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

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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. Hope they sort your breathing out

I had a big lunch at 1. Scrambled egg chorizo And cheese. Was planning salad for dinner but was in call and had to go in. Just got home. Knackered. Too tired to eat.

That was very frightening I wasn't posting while being blue lighted sorry to disappoint yolo. I went into respiratory arrest at home luckily were waiting for an ambulance at the time. So I'm tucked up on HDU being looked after by one of my favourite nurses.
I can't support my own airway without oxygen so I'm here until things have improved.
I'm panicking about food because nobody thought to pack any for me - I don't want this to ruin my boot camp, suggestions please.

Great to hear from you C4 and not disappointed at all! I would think that eating the BC way is the last of your concerns at the moment. You need to rest and recover with the treatment you are getting. Look after your lungs first and everything else can get sorted once you are home.

If you are seriously contemplating not eating at all rather than eating carbs then get your PA and DH as you suggested the other day to make you food at home and bring in. Do you have use of a microwave anywhere on the ward?

If so then any cooked food can be reheated. Meat of any type and butter fried green veg is my staple. Things to snack on cold could include frittata with veg and cheese in, mini salami sticks, pieces of marinated cooked chicken, crudites with cream cheese or pate, pork scratchings of course, yogurt with raspberries, hard boiled eggs. Can you keep a cool bag by your bed with a freezer block in? Or better still a mini fridge or powered coolbox plugged in by your bed.

When i was last in hospital they only served toast and cereal for breakfast on the ward. But, I'm sure your fave nurse could be persuaded bribed with kitkats to go to the hospital canteen and bring you back sausage and scrambled eggs. These are always on sale for breakfast in my experience and the staff lap them up.

I'm off to bed now. Hope you get a restful night C4 as much as it is ever possible to get whilst in hospital. And get earplugs and an eye mask brought in for you as soon as you can. I found these were lifesavers even when in my own room. Hospitals are bloody noisy places and i swear night shift nurses wear wooden clogs and have trolley crashing competitions with each other through the night!

I hope things improve quickly C4. Hospitals are rubbish for healthy food ironically. I ended up with veg crisps and almonds for lunch today as was volunteering at a hospital and failed to prep. Any access to a fridge? It's tricky as most food on this diet is fresh and perishable, and the heat won't help. Go easy on yourself as you need energy and nutrition even if you don't keep low carb. Keeping sugar low but having some healthy carbs is a lesser evil. You have plenty of time to get back on track and slow weight-loss is still weight loss! I'll be back for the next bootcamp as will many others so no pressure. Its frustrating but I'm thinking about how fab I will feel next summer instead.

I'm still here but clinging on by a thread, had a trip back to uk and really ate badly. I'm suffering for it now and going to throw myself back in it by doing bootcamp again. Don't really know why I slipped back as I'd done so well...am extremely angry with myself.

I have a 2lb gain on the scales but am strangely not too bothered...it's the horrible feeling that's bothering me. I feel I've failed and couldn't even stick to something that was actually working for me.

Will be bootcamp strict for the next 2 weeks

Kermit I feel like my resolve is flipping too, I'm sure it's something to do with being near my target weight, it feels like self sabotage. The psychology around food is so complicated, I wish I understood it. Will KOKO.

Nasch I always thought Tesco was posher than Morrisons on the supermarket hierarchy?

Giraffe well done on chucking the cheesecake! Picking at food because you are bored is the worst, can you make a list of things to do that will keep you distracted next time?

Kermit what's done is done, KOKO and put it behind you. When is your partner back? I remember the excitement of waiting for my DH to come back from deployment

Secret self sabotage is very frustrating, it's horrible to feel like your own worst enemy. As you reach target you will need to experiment with increasing carbs a bit to maintain, think of it as starting those experiments, not a wasted experience

I'm so tired. Not going to get dressed I think. Working tonight so will have a good sleep this afternoon.
C4. Rest and heal. Even a few days of crap hospital food won't kill that spirit.
Kermit. Refocus. Get back on it.

Into second week of holiday. Exercising every morning at 6am, low carbing all day (with a very slight relaxation around vegetables. Just too much gorgeous local veg at the market to worry too much about the carbs in a red pepper or a huge, misshaped tomato), falling into bed at 10pm and sleeping like a baby. I'm a cheap date, for sure.

