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Low-carb bootcamp

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Week 5 - Low Carb Bootcamp - the end of part one

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BIWI · 15/02/2016 07:39

Morning all

<a class="break-all" href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Vwh_9-y9ejMjg_sFMCK38uoPqZZFps39T7RY-VdUaI8/edit?pref=2&pli=1#gid=0docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Vwh_9-y9ejMjg_sFMCK38uoPqZZFps39T7RY-VdUaI8/edit?pref=2&pli=1#gid=0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Spreadsheet of Fabulousness is here

No point me weighing in today as the weekend has been lovely shocking. My official weighing-in day is Friday, so hopefully all will be back to normal by then!

Those of you for whom the scales have slowed/stopped, in weeks 3 and 4, hopefully things will get moving again now.

I'm off to Leeds with work for a couple of days, so who knows what I'll be eating? I have, though, packed some boiled eggs, a pot of Total yoghurt and a couple of sachets of tuna in my little cool box, so I know that I have something to eat if the choices available to me aren't low carb.

Good luck all, and hope this is a good week for all of us

Flowers
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Wombatinabathhat · 15/02/2016 20:38

Pata done

Wombatinabathhat · 15/02/2016 20:39

Know done

knowclue · 15/02/2016 20:40

Thank you wombat Smile

AuntieMaggie · 15/02/2016 21:02

BeyondBootcampsAgain thank you for your concern about my rum Grin

I hadn't thought about a smoothie for breakfast... I've been having eggs... everyday!

Gcalgske · 15/02/2016 22:14

I'll add much much less inflammation to the point that I have massive,y reduced my naproxen dosage Grin also I find myself much more stable emotionally. I suffer from CPTSD and high anxiety, mood swings and rapid anger are part and parcel but genuinely much much less on this woe. If I splurge, like at Christmas, I get so much more anxious and snappy.

nekobus · 15/02/2016 22:45

Checking in to new thread!

Thanks for those struggling- keep going, there are stalls and slow weeks with this WOE. I lost over 3 stone doing this for about a year. Have kept that off and now hoping to lose the last 2! My graph also would be a bit wobbly with flat lines and the odd gain Smile

It's tough being away from home - have not weighed for that reason but am guessing I've sts - but that does mean I've lost 6 pounds so far and several inches and can really tell the difference as I'm in clothes that have been lingering (mockingly!) in the wardrobe for a long time!

Benefits for me of this woe:
Skin much better - less dry, less spots/breakouts
PMT gone and periods virtually painless (I used to neck nurofen for a week)
Less bloated
Feel nicely full and never starving like on ww/sw etc
Fab food to eat Smile
Eating 'real' food and very little processed feels healthy!

KOKO folks, we can do this!!

BIWI · 15/02/2016 23:20

momofgirls - when we get to the end, i.e. after 10 weeks, I just have one, ongoing chat thread. Lots of people continue to low carb between Bootcamps, and so stay to chat.

I generally do 3 Bootcamps a year, so the next one would most likely start around mid-May - timed to finish just before the start of the summer holidays.

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Jerm123 · 16/02/2016 00:25

Hello,
Would someone add me to the chart please at 197.

Only lost 1lb this week, but weighed myself after my son's 21st birthday weekend. I don't deserve to have lost this week, as there were 2 parties and a 7 course meal. I think the stress of organising it all probably helped.
I am now on track to diet until May, when I get another weekend off boot camp Wink

Today it was back with a bump
B scrambled egg with spinach.
L exploded baby bel 'rusks' with cream cheese and salmon + salad
D courgette bolognaise.
Plus 2 cups of coffee with cream

Not really such a hardship is it?

TooExtraImmatureCheddar · 16/02/2016 07:29

Yesterday's food:

B: Greek yoghurt, double cream, few blueberries
L: Lamb chops, Greek salad, tzatziki
S: Olives and a few pork scratchings
D: Cauliflower cheese
3 litres water, 2 cups tea, 1 coffee with cream

I weighed myself this morning and I'm 3lbs up after the weekend, but it'll go.

Benefits for me include not snacking all the time in the evenings or at weekends! I was unstoppable. I did snack yesterday but that was just getting back into the swing of things after a bad weekend, and when I've been on this for a few days I stop snacking. I'm saving money!

readyforno2 · 16/02/2016 07:31

Signing in... Glad to see I'm not the only one starting afresh.
Will read and post properly later.

ApplySomePressure · 16/02/2016 07:56

Hello all

Another 1lb off. You really do all keep me going, even if I can't log on every day. I'm logging food on mfp just to ensure I'm accountable.

Have a good week everyone

DrDiva · 16/02/2016 08:11

A friend is coming over for dinner. She did WW a couple of years ago and still eats the same way. (It was v successful for her and she enjoys the food). But what on earth do I cook that is compatible with her high carb low fat diet AND LCHF??!!

BIWI · 16/02/2016 08:25

How about lots of salady things? You can do a big, green salad with the dressing on the side (and buy her a low fat dressing if you want), with stuff like roast vegetables (which taste so yummy with all the olive oil you will have used to roast them in, I doubt very much that she will complain!) You could then serve it with different cooked, sliced meats or you could make a frittata (there's a lovely recipe for an asparagus one on the recipe thread). Or even do a roast chicken! She can have the breast meat without any skin.

Go and read the recipe thread - there are lots of lovely things that you could cook that she would be quite happy with, I'm sure! There are even a couple of pudding ideas that might work for both of you.

If she's now maintaining rather than actively dieting, one evening won't kill her to eat something higher in fat.

But don't use it as an excuse to cook something that suits her and not you.

