Week 6 - Low Carb Bootcamp - Drawing a Line Under It

[BIWI]

Time for the new thread ...

Am on iPad and have no time to link to the Spreadsheet, but please talk here! Will do links later (unless some kind soul could do them for me)

Thanks again everyone. I threw the rest of the cake away after DH had helped himself to a big piece. It wasn't even that nice!

Have had greek yoghurt and coffee with cream for breakfast. Going to a funeral later :( so will have an early lunch of leftovers & avoid food at the wake.

I'm someone who bottles stuff up & never talks about what's bothering me, and I was taught to hide my emotions, so it's truly been amazing to open up have such a great response on here. Thank you Sarah, Anti, Sayra & Lowcarb. I really appreciate every message.

Ultimately I'm going to have to find healthier ways to deal with emotion than stress eating, but you're right it is a one day at a time, piece by piece process, with lots of setbacks on the way. If I can get through today that will be a big victory for me :)

I wish BPC would work as an iced coffee. But it would separate, congeal and be gross, right?

Let it out Locarblil we're all listening. Many of us have been there. Hope today goes as well as can be and well done for meal planning and cake-chucking.

Well, been caught out again this month - TOTM has come a week early again - maybe thats the cause of the back pain! Its crept up on me though - no real PMS, sore boobs etc.

i've been reading but not posting because exactly the same thing has happened to me lowcarblil, and not being one to talk about such things, i just dropped off the threads and out of the bootcamp (and the last one, and the one before that...) but still kept reading and wishing i could be like everyone else.

some great posts and recommendations above, i'm going to look for that meditation app this minute, though is it possible to be an emotional eater when it's just numbness/boredom that sends me into a carb frenzy?

am really going to try and stick it out here, and today i will not binge. onwards and downwards!

Pingu I find that LCing makes my cycles shorter. Fat contains oestrogen and when your body is getting rid of it maybe more of it ends up back in the system.

I also wondered whether eating more meat would be causing an oestrogen blip, seeing as so much mass-produced meat is injected with hormones. It's something I've always vaguely meant to do more research on but as I can't afford top-of-the-range organic grass-fed meat I've decided to ignore it for a bit!

Morning, hope everyone is feeling better today. Scales showed 1lb off today but I'm not going to get excited that things have started moving again as I felt so unwell yesterday that I couldn't managed breakfast or lunch and only ate a light tea which I suspect it giving a false result this morning.

I've had all the babybell flavours except the yellow one, the green ones are goats cheese and actually really good

EwanHozzami - the only way to find out is to try it I guess, if you blended the butter and coconut oil together first and then added the liquid really slowly a tiny bit at a time while mixing it might work. Probably just turn in to a gross mess but you won't know unless you try.

Hey lil, I know what you mean. I have a taste for REALLLY bad food - custard creams, white bread toast with butter, kettle chips etc. I am a chronic depressive and I rely on food as a mood booster when I am at my lowest - of course it doesn't help long-term - hell not even short-term, but in that moment it fills an emotional hole.

I don't crave anything on this WOE - as in I can see a bar of chocolate but i don't feel any urge to eat it - but I do miss my emotional crutch. I can be having a bad day at work and I think ''Hmmm... never mind I can cook a big plate of pasta for dinner' and then realise I can't ... and for a moment my heart sinks.

Ruby if boredom is making you crave food, have you tried crochet or embroidery or knitting? Back in my early days of a severe binge eating disorder it's what I used to do when watching tv, etc. I found if my hands were busy I didn't think about food so much. Lots of tutorials on youtube.

For anyone really struggling, I want to reassure people that Overeaters Anonymous is very welcoming and very non scary. It is a big step going, but there are people of all shapes and sizes (most of my group were stick thin), all stages of therapy and mental health issues, and mostly very nice people. It was such a relief to talk to people who were doing the same thing as me. Got me through a very bad patch. It is definitely worth seeking help, food addiction is serious, it makes you feel crap. OA might not be right for you, but worth trying. It's free too.

Hi all, must be one of those days then. I had to sit on my hands in order not to eat one of The Toddler's crumpets. This isn't good.
Am drinking water and trying to keep busy, but my mind is making excuses. It's all I can think of today. Ugh.

But I will not cave you tempting carbyfucker. I. Will. Be. Strong.

thanks lowcarbforthewin, i do knit but seldom have time too busy on mumsnet and actually it's not exactly boredom as i am always busy with stuff i should be doing - i think it's partly boredom with the routine/regime/being limited in what foods i can eat (i'm a hopeless cook!) and possibly dissatisfaction in a wider sense - would love to learn to crochet though, never thought of youtube!

just wanted to say that what locarblil and antimatter posted really resonated and made me feel there was maybe still a place for me on the bootcamp wagon after all

it's so much easier to stick to the plan if everything else in life is going along swimmingly and there aren't too many bumps in the road, isn't it? also if i remember to keep up the water intake it makes a huge difference.

