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Low-carb bootcamp

Join discussions about low-carb bootcamp plans, meals and progress. Consider speaking to a medical professional before starting any diet.

Week 2 - May '18 Low Carb Bootcamp - my favourite week!

803 replies

BIWI · 21/05/2018 07:20

Morning all

Here's the Spreadsheet

I love this week, seeing how much weight people lose, and especially as it's always such a surprise for newbies and those who feared that this WOE wouldn't work!

I hope you've all seen good results.

If you haven't - don't despair, but have a think about the week just gone. Look at what you were eating/drinking and consider how well you followed Bootcamp rules.

Any problems, as ever, post them on the thread.

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AthelstaneTheUnready · 26/05/2018 08:27

I'm afraid I too failed yesterday on the wine - I'm blaming my back which was just so miserably uncomfortable I gave in and had 3/4 of a bottle. Which then made me so extremely thirsty I drank an additional 2.5L on TOP of my usual 2.5L. Having wee'd out almost nothing this morning, those extra litres almost certainly explain the overnight 5lb gain I've seen.

Counter-intuitively, the back feels slightly better today, so back on it, although I don't expect these lbs will shift for a good few days, with the limited movement I have at present.

Food all still in the excellent range, however Grin.

Luki · 26/05/2018 08:34

Woohoo I've had my whoosh! The 2.5lbs from yesterday is gone and took another 2lbs with it! I'm now down by half a stone since I started bootcamp! Smile @AthelstaneTheUnready I bow down to your wisdom!

And my spots are gone just in time for my friends wedding today Smile

KOKO. Have a good day, everyone Flowers

LeapinLizards · 26/05/2018 08:36

Great post @mighty - love to read these inspirational changes that people make in their lives with this WOE.
@seafour what a lot of health challenges you have going on. It's quite humbling to read.
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StuntNun · 26/05/2018 08:37

Athelstane alcohol is a muscle relaxant which might explain the improvement in your back. Probably not a good long-term treatment though!

Well done Luki. Send the Whoosh Fairy my way next please. Grin

MrsBertBibby · 26/05/2018 08:38

Had to get up in the small hours with a hideous sore throat and blocked nose, and had Lemsip with a tsp of honey.

Bastard cold setting in.

farine · 26/05/2018 08:39

This is what I have eaten in last few days. I can't see where I am going wrong, except for more than 2 coffees a day but can't see how this (especially as I rush around so only end up drinking half most the time hence the extra ones) can equate to a 2.5lb weight gain? Any observations will be happily jumped upon

B: scrambled eggs made with butter
L: chicken thigh roasted in oil and garlic with an oily tomato and lettuce salad
D: roast lamb with cauliflower cheese
Water: 4 litres (so 0.5 litre more than needed)
Snacks: 4 coffees with cream

B: two fried eggs
L: fried aubergine, shallots and mushrooms with a fried egg
D: chicken curry with buttered spinach
Snacks: 3 coffee with cream
Water: 3.5 litre

B: coffee with cream
L: chicken salad (I think!)
D: 4 chipolata sausages (low carb) and fried greens
Snacks: three teaspoons of mascarpone cream
Water: 3.25 litres

B: two boiled eggs mashed with mayo
L: roast chicken thigh (oily etc) with oily salad and mayo
D: rib eye steak fried in butter and fat on with a mushroom and shallot cream sauce
Water: 4 litres
Snacks: 3 coffee with cream

LeapinLizards · 26/05/2018 08:39

Oh and @Athel glad your back feels a bit better today. I missed what you did to it - was it a gardening injury? I recall you doing lots of heavy work.
Have a great day at the wedding @luki

MyShinyThing · 26/05/2018 08:40

Happy weekend everyone!

Traffic meant it took me 3 hours to drop our cat at my MIL's last night. Was exhausted when I got in & was not going to cook. Combined with this horrible cold I've got I felt terrible & ended up throwing up before going to bed. Woken up at 6 this morning feeling awful but also not at all hungry. Have a 6 hour drive to do tomorrow so hoping this cold buggers off!

I've lost 0.4lbs since Monday, I'll take that, it's still a loss. Will probably add my weight to the spreadsheet tomorrow as won't have access to scales while we're away.

Stay off the wine people! Last weeks indulgence has meant minimal weight loss for me all week!

