Week 3 - Pre-Christmas Low Carb Bootcamp - Decision Time

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Since BIWI is off sunning herself in Barbados this week I am starting the new thread.

Hope last week was a good week for you, here is teh spreadsheet to record your losses on. Or, in my case, gain

In week 3 you can now make a decision. If you've done a full two weeks of BC you should now be well adapted to the LCHF WOE and can move onto BCLite. This means that you can skip breakfast (or lunch or dinner) if you are not hungry, on BC you should have been eating 3 meals a day. On BCLite you eat when you are hungry.

You can also add some foods which were not allowed on BC:

Some fruit - berries (occasionally, the carb counts are available on the spreadsheet).

Nuts/seeds - these are good for snacks but do remember that they can be quite carby if you eat loads so be careful.

Alcohol (once or twice per week and stick with clear spirits with soda water, champagne, red wine or dry white wine - remember, alcohol can impede weight loss.

We are still avoiding sugar and artificial sweeteners but this can make things difficult so for special occasions you can have certain things. Check out the recipe thread for dessert ideas for special dinners (BIWIs chocolate pots de creme are my favourite).

Don't go mad with all the extra things we are allowed, week 3 (and 4 & 5) are notorious for no weight loss for some reason. Some of you may even see a gain. KOKO and this will pass.

1.2lb on even though everything I've eaten this week has been BC approved.

BUT I have not eaten enough food in general, not eaten enough veg, not had enough water, probably not enough fat, have had way too much wine and have been relying far to heavily on dairy and processed meat.

So it just goes to show it's not just the carbs that matter but the whole package.

Today's plan:
B: Eggs, mushrooms, shed loads of butter
L: Tin tuna, half avocado, salad, olive oil
D: Pork in tomatoes, courgette, mushrooms, leeks with cauli rice in butter

Good morning all!

v disappointing weigh-in for me this morning - 4 pounds on!!!

A few things have happened this past week - my scales went a bit wonky and started showing error codes then died. Before this I was about 178/9, 2 days later with new battery just put in - 182!

I'm not drinking all of my 3L water every day, but close. Did have one pig out day (all low carb) when I ate a tonne of cheese. And despite telling myself I'd stay on BC, I have allowed myself some white wine & sodas (maybe a total of 4 medium glasses over the week) apart from that no nuts, no fruit, 3 meals, no milk in tea (using soya as carbs low but i know also low fat so not great), no sweeteners. Only cheat was a few cocktail sausages at a kids party but surely not enough to make a difference?

And lastly I started a second heavy period on Saturday (had another random one at start of bootcamp maybe 2-3 days in). Getting a mirena put in this week so whether that will help I have no idea .

Could any of this have impact on scales??? or am I just kidding myself and actually eating too much .

advice/big stick very welcome!

Good point about the processed meat Chester, hadn't thought about that - I do rely a lot on bacon, sausages (although mostly LC), chorizo, parma ham....

Bostin - have looked into it for you and it seems that a low carb diet could definitely benefit you - and another site I found suggested that going gluten free woudl also be of benefit (which you will end up being on boot camp anyway, but even afterwards) Read the comments on this one - find the one from the person who has done LC and found it very helpful for the condition

I have a question. What can I put duck paté on? I bought some very expensive duck paté at the weekend and I need to put it on something (I really do) - any suggestions? I don't fancy it on celery and obviously toast is out of the question - any other ideas?

Also (although I should probably ask this on the recipes thread) has anyone tried making crispbread type things out of cauliflower, like mini pizza bases? I really fancy trying that but am not a good experimental cook for this sort of thing, I like to follow a recipe.

Having said that - tonight I tried something new - shredded celeriac fried with grated parmesan and onion salt - OMG! So good. Had to keep stirring it because it kept sticking to the pan but soooo nice. DH even liked it!

Apologies all

Week 4 chat thread here

Thank you Thumbwitch.

Hi Thumb I had the same problem re the pate ( Not expensive though, just Sainsburys!) I had it on Baby gem lettuce. I was a bit sceptical at first, but it was actually really nice. I broke of a leaf, spread some on, rolled it up and carried on until all my leaves had run out, so i ended up eating loads of lettuce too

Cool, thanks Regen! Will try that, see how I get on and report back.

Thanks for the new thread - finding it hard to keep up with thread at the moment but keeping on quietly in the background. Good luck this week to all and keep going to those who haven't lost [santa] - sorry just had to put santa in there

Morning suzy - but you're on the wrong thread We've moved on to week 4 - look for the link ^