The final weigh-in - Low Carb Bootcamp

[BIWI]

Good morning all, for the final Monday of this Bootcamp.

Here's the spreadsheet for its last outing!

I hope very much that the last ten weeks have been successful for everyone - whether that's on the scales, seeing your clothes fit better, better health and general enjoyment of your food!

I'll keep this chat thread going, and when it's full, will start another one until we start the next Bootcamp, which will start in mid-October.

I'm a lb down this week, which is grand.

Have decided that I'm definitely maintaining til after the half marathon. I'm not sure I can cope with thinking about too much. If I get to 122lbs I'll get serious again, but I'm happy staying under that. I'd like to lose another half stone, but that can wait.

Friends were in the area last week, but busy, so only saw them in passing until Sat when they turned up at my house to drag me away for lunch. So, instead of doing a 9.5 mile run along my usual route I ended up running the 11.5 miles back from town. The last hill, which was the bane of my life when I had to walk up it every day, and which saw me stopping every 20 secs the last time I tried running it seemed to have flattened. I was seriously thinking about hitching up it but it was fine. Obviously tackling steeper hills on my usual road have had an effect. And when I got to my usual turn off, where I usually run, I told myself I'd just head home but no, ended up running a wee bit up it simply because the road was there and that's what I'm used to doing.

Aarghh....no change in eating or routine, but back to 154 - 4lbs up since last week. Well, that's not quite true - due to the heat, I haven't been walking the dogs as much as I was, but that's the only change. So, back out it is.

cherries - size 10...that's fantastic - well done you

Not sure if someone’s already posted about this book. Awesome read! Theory & banground of the original Banting way of eating. Also contains quite a few bc friendly recipes. Worth a read!

Another pound off for me this week making a total of 20. But we’re away for a few days soon and there’s going to be a fair few not low carb meals involved. I’m going to look at it as an experiment to see if I can have a few ‘days off’ for a holiday and then get back on it afterwards.....or not.

What fresh hell is this . My skin has been problematic throughout this woe - very little loose skin, but terrible itching. GP ran loads of tests, including liver function and everything was fine, but I’ve been taking an antihistamine since Feb (when I had my last very bad episode) and I go through a big tub of E45 every 5 days or so. Never had a problem with my skin before. Checked all usual culprits for skin allergy, nothing seems to make a difference. The last week it’s been as if my entire body has dandruff, it truly is disgusting. I take off my clothes and there is a veritable snowdrift. It’s coming off in huge flakes. The only bits not affected are hands, feet, face and scalp. I saw a locum GP today and he said ‘well, this is what happens when you have extreme weight loss’. Is it? I don’t even think my weight loss is ‘extreme’. It took 15 months to shift 70lbs so it was hardly rapid. Really fed up with it.

I haven't lost this week. I haven't been for 3 days though so have resorted to prune juice. Irregular eating and swapping for lates to mornings to nights and back to mornings hasn't helped.

Completely my fault.

The way my belly looks today, I'll have lost 5lb by sundown.

How frustrating ilovecherries

Could you possibly have developed a dairy allergy?

I know you like your cream in your coffee.

Well, once or twice a week it’s not a daily occurrence. I wouldn’t say I ate much dairy at all really. And I have no GI symptoms, it’s purely skin related.

I was just grasping at straws

I think the way I’d describe it is IF Ihave coffee, I will have it with cream. But I’m a very rare coffee drinker.

Given my diet is stripped back toFLGV, protein and olive oil, I’m feeling rather hard done by. I really don’t think it’s an allergy as such. :(

Desperately craving carbs today. I treated myself to a scone yesterday (am on hol) with clotted cream YUM but now I'm obsessing... despite mushroom and courgette omelette for lunch...

ilove I really empathise. Since before Christmas i’ve Had terrible itchy flaking skin on my hands, patches on my elbows, eyelids (dry and sore but not flaking) and I think now one in the back of my head where it meets my neck. So different places to you but really grim. My hand are a painful nightmare. My doctor hasn’t worked it out yet. She prescribed Fucibet - steroid with antibiotic which has done precisely nothing and a tub of very sticky ointment which doesn’t relieve anything but makes everything a real mess. It’s really getting me down as it flakes but is also really really sore and sometimes I just tear at it in frustration. Could be eczema, could be a fungal infection, could be peri-menopause, could be diet but given I am never likely below 20g or even 30g carbs or losing weight I think it’s not that. ☹️

I haven’t tried an antihistamine yet but might try a non-drowsy one if I can find one.
colouringagain I had afternoon tea with my eldest DD on Saturday and have had to have a will of steel not to fall face first into the carbs since.

For those suffering flaky dry sore skin it could be vitamin deficiency such as vit a, bvit2 and iodine. Curtesy of google.

I’m sure you ladies will have checked all this though.

No I hadn’t heard that twoo thanks. I don’t take any vitamin supplements so maybe I am missing something. I need to go back to the doctor so maybe will ask.

My skin has never been better (usually v dry) since this WoE. I reckon its all the water and fat.. I am also 'taking' 2 dessert spoons of good olive oil every morning like medicine.. sometimes vit deficiency does cause skin probs though. A multivit is probably a good idea.

Could you get a referral to a dermatologist ilove?

Thanks laska.
Rshard my doctor said she would consider referring me if she couldn’t solve it so I’m sure that is possible.

This is some of what I take most days. I ‘feel’ a difference if I miss a number of days.

Wow.
I remember now when I first did the Idiot Proof Diet years ago there was quite a list of supplements to take which I did do then and never had a skin problem but that was also 7 years ago so I wasn’t peri menopausal then either.
I think I need to look back at that perhaps.

I'm current taking magnesium tablets and Calcium with Vitamin D & K tablets (the latter because I ran out of my 50+ multivitamins and haven't got round to buying more had some in the bathroom cupboard ) and my skin seems to be holding up.

I am however currently having problems with my scalp (a regular periodic problem since my late teens): it's a form of sebborhaic dermatitis-come-adult cradle cap

Ilovecherries could it be washing detergent or body wash that you've developed an allergy to. A lot of people report back good things on the Child's farm range for skin conditions.

As for the locum commenting on extreme weight loss, that doesn't sound right. You've lost a lot of weight but not in an extreme manner if that makes sense.
I'm not sure people with weight issues ever stand chance of not been criticised by all and sundry in the medical profession. Everything we do is open to criticism.

Well I've had a break from this WOE of eating for a couple of weeks. I felt like I really needed it if I'm honest. I think for me because I don't eat eggs, avocados and fish and a few other good HFLC foods I end up been a bit repetitive.

I enjoyed the break but I'm ready now to get back on again for a while. It's been eye opening to see how others go on and off and still lose weight over time. I had initially approached this with the idea of losing all in one long go, possibly by the end of the year. But this was my second break from low carb since March and I'm thinking I may only manage this with breaks, so I've adjusted my expectations and I'm happy for this to take longer than I initially thought. I'm close to 3 stone off and if I hit 4 by the end of the year I'll be thrilled.

I think that was what really upset me, tbh. I’ve lost all that weight and the medical profession is STILL critical. I’ve taken a multi vit since day one, I tried all the changing detergent etc etc without effect. I don’t have a thyroid gland so I take daily thyroxine and it is VERY well managed. I’ve had various creams and emollients both otc and on prescription. I look like a snake though :(. Piriteze (non drowsy) has helped the itch but this shedding is a new feature.

Can’t take a multi mineral as not allowed iron supplements and it’s next to impossible to get them without iron. Do take magnesium for night cramps and eat salmon/sardines/herring/tuna etc at least 4 times a week.