Week 7 - Summer Low Carb Bootcamp - are you still with us?!

[BIWI]

Morning all

Here's the spreadsheet - sorry to keep you all waiting!

So we have four full weeks before our final weigh-in - still time to lose half a stone if you stick at it.

Here's to a good week ahead

C4 everything in the Zammo house is crossed in good wishes and luck for your speedy recovery. Keep your strength up girl!

My NSV is that i went to the gym for the first time in 4 years could be 5. I'm going to join

My beef curry in the slow cooker burnt I'll probably still eat it for dinner with some green veg.
Breakfast was eggs and coleslaw. Lunch lettuce cucumber olives and humous.

Evening all.

I've had a bit of a nightmare. Went for a psych assessment today (anxiety related) and the woman I spoke to was utterly shite. She didn't care about a word I was saying, just asked a load of questions and when I got upset, sat there impatiently waiting for me to get my shit together. It was a horrible experience should get access to some more help though which is good.

After that I felt fragile and awful and then got the news dad was back in surgery (internal bleed), he's out of theatre and I've just got back from visiting him, he's got a feeding tube up his nose and is generally not a well bloke really.

Anyway, I called my PT and explained, she told me to focus on dad and my mental health, skip the gym tonight and she'll see me on Friday but I'm going to go to a class at 6:30am tomorrow morning, I need the focus to be on something else other than my head and dad I think.

My anxiety should settle down overnight, I'll have a hot bath and there's a Camembert in the oven as we speak. I've got 1/4 of a Granny Smith apple, some flax crackers and some cucumber to dip in it

jim sorry it was a rotten day. Hope your dad is ok soon

Oh Jim so sorry to hear about your dad

Youcant I was coming on here to ask the same thing. Last 3 days I've had terrible tummy trouble mainly mid-morning to midday to the extent that I wasn't sure I could leave the house today (I did, and was fine) I'm blaming too much coffee & cream early in the day, on empty stomach. I've also been enjoying flavoured coffees so maybe having more than usual. I have had 85% choc but usually later at night and by then I'm feeling better.

Good luck c4. I don't post that often but I read every post - your accessories made out of low-carb food had me in stitches!

Today's menu

Eggs and coffee
Ham salad with olives
Halloumi and chorizo salad
Blueberries and dark choc

c4 Hope the ventilator and o2 trials go well. Have you managed to eat anything at all or have you been too poorly?

jim fingers crossed for your dad and for you. Sorry about the shitty woman, hope it at least gets you somewhere.

Jim that counsellor was the wrong kind of bitch and in the wrong job. Sorry that yor father has had such a difficult time, and you with him.

I am doing atrociously and can only blame myself.

I'm eating a low carb breakfast, no lunch and a low carb tea. That would be fine if I didn't fill the space between breakfast and tea by eating the sweets and cakes on offer in my office.

I am the biggest I have ever been. I know the bootcamp rules, they've been on the side of my fridge for 14 months! I'm on a billion FB low carb groups and even have my own low carb IG account with more followers than my normal
IG account! This time last year I promised myself I'd be a size 12 by now - instead I am fatter than ever. It's not been helped by me largely staying off MN so I'm not getting the support I need. DH is a low carber and has lost 2 stone since October, but I struggle without the MN group.

I'm back on MN regularly, I'm going to read back through this thread, consider myself beaten with BIWI's big stick and get my head out of my arse and plan the fuck out of next week's meals.

If I could drop a stone by my holiday at the end of bootcamp that would be a great start.

Sorry for all who are suffering

Whilst trying not to be too 'Pollyanna' I do, though, have to say to you all that this is a real test of what life is going to be like, once we're out of the hellhole bubble that is Bootcamp.

We can't predict what's going to happen to us. Things happen - good and bad - and food/diet/eating/drinking can't always be at the forefront of our minds. And, obviously, we do have to eat to keep going. You'll only make things much worse for yourself.

Naschkatze
Do you have any left overs? I make omelet pizza with everything thrown in whisk up two eggs small fry pan heat up veg bubble and squeak style cover with eggs and spices heat on stove top finish under grill in oven to melt the grated cheese. Swill it down with a butter coffee.

had Cabbage and back bacon fried in butter as a snack. Slice cabbage into spaghetti type strips
Cook bacon first in butter til how you like it. Take out add a little water stick in cabbage cover, chop bacon boil kettle make a cuppa - Slap bacon in cabbage mix and it should be done el-denti

So it we have a massive bite of butter toast - suck out the butter and don't swallow the bread does it count??

Fell asleep trying to catch up with the thread. Still a day behind. I hope today has been better for you C4

Dh has been baking since early this morning. A combination of birthday cake and cakes for school, lots. The smell has surrounded me.

I nearly caved this evening when he hadn't started cooking dinner and he took the children for chips. I was picturing myself with fish and chips followed by cake. To be honest I was hoping he'd cave so I could, but he didn't and we had lovely LC vegetables and meat leftovers. I am now feeling very pleased with myself. Right I'm going to have another go at reading the thread. Happy week 7 everyone.

thenightsky
I did the same in Calgary gained 5lb in a week, LC boot camp for a couple of weeks and it will be off just as quick.

from 207 to 229 ( 3 weeks in Europe)
started bootcamp at 226 gained 3 lb 1st week (in last week of holiday).
Dropped to 216 then up to 221 in Calgary for a week (work) now 212.1 this morning.

