Week 3 Low Carb Bootcamp - Where we stand at the crossroads ...

[BIWI]

Morning everyone.

So, we enter the fabled week 3.

This week you have a choice. You can either continue with Bootcamp or you can move on to Bootcamp Light:

Rules of Bootcamp Light

Or you can do a hybrid - Bootcamp during the week and Bootcamp Light at the weekend. Totally up to you and what you find is working for you the most.

Don't forget to enter your weight on the weight tracker - today you should see your graph appear! Or if you prefer, here is the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

And now - a word of warning!

It is very, very, very common for weight loss to slow down/stop altogether in weeks 3, 4 and/or 5. This seems to be entirely normal. It's probably to do with your body adjusting to low carbing. You will have junked the glycogen stores and a load of water, and will now be burning fat. From here on, weight loss will - and should be - around 1-2lbs a week

Good luck everyone!

I'm still here! 9.5lbs down. So thrilled.

I keep meaning to update my weight, but I'm hopeless at keeping up with the thread. Off to do that now.

I am regularly amazed (note the regularly!) at just how good G&T tastes and it has definitely got better since I am on this WOE. Oddly I seem to have gone off wine, find it terribly acidic and makes me feel sick but gin? OMG! You know when you taste it and get that real sense of wonder as to how can it be this good?
Think I'm turning into a real gin weirdo!

I understand Piscivorus Have you tried it with cucumber instead of lemon/lime?

googoogoogles thank you heaps.

Cider - I try to eat during the day & drink plenty when I am giving blood but often I forget and feel even more dire. Giving blood makes me feel really awful and fainting is a real probabilty possibility each and every time, but I have to pretend I am fine (or else they stop!) the new chairs are The Bizz though :) I take a packet of macadamia's with me - my treat :) Well done resisiting the wine!!

Rup - How, that's all I want to know H O W ?

Crabby - Have you ever been to NZ? She is a lucky wee monster who will have a fab time and will be soooo pleased to see you in a month! x I agree, just enjoy DD's birthday today , do what you can and jump back on the wagon on Thursday or Friday once you stop sobbing as long as you DO, rather than languish under the wheels of the wagon. HERE is my hand to pull you up when you are ready x

The thought of raw egg makes me puke, so NOOOO chance of me licking the spoon/whisk - occasionally being no-egg has its advantages!! I should have baked the sponges for you!

Is DD back from the hairdressers yet? What colour is her hair??

While DD is away we will have to go out with Rup for lunch and ply her with wine fizzy water until she squeals!!

I think you will find that about 400 BC's ago I suggested that you do 'meals to order' 'take outs'

Hello to all shouting shit on this fine wet Wednesday ! ( Yes crabby - VERY wet in Somerset - boats are the way to travel!)

Firstly to crabby, hope it will pass quickly, and thoughts are with you.

athelstone - new trousers several sizes smaller - thats amazing, you must be delighted ! My treat to myself when I have finishes bootcamp is a whole load of new work clothes. I haven't bought any for years , as I keep thinking I may loose weight one day - now is the time i WILL !

Piscivorus. at gin wierdo - absolutely 100% know where you are coming from - I am the same...... its orgasmic [shocked]

B - scrambled eggs
L - courgetti with Philly, cream and Parmesan (predict this will form large part of meals until addiction wears off but it's just sooooo goooood)
D - plan to have garlic prawns with cauli rice. Haven't tried the rice yet. Hoping its as good as the courgetti!

I've stalled - was at 11st 4.5 but now stuck at 11st 5. Happy to plod on though. Food is so good, not craving crap and water is easier.

grumble grumble trend friend grumble grumble [grumpy face]

It is orgasmic and getting more so as time goes on! I must admit I like Gordons, it has a very crisp edge to it but I also love Hendricks with cucumber. Has anyone else noticed how expensive it has gone at the moment, £20/L in Sainsburys , I might have to try the Aldi one!

One of my standby drinks in the summer is cucumber and mint in fizzy water on the odd occasions when gin is not practical.

Gordons it is then - I'll give it another go. Do you have it with Diet Tonic or something else?

