Week 10 - Low Carb Bootcamp - the finish line is in sight!

[BIWI]

Morning all.

So we finally reach the last week.

I feel that this Bootcamp has been a pretty successful one overall, with lots of SVs and NSVs.

Next Monday will be our final weigh-in, so there's one more week to lose some of that pesky fat.

I hope it's a good week for you all

I’m having swede tonight somuch, but with s chicken dinner. I might start stockpiling them so I can eat it all year

Do you think you ever really adapt to/accept/believe in your new body after significant weight loss? At nearly 5 stone down I MUST look different, but I don’t see it or believe it. So I can acknowledge collar bones/jaw line/knee caps etc appearing but I don’t look at my whole self in a mirror and see a smaller person. I believe I’m no longer a size 22/24 but I still assume I’m a size 18. When the 18 proves too big, I return it for a 16 - but actually it’s a 12 that fits. I still fret about plane/train/theatre seats. In fact, flew last week, insisted to husband that airlines must be doing bigger seats and belts, he pointed out it was me that was smaller, I argued that I couldn’t have lost enough for it to be significant. It’s not upsetting me as such, but it is creating a sense of dislocation, and I suppose a worry that it’s not really true and could all disappear in a single mouthful of cake. I’m always surprised when I get on the scales and I haven’t put on a stone overnight. Just feeling a bit strange today.

Apparently it's called phantom fat Cherries.

I can relate ilove, I’m buying new clothes and am convinced they won’t fit me. But they do. It’s kind of like re-realising how much weight I’ve lost

I can also relate, ilove. It's odd, in the mirror I can see my tummy going down, but it doesn't look that way in photos (I have a very strange collection of photos taken over the last year which show my tummy, and nothing more!). And I've only just, in the last couple of days, acknowledged that my thighs are, actually, smaller than they were. They're still flabby, but not as much. I managed to get into a smaller pair of jeans last week but I was convinced it was vanity sizing gone mad as I was sure they wouldn't fit up my thighs. I'm beginning to believe that they are simply showing the truth, that my thighs have, really and truly, slimmed.

I'm also slimmer than I was last time I was at this weight, due to the running, which is another reason why I can't get my head around my size.

embrace it ilove !! You are no longer a fat person so sooner or later you must stop thinking like one!

I have no experience of this btw. ever.

I'm with you!

I know I've lost, because a) am just over a stone down, b) my 'fat' clothes are now baggy, c) I've measured and have lost inches, d) my face has angles now and my incipient double chin has almost gone, and e) my individual bits and pieces separately look smaller. But I look in the mirror and see the same old wobbly lardarse.

I have decided to ignore the mirror in favour of facts over perception .

World I am the same as you. Being very good on bc & gaining. No alcohol, no snacks, IF eating 2 healthy meals a day. The week leading up to the 5th, I was gaining most days which accumulated in a 2lb gain overall. This week I’ve lost a 1lb of that.

I know how disappointed you must feel. When we are being good boot campers and the scales go in reverse. Twat is what my scale is.

The lovely ladies on this thread have explained how weight loss isn’t linear and if we koko la Vida it will come good

I had the opposite experience this weekend from ilovecherries’—caught my reflection in a window and thought how slim I looked, properly slim (I’m not, yet). It was thrilling.

It inspired me to try on a bunch of Spring/Summer clothes in smaller sizes that I have at home, waiting to be worn. They didn’t quite fit, ha ha ha, but that’s big boobs for you.

One thing that occurs to me is that most of us not only see fat in ourselves but also perceived flaws in our own body type, which doesn’t change significantly with weight loss unless there is concerted effort at re-training and reshaping the underlying muscles. And even then our natural physique will dominate to a certain degree.

I’m just learning to love my flat arse and move on with my better life.

The other thing I’ve noticed when trying on clothes, is that I’m choosier whereas before if it fit and looked half decent that was good enough.

Hooray...the Sun's out so its time to hit the park for some fitness training..who wants to join me on my 28 Day fitness Challenge at Norman Park, Bromley ?

It's not so much though that I'm looking at myself and picking fault or saying that I've still got to lose x amount of weight before it's acceptable. It's just that i feel it's tenuous, or a mirage, or I'm looking in a skinny mirror, but nothing has changed it reality and one day I will realise I'm still fat. It's hard to explain...

