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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Talk later ...

Thanks Trashcan and LittleMiss and Tea. Sorry to hear about your parents. I think I felt similar in that almost everyone sitting round the table was overweight - so of course I feel that if they ate like this it would really help. But I have to realise that that is nothing to do with me, I can't influence it. (Would be nice if they all realised similarly... instead of everyone there having an opinion on what I eat!). What I do now realise is that my mum IS worried and this IS something we can and should talk about. Surely I can allay her worries if we talk sensibly. (Ha!)

LittleMiss really good luck with your friend this afternoon. Its stressful being on the defensive.

MrsHugh at 5 ft 10 and 11 stone 7 you are already in normal BMI range - well done! BMI of 23 according to NHS online BMI calculator. That says a healthy weight range for your height is 9 stone 3 to 12 stone 7. I'd say your "target weight" is now rather down to you - whether you have a large or small frame; if you feel comfortable, how do your clothes fit; how Hugh you'd like your Jarse to be?! I believe this WOE won't allow you to go underweight as such.

Crabby at just 1lb on with all the treats etc, I think you have lucked in, surely! Sounds like you might be triggering your carb cravings though, letting that Wild Elephant out. Time to quote your own advice to you, can you plan your favourite meals so you have something to look forward to? Also, look after yourself, take care.

Hi Eva, sorry about your experience, and thanks for answering my post, I felt I was SMSing in the dark...

Chanced the scales today, don't ask me what prompted me... 2lbs down from yesterday, I give up trying to understand what's going on with my body!

Food intake yesterday is fairly representative of a normal day:

B - coffee with a dash of cream, ramekin-sized bowl of Total, cream and a sprinkle of milled linseed for texture.

L - green salad (lettuce & cucumber) with some feta cubes, ham and olives, dressed with homemade dijon/olive oil/white vinegar dressing.

D - steak and asparagus cooked in butter, with a homemade mushroom sauce made up with even more butter, dijon mustard and a splash of cream.

3.5lts of water yesterday, umpteen cups of black coffee during the day, 1 flute of low-alcohol fizz.

I'm 5ft 8in and I currently stand at 10st 6lbs. My sensible target for my age is 9st 6lbs, my not very sensible but feel great with it is 9st all. So far this BC I've lost 9lbs in 7 weeks without straying. Am I wrong to feel a bit sorry for myself today?

Sorry about the mega-whinge, but if not with you lot who understand, who with?

SnowyBear, you are already in a healthy bmi range at your current weight. I know it can feel hard not to lose a bit quicker, but my experience is that the closer you are to your target the less likely you are to be seeing more than a pound a week loss.

hang on in there. 9lbs is a good loss.

But that's still 9lbs ...

Are you enjoying your food?
Do you feel deprived?
Do you feel like you're on a diet?

Thanks, Humphrey, I know I am whingeing, but cannot really stop myself today. Healthy BMI on the one hand, feeling flabby on the other... I don't think I'd feel under so much pressure if I weren't nipping off to Spain for Easter. At least I won't have to go to the beach or the pool... that form of torture is awaiting me this summer. Pleeenty of time to get rid off a stone .

BIWI:

Yes
No
No

Shall I shut up now? I am an idiot.

I am going to focus on what I want to feel like in four weeks if I stick to bootcamp, as opposed to what I will feel like if I don't. The first way I will feel well, be thinner and feel focused. The second way I will have descended into binge eating sugar. Because that seems to be my only other option..

This is what albs of fat looks like. You have lost almost double this!

albs?! 9lbs, obviously!

as far as feeling flabby goes, I am going to start shred again as soon as this illness departs.

I have had to take co-codomol so I know I will be retaining water.

