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Low-carb bootcamp

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Maintaining weight & cheaters confessional

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EvaTheOptimist · 04/05/2014 17:06

Thanks to BIWI's bootcamp I've lost loads of weight. I'm determined not to put it all back on. So I am now consciously trying to maintain my new weight.

I finished the last bootcamp on 150.8lb. My aim is to stay below 11 stone (154lb). Since bootcamp I have weighed between 149lb and 151.6lb. I think this roughly counts as maintaining!

My plan or experiment is to see whether basically eating bootcamp style, but with 3-4 off-piste moments per week (eg chocolate, toast, special treat meal etc) will do the trick of maintaining.

Post here to share your experience of maintaining the low carb way.

Also feel free to confess any cheating here, offload and wail in a safe space!!

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SayraT · 02/06/2014 08:44

To be honest I think the salad thing has only happened once/twice. It is because (possibly) if the wash water is reused and one contaminated leaf is washed clean then the reused water can contaminate the rest of the salads.

Face jiz sounds lovely trash Grin and we all know that you don't hideously ugly, we've seen pictures.

Better go to work, already late and I am only there today and I complain I can't get in lab, well if I'm not at work I definitely can't

Grin
LittleMissDisorganized · 02/06/2014 11:37

Eek, I live on bagged salads too. Will take the chance I think...

trashy rubbish, having seen photos of you and Sayra you both look great, at the same sort of weight as you (maybe a couple of inches shorter which doesn't help) I 'carry' it much worse iyswim. Possibly the physical limitations which means you both exercise more and better than I am able to do. Anyway, we know changing room mirrors are a work of the devil and trash you have been very poorly, not surprised you look washed out!

Anyway I have just offloaded in the main thread about how scared I am that I won't be able to manage my fatigue with work - urgh. Weepy. Need to keep myself busy, thinking about it isn't going to help, is it.

I have a week left at home in my old normality, a week's holiday and start work then and I am in a bit of a whirlwind. A very tired one.

trashcanjunkie · 02/06/2014 13:37

Thanks guys, I came home and whinged at dp. He was horrified, and said he felt responsible for not making me feel beautiful enough Grin

Oh little missy I remember five weeks after I'd had my hysterectomy I took a full time job that involved loads of driving and then accompanying bailiffs and technicians into peoples houses whilst I wrangled pet dogs (to stop them biting the workmen) as the utilities men could put in pay as you go meters (not my favourite job in the world Blush)

I had an absolute panic and terror that I wouldn't manage it all physically. I was over twenty stone at that point too! However, the sheer adrenaline kept me going at first, and then the interaction and interesting parts of the job, kind of 'fed' me enough energy to get through until I was able to adjust.

I have decided to post my selfies on here if no-one objects. They are so helpful and motivating for me.

StuntNun · 02/06/2014 14:31

I'm coming up for a year of LC since I started BIWI and Willie's Bootcamp last June so I thought I would post an 'after' picture. There aren't any 'before' pictures but I've lost 32 lb which is 20% of my bodyweight and more than I ever thought I could lose. So just to get all sentimental I must thank BIWI for running Bootcamp and keeping me on the straight and narrow. My health is better in so many ways since starting this WOE and that's worth more than the weight loss. My DH has also lost a lot of weight, he won't weigh himself but those 29" jeans speak for themselves. So thanks a million BIWI, I couldn't have done it without you.

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EvaTheOptimist · 02/06/2014 14:46

Good effing lord Peony you look fantastic! Well done WELL DONE that woman. No Hugh Jarse in evidence now.

LittleMiss I think you may have been quite optimistic about me "only having the odd off-piste moment". Perhaps it is only the odd one, but they are mounting up and I've felt myself getting sucked back in to destructive ways of thinking and eating.

I'm trying to draw a line today (as its a Monday) but I've had an odd lunch of cheese and strawberries. Perhaps low-carb but not necessarily "proper eating!"

Trash yes I've returned to lots of post-half-term horrid reality. and multiple washing loads. Have paid mortgage but not sorted socks priorities priorities

DH has a phrase "action the nasty" that is - do the thing on your to-do list that you are most dreading, first. From my now-vast work to-do list I have indeed this morning, actioned my nasty. I feel a lot better now. It did take me about 2 hours to work up to it though!

So glad your DS is on the mend Trash odd that it isn't the same bug as yours.

Minny I am snorting at your phrases - wildies in the bogs

Sayra good luck with your meeting with the supervisors about continuing funding...!

Ooer I only wash salad when you can actually see any dirt or insects on it... though I love the fact that Crypto expert Sayra doesn't wash salad either!

Yes Trash you are a good-looking lady and only getting "sleeker" by the day you know. I love your DP's comment. And for both you and LittleMiss - it takes time to recover from fatigue and a complete drubbing as you have had. We are so bad in this society at not giving ourselves a chance to recover. I am a bad offender here too. As soon as we can drag ourselves upright we are off again and its not good for us. How is it so hard to look after ourselves properly?

