Our last week - Spring Low Carb Bootcamp

[BIWI]

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!

Another vote of confidence (and thanks) for Stuntnun 's coaching.

This is the first time I have made it though a bootcamp (which is brilliant) and am now so confident that I have signed up for the next one, too. Some of us, sometimes, just need a bit more help.

My menu has not been that good today

Eggs for breakfast

Lunch was chicken, halloumi, chickpeas, aubergine, cabbage salad

It was someone's birthday at work so I had half a Gregg's sausage roll

Was not hungry for dinner so had berries and a spoon of cream and some dark chocolate

I finally got a loss after two weeks stall - 2lb down. I can feel and see the difference but can still still feel there's a lot more to go.

Feeling hungry today due to sleepiness I suspect, almost gave in and realise I need to get more easy food in the fridge. Hit the gym and then had pork belly, coffee and cream, raspberries and yoghurt. Then cheddar, olives and a tomato. Chicken, chorizo and broccoli for dinner. Had some cream to stave off the hunger pangs.

Looking forward to starting bootcamp but stuck on what to eat for breakfast at work if I drop the fruit. What else goes well with Greek yoghurt?

I've spent every day of my life with my weight being a problem/ top of my mind and I just want one day without that. I KNOW I'll be focused on other things but I don't want it there in the background on that day. For example at my graduation I spent the whole day worrying about my weight and how i looked next to skinny friends in photos rather than enjoying the achievement. I got a first in linguistics and was awarded student of the year for gods sake and i STILL felt like a failure on that day because I graduated fat

Jiminny, reading that is like you've taken a recording of my thoughts. I have similarly felt achievements have lost some shine because I am still fat, I refer to myself as a 'big fat failure' when I am far from a failure. I lost weight before my wedding brief pause to regret that I put it all back on again but I wasn't skinny by any means - I went from an 18 to a loose 16/tight 14. I had a corset back dress which winched me in and had hair and make-up done on the day - and I looked amazing. And you know what? When I look at the beautiful photos from the day, there is still a tiny voice in my head saying 'your arms are so fat'. So I suppose what I am saying (and like dustmotes I may be projecting) if you have that perfectionist, self-critical mindset you might lose 75 lbs and still look back and find fault, so be kind to yourself. Sorry if none of that made sense or wasn't that reassuring . IME getting a fab dress, getting awesome hair and make-up, and the sheer joy of the day should make you glow irrespective of your size.

I am intrigued by StuntNun's coaching, what does that involve?

Today has been ok, possibly too much dairy:
B: courgette omelette with Parmesan
L: boiled eggs with small carrot, cucumber and avocado
T: sausages with cauliflower & broccoli, followed by some greek yoghurt
Snacked on some cheese cubes.
3 pints herbal tea, 2 pints water
Still awaiting bloody AF, still feeling like eating everything in the cupboards (DH has bought such nice bread and it's killing me) so pleased that I resisted.

OldBooks it's a low carb diet app from Ways of Eatingg* where you get information about the low carb way of eating, mindfulness, general health etc. plus trackers to monitor your progress, chat groups, recipes and a library of information. You also get coaching on a weekly basis or 5-6 days per week. It costs £79 for the 11-week program with weekly coaching, or £139 for weekly coaching plus a personalised plan at the end, or £199 for daily coaching with the personalised plan.

Morning :)

I'm going to have to check in with you lot daily I think so apologies for bombarding you all!

Weighed in yesterday and I weigh exactly the same as I did on the 24th April which is the last time I weighed in on Tesco scales rather than my home crappy ones , at least I haven't gained though. I'm 16st 11.6 so definitely motivated to get a move on now.

I've had a low grade headache for 2 days and no amount of water or salt is shifting it, so I THINK I'm going back through adaption again. I also have a runny nose and generally feel a bit rubbish which is exactly how I felt last time I had keto flu, so hopefully things are back on the right track.

Link to the prep thread for next week.

It would be really helpful if you could post any tips on there for newbies - I haven't counted up how many people have signed up, but it's a lot, and a lot of names I don't recognise!

I can feel and see the difference in me but the scales are not budging! Need a WHOOSH! this week!

Menu today so far I've had sausages and a creamy coffee. Lunch will be halloumi, green beans, salad. Dinner is chicken and roast asparagus.

Day 99/100 so I'll be weighing on Thursday just in time to get stuck in to boot camp!

