Week 2 - Spring Low Carb Bootcamp - how was the first weigh-in?!

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Here's the Spreadsheet for you to confess all!

I hope that you've seen good results, and that they have convinced you that this WOE works - if you weren't already convinced, of course

Here's to a good second week. Hopefully all of you suffering from carb flu will be through that now, and will be feeling much more energised.

Good luck to all

PissPot - my tongue is a beaut at the mo too - I was so proud of it I made my DM admire it while we were in a coffee shop on Sunday!!

Low carbing = pink tongue and no farting.

What's not to like

Does anyone one know if fresh coconut and coconut water low carb?

No they are not pk78 at least not the coconut water I looked at in Tesco.

Thank you SayrraT most of last week I was eating c. 20g per day but today was closer to 60 and I got a bit panicky!

I think the tongue coating is related to forms of yeast growing in the mouth, although I'm not certain. I've noticed a huge reduction in plaque since low carbing, which I put down to the reduction in fermentable carbohydrates travelling that way, which would work for yeast too.

I don't know about the tongue, but that would make sense. It's the carbs that also contribute to plaque, as Kleptronic says - so better oral hygiene and health all round.

And no farting either!

Anyone up? This no sleep thing is a killer :(

Sorry Jim - I was actually up, post eleventy billionth wee, but trying to stay away from devices in the small hours.

B: Yoghurt & cream
L: bacon salad (possibly & sausage - I found some gluten & other stuff free ones, which are really low carb compared to others in the sausage aisle - yay!)
D: chicken thigh curry with loads of veg...
S: ((if needed) cheese.

I managed a grand total of 3 hours 24 minutes sleep according to my Fitbit :(

You can see the drastic shift on my sleep pattern, I've gone from 8 hours a night to 5 and 3 over the last 2 nights and it's crippling :(

Any tips on how to get more sleep??

I couldn't sleep either but I've never been a good sleeper and I don't remember low carb affecting it before.

Sorry jim I don't know what to suggest.

Is it because of your cold HesdeadJim?

Well, I had a bad day on monday. I had family visit yesterday and got sidetracked grapes and my sisters homemade brownies.

I really feel it today. I feel heavy and bleurgh. I need to get back to it. So today is

B. Greek yogurt.
L. Chicken soup
D. Sea bass, pestoandveg

Sorry you're not sleeping well Hesdead. You've only just started low carbing, so I suspect it's all part of the carb withdrawal.

Just focus - in your head, in the wee hours - on how well you're doing on the weight front!

But undoubtedly, having a cold won't be helping you, I'm afraid.

Sorry to hear about those not sleeping. I had awful anxiety dreams and have a cold and a headache. So close to the end of two weeks now. I am determined to keep it up.

I'm persevering. Made it into work today, but there's a 16 hour day ahead of me and this is by far the worst cold/ fluey symptoms I've ever had. Stopped at Tesco and picked up some Kalms and some lemsip. At this point I don't know or care if there's carbs in the lemsip, I need the medicine so it's fine.

I'm on day 6 now so nearly through my first week (yay) and I haven't yet cheated at all. If I'd still been on WW at this point and I'd fallen ill, I'd have binged every day until I was feeling better. We're talking a full pizza to myself per night for a week most likely. In contrast, I've stopped craving completely and the last thing I want to do is make myself feel worse by eating a ton of carbs.

I actually don't think this is carb flu, I think I've picked up a bug at the worst possible time! So I've in effect got a bad cold, and on top of that I'm going through carb withdrawal at the same time... lovely!

The sleeping thing though I think is carb related unfortunately. I think my entire life, I've relied on low blood sugar after a big evening meal to make me sleepy, and that's sent me off to sleep with no problems. I don't have the blood sugar crash anymore so in effect, I'm not experiencing tiredness so there's nothing to "cue" my body into wanting sleep. The lack of tiredness combined with my cold is knocking me for six.

However, the very very very last thing I want to do right now is binge on carbs and put myself back into glycolysis, then have to go through this all over again so at the moment, my will power is holding out!

Hesdeadjim you could well be having the 3 week stinker of a cold where you feel shattered and really ropey for a good two of the weeks. I wasn't lc when I started it, so can't imagine how it must be with the lc tigger. Not saying this to be down ( there are enough threads on here about the bug) more just to be reassuring. Think of it as being efficient and getting over both

mrwalkensir 4 of my team called in sick this morning, so yep, it looks like a cold! phew!

