Week 9 - Summer Low Carb Bootcamp - let's get focused!

[BIWI]

Morning campers

Here's the spreadsheet

So we start our last two weeks. Let's get really focused - think about the food you're eating, pinpoint any carb creep and eliminate that cheating!

If it helps, post what you're eating each day. Or even consider going back to strict Bootcamp for the last fortnight!

Good luck to everyone

@ilovecherries - I feel your pain! And I hope very much that the hotel were able to make you a lovely, low carb fry up this morning

B: Harissa veg stew from last night. I do love cold spicy leftovers
L: chicken thigh with buttered dpinach
D: home made 6 veg curry - all fried in coconut oil and spices with FF minted yog on the side (and more cold spicy leftovers for tomorrow!)
S: none

Today:

B- scrambled egg with cheese and butter
L- avocado and romaine salad with mozzarella and creme fraiche
T - aubergine and halloumi dry curry

Jim was it you talking about how your fat is coming off unevenly? My upper tummy roll is doing nothing, my lower tummy roll has shrunk quite a lot. I look a bit strange! I keep squiging my upper tummy in case I might have a woosh but it feels very solid. Hey-ho, KOKO!

It is a lot more expensive if veggie I think as no more lentil chillis, risottos etc. I never bought takeaways etc so no released money there. Am buying a ton more salad stuff, avocadoes, cream , mayo, oil and fish on this woe. I do love it though but agree with Adelind about the cost.

oldbooks yes! Mine has all come off my top half but not my bottom half I'm all thighs, bum and bottom belly and nothing on top belly or arms or torso

I'm feeling bottom heavy too. I've definitely lost inches off my waist and upper back but my hips and lower belly haven't shrunk as much and they are the areas I want to go!

MOIST I basically had the same lunch as you, also from work canteen!

Flipping heck. I was just reading through; catching up with the thread, and writing some replies, and getting the odd sense of Deja Vu, when I came across an old post of mine, I was only on an old thread, I don't even think it was this bootcamp but I was admiring Jim's hoped for wedding dress and Biwi's cats in the shopping bag.

@JiminnyCricket - I ended up in hospital because I was working stupid hours. Getting up at 5.30, working all day with no break and not leaving work till after 7.00pm. It doesn't do you any favours, and no-one thinks any better of you.

And also, a very hard lesson - you're totally replaceable.

So you may as well make sure that you take out time for yourself, because no-one else cares about you.

Grah loved your advice, will definitely try that approach next time I think I'm going to go off course.

Today:
B 2 sausages
L 2 chicken thighs with skin on, with cheesy leeks & cabbage
D chicken satay curry with stir fry veg

Was planning on doing 30 days shred, but wasn't in the mood for it, so did the 7 min workout instead and was pleased I did something!

Like the sound of harrissa veg stew. I adore spicy food. I think my weight has gone mainly from arms, boobs, waist and a little off thighs. That is good but I hope belly follows suit at some point.

B: poached egg and bacon
L: cucumber and hummus
S: cheese string, couple of seafood sticks
D: Lebanese meal, lots of kebab meat and and salad (and a bottle of white wine)

Anyone suffering leg cramps? I think multi vitamins are helping as they ease after taking for few days. I also had a few occasions of almost passing out recently, that seems to have passed too mostly - it was after standing but definitely not low blood pressure as mine is high and losing weight hasn't reduced it. Nor my crazy high heart rate - almost 200bpm while exercising, in the past 120bpm was crazy high from exercise/waiting to have general anaesthetic outside theatre before spinal surgery. People talking about low blood sugar causing dizzy spells/passing out, I presume low carb means always having low blood sugar.

I have a whole day off!

swimming
Shopping
Face threading
Cooking
Eating
Crochet
Poldark
Twin Peaks
Nap
Eating
Choir
Roller Derby

Shasta I'm not very scientifically minded but my understanding of low carb is steady blood sugar, without the extreme highs and lows that a carb heavy diet can cause. I'm sure someone will come along who definitely knows the answer.

very that's right, after the change into burning fat not sugar the glucose levels in the blood should be stable without going low or high

moist your day sounds wonderful. Sigh.

Shasta I am having bad leg cramps,have had to stop walking a few times. Will try a multi vitamin.

