Week 4 - just got to KOKO

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Morning everyone as BIWI is away I have the honour of starting the week 4 thread.

I going to give you all the usual reminder that in week 4 it is PERFECTLY NORMAL for weight loss to stall. So you may sts or even see a gain.

Do not panic! Just KOKO

spreadsheet

FurryTurnip Mix the mascarpone about half & half with almond butter and put it in the fridge overnight. It turns out kind of like coconut ice consistency.

Low-vember goals:
No dark chocolate
No drinking except for the weekend of the 17th-19th where we're away
Get to my last mini goal (I have 4lbs to go) before my ultimate goal!

My lowvember challenges are to get into the 10’s - 6lbs so quite ambitious but to hopefully aid that to also run 3 times a week

White rabbits everyone.

I'd like to say my low-vember challenge would be to do a run every day but some mornings I just wont be able to like today (i went to the gym yesterday and did 2 aerobics classes and my legs feel like lead). So perhaps my challenge could be doing a run on every other day than Tuesdays and Wednesdays, unless I'm staying over at a relatives. I'll have to make note of how many days that'll be and do a countdown.

Wow hippa! How have you decided on your goal?
I know there was some chat on a previous thread about BMI but I’m starting to think about mine so interested in people’s thoughts. I’m 43 so don’t want my face to suffer!

Happy Low-vember everyone! Just found this thread, I'm not on the spreadsheet but need to focus so I hope I can join you! I am totally committed to low-carbing and I've lost about 10kg since May. But. Weight hasn't budged for a couple of months and I really want need to lose another 6 kg. I've turned my life around, doing plenty of exercise, so I just need to tighten up on the portions and stop drinking so much wine! It was lovely and effortless to start with but the 2 month stall needs to be dealt with.

So I'll challenge myself to:
Plan evening meals...might try DietDoctor week 1
Wine only on weekends
Doing 16:8 fasting

Lovely to see all the positivity!

MY November goals are to get and stay in the 12 stone category and get my toddler to realise the clocks have gone back and stop waking at 5am.

Wow, lots of message to read through. I love the support on this Bootcamp.

Congratulations Creme on your baby news.

My November target is to get below and stay below 10 stone, it should be achievable if I stay on plan. I think apart from berries with breakfast I will stay on full BC. If I start on nuts and dark chocolate I will slow down on the weightloss.

Thanks for the mascarpone tip Hippa that signs a gorgeous, will get some almond butter later.

Got the day to myself today, heading off to the hills for a long run / walk depending how my leg feel! Start Lowvemver as I mean to go on. As well as getting into the 10 stone bracket I want to exercise more, apart from running I will do 3 HIIT sessions per week. Surely I can find 20 minutes a day!

Morning all! I weighed in yesterday and had remained the same and then checked again this morning and had finally lost the final pound! So that's 1 stone lost in about 10 weeks.

My lowvember goal is to be in the 12's by the end of it, it's only a minimum of 5lbs, but it's still over a lb a week so it may not be that easy!

Hello everyone,

The Low-vember goals are all great. Mine will be a) 4 lbs off, and b) to get better at dealing with feelings of sadness and disappointment, without trying to eat it away.

It's my turn to post with a moment of weakness that turned into a transgression. I know exactly what triggered it, too. I was mumsnetting yesterday and came upon a thread, nothing hugely out of the ordinary but it was specifically to do with something that I have always wanted to do, that someone my age and with broadly similar life trajectory is actually doing. I have long since got over the fact that it's not going to happen for me and most of the time I'm fine with it, but yesterday I really really felt sad, the kind that is painful right down in your middle. And for me sadness always turns into anger at myself (because it's my fault that I couldn't do it - I was/am perfectly capable but for various reasons it just couldn't/didn't happen). It is intense and extremely difficult to deal with. I wasn't very good at riding it out this time.

Food yesterday was:

Breakfast: a boiled egg

Lunch: half a cucumber sliced up, with tuna paté

Dinner: Beef stew, roasted celeriac, buttered spinach, and veg crush (can't remember what was in it, was carrot and swede maybe, only had one dessert spoon)

Snacks: Two squares of dark chocolate

Unnecessary evening snack eaten only for the purposes of eating away my feelings: Poppadoms - about 20g of carbs. I hate disappointing myself.

