Pre-Christmas Low Carb Bootcamp - the final weigh in!

[BIWI]

Good morning everyone!

I hope you're all still with us, to come and add your final weigh-in to the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

Or, on the Weight Tracker

It seems like there have been some really good losses on this Bootcamp, and so for you all!

Hope you all have a very good week

Sayra I am the same. It is very hard when you are tired. This week has been as a big write off. A little bit here and a little bit there really adds up. I have no wish to cook at all. It is just too much effort. which makes staying on track hard. Hang in there. Don't beat yourself up, remain mindful and then make it right when you can. and avoid the scales at all costs

I think it partly the lack light as well as all the rushing around which needs to be done that makes staying on track hard; and if you have social events it is hard when you are always trying to make wise choices. But look on the bright side, the days will start getting longer soon, nearly through the darkest part of winter - it is a fresh new year in a couple of weeks and if I have STS, I will be happy.

I bought some coconut flour today for my low carb chocolate cake making experiment so am looking forward to that. I have cut back on the nuts to see what happens with that. I have also ordered skinny jeans which might be a step too far (but they were reduced and my jeans are falling apart). I am not sure I have the right footwear though, which negates the bargain. But I will worry about that when I have seen what they actually look like.

Checking in with low carbing chums. Mad few days coming up and no idea about food. DD and best mate have tickets to Strictly final. They have to leave at 5 tomorrow. . Mates dad taking and I'm collecting and because I want to watch it, I've had to book a hotel room near Elstree. Hate eating on my own in a restaurant so am thinking to take something. See how organised I am. Then on Sunday we are doing the collection for World Child Cancer at the Albert Hall with my DC too and have promised them dinner up town afterwards.

As you say Chester it all feels about food.

Well the chocolate cake thing didn't really turn out great. Texture and appearance wise it was good but it was a million times too rich and mostly like eating straight cocoa powder and it made everyone feel sick (even the chocoholic fiancée who isn't low carbing and usually demolishes even the richest chocolate cake going) so I will try a different recipe for Christmas I think and resign the rest of this one to the bin

Let me know how you get on Romeyroo and hopefully you will have better luck than me!

Oh dear, last day of term huge faceplant. Couldn't keep saying no. Lesson learnt - don't skip breakfast. Oh well, back on it. I enjoyed the slight, erm, deviation.

Here's an interesting piece about low carbing and Christmas that might help!

It's an American site, so some of the foods/measurements might not be so straightforward, but 'food for thought'!

www.bmj.com/content/bmj/349/bmj.g7654.full.pdf

Hello everyone.

I've been absent for weeks - Christmas starts early in our family due to lots of December birthdays and family visiting from abroad and I've been too embarrassed to come on the thread and talk about the carby twatness that has occurred. If I end Christmas the same weight as I started it I will be ecstatic (unlikely though...)

However, I felt the need to run on to the thread and post the link above. The writer is an ex-editor of the BMJ and is chair of the Cochrane Library Oversight Committee and it's safe to say the he probably knows about digesting and critically reviewing evidence. I'm contemplating printing it out and waving it a family members... [maybe leave that one until Jan] .

just to top up on the Holiday reading list heres an interesting BMJ article about fats

I'm going to sit down and read the other two now

Sarah - have you read the book that he's referring to? I'm half way through it, and it's really good.

Blimey, Pisses! That's both interesting and totally impossible to understand!

Not read the links yet but will do, the more I think about it, the more I think the sugar/bakery/low fat/wheat industry are comparable with the tobacco industry prior to the health risks of smoking being established and accepted. I am slowly and imperceptibly trying to change DC diet as well.

Not made my cake yet Birdinacage; still trying to address the chaos that is my house at the end of term! But did celeriac mash for the first time at lunch; it was lovely. I have some kale to try kale crisps tomorrow.

BIWI I haven't read it yet; I heard it recommended on A Good Read on radio 4 a couple of weeks ago so it's on my to do list. It sounds good!

Pisses my mind is mush after that one!

My new scales have arrived but I seem to have broken my weighing addiction. The new ones measure body fat and water percentage which might come in handy for distinguishing weight loss from water fluctuations but I suppose it depends how accurate they are.