Isn't it wierd where the fat comes off first! I am so looking forward to my upper belly pissing off, it's what makes people ask me when I'm due I usually just say that I am still fat from the last baby!

Oh I have just remembered I had a BC dream! I dreamt I was eating a croissant and then suddenly panicked and was saying what am I doing this isn't BC food and was wondering whether to come on and confess!!

I had a dream last night that BIWI took me to the doctors and then force fed me a tuna salad

Hah hah BC dreams! I should stop checking the thread last thing before I turn phone to sleep mode!

shasta I have had the dizzy when standing thing often throughout BC. It has improved since adding salt into my diet - as in, sprinkling sea salt onto an omelette kind of adding it.

I have had gestational hypertension x2 and am at risk of hypertension in later life. I also can see high max HR in exercise. I do also have hypermobility syndrome so POTS isn't out of the question, but I don't know what is causing the dizzy spells. I guess try salt!

(though there was cardio expert on radio 4 start the week recently who said that the one change he would make given ultimate power would to be to cut salt from people's diets, eek).

Having said all of the above I suppose my only other dietary source of salt is cheese, which presumably makes my general intake low compared to processed food.

I finally have 10 something on the scales (yay!!). However I have a niggling pain in my stomach so haven't done my Jillian Michaels DVD this morning. I had a similar pain 2 years ago which was never diagnosed (as overtaken by a ruptured stomach muscle 😮). I probably should try and get it sorted but last time ended up with a horrible endoscopy so not keen!!

moist that sounds like a fab day and jim I hope your time off can be equally relaxing and not a chore eating wise - just remember you are not on a 'diet' now but a woe which can help you through.

moist your day sounds lovely.
I've had bootcamp dreams. C4 was in the last one, we met at a village fete! c4 you'll be pleased to know you are slimmer and better looking in real life, my dream didn't do you justice. We did have a nice time though!

Yesterday was not great, food wise.
Lunch - protein roll with lettuce and cheese, mayo and butter
Dinner - 3 scrambled eggs with butter and cheese. A tsp of peanut butter to take the eggy taste away.

All the veg had gone off - we spend £11 a week on a veg box and most is going to the pigs at the moment as DH is cooking and it's mostly freezer crap as we're busy. Gah...
Something else to feel guilty about!

Humph. My lovely day off is somewhat spoiled. Bloody bank account has been frauded (is that even a word). Card cancelled. Bank investigating. All under control but a huge pain as I've got stuff to do and wedding presents to buy.

Most importantly I have no cash for my threading lady and my beard really needs attention.

Low carb isn't about low blood sugar! It's about stable blood sugar.

If you're suffering like this @ShastaBeast it's your electrolytes that are out of whack. Don't get a multivitamin as the quantities will be too low. Get yourself some magnesium and potassium and make sure you're getting enough salt - add it to your food when you're cooking and at the table.

I've had terrible leg cramps since starting bootcamp (although actually I systematically worked myself through every known side effect from palpitations to keto itch (omg, the ITCH!!) and everything in between) and I'm still KOKO, so I must feel it's worth it. It was not a pleasant transition for me though, and I feel I'm still adapting. It's been a great motivation not to cheat though, because I'm not sure I could face doing it all again. I've found magnesium supplements help the cramps a lot - they don't completely eradicate them, but they've reduced them by maybe 80%. I just buy the Tesco own brand in their women's health section.

We've eaten low salt here for years as well. I didn't even own a salt shaker, and never used it in cooking, so any salt we had was from cheese, breakfast cereals, the occasional processed meat and shop bought bread. Given I've cut bread and cereal out, and I was never a huge cheese monster, I guess my sodium and potassium took a big hit, which maybe caused the palpitations. I now use lo-salt (because it has both sodium and potassium) in cooking - it has a slight metallic taste, so I dont like it on food, and drink a cup of marigold bullion every day. That seems to be enough. Salt is still making me nervous though! My diet was a riot before, at 15% fat and no salt , it's much tastier now, but I do have ongoing underlying anxiety about my salt and fat, having swallowed all the healthy eating messages hook, line and sinker for most of my adult life. Conditioning runs deep!

@JiminnyCricket I'm always watching ... 👀

Mine was definitely an anxiety dream. I was in a state of panic at what I had eaten and got really upset. I have to present a difficult piece of work to a notorious member of senior management today so expect it's that!