Pre-summer Low Carb Bootcamp - I declare it to be open!

[BIWI]

Welcome everyone!

We have around 130 people signed up this time, so it's going to be a busy and fast-moving thread.

Here's the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness for you to enter your weight.

The lovely Sayrra manages the spreadsheet. Please don't mess with it! Just enter your weight and leave all the other columns/rows alone!

I'll start a questions thread to run along side this chat thread, so that you can post stuff there in the knowledge that your question will definitely be seen. (I can't promise to get to your questions immediately, but I will read and answer them)

And please, please, please - no matter how fast-moving the thread is, please read the whole thing and don't just post your own thing. You'll miss a lot of valuable stuff that way, and it also presumes that I (and other posters) are happy to keep repeating stuff.

But above all, very good luck everyone!

For those who want to make their own crackling - I get a roll of pig skin, pat it dry & sprinkle with salt or fennel seeds or chinese 5-spice. I use my halogen oven, but I think a normal oven would work just as well. I cook on quite a low heat (140c) for about half an hour, until it goes all soft - then I cut it with scissors into strips as this is the easiest time for cutting it! Then cook for another 15 mins on low. Then I whack the heat up to its highest and cook until it puffs up & looks done.

Really BIWI?

I've virtually cut the fat put completely.

For example, today I've had;

Boiled egg for breakfast
Chunk of cheese snack
Roast chicken breast with boiled broccoli and sprouts for lunch
Grilled halloumi for snack
Lettuce, rocket, spinach and tin of tuna with balsamic vinegar for dinner.

I make that about 1000 cal and low fat? If I did my usual add butter/oil/cream surely my calorie count would rocket?

I'm not posting much I'm I'm finding this thread SO helpful. The first few days of LC are hard and it's great to be part of a group.

monkeyfacegrace!!!

Did you not learn anything on Bootcamp?!

Low carb is high fat!

If you're eating that much protein, actually you're leading your insulin levels to spike more than if you were eating high fat. It's called gluconeogenesis.

Would be far better to eat high fat, but smaller portions.

Just made this - was delicious! (N.B. Nuts only allowed due to being veggie)

deliciouslyella.com/creamy-courgette-spaghetti-gluten-and-dairy-free/

Wow this thread does move fast! I'm glad someone started the bc period discussion. I was beginning to wonder what was going on!

Today I had
B- 3 muffin-sized cheese omelets
L- salad with ham and a baby bel
EM- courgetti and minced pork fried with a little tomato and a lot of oil. Also lots of Parmesan.
3 coffees with double cream 🙈 But based on how long the cream is lasting I think I'm using much less than 50 ml per day.
Lots of water. 3 L at least.

Haaaang on, I didn't think that was too high in protein? Surely the cheeses are all fats, and a tin of tuna and a chicken breast is the only meat? I've only dropped the fat in the last week or so now I'm down to my last 10lb so can convert back to high fat if you think that's best. I'm just worried about those pesky calories.

I've managed to drop 38lb since my biggest weight at the very beginning (2014, then I've had 2 pregnancies since!), so I'm doing something right. I just need to slowly but surely get down to 135lb ish. Don't care if it takes all summer. I'm the queen of maintaining but I just need to get there!

evening all

im knackered its official.... Run / Work / kids

B.coffee cream, butter cheese slice with marmite

L.eggs bacon mushrooms mayo cauliflower
D. Tuna mayo pickled chillies cauliflower cheese
8 pints water and a black coffee

Monkeyfacegrace, almost all of that was protein-based foods!

Boiled egg for breakfast
Protein, with fat
Chunk of cheese snack
Protein, with fat
Roast chicken breast with boiled broccoli and sprouts for lunch
Protein and carbs (will be high protein as this is a lean piece of chicken)
Grilled halloumi for snack
Protein, with fat
Lettuce, rocket, spinach and tin of tuna with balsamic vinegar for dinner.
Carbs and protein - no fat - plenty of carbs from balsamic, which is very carby

This is a lot of protein. You should be eating fat:protein:carbs

Did you eat the skin off your chicken?
Did you have tuna in oil or brine?

