Week 4 Low Carb Bootcamp - Keep on keeping on

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Morning.

I see that some of us are struggling.

I see that there is a lot of cheating.

Hmm. I wonder if there is a connection

Seriously folks, this is not a terribly forgiving WOE. The idea of Bootcamp Light was to give you a bit more flexibility, but not to send you spiralling into a chocolate and alcohol-fuelled frenzy!

Come and confess all on the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness or on your own personal Weight Tracker

Remember that weight loss may stop in weeks 3 and 4 - sometimes 5. It takes this long for your body to become keto adapted, i.e. to switch fully from carb-burning to fat-burning.

And if you're continually pushing up your daily carb intake, all you are doing is delaying this process

Hope you all have a good week.

I am still at the same weight. It is exactly 3 1/2 stone under my start weight (although more than that above my recommended!) and the exact weight I got stuck at until I gave up when I did SW so now I have to keep going.

I should have lost because I think I have burned off millions of calories in coughing and swear my abs hurt so much I should have a six pack by the time I recover. This is counterbalanced by me having about half a stone of phlegm stuck to my innards, if I could cough it up it would be vile but impressive.

Durham My personal trainer has a VibroPlate at the gym and makes us hold a squat position on it for 2-3 minutes. This is how I discovered I have bingo wings on the back of my thighs

Where is the Kashmiri chicken recipe please? Sounds lovely (are we allowed to say delish on this bootcamp? )

If you need more fat Chipping, maybe try eating coconut oil? I finish each meal with 1tbsp coconut oil. If you don't like letting it melt in your mouth you could zap it in the microwave and then just swallow.

sayra monkeyface that's freakin' awesome! Lovecat I seriously started to suspect that 'in full view' was part of the attraction - the gym was used by the rugby club and Johnny Wilkinson and co would often be about the place - not that they had anything to do with it

littlemiss thanks! I'm feeling so much less arsed about it now! mainly due to the support I've received on these threads. I hope your snot buggers off soon

CRABBY! Sheer and unadulterated genius. I would like to go a step further and have a charming little silver pendant/bracelet in the manner of a medi-alert. I'm deadly serious.

Chester, I am lucky enough to have the skin and hair already. I feel it's only fair if one has had to be fat, to at least look well nourished in the other departments. Although I did have shocking dandruff in my fringe this morning

primal serum you say? and rosehips... mmmmm

betty I agree with you. It has moved on for now. I'm no going to brook any more nonsense from either of them. What you said really resonated. People are so afraid of changes around them that they perceive highlights their own 'failings'

snowie

eva would you like me to come and gently thwap your dp with a wet fish?

oh god I'm so tired. This super post has taken all night. AM practically typing in my sleep

today food

b - lamb mince and kale leftovers with mayo
L - tuna/cucumber/avocado/baby spinach/mayo
d - take away grilled chicken with skin/baby spinach and mushroom fried in butter
S - piece of tuna/salmon sashimi.

peppermint teas and 5l+ water. Going bed now love eberyone xx

I'm on break at work. I made up some sugar free jelly before I came. It's quite refreshing. All around me I'm surrounded by treats. Home made coffee cake, hob nobs and French sticks from today's meeting. It's torture. I cooked a chicken today and will be eating it in various forms the next four nights.

I have gone back down to a medium size uniform and my 31 inch waist Levi's fit me again. I still have so much to go though. I'm reluctant to come off boot camp.

Morning all, sorry to all who are struggling or wavering

I went to mother and baby cinema yesterday from 11-2 (the Mandela film). Since it was across lunchtime I was a bit worried. I had yoghurt and cream for breakfast and a coffee with cream, then planned ahead and took 2 boiled eggs with me. I ate one before I went in and the other afterwards. Worked well!

I slipped into BC light yesterday with some nuts, some 85% choc and half a glass of red wine. Back to strict bc today again...

B - yoghurt and cream
L - left over stew and a celeriac gratin
D - ?

Morning, as always struggling to keep up :)

Sorry here too to those struggling, big hugs from me

Off to donate my platelets today, so will be organised and take stuff for after or they will get twitchy.

Have a good day everyone.

