Low Carb Bootcamp - the final weigh-in

[BIWI]

Morning all!

Well, here it is - the last weigh-in for this Bootcamp!

Here's the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

I'm not sure what's happened with the weight tracker, and I forgot to check with MNHQ sorry.

From last week's thread it seems like there have been some great losses on this Bootcamp, so really well done all of you

For those of you interested, the next Bootcamp will start on May 11 - I think that's 6 weeks away. In the meantime, though, next Monday I'll start a continuation chat thread so we can keep going until then. (Not that you have to sign up to the next one, obviously!)

And the very lovely Sayra is going to set the spreadsheet up so that you can continue to use it.

Each Bootcamp is different (as I have learnt!), but I have very much enjoyed this one, so thank you all for your company

Sass I gave up on the bold combo it is going to be a brown colour here too.

But i might not be who you think I am as I am not normally your doppleganger. Happy to pm if you are now totally

No. Not confused. I've been on MN years and know where you nest.

dark I've not done mine yet. I've not done anything except MN and feed my next day alcoholic munchies.

I've had yogurt with berries, 3 boiled eggs, about 3 tsp of peanut butter (whilst waiting for eggs) and a 4.2g bar of dark choc. Oh and 2 cups of tea.

Oops.

I wanted a return to an old moniker without the old name ties iyswim. Been considering it for a while.

Slightly in my defence.

I do get up at 6am. So technically it is over the space of 5 hours.

Whipped cream with some fruit , 2 cups of coffee and some mini sausages with some scrambled egg.

Have however sorted stuff for my trip abroad in a few months. And upset a printer. might have also put a load of washing on to wash that had been forgotten in the machine but less said about that

I got up at 8am i have no excuses except I am trying to not carb flu plant after the face plant te last week and half

Searching brain for what I have done and remembered I emptied the dishwasher at 6.30 am. Made 3 breakfasts, 7-7.30 and picked up 9 sofa cushions, 5 bed pillows and 3 blankets (dc's den) about 9am.

That's it.

I did kondo before Christmas, but I think I could do it again and be even more ruthless. I just can't find the same motivation. I may read the book again.

nope none of that here. but there is coffee. And that is the same thing no?

Just laughed my head off.

Saw all the pots on the side, thought, well you obviously didn't refill the dishwasher. Opened it, to do said job and it's still full.

Obviously I dreamt I'd emptied the dishwasher!

I wouldn't know. I hate coffee. Bleurgh.

Music is my motivation.

romey, sayra, dark thanks for feedback on medication. Already opened it and had a few swigs, it is mega-sweet but does not make me crave more sweet things. I agree that I should take it, would not take cough medicine but this is an anti-fungal suspension to hopefully clear sore throat which is not shifting on its own. If I keep on feeling this rough I fear it could lead to carby comfort eating so this is the lesser of two evils. Great idea to counter with going as low carb as possible on the food which I should be able to do having done Uber earlier in bootcamp. That will hopefully keep me on the straight and narrow over Easter!

I've been stuffing my face today, don't know if it is because of my huge Thai carb fest last night. I have had bacon and scrambled eggs, a packet of salted almonds, broccoli and blue cheese soup, asparagus with butter and have already eaten tonight's tea, IPD moussaka

Hmmm, not much doing here; I woke up at 4.30 so got up to work, as had things to do this afternoon with DC. Food-wise, I could only get low fat coconut milk for the coconut milk breakfast, so ended up adding more flaxseed than usual to make it more filling (it was watery). Lunch was late, salad and two low carb sausages left over from last night, and then dinner I made thai green chicken to use up the rest of the watery coconut milk and ate it with the remains of the cauliflower (my fridge is empty, and I have just proved to myself that it does indeed trigger IBS for me). I have just been looking up cruciferous vegetables, after you mentioned them in relation to IBS, gcalske, to add to my things to avoid list! I am going to have some fennel tea and go to bed; it is my own fault but it was the only low carb veg I had. Food shopping needed.

Thanks also for the note on the truffle stuff in Lakeland - I have some vague recollection that we have a branch in town and am doing a shopping trip with DD in the holidays, so will have a look.

Lex I hope you feel better soon. Dark, not the foggiest idea as it takes me ages to join dots, but let me just say sympathy regarding twattish ex.

