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

[BIWI]

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

Mighty Leaf Tea linkey for Costa.

OMG kale crisps are lush. I used garlic oil, chilli oil and salt and after ten minutes at 180 they were sooo crispy and delicious. I think I used too much oil as I had to drain them on kitchen towel. Even DS1 ate a few and he's allowed actual crisps.

monkey .... at don'tgiveashititis !!
Quick strip all your clothes off - and look at your naked self in the mirror ... Do you really want to risk starting a journey to put all those pounds back on .. Look how amazing you look . Stay away from shit carbs !
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Calzone - I shall tell all

Creamy fennel

Slice up some fennel bulbs - can be as many as you like, but I used three this time.

Place in boiling water for around 10-15 mins until tender. Strain and keep a bit of the lovely, fennel-infused stock.

Meanwhile fry off some spring onions - again can be as many or as little as you like, they just give a nice flavour. Add a small amount of the fennel stock and reduce a bit (not too much or the sauce will be too thin). Glug in a healthy amount of cream and throw in a handful of grated cheese (cheddar is good). It should thicken a bit. Season to taste and either add some of the green fennel tops or some dill to the sauce (I use dill as I like a stronger flavour)

Place fennel in an oven-proof bowl, pour over sauce and place in the oven to keep warm until required. If you are feeling extra in need, you can also sprinkle some cheese, perhaps Parmesan, on top and brown under the grill.

Tis delish with sausages, roast chicken, fish...

Sorry for the slightly slapdash approach to this recipe, I will find the correct measurements if anyone wants them, I just go by look and feel!

I have third headache today
I rarely get headaches at all.
It is likely to be amount of water I had in the last 2 days. def 3.5 l today
I think I need to slow down with water for now.

Today was
b 2 eggs scrambled with butter and some roast chicken
L tuna with lettuce, mayo and a little cheese
D (hope this isn't too carby) beef mince cooked with thinly sliced courgette, onion, mushroom, a little yellow pepper, some passata so like a Bolognese sauce on large leaf romaine lettuce topped with a little cheese

Hope the dinner was ok, it was scrumptious x

I found some chilled aioli in morosesons tonight. 1.7 per 100g. I. Going to have it on weekend with orgasmic duck. Dh can sleep downstairs.

Going to but that aioli ohwhat, love that stuff! thanks for tip, just got home after long stressful day BUT no chocs! Really pleased with myself, just kept drinking and walked away.
Really hungry now but don't like eating this time of night, piece of cheese and bedtime for me.

Don't slow down with water anti-matter, but increase your salt intake. You may be low on electrolytes.

B - Greek yog
L - cauliflower and broccoli soup with bacon lardons
D - baby gem lettuce with Bolognese sauce, grated cheese

7 pints of water
Aerobics tonight and feeling full of energy. Loving this woe

Good day today

B - 2 boiled eggs, ham and mayo
L - beef salad with avocado
D - Chicken leg, cauliflower cheese, spinach and cherry tomatoes
S - Miso soup

Also did a body combat class and a spin class and drank 4 litres of water - sloshing a bit towards end of day though. Really getting bored of the trips to the loo, feel like an incontinent old biddie

Am being very virtuous cos work dinner coming up tomorrow. Have asked them to send me the menu so I can share on here and get some damage limitation tips, but am going to do Uber-Bootcamp Friday, Saturday and Sunday as even if it looks safe, who knows what is in the sauces etc.

Do not want to undo my good work. How dare my colleagues invite me to a lovely black tie dinner with fabulous guest speakers - inconsiderate carb-addicts the lot of them . Am driving anyway, so the booze is a hazard I can factor out at least...

Can I also say, and sorry not to namecheck but can't remember who posted this, but to the wonderful bootcamper who posted the recipe for Easy Cauliflower Cheese - I love you!!! It was amazing - here are some

PS thanks all for the Black Farmer Sausage stockist tips - trip to massive local Sainsbos coming up ...

