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!

Thanks Captain. I will make that tomorrow!

It was lovely ASD. The only modifications I made were olive oil instead of ground nut and shallots instead of onion.
Hope you enjoy it.

My weight is definitely starting to shift downwards again after my two week hiatus Very happy.

I think I need help, or maybe maybe just a rant.

I've slightly fallen off the wagon, for exactly the same reason I did last time. Now, I can't tell you what I do for work but at times it is very stressful and now is one of those times. Fortunately this year it should only be a short time (16 days) whereas last year it was 9 months of stress, long days (11 hrs plus, 7 days a week). Anyway, I think that despite knowing this time round is short I've got myself into the mindset that it will be awful again and my eating has gone to pot. Chocolate every day and no proper meals.

Now I weighed this morning expecting to have put on but I've actually lost 1lb so I need you to tell me that losing the pound is not correct and I need to get back on track before I ruin all the good work I've done since January (22 lbs lost, 60 lbs to go).

This should be over by Tuesday!

SayrraT - I feel you adopt poor eating habits you will gain weight)may take a few days to show on scales) but you will also feel really sluggish which will make the stressful time more stressful.

My scales just aren't shifting this week - losing and gaining the same 1.5lb.

Hi Sayrra You know that tomorrow that 1lb loss could turn into a 2lb gain. Don't do it. You have come so far.
Why not take it one day at a time. Say that you will stick to it today but treat yourself tomorrow if you feel like it. Then tomorrow repeat?
I'm not really in a position to judge as I have messed about the last couple of weeks. Good luck - it's only till Tues

Hey SayrraT come on get back on the wagon you know it works, you're a third of the way to your target already! Step away from the choc and eat some nice healthy cheesy veg with olive oil instead mmm cheesy veg.

I think I'm going to have to go back to tracking in MFP again. Like Hesdeadjim, I lost about 21lbs, but have stalled for a whole month now. Time to face up to the carb creep and get back into seriously tracking. Of course it's Easter weekend and the worst time to do this! But hopefully will limit damage...
I have still lost a bit on bootcamp, but I could have done a lot better!

I was expecting to get on the scales see a gain and shock myself into behaving!

I'm going to take a long lunch break today and go out for lunch, just to sainsbury cafe and I'll have an all day breakfast minus the toast.

I've brought salmon, cheese, pork scratchings and nuts to work so that I can snack on those and no money so I can't use the vending machine.

ASD you are right, I do feel sluggish already.

Why are carbs/bad things quicker and more appealing when you are stressed and busy? I LOVE lc eating so why do I do this

kleptronic I've used my time wisely and plotted my expected weight loss (52 lbs in 52 weeks) along with my actual loss and my projected loss (based on average loss so far). It's very motivating to see how far I've come and where I could end up.

I have come to stay at my parents for Easter so I weighed today. I'm now in a bad mood.

I started the year off at 12.5 (having been 13 stone 6 months before that). Last year I got stuck. I got stuck at 12 stone 2 for ages and then I got stuck at 11 stone 12. I was eating too many carbs but only marginally too much. I was still trying really hard.

Two weeks ago, having been much stricter with my carbs, I hit 11 stone 6. I was so happy. I've had 2 really strict weeks since then. My trousers are definitely baggier by maybe an inch, maybe a bit more than that. I really couldn't have done much better. I must have lost weight.

Weighed myself today and I'm 11 stone 10.

I do not understand my body. It has ALWAYS done this to me. My weight on the scale just doesn't seem to correspond with anything. I am due my period and I know it could be water retention, but 11.10?? I had geared myself up to see 11.3. It's so demoralising. In previous years I've ended up putting on quite a lot of weight because the scale has so upset me I've ended up binging. I am working really hard to say to myself that the scale weight doesn't matter if my clothes are getting looser, but I feel like crying. I really badly wanted to hit 11 stone by the end of April and for a wedding I'm going to in June I wanted to hit 10.7. Is that even possible for my body?

