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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.

Low Carb Bootcamp starting 13 January 2020 - getting ready!

151 replies

StuntNun · 01/01/2020 16:03

If you haven't signed up yet then add your name to the sign-up thread. If you have any questions then you can ask them here or on the chat thread from the last Bootcamp.

If you haven't Bootcamped before then make sure to read the ten Low Carb Bootcamp rules. To summarise them:

  1. Eat three meals a day, plus snacks if you're hungry.
  2. Avoid processed foods and choose real foods as far as possible.
  3. Eat lots of fat. We're replacing carb calories with fat calories.
  4. Eat plenty of low carb vegetables and salad.
  5. Be careful about dairy apart from butter which is unlimited. Milk is high carb. Cheese, full-fat yogurt and cream are lower carb but I suggest no more than two portions per day.
  6. Drink a minimum of 2 litres of water per day. This can include herbal tea, bone broth, and bouillon.
  7. No alcohol for at least the first two weeks.
  8. No fruit for the first two weeks.
  9. No nuts/seeds for the first two weeks unless you are vegetarian.
10. No sugar or artificial sweeteners.

You will not be eating starchy foods such as bread, pasta, rice, cereals (yes even porridge), or flour. You will not be eating sugary foods such as cakes, desserts, sweet drinks including fruit juice, biscuits, honey, agave syrup, or balsamic vinegar.

You will be eating real foods: meat, fish, eggs, full-fat cheese and yogurt, healthy fats, and plenty of low carb vegetables. After the first two weeks you can move to Bootcamp Light and reintroduce some low carb fruits, nuts, seeds, and dark chocolate.

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Harveywoo · 12/01/2020 17:36

Thanks for the shopping list @StuntNun! I’m busily eating ALL the carbs tonight removing the larder temptations ready for a fresh start tomorrow. Blush

Teapotdespot · 12/01/2020 19:01

Lovely to hear from other women with PCOS who have had success on this WOE, thank you Flowers

Well, keto adapted Italian wedding soup is spectacular if I do say so myself!

It’s a full meal and it’s incredibly filling (photo is the mix before the broth is added), you don’t miss the pasta at all.

Recipe:
Bacon lardons
Pork and beef mince (highest fat you can find)
Parmesan
2 eggs
Celery
Shallots
Garlic
Swede
Leeks
Red cabbage
Spinach
2 tins of tomatoes
Fresh tarragon, parsley and basil
Lard/dripping/ olive oil, whatever you prefer to cook with.

Mix your mince with the block of Parmesan (grated) and 2 eggs, salt and pepper and form into small balls, 5p sized ideally. This takes a while if you’re doing a batch.

Fry your lardons off in a pan with your cooking fat. Once cooked, fish them out with a slotted spoon and put to one side, but leave the fat in the pan.

Add your meatballs to the fat and brown them off. Easier to do this in batches to stop them breaking up.

Once brown, fish them out of the pan but LEAVE THE FAT IN THE PAN Grin

Put a second large pan of water on the hob.

Cut your celery, shallots and garlic and add them to your fat pan, but add all your veg peelings and trimmings to your water pan.

Once that veg is brown, add your leeks, then the swede and red cabbage and remember to throw all trimmings into the water pan for the stock.

Add a couple of stock cubes to the stock pan and let the fat pan cook off a bit.

Add your meatballs and lardons back to the fat pan and cook in the mix for 5 mins, then turn it off, cover and let it sit.

Reduce your stock pan until you have a good veggie flavour.

Once you have a decent stock from the veg peelings, drain it into your fat pan, then add your tarragon, basil and parsley, tinned tomatoes and at the last minute, stir through the spinach, a knob of butter and then let it cook for an hour or so on a low heat.

It’s divine Grin

Low Carb Bootcamp starting 13 January 2020 - getting ready!
NoOneCaresInRealLife · 12/01/2020 19:07

Hi , just done my keto shop and sent a few recipes to my dhl phone ( he does all the cooking as I'm the main earner). I'm excited but a bit baffled tbh. Planning on having boiled egg x2 in a cup with butter for breakfast and tinned tuna, mayo and cucumber sticks for lunch. Drinks are green tea or water. Green olives for snacking. Dont know if I'm on the right lines so any advice is welcome. Looking to lose 56lbs!! Eek

Rshard · 12/01/2020 19:17

Really looking forward to bootcamp starting in the morning!

Your soup looks amazing teapot, but I need an explanation of the name??

StuntNun · 12/01/2020 19:22

Make sure you've got plenty of food for the first few days Noonecares so you don't get too hungry.

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prettybird · 12/01/2020 19:29

Teapotdespot - can you post that recipe on the pork/beef thread so that it's easier to find in future, please.