Morning all,

Scales still not budged from Tuesday which is a bit frustrating considering lack of dairy. But while there are people like Chippning and their non moving scales in the world I will not moan.

Today's plan:
B: more sodding scrambled eggs and butter (seriously need to branch out on breakfasts - any dairy free suggestion? Usually have left overs for lunch)
L: corned beef hash
D: chicken curry marinade made with 2 tbsp of yogurt but can't be helped, cauli rice

Other than the yog, still dairy free. Going to try and keep it up for the rest of the week and see if I can get the scales shifting again. Will drink at least three litres of water and a mid aft BPC, which I find helps keep the hunger at bay.

In other news, I am reading Briffa properly as I think I just skimmed it last time. It's making me really cross - how can there be all this evidence in favour of LCHF diets and everyone in official capacities just completely ignore it? Study after study after study. I just don't understand.

Have you ever tried egg-free mayonnaise Chipping? Would that work to up your fat intake. I saw some in an organic farm shop and I wish I had bought some now but I was worried it would be yucky.

B: berries, double cream and Greek yoghurt
L: Babybel and posh pork scratchings
D: low carb sausages and leeks in butter, small piece of blue cheese
Drinks: three cups of tea, one coffee, lots of water, one glass of red wine for medicinal purposes for my sore throat

I still haven't got back to my pre-Christmas weight. DH reckons I need to exercise more to shift it.

I finally have all the equipment and ingredients to make my own sausages. I didn't want to do 100% meat as I think they would be too dry and bland so I have bought some gluten-free sausage seasoning which uses potato flakes instead of rusk. The M&S sausages I buy are 95% meat and 0.6g carbs per sausage. So I'm wondering whether to go for 95% or be more hardcore and up it to 97.5%? I'm also wondering what else I can put in the sausages to liven them up. Maybe some Stilton or finely chopped leek. Not coconut oil though!

I know what you mean Chester. When Atkins was in a few years back I pooh-poohed it because it seemed like a ridiculous idea. I'm a biochemist but I had never come across the role of insulin in diet. And yet when my weight was slowly increasing and my hunger was so completely out of control that I thought I was pre-diabetic I came to the conclusion on my own that processed foods were the problem. But I never realised that all the 'healthy' food I was eating was actually doing the damage. It wasn't until I stumbled across Briffa's webchat on here and found out about the issue with insulin that I understood where I was going wrong. Now I'm reading Taubes and the information in there on the role of sugar in cancer and Alzheimer's is downright terrifying. Don't get me wrong losing weight is brilliant on it's own but there's a very good chance this woe will drastically improve your health purely by cutting out sugar.

Just to report back that I was wholly unimpressed with the Vibrostep , didn't do anything for me.

That is until I found the TURBO BUTTON. Oh my

Morning all. Some of you may remember me from previous bootcamps. In the run up to my 40th birthday I was the class swot and lost 50lbs. Now I'm 41 and thanks to massive stress and carby-twatness at the back end of last year have put a depressing amount back on

But I started again on 6th Jan and as of today am 13.4lbs down, even though I went away for my birthday weekend and have had Me R's birthday as well. So yay. Trying not to focus on that it will probably take me until June to get back to where I was, but that with every passing week I feel and look better.

Ok, I've been lurking long enough and I'm ready to SMS. I'm in week four too. I've been pretty good bar a few nibbles last Friday when we went away for the weekend and this week I've put on two pounds and not lost any more . But I'll keep on keeping on because I've realised carbs are not my friend and if nothing else I'm just not bloaty like I was. My only real problem is a sore bottom from getting a bit bunged up. I've struggled a bit with water this week too.

I'm really hoping to get a loss by Monday or I will start to waiver. I've been spurred on a bit by Chester's experience though so fingers crossed.

Re the Virbro plate things, one of my fillings came loose after going on one of those . I'm looking for an exercise bike on EBay at the mo after reading the Fast Exercise book. Sounds too good to be true.....

Thanks for all the recipes and support btw. I'm really enjoying this so far (despite my moans).