It feels so unfair. My background to this, by the way, is I joined weight watchers at 18. So a low fat diet. I was so strict and every week I'd stay the same or lose half a pound or put on 1 and everyone else there seemed to lose easily eating much more than me. It was honestly very upsetting and I ended up putting on masses of weight at the end of the year because I binged. So I have a long history of feeling very frustrated over just this issue.

I'm NOT going to binge. I'm going to KOKO and hope so much in a couple of weeks time the scale will be reading under 11.6 again but I feel so cheated. I wish I had some answers that either this is definitely water retention, or no, I've actually put on weight because of eating dairy or something. I feel so baffled.

Sorry, I started last year off at 12.5. Not this year. This year I started off at about 11.12 or possibly 12 stone. Somewhere around that.

Dogblep are you using different scales if you're away from home?
As long as you feel slimmer, I'd focus on that. TOTM does put a lot on as well. Are your fingers/ankles puffy? I known I'll have a higher weight if I wake up and my fingers are swollen!

No these are the scales which read 11.6 before.
No nothing is puffy. My rings are getting looser on my fingers in fact. I think I just to put it down to my period. It seems a big gain though. I can't think I normally gain that much. But then I rarely weigh.

It is just SO important I get this weight off. Feeling really upset.

Dog don't get disheartened. Sorry to say this again, but I had a time last year when the scales hardly moved at all but I dropped a full dress size. I don't know the why's or wherefore's but the scales are not everything. If your clothes are getting looser - it is working. You have done so well, koko

Thank you
Wow you dropped a dress size and didn't lose much scale weight? That has really helped to hear.

How could I have forgotten that I'm allowed pork scratching? 😄

Sneaky weigh in today and I have lost 8lbs in 10 days. First couple of weeks in though so to be expected. Feeling energetic and fresh faced. Just need to hang on to this positive feeling now!

Well done Sunny!! Fantastic.

Dogblep, your clothes are getting looser - that's a better sign that the scales, don't be disheartened

Butter chicken currently cooking in the instant pot, really looking forward to it - the onions and spices smelt so good when I fried them.

Dear Dogblep. Don't do this to yourself. Everything I've ever read says weight can fluctuate 2, 3, 4 - 6lbs just for No Apparent Reason. I would however put money on it being TOTM.

Weight loss is not linear, it's a trend. And the trend is downwards. Do not self-sabotage with unhappiness when unrealistic expectations prove unrealistic! For that is a very vicious circle.

Trust the process. KOKO mate, we've all been there. I am the Spiky Up And Down Weight Queen Of Stalls. I've lost 5lb in 10 weeks, which is not what I was hoping for. But you know what, I am 5lb lighter - it would have so easily have been 5lb on! So I'm winning. And so are you, when you take a step back and Look At The Trend. All power to your elbow and be proud of where you've come from, try not to worry about not getting where you're going on your self-imposed timetable - you'll get there! Just not on demand! KOKO

@Dogblep sometimes I think that the scales are truly our enemy

You know you're losing weight, because your clothes are telling you! You're doing really well.

@Sayrra - sorry to hear things aren't going so well for you - but thank goodness the scales seem to be your friend! But as wombat says, just be careful, because they're not likely to continue being so.

Thank you

It helps so much to be able to share this with people who get it.

One step at a time. Just yesterday I was looking in the mirror feeling chuffing amazing, because I thought I looked slimmer. That's what's important.

I'm on a train. I'm starving, and won't be home until ten. I've just been to see what the onboard shop has to offer that's low carb, and the answer is......

No packets of peanuts? That's really tough.

I hate peanuts .

They have porridge pots, sandwiches, crisps, very tired looking apples, NAKD bars, and skinny popcorn, plus the usual choc and stuff. Must hold out....

I made it, hooray. Have just got home and devoured chicken, salad, butter fried egg and mushrooms, s-f jelly, cream...and am now staring hard at a square of 85% chocolate.

I think what annoyed me so much was the range of 'healthy' options that were all high carb, low fat. I realise things like that keep well, I just haven't previously felt fussy or awkward or deprived once in the whole boot camp.

Well done on hanging on! But yes, it's terrible just how much of the world is designed for high carb eating.