NSVs for this week so far:

I have not had any of my morning ritual cup of mocha at work - used to 'need' this to start the day feeling okay about being at work

I have stopped having milk in my tea - Yesterday I had a Lady Grey first thing, then one decaf, then one rooibus, then one mint, and finally one big mug of bouillon towards the end of the day. Plus plenty of water.

I no longer have to have flavoured sparkling water, I am fine with just drinking water (used to really dislike plain water).

My clothes are all starting to be much looser, in about a month's time I will have to buy new jeans again (already had to buy one size down).

KOKO, everyone.

Just to be clear my mocha habit was before bootcamp, I have not been cheating like that every day! But this week I have not missed it, and feel perfectly fine without that ritual at the start of the day.

Thanks Tempus that’s so true and made me smile

@HolgerDanske . I am very impressed at the way your positives by far out-way your tiny slip.

Oh, I nearly forgot yesterday. As well as my weight loss goal of 5lbs for November, I want to run a mile non stop. To a degree that one isn't totally in my control, as if my pinned leg hurts too much I will need to pull back, but I'm training well for it, and already running two miles with walking breaks so it's within my sights.

My challenging Lowvember goal will be to lose half a stone. That would put me in touching distance of breaking the 12stone barrier in the following 25 days. In practice, if I continue to lose an average of at least a lb a week, I'll be happy.

I'm currently on Day 4, Level 1 of Ripped in 30 (after finishing the Shred this time around). I'm doing it 4 times a week (day off the day I go to Pilates by bike and the weekend off) so depending on how many days I do each level, I should get it finished by the end of the month. (It has burpees in Level 4 ). I might try going out running again - but I don't think it actually aids my weight loss - but it will improve my fitness so there are other benefits. I don't like running though until I can do at least 4 miles , so I hate the process of starting again

Congratulations to Creme on your pregnancy. I'm sure Boot Camp Lite and listening to your body is the way to go. My GP advised me to stop eating sugar when I was pregnant with ds as iirc I had "leaky kidneys" (I had just started to allow myself full fat Irn Bru and Mars bars without feeling guilty ). In hindsight, I think I was borderline diabetic (although my GTT was ok) as ds was 8lb 15oz at birth, despite both dh and I being relatively small and he then took 7 weeks to regain birthweight, demonstrating what I now know to be called "catch down" growth as he adjusted to his "real" growth curve (and I'm proud that I succeeded in breast feeding him for 13 months )

My NSV for yesterday was resisting having a square of dark chocolate. I told myself that if I was going to have one, I needed to appreciate it properly alongside a mug of peppermint and liquorice tea and never quite got round to making one.

It was just as well as ds then offered to open one of his big bars of Peppermint Crisp and I had 5 squares (My dad has just gone to SA for 3 weeks so ds is breaking into his stash I also have two bars left in my stash ). He had most of it though . On the plus side, I was able to ignore the mini Mars bars and mini bags of Maltesers that I had out for any guisers that came round.

To everyone else, KOKO

Love the Low-vember idea!

My goal is to lose 3.75lbs to get to the 100lbs. Loosing 7.75lbs would mean I've lost another whole stone and am in the next stone bracket (13) but that's an end of bootcamp goal.

I've stalled and I'm drinking too much wine.

My Lowvember goals are, no wine in the week and 3 exercise classes, 4lb off.

Great SVs and NSVs everyone!

Forgot to post my food plan for today. DH is away overnight, so I'm going to have an LC feast.
L - leftover soup
D - leftover bacon, egg, olives, artichokes, celery, pate, jarlsberg

How did I decide on my goal? It's BMI 20. I think that gives me enough wiggle room either way to take factors like weekends away etc into account so I don't come back ending up feeling fat & yucky etc.

I have been keeping an eye on calories as I'm so close to goal, so it'll be nice to start upping them again. I'm not leaving myself hungry, but I would like to, for example, munch on a few nuts etc sometimes.

I do miss the higher carb vegetables and fruit, so I think I'll start maintenance by re-introducing them gradually first until I find my sweet spot.