KOKO!

StuntNun · 26/05/2018 08:56

Your food looks pretty good Farine and you're getting plenty of water and fat in which are common causes of issues. Is your TOTM due soon? A lot of people see a weight gain just before their period that disappears again a couple of days in. Have you eaten anything very salty or done any exercise that could cause temporary water retention? If not then dairy is the likely culprit as you're having it several times during the day. Could you replace the cream in your coffee with a non-dairy milk, or try having it black? When you consume dairy frequently then it can send your insulin levels see-sawing up and down which plays havoc with weight loss. Most people don't need to cut dairy out to see an improvement on their rate of weight loss, just limit it to a couple of times a day.

farine · 26/05/2018 09:07

Thanks @StuntNun. I started my period yesterday so maybe that's the reason? Will see if it suddenly drops again tomorrow. Had an easy week exercise this week after half marathon last weekend and because I feel permanently tired at the moment!

I could cut back coffee with cream to two cups a day (can't quite give them up as feel they are my treat these days) and stay away from any cheese based dishes in next few days too.

Appreciate you reviewing my food diary, it's a bit frustrating when you follow the rules and trust the process but see the scales creeping up. Worried if I continue I will see the weight pile on!

Leelaseye · 26/05/2018 09:16

seafour what a lot you have to deal with - agree with leapin - very humbling to read and inspirational that you KOKO

Sorry to hear about your back athel - I also demolished 1/2 a bottle of wine last but today is a new day!

farine my period also sabotaged me this week - I get horrible water retention. I did get a bit of a whoosh towards the end though so hopefully the same for you

Love the sound of crispy fried lamb with lettuce leaf pancakes stunt Smile

LeapinLizards · 26/05/2018 09:19

I have hit my target!!!

prettybird · 26/05/2018 09:20

Had a good day yesterday: we had a "working" lunch with friends (we're working on whether we could join together our two wee "hobby" businesses and make a serious business that we could actually make money from) and she made a real effort to make sure the spread she put on was compatible with my WoE (which, with the exception of no oil to dress the green salad and only light mayonnaise and salad cream, it was Smile). And then in the evening, dh and I went round to a friend to have sundowners - and while they had a cocktail of grapefruit liqueur and lemonade (which was fabulous I did have a sip of dh's Wink) followed by white wine, I sipped virtuously on a glass of water Halo

Then went home and had a left over home made burger from the braai the night before (ds had finished the nearly complete coil of boerewurs over the day Angry) and left over avocado, tomato, Cheshire cheese, cucumber, spring onion and almonds salad. (I know the almonds aren't hard-core Boot Camp but it's a lovely salad which I knew my dad and his lady friend, who we were having the braai for as she leaves today, would enjoy). Lots and lots of water Smile

I also have a dish of asparagus that is pre-microwaved to put on the braai and then forgot about on Thursday and is still sitting there! I'll maybe have some of them for breakfast.

Leelaseye · 26/05/2018 09:20

Sorry if this has been asked before and I've missed, but is the only difference with boot camp lite that you can have some fruit/nuts and seeds and a bit of alcohol?

Iamnotacerealkiller · 26/05/2018 09:22

gained a pound and a half this morning, what gives!??

yesterday i had a single square of white chocolate and a teaspoon of (no added sugar) peanut butter, everything else was BC. surely its couldnt have been that?? im breastfeeding so why is it so hard??

havent been to the toilet for a couple of days so perhaps that is the cause. will try and have a high fibre day and hope 'the eagle has landed' by monday. as it is i have only lost half a pound from monday.

Leelaseye · 26/05/2018 09:22

Congrats leapinlizards!!

MrsBertBibby · 26/05/2018 09:25

Well done Lizard!

AromaticSpices · 26/05/2018 09:29

Also half a pound up today. But I haven’t been to the toilet in about 3 days so I’m hoping once that’s, um, gone I will weigh on Monday and have a nice loss!

I need some suggestions please, wise ones. In two weeks I’m doing a long distance walk for charity, 40 miles. In one day. (I know!). We have support vehicles in place who will have on board pasta salad for quick scoffs at brief stopping points for energy. I am after low carb ideas that I can put in the support vehicle instead. I can take a cold bag so stuff that needs to be chilled should be ok. I’m thinking hard boiled eggs (peeled already), chicken drumsticks, cathedral city individual cheese portions..... anything else that would work? Are there any recipes for low carb nut bars I could make in advance and bring?

