Week 4 - Low Carb Bootcamp - Coming to the end of our first month

[BIWI]

I know! Doesn't time fly when you're having fun?

Here's the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness for your delectation!

Remember, week 4 is, like week 3, a time when weight loss tends to be pretty slow, if not non-existent. KOKO and persevere, and things will get going again soon.

But not if you cheat! Whilst many of you have been very honest about your transgressions, just remember that this WOE is not a very forgiving one. It's not like a calorie-controlled diet, where you can compensate for one 'bad' day with a 'good' one. As some of you have already found out the hard way!

Forgot to post the pics of the choc substitute.

Also hopping on to say well done to all for your progress and staying on track. I haven't been posting much as I'm not really following BC or BC lite as per the rules anymore, and I didn't want to derail others. I couldn't take any more cream so am allowing milk in my tea.

Other than that, I'm not craving carbs and haven't had sugar for 17 days now! That's a real achievement for me. I'm still planning on avoiding carbs and sugar as much as I can, but allowing milk.

So far I've lost a little weight, but feel better in myself. Weight loss isn't the be-all-and-end-all for me (but would be a bonus), it's more about good health and stable blood sugars/insulin. I think this way of eating is working for me.

Eventually I would like to add in fruit, nuts and potatoes back into my diet and may be oats for the occasional porridge breakfast, but I think I can live without bread, pasta, rice and sugar. For now, I'm not desperate to change anything so will hold off. Have a lovely warm weekend everyone :)

laana don't use that, just use some good quality dark choc and mix it into the cream for a ganache.

Morning all!
B - Total FF yoghurt and mixed berries.
L- Will be an omelette.

Laana i don't think that stuff is any good. I melt dark chocolate & whip it into cream to make a mousse like thing. It's great.

Didn't end up having the meatloaf last night as DH ate some of the kid's pizza when he was serving it up, so he had the rest of the pizza & salad and I sliced up some halloumi and fried it up in butter with some leftover roast pork and paprika. Then served it on a bed of cucumber and radishes and mayo. It was delicious!

DH's verdict on my weightloss so far:

"Your tits are smaller and you've lost your cankles"

I've got a headache today. Nothing to do with low carb but it's annoying.
Day in London today to meet friends for lunch. I will have a nice salad and no dessert but I'll probably have a couple of dry white wines
I'm going here farmacylondon.com I'm assuming quinoa is totally carbacious?

OldBooks I started a Noah's Ark tapestry for DS3's nursery and just managed to finish it before DS4 arrived. There's a 2.5 year gap between them.

Lanaa that choc shot has loads of carbs so use it sparingly.

Adalind yes quinoa is no good for this woe I'm afraid.

Finally caught up with the thread...... amazing progress from everyone!

MFP tells me I only have 9 days to go till I get to my 10 week mark. As I originally started this with my daughters graduation in mind, I'm not going to weigh again till then. It'll be 2 days before we leave so seems like a good point to assess everything.

There's a formal dinner the evening before graduation which we've decided not to attend. Apart from everything else, I take my tablets early evening so will probably conk out around the main course!

The following day is a less formal buffet which we are going to. I'll have snacks with me but I'm sure there'll be something I can eat/drink. Then the ceremony which presents no dangers I can think of

All I have to do now is sort something to wear.

Brunch - spinach and mushroom omelette
Dinner - pork and veg
Snack - fresh raspberries and squirty cream (eternal gratitude to whoever found the sugar free squirty cream)

Have a lovely weekend everyone

Morning everyone. Thanks for the support! I feel really great waking up and knowing I successfully navigated going out last night. That feels far better than cheat food would have tasted. And definitely think that no one else is really interested in what I'm eating - I just need to remind myself of that. It feels huge in my mind saying no to everything. I feel I must seem so boring.

With weekends being weak points for me I've woken up and given myself a good pep talk. Breakfast was eggs and some strawberries in coconut cream. I have my lovely Thai fish curry for lunch. I have pork scratchings on hand and might make some flax seed bread if I need a treat. Reminding myself there's lots of lovely stuff I can eat if I need a treat.

So the last month might have been a slight disaster in terms of actual weight loss but I've clearly come away having learnt lots. I feel really determined right now that I can make the rest of June much better. Day at a time and all that.

Looking in the mirror today - I don't want to look like this. I met a guy last night when out - I'd seen his photo on the facebook invitation and thought he looked lovely. We have lots of mutual friends and a hobby in common (might have been facebook stalking him .) He's got a reputation as being very friendly and very welcoming to everyone. Anyway, I went up and introduced myself and was all smiley and chatty. He said hello and then couldn't have been less interested. Went straight off to talk to someone else. My brain is saying it's because I'm overweight. I mean, it might be but it's more likely he's just a bit rude or had other friends he particularly wanted to talk to. Or just wasn't interested in me for no particular reason. But I don't WANT to be in this situation where I have to wonder if it was my weight that did it. I don't want to be sat feeling inadequate because a guy isn't interested in me (sadly I've had a lot of similar experiences over the years. The men I like are pretty much always into other women).

So I'm trying to picture myself in 6 months looking fabulous and not caring if something similar happens because, hey I look fabulous and there are plenty of other people who'd be interested in me. I'm nearly there. I just have to put that first over and above cheating.

Have a good day everyone. Hope you all have his amazing sunshine.

I'm currently at 50.5% body fat, which means I'm actually more fat than human hmm.. that's a grim thought!

