Week 2 - January Low Carb Bootcamp - my favourite week!

[BIWI]

I love this week - when we find out how much people have lost, and all those of you who haven't really believed it will work are proved wrong!

Here's the spreadsheet

I hope that the scales have been kind to you, or that your measurements have gone down and your clothes are feeling looser!

I look forward to hearing about everyone's progress.

Here's to a great week 2 as well

@prettybird, I find it's still cheaper to get the biggest bucket! They stock in the chemist. Worth comparing price per kg anyway.

Home Bargains does epsom salts for £1 a kilo bag (or did last year, before I moved away). I nearly fainted when I saw they were £5 per 500g in Tesco.

Not for much longer MrsF! Just keep KOKO and you'll beat that dream before you know it.

@AandL that sounds lovely - but just be careful: you've got a lot of processed stuff going on in your menus - ham, bacon, chorizo ...

@BrassicaBabe - that sounds really tasty! Is it a recipe or have you magicked that one up yourself?

If the pizza sauce is 8g per portion that sounds fine, given that everything else is meat or cheese.

OK - A BIG HEADS UP ABOUT NEXT WEEK (AND THE WEEK AFTER)

Next week you can, if you want to, move on to Bootcamp Light, which means you can add some fruit (mainly berries), nuts/seeds and some alcohol into your diet. All in moderation and not at every meal!

The rules for Bootcamp Light are on the spreadsheet.

However, you also need to bear in mind that weeks 3 and 4 (and occasionally 5) are infamous for little or no weight loss - and occasionally gain. If this happens to you, do not despair!. It is quite normal, and once we get through these weeks, weight loss will resume, albeit at a slower pace than before - you can expect to see 1-2lbs per week most weeks.

So it's up to you. If you want, you can stay on Bootcamp if you'd prefer a stricter approach. Or you can do a hybrid - Bootcamp Mon-Fri, and Bootcamp Light at the weekend.

If you stay on Bootcamp please, please, please make sure that you are getting your carbs mainly from vegetables and salad, so that you're getting the right nutrients

@BIWI the rough recipe for pizza casserole comes from here kaseytrenum.com/pizza-casserole-keto-low-carb/ I follow her on FB. It's a bit American (ranch sauce and other packet sauces) so this is the first useful post I've found

I bought a spiralizer and had Thai beef with holy basil and courgette 'noodles' last night. So good!

And the scales have started moving in the right direction.

DH has left Dry January with some enthusiasm but I'm oddly still fine with it. Seeing him bleary eyed in the morning helps.

And my run yesterday was great. Fingers crossed I'm over the hump.

Hi all, looking forward to weigh in tomorrow. I have a question about energy levels.

Basically since starting the diet I have been exhausted, I mean falling asleep at 5/6pm everyday. Is this normal? Something I am doing wrong?

I am a daily weigher do know I am losing weight but the exhaustion is getting to me now.

@Methemummy

Well, it could be carb flu, but you should be through that by now.

So list out for me what you've been eating and drinking over the last few days and let me see if I can help.

@biwi the exhaustion has been constant since day 3. I had carb flu day 3/4 but the exhaustion has lingered.

Yesterday
B: scrambled egg & bacon
L: chicken salad (lettuce cucumber small amount of tomato and advacado)
D: taco’s ( lettuce taco shells with mince, cheese and homemade salsa) with celeriac chips.
Plus 4 litres of water

Today
B: cheese & spinach omelette
L: pulled pork with small amount of salad (was out watching a football tournament so had to make do with what I could find in cafeteria)
D: will be steak with flat mushroom and peppercorn sauce
So far had 2.5litres if water.

How much fat would you say you're having? It looks to me like you could do with a bit more fat - the sources of protein you're using all look like they're lean meat. And are you adding an oily dressing and/or mayonnaise to your salads?

What about salt? Do you cook with it, and add it to your food? It could be that your electrolytes are out of whack, so you need sodium, potassium and magnesium.

Try having a drink of water to which you've added some salt and lemon juice, and see if that helps.

Thanks for coming back to me @biwi. Tend to mayo with everything, chicken is always with skin, fattest mince beef etc olive oil salad dressing. Always cook with salt but I will try a drink with salt.

I am losing weight so happy in that respect very happy but expected to feel a little better by now.