...and another early start for me! Need to read back through this thread as lots of references to v good recipes ( unless there's a separate recipe thread I've not spotted yet?)
A pound down this morning, but I'm the victim of daily weigh ins so don't trust that at all! Fluid shift can be as much as 3 lbs for me in a day, but at least this time the scales are heading in the right direction!
Have a good day everyone, have a lovely dinner tomorrow night looking!

I was definitely low on electrolytes, I know as I feel much better today after drinking one cup of Knorr's stock pots. However I didn't bring one to work with me today and will not be drinking as much water today.
I am not going to stop low carbing but I will have about 2 l today as I know my body in the past managed well on low carb diet and I also lost weight.
I am not suggesting that others should make changes but in my case it made me feel quite unwell.I think salt on its own is not enough. Perhaps rehydration meds will be better but I want my body to adjust slowly.
Another factor is that at work I drink water which goes through an industrial filter (Is like a kettle we have choice of cold or warm filtered water ) so it's depleted of some minerals.
I can stick with sparkly water - but I won't experiment today. I want to give my body a break

Stunt glad you liked the kale chips. I can't wait to buy more, they are delicious.

I think I have had a huge realisation that cream really fills me up, butter almost as much but cheese hardly at all. So if lunch contains cheese as my fat source I get hungry at tea and am really battling cravings. Eat cream and at goes away. I will be buying more cream today! Life is so much easier when you're not hungry.

B- coffee with butter and cream,, ff yog
D- I was thinking about slicing some chicken breast, spreading it with butter and topping with sliced olives.
T- Something with chicken I think.

Have a good day everyone.

B- coffee with butter and cream,, ff yog
D- I was thinking about slicing some chicken breast, spreading it with butter and topping with sliced olives.
T- Something with chicken I think.

Have a good day everyone.

lookingforhope - my recipe!

teawithlemon - we do indeed have a separate recipe thread here it is

not a good morning - spent last night with headaches and big bout of lethargy (skipped training), am I stalling I'm not admitting to having a daily scales addiction

Have a 10k this morning after DS1 is dropped off at school and am trying my hardest to get some sort of oomph or mojo this morning

B- coffee with butter and cream,, ff yog
D- I was thinking about slicing some chicken breast, spreading it with butter and topping with sliced olives.
T- Something with chicken I think.

Have a good day everyone.

Pisseslikeahorse You are not stalling! You have lost a huge amount of weight very quickly, and you can't possibly expect your body to keep losing at that rate.

We're coming to the end of the second week and at this stage it's really common for weight loss to slow/stop. It's quite normal - don't panic, just keep doing what you're doing and things will get going again soon.

Caffeine can help, pre run - but if you're not yet properly keto-adapted (and it sounds like you might not be) then you might find the run hard going. Do you have to do it today?

If you're tired, and headachey, drink something salty - Oxo/Marmite/Bovril in boiling water, or a stock cube - and make sure you're getting magnesium and potassium as well - salmon, spinach, avocado and full fat natural yoghurt are all good for this

antimatter - really good point about filtered water. But you should also be thinking about electrolytes as well.

_BIWI - thank you!!!!
horse - good luck with the 10k
never - chicken and olives sounds interesting. Am loving being able to eat butter again without fear

BIWI - i'm on a pre race programme and sadly I'm one of those obsessive that have to keep up with their training (or my whole world collapses). But I will bring the pace right down and run a route that gives me a drinking fountain.

I think this is making me a bit down thats all, but life is always better after a run

lookingforhope - thanks

Pisses - are you getting enough sleep? I felt really low on Tuesday until I realised I probably had a sleep deficit. Got a good night and then ran a really fast 5k on Weds morning.

Sometimes it's the simple things that get overlooked when I'm hung up on all the new eating malarkey.

Let us know how you get on on your 10k. My running buddies are nagging me to go for a long one with them tomorrow - I've been putting them off while on BC, but feel pretty good now so think I will try it.

Have just seen this wonderful thread. Am I too late to join in?

Busy tonight at the personal trainer and going out with the cd after school so posting now.

B - 3 eggs scrambled with butter and fried mushrooms
L - some kind of ikea salad, mayo
D - chicken with garlic and herbs with spinach and some other roast/fried veg