Seems to be a lot of water retention when we slip.

Hope to get down below 200 before September. Lovely hot summer 25c+ is starting here so chance to get out and sweat the water out.

Salty BP coffees to replace the salts and up the fluid intake.

Jim sorry to hear that your dad had to have further surgery. And that you got a stupid bitch woman at your appointment. Just put that behind you and get what you need from the service. Some people just shouldn't be in a caring profession.

Grah love the bread sucking! Bacon and cabbage is a classic combo, Yum!

BIWI that is the great test, isn't it. If we can continue eating well and looking after our bodies when all around the stuff of life is going on, the ups and downs, then we are all winners. If we can identify and resist the usual stressy triggers for stuffing ourselves with crap or reaching for the wine, then we are all well on the way to real physical and mental good health.

fliss forget the past. Its done. Tomorrow is a new day. Keep on the thread and we will support you all the way. Berating yourself and feeling guilty is a waste of your emotional energy, which you need rigjt now for being strong and making the right choices going forward.

C4pinkwheels,

Here's hoping you're doing great and getting some real good food. As well as that rather essential oxygen.

Have you been on a drip, if you have don't focus on any numbers reset on tomorrow being DAY 1 of many, and no-one cheats on day 1.

Your a wonder.

Bulletproof Mug Raise to you girl.

Hi Flisspaps,

Welcome to
Day 1 of the stone before my holiday challenge.

which will be quickly followed tomorrow by
Day 1 of the stone-yesterdays loss before my holiday challenge.

Remember the number 1 Rule
No-one Cheats on Day 1

Have fun and enjoy the rollercoaster rides of life. KOKO

See, this is why I've needed to come back

I'll get on the step of doom in the morning, I've got lunch sorted and I'll do some sort of eggy/bacony/cheese concoction for breakfast.

Am I allowed to share my IG username here?

Went to bed last night with uncomfortable feeling in my stomach and woken up to dodgy diarrhoea.
Ended up having unplanned 'fast' till about 7pm, so about 23hrs.
Dinner was some soup and platter with bits of veg, cheese, salami, pate etc. And a creamy coffee.
Also made 2 slices of coconut bread, one slice was the standard plain flavour and I've added cocoa powder and tiny bit of sweetener to create a cake to the other slice. It was rather nice. Had half of each slice, plain with cheese and salami and cocoa one topped with chopped kiwi fruit and cream.
Yummmm

I'm feeling very tired tonight, it's most likelly the heat. I'm on my feet the whole day ( work in retail) and my hips and feet are killing me. The only good thing is that I walked over 12K of steps today.

Goodnight all, thinking of you c4

My coconut slices. Plain and cocoa.
There is half of the cocoa slice hiding underneath the kiwi fruit and cream.

Looks yummy mand!

Butchered eggs are what my mother called them, and I've not had them anywhere else so I don't know the proper name.

A runny yolk was forbidden in our house so much so you would have though we lived with Edwina Currie. My mum used to boil the eggs, scoop them out of the shell and mash them. Usually with cheese and butter, sometimes chopped fried onion before forcing this all back into the shell.

Doesn't go well with soldiers so we were given 'sailors' which were sort of pitas to fill with the egg mash.

Hi everyone, I have read all of today's posts it's kept me focused on you instead of watching and listening to the monitors which are telling me when my oxygen saturation drops to a dangerous level.

It was very odd having my consultant and three other doctors, DH, my nurse and senior nurse in charge all standing around watching what was happening when then switched me over from high pressure total ventilation to my own ventilator. I'm sure that some of them were probably hoping that it wasn't going to work, not in a bad way but because I'm so unusual and they probably won't come across many people like me. Anyway everyone was wondering what the outcome would be if I couldn't breathe without aggressive support including me.

You obviously did a wonderful job of channeling namaste bitch power my way because I'm off the high pressure ventilator and back on nasal oxygen. My infection markers are falling and I no longer feel as if I'm fighting for every breath. In my head I'm out of here in the morning but I know that's not happening.

On the LC front I've done well, I can't have fluids by drip because my veins are all shot from main lining champagne years of surgery, pneumonia, intensive care and oh so many drips. I was due to have a central line put in tomorrow because the cannula for my antibiotics has been resited six times but I may get away with a pic line instead. Anyway there have been no glucose drips, no hospital food, just not a lot of food at all and nothing in the last 24 hours.

Sorry yesterdays posts - once again it's taken me over three hours to write a post.

Fabulous news C4. I've been waiting to hear how it went.

My DSis has compromised lung function and went through a similar thing recently when she caught the flu and it was touch and go for a while. The ventilator was gradually reduced and she fought the infection. No mean feat as she is also immunosuppressed. I feel for you, it must be very scary. And for your family too.

So glad you are doing so well. Don't rush to get home. Let them take care of you for a bit. Until you get really fed up of the place!

And eat something. You need energy. What about those fortified milkshakes they have in hospital? Sod the sugar you need sustenance of any sort. And they take no effort to drink.

Great news C4. Fingers crossed for continued recovery today. I am sure we can talk a lot on the thread to keep your mind off things!

C4, so glad you are doing so well xxx