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

Oh well today is a new day.

Keep on keeping on everybody!

Sorry lost half of my post. And also wow at presenting at conferences, I suspect you'll be a consultant before I am!!

notso no one stays in the dog house, hope life with breakfast works out better :)

Meals here will be:
B yoghurt etc
L cream cheese pancakes with rocket salad
D homemade fish cakes with swede chips

Have a great sunny Friday everyone!!

Well done overit!
I eel really crap this morning. Sick and pooey. Tmi, but why are my poos so pale? Like baby poo. Know it means I'm missing something, but what?
Anyway forced myself to have mushrooms in butter and cream for breakfast.(that almost made me puke cooking it)
Lunch, boiled eggs and salad and mayo. (Gipping writing that)
Dinner pork chops green veg in butter.
It's a lovely day today anyway, enjoy everyone.

A beautiful sunny morning here!

Eggs are boiling for breakfast Biwi!

Mmm, am unplanned today.

Eggs

Salad with ?

Dinner?

Going to a Macmillan cocktail party tonight. BUT, am driving, eating dinner before I go and taking olives and pork scratchings with me. That is a good plan.

For those who find it challenging to have breakfast, I am usually ok but sometimes have days like that. I find that leftovers are much easier on my palate on those days. Anything, really, even stews, curries, whatever. Sometimes if I'm feeling particularly un-breakfasty I eat it cold which seems to make it easier. Thought you might want to try it and see.

Morning all

3lb off at last woohoo! Nice to see some losses from us slow starters

Was at a work thingy yesterday and amazingly the lunch was all LC friendly

yesterday

B: Two fried eggs, coffee with cream
L: Salad, chicken breast, salmon fillets, curried mushrooms
D: Nothing really was quite full and was driving home
S: Babybels

today

B: Halloumi, coffee with cream
L: Left over taco bake (LMD it was delicious and it is "yours" )
D: ???
S: FF yogurt, peppers, cucumber

Well done I'msooverit

B: BPC and two eggs in a cup with lots of added salt.

Eating out tonight (and Monday) and have been getting a bit stressed about undoing all my good work so far. Then I realised that I DON'T need to have a carby meal and sugary dessert. I choose what goes in my body. I just hate the bit when your friends comment on your choices or do the 'go on, go on' spiel. Or even worse, when you not having a dessert makes them all sad like you've stopped them too. I know this is their issue and not mine but I still find it hard to deal with.

I'm the same jimmy - it's my birthday next week and I've been mulling over what I should do as weight loss has been slower this time and I'm still waiting for my first whoosh. I don't want to scupper it by setting myself back so early on. Yesterday it struck me, actually I don't have to have something carby to celebrate. I was only thinking a couple of squares of Lindt excellence caramel with a touch of sea salt and a glass of wine, so it wouldn't have been all that bad. But in the grand scheme of things I'd rather not.

I had some fabulous news at hospital yesterday, I hadn't quite realized how scared and worried I was. Now I'm grinning like mad and everything us doable again
B. yogurt n double cream
L. egg salad and whatever in the fridge.
D. Maybe chicken

I'm a daily weigher and everything is moving in the right direction. Clothes feel a better fit and have tried to up my water a bit. Mright try the marmite suggestion.

Thanks littlemiss and Holger and Minty for the breakfast advice.
I couldn't face the yoghurt but I did have fried halloumi in little gem leaves, and a cup of cauliflower cheese soup. Weirdly although I thought I wasn't hungry, I now feel full.

Going out for a curry tonight. My usual choices would be,
Poppadoms and chutneys
Chicken chat (a fried chapati with small chicken curry)
Lamb Saagwalla (spinachy) with pilau rice
Lamb samosas.

I am obviously going to loose the chapati, rice and samosa. I was maybe thinking of getting kebabs as a starter. What about the main?