Weight creeping back up so I obviously didn't get away with my off piste Thai

Two things to say here, alma:

1. you didn't so much slip as throw yourself off the wagon with your Thai meal! Noodles and rice, as well as the very lovely Thai food, which uses a lot of sugar (and sometimes thickeners). It's bound to have some kind of an impact

2. when you reach a point that you determine you are happy with, and is your 'maintenance' weight, you do have to recognise that there will always be a bit of bouncing around that weight. It's inevitable, especially if you allow yourself the odd treat meal or day that it will go up a little.

Set yourself an upper limit, and if you're heading towards it/reach it, then you know that you need a few strict days to get back to your maintenance level.

I know! Pad Thai must be the worst thing ever - full of sugar. I reached what I thought was my target weight, but actually still have a few pounds to lose, so will KOKO.

How do you maintain BIWI? do you do a sort of BCL now?

Morning

Feel like I should be posting in s&b this morning. not really.
I've dyed my hair, and my moustache, had a shower, shaved underarms, straightened my hair, put make up on and even some oyster colour nail polish!

Dp's gonna think it's Christmas......

It's taken all my time from 9am though. Grooming is definitely on my list of things I should be interested in, but bores me.

I must be the only aldi shopper who can't find flax seeds in their local store. Where about is it located. I've ended up with linseeds. Are these bad? They are about 13g carbs but weigh nothing, so I assume I'm not even getting a gram in the amount I sprinkle on Greek yogurt?

Linseed is flax

Lol.

Doh!

Sass did you pick up the right pack? My Aldi linseed (milled flax) is the Harvest Morn but only has 6gr carb/100gr. Its so light that even a decent dollop is hard pressed to struggle over 1gr carb. They do stock 3 varieties though and you know how Aldi mix things up on the shelf. The others are more carb as they have bits of seed and berries. They are doing a granola style flax now and that is waaay over the top carb-wise. I have often picked up the wrong pack as I go tearing round and end up leaving it at the checkout! I love Aldi stuff but I do find it a total pain shopping there. My son reckons its like going to a jumble sale!

I think there was only the one there Miffy. I did ask if they sold flax and was told no. Hence why I thought it was different to linseeds

I know what your son means. I mostly ignore all the interchangeable aisles. Although I did pick up 4 big jars of olives in the jumble aisles for 99p each. They're not the best, but they're OK for that price!

Jars of olives

alma - at the moment I'm not maintaining, sadly. Too many trips away and work trips to places where I couldn't low carb means I need to take myself in hand again!

But to answer your question, yes - most of the time I'm Bootcamp Light. I very rarely eat fruit (I never have to be honest, as I've never really liked it that much), and I very, very, very rarely eat bread, pasta, rice or potatoes. Same with biscuits, chocolates and sweets.

Every now and then I might have the odd roast potato, or Yorkshire pudding. Occasionally I'll have a spoonful of rice with an Indian, and if someone's bought me chocolates I'm not going to sit there and not eat them - but for the most part these are foods I have just got out of the habit of eating.

So my diet is mainly meat, some fish (I'm not a huge fish fan), eggs and plenty of vegetables and salad. Every now and then I eat pulses, because I love those. I eat some cheese and snack on nuts - but I have to be careful with nuts because they are so moreish and it's easy to eat a whole packet rather than just a few! I've been eating a lot of dairy, which I'm trying to cut down on as I think this isn't helpful for my weight.

Most recently, as I try to shed a few pounds, I've stopped eating breakfast. I had been eating yoghurt every morning, and I don't think it was helping me. If I do have breakfast I try to make sure that it's something egg-based.

My biggest downfall is alcohol . I try not to drink during the week, and I'm also trying to switch to spirits and no sugar mixers rather than white wine - which is my drink of choice. But the fact remains that alcohol is the body's easiest source of fuel, so even if I'm not consuming carbs by drinking rum and soda rather than white wine, the very fact that I'm drinking alcohol means that my body is burning that rather than fat.

Maintaining is hard. Sometimes I think it's harder than actually losing the weight! But the one thing it does teach you is that there's no point, when you reach your target weight, suddenly thinking you can go back to eating like you were before, and throw all the carbs back into your diet. After all, it was the carbs that made you fat in the first place!

I have had no luck buying the flaxseed in Lidl or Aldi either; they just have it with bits of fruit and other seeds added - so I am just using my H&B points for things like that.

Well, I am down to my lowest BC weight again this morning, so I have been bouncing up and down the same 2lb for about a month now. Today I had a totally yummy make-shift breakfast of eggs scrambled with coconut milk, a bit of bacon and some flaxseed. DD looked at it and went 'what is that? . I need to go food shopping, or it will be the same for dinner.