Our last week - Spring Low Carb Bootcamp

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So our last week! Here's the Spreadsheet for its penultimate outing

One more week could see another couple of pounds off.

Fingers crossed, and good luck!

Why not try having the full roast one week keeping track of weight following it, see if you gain, how long it takes to come off so that you have an idea. I write in my diary when I have a carby meal so that I see how it affects me. I discovered that 3 courses at a Mexican restaurant plus alcohol adds 2lbs and takes 2 weeks to get off. If I eat carbs and increase exercise I don't gain.

Morning everyone. How are you all?

I have suddenly realised that my skin has started looking amazing. You know when your body just lets go of some swelling or puffiness or something? Being strict with my diet always does this but I've not had it for a while. I feel great looking in the mirror at my face right now.

I also had this really profound realisation. You know when you know something intellectually but then it just suddenly clicks?

This woe is better for my health.

I mean, I've always done it for weight loss and known it's better for my health but I've stuck to it mainly because I want to lose weight. Junk food started tasted disgusting years ago and I've done masses amount of work on cravings already so I pretty much had that cracked. But really, the health thing has felt like this minor thing floating around out of reach which I'm a bit vague about.

I suddenly got it. My health is better on it. My long term health will be better for doing it. I feel crap when I eat crap. I don't want to feel crap!! Therefore I don't want to eat crap. I suddenly don't feel so very hard done by, when just sometimes I do feel quite self-pitying saying no to lots of different foods, particularly in social situations where I'm always then the odd one out

Something feels like its shifted profoundly. Whether that will last, I have no idea, but it feels really good to be feeling like this.

I hope that makes sense.

Breakfast was a frittata with courgette and cauliflower. Lunch will be salmon and kale. Supper, I think maybe duck breast.

Dust, I originally started because of pain and inflammation. I read something that said low carbing could be helpful with both. 88 days later I'm pretty sure it has helped massively - whether it's because of this woe or because it's psychological doesn't matter to me, it's helped enormously and that's what matters.

JIM, Thanks for the photo of the Lidl rolls, now I know what I am looking for.

I am thinking one of those sliced thinly and toasted to dip into melted camembert or brie as a treat every now and then (maybe with a glass of red wine)!

I have had it with celery but it is not quite the same!

dustmotesinthesun. I started this woe for health reasons and it has really helped me stick to it. Yes I need to lose a lot of weight but more than that I need to be healthy (losing weight will also help with the health) This mentality helps me to stick it. I do feel so much better and certainly walking is so much easier, I even ran a little on the treadmill yesterday!

I hope I will suddenly find it easier to stick to now too. I mean I don't find it impossible, my problem has always been things creeping in. I love the food on this woe. But if this will help me be stricter, I'll be chuffed.

Hello everyone, thanks for the flaxseed and psyllium husk advice, I am getting some today. I have been a bit of a carby twat yesterday - I keep making excuses that it was hard to find the right stuff in the hospital which was partially true, but anyway back on it today though I expect it might affect any loss for what was supposed to be the first week of bootcamp

Anyway since we were speaking of revelations here was mine: it wasn't worth it. The junk I ate didn't taste that good, didn't help me deal with a post-op 3yo in pain or the discomforts of a hospital ward, and made me feel bloated and gave me indigestion. With my body chemistry thanks to the PCOS this WOE just makes me feel better in myself.

Please remind me of that if I wibble later!

OldBooks - my Sainsbury's sells flaxseed - it's in the same aisle as all the baking products, if that helps?

And yes, when you go back to a high carb meal/food, it's often the case that it isn't worth it. Then you feel even worse for cheating!

That is such an annoying thing to come to terms with. You tell yourself that a certain food will taste amazing and make you feel better. Quite often it just tastes shit. I still forget that sometimes!

I am clearly a bit hyper today but I just put on a pair of trousers that were just about too tight to do up 2 months ago. I can remember squeezing into them very uncomfortable. As of today I now have a good 2-3 inches of looseness at the waist. They're getting baggy!

Happy is not the word. THIS WOE WORKS!! I mean, you all know that. I know what. But for a long time I doubted it deep down. Last year I struggled so much to get any weight off.

I'll be calmer tomorrow

That's amazingdustmotes, no wonder you are hyper!

It's the thing about food making one feel better. It's just food. And ironically the food that physically makes you feel better is usually the total opposite of the food we are conditioned to think will make ua feel better emotionally

Brilliant dust!!

I ended up with a carby lunch. Combination of needing something quick with toddler around and being unprepared and having MIL here to feed.

Back on it for dinner. Making a beef stew.

Hello all - I've been MIA for a while as went away for the first week of the Easter holidays, then there was the second week, then a funeral...... I was ok(ish) for most of it although as someone else said - breakfast and lunch from fine and then a few crisp and brownie fails from drinking alcohol in the evenings.