Sounds awful hesdeadjim, but I did find once things settled down sleep quality was a lot better than pre BC. I was feeling very "what's the point?" yesterday after my weight gain, didn't eat anything not LC but didn't listen to my full cues either and didn't have enough water. However this morning saw an end to the constipation. Now feeling less heavy and bloated so onwards and downwards.
B gammon and hm coleslaw

L not sure yet probably eggs.

D curried belly pork with either cauliflower or leaves.

Yesterday was a little bit higher in carbs than I'd have liked as DH cooked a valentines meal and even though he did follow the rules, it wasn't perfect plus fizz.

I had
B: eggs, butter
L: spag Bol, courgetti
D: sundried toms, mozzerella and olive salad with pesto dressing, mussels and haddock with cabbage and lardons, strawberries and raspberries in vanilla cream and fizz

I know the tomatoes, berries and the vanilla cream won't have been perfect but he'd gone to so much effort. Hopefully it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Back on the straight and narrow today anyway

B: eggs, butter, cream
L: halloumi fried in butter, avocado, salad in oil
D: salmon with creme fraiche and watercress sauce, cabbage and bacon, asparagus roasted in oil

Had my worst food day yesterday since starting low-carbing 2.5 weeks ago. I really fancied a fresh roast pork sandwich for lunch (from the pork shop, not homemade). Roast pork and crackling fine, but not sure about the stuffing and apple sauce and, of course, the bread?! Anyway, shared it with my son, so had half a white bap, and scraped some excess apple sauce off. So not too bad...? BUT, I then felt hungry within a couple of hours and then craved something sweet so ate 3 bloody marshmallows because that was all I had to hand. Marshmallows are really not worth the carb count, eh?

Otherwise a good day, and am a 1lb down on the scales this morning so not a disaster. Back on track today:

B: scrambled eggs, buttered spinach, coffee with cream.
L: leftover chilli with either greens or cauli rice.
D: leftover chicken korma, with veg and maybe konjac rice depending on how my carb count is looking.

Have a good day everyone.

Has anyone had any success in making swede crisps? I know celeriac make good ones but I hate the flavour but love swede!

B - FF yog with cinnamon
L - egg drop soup
D - lamb steak with stir fry veg

That's my plan so far but may change!

Hesd. My sleep hasn't been great, night before last I had a great one last night not so much. I'm really hoping this settles.

Dropped another 1lb or so since Monday so I have definitely got over the stall I had at the 4th week. Went to the gym yesterday and it felt great, this morning I'm going back again but will be taking it a bit more easy as I do feel tired today.

That sounds like such a delicious meal Chester how thoughtful of your DH.

I had one of my valentines truffles yesterday .

I have the cold too. It sucks am drinking lots of hot water with fresh lemon juice and ginger.

B: salami, Brie and an avocado
L: out so probably a salad
D: baked portobello mushrooms with Stilton

Patapouf as Sayrra says, just follow the rules and you don't need to worry about the carbs as it's all taken into account for you. If you're using MFP or similar and you want to keep an eye on it then I would say to stay below 50g per day. Some people do need to keep it a bit lower than that but the only way to find out is by trial and error. If you are losing weight at a rate you're happy with then you don't need to make any changes.

No idea on the sleep HesDead but if you're going to be up anyway would you like to look after my DS3 and DS4 for a couple of nights for me so I can sleep?

DH is still resolutely not learning the Bootcamp rules we've only been doing this for three and a half years now so yesterday's food wasn't ideal. He bought me milk chocolates as a present so I'm leaving them where the kids will willingly scoff the lot might eat some. He made baked Camembert with breadsticks for a starter, lamb chops with roasted asparagus for a main, and panna cotta for dessert. I did have a nibble of the bread and a little bit of the panna cotta seeing as he'd gone to all the effort but I do wish he would work out what's low carb and what isn't. It's alright for him, he's a mesomorph and goes to the gym every day so he can afford a few extra carbs than me with my sedentary, lackadaisical ways.

I've been doing really well with this WOE not felt hungry at all, which is great. It's such a shame we're going away tomorrow, really can't see how I'm going to manage LC'ing when eating out for five days. But have been reading the tips from the diet doctor and hoping to at least be able to make educated choices whilst away.
Yesterday
L : Tuna mayo salad
D : Crispy duck, spring onion, cucumber, wrapped in lettuce, followed by cheese
Today
B: Scrambled egg with butter
L: Cheese salad
D: Ham and egg, with broccoli, asparagus, leek in cream.