Week 4 Low Carb Bootcamp - Keep on keeping on

[BIWI]

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 think I'm going to have to give that a go, thanks

I'm 1lb down, 6lbs since I started, but I'm a week behind you guys so this is now week three for me. I'll be happy to stay the same but plan on upping the exercise this week so might just manage another 1lb loss.

Good luck all.

BIWI's über camp coleslaw is tremendous.

Popping back to agree with Ewan that the coleslaw is immense - we have it with roast chicken or something at least once a week, and DH loves it too.

Ha, as I typed that he text me to say he's making it tonight to have with hot dogs

Eva you're absolutely right! You've empowered me and I am determined.

Chester - lets do it - two weeks, no cheating, it will go so fast and by 17th February we will be like this --->

Ruprekt - are you starting the no dairy from tomorrow? Can I join you and Chester pretty please? Only fly in the ointment is we are going out with work for something to eat on Thursday - will go and look at the menu online and report back. I cba going really but feel I ought to iyswim.

Thanks for the kick up the arse!

I love coleslaw! Can someone link please or c and p to the coleslaw recipe?? I've looked on the ubercamp tab but the only recipe thee I can see is for celeriac chips... TIA

1lb up from Sat am, but I did have a rather fabulous Saturday night out. It shall be gone by next week.

Evening losers! Just a quicky as I need to pick DS up from the station but needed a pee and knew I couldn't hold it for another 20 mins even though I went before I left work

1/4lb on for me this morning, 1/4lb heavier than Friday morning but when I reweighed after breakfast 150g total, 2 glasses of water and a rooibos, followed by a mammoth No2 I was 2lb heavier - how the fuckityfuck does that happen but I've lost another 1.5"? Anyway I've logged the first weight the 2nd one doesn't count.

Will read back through today's posts later if I get a chance.

Someone grab my hand and yank me back onto the wagon please. I've got some horrible lurgy, and I'm blaming that instead of myself which is where blame actually lies for the cheats, planned and otherwise. Yesterday: one roast potato, and some applesauce with my roast lamb. Then a small slice of tarte aux citron. Today, a slice of Xmas cake. I can see how, for me, one carby/sugary cheat easily spirals, I'm already fighting the cravings. Have just had some leftover pork and butter, am determined to get straight back on track. I think possibly on Friday and Saturday nights, when I ate out and thought I'd been careful, I hadn't been as good as I thought.

I'm REALLY missing lemsip. I know that I could just take some paracetamol and some decongestants, but it just doesn't quite hit the spot without the hot lemony sweetness. Any ideas?

Sorry you're feeling so rubbish Gerry

I admit to having some flu drinks with aspartame when I was feeling poorly, but it's not ideal, is it... I'm sure it's much better to stick to the tablets, and then drink lots of hot lemony tea (maybe something herbal like chamomile?). Stay warm and take care of yourself.

Gerry Try getting some sugar free cough syrup and take that in a little bit of warm water with your paracetamol. I have sugar-free Robitussin Chesty Cough Mixture. Doesn't work of course but I feel a bit more cossetted Have also discovered you can get Mentholyptus lozenges and Covonia Cough Sweets in sugar-free form. Also lemon and ginger tea is soothing.

Whoever asked about soups. I make the IPD curried cauliflower one, courgette soup (sweat one chopped onion or some shallots in butter, add loads of chopped courgettes and chicken stock, cook till mushy then liquidise) or, if you have any creamed leeks or dauphinoise of any ilk, chuck it in with some hot stock and blend for instant soup.

Hello
I'm back after doing fab on the Autumn bootcamp.xmas was a month of
minor indulgence and now it is a slow trawl and i dont seem to be losing much. Its not harder to stick to the woe but it seems to be less effective. Anyone got any hints or tips for second time round?

Fuck, I've just eaten a pepperoni pizza. Am now officially a CarbyTwat.

So annoyed with myself. Have drunk loads of water today, eaten loads of fat and now have scuppered myself completely with bloody Dominoes.

And now I've got heartburn. And feel sick.

It wasn't even very nice

Wow, these threads move SO quickly... hello everyone!

Haven't been posting as last week was truly hideous in RL what with work being mental, DH still a lame duck and DS playing up... no time to post and make sense, tried to keep on top of the reading, seems we have all been through the mill one way or another.

So... just shouting my shit for the moment (love that ), lest you start believing I've done a runner to CarbLand.

Despite all the drama and general chaos I've kept to the straight and narrow. BIWI, may I be teacher's pet this week? TOTM all last week finished yesterday and today I'm 2lbs down, so net 1lb if you take into account I went up 1lb last week with week 4 stall cum TOTM. Grand total since 6 Jan..... 7lbs! Well chuffed with that .

Two gifts: if you fancy chocolate, try good double expresso with a dash of cream and sweeteners (sorry BIWI!). Right combo of creaminess, sweetness and a hint of bitterness. Delish.

If you are into your garlic, minimise the carbs and get the flavour by infusing peeled garlic cloves in olive oil and then using this as you normally would.

I hope those two would compensate for the lack of comms - back as soon as RL allows!

