Week 6 - Low Carb Bootcamp - We're Past the Halfway Point!

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Morning! In a rush, so not much time to post - off to Leeds today so have to go for my train.

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Havent weighed today as I have a sickness bug.
Its horrid, havent kept anything down since 6am, excepta packet of caramel snack a jacks .

Can I be let off though, as its all I could managed, and a pack is 25g carbs so I will just make the rest of the day water and meat.

God I feel like shite nothing to do with the bottle of wine in the pub last night

Well done everybody on your losses x

chester, I've combined LC with fasting in the past, though not a specific 5:2 program, more like, as steeleye says, just extending not-eating-breakfast until lunchtime or later! It means that I quite frequently have a 15-16 hour window (sometimes more) of not eating and as long as I'm fat-burning it's no problem at all. I couldn't do it if I wasn't LCing though, would be hell imo.

Personally, I think the 'eat whatever you want on your non fast days' aspect of 5:2 would spell disaster for me. I prefer an 'eating window' approach because it helps me tune into whether I am genuinely hungry or not. If I am, I eat. If I'm not, I don't!

Thanks crabby re ds's dad - sadly we're used to it .

Haven't updated the spreadsheet yet, am on my phone but after my little gain last week I am delighted! I wooshed at last! 6lbs off!

1lb off for me which. given the amount of alcohol I drank on Vanetine's Day and Saturday I treated myslelf on Valentine's Day and the next day (lunch out on Friday and then the M&S £20 meal deal on Saturday) , I'm actually pretty happy with :)

Plus last night we had supper at my dad's which involved a roast potato and some apple charlotte.

.....drank lots of water yesterday (and today).

Oops, same as last week. Which is totally unsurprising to me as I have eaten chocolate 4 nights in a row now . Been good in everything else except STILL not drinking enough water; but avoiding all other carbs as much as possible. Just the chocolate got the better of me :(
Is also TOTM - started today - so that could be another excuse reason.

Once again - tomorrow is another day, this is the start of another week, the Tassie cherries are nearly all gone and DS2 is doing a sterling job of getting through them as well, so I'll be back to doing proper bootcamp again I think when they're finished. Am determined to drop below 12st, and am currently stuck on it!

I am pleased to note that my "love handles" have definitely reduced though, my waistbands are looser, and my muffining has gone down considerably. Hurrah!

Congratulations to all losers, commiserations to all cheaters - we'll get through!

Hi everyone.

I'm up a pound, which I didn't ought to be cross with given the amount of chocolate consumed on the 14. But actually I am a bit annoyed because I weighed less yesterday and that was after 500ml of coffee! Hmmpphh.

to everyone starting ubercamp.

chester 5:2 just make me hungry all the flaming time and stopped me exercising as I was knackered all the time with it. I've no idea if it might be better on LC as there's less blood sugar fluctuation. What about doing 16:8, which I think is a clever way of saying skip breakfast and don't eatl ate at night ?

Gutted, STS and I didn't have any wine all weekend as its half term and I've got a couple of lunches planned and DHs birthday and I've come on, very heavy, even though I've been on HRT for 2 months so trying to decide what's worse flooding or night sweats. I've tried tranxemic acid, which does stop the bleeding, but the cramps were horrendous I wish I was a man.

anyway this is what I've has since friday, I'm not hungry and if I wasn't cooking for DH could easily miss dinner, I'm adding butter to everything and went through 1lb of lurpak last week, any suggestions?

B - BPC
L - leftover chicken breast in creamy sauce (about 100g) and buttered cabbage, 100g ff yog
S - BPC
D - 100g sirloin steak, portabello mushroom stuffed with cream cheese, cheddar, more buttered cabbage
S - square 85% chocolate
W - 3l

Sat
B - cheese topped bacon & fried egg
L - not hungry
S - BPC, 100g ff yog & extra thick dc
D - lamb shank, roasted broccoli
w 3l

Sun
B - BPC
L - egg in a cup, ff yog
S - buttered ham rolls
D - pork carnitas, celeriac chips, fried mushrooms
S - square of 85% chocolate
W - 3l

Today
B - BPC
L - scrambled eggs with butter and cheese
S - BPC
D - salmon, asparagus and celeriac chips
W - 2l so far.

Another week of sts here too :( which is probaby due to the fact i got a huge box of Thorntons chocolates for valentines day. They weren't even that bloody nice, I just felt I had to look appreciative of them.

Article about John Yudkin...
www.telegraph.co.uk/health/dietandfitness/10634081/John-Yudkin-the-man-who-tried-to-warn-us-about-sugar.html

notsoskinnyminny your meals look fine, the STS is almost certainly your period. i'm sorry it's so ghastly

interesting crabby, thanks

that phrase used by the sugar industry '...as part of a balanced diet' is so non-specific isn't it? it's the same as 'everything in moderation'. well it really depends on your idea of the balance and what moderation is. MIL comes out with the 'moderation' thing as a thinly veiled criticism of my WOE, but she eat four biscuits with her tea at 6am before she has breakfast an hour later! my idea of sugar in 'moderation' is a handful of times a year. the balance of macronutrients that works for me is a relatively small amount of carbs derived from non-starchy veg, a moderate amount of protein and a good proportion of fat.