However I was +5 after my 4 weeks off and retsrarted proper low carb, no alcohol sun-thurs, on Monday. By Friday I was still +1 but that went this morning despite one small glass of white wine last night 🙂.

Have done 2x Davina dvds, 2 walks and one run so feeling much more positive and back in the routine. I'm rather an all or nothing person like or a PP - I need to get to a point of mixing it up but I find if I have a drink I can't get up at 6am to do a DVD/run and then have less motIvation to be good food wise. If I exercise in the morning I'll do everything in my power not to undo the good work!

So, apologies for the ramble there but I have 1-1.5 stone to lose by end July for holiday and have toned up my saggy bits. I really don't want to be the stereotypical Brit abroad. I lost 1st 5lbs from Jan to end march so should be do-able in the next 3 months.

Good to come on here and be accountable . Oh and DH got a chance cookbook -hemsley and Hemsley for his birthday and it is pretty much all low carb. Had some delicious cauliflower couscous last night and looking forward to loads more of the recipes - you'll be glad to hear flax seeds feature a lot!

Such a lovely thread . Had my lovely turkish meal on Friday night (halloumi for starter, a spicy kofte with salad for main, 3 gin & slimlines ). Yesterday had bit of cheese & pate for breakfast, scrambled egg with mushrooms & bacon cooked in butter for lunch. Then went to a bit of a boozy party. Had 4 more gins , but took my own bits to eat (the food there was your normal party food - pizza, breaded chicken, sausage rolls, crisps....). I had some small sausages and some cheese and olives. So not a great couple of days (too much booze and not much veg!) but not my normal weekend. Not expecting any loss this week, just hoping to STS! Back on it today properly. Am cooking pork belly for tea to have with broccoli & green beans. Already very excited about that .

I haven't been on for ages so I'll try and catch up today. It's DH's birthday tomorrow so I'm going to attempt a low carb birthday cake. Does anyone have any recipes?

stunt I made this which was only 150g carbs for the whole thing (or something like that). I'm rushing out to a competition with my horse just now but I'll post recipe later if you want?

Only ingredients are prunes, butter, eggs and chocolate.

Sunday is my weighing day.

Starting stats last Sun: 16.2 stone, 58.3% body fat, 37.8 BMI
Today: 15.13 stone, 56.9% body fat, 37.1 BMI

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Well done odbooks

I've been lurking and following the rules for about 6 weeks, full of admiration for this thread. I started off really well, and then seem to have spent 4 weeks losing and regaining the same weight (although I have thinned down a bit). So I'm wondering if I'm just a bit off in some areas.
For instance, how much cream do you get through in a week? In a day I have a creamy coffee, a bit in scrambled eggs, and sometimes I warm up frozen berries in a splash of cream and add to yogurt. I'm getting through 500 ml a week. Does that sound OK?

Still around not posted for a few weeks. Still lingering around the 10 stone 9lb mark. Two pound of target before next boot camp starts in mid may. Have been setting targets for every half a stone. Would like to achieve 10 stone during this year.
Lovely brunch of bacon with home made guacamole. Tend to low carb through the week and be more flexible at weekend. KOKO everyone.

@Copperas - don't forget that weeks 3 and 4 (and sometimes 5!) are notorious for seeing little or no weight loss.

I don't think that's too much cream in the course of a week, but it's dairy as a whole that can be a problem. How much milk, yoghurt and cheese are you also eating?

Why don't you list out what you've been eating and drinking over the last few days and let me see if there's anything I can help you with?

Hey, sorry I've been MIA for a couple of days, AF completely knocked me for six this last week and I've been feeling awful.

I think I've managed to limit the damage and I've stayed mostly on track which is a miracle.

Next week I'm cutting right back on dairy because I think it might be stalling me a bit. My skin is also terrible at the moment and I seem to remember from my teen years that dairy did that to me.

Off to Harry Potter world tomorrow so I'll be packing up a load of low carb snackage for the day

Hope everyone's doing ok :)

Thank you Biwi - much appreciated.
I have either a creamy coffee or 2 eggs/cream/half a leek in a frittata for breakfast, sometimes with a slice of bacon.
Lunch is at work, from the canteen - I have tuna mayonnaise with salad - sometimes grilled chicken with salad.
Dinner - I've been eating a combination of meat (pork shoulder, or 898% pork sausages, or belly pork, or chicken thighs) with courgette or broccoli or cauliflower cooked in the same pan, and cream added at the end to make a bit of sauce. Or I have a mixed salad with mayonnaise instead of cooked vegetables.
If I snack, it tends to be cheese - a couple of ounces? Or celery with something like salmon pate.
I have had the odd bit of fruit, but mostly berries.
I do feel very much better with this WOE, and as other people have said am really not snacking the way I used to. I may get hungry but it's not painful hunger

Also perhaps 3 cups of tea a day with a little milk. I'm trying to get to 3 litres pf water a day but do find this hard

Sorry for the drip feed, but I also have total yogurt every other day