You'd never say it from those photos

What is an exploded babybel?!?!?

dustomotes he sounds plain rude. Don't take it personally. You don't need to get your 'appreciation' from some random guy to start feeling good about yourself.
Learn to appreciate yourself

dust he sounds a bit of a dick to me. Glad you had a nice night otherwise.
jiminny I agree with style, you don't look like you have a body fat ratio of 50% at all.
Adalind enjoy your lunch, but avoid the quinoa.
Asmoto I think that was a compliment?

random it's when a babybel is put in the microwave, they often (but not always) sort of fluff up and explode. It's a while since I did one, so I can't remember how long for. Some people also cut them into quarters first. They are a nice, easy lc treat.

I assume you take the wax off first?! How long do you microwave?

Take the wax off, cut into 6 pieces, pop in a silicon muffin tray if you have one, microwave for one minute and you get cheese 'crisps'

Jim - amazing Gym related success, what a lucky win!
I was 46% fat when I started this WOE, I was truly mortified to be nearly half fat! Have got down to 39% but hoping to be under 35%.

New low weight this morning, always nice to see as it only happens once a week or two, then I bounce back up and around for bit. My graph is crazy!

Food was all over the place yesterday, only illicit carbs were a 1/4 slice of peanut butter on toast that DS left in the kitchen. Then I had a few spoonfuls of peanut butter. Boiled eggs and mayo and cheese cubes for lunch.
Did have a proper dinner of Burger, fried aubergine, slice of bacon, cheese and lettuce.
Few spoonfuls of cream. One double gin and soda.
I tool the kids to an outdoor pool so I did get some exercise at least.

Today
Breakfast - Greek yog, cream and a little vanilla extract.
Lunch - 2 boiled eggs mashed with butter.
Dinner - will probably be chili con carne with plenty of green veg and soured cream.
Snacks - cream... May take kids strawberry picking later so maybe strawberries too.

He absolutely was a dick. Another friend who was watching on even commented on how rude he'd been to me. No idea why but that's irrelevant really. It was a shock given how friendly I had thought he was. Our mutual friends are really close to him and he's adored by many people. Maybe a bit too adored and he's now spoiled!

I do need to appreciate myself. I know that. But I've been overweight for so long and have been badly bullied my whole life from a very young age (plus my last relationship was abusive and really ground me down). It's hard to fight those feelings. They're very deep-seated.

I'm in a pretty good place now. I do value myself so much more than I did. I am comfortable in my own skin. I have lots of good qualities and have lots to say for myself. I've generally very friendly so it's unusual these days to get a response like the one above. I've come a long way. It's just that coming up against someone who dismisses me so easily triggers a lot of old feelings. For me, getting this fucking weight off is about making a very clear statement of 'I won't be overlooked anymore.' Because people do overlook you when you're fat - not everyone, but in my case it's been a thing.

I did have a really lovely evening other than this guy. I've been getting out more socially recently and that's lovely. It was lovely seeing my friends. They see past my weight. I know they care and see my value.

dustmotes you sound really lovely. Anyone who can't see that is a dick. Glad to hear you didn't let it spoil your evening.

I know what you mean by overlooked. It's as if fat people are either invisible and unimportant, or objects of derision or pity. I wish fat-ism was against the law. Whatever their weight, nobody deserves to be made to feel worthless because of how they look.

dust I didn't have a romantic partner till I was 24 because I was convinced no-one could love/want a fat girl. When DH came along and I started seeing him, my mum took me aside and said 'how can he possibly find you sexually attractive?' I wonder why I was lonely for so long hmmmm? The fact is the right person will love all of you as a package and you will find that person 😁

Thank you Yolo. I honestly think fatism is subconscious a lot of the time. I really don't think people know they hold those beliefs. I must do too some extent - I've had 2 friends lose a huge amount of weight and to be honest seeing both after a gap (so the weight loss took me by surprise) I was astonished by how differently I viewed them. I mean, they both started taking care of themselves after years of probably dressing to cover up and blend in in the background (been there, done that) and both held their heads high for the first time ever but it was actually like they were different people in some ways when really of course they weren't. I definitely don't do that with everyone who's overweight, but it does exist in my subconscious to some degree. So I try not to take it personally if it even is an issue at all. It might not be - not everyone has to like me or be interested in me. There doesn't have to be a reason for that.

OldBooks - I had very similar. The kids at school used to wet themselves laughing and say no one would ever want to have sex with me because I was fat. Aren't people horrible sometimes? I had many worse experiences than that sadly. Lots of damage done. I've actually had a fair amount of fantastic sex as an adult with some extremely hot men so it's turned out not to be true but it's also the case that the majority of men I've liked haven't been interested in me over the years and that is what sticks more. But maybe I'm just trying too much to blend into the wall and not be noticed and hope no one pays me any attention. And so of course people don't notice me and it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I really hope I find my Mr Right. And with some more weight loss hopefully that will heal a lot of the hurt I'm lugging about with me. My weight makes me feel so rubbish, it's horrible.

3lb off this morning! Boooom!

No jelly/Atkins bars/bacon, I've cooked everything in butter and instead of trying to keep my carbs as low as possible by eating to much protein, I'm eating my 20g allowance and veg with every meal.

I feel a strut coming on!

Thanks BIWI for the help and support.

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3lbs off is great! Well done.

Well done! Shitty! on your 3lbs weight loss.