18 January - the next low carb Bootcamp!

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Come and sign up here! Bootcamp is 10 weeks long, the first two weeks being the most strict.

We don't eat any of the following in the first two weeks:

potatoes
pasta/noodles/grains/oats
rice
bread/cakes
biscuits/crackers
sugar/sugary drinks/sweets
flour
fruit
chocolate
alcohol
nuts
artificial sweeteners

But we do eat plenty of:

meat
chicken
fish
seafood
eggs
vegetables
salad
butter
full fat yoghurt
cheese
cream
olive oil/coconut oil

Bootcamp is designed to be easy to follow - no weighing or counting of anything. If you just follow the rules (only 10 of them) then it will work for you.

Ten rules of Bootcamp

1. Eat three, proper meals a day.
   
   You must eat breakfast. It doesn’t have to be a lot, but you must have something. For the rest of the day, if you’re eating enough food and you are in ketosis then you shouldn’t be hungry. But if you are hungry, eat something. (Hard boiled eggs make a great snack)

2. Avoid processed food, and focus on pure, natural protein as the basis for your meals – meat/fish/eggs. Things like sausages, ham, bacon, pre-prepared burgers etc should be avoided as much as possible. Avoid foods marketed as low carb, e.g. Atkins Daybreak bars.

3. Maximise your fat intake.
   Fry in butter, add butter to vegetables, eat salad with a home-made vinaigrette dressing (not made with balsamic vinegar though), add mayonnaise where you can (just check the carb count on your mayo first). Eat fattier cuts of meat – e.g. pork belly, roast chicken with the skin on and/or eat the fat off your lamb chops. Absolutely no low fat/light foods of any kind!

4. Make sure you are eating vegetables and salads with your food
   – this is where your carbs should come from. But choose only those vegetables that are on the allowed list. You don’t have to weigh/count carbs – this is one of the great joys of this WOE (way of eating), but if you’re new to low carbing it can be helpful to weigh your portions of veg in the early days, just so that you know how many carbs are in the sort of portions that you like to eat

5. Minimal dairy (apart from butter, which is unlimited).
   If you are drinking tea/coffee with milk or cream, try to restrict yourself to max 2 cups per day. You may eat cheese, but only in small amounts.

6. You must drink a minimum of 2 litres of water per day. The more weight you have to lose, the more water you should drink.

7. No alcohol

8. No fruit

9. No nuts/seeds

10. No sugar or artificial sweeteners

MumOnTheRun - prepare yourself for a few weeks where training will feel more difficult than usual, until your body becomes properly fat-adapted. But don't despair - your performance will return, and may even be better!

The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance is a really good book that will help you here It was written by two doctors who specialise in researching elite athletes, as well as low carbing generally.

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Count me in!

When the spread sheet is done is it linked on here or via another thread?

Tomorrow morning (or possibly late this evening) I'll start two threads. The first will be our general chat thread, and will link to the spreadsheet. The second will be a questions thread - at the start of Bootcamp, the chat thread moves really quickly, so it's quite useful to have a separate thread for questions, to make sure that things don't get missed.

Anything that refers to net carbs is usually American - they include fibre in their carb counts for some reason. If it's net carbs 4 then it should be fine.

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10. NeverHadANickname 11. TweenageAngst 12. ApplySomePressure 13. Earlybird 14. MelindaMay 15. Boobz 16. Readyforno2 17. milkmilklemonade12 18. fohamy12 19. Lisbapalea 20. LexLoofah 21. DartmoorDoughnut 22. VagueIdeas 23. YesEinsteinsMumDid 24. WandOfElderNeverProsper 25. Whenwillwe3meetagain 26. Prettybird 27. Equiem89 28. PlayNice 29. Finally 30. Ami9 31. HammerToFall 32. onwego 33. Thumbwitch 34. blackteaplease 35. lovelycuppateas 36. ChesterDrawers 37. DangerousMouse 38. TooExtraImmatureCheddar 39. The MrsD 40. StuntNun 41. GuyMartinsSideburns 42. alicewhatsthematter 43. CharlieSierra 44. DiscoDancer 45. Barkerooni 46. FelicityFunknickle 47. Thunderbumsmum 48. Sheepysheep 49. Beyond 50. nekobus 51. Bettybigballs 52. needtoloseastone 53. Glitteryshoes 54. ijustwanttobeme 55. TomHaverford 56. Feekerry 57 Wooziewooz 58. Lifeinthemiddle 59. CassandraKumquat 60. Lavenderhoney 61. Bakermum15 62. Hyggelit 63.Psychmumma 64. FlorisApple 65. Jerm123 66. hefzi 67. SayraT 68. Wombatinabathhat 69. Onlyaprawn 70. ShebaQueen 71. NigellasGuest 72. ScoutandAtticus 73. Carbsnomore 74. AuntieMaggie 75. PatientZero 76. Patapouf 77. TrinityForce 78. Wiremymouthshut 79. Paleogirl 80. Momofgirls 81. regeneration fez 82. MumOnTheRunCatchingUp 83. MushroomTree 84. PseudoBadger

Thank you stuntnun you explained it really well😊 really excited to start. Thank you everyone for all the info😊 highly appreciate it xx

Thank You gcalgsk😊

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Thanks biwi

I'm going shopping ( lidl) straight from school run so need to think about what I need for first few days

My danger point is getting home after work and dealing with kids.... Then I sit down with a cup of tea and something to eat. It's this 'something to eat' which will throw me off track!