LittleMiss I don't know the answer but you need to keep a strict eye on your fatigue levels and practice saying "No". I got very tired about 18 months ago, when my auto-immune condition started but wasn't yet diagnosed, so I didn't know why I couldn't do anything. I did start saying No to things (getting out of freelance work I couldn't deliver properly anymore, taking myself off a committee) but I couldn't explain why at that point, as I didn't know why. Once it was diagnosed I was more deliberate about saying No to taking things on. It can be quite painful when its something you'd like to do - but better in the long-run. So in the new job, just be careful in case people are overloading you beyond your allotted hours, and point it out and say it will have to take longer!

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lowcarbforthewin · 02/06/2014 15:46

Wolf whistles like mad at stunt you look amazing. Wow.

Trash I need to see a photo of you. I'm curious as to whether you look meek and mild in the flesh or have bright pink hair. I'm totally surprised you ever got food poisoning btw, seeing you in full on giving everyone a bollocking action (quite right too!!) I'm surprised those bacteria didn't run screaming from you Wink hope your energy picks up soon.

BIWI · 02/06/2014 17:45

Stunt you look fabulous! And you were the one who did all the hard work not me.

Back from a lovely two weeks away. An overnight flight back from Canada, arriving home at 10.30 this morning, so I'm knackered. My brother is still with me, so today is the last day of the holiday.

Food and alcohol have been absolutely the antithesis of what they should be, but I decided that as it was so much out of my control that the only thing to do was to go with the flow and enjoy myself. Which I did! But back to serious LC from tomorrow. My clothes are unpleasantly tight, and I could avoid being in various photographs, which were a little bit too unkind!

Notsoskinnyminny · 02/06/2014 17:47

Peony WE WANT PUPPY PORN

PS Hope you're first day went ok

Trash hope DS is feeling better, pics of trashpup also requried.

DD sent me the link for a litter of white shibas and they're sooo cute but I'm ignoring her pleas to have one because no-one wants whites don't meet the breed standard because Divadog defies all the breed traits and we wouldn't be that lucky twice

Notsoskinnyminny · 02/06/2014 17:53

I thought it had gone quiet here, I was on P11 Grin Stunt you look amazing.

LMD I swear by CQ10 and really notice a difference when I don't take them or buy a cheaper lower lose version

trashcanjunkie · 02/06/2014 19:11

eva I have to action some nasty! I am living in a total shit pit at the minute. Nothing a good few hours cleaning and tidying won't fix, and I have promised myself tomorrow's the day. I'm sleeping at dps tonight for GOT, and then once I've dropped the one dc off at school in the morning, I have a window of four hours where I can plonk the ailing one in front of the telly, and go at it like a bastard. There may also be furniture moving happening if I get time, but I have to be at work for two.... Hmm

stuntybaby I hope you've got your good keks on, cos I'm coming for a go of you! Grin

lowcarb you are in for a treat later cos I am gonna post a body shot of me in keks and bra. I will also post my face, but separately.... just for you to have seared into your nightmares....

notso yy to puppy porn from peony and I will also get some from the trashpup, who is developing a loooong body Confused

trashcanjunkie · 02/06/2014 20:27

Here we go... thought I'd open with a couple of photos - about eight or ten weeks apart I think...

trashcanjunkie · 02/06/2014 20:29

And one for lowcarb Grin

trashcanjunkie · 02/06/2014 20:30

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SayraT · 02/06/2014 21:51

Just arrived at OHs, he is getting op tomorrow so need to be here to look after him. I hope he is ok.

I've been spreading crypto knowledge on another thread but they are ignoring me! How dare they! Grin

lowcarbforthewin · 02/06/2014 22:16

Wolf whistles. Pins photo to fridge to gaze at admiringly each day.
Can't say you look like I imagined just cos you don't have pink hair but you do have very lovely hair and very lovely eyes. am not coming onto you I swear Grin

Great day food wise today btw, definitely helped by the telling off. Looking forward to my food delivery tomorrow.

CrabbyBlossomBottom · 02/06/2014 22:43

Hello Lovelies!

Keep trying to catch up with the thread and then getting distracted. Sat down to read thread over lunch today, determined to do a superpost, but got as far as the report of TrashTwin's diarrhoea and thought I'd read something else whilst eating... Grin Hope TrashTwin1 is feeling better and that TT2 doesn't get it, and that you're on he road to recovery now Trashy.

Peony I am in awe of your 'after' photo. You have abs and everything!!

Sayra big congratulations on your success at the conference. Flowers You go girl!

LMiss good luck with starting your new job. Of course you're going to be nervous and it will be a big adjustment to start with, but hopefully your body will get used to the new demands. You've come so far and you are really taking good care of your body (and mind) now - you're in a much better place to cope than before bootcamp and losing all the weight. Eva has very wise words there (as usual) about learning to say no.