No, I understand, Cherries. All the data is... great an' all... but I haven't actually changed...

I'm 1/2 a pound down from yesterday. I had a look at my weight loss chart since November, and I'm pretty pleased. I'll upload in a sec.

I'm having a serious wobble. But I'm posting in advance of any transgression! I'm due to head out at 630, a group exercise activity then home about 9 to think about dinner. But I'm desperately tired (up lots in the night at the moment) and I'm soooo tempted to give in to the fuckits. I don't want to go out. I don't want to exercise. And I want to fall face first into a pile of toast!

Not bad! The big dip in early Jan was as a result of flu, but other than that it's a fairly downwards trend.

Beryl the big dip then the regain looked a bit “oh no, she’s gone seriously off the wagon!” but then realising you were ill and that it’s in kilos, that’s basically a 5lb fluctuation rather than an Oh No (and 5lb flucs can happen to me within a day or two ). So allow me to congratulate you on your awesome downward trajectory!

cherries and athel, it just occurred to me that there might be a correlation between how long one has been overweight/obese and how long it takes to adjust to this ‘phantom fat’ concept when finally back to Normal?

Perhaps a reason I—apparently—am thinking I’m slim (I’m so, so not) is because my high weight has “only” been there for three or four years rather than three or four decades. Just a thought to explore.

Brassica!. Have a bouillon or something and catch a second wind. You have done the right thing by coming here to preempt off-piste-y-ness.

You have come too far to succumb for such a mindless reason. For toast of all things!!! It’s like a slab or plastic, ffs.

brassica, you’re so close to your goal - you can power through this

Ive had a spoon of peanut butter and I'm getting changed for exercise. Maybe I've swerved the moment....

‘Atta girl, Brassica!

You may be right, Shag. I have at least three decades of obesity. The only one thing I didn't do in that time was yoyo - although I fretted about my weight ALL the time, it never went back down in that time. I would start other diets, but gave up before there was ever any weight loss. So I barely have a reference point for being a normal weight within my entire adult life. Shit :(

I totally get what pp are saying about still feeling fat. I’ve got my cheekbones back and my tum is much flatter ( measured it and I’m 4 inches off my bloated tummy!) . But... I still feel fat as I’d got so used to it. Love being able to wear my jeans and my linen trousers I haven’t worn for over a year tho and I guess that is my reality check. It does feel a bit tenuous tho, that if I eat a piece of toast it would all go back on!

I did this diet before( Atkins as it was known then), in 2002 and literally couldn’t believe how much weight I lost. I kept feeling for my tummy and it wasn’t there! Pissed off that I didn’t keep it up, but glad that it seems much more acceptable now.

Anyhow, just really popped on today to say I made a version of prettybird’s chicken nuggets tonight and they were bloody lovely! So thank you for that.💜

No, not “shit” cherries. Maybe just a realisation that will help you understand why you still feel and think “fat.”

It is okay to feel how you’re feeling.. Then move on.

I am full of regrets (because I did yo-yo somewhat, but mostly from almost normal to overweight, the obese part is the bit that kicked in these past 3-4 years). I am also thinking “shit.” But regrets don’t help anything and certainly don’t change anything.

It’s done me no good thinking that way, in the same sense it wouldn’t do anyone here any good to dive into a bottle of wine or packet of Maltesers.

I believe the final hurdle is the melding of mind, body, and soul. In other words, peace with oneself.

Don’t know about your soul, but your body is pretty much there, now focus on your mind.

Focus on your mind with the same sense of strength and determination you’ve brought to LCHF. Try to remember kick-ass wig lady who took the bull by the horns and said FUCK YOU. This is MY life.

So no “shits” now, sorry.

Also wanted to say, I’ve been re reading Dr Atkins’ books and he talks about ‘pre maintance’where you start to slowly introduce carbs, to see how you cope with them. I’m a stone off goal weight, but agree that life long maintenance is the key to this and wondered what other pp thought about this?

I think my DP sees this as a short term diet and when I’ve lost the weight I’ll go back to eating ‘normally’but for me I think this WOE suits me and my Apple shape and nothing else has ever worked so well to curb my carb cravings and low blood sugar. I LOVE carbs but they don’t love me! 😀