Pre-summer Bootcamp - our last weigh-in!

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Morning all. Very excited to hear the final scores!

Here's the Spreadsheet for its last outing this Bootcamp

We'll keep this chat thread going, and when it finishes, we'll start a new one so that we can keep the support going until next Bootcamp.

That's interesting stunt. Does the metabolism decrease again once the fast ends or would regular fasting Of twenty four hours or more result in permanently increased metabolism do you know?

3 nights done and a week of annual leave. Marvellous.

Coming in to say hi I'm not doing very well with lcing at the moment, I don't know why

Keen to do SSS so I'll be back for that and I'll do a spreadsheet as well if you want?

Oh, should have said it's 36 weeks until my friend's wedding where I am bridesmaid. I need to remind myself that I'm determined to need my dress taken in.

Funnily enough, just recently, when I've not lost any more weight (not put on either) a few people have asked if I've lost. I never know what to say I've lost audit since January but nothing recently. I usually say no. It's funny, I feel odd when people notice (and comment) but if they don't notice I think I must not look that different even though I feel different!

I don't know Very but I don't see why it would stay increased. Presumably it's some sort of adaption to make it easier to find food when food is scarce. We wouldn't be much use as hunter-gatherers if no food = sit about the cave feeling tired!

Thanks Stunt that makes sense.

Ilovecherries your post was very moving, I can remember those feelings from 14 years ago when I discovered Atkins and transformed myself with a new WOE. I felt like a fraud buying clothes in my new size, I was expecting the cashier to ask me if I was sure I had the correct size and I found it hard to relate to the image I saw in the mirror. I did keep one item of clothing just to remind myself how big I'd become. I now wish I could fit into that item of clothing.

Grah thanks for the exercise tips, my left arm and hand is my only working limb so it's pretty strong anyway but I will look at adapting the exercise for my partially paralysed right arm.

Prettybird strawberry jam sounds yummy, I'm hunting for basil seeds.

Stuntnun what are the specific benefits of fasting?

Cleareyes I really feel for you with all your relationship challenges

SayrraT I miss your horse pictures. Glad you haven't gone far.

Thanks stunt. Hugely interesting.

Happy days MOIST

I second more pet pics!

Hi everyone,

Sorry for disappearing after having a breakdown on here (re friend's pregnancy). It's, unfortunately, what I do - become embarrassed about off-loading. Plus, life is stressful at the moment and I'm slowly retreating from everyone. Hey ho. But I bought her a present and plastered a smile on my face so all's well. As for me moaning about my mother on 'Relationships' - have been there and done that many, many times. But thanks for the suggestion.

As for this WOE, I'm still trying to KOKO. Haven't stuck to it religiously but not too far off. I am rather perplexed by my scales, though. Apparently, since the start of BC I have lost, up to now, 1/2 stone. Now, I'm not complaining, but, at the same time, I can now take off my size 12 jeans, which I bought in desperation at the start of BC, and which were incredibly tight then (size 14 would probably have been better tbh), without undoing them. And the size tens, which I couldn't get on when I bought them, are wrinkly over my thighs. I have t-shirts which, for ages, were bunched up at my hips now fall down gracefully (as it were). It seems strange that my body-shape has changed so much for the little weight that has come off. The only other time I dieted properly like this I had to lose a lot more to see the same difference, and I was exercising a lot more then, so the muscle gain would have been far more significant then than now. Am just finding it really bemusing!!!

(And as for the clothes size stuff, I really am very, very small framed, so the numbers don't mean much per se. I remember years ago, when I was a size 8, I was still a lot fatter than my size 12 friend who has physical problems with food and really was skinny, and definitely not terribly muscular either.)

Ooooh, if you want more pet pics I'll post some tonight. The menagerie is, hopefully, going to be joined by two baby guinea pigs!

Are vitamin and mineral supplements acceptable as part of this WOE??

I take a multivitamin, magnesium , a probiotic and a prebiotic - inulin, peppermint - to calm my IBS spasms.
All this is after I ended up run down by various events in my life - house moves, my mum's dementia and several rounds of antibiotics left me with thrush and athletes foot, etc.