Also if anyone has some good recipes to use up celery I would be grateful. I tried celery soup last week but it was rank

Morning! Thanks so much for the advice re constipation...
BIWI I think it was not going as often to start with, but now is definitely constipation I'll up my water and veg as advised! And I think I may have been over doing the protein, HolgerDanske as I was really missing carbs and felt I had to stuff my face to compensate My appetite has now really settled, not needing to snack and actually not feeling that hungry at all.
Minty been very thirsty as well so I'm now drinking a hot cup of stock cube, which is surprisingly delicious!
Antimatter glad to know it's not just me!
Thanks so much all

I'm feeling despondent. I've had a great week food wise other than that half custard apple on Friday. And yet since I weighed myself a week ago, no loss on the scale.

I know I have to be honest with myself and say my body just can't tolerate dairy. It makes me stall, maintain, whatever. I'm working too hard at this and want the weight loss too much to keep eating it, so dairy is out. I'm hoping I can eat the odd bit of Greek yogurt, say once a week, and still lose because it is nice to have a treat to look forward to. But I did a whole30 last year, was eating nuts and berries and lost 9lbs in a month, whereas on this I've cut the nuts and berries, added in dairy and the scales are sticking. (I'm speaking from experience of how I was eating in April too, not just the last week).

It feels very unfair because I have tried so hard and obviously said no to all sorts of other things. But I guess I can't descend into self pity. I can eat dairy again in a few months when I've lost more weight. It will be worth it.

holgerdanske I got myself into a real fizz for my birthday, as we usually go for afternoon tea. Instead we went to a new barbecue place, and they even had freshly made pork scratchings! I think planning is the key. My daughter was desperate to make me a birthday cake, so I had tiramisu, which is pretty low carb, cheesecake can work too. It's a woe, not a diet, so I always try to find something that works, rather than missing out.

Yes, dairy does not work for some of us including me. I had some cream yesterday. My nose ran, my throat hurt. Tried some goat's and sheep's cheese which was a little bit better, but even without the intolerance (I never drink milk by the way) it seems to stop weight loss. It is as if my body knows cheese does not grow on trees and is not natural and paleo and the weight stays on.

Braised celery is lovely Notso, or add to stews, or dip into Philadelphia.

Dairy doesn't stall me but it gives me a stuffed up nose. According to Briffa Greek yoghurt is the best type of dairy to include in your diet if you have to have some dairy.

As a bit of inspiration, I wore a dress for the first time in years ages yesterday and I have nice legs! It's funny that I'm so obsessed about losing the flabby tummy (which I still have) that I didn't really notice that you lose fat from all over your body.

Well! Just completed a 3 k run without stops! Really pleased, last time I ran was two weeks ago and had to stop as felt unwell, breathless etc.
so, today
B spinach butter egg.
Have to hit the shops for later...
Have a lovely day everyone!

Hello!

Not posted for a few days, but I have been sticking to it apart from two glasses of red wine yesterday

Today
B Greek yogurt and cinnamon
l chicken and Greek salad
D cod and prawns in a cheese sauce with broccoli and asparagus.

DH out tonight so planning to have a long bath then do my nails whilst watching The Good Wife and staying off the wine.

Just been to the gym and about to do some cleaning....hopefully burning off a few more calories along the way!

It's so annoying because I'm not intolerant of dairy, I don't feel ill at all. And eating it makes this woe so easy for me because I might be giving up carbs but dairy is such a treat in return. It's hard to see other people eating lots of it and losing lots of weight too. But we're all different and I just have to suck it up for a bit. It will be worth it.

If you know that moderate amounts of nuts and berries are not a problem for you, could you maybe get rid of dairy and sub with just a bit of each of those instead? It's almost the end of boot camp so it's potentially only a couple days more before you can add those in...

If it were me I might do über camp for three days now till Monday, then go back to boot camp lite without dairy.

Sorry, I know it's disheartening. If it helps I'm still waiting for the whoosh as well. I will wait till mid week next week and if I still haven't started properly losing I will do über camp just to get things going.