Okay thanks BIWI
Also just so I'm prepared for tomorrow... 2 days of the week I have to drop the kids off at child care at 7.20am. This means we are leaving the house fully dressed 7ish so breakfast for me on those 2 days has to be quick and easy and ideally something i can eat in the car on the way to work.
I was thinking a peanut butter smoothie? Made with almond milk? So table spoon of good quality peanut butter plus almond milk? Maybe after the first couple of weeks I can add half a banana?

wand how about full fat yoghurt and a little cream? You could stir vanilla essence into it to make it taste good too

I've been going for 2 weeks on Wednesday and I'm feeling pretty good actually. I'm more awake (handy as I work night shift), heaps more energy (so much so I've been to the gym every day for the past week!), better mood and I've lost some weight as well. Judging by my jeans and (bitter) experience, I think I've lost about 7lbs. Im trying to not weigh as I rapidly become obsessive. I also have a history of obsessive and disordered eating through my teens, so I don't want to trigger myself back into a stupid cycle. Sleep has been easy and deep, and I rarely even wake up during the night for a wee... Cue bursting bladder at 7am though

The biggest change is... I'm not hungry! Oh god it's so good to be free from constant, gnawing hunger! And I don't want any sugar. The only thing I've missed has been Diet Coke and apples. I did my son a packed lunch the other day and dearly wanted a bite of his Granny Smith, but I resisted

mum it's boring but what I found helped was getting those plastic takeaway boxes (in the same aisle as the foil/food wrap) and packing up pre cut crudités, making Parmesan crisps, kale chips, packs of mini cheeses and boxing them up as a selection and putting them in the fridge. Also putting those little pots of cream cheese in is great if you're out and about. Pork crackling is nice, they sell bags of it in the crisp aisle although carb counts vary from brand to brand so do check.

I also need a snack between school run and dinner, that time is a bit of a mine field for me.

feekerry you could add berries after the first couple of weeks, but NOT banana. Too carby! Blackberries, strawberries, raspberries... All good. And check the carb count on peanut butter. Costco own brand is really good as it's literally just whizzed up peanuts. I think Waitrose own brand is good too. You can also get low carb protein shake powder (try myprotein.com, they are literally just whey isolate; no rubbish, and you can get zero carb ones) to make your shake more filling.

Fuck it, I'm in. I've been low-carbing for the past two weeks but backslid for two days when Alan Rickman died and I got sad. I'm having too many nuts and too much sweetener and I need accountability.

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Spreadsheet is currently being made/set up, if oyu add your name after this point it will not be on the spreadsheet and you will have to add it tomorrow

Phew, I was just in time!

I've been having the full-fat Greek Lidl yogurt topped with a few pine nuts and flaked almond, with a drizzle of agave nectar. It's gorgeous, but the amount of agave I've been using has crept steadily up. Obviously I can't have the nuts or the agave during Bootcamp, but I wouldn't have thought of adding vanilla extract to the yogurt. I wasn't looking forward to having it plain during Bootcamp but the vanilla will help, so thank you milk as well.

Someone on one of the threads a while back also suggested orange oil, which I can confirm is absolutely delicious, you need to go for the glass brown bottles of essence/oils with the cream old fashioned looking label. They are expensive (around £5 for a large bottle), but they last and last and they are also very strong; you really do only need a tiny bit. I've also seen some supermarket own brands padded out with sugar (you know the 79p cheapie ones), so it's worth the investment long term IMO.

Oooh, that does sound good. A quick Google revealed they sell it in Lakeland. I might have to pick some up this week. I have proper vanilla extract for now so that'll do for a bit. I get very fed up of eggy breakfasts so I like to alternate with yogurt.

Thanks BIWI

Star Kay extracts from Lakeland are the best - lime, orange, anise etc

Great quality, you only need a tiny drop and made with concentrated oil and alcohol, no nasties.

I use them in my Lc/hf chocolate mousse. Yum.

I don't eat breakfast a lot now as I tend to fast but really eat anything you fancy. Leftovers are great.

Peanut butter can get high (and no nuts in first two weeks) whole earth do a nice one with flax and sunflower seeds which is much lower (I get in tesco) or you could try almond butter. Remember that boot camp is low carb high fat so moderate protein. Don't get carried away with the protein powder, too much protein can put you out of ketosis or stall weigtloss. If you want a drink I second anything 'bulletproof' tea, cocoa, coffee, shake etc - just add coconut oil and butter and blend. It will be creamy, delicious, high fat, low carb and filling.