Pre-Christmas Low Carb Bootcamp Starts Here!

[BIWI]

Welcome everyone! I'm starting the thread early because I have to be up and out of the house at stupid o'clock tomorrow morning.

Here is the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness for you to enter your starting weight

If you don't want to put your weight on the public spreadsheet, you can enter it on the weight tracker. (This probably won't be available until tomorrow morning)

If you've joined up very recently, and your name isn't on the spreadsheet, just add it on at the bottom - the very lovely SayraT will re-alphabetize everything later.

vegetarian BIWI, and it was just a sprinkling

I actually started last Monday - I was in the right frame of mind, so decided to bite the bullet rather than eat more rubbish for another week.

I've lost 6lb in my first week and I've been really surprised how easy I've found it (I may be eating my words later on in boot camp!!!). I've eaten lots of delicious food and never once felt hungry, and my cravings for carby rubbish have gone - at toddlers this morning I was offered a plate of homemade shortbread and said 'no thanks' (that would have been unthinkable a week ago)

So today;
Breakfast - smoked salmon and avocado
Lunch - cauliflower rice with onion and mushroom and chicken fried in butter
Tea - cauliflower cheese with bacon and kale, cream and gruyere cheese

Had stuff like boiled eggs available for snacks but didn't need them.

Couple of coffees with a teaspoon of cream, probably around three litres of water (my body seems to be adjusting, I've not been running to the loo every five minutes today!)

160lb
B: scrambled egg with streaky bacon
L: heated up portion of mince and veg (cottage pie filling)
D: steak fajita salad

Today has mostly been eggs, chicken and salad.

I think my body might just be going into shock at the salad

I had peri peri chicken last night, maybe the sauce has done it?

Must try cauliflower rice!

Tomorrow is going to be poached eggs with smoked salmon for brekkie, mushroom and spinach omelette for lunch, and smoked haddock with curly Cale and butter and a bit of broccoli. Might try and knock up some class of buttery sauce with it.

Hi all [waves]

I'll be joining the BC a couple of days late due to lack of food shopping…. had all good intentions to go over the weekend, then like a numpty fell over and sprained my ankle still, should be ok to hobble round tomorrow.

I can't get on the spreadsheet as we only have a Mac and it doesn't like them! Could someone please add me with a starting weight of 10st alb?

Off to dig out my Low Carb Vegetarian Cookbook!

10st 8lb! Bloody autocorrect!!

Nice to see so many familiar faces here. I was lost in a summer of carby twatdom so didn't participate much in the last BC but I've got renewed determination and am going to shift that stone I let pile back on.

Humph the first BC I did, DP also lost weight - still eating muesli for breakfast, a sarnie for lunch and my incredibly calorific LCHF evening meals. He's been eating lowish carb this month along with me, and lost 10lbs in the first couple of weeks. Jammy fucker. I think men's metabolisms are different when it comes to hoarding fat.

I wasn't going to record my food, as am doing BC light. I will though, as I like seeing what other people are eating to get ideas. I'll miss out the verboten bits though so that BIWI doesn't feel the need to wave her big stick at me.

B - leftover roast dinner; pork, brussels, mashed swede.
L - crustless chorizo and gruyere quiche.
D - pork stroganoff with cauliflower rice.

scousadelic at Fat Fuckers' Flan! I'm glad my FFF has made it on to people's menu plans today.

Bird that's a really inspiring weight loss. Bloody well done.

Been reading along but can't reply to everyone just now. I will look through tomorrow and try to sort everyones spreadsheet requests.

Glad to see some familiar names and welcome to any new LCers

Had a funny sort of day, I've eaten LC but it probably isn't the best, too much protein I think.

B: square sausage (possibly too carby too), coffee with cream
L: two lamb burgers, salad
D: two boiled eggs, tuna mayonnaise
S: cucumber, ff yogurt

Going to make sure I am very organised as I am looking after my bosses house and cats just now but need to stay at his house some of the time and mine for the rest of the time, I have a cat too.

Here's my food from today:

B: scrambled eggs with tomato and a bit of ham, coffee with cream
L: chicken and salad with a dill mayonnaise dressing
S: coffee with cream
D: bolognaise sauce on stir-fried leeks, cabbage and courgette.

Water: 2.5L
Wees: 50 million

A bit of a mixed day, but I'm drawing it up as a win.

B: scrambled eggs, butter and cream
L: supposed to be a salmon salad and a few m&s crispy bacon strips but I somehow ate the whole packet of bacon so decided to forego my salad in penance and cos I was full to bursting with bacon.
D: cottage pie with swede mash

And didn't make it out for my run as DS was being a horror and I was stressed and tired and, quite frankly, not in the bloody mood!

So too much processed food and not enough exercise. But on the plus low carb eating and tonnes of water.

Bring on day 2...

I will be joining you tomorrow as just back from 4 days in a country where everything is either on, under or suffused with carbs (wtf puts sugar in cabbage...?) which has been the worst carb spell in 5 months of DIY low carbing. Expecting weigh-in catastrophe tomorrow. But it's been fascinating as while my tastebuds felt slightly treaty, physically I felt awful and kept getting real knee-knocking shakes as my blood sugar lurched all over the place, and my puffy carbface is back. Bring on tomorrow.

