Morning campers!
Here's the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness
I hope it was a good week, and I hope that those of you who have been suffering from carb flu are starting to feel better. Remember, keep up the electrolytes - sodium, potassium and magnesium. Which means firstly that you have to make sure you're getting plenty of salt - so salt your food during cooking and add salt to cooked food.
For potassium, you could also consider Lo-Salt. Good foods for all electrolytes include salmon, avocado, spinach and full fat (of course!) natural yoghurt.
A note about weighing in
If you're a daily weigher, you have several different options. You can either just record your weight every Monday (or whatever regular day of the week you choose - I am going to start weighing in on a Saturday, because my trainer records my weight as well, to keep me on track!).
Or you can record the lowest weight you achieved in that week
Or you can average your weights and record the average.
Whatever you decide, I hope it's a positive result!
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Low-carb bootcamp
Week 2 - 2016 Low Carb Bootcamp - our first official weigh-in!
BIWI · 25/01/2016 07:25
Thank you thumb 
I've never got the babybel thing to work tbh, have given up lol
Botheration.
Dunno why, but my 2 Babybel crisps just got overdone and welded to the plate :(
I say I don't know because I did them in the microwave exactly the same time as usual, and it was too long 
Hello all, I have STS which I am happy with, had a couple of difficult days away with work last week when I didn't drink enough water and ended up eating sandwich fillings and pizza toppings 
I have just weighed. Yeah I know. several coffees, a couple of litres of water is not the best time. But I came out about 1kg under where I was 2 weeks ago. It made me not dread a proper weigh in tomo morning should i remember. Hopefully weight will shift properly when I ditch the pain killers. In the meantime the trousers are getting looser. Only on my waist though. My hips and thighs seem to be reluctant to slim 
Ah well. Will worry about that when something can be done about it.
Shoulder news
Back to physio for new treatment plan this week. It has settled but there are underlying issues that need to resolve. 1 step forwards, 2 back, 3 forwards, 1 back kinda progress so not expecting huge weight losses. Happy with slow and steady.
0.4 lbs on here, despite being a very good girl. However, AF started this morning (again), so that explains that. I have also started exercising last week, so may be retaining fluid because of that also. I was 2 lbs lighter 4 days ago, so am hoping for a whoosh in the next few days.
Well done on all those that have lost or stayed the same.
fohamy there is an explaination for the prolonged AF, my cycle is mucked up too as I was on only about 10 days ago. Stunt gave a fab scientific explanation up the thread, or on the question thread, but I can't remember what she said 
I take a magnesium tablet a day and that usually helps keep my bowels nice and regular. Had a blip at the weekend, but took an extra tablet and I'm sorted again now. I think you can get magnesium replete with a LC diet, so not a bad idea to take them anyway.
Today's food is:
B - creamy coffee x2, avocado
L - left over roast; beef, celeriac/leek mash, broccoli, sprouts with lardons.
D - something with mince, maybe spag bol with courgetti or chilli with cauli rice
S - spicy chai latte, ?babybel
fohamy, StuntNun wrote something the other day about that - it's to do with oestrogen and fat, but please don't ask me to explain! It made sense, but I couldn't repeat it
2lb off this week: in all honesty, it's been a tough week - I've been bloated all week, struggled to eat three times a day, and really suffered from some weird indigestion/wind/nausea thing. I'm going to try to jig things about a bit this week in the hope of a more comfortable approach to this WOE - it's a huge shame, as otherwise, it really works for me, though I've had to cut down massively on my portions of veg. I am embarrassed to realise that I had no idea how many carbs I was consuming before this BC, whilst thinking I was doing just fine
Hoping my coconut oil will finally arrive this week - that should help with the fat intake. And cheese has been my go-to this week, and I am - frankly - ashamed when I realise how much I have consumed: that needs cutting down too! I'm going to stick with BC for the moment, so that it really goes into my head about making these changes last etc.
Stayed the same, like a few others I see! Thinking it could be: portion sizes, constipation, payback for the lovely 6lb whoosh last week, not enough water & salt or just normal variation
Going to try and post my meals to see if I'm either sneaking in non-BC stuff or just plain eating too much (that's why I put on the weight in the first place - I'm really bad at stopping when full)
Non-MN hugs for those having a tough time, there is so much lovely support on here (for BC and life) 
B - 2 babybel (made into wotsit crisps in microwave - whoever invented that is a genius!) BPC
L - LC salad with avocado, olives, feta and streaky bacon bits
D - 2 chicken thighs (with crispy skin) and salad
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b: hard boiled egg with mayo.
The table is littered with everyone else's buttery croissants and strawberry jam. 
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