Week 1 - 2016 New Year Low Carb Bootcamp - weigh in here!

[BIWI]

Morning all!

I see we have almost 90 brave souls signed up this time. Welcome everyone, and to the lurkers at the back.

Here is the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

The list is alphabetised, and all you need to do is to add your weight next to your name. Don't do anything else or touch any of the other cells! If your name isn't on the list for any reason, add it to the bottom of everyone else's names, and the lovely Sayrra will re-alphabetise the list later.

If you don't want to put your actual weight, you can index it - i.e. your starting weight is 100, and every pound you lose is one. So if you started today at 160 lbs, and in the first week lost 7lbs, then next week you'd enter 93.

Also, don't feel that you have to weigh today - you might prefer to make another day of the week your weigh-in day. Up to you - but the spreadsheet is there as a resource to help you track how it's all going.

Re weighing, if you can, weigh first thing in the morning, naked, and before you eat or drink anything else. Don't weigh later on in the day, as all you're doing is weighing yourself plus whatever you've had to eat or drink. And use the same scales. Remember, it's not the actual weight that the scales tell you, more the weight that you've lost that counts.

Some people prefer to weigh every day - I'm one of them, as it helps to keep me focused - and some prefer to weigh once a week. It's up to you which you prefer. Bear in mind, though, that if you weigh every day you are very likely to see the scales fluctuate, which means that they may go up for no apparent reason. This is totally normal, as your weight can fluctuate on a daily basis (especially if your period is due). But psychologically it can be quite difficult - so if you don't think you'd be able to cope with this, then weekly weighing is for you.

I'm going to start a questions thread now as well. In the first few weeks of Bootcamp the chat thread can move very quickly, and it's easy for posts to get missed - so if you have a particular burning question, it's probably best to post it on the dedicated thread. And if we can all keep an eye on the questions thread, rather than just me, we can get everything answered quickly!

Hi
Breakfast: bpc
Lunch: salad of leaves, turkey, egg, avocado and tiny bit cheddar
Supper: lc ragu with cauliflower rice and half a courgette. Total ff yogurt for pudding.
Bedtime drink: spicy chai latte made with almond milk.

Not really very hungry but I have a very chocolatey cake to make for the weekend and reviewing recipes is tough.

Thanks for all the inspirational menus everyone.

Yesterday was a bit of a mess.
B: coffee with unsweetened soy, I overslept and train delays meant I didn't have time to grab anything.
L: tuna mayo with lettuce and cucumber
D: chicken and coriander kebabs
S: radishes, coffee w. Almond milk

Did a huge food shop yesterday but stupidly forgot to buy eggs.
B: spinach and almond milk smoothie. This was possibly the most disgusting thing ive ever consumed, I was fighting my gag reflex. Won't do that again.
L: nandos! I went for the chicken butterfly (skin on) with a side salad and lots of oil because I wasn't sure of the creamy dressing carb content. Their coleslaw is nice but I suspect it has a lot of sugar added and all the other sides are carb heavy.
D: cottage pie with celeriac/turnip mash.
S: cheestring

Are petit pois okay? I unthinkingly chucked some into the pie but I probably had a teaspoon of them in my portion.

Thank you for the baby Bell recipe it's probably the most delicious thing of the entire diet.

B. Coffee with cream

L. Salmon and battery scrambled eggs with spinach

S. Cottage pie made with Swede mash and topped with Parmesan plus veg.

Snack Yummy baby Bell.

I haven't been hungry, but I'm not really loosing weight as I did last week.

Hi patapouf great seeing all these familiar names. Missed the BC chat!!

Petit pois are not BC unfortunately (9.6g carbs/100g) for a relatively low 'pea like' sub I tend to finely chop mange tout and add just at the end.

I ate same food as I had yesterday. I really need to go shopping 2mrw. I feel today was a better day re cravings etc. How long does it take before you start feeling energetic and the headaches go?

I'm down 3lbs on monday already! Whoop!!

(And big tmi warning, but i have a very slow digestive system so i've probably lost more than that by the time i actually poo )

Todays food will be bacon, mushroom and egg for breakfast, roast chicken with something for lunch (i have a swede, so maybe that) and something avocado-y for dinner

Another pound gone this morning. 4 gone since Tuesday

Had 9 and half hours sleep last night and don't have a headache this morning

VagueIdeas the reason for keeping below 3g carbs per 100g is to make Bootcamp simple by eliminating the need to weight portions or count carbs. In practice you need to be more flexible. Onions are about 6% (from memory) but are in so many recipes that you can't easily avoid them entirely. So if it's something like spaghetti bolognese then I don't worry about the onions, but if it's an Indian takeaway they can be loaded with huge chunks of onions so I only eat a few of the pieces iyswim. Another example: mustard and mango are both around 14% carbs but I add a teaspoon of mustard to vinaigrette (I make a huge bottle of the stuff) whereas eating a mango would be way too much carbs. You have to take portion size into account.

momofgirls - where is your lunch?

We are supposed to be eating three meals a day on Bootcamp

Patapouf

No - petits pois aren't OK I'm afraid. However, if you really only had a spoonful in the whole dish then it won't have hurt.

ami

Carb flu should really only last for 3-4 days; and fat adaption should happen within the first couple of weeks (if you're really being strict and following Bootcamp). So by the end of the first week, hopefully, you should be feeling much better

re onions

re the onions, they're 6.9g carbs per 100g, and actually quite a dense vegetable, so if you're not weighing them (which we don't on Bootcamp) you can end up using quite a lot in a dish, and therefore adding more carbs than you might wish.

Try substituting them for shallots - they are only 3.3g carbs per 100g. Buy banana shallots (also called echallion shallots) as they're a lot bigger and easier to peel than the little round ones!