Morning everyone,

Just popping on quickly will try to do a super reply tonight

Weighed this morning and I am now 12 lb down but.....I have been invited to a friends for dinner, normally (we only meet once/twice a year so its not that often) we have wine, curry, sweets etc. I don't want to be too different at dinner with regard to what I am eating. One friend is very slim and doesn't "understand how people can't lose weight, its just willpower" [hmmm] so can't be bother listening to her opinions of my WOE.

Luckily we can't stay at friends house so I can get out of the wine by driving, no other way for me to get there really, we live about 75 miles apart. Can avoid sweets as we are now going out for dinner rather than being at the house so its just the curry. I don't really enjoy any of the dry curries so normally have pasanda, garlic masala or similar. I never have rice anyway so how much damage will occur if I have a creamy curry on Saturday night?

I am completely committed to this WOE and have not cheated once, nor have I wanted to despite lots of temptations i.e OH left half a pack of crisps, chocolate and other sweets in the house. I can see them and I don't want to eat them

In this situation could I eat my pasanda then do ubercamp for the following three days, do you think that will get me back on track quite quickly?

So much for a quick post this morning?!

Meant to do menu for today as well:

B: Coffee with cream
L: Mushroom omelette with little gen lettuce, cucumber followed by ff yoghurt
D: Salmon fillet coated with parmesan (as Chesters Chicken) and linseeds with celeriac mash and asparagus

Morning all,

Ugh, what a groggy morning. And DH has set his mobile to wake us up with They Might Be Giants every bloody morning. So every morning I now have a loop of "particle man, particle man, doing the things a particle can..." highjacking my brain!

Chipping Your menu sounds great to me, and gives me all sorts of ideas - I'm trying to lure my vegan cousin to come visit. Really grasping at straws here, but do you take any supplements? I've read (probably written by someone trying to sell supplements, who knows?) that being lacking in vitamins and minerals could have a big effect on your hormones and metabolism. I can't even remember what they were talking about specifically though, so not much use. Though supposedly there is a link between D3 levels and diabetes somewhere. You eat butter and cheese of course, so you'll be getting some mooey goodies from them, but maybe if you're desperate it might be something to google...?

Disclaimer: I don't sell supplements, I just eat them in bulk for various reasons...

I ate to my plan yesterday, except "ham" at lunch turned into a ham omelette, because I was hungry.

Food plan for today:
B: Eggs and oily coffee.
L: Avocado, and according to hunger levels cheese, olives and/or eggs.
D: Stir fry of beef strips, shallots and green veggies.

Can i please join in?

I started on Monday, i still need to increase my water intake, but I've managed to reduce the number of cups of tea with milk i have a day to 4.

I'm also working on quitting sweetener in tea and coffee (drink coffee black usually) i think that's going to take a while :).

Food wise it's going well, I'll post my food diary later, all comments welcome.

Sayra, if I don't fancy a shashlik, my standby has always been tandoori butter chicken - it comes in a very creamy sauce thickened with almonds (well, it does at our local, anyway!) - and a cauliflower bhaji side dish, mashed up with a spoon to make a 'rice' base. I usually share a spinach bhaji with DH - it has onions in it but I only have a spoonful or so. It has never affected my weight loss.

Sayra I'm pretty sure that passander is just almonds and cream so fine for BC light. Just steer clear of the rice and naan and you'll be fine.

Morning, I'm sort of plodding along here. I was craving something sweet last night and stood in the shop picking up packets of jelly sweets, reading the carb levels and putting them back. all of them were 75% sugar so I went home and had a small corner of 85% chocolate instead and 2 pints of water.

Breakfast this morning was a masala omelette, a la Nigella - it made a great change from my usual boiled egg, ham and cheese.

My weight has been the same for 3 weeks I know it may stall in 3,4 and 5, but surely not for 3 weeks ! I have cut cream out (just this week ) and still nothing . Anyone else sts for this long , any advice welcome

Am getting annoyed with the lack of weight loss. Will try having some asparagus for dinner. I definitely had that ketosis smell yesterday, but nada. I din't think I ate enough at dinner last night (small steak and a feta salad).

B: 3 x egg + butter. Coffee.
L: huge chicken salad, babybels, a boiled egg. I won't eat all that but am working out of the hosue today and thought I should be prepared
D: lamb chops, mashed swede, asparagus.