Ah, here you are...Hello all! Waving and checking in to see how people are doing with Christmas...so far trying to keep lapses small and not trigger cycles...have been getting into the coconut oil more...looking forward to nuking those last 7lbs at some point (tho know they may be the hardest).
Feel like I finally understand what makes my body gain and maintain weight and how to actually get it to drop weight.
Hope everyone else is doing ok.

12 weeks is brilliant yongnian. Especially as you are breastfeeding too.

Hello everyone.

I joined the bootcamp last January, with a different username, lost 10lbs, plateaued and then fell off the wagon. A few days ago I asked for help via a new thread, from people on here about which duet plan they have followed for the last year and SayraT replied so here I am.

I am going to try this again, but before I do I have to point out that I am actually a bit thick, or like a deer in headlights with all of this.

So would someone,please, let me know what I should actually buy, ESP for breakfast, to have to eat.

Last time I found that if I bought for example, ham, it was so expensive to but the organic least tampered with version, and it just got expensive, esp when I hit the plateau as it then seemed not worth it.

I can't eat dairy, apart from a dash of milk in my tea. I also am allergic to shellfish and am not so keen on fish at all. I have been very I'll with eating shellfish and find just the smell of fish makes me feel Queasy.

I have also recently, in the last couple of weeks started getting hot flushes from being menopausal, and it us affecting my sleep massively so am hoping this might help me. I also have an autoimmune thyroid disease which I have read up on in the last year and it seems grain free is the way to go. Also dairy free but not sure about butter. I gave up on gluten in about March or April this year and have managed to stick with that, so feel like maybe I can do this, knowing that I've done that. Iykwim.

I think I am okay with the principles of this WOE, but like I said, a bit like a deer in headlights and completely confused about what I should be buying to eat.

I am also wary of eggs as my dc are very allergic to them so need to avoid them in the house during school holidays.

Many thanks in advance, for any help on what to buy. My local supermarkets are waitrose or sainsburys but I mostly do online shops from ocado.

SayraT was the only one to reply on my other thread, so thankyou SayraT.

Hey, I just replied on your other thread about what I eat but now I see that some of the things I mentioned won't suit you.

Hopefully others on here can help answer your questions as well

Thanks again SayraT. You're brilliant. Off to read the other thread for you reply. Think I've decided to give this woe a go. I think I always knew this was the right answer but as I failed last time just wanted to see if there were other diets that worked girls others. Xxx

Worked for others.

Wow SayraT. There's loads on that list that I could eat.

Would you mind if I copied it to here?

Also, BIWI and others who might know. I,ve always been funny with dairy like yogurts and milk, but seem fine with butter and cream. Is there a reason for that? For example, if I have a bowl of cereal with semi skimmed milk, I would be in pain plus unable to leave the house for fear of urgently needing the loo. Also, if I eat Greek yogurt, I get massive heartburn and then am often sick gp afterwards. But if I eat ice creams, cream based desserts or butter I seem fine. Doesn't make sense to me.

Feel free to copy it over here. It will help me in January, at the moment I am in damage limitation mode rather than LC mode.

I am not sure about the dairy issue but hopefully someone else can answer

hi newbiecrafter, I am allergic to milk, so it gives me hives, which is different to lactose intolerance which both DC have (digestion issues like you suggest). Both have products from the lactofree range, which have the lactase enzyme removed but are still dairy based. If you have digestive issues, you might be lactose intolerant (although I can't see why cream would then be fine). Have you asked a doctor for tests? you can get them on the NHS although lactose intolerance is from symptoms, an allergy can be tested for.

I can't use Lactofree as it is the milk protein I am allergic to; so I alternate between unsweetened soya (which you can buy in Lidl), and coconut milk and almond milk from Alpro (more expensive but tastes nicer). I am fine with small amounts of mature cheese.

Dairy issue wise it is all a bit odd. I can't tollerate cream or milk unless it is cooked. Cheese in small amounts depending on the cheese and yoghurt in a small amounts it ok. It is to do with the processing and the amount of lactose for me as I also struggle with medicines that are very heavy in lactose. Absolutely fine with butter so not the protein component of it.

I would ask how you are with yeast and if you have tried the cereal with non dairy milk as for me the cereal itself would have me doubled over with a few hours as the wheat would do me in.

I would actually be interested to see how i do with non pasteurised milk as i know I have been able to tollerate milk better when i have been abroad in a country i believe has a different set of rules on milk processing