Still lurking:) am keeping to my weight of just under 9 stone which is me pre dc and pre dh weight:)

Its amazing:)

Thanks to BIWI and well done all the losers:)

2lb up here. but considering I was 4lb up in the middle of last week and have since consumed a heroic amount of mojitos, it's not all bad

As a long term LC'er returning to strictness after a couple of months of being slack I know that I'm not likely to get any whooshes and as I've not much to lose I'm not concerned.

Notsoskinnyminny Your meal plans look fine, were you LCing when you got your last period and did it affect your loss then?

today:

B - spinach and ham omelette
L - avocado and tinned sardines in mayo
D - A bloody lovely looking bresaola and feta salad which I MUST stop picking at before I put the DCs to bed...
S - a bit of lidl yog and some leftover roast broccoli (not together)

did you make the bresaola ewan? i've always wanted to do that

Evening. Not read the thread, sorry... just reporting a 2lb loss that I attribute to drinking ALL my water, and not eating ALL the cheese. Will catch up in a bit.

Thanks Willie and Ewan, I am losing inches (9 so far) so aren't planning to jack it all in but would like to see some movement on the scales. Last time I lc'd properly my start weight was lower than this time and I'd lost 10lbs by this stage but not as many inches

My last period was in October and before that August but I wasn't lc'ing then. I started HRT at xmas to stop the night sweats as I hadn't slept for over 6 weeks and DH was threatening to move to the spare room as he was fed up waking up in a soaking wet bed at 2am.

notsoskinnyminny this may be no help at all but my mum is a gp and she recommends LC to her patients at various stages of the menopause, so hopefully it will help in some way for you too as well as the HRT. fingers crossed it all settles down soon

also pain (cramps) and lack of sleep can reduce the amount of weight you lose because they are stressful for the body. that could well account for the lack of lb, but if the inches are going down that's a really positive thing.

Crabby really enjoyed that article, thanks!

Off spinning again in a bit. I blame spinning for my lb upwards; it's muscle and water

Today:
B: 2 eggs, butter, cheese
L: sardine salad which had red pepper in due to online cock up, mascarpone and vanilla
D: 2 pork belly slices, leeks and kale in Philly and cream.
S: 2 coffees with cream
Will probably have a BPC after spinning

Haven't properly read the thread, will check in later, hiya everybody, I am fucking ecstatic FOUR POUNDS DOWN it's a bloody miracle except it's fucking not because I have really had to work at it, what with the no dairy and the reduced veg and the fat eating, oh and did I mention the five bastard litres of bastard water a bastard day phew. off to walk the trash hounds, back soon

Bad night last night due to TOTM cramps. I only got a couple of hours sleep, and then I fell into a packet of chocolate digestives at lunchtime. They weren't even as nice as I thought they would be. But I just kept feeding them in and went through half the packet. And now I want more sugar.

75% of the problem is a bad TOTM this month, and the other 25% is that I'm away and my usual routines and resources aren't there.

I feel miserable. I don't know if I should write this week off and start again next week when I'm home. I'll try not to eat through a skipfull of crap, but at this moment none of my BC favourites seem appealing

Oh, and I did still have a loss this week. I feel rotten because I know some people have struggled with this WOE, and (maybe because of my size) I've lost over 2lbs every week. So I know it does work for me. And I was fine last TOTM. I don't know what has gone wrong at the moment.

Gatorade get back on the wagon now! If you write this week off you will end up eating a huge amount of carbs and will really undo all the good you have done so far. Whereas if you get back on the wagon now, drink lots of water and are super strict for the next day or so, the damage will be minimal

Don't let the carbs win!

Hello again. I couldn't keep up with the thread last week and had DS home as it was half term here. The DC really eat into MN time, don't they?

I forgot to weigh today so that joy can wait until the morning. I didn't fall off the wagon but have come to some realisations:

• even tiny amounts of wine give me a headache when LCing
• supermarkets need to start selling butter in bigger blocks. 250g is just way too small. I'm thinking at least half a kilo per block.
• I really don't think chocolate agrees with me (have thought this for a while but it seems clearer now there's no crap in my diet)
• ate a half slice of homemade malt loaf (I know, I know) and had really bad indigestion/upset tummy. Wondering if it was the wheat?

Could it be that foods that I've always eaten, and thought agreed with me, actually don't but now I'm noticing because I've been "clean" for 5 weeks?

I've had two periods since we started BC. What's all that about?