Jan '20 - Low Carb Bootcamp - The finish line!

[StuntNun]

We've reached the end of the Low Carb Bootcamp so how did you do overall? Add your weigh-in to the Spreadsheet and let us know your plans. Would you like to keep losing weight over the coming week and months? Are you thinking about giving weight maintenance a go? Have you considered introducing intermittent fasting? This thread will continue until the next Bootcamp starts so there will be plenty of support for you.

Morning! Nearly 2 pounds this week so in total 22 pounds this bootcamp. That's a load more than my last year's boot camp when I lost 16 pounds (although 20 counting what I lost by starting a week before Bootcamp proper).

So I am planning on continuing, partly because I really want to get properly below 12 stone, and partly because if I start eating carbs in this situation I may never stop!

Thank you Stuntnun for running this. And Biwi, Athelstane and others for you work.

Morning 11.3lbs loss overall for me. I’m flabbergasted and it was free. Last year I was paying over£20 ph for a personal trainer and achieved sweet FA.

Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who has run this BC.

I intend to try to maintain and will keep up with the threads until next BC.

Take care all.

Thankyou for running this Bootcamp 💐@StuntNun
Very strange times , who could have guessed that we would end the Bootcamp like this !
Not weighing in this morning ,( DD made a lovely Mother’s Day dinner , with chocolate cake for pud )
Last weigh in for me was Friday , and I’ve lost 7 lb in total , which I’m very happy with
Water , water , water is definitely the way forward ✅
Wash your hands , keep healthy and on a positive note I’ll at least try not to put on any weight by the time the next Bootcamp starts

Morning all, I forgot to weigh today, so will post yesterday’s weight which means about 12lbs lost, thank you for all your support.

I’m going to keep going as well as I can, given that we may have less choice of foods over the coming weeks, we are trying to not go to shops as our daughter is in the vulnerable (but we hope not exceptional) group.

Stay well, koko and water, water, water ....

That’s for running this and also everyone who posted and kept this thread going.

I lost 6.4lbs this week making a total of 34.8lbs!

I haven’t done any top up shops this week so have just eaten what gets delivered in my weekly shop - upside of corona virus is the lack of snacks (soft fruit, cream and 100% dark chocolate), I just have to make do with what I have.

KOKO everyone and thanks again

Just reporting in at the end that thanks to following the rules properly at the start, notwithstanding a 2 week AI holiday and the last 2 weeks being a comfort eating carb fest I have still lost over 7kg from the start. Once I can settle into a new routine wfh and looking after the kids, intend to go back to this WOE as I felt much better on it. The main motivation of wanting to get back into my summer clothes is just so futile and trivial with everything else going on though. Hope that by the time we have another one of these BC there will be a better new normality for everyone. Some great losses for those who KOKO and inspiring to come back to this properly. Take care in the meantime all

After around 3 weeks with little to no movement, today the scales must have sensed the gravity of final weigh-in day, for I was rewarded with a 2lb loss!!

That's 17lb this boot camp, and takes me into the 11 stones for the first time in as long as I can remember (but most likely 20 years)

Over the two boot camps it's a total loss of around 3.5 stone, which is brilliant. I'd like to lose another 1st I think ideally some off my tits which will take me to healthy BMI range

Thanks for the threads and the company, I will be sticking around in between so look forward to hearing how everyone else is doing

Another shocking 2lb down, bringing me to 173lb and a 12lb loss this Bootcamp. Quite possibly my best ever. Almost as though when I pass a long-standing hump things finally flow again for a bit, until I hit the next hump. Which is fine. Slowly slowly, etc.

I do have to confess having scoffed a chicken legend with cool mayo yesterday, Mothering Sunday. Just in time as well, what with the closing of UK McDonald’s, but it was a “gift” from eldest to the family. He was basically desperate for a massive Big Mac meal. #teenagers

Loving the sunshine. Loving the water. Thanks to all who made this Bootcamp happen for us all.

Lots of happy campers here! Well done all.

1lb down which considering I've been self-isolating so pretty sedentary is amazing. 17lb in total this bootcamp.

I'm planning to continue. Hopefully I'm getting married in October and still have a lot to lose.

I've decided that there's lots at the moment which is totally out of my hands, but my weight isn't one. I'm not going to pile it on through boredom and laziness.

Thanks so much Stuntnun and everyone who has helped make this such a great bootcamp. I've eaten a bit of crap this weekend but overall I'm 5lbs down, and it has been 7lbs at quite a few points over the last few weeks. Pretty happy with my weight really just going to jog along in maintenance i think until I get in sniffing distance of beachwear.