B: 2 fried eggs, spring onion, BPC
L: 1/4 roast chicken, mayo, cucumber (i need to go shopping!)
D: tba

Are you in the US Ewan? Meat in the UK, and the EU as a whole, isn't pumped full of hormones as it's illegal, even antibiotics have washout periods before the meat can be slaughtered. Most cows and beef cattle in the UK are kept out in grass anyway so grass-fed beef, butter etc. are much more common here.

Sorry that should have read 'animal can be slaughtered'. Apologies to the vegetarians present.

rubybricks you are welcome on here same as I feel I am

We are trying our best!

I don't eat out of boredom and if I'm upset I go off my food rather than eating for comfort. I do eat when I'm tired though. I can get tired all too often with having ME/FMS! I found that by sticking it out with the sort of carb levels on BootCamp, even if it meant eating the odd low carb snack, I quite quickly felt much better in myself. More positive and with more energy. Changing your fuel source from sugar to ketones takes longer for some than others but it does improve your body and brain function in all sorts of ways.

Try and stick it out taking just a few hours at a time if necessary and it will pay off.

Ah no stunt I'm in the UK. Phew, no hormonal nasties then!

So day 3 and am def in ketosis. Ah, tinky breath and wee, how I have missed you. And glad that my new house has a downstairs WC!

I eat when I'm tired too, which is all the time.

I think I may have weighed incorrectly on Monday because the following day I have been 2 lbs heavier. I haven't eaten anything I shouldn't have and have pretty much stuck to BC. i will leave the weight as it is in the spreadsheet but it has got me down a bit. I expected the scales to have moved down more than they have although I have read explanations why the scales don't always show a loss. My clothes do feel a bit looser, I'm not craving anything so still hoping for a visit from the whoosh fairy. It's good to read how everyone else is doing. for all who are struggling. I'm keeping on keeping on

Crappy day today, but nothing to do with food. DH's sister in the UK looks like she is going downhill very fast and I feel helpless - not sure what to do. DH refusing to talk to me right now, we have just had a phone call. So I am giving him some space, but checking out flights, so I can talk to him later about whether he wants to fly to the UK asap.

I want to cry but I also want to try and be efficient, and I am supposed to be working anyway.

Hello! I've survived today. I probably have overeaten but only of BC stuff so that is an improvement I guess - babysteps! Going out tonight and trying to focus on friends and fun and chatting and not on the food and drink element! I can and will have a good time on water and BC friendly food.

Ewan - so good to know others have been there. I'm so ashamed of eating like this, and IRL most of my friends are very slim, so possibly wouldn't understand.

Ruby - So glad you're still on the wagon. Hope today went OK for you too.

Irian - yy - food to fill an emotional hole. When BC is going well I too find I'm weirdly disinterested in chocolate (my big downfall, although I am an equal opportunities binger - all foods are consumed, even ones I don't particularly like

Lowcarb - you've reminded me that I really want to learn to crochet. I want to make one of those crazy 70s blankets which are back in fashion (are they still?). Good to hear about OA. I'm still building courage!

Folkn - Hope you stayed strong :) I also eat when tired. Basically pretty much any negative emotion leads me to the biscuit tin...

Spamm - That sounds really tough. Hope you & DH can have a talk (&cry if you need to) this evening

Hello everybody..,!!
Such a day..!! I think it is one of those where everything seems to go in the wrong direction..:(

No change in the scale this morning ..:(
The thing is that in 11 days I have a christening coming, and I am the godmother of the child.

Just the day before we broke up for Easter, my weight was 63kg ( quite sad, I know..) anyway the flowing day I went to my home country for two weeks and I bought a beautiful outfit for that event. Back two weeks later to uk and tried it on to show dh and it didn't go up above my tights.

Then I thought, right is 21st of April so I have plenty of time to lose the 3kg I put on on holidays and maybe another 1 or 2 to get where I was before xmas. So I decided to start my number 100 o plus diet. This time lc.
And yes, BIWI, CQ, ANTI, and BIRDI, I'm eating lots if fat, nearly a litre of mayo, homemade a week. I'm eating butter like a pig, and the only vegs I eat are the one below 3 gr.
my intake of dairy has been in the past one ff yogurt in the morning; no cheese or milk. Maybe a decaf coffee with a tbs of cream from time to time.
No nuts
So here I am with 9 days to go, with no loss at all since the 21 April and miserable like a cow and wonder what on earth I'm going to wear for the Christening as all my clothes are size 10 and I'm currently a size 14 :(
I'm ever so sorry for the length of this post, but is good to share things with other people that maybe are in the same situation...!!
The last thing I have to add is that I haven't cheat at all, as I don't have any cravings for anything

Am I too late to join in with you?

Supermum its so, hard when the scales wont budge!

Do you think you are going to the other extreme and eating too much fat? Maybe the others will have something to contribute here but I believe you can have too much and it will stop you burning your own. Mostly people struggle to eat too much as we have all been brainwashed by the fat-free brigade but in the IPD book they suggest keeping things like double cream and mayo to sensible levels.

Good luck with the outfit!

oola welcome never too late to join in

Ok. A couple of questions if that's alright, I'm a bit new to this and it all seems so counterintuitive. How much are you supposed to eat? Or not?
And does low carb mean no whole grain rice or quinoa?