Googoo... Thanks for the encouragement for us who are not losing at the mo.

Although I am suspicious about the cream - do you experienced people think it helps to limit it/cut it out? or am I missing the point (low fat attitude?)

I'm coming down with something viral and throaty. FGS haven't I been ill enough.

Only 1/2 lb last week with deliberate carb creep though - and another cm off everywhere. Within measurement error but all in the right direction, all positive. Am being decidedly positive.

I've cooked a fair few things from the Low Carb Gourmet and none of them have had sugar or higher carb veg in wondering if we're talking about the same book? There's sweetener for sweet things - I think that's unsurprising and a cookbook probably wouldn't sell well without a few sweet things.

Today my friend and I went out for lunch before she went back. I had steak and garlicky spinach (all good) and had (sorry BIWI) diet coke with it. Or so I thought. I'd had maybe 100ml before thinking, hang on, this doesn't taste right. It wasn't right - it was full sugar coke. And 100mL of it was enough to tip me out of ketosis. I haven't cheated, and my BC light indulgences didn't tip me out of ketosis either. Aaaaargggghhhh! I feel like I might as well have cheated, and it wasn't even my fault. I am SO annoyed.... so the rest of the day has been strict as strict.

Leftover taco bake about ready, just off to update the recipe thread with it. Hooray for all the good losses, well done guys.

Evening all. Down 4lbs which is good after last week's measly pound but am assuming that will be last big whoosh and it will settle down now. I was rubbish at exercise last week, although not all my fault - will do better this week.

On soups - I made cauliflower cheese soup which was delicious. I haven't worked out where the recipe thread is - - I'm not usually this dim, but if anyone would be kind enough to link me, I've got a couple of nice recipes to post :)

Definitely join us for a few dairy free days Nell, the more the merrier. I've just sorted a meal plan for the next week, perfect BC apart from a few gins at the weekend.

Just having a bowl of yogurt with cream too - well it needs finishing, I suppose.

Awww, Chester, good you're staying

My 6 lbs gain this week... I've persuading myself is because although I lost 11 or 12 lbs in the first two weeks, the first week I mostly spent vomiting. So now it's frantically adjusting back to where it thinks it was before I so rudely interrupted it, and it's probably only because of BC that where it thinks it was is actually 6lbs lighter than just before I became ill. God that's involved, sorry. I know what I mean.

That and cheese, of course.

Nonetheless, crashing setbacks continue to roll in today, so I'm having the mother of all fuck-it moments, and dinner tonight will be most of a roast chicken (yes, I can eat an entire chicken if I try) and a bottle of wine.

See you tomorrow...

Shouting shit. Have work to do!

I've just changed the spreadsheet to show my starting weight (3rd Jan) as I'm fed up of it looking like I've only lost 2lb, it's too demotivating and I have to count it up again every time I think about it in order to nudge myself on.

Today:
Not stupendous!
B: shallot and tomato and 2 egg scramble, in butter.
S: mascarpone with vanilla and splenda. Yum yum, tasted like ice cream but splenda is awful. Won't be adding that again!
L: feta salad with oil out of the artichoke jar. 2 almonds.
D: 2 sausages, celeriac boulangere, salad and vinaigrette.

Fluids - 3 decafs with cream and water, 4,250ml in total. That's not really enough for me so I'll have another 1l this evening.

PLEASE could someone point me towards the delicious coleslaw recipe everyone was enthusing about downthread??

BIWI? Heir? Ewan?

Ta.

Suzy some people can tolerate dairy, others not so much. I eat loads of cheese, yoghurt and double cream and do okay but I can't eat eggs which I find limits my food options somewhat so I think I get more dairy to make up for it. Starting from Bootcamp everyone needs to find their own balance. Some can add a bit of alcohol now and then. Others can tolerate dairy. Some people can cheat whereas others have to be strict to loose weight.

Ok, so a quick shout of my shit and then back to reading the thread.

chester and ruprekt I'll do dairy free for three days too! I am becoming dependant on it and that isn't helping me. When are you starting?
thumbwitch I can't find celeriac at my local supermarkets either (because they are shit) and I have it in my head now that the celeriac crisps are clearly something I'm missing out on . I can't find flaxseed either which is a pain as it helps me keep regular

Ok. First of all could someone kindly add me on the spreadsheet at 152 again please?
Secondly, could someone please reassure me that I'm only not losing the extra I gained last week (1/2 a stone thanks to pmt) because it has coincided with a stall? (On the plus side I haven't gained....)
I most definitely have not cheated. At. All. I am still on bootcamp, relaxing a smidge on Saturday might with 6 Brazil nuts, 6 almonds and a square of 85% chocolate. I haven't done that before, might not do it again until I have passed this phase. I measure and drink at least 3 litres a day and have decaf bulletproof coffee with cream.
I am being really careful to follow the rules, and have printed the rules, carb count for veg etc out and it is on my fridge.

Finally can I just have a big wwwwaaaaiiilll at how fucking unfair it is that I lost all that weight, regained most of it and now am stuck with it for a bit (hopefully) ?