Love the Lowvember goals too. Mine are to get into the 160s, and by the end of Nov, hit 165lbs/75kg/11st11. Something about the fact that it's "milestone-ish" in all the different kinds of measurements pleases me It would mean another 2.5kg off and i know that loss is slowing for me but I'm hoping I can get there. It would be the lowest weight I've been in 2 years so something to celebrate.

Sadly I've had to return my lovely new boots as my calves are still too thick even though I thought I'd measured accurately

I'm back at work on Monday and we are having a team photo shoot so I'm very relieved to have lost the baby weight. Of course, I wish I'd lost more to be in a healthy BMI but I'd have felt a lot worse if I hadn't found you lovely bootcampers!!

Thanks hippa for the goal info.

Fantastic nsv’s and lovember goals!

Thanks so much for all the congratulations ladies. It's making me feel a bit choked up! My plan is to carry on as I am for now, not worry about 'hidden carbs' and listen to my body. So far, I don't feel any different at all so fingers crossed it stays that way! I haven't usually had specific cravings, just generally hungry so I'm hoping I'll be OK avoiding the carbs on the most part.

My Low-vember goal is the stay the same! Whilst I would love to lose something, past experience says that won't happen. So I would like to stay the same for this month please!

@FabulousUsername I followed W1 of Diet Doctor for the first week of BC. Loved that the meal plan was all laid out for me which is definitely easier, but I found the meals were all cream based and very rich. By Thursday I was craving a salad, and I don't think I've ever craved salad before!

Hello all. Well done on the various successes and KOKO to anyone who is struggling - today starts a whole new month!

I have two goals for Lowvember - one is to get as close to 11 stone as possible which is a big milestone weight for me. 10.6 lbs to lose to get there - unlikely in a month but I'd love to have made enough progress to make being in the 10 stone somethings a real possibility by Christmas.

Second goal is to be able to drink tea/coffee without artificial sweetener (or sugar obviously). I have already tried numerous times either by cutting down gradually or by going cold turkey but have always caved in after a week or so - does anyone have any tips? I already drink green or herbal teas but sometimes just want a nice, sweet, milky creamy drink.

I am so impressed with everyone's NSVs and Lowvember goals!

NSV - two people have spontaneously told me I am looking well, and one person (who hugged me hello) told me afterwards he could both see and feel that there was less of me! (I was telling him about weight loss, he wasn't just saying it randomly.)

I think my Lowvember goal might be to get to 16stone. It's a 10lb drop, so I might not make it, but on the other hand it is good to aim for, and my secondary goal can be to react in a balanced way to not quite getting there :) My overall goal for BC is to get out of the obese category and into the overweight BMI category...

Brilliant idea for the Lowvember goals. Mine is to wear naice clothes every day instead of slobbing about in my usual "mum uniform" of jeans, jumper and trainers. I have lots of new-ish dresses, tunics, leggings and smart shoes but I have fallen into the trap of not wearing them because they're "for best" I blame my DM for this concept. Today I'm wearing a new FatFace tunic that I just bought in the sale and a size 12 too - yay! with skinny jeans and boots. I look vair smart for working from home and doing the school run.

Tempus for cutting out sweetener in tea/coffee then I would chuck it out so you can't use it. I think cold turkey works best because it doesn't take long for your tastebuds to adjust.

Oh, dress nicely! That's a good one, Stunt. I don't have a lot of clothes at the moment, but what I have is extremely nice because I had to buy some things. But I'm still not wearing them because I have some stupid idea that if no one is going to see me I should at least try to get a bit more wear out of my 'fat clothes'. Which is ridiculous because hopefully by the new year my new clothes will be my fat clothes. So I'd better get cracking wearing them. It's as if I haven't latched on to the fact that I deserve nice things for me, not just because other people are around. Right, my aim everyday will be: water, exercise, dog walk, shower, nice clothes, makeup (this WILL be minimal!) some jewellery, work, lunch.

Help! I'm applying for a new job and one aspect of it I know very little about, I need another way to say "very keen" because at the moment I have said very keen twice!

I've said I'm very keen to advance my career and also that I'd be very keen to be trained in this thing I can't do.