Teapotdespot · 12/01/2020 19:37

Rshard apparently a soup with meatballs and pasta in it is traditionally served at Italian weddings but now is more often served in Italian restaurants in the US. My grandma used to make it for all the grandkids when we stayed with her because it was cheap and filling and she spent a lot of her early life in Italy. Because of her, in our house the version with pasta is known as ‘nan soup’ Grin

Mine isn’t really an Italian wedding soup because it has tomatoes and A LOT more Parmesan/ meat to replace the pasta, and mine has a lot more veg and bits than hers did just because I’m harder to fill up these days Grin DH has named this version ‘teapot soup’ since teapot is the name I’m using specifically for boot camp (he loves mumsnet too Blush)

It’s the first time I’ve tried to adapt anything for Keto, but to be honest it tastes very similar, it’s just got a bit more fat and a lot more meat and veg Grin

Teapotdespot · 12/01/2020 19:37

prettybird yep Smile

TheClitterati · 12/01/2020 20:29

I'm all set and ready for my first ever low carb diet/low carb boot camp tomorrow - quite excited. I've actually had a week already without any sugar or refined carbohydrates are but I haven't got any where near going into Ketosis I don't think. I made a huge part of lentil and vegetable soup but I've since seen while lentils aren't refined carbohydrates they do contain quite a few carbohydrates. I had 500 g of lentils over six days in soup.

I've done a big shop the fridges stocked. I've had a roast chicken & salad for dinner tonight and the bones are bubbling in pressure-cooker to make bone broth.

While I am quite overweight i stopped dieting years ago. . However I have some health issues mainly INS and tendinitis / inflammation in my body.

I did a meat and vegetable low carb-ish eating month last year and while I didn't lose any weight I did improve my Gut/IBS tremendously.

And then I was looking into what I could do to help my tendinitis/inflammation and what sort of anti-inflammatory eating I could do and that's what lead me to look at reducing carbohydrates. Spent gathering weekend looking at you tube videos on sugar free/refined carb eating and eventually remembered are out the boot camps I'd seem on MN so here I am.

I'd like to lose 28 kg. I could probably do with losing 38 kg. But one step at a time. I'm having so many problems with my knees ankles tendons and everything now that it's really health that is driving me to lose the weight.

I totally get this insulin resistance bandwagon- I can see I've been on it for years. I'm sceptical about this high fat way of eating but happy to jump in and give it a good go.

Rshard · 12/01/2020 21:39

Lovely explanation teapot, thanks!

StuntNun · 12/01/2020 21:54

TheClitterati by way of inspiration I lost 30lb in five months from starting Bootcamp and cured my IBS and arthritis along the way. As added benefits I no longer get period pains (used to be on wall-to-wall painkillers for the first three days) and my teeth are much healthier without sugar.

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TheClitterati · 12/01/2020 22:18

That sounds amazing StunNun!
One day at a time. I'm already gently exercising but with all the injuries & pain it's hard to do more than swim now.

Yabadee · 12/01/2020 22:44

Good luck tomorrow everyone! Are we having a starting weigh in?

RozHuntleysStump · 12/01/2020 23:10

I’m ready for tomorrow. Went to M&S today and got lots of nice foods. I’m looking forward to shifting some more weight! 3 stone last year. And I hope to lose another 3 this year. Or at least 2.

venusandmars · 12/01/2020 23:37

Ooh, I can't believe I missed this thread, and all the exciting planning and early progress from those who've started early.

@stuntnun what a star Star tons of information, support and ideas.

Looking forward to the start in the morning.

rosesandsunflowers · 12/01/2020 23:55

Thanks @stuntnun for all the info. I'm on board for my second bootcamp. I was doing really well before Christmas but have fallen quite spectacularly off the wagon. Remarkably I've only put on 0.6kg which considering I've eaten my body weight in sweets and drank a fair amount of wine to go with it over the last couple of weeks is not too bad. I'm quite looking forward to going back to this WOE as I've noticed a huge change in my mood swings since I've been back on the carbs and sugar. This time I'm going to try and combine some exercise too so hoping for some better results. Good luck everyone!

StuntNun · 13/01/2020 06:06

Yabadee most people weigh in every Monday. There's also a starting weight column on the spreadsheet for those who began early.

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StuntNun · 13/01/2020 06:07

The Low Carb Bootcamp has now started! So join us on the Week 1 Low Carb Bootcamp thread.

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Yabadee · 13/01/2020 06:45

Thanks @StuntNun I added my name to the list on the other thread, how do I add starting weight to the spreadsheet?

Checking in today at 15st 4lb 🙌🏻

StuntNun · 13/01/2020 06:58

Yabadee if you can't access the spreadsheet (I use a PC to access it) then post your weight on the new thread and someone will add it for you.

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BIWI · 13/01/2020 08:26

If you're using your phone or tablet you may find that you need to download the Google docs app to be able to use the spreadsheet. Please try this first - but if you really can't access it that way, then post your weight on the chat thread and someone else will add it for you.

CheddarGorgeous · 13/01/2020 09:21

Good luck everyone. My starting weight is exactly what I was a year ago when I started to try to lose weight so determined not to make all the same mistakes again!

CheddarGorgeous · 13/01/2020 09:24

Sorry - also - can someone remind me what WOE stands for again??

StuntNun · 13/01/2020 09:32

Cheddar please post on the Week 1 Low Carb Bootcamp thread. WOE stands for way of eating as in this is not a diet, this is a way of eating.

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NewYolo2020 · 13/01/2020 09:33

Hello, can you add me please. Long time low carber, fallen off wagon (I know, there is no wagon!). Put on weight over Xmas and feeling awful. Taking action now!

3 days in and already lost 1.4kg

Weight currently 95.4kg for the spreadsheet