Week 7 - Low Carb Bootcamp - we start our last month

[BIWI]

Morning all!

Hopefully last week's wobble with the spreadsheet has been overcome:

Here it is

And hope there aren't too many wobbles on the LCHF front either!

It's an absolutely gorgeous day here, and seems like all of this week is going to be glorious. (Well, Darn Sarf it is anyway!)

I hope that you all have a good day food-wise too. Somehow it always seems easier when it's salad/barbecue weather, to stay on the low carb track.

Good look and here's to another successful week

I had the cauli cheese but with broccoli for tea. And a wee bit pulled pork.

It was the nuts.

I made a chocolate brownie thing yesterday in the microwave from a recipe someone here linked to a couple of weeks ago I think and I'd saved as a screen-shot. Pretty good, could have been more gooey but that's just timing practice. Frustrating though, I think if I'd just had the devilled eggs I fancied with my salad instead of the leftover cold sausages I thought needed eating I probably would never have decided I wanted something more!

Nice dinner of fish (a fish pie mix) with hollandaise and FLGV last night.

Morning all!

MFP isn't the most accurate when it comes to nutritional breakdown - was there any particualr food that lloked a bit odd?

I have no appetitie this morning, and a weird metallic taste in my mouth.

I'm up a lb this week, but since I am narrower than I was at the same weight 3 weeks ago I'm consoling myself. Why are the scales so flipping stubborn? I'm really glad I took those measurements, if I hadn't I'd be getting a bit disheartened.
I don't know what went wrong yesterday, but when we got home from work at 8pm I was in a thoroughly FOUL mood.
I'd drunk my 3 litres water throughout the day, had bacon egg mushrooms and spinach for breakfast, half a tin tuna in mayo and huge salad for lunch, but I was roaring hungry and didn't have the chicken I thought I had in the freezer. I was this close to going to the chip shop, but didn't, obvs.
I am so thoroughly fed up with working long hours and only having one day at the weekend. I'm constantly fire fighting. Every Sunday is taken up with visiting both sets of elderly parents, (which I wouldn't want to not do) but this has gone on for years, there's so much I want to do and I never have time and I'm getting old myself ffs! I'm seriously pissed off at the moment.
Anyway, sorry about that, rant over. Feel a bit better now

Morning all, I forgot to weigh in yesterday as I'm struggling to sleep with hayfever and feel like a zombie in the mornings.

Well done to those that lost weight this week.

Woohoo, 2lb woosh overnight! Why is always after weigh in day, lol.

Melanie thanks for asking. Sorry I didn’t have a “high carb intake” more a “higher than I thought” intake. So no food stands out as such. I just thought I was way under in my carbs or a lot less. The MFP change for me shows I am very tight typically or just over my preferred carb level. I was telling someone else and then remembered my phone made me log in again not so long ago for MFP and I was confused because I didn’t log out. So I think it must’ve reset my nutritian goals when this happened. Anyway just be aware to anyone else if they have this or be aware to changes like this that can happen. I suppose what I’ve seen is the salad and vege carbs do add up quite quickly but that’s the carbs we need. Anyway thanks for asking Melanie

Can't edit the spreadsheet :(
I am 176.8 and very pleased with my progress.

@BIWI could you take my name off the spreadsheet please?

I think you guys are all doing brilliantly and I wish you all the best but unfortunately my new diagnosis has triggered my other health issues (I'm a poster child for the NHS at the moment) and it's all I can do to eat anything just now.

I'll watch from the sidelines and cheer you all on but I think I need to focus on getting better first before continuing.

to you all and all the best for the future weeks

Discharged from hospital to continue oral antibiotics from home, trying hard to get my head round the complications of having skin cancer on my nose and needing to wear a full face ventilation mask at night, it sits right over the site where I will need a skin graft.
The op normally done under local anaesthetic will need to be done under general because I can't breath lying down and oxygen going through my ventilator causes a risk of igniting from the diathermy. I will need a skin graft which carries a higher risk of failure because I don't oxygenate well.
Timing is a huge issue because of my planned spinal op in the autumn, I will be on blood thinners for six months after surgery which would put a fresh graft at risk, delaying the spinal op isn't an option because I have part of my current metalwork almost breaking through the skin and my spine is starting to impact on my lung capacity.
I could be facing having to wait to have the cancer removed for at least twelve months depending on how recovery goes.
Welcome to my shit life and I really really want to eat an apple and a peach.

to you @TraceyTurnblatt and @Seafour. Tracey, hope to see you back here when you're able.

