Week 2 - Low Carb Bootcamp - The First Weigh-In!

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So how did you all get on?

Just in case you've lost the link Here is the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

I hope that your first week has been rewarded by good news on the scales.

Good luck for the next week

I've finally done it! I have drunk 3.5 litres of water today! I know I should have been from the start but I have found it really hard. The amazing thing is I get thirsty between drinks, previously I could have had maybe 1 or 2 glasses of water all day and been fine.

Afternoon ladies!

First day and I'm feeling ok!

Could anyone give any feedback on my meals as it feels like I have eaten loads

B:2 eggs scrambled with some mushrooms sautéed in butter
L:Gammon salad with mustard mayo
D:Chicken breast oven baked field mushrooms and asparagus with butter.

Managed my 3l of water, aided by the office being tropic like today, have also joined gym at work so did 45 min cardio.

Be brutal!

Good day today.

B two boiled eggs (Tuesday is our very busy morning as I have to leave the house earlier, so I didn't have time to make my devilled eggs and celery sticks. Thankfully I'd boiled the eggs last night).

L I forgot my planned lunch of two pork sausages and aubergine, tomato and mozzarella bake, so had a chicken leg, some watercress, four cherry tomatoes and a handful of pork scratchings.

D frying steak fried in butter with red, green and yellow peppers and a little bit of onion.

Two cups of coffee with cream, three cups of fruit tea, one cup of tea with a dash of milk. Not sure on the water but pretty close and I'll have more before the end of the day.

Hope you all have had great successes today

B- celery with boiled egg (needed something to crunch!)
L - salmon with cuc and lettuce
S- grilled chicken with creamed broccoli

Wanted to have some pumpkin seed with my salad, are they allowed?
Waters been a fight, and so has keeping dairy to a limit.

If anyone on here (LMD? if you are around?) has made the taco bake can you tell me roughly what size of dish you used?

Got friends round tomorrow so thought I would make this an serve it with salad.

prettybird, thanks!

Really impressed by some of the weight losses on here - a stone!! I did sign up for boot camp but real life got in the way last week. The weight loss stories are keeping me inspired. Have been doing this for a year now. I will be happy to stay the same or lose. I just don't want to put anything on. For those who like egg in a cup try adding a big dollop of mayo after the butter has melted, yum

Devilled eggs in a cup is going to be my next experiment. I can't imagine it would go wrong!

Wow well done for all the fantastic losses! I didnt start until last Thursday so another couple of days until weigh in. B.yog and coconut cream, makerel omlette.
L.pork salad
D.spag bol in field mushroom with salad.
Loads of water, would also like to thank whoever first mentioned coconut cream as this has really kept me going when I feel like something sweet. Keep on everyone some fab losses, hopefully I can join you on Thursday.

RedTartan your meals look fine. Once you've adapted to this WOE your appetite decreases. This is because your body can't effectively access it's fat stores when you're eating a lot of carbs (due to insulin limiting the release of fat from fat cells). So once your off the carby food your body can start making use of it's fat stores. With this WOE fat constantly flows in and out of your fat cells so there is a constant supply of energy. That's what makes it easier to skip meals later on, you can exercise in a fasted state, don't get tired in the afternoon, etc.

Apologies for bad spelling caused by iPhone autocorrect and my tiredness .

I'm only on week one as I was in holiday last week can anyone clear up for me what the deal is with seasoning? can I use herbs and spices ? lemon and lime juice? I made lovely guacamole and then thought after maybe that lime wasn't allowed

Yes they are all fine!

Teawithlemon - no seeds until you're on Bootcamp Light

thanks biwi I'm being very good honest I have a headache already though I didn't expect symptoms of carb flu , if that's what it is , to show up so soon. bit worried I won't be able to concentrate in my job interview tomorrow .

some great losses, well done bootcampers

today's food
b: two eggs in a cup w butter & green tea
l:cream of broccoli soup with smoked cheddar, cucumber and pastrami
s:some spoonfuls of extra thick cream
d: thai chicken curry and slim rice (shiritaki noodles chopped into 'rice')

5x green teas (streaming cold & sore throat) and a water pb of 3.5 litres

This was yesterday

B Black Farmer Sausage. Aldi's Greek yoghurt.
L roast chicken (ate the skin too), buttered leeks, mashed swede with butter.
D prawn mayonnaise,salad leaves, cucumber, 5 cherry toms, Aldi's coleslaw( maybe bit too carby at 6 g per 100 but only had a small amount),. Some coconut cream.
1 black tea, 2 coffees with a tiny bit of milk. 4 litres water.

And this was the day before

B - halloumi, 3 cherry tomatoes and 1 scrambled egg all cooked in butter
L - egg mayo and little gem lettuce.
D - 2 Black Farmer sausages, mashed swede, buttered leeks.

S- couple of spoonfuls of coconut cream

2 cups decaff earl Grey. 1 Americano with cream in Starbucks, 3.5 litres of water.

I am not disheartened by the lack of weight loss. So not going to give up just yet.