And it's another 8 or so weeks until Easter, so every opportunity to lose a sizeable amount more by your holiday.

snowiebear do you exercise? it may be that you need to look at strength/fitness/toning rather than weight if you feel you are still 'flabby' at a healthy weight? that said, i don't know your frame. at 9lb down over seven weeks that is a sustainable loss given that you can't have been very overweight at all to start with. just keep on keeping on, because it's clearly working even if not at the speed you would ideally like, and because as others have said, what is the alternative?

x-post with humph there

do you know, when I first did shred I dropped a skirt size in six days? It can make a massive difference v quickly. You have time to do the whole 30 days before easter!

I will commit to do it too if you fancy a shred buddy?

Snowie I think your food looks great, as long as you're not hungry (breakfast and lunch could be a bit light but if they satisfy your appetite then that is the thing to go by). If you consider 1lb a week loss to be a normal rate of weight loss, your 9lbs is brilliant. I think you were just caught by an upward fluctuation yesterday.

Humph I've been warily eyeing up the concept of exercise and everyone seems to mention the shred. I realise that changing your way of eating basically doesn't take extra time - after all I prepared and ate meals before bootcamp - but adding exercise to your life does mean you have to schedule in time for it. I'm making my way over those mental hurdles at the moment.

Gosh - thanks all. I love this thread I am starting to think about you all when I am not on MN

willie the voice of calm and reason as ever ! I am going to concentrate on my ' test' best jeans and get into them. I have discovered I have lost TWO INCHES off my waist - which is amazing and TWO off my rather voluptuous bottom !

humphrey I hope you vile cold is bearable - can you mainline daynurse or something, it always gets me though. I am hopeful that my muscles are retaining water and one day, maybe one day the whoosh bugle will sound for me !

lovecat - my cycle has gone very strange too - I bled for 16 days straight....and I have a mirena , so i don't usually have more than a couple of days of not very much...... twas a shock to the system !

trashy well done on the 4 lbs - thats fab.... worth putting up with the blue cheese/avocado debate....maybe its Karma that I have stayed the same - its for my lack of sensitivity ! Cheese free for a week for me if you can post more of your menus trashy, I will copy you !

to whoever posted about the butter not being big enough.... my DC keep slathering my posh grass fed, salt encrusted gorgeousness on their toast....... its mine !< selfishly hides it>

crabby 1lb is pretty good considering what you have hinted at that you may have eaten ! I am sure it will melt away this week !

Have a good week everyone !

Goodness a whole page has gone on in the time it took me to write that post.... !

Eva, shred only takes 20 minutes if you don't do the cool down

it is definitely exercise for those who hate exercise

also Jillian shouts at your, it is like a big stick on DVD

de-lurking to address Snowie. I too am 5'8 and very similarly weigh 10st4. I've lost only 4lbs since the start however the post DS flabby belly is almost gone plus at least one of the chins and collar bones are getting very prominent.

If I weighed a stone less I think my DH might force feed me some haribo. So maybe its time to not weigh. Instead, choose something you'll wear on holiday and try it on once a week. See it fitting better and better.

Last summer I lost 2 stone with SW. But my double chin (caused by a whopping 4 st gain whilst pregnant) did not budge.
This WOE works but you need to be realistic when nearing your target that the numbers won't move much or quickly.

Hmm only 20 minutes...

I am not going to lie to you though, you WILL be in pain after day one

but it works

Sorry to not too a "proper" post - but hey all. Busy day here and a very early start. Birthday behind us, I'm measuring my water again and doing a few very low carb days to hopefully get things shifting again. (Not proper ubercamp, as I've got too much dairy in the house to stick to that anyway).

B: Nothing.
L: Fried eggs, avocado, BPC.
D: Pork loin steaks with philly and mushrooms with salad.

woolfey can't comment on frozen cauli, sorry

sprouts fried up with bacon, shallots and butter is lovely (or just sprouts fried in butter)

the other day i did the creamy braised cabbage recipe with sprouts instead of cabbage (adjust quantities accordingly - it was much quicker to cook

and on the recipe thread there are:

sautéed sprouts with chorizo
sprouts as part of a veg bake using creme fraiche

ooh, for the creamy braised cabbage i cut the sprouts in half