Well done monkey on stopping with the squash I'm sure there was a time you told us you couldn't do without it!

Oh no raised so sorry to hear that. Don't let the disappointment get to you, eating cake and drinking wine might make you feel better for a short time but I think you will regret it.

Is there something else nice you could do, especially if you can keep the babysitter.

Sitting impatiently waiting on my chicken thighs to roast!

Fuck sake.

There was me thinking I'd cracked it.

I knew there was a reason I have been avoiding bootcamp

So, ditch the meat, eat pork belly/salad/veg/oil/butter again? With pork scratchings and chicken thighs.

And you're sure sure sure the huge increase in calories isn't going to make me balloon?!

Florene that deliciously Ella recipe looks great and would be ideal for my family (1 dairy free).

Do you think it would work without the nuts while I'm doing bc?

Hi all. Congrats to all of us for making it on day 3!

Today I think I ate loads. I don't feel bad at all, actually very energetic and happy.

But I do worry I ate too much today!!

B: a couple of tablespoons full fat Greek yoghurt and black coffee
Mid morning: full mozzarella ball , plus waitrose olives and provolone pack
Lunch: m&s prawns in lime and chilli / waitrose chargrilled artichokes
D: 3 LC sausages (black farm) / half pack waitrose mashed swede / salad leaves with lemon olive oil / chunk of feta
I drank loads of water, plus 2 cups tea at work with splash milk
Just think this is too much! I usually eat much less than this. What do you think?

The fat is what helps you feel satisfied for longer. So yes, while the calories are used up more quickly if you are tracking, in theory you eat less in quantity vs low fat. But you need to pay careful attention to your hunger cues until it's more automatic.

And another argument of the LC brigade is that our bodies are less efficient at turning fat into energy (or something along those lines) so it uses more fat to keep you going instead of carbs/sugar/alcohol which are easy to convert to energy but not always used up and then converted to fat. Not sure if I've got that 100% correct, no doubt someone will be along to explain better shortly.

stillloving I ate loads in the first few days of starting LC, but it gradually evens out and now I barely snack and can eat much less per meal and feel pleasantly satisfied. I am in week 3 now.

Well look monkeyface - you're having to snack twice a day, which would also suggest that you haven't got your blood sugar levels under control!

If you had two boiled eggs for breakfast, or more fat generally, then you wouldn't need to snack.

And the calories would probably work out just the same.

Wanheda: thanks. I've also been eating LC for more than 2 months although the first month was whole30 (which was great but I didn't lose weight on it). Then on strict LC since then I have been steadily losing. I think today I got carried away at the antipasti section at M&S

Went to the hairdressers after work to day and I forgot - how did I forget? - that they give you a small chocolate brownie with your coffee! Very pleased to say that I didn't eat it, plus I had a black coffee rather than my usual latte. Feeling very virtuous.
The beef stroganoff and cauli rice we had for dinner was nice, feeling nicely full now.
It's great seeing everyone's food, great for ideas.

Just had chicken thigh bacon white cabbage lettuce curly kale with parmasan and mayo.

Was lush!

DH bought me yogurt from Morrisons and its 5.6g per 100g!
I had about 5 tea spoons and that was it.

sorry stillloving I presumed you were a newbie

The snacks were because I was bored and making the kids good not because I was hungry

Anyway, sugar, pasta, potatoes, rice, bread, etc etc haven't passed my lips at all for ages and ages now so I'm still pleased with myself. And I'm drinking bottled water like crazy, and losing weight well.

So I shall take note of your advice, ramp up that fat again, drop some protein slightly and record everything on MFP.

But I'm certainly getting there. My willpower is amazing, unlike my knowledge of what I'm actually doing

Anyone else noticed their nails are growing ferociously?

And I forgot to say - bloody well done on what you've achieved