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

@ilovecherries sodium is hugely important - especially if you're drinking a lot of water

@NamelessEnsign but that's a pretty meaningless thing for any expert to say. Most people these days will be consuming a lot of salt because they're eating ready meals, ready made sauces, crisps and junk food - none of which we eat on a low carb diet. Even bread can have a lot of salt in it. Salt (or sodium) is really important in our diets

Read this:

sodium.

There's another week to go after this one, @C4pinkwheels! Final weigh in will be Monday 31 July.

Sorry to hear you're still not feeling well

BIWI thanks, it's obviously affecting my brain. Do you think that the fact that I've had one infection after another the whole time could be the reason I've not lost very much weight?

I guessing this is too late to join? If so, is there another Bootcamp starting soon? I'm 15 stone and completely out of control!! Many thanks

c4 8 lbs in 9 weeks is great how much were you expecting/hoping to lose. A quick glance at the spreadsheet shows that most people have lost less than 8lbs (29/42), 8 people have lost a stone and 5 people have lost something inbetween.

C4 I have lost about 8llbs and am chuffed to bits with that especially as I haven't felt all deprived . To have lost that with all your troubles is awesome.

Never too late too join user. The next boot camp won't start till pre Christmas (I think/ hope there will be a next one please BIWI)) but there will be an ongoing support thread till then.

C4. That's nearly a pound a week. I have lost less than that and have way more to loose than you. I know when you feel your loss is slow it's frustrating, that's why I haven't weighed this time, just gone on NSVs.

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.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Shasta I had cramping recently and thought it might be magnesium/potassium/salt deficiency but in the end did nothing. The weather changed and it went away. . #nothelpful

Jiminny what did BIWI look like in your dream? Was she carrying a Big Stick?!

I'm feeling "slim" again today, thank goodness. Always good to remember that even Kate Bloody Moss probably has "fat days." The human body fluctuates, etc...

(((sheepishly drags carby stupid but in)))

(((waves)))

(((Sneaks carby fat butt back out again...))) :(

PS - C4 - how the hell did you not run over that awful woman's foot! Ignorant isn't the word!

The whole fat day/thin day thing is so weird isn't it?

I remember a girl I was at Uni with, she was STUNNING, very slim, perfect skin, swooshy shiny hair (in the eighties)-your basic nightmare . We were at a ball and she looked particularly fabulous, she was looking in the mirrors in the loos and fiddling with her dress and her eyes filled with tears, she said she was having an attack of the fat and uglies. I'd never seen her look better, just goes to show that our minds and can play tricks on us all.

I'm having a fat day, my weight is the same but everything looks a bit soft and fleshy. Hoping it may herald a woosh.

I am having the opposite! I feel so much better on this WOE that I no longer have that stuffed blobby feeling and feel like a firm size 12, then I pass a window or mirror and am reminded I am still a podgy 16!

C4 sorry you are unwell again but as Sayrra has said 8lbs is great, I don't think I have done that well!

Ninnando yes that's how I feel too! I still can't do up a size 18 skirt when in my head surely I must be slimmer than that by now! Ifeel slimmer!

I am following along with you ladies but not posted before. Was doing ok then a holiday and a couple of weeks to get back into it happened!

I am not a very good cook so does anyone know the lowest carb tikka massala type sauce in a jar to buy?

Thanks

ninnando that made me laugh.

I usually combat the fat days by taking selfies of just my face so I can congratulate myself on having a single chin (only from a certain angle).

Cheers me right up. #vainasfuck

whyare. None of the jar sauces are great in my experience, but Patak's are probably one of the better ranges. I think their's is about 7gms per 100 gms, but the jar size is 450gms, so that's a lot in the jar, unless it's feeding 4 or 5 of you. Cooking honestly isn't hard though, and it gives you so much more control. The BBC good food site has good recipes and it tells you in advance if they are complicated or easy.

low carb means always having low blood sugar.

I'm not sure it does, Shastabeast, it seems more like stable blood sugar to me. I think (and someone who knows will very likely be along in a moment) that low blood sugar is part of the cycle, eat lots of carbs, blood sugar rises, insulin floods out to clear the sugar, maybe more insulin is released than is actually required (esp. if the sugar/carbs was consumed in relatively high quantities, quickly), it takes a lot of sugar to clear the insulin and bingo, your blood sugar is low. So..., you feel that urge to eat again, and bingo, the cycle repeats.

This describes the rollercoaster which i was so used to, the highs and lows seemed entirely normal to me. Nowadays, eating much less sugar(carb), I feel much more stable. Its entirely possibly that this is just my imagination, good to know there will be someone on the thread who really knows.

whyare if you buy the paste instead of the sauces and mix then with double cream you make your own jar sauce for tiny amounts of carbs

In my dream BIWI was an extremely glam 'I read a book on the train' type

All my fat has gone squishy hoping for a whoosh as I'm weighing next week

Welcome user you have come to the right place. Right at the top of this thread, there is a link to a spreadsheet which sets out how to go about living the low carb way of life. Hope it works for you. Feel free to ask any questions on this thread, when we run out and need to start another one, there will be a link to that as well here. From now on, its all good.

For me, it seemed to be just about opposite to any advice I had ever read about healthy eating. Its really working for me, i have a long, long way to go but looking back, I can see the extra pounds are slipping away on average a pound a week. The best part, though, is how much more in control of my life i feel now. Your cry for help, of feeling out of control, really chimed for me. All the best.

I'm struggling today ... can't find anything to wear that I don't look fat in

Due to being a carby twat I've lost nothing and know I need to koko but the temptation to eat a biscuit is huge!

I can't even eat cream and cheese because I think it stalls me. But without cheese I'm quite restricted in what I can eat. It adds flavour to everything!

I know, I know ... theres nothing anyone can say to help. I hate drinking water ... I can't exercise for health reasons. I don't know what I can do to speed things up.

I take ADs and HRT and wonder if this is slowing things down too.

Userwithoutaname 1st stop saying what you "Can't do" and start say what you can and will do.
You want to speed things up start getting over the urge not to do what is good for you ( eating a biscuit). Drink water, eat nice low carb high fat food.

C4 being sick and not eating isn't a good weight loss as your body will probably try to retain everything it gets. once you start eating normally you may get a small whoosh. Glad to see you are KOKO thou with all your potential road blocks.