Low carb bootcamp week one spillover thread

[AdalindSchade]

Here!

Scary. Check by a dr?

I could really go for a glass of red now. Not had anything since last Saturday. I drink far too much. A glass or 2 most evenings if I'm not working that night or the following day. So usually about 4 evenings a week. So a break can only be a good thing. But I fancy one.

Will have a cup of pukka instead.

Today's food

B cream coffee
Snack babybell
L egg mayo and celery
Snack yogurt. 2 Gouda sluces
D asparagus, courgette, mushroom fried in butter with marscapone.

ilove are you feeling any better now? Hopefully its just a bug you picked up, but I can imagine how scared you must have felt.

Food log for today

B: smoked salmon, boiled egg and avocado, plus a skinny latte
L: Japanese (I think) spicy pork and a Diet Coke
D: chicken drumsticks x2, plus lots of salad
S: M&S crackling crisps and some olives

Two cups of tea and plenty of water but still haven't reached the 3l mark.

Almost a week in and family around me are tucking into Ben and Jerry's, but i don't care. And i love their peanut butter cookie dough ice cream- so must be doing ok. Hope I've lost something by Monday, although as it's my TOTM who knows.

Keep on keeping on everyone. Xx

Here you go Bibs. I pan fried the chicken in olive oil rather than grilling it -www.skinnytaste.com/shawarma-spiced-grilled-chicken-with-garlic-yogurt/. There is a whole load of low carb recipes on the website .

Lurking...

Try again www.skinnytaste.com/shawarma-spiced-grilled-chicken-with-garlic-yogurt/

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Too much cheese today, need to plan better and go shopping!!! Will do meal plan tomorrow
B: 2 egg and smoked cheese omelette
L: Forgot to defrost prawns so had v boring cheese salad with last dregs of mayo
S: spoon of Greek yog
D: pan fried halloumi with big green salad

2.5l water, 1 black coffee, 2 teas with soya milk.

Made big batch of cakes for an event and didn't eat any!

B ff Greek yogurt
S coffee with cream
L egg muffins and leaves with olive oil
D rack of lamb. Celeriac mash and runner beans
All my water black tea mint tea

Giraffe it took me a long time to work out that you hadn't eaten three babies in the car.

Below is my latest before and after photo

Flummoxed

Today:
No crust quiche (eggs, creme fraiche, spinach, cheddar) for breakfast and lunch
Roast veg (aubergine, courgette, green pepper) with halloumi and a little salad
Snacks - spoon of cream here and there
Lots of water, something like 8 pints.

I think I am possibly having too much protein and not enough veg, and I need to lay off dairy a little. Problem is that I love cheese and find it so quick & easy to shove a cheese salad together etc.

I keep losing and regaining the same 4/5lbs so next week I want to be more consistent and get firmly below 16 stone - and stay there.

Tomorrow we are seeing family so it will be hard to stick to the woe, DM is constantly on at me about how fat I am but as soon as I try to address it she sabotages me. So I need to try to eat lchf subtly...

Does anyone else think of their target weight and literally find it impossible to imagine being that weight or dress size? I have been fat my whole life, since about the age of 10/11. I don't remember climbing up through clothes sizes, I feel like I have always been at least a 16. The idea that I could lose that much weight and keep it off is bizarre.

Sorry just musings. I probably have a touch of the sun! So busy making sure my DC were sun safe I forgot about myself...

I survived the garden party! Despite lots of temptation in the form of ice-cream, pimms, champagne etc etc inarixk to sparkling water

Dinner was chicken, mushrooms and spinach all panfried in butter.

Next obstacle is tomorrow's BBQ

Cherries that is not a typical experience on this way of eating and it is concerning. It would be worth getting checked out in case there's an underlying health condition. I don't think you should continue with Bootcamp. If you feel up to it you could move on to Bootcamp Light and see how you go. Alternatively you could increase your carbs to a higher level with healthier carbs (fruits, vegetables, potatoes, rice, bread but no sugar) and cut down to low carb more gradually.

Thx for recipe, heman!!

ilove hope you're feeling better.

secretsignal I'm hoping to cut down on the cheese once we get to bootcamp light. I will still eat it (I love cheese) but will use it more to sprinkle on things as a flavouring rather than eating lots of it just to fill me up.
I don't think we ought to cut down on things just yet though.

This weekend will be a tough test.
Bankholiday weekends seem to be all about the food and people wanting to give you food and feed you up.

Thanks for the new thread.

ilove that is definitely not a normal reaction to lc but I do remember that on previous bcs there have been some people who have had a racing heart. I agree with stunt speak to a doctor and try bclite or BC with a higher amount of carbs (not in the form of biscuits though!).

On a non - BC related note I've just discovered something that I've been wrong about my whole life....always sung "my love has got no money, he's got his trombolies" and wondered WTF a trombolie was.

Tonight in the car I was singing along then asked OH if he knew what a trombolie was....a yes, it seems the words are "strong beliefs". That makes much more sense!

My first BC and all going great. Loving this woe so far so good. HOWEVER can I pick brains from the experts regarding toilet behaviour. I wouldn't be regular at the best of times in any case so not unusual for a few days to go by. Well tonight the floodgates opened and I'm stuck on the throne afraid to retreat. Sorry tmi I know but all I've read is about constipation but I'm experiencing the reverse. Please say it's normal....ish

ilove that really doesn't sound good. If you feel the same tomorrow go and see a dr.

oldbooks. I can't visualise my self not being really overweight at all as it's been so long. Even when my weight was at reasonable level I still felt fat but looking back now I would be very happy to be like that again! I have so much to lose still it's hard to imagine it will actually happen.

I've ordered the amaretto coffe - looking forward to trying it. I had a good day LC-wise today. Well done everyone!

Trombolies

Ilovecherries

I'm so sorry that must have been truly frightening.

Please can you list out for me what you've been eating and drinking, so I can see if there's anything obvious that might have caused that?

Also, are you on any kind of medication? Or do you have any underlying health condition?

Ugh
Dinner was curry so I've had a small portion of rice and dahl as well as tofu and cauliflower curry so could have been worse, but not great. Then a very small piece of chocolate cake (really tiny, and it's ground almonds, egg and dark chocolate so as low carb as a cake can be) but I also had a glass of beer
It was tasty but while I was eating and drinking I started to feel so bloated and right now I feel terrible. Like I have eaten a massive massive meal when I really haven't.

@flummoxed!