Stunt you are gorgeous and nobody would ever think, looking at that photo, that you had ever had to lose weight. Was the duck worth the garlic overload? Grin

Trashy you are so pretty! I love the dog getting in on the picture too. Grin

Damn, so many gorgeous women on here!! Shock

Things ok here, although my diet is currently one of extreme carby twatdom. Been having a bit of trouble with DD of late - early teenage hormonal stuff I think she's only 11 god help me! I found out she'd been lying about what she'd been doing on her laptop - nothing too awful, but looking up minecraft and youtube stuff instead of doing maths etc. This had happened on multiple occasions. It sounds trivial but with home ed I have to be able to trust her to do what I've asked, as sometimes I need her to be self-directed in what she's doing so that I can get on with other stuff. She already gets a massive 2 hours a day free screentime to do whatever the hell she likes(within reason, obviously!) so to lie and cheat to get more is just taking the piss, frankly. It all escalated when I told her she couldn't use the laptop until I'd installed tighter controls, culminating in her calling me a crone (ouch!) and storming out of the house. She 'ran away', which fortunately, in our pleasant semi-rural bit of Surrey, meant that she spent a couple of hours strolling by the river, eating nettles using a technique she learned at a foraging talk given at a youth group she goes to... She thought she was demonstrating how she could survive independently out in the wild. Hmm Grin

So her laptop is confiscated for a week, which oddly she seems to have accepted completely. She spent all of yesterday and all afternoon today out fishing for crayfish with her mates (they're on inset day), and seems to be actually enjoying being outside instead of counting the minutes until she can go on minecraft.

Pleaseandthankyou · 02/06/2014 23:10

Wow there are some great photos on here. trashy you are going to need a smaller bra for your photos soon. I seem to be boot camping half the week and having a very active social life the rest of the week. I feel as if my weight is edging up but too many social events are getting in the way. It is a good problem to have. What is the shred everyone keeps talking about. I really need to tone up and get my fitness levels up.

trashcanjunkie · 02/06/2014 23:23

And here's a bit of puppy porn. How's it going your end peony?

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trashcanjunkie · 02/06/2014 23:25

Porn of pup

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trashcanjunkie · 02/06/2014 23:26

That's dps hairy chest not mine!

EvaTheOptimist · 02/06/2014 23:30

CRABBYYYYYYYYYY!! lovely to see you DARLING

Stunt I cross-posted with your picture earlier and didn't see it until now. Wow you are slender. Its great to hear you feel healthier too; I really do too.

Trash you are indeed an attractive young lady with unrivalled great taste in underwear. I can see the difference. Its going, gradually and it only does gradually, unfortunately I know you're great at Keeping On. And Good Luck with Actioning tomorrow's Nasty!

Welcome back from hols BIWI and I know what you mean about noticing it in your clothes. I think I'm about 3-4lb up on my meant-to-be-maintenance weight. I need to take my own Keeping On advice.

Crabby I so empathise with your DD. Its exactly what I do... (and I'm meant to be a grown-up) - do a bit of work then mooch around on MN or personal emails etc, when I'm meant to be working. Still, OBVIOUSLY its not a good idea. I absolutely love her back-to-the-land way of stropping too. What a class act.

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trashcanjunkie · 03/06/2014 09:23

ooooh I'm not meant to be here, I should be ATN but I'm having a cuppa and breakkie first Blush

thanks for all the bigging me up, I've been feeling such ugly piggyitus lately - and yes I am going to have to bra down size.

tt2 is going back to school tomorrow Grin

crabby I spat tea reading about dd's survival skills. Sorry unhelpful.

Ok, off to clean the aptly named trashden - report later lovelies x

StuntNun · 03/06/2014 10:20

I have had similar troubles with my DS1 who's 11 Crabby, with him sneaking out at night to get his iPad or playing Roblox when he should be doing his homework. How do you get on with home ed? I am thinking about home schooling my DS2 since he's currently about two years behind with his literacy and the school can't get him any extra help. Angry

The orgasmic duck was lush btw Crabby, I think I'll skip the garlic under the skin next time and just do the garlicky-herby topping. We had your low carb crumble for dessert too

SayraT · 03/06/2014 10:35

Feeling quite nervous now about OH getting op, I'm sure he will be fine but still worrying. He has epilepsy (well controlled, last seizure was over 9 years ago) but still worried that something might happen.

Last night he made me cry because I said "I'll stay as long as you need me to" and he was saying not to as PhD important and I need to focus on that. I said he was more important than PhD then he said "don't worry if I die you will find another OH".

Will post later as not sure how much work I'll be able to do while he is in hospital. Heading off at 11.

EvaTheOptimist · 03/06/2014 12:13

Hope the Trashden ATN (!!) went OK Trash

Good luck today Sayra focus on what you want to focus on. Some misplaced Nobleness from your OH there I think. Many people just find it hard to accept help. But mainly I hope the OP goes smoothly and its not too painful in recovery.

I've ticked 6 whole things off my work to-do list before succumbing to MN distraction! Still would be in Crabby's bad books if I was her DD

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