Week 1 - May Low Carb Bootcamp - Off we go!

[BIWI]

Welcome everyone!

Here's the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness that the lovely Sayra creates and cares for. Come and confess all.

If you prefer, you can use the individual Weight Tracker, provided by MNHQ, which will open (I hope) tomorrow morning.

Please make sure that you know the rules, and that you know about the allowed veg - look at the tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet - and think about printing them off so that you have them to hand

If you have any questions, obviously you can ask them here, but there's also a specific questions thread because the chat threads can move so quickly that questions can get missed.

Unfortunately I'm working pretty full on for the next three days, so won't be around very much - I'll try and check in as much as I can, but in reality I'm not going to be around very much until Thursday - apologies in advance.

Very good luck to you all

Thanks Lex . I'm not sure, I think I am hungry, but just a little snack doesn't do. I basically had all those snacks in one sitting !

Hot Marmite drink with butter sounds lush!

Oooo just discovered on MFP that you can adjust the macros so that you can have a lower carb %

apply Am curious, how much did you reduce it to?

B: Coffee
L: Ham salad
D: Chicken caesar salad
S: ahem, a couple or four of biscuits.

Hangs head in shame, BIWI can beat me with her big stick.

I put it down to 20g. I seem to be ok around this number.

It was originally on 169g

Maybe even 20g is too high? That's all from veg though

B: 3 boiled eggs.

L: Greek yog w/ vanilla extract a cube of cheese and a cup of green tea.

D: Curried lamb (homemade) w/ greens

2L of water so far.

I've followed the rules ( with maybe a little too much milk in coffees) and just put my food into MFP out of interest and I'm somewhere between 20 and 30g of carbs and I must say I'm smelling shockingly of ketones tonight, it's a good thing DH is away!
I've drunk loads of water but I can still sniff myself. hoping for great things on the scales :)

Cathy what does ketosis smell like?

B: FF greek yogurt + cream cheese
L: grilled steak (restaurant) and a nibble of veg (it was all root veg so not suitable)
D: watercress, avocado and chicken breast with huge amount of mayo.

Loads of water. Very cold tonight. Is that good?

Shockingly dreadful day with very wilful 4 year old DS today has resulted in 2 large glasses of wine, although my food has been very good and following LC. Hopefully the wine won't do too much damage.

Pretty good day food wise.
B ham wrapped around Philly and butter
L cauliflower and broccoli soup with cream
D (late dinner as I was at the trainer) mashed swede with loads of butter and a splash of cream
S ff yog with double cream

Nowhere near as much water today. Six pints.
1 coffee with cream
2 tea with cream

Really suffering with sciatica. Anyone know a quick fix?

It's a kind of sweet sickly smell, when I've smelled it on others it's been like pear drops or nail varnish remover ( you may have sniffed it on someone's breath the morning after a heavy night of drinking) but on myself it's not as specific as that.

apply levels of tolerable carbs can vary from person to person but 20-40g is a good target for bootcamp. Anything below 20g probably means that you're not eating enough veg.

I've not managed to get MFP to stop being obsessed with calories. Even when I put the carb macros down it barks at me about sodding calories.

b. boiled eggs and 2 coffees with cream
l. chopped salad with blue cheese
d. chicken in mushroom / cream sauce, green salad
s. greek yogurt

now having a very small (honest) whiskey.

weegie - just be careful - a lot of dairy in that day

I'm hanging on in there. Kept forgetting to drink enough water today, but food has been OK.

Had a bit of a disaster with a bullet proof tea. Somehow managed to spill it into my handbag - what a mess, it took ages to clean up. Handbag lining now smells of coconut, and my phone is currently drying out in a tupperware box covered in rice. Hope to goodness it fixes it.

Blimey, dinner is very late tonight. We still haven't eaten! Thank you for the lovely foot based sympathies. It's currently up on the sofa. We went to the indoor climbing wall today. Well bouldering actually but whatever. I absolutely love it. Before my foot really fucked up I used to go once or twice a week, and found it excellent for toning and strength. The place has a really nice atmosphere, with actual world class climbers there, just happy to chat, and I learned so much just watching people. It's been so fucking bastard frustrating going back there and being lots heavier, but unable to really push myself physically due to the foot. So anyway, Dp is now hooked, and we bought a membership which means we can climb anytime without having to pay entry. We've been four times in the last week and a half, and the first time, I could barely manage a single problem. Tonight I managed three of the easiest and then a next level up! Still piss easy climbing in the grand scheme of things, but hey ho.

Breakfast- eggs with bacon
Lunch- tuna salad- spinach with tuna drizzled with oil
Dinner- chicken and bacon bake with broccoli and cheese

Water-2.5L but finding it very hard to drink this much. And it's still below the quota

B: Ff Greek yog
L: chicken Caesar salad, with extra chicken dipped in Mayo
D: chorizo, asparagus, broccoli,spinach & cheese frittata is in the oven now

Howdy gang!!! Been manic here haunt Had time to post

Yesterday
B cheese spinach complete
L boiled egg ham salad drizzled With EV olive oil salt pepper and mayo
D grilled gammon, fried eggs x2 fried aubergine chips 6 cherry tomatoes
Snacked on olives lettuce leaves, cheese ham slices
1.5l water

Today
B three fried eggs with mushrooms
L baby leaf spinach cheese and salami salad with cherry tomatoes
D three sausages fried sausages

Snacked on olives, spoon full butter, full fat Greek yogurt
Cheese
2l water

My appetite is suppressing and I don't seem to be constantly thinking about food its becoming easier and easier to eat this way
Did a 20 min workout both this morning and yesterday morning. I'm waking up feeling less tired.

Good luck tomorrow everyone.thanks for the support xxx

mummy - a lot of processed meat in your diet. Remember we're trying to avoid that as much as possible

Thanks for all the asthma synpathies. We got out last night. :)

I'm menu planning next week today and then doing an online shop.