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!

Week 4 Chat thread here

Morning everyone, I have put my weight on spread sheet, could someone check that I have done it right please?

You have indeed! Shortly the very lovely Willie will re-alphabetise it too. Welcome

Morning BIWI, I started last Thursday following all the amazing people on here using their ideas and wow! have lost 4lb in 4 days!

Well done! Make sure you're really familiar with the rules - and have a good read of this week 3 thread, to prepare yourself for when the weight loss slows down.

(And don't get obsessed with daily weighing!)

Biwi, isn't wine allowed in BC light? And also some fruit (ok, clearly the fruit I had was the wrong type )?
Keep shouting at me, though. Somehow it helps!

Alcohol is allowed, but only in moderation. And there are lots of carbs in wine. Vodka/gin/rum with sparkling water is the best thing to drink - no carbs.

BIWI I can list out what I’ve eaten but I don’t think it’s going to help. I know full well where I am going wrong – I seem to have one day a week where I cheat and that sets me back to where I was a month ago.

Friday (this was my bad day, but rare to eat like this)
B: Total, cream
L: Chicken soup and a slice of wholemeal bread (at a friend’s house so tricky)
D: Meal out – eek…
Starter: Prosciutto, mozzarella and fig salad,
Main: Slow roast pork, creamed cabbage, mouthful of dauphinoise potato, about half a dozen onion rings
Dessert: Sticky toffee pudding with salted caramel ice cream (us low carbers need our salt)
To drink: several G&Ts, half a bottle of wine, a brandy coffee, a mojito and half a margarita

Saturday
Brunch: Eggs, bacon, mushrooms
Late lunch: chunk of cheese, four parmesan shortbreads (50g almonds)
D: Steak, swede chips, creamy mushrooms, two big wines

Sunday
B: Eggs, bacon, mushrooms
Late lunch: four parmesan shortbreads (50g almonds), coffee with cream
D: slow cooked beef shin, swede mash, cauli cheese, rest of bottle of wine from Saturday, coffee with cream

So it doesn’t take Poirot to suss out where I am going wrong. Too many carbs, too much booze, and probably too much dairy

And to top it all, today I’ve had:
B: black coffee and a lick of my wounds
L: M&S rice and prawn salad, full fat greek yog and blueberries

So completely un-bootcamp today now. Sigh, if you can help me then I’ll be glad to listen, but I fear I am a lost cause. I want to lose weight so badly but stick me in an environment where I have choice, like a meal out or eating at a friend’s, and I lose the plot every time.

Bloody hell, that's a massive post - sorry! And well done if you make it to the end of my ramblings

Arrrghh, posted in the wrong place!

Must be carb fog from my lunch.

Woohoo - 10st 8lb - back into the 3 digits territory! and within spitting distance of my current month's (ambitious) target of being 10stone 7lb or better (month ends next Monday) :)

Had lots of water yesterday to mitigate the pasta, wine and apple pie last night at my dad's.

Felt really good today so far food wise despite having a nasty argument with dh first thing in the morning and we're currently not talking - didn't reach for the chocolate! .

Breakfast: yoghurt and cream plus cinnamon
Lunch: coleslaw, salami and 3 slices of strong cheddar cheese
Dinner: pork belly (pre-prepared from Lidl - had a quite high carb count but I reckon that was mostly from the honey glaze that yuo put on separately so I'll just throw out the wee bag) with, probably, buttery savoy cabbage and brussel sprouts (I might be nice to ds and swap one of them for creamy leeks)

I too was careless and posted here: I'd carefully come on here to find the new thread, clicked on the link but then also clicked on the spreadsheet link to put in my three digit weight and when I shut down the spreadsheet didn't realsie I had gone back to the original tab

No carbs in gin?! Zero? Nada? Here I come!

Hi all, Ive been spying on this thread for ages now, and getting some good inspiration.

Ive tried low carb in the past a couple of times but fallen off the wagon, now determined to give it another go as I know it works. But...I have SUCH a weakness for bread! Well, bread and potatoes but bread is my nemesis. Are there any suggestions on how to break the habit/a good substitution? I have teens and they like their bread so I have to have it in the house...but it calls to me...

Im looking at the 'good alcohol' list up there...umm...the occasional whiskey & diet coke, is that a baddie?

Hi Mistress and welcome. There's a chat thread for each week and we're now on Week 6 so come and join us over
here and everyone will be pleased to answer your questions.

I struggle with the bread thing too, as I don't think there is any decent low carb substitute. I just have to resist the temptation! Some people make something called oopsie rolls but I haven't tried those. It helps that on the occasions when I do have bread I notice that it's often stodgy and a bit tasteless and it makes me bloat noticeably afterwards.

Thanks Crabby I will hop over to other thread, let the fightback against the dreaded bread begin!

Hi I have been reading all your great posts for inspiration, motivation and tips.....I have just done bc for 2 wks....I was very strict and stuck to it so when I weighed myself this morning and I had only Lost 1 and a half 1b.......so disappointed , been drinking loads of water, thought I was eating plenty of fat, butter in veg's and cooking with it.etc..I don't know what I've done wrong...plz help before I reach for the crisps !!....am trying to stay positive and telling my self at least it's a loss, but I was hoping for more ....I do feel better and my stomach is defo more flatter...could do with some help please.....