Morning! Cheeky weigh in this morning and 4 lbs off since Monday woo hoo!

Just had 2 scrambled eggs, rocket and spinach, smoked salmon and half an avocado then coffee with cream. I cannot believe that I'm on a diet!

Beef ragu and courgetti for lunch. Dinner out so not sure yet.

Realise a lot is probably water weight - just hope it stays off!

Cooking dinner yesterday (burgers with blue cheese, swede chips, kale - was really looking forward to it) when my cooker broke! So we had to get a takeaways - egg foo yung with prawns, which I hope is ok. Best I could do in the circumstances. Lots of salads now til the electrician can come out. If anyone has any good ideas for microwaveable things, let me know!

A rubbish day for me. DS has been feeding like crazy and has a temp it's day 4 of it! I'm so tired
B chicken, egg, salad and mayo and 2 coffees with cream
L chicken egg salad and satay sauce and coffee with cream
S feta with spinach, pate, carrots (50gms) a chunk of cheese and 150 g of almonds ( I know it's boot camp not bootcamp light but needed pick me up)
D BBQ veggies including cabbage and mushroom plus some haluimi and mayo.

Won't have an evening snack

Made BIWI'S low carb shepherds pie yesterday which was delish, but served it with petit pois, flip sake! So envious of people's weight loss as I haven't lost anything (blame those bloody peas!)

Just checking in. Never managed last night. Double whammy, personal trainer then aerobics. Pretty sore legs this morning.

Food yesterday
B scrambled eggs
L lc soup
D cos lettuce with tuna mayo (didn't want to eat too much before going to the gym)

Well done to all the losers. I haven't lost an ounce

Feeling for all the BFing mums - not sure how you are finding time or energy to do bootcamp - hat's off to you all!

Please, please, please READ THE RULES OF BOOTCAMP!

There's a lot of 'off piste' stuff going on already, and we haven't even finished week 1.

Carrots and petit pots are not 3g carbs per 100g are they? And petits pots aren't even on the list I posted !

Nuts - almonds and satay sauce - are also not allowed on Bootcamp.

It's really important that you follow the rules for the first two weeks - for two very, very important reasons:

1. The aim is to become fat-adapted as quickly as we can
2. We want to lose weight

If you don't follow the rules then you're only making life difficult for yourself.

(Notwithstanding life events that are out of our control, like pesky babies needing to be fed or cookers breaking down although you could have cooked something in the microwave surely? )

On Monday, when we weigh-in, ask yourself very honestly, if you don't see any or much weight loss, if it was down to what you ate during the week.

readyforno2 from memory, you're already quite slim, aren't you? It will take you much longer to lose weight as you don't have much to lose.

And looking at what you've eaten, it doesn't look like very much - please don't start starving yourself, as this really won't help you.

Checking in after an awful day yesterday

B - scrambled egg, bacon, mushroom
L - no time for lunch as at hospital with Mil grabbed a bag of pork scratching so for a snack
D - steak and cauliflower cheese ( although I didn't get much of it down as was too upset)
I did end up having a gin and slimline, but I'm back on it with a vengeance today.

lovelycuppateas i tend to cook a lot of frozen veg in the microwave (so it is possible. I have a mince recipe that can be done in the microwave, although is nicer when done on the hob. There are a lot of recipes lurking on the internet for completely microwave cooking, so it is possible.
I have this cookbook which is a re-release of an old cookbook but with microwave instructions added and there are loads of ideas in there but you have to watch and tweak for the bootcamp side of things. It is my go to cook book for so many things tbh.

Picture the scene: Painsomnia, 3am, hungry so crawl out of the comfort of bed to go grab one of the prepared hard boiled eggs in the fridge. Open the fridge door all ready to grab and go back to bed. All good so far. Except some bugger had eaten the eggs. thankfully there was some left over veg from tea that I could ping but I was a bit [shocked] that 4 hard boiled eggs had just disappeared between 11pm and 3am.

Did ok for water in the end yesterday. Not loving the sweetner in my coffee but it is restricting me to only 1 or 2 cups per day and way better than my normal sweet brew. Hoping to get some motivation and find my car keys to go up to the big supermarket in the next town for a new herbal tea.

2lb down since Monday, which I'm chuffed about as I am a long-term low carber so not expecting a bit whoosh this week.

Have knackered my hip though so no excercise for me today. It started hurting when I was running yesterday then after I sat down for a bit last night I could hardly move. Feels a bit better today but don't want to push it.

Today's plan:
B: scrambled eggs with butter, bacon x2, mushrooms in butter - could get used to this, will be gutted when I'm back in work next week
L: likely to be out so will orbs just have a BPC when I get back
D: chicken wrapped in ham and stuffed with roule cheese, swede chips, roast broccoli

lovelycuppateas bacon can be cooked quite well in the microwave - just on a regular plate, as can scrambled eggs. With a small investment (Aldi have them for really cheap at the moment- £2.99) a microwave steamer, egg poacher or omelet pan can be purchased. Most veggies can be steamed in the microwave - in fact it's my favourite way to steam cauliflower. Steam and then coat it in melted butter - yum!
Not ideal I know but really quite tasty - most super markets do frozen salmon fillets that can be microwaved. Cover in butter! A recent discovery of mine was swede (neep), wash the beast, prick with a fork (as you would a baked potato) and cook in the micro. Flip halfway through. Time varies but a 'medium' one in my microwave takes 20 minutes. When cooked, slice open and mash the innards with butter. Simple swede mash. Mushrooms in a mug is a good quick snack. Rinse and chop mushrooms to fill a mug (around 80g) drizzle with olive oil, a pinch of salt/pepper/herbs to taste. Mix. Add cheese of choice and microwave for 2 minutes. Cheese crisps - chop hard cheese and ping until crisp on silicon or oiled plate.