's shopping trollies as well

Thanks fourarms and blizy!

Nelllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy You have mail from meeeeeee!!!

Morning Losers :)

Morning all. Am slightly depressed that my masochistic tendency to daily weigh now shows I'm almost 3lb up on yesterday. Really didn't think I overdid it, although I DID have a large portion of low-carb lasagne. Just to check I put the ingredients into MFP and it's coming up as about 12g per large portion. Anyway, I know the drill, daily weighing can show fluctuations etc... but it's making me feel a bit meh nonetheless.

I know it's a massive cliche, but yesterday I did an ENORMOUS food shop at Lidl and am in at how bloody cheap it is. I have shopped there before (through necessity, we lived in Switzerland at the time and the alternative was paying £20 for a small packet of nappies and I had twins ) but have forgotten just how amazing it is. Everything I bought is of good quality, trolley full of vegetables and meat, and either I'd forgotten how good the variety is or they've improved it recently. I managed to pick up swede, celeriac, leeks, kale, smoked salmon, parmesan, fresh chicken breasts, steak, mince, etc etc and the prices are just fantastic. Massive shop, easily enough for a week's food, at £65. I'm a convert (again). As an example, I think I paid £4.49 for a 1kg tub of Total from Ocado, the Lidl greek yoghurt was £1.89 for the same sized tub.

Anyway, I know I'm probably preaching to the converted but still

Food for today:

B - scrambled eggs/smoked salmon + creamy coffee x 2
L - leftover lasagna with salad
D - steak + wilted spinach

Morning everyone, hope you are all doing ok? No time to read back yet this morning but will do at some point.

Am feeling a bit fed up today . Feel fat and useless, couldn’t even be bothered to get up and go to the gym today so I stayed in bed instead.

Nevertheless, I will crack on. Got all day meeting today in which there will be cake. Hope I can keep the willpower in place to avoid. Plan is:

B: eggs, ham and butter
L: Tuna salad with basil olive oil
D: salmon, courgettes and leeks fried in butter

Lots of water, a few decaffs – mostly black but one with cream.

Great post gerry that's how I feel too.

Thumb maybe that's not such a good idea then! I can happily eat butter straight from the pack - bit of butter on the spoon then a little bit of marmite. Who needs the toast?! When DD was little it was quite common to find teeth marks in the butter when you opened the packet - she'd swipe it out of the fridge when no one was looking and take big bites out of it. Born to be a low carber, my girl. Mind you, on one memorable occasion we heard (sitting in bed upstairs) the fridge door open, a pause, and then a looooooong farting sound. Transpired she was emptying the squeezy tomato ketchup bottle straight into her mouth.

Great post Sybil. What happened about your job in the end?

Athel I want to feel gathered in and taut and precise! I don't think I've ever felt like that in my life....
And at the thought of you shivering in the cold trying to wrap a metal tape measure around yourself. Buy a sewing tape measure, woman!

I woke up very motivated today, I've just come back from the supermarket - I dropped four boxes of chocolates, bags of crisps and packets of biscuits and crackers in the food bank bin. And I've put my son's junk food in one small cupboard that I don't need to look in.

I'm having 2 boiled eggs and some turkey ham for breakfast, then I'm making a list of all the food I have inc expiry dates and making a meal plan for the week.

In the interests of seeing where I'm going wrong this time around - so baffling as this has worked for me twice before - I'm going to log my diet here.

Please, please if any one spots the problems do let me know.

B: ham and cheese, cucumber, celery
L: Homemade LC Brocc & Cauli soup
D: Fish florentine as per the recipe thread, with chard wilted in butter

1 litre of water already this morning, and one cup of tea

Calamity You have said goodbye to the era of the carby megapoo

Less waste in, less waste out. Or something more sciencey.

TinTin it all looks good, but are you eating enough? That's not loads of food, What other fats did you eat apart from the cheese for breakfast and butter with the chard?

And for those who haven't seen the loss coming yet - keep at it. This way of eating works. Those rules

Morning!
So glad to be waking up feeling better, and had to remind myself to eat breakfast!! That is just SO unlike me - hunger has woken me for the last 20 years :)
I had a really productive 'organising my recovery' sort of day yesterday, so am really pleased with that. Starting online CPD modules from today - this is all great in my little world.

And I ate:
B: 2 scrambled eggs, 1 rasher bacon, 2 chipolatas (Tesco finest are

Ewan I seem to have said goodbye to anything that looks remotely like a poo at all

On the upside (again, TMI sorry) they are remarkably un smelly....

Morning!

jax and methe hope you're both feeling better soon.

I have just got back from DD' s first dyslexia tutor session, the only place to sit whilst waiting is the local church's coffee shop (I had great plans to go for a walk as it's right by the common but the freezing fog we've got down here this morning put paid to that idea) - they do amazing homemade cakes and there on the counter was the world's largest,moistest, most delicious-looking coffee & walnut cake... I resisted temptation and had a black coffee.

Calamity, I'm having the same issue - never had this on low carb before, it's always been 'normal' but less frequent - this is like having intermittent diahorrea but never feeling fully cleared out (apols for tmi). It's been over a week now so I'm going to take something. And drink more water :)

Today is shopping day, I'm about to consult the recipe thread for ideas. I went to Aldi last week and was astonished at how cheap it was. Unfortunately they didn't have everything I needed and the top up in Sainsbury's cost as much as all the meat and most of the veg I'd bought there - for a few lousy bits and bobs!

Today's proposed menu is:

B - leftover Bolognese
L - salad of some description
D - roast chicken with celeriac dauphinoise and greens

I've noticed that CK - I also don't get 'wind' any more! My DH thinks I'm lying about that!