Still plodding on. I'm hoping to have lost at least 20lbs but I did start out at 210lbs and only 5ft 1in. That's out there now, shocking

Brunch will be avocado salad mainly to use stuff up
Not sure about dinner yet
Coffee with cream and a hot chocolate before bed
Lots of water
Snacks if wanted but haven't the last couple of days

Excited for boot camp now

Jiminny I can only say reading what you wrote that I completely and utterly relate. I get it. It feels like weight should be a neutral thing in some ways, but it has caused me so much pain and misery every day I've had an issue with it. It's ALWAYS on my mind, day in day out. I was the one fat kid at secondary school. I was constantly getting the message from my peers that I was worthless in some way because of it. They laughed at me, they pitied me. I've carried on getting the same message from men as an adult (though of course there have been exceptions thankfully). I've been single for a lot of my adult life primarily because it's been too hard to think of anyone finding me attractive (although disability has obviously put a spanner in the works too in making it hard for me to get out)

If I ever get married I know I'll want to be as slim as possible for it. There are other things coming up over the next year - other peoples' weddings, parties with people I haven't seen in years and I want to go looking "normal" (horrid word, sorry). I want to look good. Clothes have always been things I wear to cover up, primarily. It's been a secondary to think of wearing something nice. It's only quite recently that I've suddenly realised I love clothes and if I like them now it's quite exciting to think of being even a stone lighter and having so much more choice as to what to wear. I want that to be my reality. I want to wear a gorgeous dress and just look nice in it and have other people think I look nice. I don't want to be tugging it down, or covering my bare legs with a shawl, or fretting because my bum is enormous.

We'll all support you getting to the wedding. I want this to be the very last year I'm ever overweight. I've had regain previously and I'm DONE with that too. I want a bit of surgery to remove excess skin and then I want to be free to just enjoy my life. I know that's achievable. I will be looking into StuntNun's coaching because tbh I think any extra support is worthwhile. I hadn't appreciated it was something that existed, so thanks for linking!

Someone was trying to convince me to eat pasta for dinner tonight. It was a woman I was sitting next to during the diabetes class. The woman asked what I was having for tea, spag bol but with courgetti. She looked me dead in the eye and said really seriously, 'go on eat a bit of pasta with it - you can't keep up the way you are eating for long, you're going to slip up sooner or later'! Glad I don't have to have any meals with her!
I also spoke to the course leader and said we were getting so many mixed messages. I recommended the diet doctor website as it is very clear and easy to read.

ASD that diabetes class is just the gift that keeps on giving, isn't it? I can't stand people who try to sabotage someone's diet

Stunt thanks for the link, something to think about if I get close to maintenance phase - I do NOT want to put weight back on and might need support with that

It is indeed 'oldbooks' I may even miss it when it finishes next week! The same woman also told me she eats no carbs at all, she just eats fruit, veg, meat and yoghurt - told her that was fine but there are carbs in those foods (expcept meat) but at reasonable levels- she then said she eats a bit of rice, bit of pasta and a couple of chocolates a week and told me it was alright as we need to treat ourselves. She genuinely seems well meaning but very unhelpful!

ASD I have a macarbre love of your diabetes class updates

ASD pmsl at not being able to keep up this woe for long. I'll have been low carb for four years next month including through one pregnancy, 26 months of breastfeeding of which 15 months were no dairy or eggs. The longer you eat this way the easier it becomes as the habit change accumulates. This isn't a diet any more, it's just the way I eat.

Lots of motivating posts here the last few days, well done everyone.

Today I had a big brunch - salad, egg, cheese, mayo, olives and nuts. That was at 11:30 and I am still full! Which is good as I have no idea what I'm cooking for anyone for dinner, let alone myself...

Had a burger on protein roll with cheese and mayo. Filling!
21g carbs today, not bad.

Today's food: greek yogurt with flaxseed, cauliflower cheese with leeks, and aubergine and tofu stir fried with garlic and chilli. Snacked on a fair amount of cheese though, it was one of those days where I kept finding myself standing in front of the fridge. Have had 3 pints herbal tea and 4 pints water.

Weighed this morning and I am back to 15.13 stone after going back up to 16.1 on Sunday. I am beginning to see why weighing too often is not helpful.

Add a bit of dark chocolate, raspberries with cream and 2 coffees with cream to my menu.

When when when will my whoosh happen?! Can't eat eggs and chicken salad for much longer without some sort of incentive!!!!

Menu

Eggs LOL
Chicken salad LOL
Chicken and veg

Blackberries and maybe cream

Hey you guys, I got in to my target jeans today! Excellent muffin top, but they were buttoned up! Thank god for non scale goals, 'cos they ain't shifting! Onwards >>>

Well done Klep!

Well done @Kleptronic!

@Bibs2014 - if you just keep eating the same thing, you'll get bored really quickly, and you're much more likely to fall off the wagon. Go and have a look at the recipe thread for some inspiration!

Thx BIWI - I will do when I have some time. Eggs are just easy in the morning and lunches are easy to grab some cooked chicken and throw together a salad.

What do you eat out of interest on a day-to-day basis?