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.

Thanks StuntNun
I think I would be miserable without cheese and cream so I will eat them in moderation. Don't drink so don't miss alcohol at all, and now don't miss toast any more (just miss chocolate - I love it but one piece is never enough ). Will persevere, I feel so good and feel thinner even though scales don't show it (delusional?)
I think it's a shame some are giving up so soon but I know it's hard to persist sometimes. I guess the timing has to be right.

Evening all! Shouting some shit before I chase DD to bed :)

After last night's takeout I have literally not been hungry all day. This is probably not good or right but I've drunk a fair amount of water and had I been hungry I would have eaten.

Tonight's dinner was mince, mushrooms and swede with half an oxo and some mushroom ketchup (I can't find the carb count for this anywhere but it seems ok for just a dash?). I made some low-carb dumplings to go with - DH loved them but I wasn't keen. They had the look and the texture but were too eggy for me. Recipe here if anyone wants to try it.

I have put on 2lbs each week for the last two weeks but I'm determined to stay LCing as there are so many of you lovely ladies who have persevered for months and lost stones, so I am putting all my faith in it.

I'm not sure if my problem is that I like the food so much that I eat too much of it or if its because Ive just come off a very low calorie liquid diet??? Maybe a combination of both??? Does anybody have any experience of this?

I feel I should maybe ditch the dairy altogether altho I struggle to get fat from elsewhere as I cant bear the fat on meat or skin on chicken etc. (I did plan to cut down on dairy last week but used up what was in the fridge)

Anyway today has been

B 2 boiled eggs mashed with butter
L tuna mayo deli sandwich filler (on the hoof) 1 FF babybel
D bolognese, spinach, leeks, Kale fried in butter
S - will be avocado if I have a snack

Thanks for keeping up the hard work with the spreadsheet etc Willi & BIWI

Just popping in again to say Project Wine Bottle is a severe disappointment. Two glasses and all I have is a thumping headache. Off for an early night instead. Keep on keeping on, everyone, if nothing else it appears to make you healthy without you noticing...

I've been lurking but not posting for ages- and not done the spreadsheet either, just forgot really. Plus things have been difficult.

I've sts at 132 pounds for the last few weeks. I'm not worried about this as I don't want to lose more than a few pounds now. Slow and steady is fine.

I have found drinking water harder as its so cold! I do notice if I have lots of butter and fat ( from lamb chops or whatever) I'm not hungry at all til next meal. Also portion sizes are naturally smaller. I'm just eating when hungry now, which works well for me, and I'm keen on stuffed omelette ( 2 eggs) with cream and Brie or left over veg for lunch:)

I'm very happy with this woe, I don't like fruit or nuts much, never liked pasta, and I can look dispassionately at roast potatoes and Yorkshires:)
I don't even want processed stuff. But I'm never hungry and enjoy lovely food:)

Thanks BIWI and willie

(I swear sometimes I feel like the 'Little Johnny' awful warning stories of this thread - 'Little Johnny ate too much cheese and look what happened... Little Johnny had a drink and look what happened...)

Mmmm just had a bowl of sprouts fried in butter with smoked bacon sprinkled on.

Please tell me sprouts are ok

sueh95 if you've been doing a VLCD then no matter what you eat you'd be putting weight on, because you've effectively been starving yourself your body is going to hold onto everything it can. According to everything I've read about this WOE, until your body 'trusts' that it's not going to get starved again, it will hang onto its reserves just in case. I did Lighterlife a few years ago to lose weight quickly for an operation, and it buggered up my metabolism for a good six months afterwards.

Your actual menu looks fine to me, although a bit more fat couldn't hurt (and I don't know what the sandwich filler contains, but they can be surprisingly carby if you're not careful).

Queenqueenie coleslaw is in the spreadsheet, one of the tabs

Oops willie here in archers-related name change

Thanks lovecat it does sound like what could be happening to me but I'm hoping I've not messed up my metabolism for 6 months!!! I lost 2 stone on the VLCD but it was grim - I really don't think I could bear to do it again. I'm definitely going to persevere with LC - I'm about a third of the way through Dr Briffa's book and its helping me to get my head round eating more fat but Ive never been able to eat fatty meat - I just don't like the mouth feel. It will have to be butter and oily dressings (no hardship there!!) & more mayo.

The deli filler was 5g per 100, so probably 11.5g carbs for the amount I had.

Queenie:

Coleslaw recipe

125g white cabbage (less than 1/4 of a cabbage)
75g carrot (1 medium-sized carrot)
25g shallot (1/2 a banana/echalion shallot)

Slice white cabbage thinly
Grate carrot finely (don't use the largest holes on the grater)
Chop shallot finely

Add oil and wine vinegar - roughly 3 tablespoons oil and 1 tablespoon vinegar, and salt and black pepper. Stir everything well together. Leave for half an hour or so. Just before serving, stir in a tablespoon of mayo.

This will make 2 portions

Love the U-turn Chester!