Methemummy what time would you normall fall asleep?

If you fall asleep at 6pm, do you sleep through—that is, is this an afternoon exhaustion slump from which you recover after a short nap, or is that you down for the night?

Have you ever had sleep issues before?

Could you be pregnant?

What time do you wake up?

Apologies for the interrogation, this is something I haven’t heard of lasting 10 days on LCHF, so I’m curious.

StuntNun sorry about your finger and I agree that celeriac is an absolute pig to cut.

I use a crinkle cutter (like a mezzaluna but with handle). Mine is from the Pampered Chef, but they don’t trade in Britain anymore .

I’ve attached a photo and think if you can find a decent one it’s the easiest way to peel celeriac and other root vegetables (swede, squash, pumpkins), plus it can make chips, and if it’s a curved one it’s especially easy to chop herbs. So yeah. Cool.

There might be a bit of loss of the actual veg because straight cut rather than guided peeler.

Pic of finished pizza casserole. It was good. Although I have to confess quite hard to eat alongside DH and kids eating comforting gooey pizza.

Anyhow, next time I'll use less tomato sauce and find some more pizza like veg to add. I don't have any green pepper and all I could think about was sweet corn.

Don't have sweetcorn! It's really carby!

Yep, that's why I only had a sprinkle of onions and olives. I would have used green pepper if I had one...

Whatever happened to Fathead Pizza? It was all the rage a few Bootcamps ago...

@ShagMeRiggins

I tend to keep myself awake until 8.30/9 then head to be, albeit yawning my hea off. Usually asleep within 20 minutes and will sleep through until alarm goes off at 6.30. Today no alarm so slept through until 8. No sleep issues.

Unlikely pregnant ( told many years ago unable to convieve plus finish totm a few days ago). I have had 1 periods within last 6 weeks, assumed diet had messed up cycle.

Friend popped around earlier and commented I look ill, apparently very pale! But that husband has said anything about that.

I am beginning to wonder about being anemic, had this before many years ago and remember being so tired then.

What is fathead pizza?

I missed breakfast as I had a VERY late start to the day but had late afternoon coffee with lots of cream to make up for it.
Lunch was half an avocado and samon that had a mascarpone/garlic/lemon bit in the middle (M&S)
Dinner is going to be lamb chop and assortment of veg

Disastrous day!

Went to PIL's for lunch. They are 88, lovely but quite set in their ways. They think I'm faddy because I drink herbal tea (have to take my own tea bags when I visit )

Usually if we visit, depending on how MIL is feeling, either she will make a roast lunch, or if she's not been so good I'll make a casserole to take. MIL has been feeling chipper so said she'd do lunch today. She decided that people would have had enough roast meat over Christmas, so instead she delved into the Mary Berry cookery book she got for Christmas and made..... PASTA BAKE, followed by STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING

She was so pleased with herself. I had no option but to have the smallest possible portions. To make it worse, dh and I were in a sunny place over Christmas / New Year and neither of us had any roast meat and I was looking forward to the usual!

Then to top it off, before we left to drive home, FIL pulls out a huge pile of sandwiches that he'd made, and sets them down on the table alongside a Victoria Sponge filled with jam and cream. MIL is proud of her featherlight touch in the baking arena. I have never liked cake of any sort, but for 20++ years I've been smiling and graciously accepting.

I was completely unprepared for today's food. Dh, is lovely and kind and supportive of everything I'm doing, but I know he would not have supported me if I'd refused point blank to eat a morsel of MIL's cooking. Which was what I wanted to do. I feigned a headache at teatime to avoid the worst excesses of the sandwiches and cake, and sipped delicately on my herbal tea. But in fact the headache is real, I feel awful, and as though I've put on about half a stone in an hour.

Rather dreading the scales tomorrow (and the next day), and I am definitely NOT going boot-camp lite this week.

Oh, don’t beat yourself up venus. I’ve had a “cheat” day too. It’s a marathon, not a sprint, and I’ll be back on it tomorrow. I have promised myself I’m not going to regain the lbs I’ve lost so far.

I’m laughing at “we can’t have roast meat so soon after Christmas” though

Hmm. @Haworthia - you can't have cheat days on this WOE! Especially not in the first two weeks. You can make any promises you like to yourself, but if you cheat you won't lose!