Yolo your meal sounds amazing. Will try it, thank you.
Mandelinka sorry about the bee! Ouch.
C4 sounds very scary. I agree please don't worry about your food. If you can get low carb food into you then great but otgerwuse do just eat. Your body is taking enough of a battering.
kermit it happens. A 2lb gain is impressively small. I know it feels shit but we've all been there. All you can do is learn from what happened. Be kind to yourself.
moist rest well. I'm trying to get lots of resting in this week because my body is worn out. Will be lying in the garden with a good book for most of the day.

ilovecherries very impressed by how well you've done and I'd do exactly the same with the vegetables

Glad to hear you're where you need to be C4, sounds like constant m and s picnics are the order of the day. The nutrition in hospitals is frightening, as a junior doctor I lived on buttered toast and Quality Streets nicked off the nurses' station... not very Bootcamp!

Secret and Kermit I'm with you on the teetering. Got horribly bingey yesterday, not sure it was my imminent big birthday or letting go after getting into my dress. 3lb up. The frustrating thing is, it's not just about the weight, i feel better when I LCHF.

Will Bootcamp light and have some bubbly today for my birthday, but am not < repeats AM NOT> going to go mad and inhale all of the carbs.

C4 you are amazing!

I'm in team self sabotage too. Ate a load of dates yesterday. Don't even know why. Well actually it was because I was hungover and had period pain but I didn't need to eat them. I feel I need a reset. Might go back to full boot camp for the last two weeks or the first two weeks after the end can't decide.

C4. Look after yourself. Agree with your others that hospital food isn't great so you need to make the best choice of what's available and get back on it properly when you are at home.

To everyone who is slipping, please don't you know this woe works and you feel much better on it. KOKO

Happy Birthday cathyandclare. I genuinely hope it's a good one, and that the best is yet to come.

I'm hungover because I chose to drink three glasses of wine last night but stayed otherwise low carb, and those hangovers are the worst (especially as I'm not giving in today so won't be soaking it all up with toast or chips or crisps, etc). I have a very long history of self-medicating when I'm down and have been dealing with depression my whole life, mostly due to having been sexually abused when in my early teens.

This last segment of depression has been particularly brutal these past few years but I'm finally, finally seeking and getting some help and getting better. So this weight loss signifies a major turn for me, both physically and mentally, back to where I was before I married and had three under three and became isolated and withdrew emotionally from everything, even my husband and children (to my everlasting regret and shame).

I'm not going to live the rest of my life as an obese, immobile, sad lush. It's not who I was. It's not who I am meant to be. I deserve so much more, but it's up to me to go get it.

So I won't stuff my face with carbs, I will go on the treadmill for an hour instead. (Then iron about 10 shirts while watching Wimbledon--glamorous life here. )

Hope everyone has a successful day today.

So behind with the threads but still KOKO with LC. Hope everyone's doing ok. Have I missed much?

1.8lb off this week, brings total to 7lb for bootcamp and 9lb since i got back on the LC wagon. Chuffed as AF finally showed up on Sunday too.

Sending positive vibes for a quick recovery c4pink.

Late weigh in, but STS. OK with that as a) I had a 3lb whoosh last week and b) I slipped a bit last week on HFLC and had to work hard over the weekend to catch up - eventually gave in to quite a few pieces of the tablet I'd been making for other people and I also had quite a lot of wine (dh's birthday, a wine tasting and dinner at one of his wine buddies). I was however pleased with myself that I only ate the cheese nibbles and none of the crackers (for palate cleansing) at the wine tasting and asked the friend for cream rather than ice cream with the strawberries (and didn't have any of the potatoes - just the creamy leeks with the main course).

But I am KOKO.

Cleareyes well done on making those massive steps to recovery, I genuinely think this WOE does boost the mood, enjoy the tennis!

styledilemma believe me, Im not that desperate for cheesecake i'll go in the bin! Do people do that? Apart from Miranda, obvs (funny, as Im actually watching Miranda right now!)

I'm ashamed to say I did it once. It was my first attempt to give up smoking.
Threw all my cigarettes in the bin at 12 pm New Year's Eve.
Fished most of them back out at 6am New Years Day

Addiction can make you do things you wouldn't normally do.
Food's an addiction with some people.

Happy to say I haven't smoked for 12 years now.

C4 Just read about you being bluelighted.
You must get fed up with it all sometimes.
But, I'm sure they're taking very good care of you.
We are all with you!

When are you going to wear the beach dress that you can now get in to?
I was trying on the one I bought and it's still a bit tight across the boob area.
I need another 'whoosh' on my boobs

Of course we need the sunshine to come back first!

ilovecherries very impressed by how well you've done and I'd do exactly the same with the vegetables

Me too!
Especially staying away from alcohol.