Taking lessons here from Crabby:

Seri and Gatorade - celeriac chips (basically, roasted chunks as you say) are the way to go. If you're not going to try celeriac dolphin pose of course.

Mrs Pnut Broccoli and stilton soup?

Nell!

Gerry I've no idea how carby it is but I'd have the Lemsip it is medicine after all. BUT in return you have to cut out all the cake! and promise to make your snacks low-carb? Cheese, yogurt, nuts, ham, boiled egg, avocado, cucumber etc etc. Hope you get well soon.

Well done Snowiebear goodbye to half a stone!

SarahBeeny your menu looks lovely, don't know why you think it isn't.

Poor NotTwit have a good waiiilllll. I've put you on the spreadsheet. You've still lost 4lb this bootcamp which is the same as me and I think I'm doing really well! If you do manage even one dairy-free day I think it might help jump-start you downwards.

Queen: Coleslaw recipe from ubercamp:

125g white cabbage (less than 1/4 of a cabbage)
75g carrot (1 medium-sized carrot)
25g shallot (1/2 a banana/echalion shallot)

Slice white cabbage thinly
Grate carrot finely (don't use the largest holes on the grater)
Chop shallot finely

Add oil and wine vinegar - roughly 3 tablespoons oil and 1 tablespoon vinegar, and salt and black pepper. Stir everything well together. Leave for half an hour or so. Just before serving, stir in a tablespoon of mayo. (ubercamp talks about Delouis Mayonnaise)

This will make 2 portions

Coleslaw Recipe

125g white cabbage (less than 1/4 of a cabbage)
75g carrot (1 medium-sized carrot)
25g shallot (1/2 a banana/echalion shallot)

Slice white cabbage thinly
Grate carrot finely (don't use the largest holes on the grater)
Chop shallot finely

Add oil and wine vinegar - roughly 3 tablespoons oil and 1 tablespoon vinegar, and salt and black pepper. Stir everything well together. Leave for half an hour or so. Just before serving, stir in a tablespoon of mayo.

This will make 2 portions

Sueh I don't eat meat at all, fatty or otherwise, so don't worry about that. Butter is your friend. Hopefully your body is reacting as lovecat suggested and it won't take too long to "stabilise", in the mean-time drink plenty of water.

Thank you everyone. Shall buy cabbage tomorrow!

NotTwit I'm going dairy free from tomorrow. Not sure how long I will last but want to get a few days under my belt. I need to make this bloody WOE work for me.

Eva I have been known to start the day on Weightwatchers, have a foray into slimming world at lunch then be on Paul McKenna by tea time. So a month on LC before my first paddy is something of a record.

Queenie I hope you've got that coleslaw recipe?

Shouting shit

Pissed off today at work as one of colleagues said they needed to use a particular lab (very small lab only room for one person and certain types of work can only be done in there). I have been using this lab to get a huge about of work finished for my PhD and he asked if he could use it Monday and Tuesday this week. I said yes and went into work on Saturday and Sunday to try and get stuff finished, cleaned lab spotlessly and mopped floor.

Today he didn't use the lab, didn't tell me this until the afternoon and then said he doesn't need it until next week I have now started on other stuff which I'll need to finish and the bloody lab is sitting empty.

Rant Over.

In other news, I've signed up to start pole dancing again and persuaded some friends to try it with me can't wait to get back to it.

Yummy dinner tonight of slow roasted pork belly and veggies followed by yoghurt with linseeds.

No dairy from tomorrow! Til Friday.

Will have egg and bacon tomorrow.

Sausages with sprouts and leeks.

Water, water, water.

Eva it tasted great but what I meant was that I hadn't been very stupendously good! The missing link is that I had 50g of 85% Lindt that I forgot to fess up to...

Thanks for all the coleslaw recipes

ruprekt there may be no dairy but it sounds lovely! I luffs sprouts.

I just KNEW someone else would have posted that coleslaw recipe while I was compiling my super-crabby-post!

Chester sorry you're leaving welcome back sorry you're leaving welcome back FFS woman Glad you decided eventually to stick with us :)

I haven't read the end of WK3, will try to do so later.

MrsHJ - I see your dust and raise you an inch I have months of it to go yet

Prettybird - I hope HandsomeBird has pulled his head in and apologised!!

Crabby Thinking of you, shall have to kick arse if you mope too long though!! Do all the things that are tricky to do when you have DD :)

as appropriate :)

Cool, I'm in!
Will have
Egg and mushroom omelette (no cheese)
Chicken and spinach
Bacon and broccoli with butter I think although have only been hungry enough really to eat twice a day. I think the water is filling me up.

I will be buying some pork belly slices, some fish, a leek or two and watercress and spinach salad which will help see me through the week til Friday.
Lots of butter? Lots of water.
Does that seem ok?

Chipping

Tomorrow's dairy free plan:
B: scrambled eggs, butter
L: left over Bol, salad with oil
Mid aft: BPC
D: salmon pan fried in butter, swede chips, asparagus

Have drunk three litres of water today so hoping my rice salad faux pas at lunch won't result in too much damage.

Oh well, if it does, lesson learned.