Swimming, gym and parkrun cancelled obviously but did a nice socially distanced longish run with DH and the buggy yesterday and planning to run outside locally while that's still allowed. I've also started a 30 Day Yoga with Adriene series to replace my morning swims, keep some focus and get something positive out of all this!

I will keep drinking the water, avoiding the carbs and eating the FLGV. I'll try to do some more IF too.

Stay safe everyone x

Because I should be working but am bored shirtless, I’ve decided to crow a bit more about myself.

I posted my weight loss this Bootcamp of 12lbs, which is great for me, but wanted to mention the overall success.

Since September 2016 when I took baby steps with this way of eating I’ve now lost a total of 63lbs, or roughly 28 kilos, or roughly 4.5 stones.

And looking at those numbers, I know why I like to weigh in lbs. Far more dramatic and satisfying!

You’re all fab.

Thank you @StuntNun for a great boot camp. No weigh in for me because the scales I use are locked away from the public but I'm moderately happy with the progress I've made.

Congratulations to all of the losers and hope you KOKO.

6lb for me. This BC was bordering on traumatic for me. Thanks everyone so much for your support.

Some great losses including some lurkers.

Onwards in there crazy times BCers! x

Well done everyone who is KOKO during a challenging time. And thank you @StuntNun for running this bootcamp.

Well this is odd. My husband discovered the joys of Aldi recently and about six weeks ago purchased a turkey. He’s defrosted it and cooked it so apparently we’re having turkey and veg etc for dinner tonight.

Turkey in March. Wow. Gobble gobble.

Morning all, coming in to say hello and hope your all okay.

Good news in the Not Watching Tv household, we are going to be 7 days into our social isolating by the end of today and so far all are well. My daughter is in a vulnerable group and so we have been very careful.

I have taken to having soup at lunch time, but avoiding the carbs

Stay home, stay well and water, water, water 😀

I’m staying. There’s a lot of baking in this house right now, but need to resist. Keep safe and well and thanks to everyone who had been so supportive x

Upside to LCHF in the current circumstances: never been so smug not to eat pasta, rice, noodles etc!

Downside: only 2 packs of eggs allowed in Sainsbury's. 12 eggs would last two days max normally, less with toddler DS at home and DSD moved in!

I just can't bring myself to weigh in now, we've been in self isolation for two weeks and the good food ran out and I've been eating Tinned carby crap 😭 I have spots and aicd indigestion and am back to not sleeping. It's a bit rubbish. Anyway not getting on the scales so will leave it as my last weight and hopefully will be able to get back to low carb soon. Hope everyone else did well ❤️❤️❤️

Can I join in? I’ve been low carbing for about a month and lost 10lbs - I sts for about a 10 days which was very frustrating as a daily weigher but had another 2lbs off this morning so I’m more enthusiastic again now.

Finding it quite hard to find eggs at the minute but I’m saving the protein and fat for me and my husband is getting pasta and rice to eke the low carb food out a bit longer!

I am starting to skip breakfast too (mostly due to the egg shortage) so a bit of intermittent fasting is creeping in.

Welcome Chic. Don't worry about STS for ten days, that's a typical pattern of weight loss. I recommend measuring your waist (and hips and bust if you like) since you'll often lose inches without losing weight. I measured everything when I first started and was very surprised that I lost a centimetre from my wrists. I didn't even know I had "fat" wrists lol!

Welcome DietChic and hello to everyone else.

I’m still thoroughly taking advantage of this continued sunshine by sitting in the garden as much as possible while we start week 2 of our self isolation after son was sent home.

We’re all fine, if a little tired or run down or coughing or runny nosing, but eating well, trying to keep up with school assignments, being kind, working when possible from home, and generally just adjusting to this new way of existing.

I ate three brownies last night that my daughter made. Can’t tell you how uncharacteristic that is of me. I’m not the sweets/puds eater, generally couldn’t care less and never really have.

So today I’ve mixed up some tuna mayo and about to make turkey and low carb veg soup, will also do a Greek salad. I think the chaos of the last week has led to a sense of relaxation and ennui that in turn fuelled the brownie scoffing.

Or perhaps I’m stressed about this covid-19 but burying it so deeply I didn’t recognise the danger of falling into comfort eating.

Either way, I’m not going to continue with nonsense Brownie moments.

Weigh-in this morning was fine so not worried. Glad I caught it and am doing something about it.

Self care, everyone. And yes, I know I’m rambling.