Week 7 - Low Carb Bootcamp - four weeks left!

[BIWI]

Morning all

Spreadsheet is here

No time to post - busy, busy, busy this week and have to get off to work now.

Good luck all

BeyondTellseveryoneRealFacts I couldn't find you on the spreadsheet but I have added you at 208

wand I made the lemon cake you posted a while ago - I'd cut and pasted it into my list of LC recipes I wanted to try and finally got round to it - delicious! has a great crumb as you said and v filling. I added a tsp of stevia sweetner (the granulated truvia stuff) as wanted it a little sweeter without adding berries, thank you for the recipe. Just need to stop myself snarfing it all!

I always look mildly preggers now lol!! Still, after shifting some weight it's a lot better than it used to be!!!!

Well... I weigh in on a Friday as proper scales at work..... I have been pretty good all week (and generally all the boot camp!). Have sts for last 3 weeks I think. Drum roll pls....... Down 3lbs!!!! I am below my target weight. I am now my pre babies weight of 4 yrs ago. I feel amazing. Plus I find this woe really easy to follow. Plus my body fat % is now 26 from high 30's.
I'm over the moon

Wand can you list out a day or two of meals. There are a few potentials for causing bloating such as fibrous veggies, coconut, flaxseed and wheat. Are you drinking enough water each day?

I made raw chocolate bark today. Yummy and less than 20% carbs which is about the same as 85% chocolate.

Help! Is there anyone around? I am so tempted to binge on carbs, please remind me of all the reasons why I shouldn't. My willpower seems to have deserted me tonight.....

Don't do it Sheba I did his the week before last and I haven't been able to shake it off. My foray into carbs and sugar has led me down a bad road and I'm struggling to get back on track. How much have you lost this boot camp?

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Because, Sheba, you'll be on here on Monday morning complaining that you've put weight on!

Thanks *Wombat" you're right, it's a slippery slope. Only 4lbs off this BC, but 44lbs off since I started 10 months ago. Weight loss has slowed as I get nearer to my goal weight, but until tonight I've been continually motivated. I'm bored tonight which is always dangerous. Maybe I should go and do something productive to keep myself occupied. Thanks for the pep talk though, it has really helped

You're right of course BIWI

fee that's absolutely brilliant! Congratulations. How long did it take you and how much did you lose in total?

Sheba it's not worth it. You'll wake up disappointed.

Well done fee, fantastic news

Does anyone know anything about oestrogen dominance/weight gain etc?

I've discovered I have reasonably large fibroids (cause seems to be oestrogen dominance) for which I now have medication (for heavy periods, not taken yet), and I wonder if there is a link here to weight gain/difficulty losing weight. There seems to be some link but I don't always trust what I read on t'internet.

Does anyone have any experience with this?

I made raw chocolate bark today. Yummy and less than 20% carbs which is about the same as 85% chocolate.

Sorry I don't know why that posted twice.

Don't do it Sheba. If you feel the need to binge then go for something low carb. I like ribs or chicken wing for evening snacking.

Sheba after I lost the first 30lb I had a long stall before the scales started moving again. You gotten KOKO.

Thanks all, you're right and I've come to far to trash it now. I'm off for a nice long soak in the bath.

Lex - to be fair to Ancel Keys, his work didn't suggest that ALL fat made people fat, only animal and saturated fats, which (to be fair) the heart disease industry still believe. Apart from his K-rations for US ww2 soldiers, his greatest contribution to the diet world was his promotion of the Mediterranean diet. However, his message was somewhat lost/twisted for a long while and general "low fat diets" were promoted as being beneficial for healthy hearts (still are in some places).
And, what is also rarely recognised, he also believed that exercise was a necessary component in the avoidance of obesity.
In that he was correct - because (getting sciencey) cholesterol is produced in the body on the same pathway that produces coenzyme Q10, a molecule which is used in producing mitochondrial energy, specifically in muscles that work all the time, even more specifically heart muscle. The cholesterol-inhibiting drugs mostly block that pathway before the divergence to produce cholesterol or coQ10, which means that most cholesterol inhibitors ALSO inhibit coQ10, which is a lot of an arse (more so for some than others). Things that drive the pathway away from cholesterol = things that require more coQ10, i.e. harder working muscles, i.e. exercise.

But again that part of his message was lost - the official line was "eat low fat to reduce cholesterol and the risk of heart disease" - but the Med diet is far from low fat, and that was his favourite way of eating.

I'm not a great fan of his (especially as he was part of the gang who trashed Prof Yudkin, the first person who truly warned us of the dangers of sugar) but I do like to be fair!

I'm still not doing well. I'm STS because during the day I'm mostly eating LC, and being good - no starches etc. - but the evenings are ruining me because of my perceived "need" for a drink (just one, usually) and then the sugar cravings have been extremely difficult to ignore. I KNOW I'm not helping myself, I KNOW I'm sabotaging and I KNOW I'm not in the right zone - but every day I start again, trying to do the right thing.

Morning all, thanks for the support last night, I managed to stay on track thanks to you. Back in the zone this morning and off to make my Saturday morning treat, LC pancakes

thumb yes he wasn't the only one trashing saturated fat but when a scientist gets something so wrong it is hard to give credibility to the rest of his work but I admit I haven't read the rest of his studies.

I am just reading Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz and getting all riled up again about how far off the mark the current guidelines are still, esp reading about the promotion of the Med Diet being sponsored in part by olive oil producers and how the American Heart Association is so reliant on it's income from grain producers it will never change it's message - grrrr!

I still remember reading a "lovely" book called something like "9 diet myths", one of which was that "carbohydrates make you fat" - and this was apparently a myth. I honestly can't remember who wrote it, it was in the 1970s or 1980s (I read it much later than that) - but whomever did write it had obviously absolutely zero understanding of the biochemistry of carbohydrate digestion and usage in the body. Oddly enough, I didn't bother with the rest of the book, so I can see your point, Lex! But AK did have other better ideas - I think he just had got so wedded to his own theory, and was so arrogant about his own self-belief (not uncommon) that he couldn't let it go.