Jan '20 - Week 8 Low Carb Bootcamp - Springing into March

[StuntNun]

How has everyone got on this week? It's time to weigh-in and update the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness. We had a few newbies joining us last week so a quick reminder to ask any questions you might have. This Way of Eating really works but sometimes it can be hard to see the wood for the trees when you're in the middle of your weight loss journey so let's keep motivating each other.

weegierama Bullet proof coffee is OK if you need to up your fats. However they don't have much nutrition. You'd be better eating broccoli, spinach or cabbage cooked in a similar amount of butter. And don't forget to drink lots of water.

The aim of this woe is to eat healthily in a way that is sustainable and interesting over the long term. A strict keto diet might include a lot more bullet proof coffee, but not so many veg.

Sometimes when people are very close to target and weight loss has stalled, bullet proof coffee might help, but otherwise stick to the bootcamp rules.

At an event all day, which makes the water drinking a bit of a problem.
Brunch (before I go) - creamy scrambled egg, crispy pancetta, a little bit of black pudding, mushrooms
Snack - avocado
D - pork belly, green beans, butter

Morning All

Yes, deep sleep is an unexpected bonus on this woe and, I too, now have weird, intense dreams.

prettybird I bought some Twinings Buttermint tea yesterday after reading your recommendation and it is lush! Like drinking a bag of Werthers butter mints.

Yesterday:
Groundhog B: Homemade low carb banana waffle with blueberries and a splodge of thick double cream. 2 x coffee with cream
Groundhog E: Decaf coffee with cream. Square of 90% Lindt
L: Tuna salad with avocado
D: We went out for an Indian: Shami kebab. Butter chicken. Saag bhajee. Small white wine. Waiter offered us a Baileys on the house and we both declined. Then another waiter came whilst we were waiting for the bill and offered again, and I cracked and had one...totally delicious!

2 x fruit teas. Loadsa water

Today:
B & E: No prizes for guessing..
L: 2 x fried eggs with spinach
D: Salmon, kale, broccoli

Water. Fruit teas

Next weigh in will be Tuesday morning when I can get on the electronic scales.

Hope you're feeling better athelstane

Glad you like the Buttermint tea - if was someone on here who recommended it to me initially

A wee possibly dangerous suggestion: if you eat mindfully of course your square of Lindt 90% chocolate at the same time as having a cup of Buttermint (or other mint) tea, it tastes like you are having a mint chocolate

Might have to give that a whirl..it would also mean shedding 1 x creamy coffee, which is probably no bad thing!

Please may I join?

My reasons and motivations are to lose a few pounds to help my knees (I’m not overweight on bmi chart so hope it’s ok to join, hoping to reduce bmi 21-22 (currently bmi 24) but main affects I’m hoping will be on my mood, premenstrual tension and to stop turning to carbs when stressed (I used to run but can’t any longer 😢).

Planning to do it through a med type of approach. I’m almost vegetarian (will eat chicken and fish on occasion).

Thank you

Morning. I'm 3lb up from yesterday
I blame TOTM. I'm due on in a few days and ways gain loads of weight just before. (I checked once and I'd gained 6lb!)
So I expect it to drop again in a week or so.

Anyway
Breakfast: cheesy scrambled egg and spinach
Lunch: boiled egg and ham salad
Dinner: beef stew

Did okay drinks wise last night. Two small white wines (from a box ) then a G&T when home later. Forgot to bring my Greek salad so had only the chicken and one chip.

Really have a hankering for Mexican food so a burrito bowl seems in the cards soon.

Scales say I’ve lost another pound. Still don’t trust it!!!

Welcome. Only a couple more weeks to go here but feel free to be add yourselves to the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness and enjoy all the support.

Afternoon all.

An interesting piece here from the Fast 800, about the latest research into intermittent fasting

Just realised I’m only 20lbs off the weight I was when I got married. And I looked good when I got married.

Suddenly everything seems doable, like not much more effort at all. I’ve always known I’d get there but in my head I was thinking “just over halfway” or “gosh, three stone still to lose,” but actually...

I truly wonder, if I, for example, committed to strict BC, summer holidays would be within my grasp by August.

That’s nearly five months, so less than 5lb per month to lose. That seems absolutely achievable!

Wouldn’t put me at Normal BMI, but not far from it. Plus I’m older and we’ve discussed BMI targets for older women—the school of thought that it can and possibly should have a higher upper range for the menopausal.

Anyway, that was my bit of lightbulb whilst sitting in the sunshine enjoying the breeze and the garden and having a slimline tonic (no vodka) as a break from tap.

It’s a long road and I’m still walking it, but feeling good today. KOKO.

... and heading into (hopefully!) warmer, drier weather will also help @ShagMeRiggins

Welcome to the new people and that's great Riggins; while our "journeys" are quite different I think we treat bootcamp pretty similarly and actually sometimes it does good to think actually if I just dig in, I can totally do this!

I've had a terrible case of the fuck-its the last few days. A guest with chocolate and wine, office sweets and a leaving cake, and another piece Christmas cake. Tomorrow will see me pay the price, but still, I'm feeling and looking good and tantalisingly close to target (hence the fuck-it's)!

Lovely curry tonight: a tomato and aubergine one loosely based on a hairy bikers recipe and the IPD butter chicken which I hadn't realised I'd never made before. Cauli rice. Delicious.

It’s funny how the Fuckits are uninvited guests a few days/weeks into Bootcamp, and also appear nearer goal weights, isn’t it?

The Fuckits can be great fun, sometimes they’re really bad friends or relatives or neighbours that you just don’t want to see, sometimes they’re the life of the party.

Very tricky to deal with, those Fuckits.

New Low Carb Bootcamp threadd* alert.