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shouldiblowthewhistle · 16/02/2016 08:28

DrDiva this is what I would do:

Asparagus and prosciutto

Steamed veges (yours with butter/creamy cheese sauce) with fish/steak
OR
Chicken salad (yours with loads of dressing)
OR
Stuffed mushrooms (with vegetable ragout, but a roast potato on the side for her)

Cheese/fruit platter

You can give her some bread on the side if she needs more carbs. And load your plate with butter :)

FelicityFunknickle · 16/02/2016 08:51

wombat vague stuntnun and BIWI
Thank you so much.
I had sts.
I have cheated
I am back on it thanks to your encouragement.

shouldiblowthewhistle · 16/02/2016 09:20

Glad you're back Felicity. You are my comrade in fighting alcohol! I haven't had a drink since Saturday and am intending none for the next few days two weeks. You with me?

BeyondBootcampsAgain · 16/02/2016 09:48

Nice to see you came back flick :) there are frustrating moments, but it is worth koko-ing. There will always be someone around who understands and can offer pointers if needed.

Just having breakfast (grain free granola with ff greek yog and raspberries, coffee with almond milk) then today we are taking the kids swimming so i can attempt to do my hydrotherapy at the same time... (We'll see how well that turns out...!)

VagueIdeas · 16/02/2016 09:51

Can anyone recommend some uses for cream cheese that don't involve slathering on a bagel? Because that's what I'd really like to do Wink Spreading it on celery just isn't hitting the spot. Any ideas or recipes?

Gcalgske · 16/02/2016 10:25

Vague -
Quick sauces are good
Melt cream cheese with equal quantity water (ie 50g cheese/50ml water). As it heats combine using a whisk. Add flavour of your choice (cheddar, Stilton, black pepper) and stir until combined.
Cream cheese pancakes are good, I make a batch of very thin ones then cook and squeeze out a bag of spinach (or defrost and squeeze out frozen). Season well and add more cream cheese to the spinach. Roll up in the pancakes. Pour over a tomato sauce (just reduce passata for a bit until it gets thick, add crushed garlic and some fresh or dried oregano) and top with lots of cheese. Bake until cheese is golden brown.
Smoked salmon pate is good (recipe on the thread)
Fathead pizza
Rolled up inside slices of meat or smoked salmon
Stroganoff - fry sliced steak, green peppers and shallot with smoked paprika and garlic. Add in 1/2 a pack of cream cheese and some water to thin.
Cheese cake (BC lite) mix cream cheese with sweetener, cream and a few raspberries or a flavour (star Kay extracts lime or orange are my favourite). Either eat as a is or make a base from ground nuts (I like almonds or hazelnuts) with equal quantity melted butter. Press down in a spring form tin. Bake for 10 mins then cool, add cream cheese mix to top and chill.
Cream cheese muffins are like mini baked cheese cakes. Recipe on recipe thread.

VagueIdeas · 16/02/2016 10:28

Fantastic - thank you Flowers

AuntieMaggie · 16/02/2016 11:15

VagueIdeas I like it on cooked salmon fillets - you can add it when cooking but I prefer to slather it on after

NigellasGuest · 16/02/2016 11:35

Well done Felicity!!!Thanks

Dinner last night for me was cold chicken left over from Sunday's roast, with delouis mayo mixed in. Courgetti and leeks fried in butter and coconut oil on the side.
To follow: LC "fudge" (couple of teaspoons) which consists of double cream and 100% chocolate with FF Total and a splodge of LC custard. No headache after so perhaps erithrol doesn't trigger them in me after all, although it was a very small portion of custard.

4lb to lose now and I will be at my target weight of 9.5 stone.
Thank you so much BIWI and everyone else on the thread - all posts are read but can't always name check! Gcal you've posted some great ideas...still waiting for my ACV and I'm planning to get some into DD3 who is suffering from a cold/sore throat.

BIWI · 16/02/2016 13:42

Yay Felicity

Glad you're still here.

Vague eating it off the spoon is another option Wink

Nigellas - I seem to remember on a very early Bootcamp concocting something with Total full fat yoghurt, peanut butter and cocoa powder that was very satisfactory!

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nekobus · 16/02/2016 13:52

Thanks for all the ideas Gcal! Always needing inspiration Smile

Good to see you back on it, Felicity, we're only halfway through so plenty of time to get on track Thanks

I'm finding eating out when on holiday a bit hit and miss - most stuff that is BC friendly is quite low fat (salads, lean meat..) so snacking on hb eggs and ff yog with double cream to make up the fat levels.

BIWI · 16/02/2016 14:07

For those few who have been cheating all of you, one thing I picked up from another low carb forum I used to use is something called The 3 Day Experiment. No idea why it's called that!

But it's three days of lean protein, low fat and virtually zero carbs.

You are apparently able to lose up to 5lbs following this. If you've really been overdoing the carbs, this will help - I imagine it's about forcing your body to use the re-filled glycogen stores, although I'm guessing wildly here!

So you eat three times a day, but only have protein, and keep it very low fat. So boiled or poached eggs for breakfast rather the fried or scrambled with butter.

A tin of tuna in brine rather than oil for lunch, and a chicken breast (no skin) or two, for dinner.

Lots of water but no milk - so tea and/or coffee black only.

After the three days, you re-introduce carbs slowly, so the first day would be to introduce a salad or some similarly really low carb veg, and for the couple of days after that focus on ultra low carb veg, like mushrooms, celery or spinach, etc

It's hard, because it's really boring. And you'll be fantasising about a lettuce leaf halfway through day 2!

But it does help you get back on track.

If you want to try it, the best way I found to cope with it was to think of it divided into 9 meals; after each meal, I'd mentally count them off - 1/9 8 to go, 2/9 7 to go, etc

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