Not a bad day all told:

B: 2 scrambled eggs with 0 carb turkey sausages and fried mushrooms (cream in eggs, and butter in eggs and mushrooms)
L: Chicken Caesar salad
S: 2 slices of salami
D: Vietnamese beef skewers with salad and broccoli coleslaw (with shriacha mayonnaise)

Already done 2 lts or water - 1 to go before bed.

Keep it up and remember we are in this for the long haul!

Hey everyone.

First day ever of BC over and I survived!

B: 3 Boiled eggs
L: Salad
D: Roast chicken.

Water: 1L

I'm finding it hard to drink the amount of water I should for my weight.

Didn't you have any veg or salad with your evening meal, username? It's really important that you don't go too low carb - it won't do you any favours in the long run. And you know what I'm going to say about the water ...

However, that said well done everyone for getting through day 1!

If you're new to low carbing, try and see this week as a way of coming to terms with it - it's so counter-intuitive that making mistakes is inevitable, it seems.

Just make sure you have read the rules - why not print them out and keep them pinned up near you.

Weighing

Although we focus on our weekly weigh-in, this isn't the only way to monitor weight loss. It's often the case that while the scales stubbornly refuse to show any movement, you have in fact lost some fat.

So two other things to consider:

• measure yourself - bust/waist/hips/tops of arms/thighs
• find a piece of clothing that is currently too tight and try this on every week

Daily or weekly?

I'm a daily weigher. By doing this, it keeps me focused and on track. I have a spreadsheet graph, and I plot my weight every day. Another reason this works for me is because during a period of time when nothing seems to be happening (which is inevitable - weight loss isn't linear), it really helps to motivate me to look at the spreadsheet, which shows (hopefully!) a downward movement.

But. And it's a big but. It is entirely natural for your weight to fluctuate on a daily basis. This means that even if you're doing everything as you should, sometimes there will be no change, or you might go up a pound or two. Around your period is a classic time for this to happen.

If you can't cope, psychologically, with seeing the scales go up rather than down, then please don't do this to yourself - weekly weighing is perfectly fine.

(Oh, and when you weigh - weigh first thing in the morning, naked, and after you've been to the loo. No point weighing at any other time of day, as all you'll be weighing is whatever you've been eating/drinking)

Not drinking enough water as I've got out of the habit. Its on my list today to get some big bottles and put them out in the kitchen so I can't not see them and forget:)

Morning, have weighed i now, Mondays always a bit frantic here.

What I did find when going in the bathroom to weigh is that the loo has flooded the floor, big time

Morning,

about your bathroom Pistey, I can imagine that's the last thing you felt like dealing with this morning!

Feeling good and ready for day two here:

B: Scrambled eggs, butter, bit of cream
L: Salmon, salad, olive oil
D: Lamb koftes from the recipe thread, salad with olive oil, tzatziki

Already started on the water and doing a kettlebells class later too.

Hi everybody! Weighed in yesterday at 11st2lb. Desperately hoping to see the back of 11st this week. Thank you to BIWI and Sayra and all those supporting this, it feels great to be doing this with others.

Breakfast yesterday - half an avocado, tomato and spring onion
Lunch - cheese and ham salad, full fat yoghurt
Dinner - herby pork escalope, cauliflower cheese and mushrooms
2 cups of tea

I had about a litre of water. Must do better today!

This morning I had a delicious plate of scrambled eggs, mushrooms and spring onion cooked in butter. It felt so indulgent! I have home made chicken curry and veggies for lunch.

Morning all.

159 lb, 11st 5 (down 1 lb). I am going to try and list my scale weight every day, to see if I ca track how my food is affecting it.

B: ham, mozzarella and tomato baked in the oven (so yummy).
L: leftover beef fajitas, mixed with the salsa and warmed in the oven. With salad leaves,
D: spag bol sans spag, and salad leaves. I'll baked it in a pepper with a sprinkling of cheese.

S: sugar free jelly and cream.

E: tennis lesson

Pukka detox tea, water, coffee (sorry, can't give that up).

Morning

Havent had breakfast yet as not long got in from school run and Im feeding ds. He'll then have a kip on me so Im stuck here (shame! ha) for the foreseeable

Depending on the time I'll have either a late breakfast or early lunch of scrambled eggs or a mushroom omelette and salad. Dinner I was going to make a cottage pie (squash topping so now not sure if I can on bootcamp) or maybe a spag bol instead.

Ive had a pint of water and a coffee, I really cant eat so early!

Have a great day x

Morning,
menu plan went slightly awry yesterday as my hob died.
But had:
B: scrambled eggs with cheese and ham in the microwave
L: meatloaf with baby tomatoes, homemade coleslaw
D: roasted asparagus wrapped in prosciutto, green salad with cucumber, spring onions, sprinkling of blue cheese
Fecking bucketloads of water
Less coffee than normal
Had a serious headache so went to bed at 8pm (I doubt it's the carb flu already?). Still have headache but suffer from sinus so that's probably it.

Breakfast today I had bacon and some total yogurt with a sprinkling of cinnamon, plus a coffee and a small bucket of water.
Lunch is more meatloaf with cauli mash and some spinach and tomato salad.
Dinner, not sure yet. Am thinking something with chorizo.

Morning everyone, hope the day is going well for everybody.

Thanks Crabby

here's my meal plan for the day

b: BPC
l: Prawn mayo salad
d: Cottage pie made with a celeriac and swede mash topping