Today I have had

B -scrambled eggs coked in butter, Greek yoghurt.
L waitrose Tuna Pate and salad leaves
D -at my mums for tea so had more salad with ham, boiled egg and cheese.
S -aldi Greek yoghurt .

On my 3rd litre of water, bit behind today but have had lots of black decaff tea.

Is it the cheese? I have only eaten it twice all week.

Evening all! And congrats Cherry!

Whoever mentioned lettuce sandwiches (think it was thread 1) is a genius - had some today, delish! Who needs bread?!

All OK here, but still feeling really weak and tired which I don't think should be the case by now?

Anyhoo:

B: Greek yog with double cream
L: lettuce sandwiches (butter, ham, cheese & mustard)
D: chicken & spinach curry

• lots of water

Keep on trucking, y'all

Beef bourgonion with cauliflower rice for dinner.

I've bought some tofu for tomorrow does anyone have any idea what to do with it? Never cooked it in my life. I have loads of greens in I could stir fry.

Lighthouse - I posted about cooking tofu in the last thread I think...

I finally discovered the best way to cook it!

First make sure the water it comes in is completely squeezed out or it won't suck up any flavour. You can do this by taking it out earlier in the day a putting it between tea towels/kitchen roll with a book on top to squeeze it out. Then cut it up into pieces.

Heat some oil in a wok and add some kind of flavour, perhaps soy sauce or I used some homemade red Thai curry paste. Fry it off for a bit, but depending on the firmness of your tofu, I find that it can break up if you try and cook it fully in the wok.

So what I do is spoon out the tofu along with some of the oil and marinade on to a baking sheet and put in a hot oven so that it crisps up and browns off.

Then in the meantime you can stir fry your veg etc in the wok using the remaining oil.

Tofu is particularly delicious in Thai green curry IMO, so if you could find a low carb recipe you could do that?

Funny thing today, after my loss of 4lb got a bit smug and thinking I was on top of things and had the urge to cheat for the first time! Really wanted just one chocolate out of a box of truffles we have open at home. And I am speaking as someone who last night even steeled myself to refuse a home made cupcake from dd which is practically against the law in our house and made me feel a rotten mum...

Anyway, resisted (thanks to you lot and the fact that I am a little scared of BIWI) and had

B - 2 boiled eggs, ham, mayo
L - cold roast beef, salad leaves, 5 cherry tomatoes, boiled egg, mayo
D- salmon, stir fried with soy sauce, chilli, garlic, asparagus, broccoli and pak choi. Added half a tin of coconut milk which I think I found in Aldi - only 1.5 carbs per 100g, and used half a tin (200g) but split the meal with dh (he had noodles which didn't even tempt me)
Snacks - small cubes of cheddar

... also 3 litres of water, lots of herb teas, 1 real tea with milk, 1 black coffee - spend more time in the loo at work than at my desk these days, am sure my colleague thinks I have a problem

Think I am freaking out and in 'sod it, let's cheat mode' cos I now have not 1 but 2 work meals in the next week (one Thursday and one Monday). Both fixed menus - if they weren't I wouldn't be worried - and the Monday one is a Michelin starred chef, normally I would be beside myself with glee as I adore posh restaurants and food (I series link Masterchef when I go on holiday, I am that sad) but it is just worrying me - what to do??? Though I suppose whatever we get the portions will be tiny

Just going to try really hard to have a good day tomorrow - for dinner am planning a lovely recipe by Nigel Slater which I cut out of a magazine ages ago and have never been able to cook before as I was scared of fat and cream in my old misguided low-fat ways. I shall post it on the recipe page if it works out

One question before I go ... what are Black Farmer Sausages?? Intrigued...

Black farmer sausages:

www.theblackfarmer.com

Another stupidly busy day, so probably not as good as I could have been...

B - egg in a cup, bpc

L - cheese salad

D - Indian takeaway - saag paneer, bringal bhaji (aubergine), mushroom bhaji.

Bloody hell you lot can talk. 12 pages!

Have skimmed the end of the last thread and all of this one. I'm sorry I didn't get to reply to people on the last thread - losing a long post made me rather lose the will to go on! Haven't got time to post properly as trying to sort my shit out at the mo.

I'm continuing bootcamp light for now as have just been put on a medication that can lower blood sugar levels (according to the side effects leaflet). Although I think it's probably only a problem with T1 diabetics, to be on the safe side am not going to go too hardcore at the mo as I adjust to it.

Half a measly pound off for me this week. I know I haven't been properly bootcamping but I stuck to BC light, didn't drink during the week and ate vastly better than the weeks before. Thought I might see a pound off. Oh well.

Huge and congrats to all the losers. Keep on keeping on to those who haven't lost any/much.

Thanks Holger - just looked them up on my local Tesco online by typing 'black farmer sausages' in the 'find product' box, and bizarrely the search engine came up with a Spanish Iberico Pork ring, some own brand vegetarian sausages and no fewer than TEN different types of teabags. Teabags! I am guessing they are not widely stocked in the North. Hmmm

Anyone know any other low carb sausages?

Mmm, I'mso - Saag Paneer. Just solved the problem of what I can order when we go for a curry to accompany my lamb chop tikka instead of rice