I haven't tried cucumber (& mint) in water - it sounds utterly vile - but I will try it in the summer - you just never know, I might like it it's highly unlikely though!!

I love Bombay Sapphire so much. So much so that it's no good buying any. I'd just drink every day and spend all my time pished and never lost any weight and never got anything done...

I like Bombay Sapphire too, in fact I never met a gin I didn't like!

Somehow I just always gravitate back to Gordons as it's cheaper I love that sharper edge

I'll admit to falling in love with Bombay Sapphire ads in National Geograhipcs etc before I ever even tasted it. They were so pretty and blue and "exotic"! [sucker] So it might not be all down to the taste for me. Although it was a disappointment that the gin itself wasn't blue!

I prefer it with fizzy water these days, but cucumber and mint sounds interesting. I just may have to invest in a small bottle in some point...

Hi there
Just saying hello.... all seems to be going quite well for me. Am about 9lbs down since 13 Jan, although it seems to bob up and down a couple of pounds each day. Yes I know, I weigh every day. There is something weirdly compelling about it.
I'm finding breakfast the most difficult, as its often one meal i have on the run, and I'm getting seriously bored of random veg and cold meat in a frittata.
But otherwise, I'm feeling fab and although I have a long way to go (I reckon about another 25lbs) I'm feeling positive. I have (had?) the worst sweet tooth and could inhale chocolate, but I seem to have lost my burning need for it after every meal. However, its a weekend away with the girls leaving men and kids at home this weekend, so that could cause chaos when the meal planning is out of my control.
Hope you are all feeling positive.
And for those on you on the Gin conversation, have you tried the Waitrose gin with Earl Grey - its a Heston Blumenthal concoction - very weird but lovely, and feels cocktailish.
Thanks again for all your support. I wouldn't be doing this without Biwi and the rest of you.

I found my last gin & diet tonic soapy.

Maybe it was the gin or the diet tonic -- but definitely no desire to drink more.

I'm going to try making a favourite American style lasagne recipe (uses Parmesan, mozzarella and cottage cheese/ricotta mixed with England) - thinking of doing it one half with flattened out sheets of leeks and the other half with ribbons of courgette tagliatelle and see which one we could prefer. Think it would be very yummy.

WoE going really well except for the 3/4 bottle of wine drunk at our extra Burns Night Supper on Monday night - dh and I are really enjoying our homemade coleslaw for lunches. Having loads of vegetables - lovely and healthy.

Are we allowed as much double cream as we like? I've gone through a big 600ml tub in three days... Is that bad?

Hello everybody,
I have just found this thread and joined the bootcamp page, I am trying to lose around 4 stone, I weighed in at 14st11lb when I started and was 14st7lb 1 week later. I am due to weigh in again tomorrow.

Well done & welcome bogie

AthelstaneTheUnready fab news re posh trousers!!

I went to work today in a pair of trousers I bought in 2003. :) I lost a bit more weight after buying them in the Feb, then got pg in the June & they haven't fitted since (apart from during extreme BFing but I wasn't working then so didn't wear them). I kept them because they cost £50 which was a lot for a pair of trousers IMO - but they're wool & very comfy. Hoping they won't fit for long!!

Athel - great news!
Prettybird - I've used aubergine strips as lasagne before, v successfully. Only time I liked aubergine!

Aldi gin is £10? Might have to switch from vodka...

Gin is apparently in short supply because bunnies are scoffing all the juniper berries - Daily Fail link complete with photo of a glass of aforementioned G&T just in case we don't know what one looks like.

Sad times

Well done on the trousers Athel

The Aldi gin is nice. I have Greenalls at the mo, and it is cheap and cheerful.

Urghhhhh well of all the disappointments this is surely up there with the worst!!

Upon advice from lovely Mumsnetters I bought some pork scratchings from Tesco ( God I hate that shop). I've just opened them and the texture is more like Quavers, they are very light and airy, barely salty at all. I could cry, the last time I had pork scratchings they were dense and had a strong salty taste with creamy fatty bits. Granted this was over twenty years ago, but still.

Have I just been unlucky? The brand I bought were Pub Original Pork Crunch. Stay away people, stay away!!