Week 2 - Low Carb Bootcamp Jan 2014

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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.

The ones I get (Tesco Very Fine Whole Green Beans or something similar) are 4.7g carbs per 100g so not strictly Bootcamp but not the worst offenders either.

I'm really bloated today! I've been so good as well. I forgot to take veg to work so had green beans. That's the only different thing I've done.

Trashcan post your diet for past few days let us have a look x

Just slotting this in for fun -

MyPrecious- I drank too much prosecco, hope you're feeling better than I am!

Hamsta- well done

I've had leg cramps threatening for 24 hours now - do I need more salt?

Myprecious - can you not see the biscuit with the wee hat on?

snowie - hope you get through the day ok . DH will be ok and can call you if not . ' All things will pass " - but hope it's not too draining whilst he recovers . It's so easy to put yourself last in this type of situation - eg feeding everyone else and then thinking - right what shall I have .... But sounds like you are the engine room - keeping all going , so You come first ...
Hope today is bearable !

ugh i have a sugar hangover. my mouth feels all claggy, things that stopped itching on low carb are now itching again and despite being exhausted last night i didn't get to sleep until gone one. and that's not even everything.

sugar is bullshit. except for these , which i very much approve of.

back to bootcamp today! will be hitting the water hard!

sorry to hear about your dh snowie, and yy to remembering to take care of yourself (though i know how difficult this can be with a dh recuperating from an accident).

Phew! Have avoided this thread this weekend becuDe I had a poppadom and chutney on Friday (followed by a creamy curry and no rice so that was good) and a glass of wine and then 5 x dark chocolate brandy beans then had half a bottle of red yesterday and another 8 chocolate brandy beans. I felt very bad and tempted to give up.
Having read the thread I feel better that this is obviously a familiar moment of naughtiness and it isn't going to derail me forever!
I have also worked out my trigger - I put on a lb on fri despite being really good the rest of the week and so I had a fuck it moment. That's crap, isn't it? I think I had a couple of lunches that wee just cold meat and cheese and that's probably why.

Also - quite constipated? Any ideas on ways to help that?

Sorry to hear about your hubby snowie, hopefully everything's good soon xx

Kasbah, do you think the meat and cheese lunched have made you stall?i have that quite a lot..

I had a long talk with the hubby yesterday, he is very supportive of me and this woe, although he doesn't get the fat thing so I've been feeling a bit of a fat cow adding butter to asparagus and eating fatty foods, especially on a weekend when he's here.. Anyway, I do overthink everything and he's helped me see that this is a long term change, which I'm happy with, and be it that I've only lost 3lbs in a fortnight if I can keep that up for a year then I'm easily at my target. It kind of makes my decision for me in March, but if it does, so be it. Doesn't stop me being a bit jealous of all these big losses that everyone is getting though... Sorry :-( I'm still kind of hoping that my big loss will still come, although mindful that it probably won't.

I also messed up last night I think, night 14, I haven't let a single thing before pass my lips that I shouldn't , I'd read on here about people mentioning pork scratchings, so I had to buy some yesterday, then proceeded to eat 6, yes 6 bags of them last night! I'm not sure how much that will have messed things up, but I did resist the bud that dh was drinking, were not big drinkers but normally have 2 bottles of bud on a Saturday night and really enjoy it, so I guess that would have been worse!!

I'm going to try bpc too. Today. I used to love coffee but haven't drunk it since being pregnant with my 4th!

And to the runners, I am so impressed! Dh runs and I've wanted to for ages, I've downloaded the c25k a while ago but can't do it til ie lost some weight, I'm far too self conscious at my size first

Mlig don't be afraid to start C25K it starts you off easily and it your size doesn't matter when you are out running. I have done it and it was a good way to get exercise in without a bunch of fuss.

My sister who was obsese before a gastric bypass did C25K. When you are larger and exercising you have to remember you are doing it for you and your health and any one who is bothered about your size needs to take a .

The comment about cramps was an "a-ha" moment - that would explain why I was getting cramp in my feet so often on Thursday in my Pilates class. There's usually only position I have to be careful about, but it was starting in even innocuous exercises.