I want to finish it and don’t think eating pasta after at least 6 weeks off it will help (have been avoiding pasta and bread for a while before starting bootcamp). Any other food suggestions? Thanks x

LeapinLizards · 26/05/2018 09:47

What about pouches of salted peanuts @aromatic?

LeapinLizards · 26/05/2018 09:49

Thanks @leelaseye & @mrsbertbibby. I'm going to go for another 3lbs - so new target - to make it a round number.

prettybird · 26/05/2018 09:50

Re microwaving veg: I used to put a tablespoon or two of water in with them which I tend drained off but I've found that if I just out in a generous amount of butter (and shoogle half way through) that the water isn't required. This works for shredded cabbage, cauliflower florets, brussel sprouts (long term Boot Campers will know about my obsession with brussels Grin), asparagus, baby sweet corn.....the list goes on Smile

Iamnotacerealkiller · 26/05/2018 10:07

@aromatic

two suggestions for you. yes you can make your own nut bars. i used to make my own bars and granola out of whole nuts.

Just use a nut butter as a base and add what you want. i used to use, ground almonds, coconut for sweetness, whole hazelnuts and some beted butter to bind it all together. you will need to experiment with the consistance and it maybe a bit crumbly but its delicious!

For savory. i developed a phyllum husk wrap what is very versitile. you can use it as a traditional wrap or cut it up into a salad instead of pasta. its very very high fibre so you will need to drink lots of water with it.

Each wrap is two table spoons of egg whites (i buy the packs in saisburies to avoid having to use all the yolks) one table spoon phyllum husk and two tbs milk/water

make sure you buy the phylum husks that still look like seed husks not the powdered stuff.

quickly add these together (the phylum will start to gel very quickly)
once it starts to thicken slightly pour into a hot oiled pan and cook pancake style. you will probably need to smooth it out using the back of a spoon. flip a few times until cooked to your liking.

they are about 4/5g fibre per wrap. they freeze ok too. making them is quite a pain as the phylum mixture sticks to everything and is annoying to clean so i will usually make a load at once and freeze them in a stack with greese proof paper between.

I also came up with a decent phyllum husk quick bread if anyone is interested for week 2 (contains ground almonds) but this is really best warm so may not be practical for your walk unless you want to experiment. I always try to make recipes as simple as possible so usually modify them to reduce ingredients and make them faster to make.

I use it for when im craving garlic bread, pizza or need something bready to dip into eggs, the texture is similar to a foccacia. Im planning to make this today to help things....move along so to speak :)

Iamnotacerealkiller · 26/05/2018 10:07

Wow, terrible spelling!!

StuntNun · 26/05/2018 10:08

Listen up peeps, YOUR WEIGHT WILL GO UP AS WELL AS DOWN even when you're doing everything perfectly. Here are two graphs of my own weight loss from back in 2013. One shows every weight that I recorded over the five months, the other only shows one weight per month. You can see that my weight went up three times. This is a typical weight loss graph for this way of eating: a big drop initially, then a relatively steady rate of weight loss, then a slower rate of weight loss as we get towards goal. At the time I was losing weight I was just as frustrated as everyone else about the gains, or that I wasn't losing fast enough. It's only with the benefit of hindsight that I can see I had an average weight loss of 1-2 lb per week. If I could have seen this graph when I first started Bootcamp then I probably would have lost weight even faster because I would have the motivation to stick to it even more closely and not needed quite so many whacks from the big stick. This way of eating works, and it will work for you. Just keep eating the delicious low carb food and don't fret about the number on the scales - at the end of the day it's just a way of keeping score.

Week 2 - May '18 Low Carb Bootcamp - my favourite week!
Week 2 - May '18 Low Carb Bootcamp - my favourite week!
StuntNun · 26/05/2018 10:13

Farine I always gain 2-3 pounds when my period starts, and the weight disappears again before it ends. I still suggest limiting the amount of dairy you're having so you can see whether it makes a difference to you.

Nice one Leapin. How are you going to celebrate?

How is your holiday going BIWI? Still dodging the pasta?