I'm reading the posts about the emotional impact of weight gain and loss and thinking a lot about it and those of you going through this - I think our bodies are like the silent voices of our emotions. I've put on two and half stone in 2 and half years of v difficult stressful times for me - there must be a link there.

Okay, slightly embarrassed about posting the personal stuff, but sometimes it just needs to come out quickly so I can move on quickly as well!

I had a lager yesterday after a glorious horse trek along the dunes by the beach. It was glorious (the lager). Haven't had one for months and won't have another for months again, I'm sure, but it really was perfect, ha!

StuntNun I feel like a dope asking this, but what is metabolism and how can its speed be measured?

Ps--I think I might actually be losing weight on this holiday.

Welcome back Time.

Oatcakes I take a multivitamin plus a few other bits and bobs. I tried stopping them but I felt pretty crap then better once I started them again so they did seem to be helping me.

Clear measuring metabolism is actually pretty boring. You get locked in a room called a metabolic chamber and they measure your oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production.

C4 I'm experimenting with intermittent fasting as I gained a bit of weight while dealing with depression and I haven't been able to lose it again. I suspect I'm still insulin resistant and fasting is one way to improve insulin sensitivity (as is going low carb, and taking up exercise). There are lots of other health benefits.

Hello!

I’ve been interested in bootcamp before but never got my arse into gear to join. However, I was diagnosed T2 diabetic in June and am determined to get it under control. I’m 3.5 stone less than this time last year and 1.5 stone less since diagnosis (have another 7 to lose 😩) but although the weight is coming off and I’ve completely cut out anything sweet, I’m not entirely sure what I’m doing, I’m just winging it. And carbs are my downfall so I need a strategy to deal with that. Is bootcamp the place for me?

Caroline sounds like BC is the perfect place for you!

At the beginning of this thread is a link to a spreadsheet which explains the rules of lchf. Have a good look at that but feel free to post any questions, comments, experiences, pet photography etc here and someone will be able to help, sympathise, make suggestions etc.

Time. Welcome back. Can we see baby pig pictures please?

Clear. Sometimes it has to come out and I can't think of a better place for it.

I'm awake and hungry. Going to pop to Tesco for nice stuff.

And 3 months ago nice stuff would have been popcorn, haribo, bread and wine.

Now it means pork belly or burgers or chicken thighs and coleslaw.

And probably a bit of wine too.

Sausages. That's what I need.

God I love pork belly. I could eat it all week.
Currently working my way through a 'freezer filler' bundle of random joints/cuts of meat, that I got from a shouty man with a microphone at the local market. It cost £40 and has lasted 2 weeks so far. Quite impressed!
My scales lie to me. They claimed I had lost half a stone, then put the same back on. Meanwhile, my work trousers have consistently become looser.
People who bike - what do you wear in the rain? And what about shoes? (Carrier bags?!). I've been getting calf cramps but thought it was the biking. Will try magnesium.
Yes please to guinea pig photos!! Loving all the cat pics and stories 😊

SV to report 🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂

I only gained 2lbs on holiday

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clear I drank cold lager on holiday - twas amazingly lovely after 6 months more or less absteinance.

Oh, and I saw this in Cancun airport restaurant - waiter looked at me oddly as I snapped away! Not sure who Morgan is but if I'd deface it to Bitches I'd probably be residing in a Mexican jail 😬

Distractotron - you can buy overshoes which zip on over your shoes. Most of them are designed for clipless pedals but I've worn them over trainers. They go up to your ankles. When I was cycling to work though, I just accepted my feet would get wet and had spare socks at work (it was only 3.1 miles though).

Clear - as Stuntnun says, actually measuring metabolism is difficult but essentially metabolism is the rate at which your body burns energy.

Welcome Caroline - this is indeed the place for you. You'll get lots of advice and ideas for ways to eat in a way that will address the insulin resistance and help control your T2 diabetes - and lies weight while enjoying food and not feeling hungry