Burns Night wasn't too much of a disaster: haggis (obviously [bgrin] hope b is the way to get a hat as am on iPod and can't see) but lots of neeps and half a bottle of red wine

The one on Monday with friends might be more "dangerous" as I'm making Cranachan for that [bblush]

The land of carb feeders ( DM & DF ) is working out better than expected !
They are partial to massive cooked brekkie - so I am going bacon /eggs , then DM was in a fuss about feeding so many today that we are off to the local carvary - easy peasy I am guessing - meat / cauliflower cheese & veg ( unless wise ones have any carvary type advice / warnings of hidden sugar ?)
They seem to like 'high tea ' which is a carb fest of cake , piles of sarnies and all manner of sugar laden items ...... So I feigned ' full up ' from lunch and then had cheese / cucumber later .
So - hoping for trend being my friend ! Will weigh Tues am as on the road from Derbyshire back to Somerset sparrow fart time tomorrow ... Straight to nursery/ schl/ work ( before going back to bathroom hell )

Happy Sunday to all !

I too survived Burns Night reasonably unscathed. Cock-a-leekie soup and a small amount of pearl barley in it and I managed to get myself a plate of haggis and neeps without any potato. When it came to pudding time I stayed in the kitchen washing up till most people were well into theirs and then slipped my tub of whipped cream, cocoa and frozen raspberries out of my bag and stuck it in DH's empty pudding bowl (there were more than 30 people in a church hall, so not like I was in someone's house). I did get asked what I was eating by a neighbour so I said that as I'm not drinking I knew I wouldn't want the tipsy laird v. alcoholic trifle so I bought some raspberries and cream with me. And then (this was the really hard bit...) I ignored the plate of M&S shortbread in front of me, and the cake that came round as well. And I took my own pint glass because I knew the water glasses on the table would be stupidly small, so I managed to drink 3 1/2 pints of water over the evening as well.

And yes - the scales are down this morning :) :) :)

Thanks, everyone . What a wonderful, supportive place this is.

I stopped at one glass, took me ages to drink it alongside a pint of water. Have had a bit of Total, cream and cinnamon for breakki and I'm on my second coffee. DS is fed, need to sort out cooked breakfastfor DH and then of to the match. Helping DH to and from the toilet is good excercise!

Re cramps. I don't suffer from them, but DH does, quite badly and he takes quinine sulfate for them. If you don't fancy a visit to the GP for it, lots of tonic water should help.

In awe of all of you runners.... I've never been able to and I'm hugely . Well done!

Chicken, another fibro martyr here... I do find this WOE really helps. Losing weight in itself has to be a good thing, ie less flesh about to hurt! Luckily, I sleep like a log, getting me up is the problem . I have to do it in stages, otherwise I crawl about until my tendons stretch enough to allow me to walk normally. Warming up exercises in bed are my secret to looking normal first thing in the morning. I find myself less tired and have more energy towards the end of the day, I'd be interested in comparing experiences with you - it is a big experiment to find out what helps and what hinders, isn't it?

Happy munching everyone! Don't forget to sip, sip, sip that water!

God I can take stupidity to another level! I've been intrigued by the egg in a cup that people are talking of, so thought I ought to try it. I've just made it, thought a bowl would be easier to mangle it up in, and was feeding the girls too so sat at the table to sort it. I was dumbstruck that it turned out liquidy, and had sat down with a fork to eat it! Obviously the name egg in a CUP hadn't given it away to me that it was actually a drink lol

Mirpuppet, I don't really have anywhere away from houses to go out, so loads of people will see me panting away lol

Morning all,

Had three double gins and soda water last night. Was v odd at first as I was expecting the tonic flavour but was used to it by the end.

1lb on this morning, but am hoping that's down to the salt in my belly pork.

Out for lunch today. Will avoid the carbs but may have a glass of wine

Had cake and gin yesterday. Amazingly another 1lb down but this could be due to the rather large deposit I made this morning.

mlig egg in a cup shouldn't be liquid. I eat mine with afofork/spoon.

Boil eggs, I do hardboiled but I'm sure some will do soft, peel. Stick in cup (or bowl) add butter chop with a knife.

EAT! that's what I'm having this morning.