@Seafour, that is really really shit. Do they think it will grow much in 12monhts? I think you'd said that you'd been asking your GP about it for ages - years? - which perhaps means that it is very slow growing. I hope that's the case. But, even if it is, it's still a really shit situation.

We’ll be here when you’re ready to come back tracey

Is waiting 12 months medically acceptable seafour?

for you both

I'm sad to hear that you're having disaster heaped on misfortune Seafour. Have you considered a ketogenic diet to help keep the cancer at bay? It's not much of a stretch from low carb.

Leapinlizzards it is slow growing but it's very "active" so ideally it would be removed this week. All of my various consultants will have to get together and play top trumps, ultimately my spinal surgery or cancer will win and HDU and lung function will make sure I can breathe.

Stunt I haven't got as far as investigating diet yet. All the time my respiratory consultant is banging on about me losing weight, he forgets that there's a real person attached to my very interesting lungs. The pressure I feel is immense, I so want to succeed if only to improve my chance of a good recovery.

Just wanted to chime in with a message of support seafour. It all sounds very complicated yet your many teams seem to be trying their best to work together to help you. Thinking of you.
If you’re going off piste, fruit wouldn’t be the worst option, just be sure it’s really really what you want to do. Sending flowers virtually

So sorry you're having complications on top of complications seafour.

Please could someone add 185 to the spreadsheet for me? Thank you :-)

@Seafour I'm so sorry to hear that. Just take everything a day at a time and be kind to yourself as much as you can.

Can anyone answer a silly question? I'm currently using mfp as it helps me to focus and so far I've been under the 1200 calories each day (I'm only on day 3 and am wishing the week away to my first weigh in ). On low carb, should I still be aiming for 1200 max a day? Thank you

Tracey and Seafour that’s tough. Sorry to see you go Tracey. Totally understand Seafour that is really hard too. I’m sorry
I’m now switching over to Carb Manager. We will see how that goes. I’m just KOKO. All the best to everyone else going forward.

m0ther - you shouldn't be counting calories at all!

This way of eating is not as simple as "Calories in, calories out". If you follow the Rules in the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness, you will find our appetite naturally decreases. But it's even more important that you eat plenty of fat, drink at least your water allocation (a function of your weight but a minimum of 2 litres a day - I'm currently on 3l/day) and have a FLGV (Fuck Load of Good/Green Veg), you will find your weight will drop.

Have you taken your measurements? Some/most of us find our waists decrease in size even when the scales aren't moving. Useful motivation when inevitably you stall for a while.

@prettybird I wasn't deliberately calorie counting as such more using mfp as a diary to help me plan meals so I don't panic and make a Nutella sandwich when tired and hungry after school run (completely my downfall). I have found my calories are naturally lower not through trying but just following this and having eggs. I'm currently on 1,000 calories and feeling full and not like I've tried to eat less. I guess it's hard to ignore when I'm logging it on mfp. What do you all do re logging food?

I can't thank you all enough for the messages of support, it means the world and makes me feel the strength of the "sisterhood".

I'm now drawing a line under all the health stuff because I don't want to hog the bc with my problems, I will still post and will mention in passing medical and surgical updates but first and foremost I'm here to eat LCHF and struggle slowly and sloth like downwards in weight.

If anyone wants to connect with me away from bc just drop me a pm.

Welcome dragons
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Tracey* so sorry you're having so many health struggles, please be kind to yourself, wishing you happiness and rainbows and I hope to bump into you on a future bc support thread.

Well done everyone KOKOing. I'm sheepishly back after a week and a half off the wagon, which started in Paris when the hotel only had high carb options (she brought me three pastries and a bread roll and I didn't have the language skills to negotiate) - it was downhill from there. I know that I really can't have any carbs or sugar as I'm a terrible addict so it just starts a carb spiral. Not helped by lots of alcohol-fuelled work events since I've been back. Will log weight honestly and am back on today so fingers crossed some of gain disappears by Monday. Stupid delicious French croissants!

I don't log my food at all - I just follow the Rules

I do however weigh daily. Any upward variations I can usually explain as not drinking enough water and/or fat and will make a concerted effort the following day to drink more water/eat some slices of butter.

My downfall is snacking out of habit/boredom - even if those snacks are HFLC I've found making myself drink more water or have a scoop/slice of butter helps stop the urge

@prettybird I've found I'm less inclined to snack as I'm not hungry but had a boiled egg on one day. Clearly it's early days and for me the first 3 weeks are the hardest. I need to aim for a week at a time but already I feel less bloated!

Mother unless you're particularly small I would say 1200 calories should be a minimum rather than a maximum. 1500 calories is a more realistic target on this way of eating.