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.

I’m so proud of you SophieRay and impressed by the duration! Accountability can be hugely helpful. Even if you hadn’t gone walking you could still have come here and said nope, I didn’t do it, I’ll do it now or I’ll do it tomorrow. Whatever, it keeps the goal alive rather than forgotten.

So. What’s your plan for tomorrow? Or should I pop on my personal trainer hat for you and assign somethin?

Ta, Venus, you may be right. Although I am prone to frustration anyway, so not sure I can blame it on the virus. Hope you fixed your issue with people.

Congrats, Diet, Venus and Sophie on your lbs! And Sophie's walk. I notice Shag is being quiet on whether she made the garage treadmill

Hope the weekend plan is unfolding correctly, Brassica?

I'm about 4lbs down from my high of 10 stones two weeks' ago when I decided enough. I should really (based on rest of life) be around 8 1/2, so 9 1/2 is my flashing red warning weight, and 10... well, 10 means it got urgent.

My jeans are not painful anymore, so that's a fairly quick win

B: coffee
L: still fannying about with compost, but will be cold baked salmon with mayonnaise and (fecking AGAIN) iceberg lettuce
D: no idea

Nope! But the day’s not over.

The day is going well. Pasta pesto for the kids. And I only pinched about 5. I've cleaned the house. (Going to lose my shit when people leave stuff!). 10 mile gentle bike ride in the sun. Rest of family will have fish and chips for dinner which I will drive to pick up but I'll have something else. A few years ago not having take away while everyone else did was unthinkable! Yeah, I'll probably drink 3/4 of a bottle of wine. So won't be polishing the halo just yet!

And if I'm really winning on the day I'll shower, wash my hair and shave my legs (nearly one inch!!) Jury is out on that one!

my day has mostly involved shoveling around 1,000L of manure, topsoil, and compost. A real win would be a bath and a good scrub.

Actual win is likely to be not eating all the crisps nor drinking all the wine. got to have some left for tomorrow

We're not actually ON bootcamp, after all...

Bye bye 4lbs loss

Public Announcement!! I have shaved my legs!!

And in similar vein I am about to cut my toenails...

shag and sophie I was with you on your walk this morning. I'm still trying to do 10,000 steps but it's a challenge. Usually I walk to the shops for groceries, but that's not really on at the moment. I feel like a really ungrateful bugger - I live in a wonderful place with walks on the beach, by a river, in the woods, across playing fields. But I'm bored with them.

Often at weekends dh and I would drive to one of our favourite places for a long walk, maybe have a spot of lunch. Now the weekend is the same as all the other days - leave the house and decide if we turn left to the beach or right to the river / woods. I know I am massively lucky, please don't shout or throw things.

Still trying to keep on plan, so:
B - scrambled egg, bacon, fried mushroom
L - pate and salad
D - greek lamb burgers and sauted 'veg'

The 'veg' are actually all the thinnings from the radish, spinach, lettuce that were planted recently.

Thank you ShagMe . I couldn't come back on and say I hadn't done it - I did consider not coming back at all, but like it here or my other thought was coming back under a different name . Instead I just did it! Once I'd made the effort to go out it didn't seem worth the effort for just 10 minutes so thought I'd do 20-30 but was enjoying what I was listening to

Was just thinking same again tomorrow but thought if I brought the time forward half an hour tomorrow then half an hour again Monday I could still get it in before work at 9, but please let me know if you have any better suggestions for me??

I did ok food wise as well until just now, had bacon, eggs and mushrooms for breakfast which was the hardest thing I've had to do food wise since I started on Wednesday as we always have home made pancakes on a Saturday. A couple of pepperami for lunch. Then just had meatballs in a spicy tomato sauce with cauliflower rice, but DD baked scones and she gets really offended when she makes something and I don't try some so I felt like I had to have one. Not sure how to get round that.

SophieRay dh and I have been 'walking to work' most mornings. We leave the house an hour before he has to be on his computer (I'm self employed and wfh so more flexible - plus all my work is cancelled and I have bugger all to do!). Then when we get back into the house, it's like a real demarcation between home and work time. Plus we have to get out of our pyjamas before we leave the house!

At the end of the working day I quite often 'walk home from work' with a friend (she also wfh), although this week it's been more like a chat while sitting on the bus - each of us in chairs in our gardens!

The routine has helped me to have more shape to my day, and it stops dh from working all hours.

I like that idea venus. The days do tend to blur when working from home I find.

Sophie I think eventually you’ll want to mix it up but for now repeating the walk at an earlier time and establish it as your morning routine.

Well done on the walking sophie! Dd and I do similar to venus and her dh, but our walk marks the end of our day.

Uh-oh, I've woken with that feeling.... I WANT TO GO OUT!!!

I don't know what's for dinner. The kids are sick of roasted meat, cabbage and jacket potato. Can't say I blame them. (When can 8 year olds have wine for dinner?! 🤔)

I will have a session in the row machine today. Already feel the motivation for veg box digging waning.

I WANT TO GO OUT!

Well done to everyone. I expect lots of people are thinking they want to go out. It is very hard for so many people (not for me as I have a garden and work from home - in fact I haven't had a single walk or cycle since lock down started although my student sons have had loads so they have probably had my share. I do yoga in the sunshine and the garden and also sadly very busy working including today, Sunday although that is a classic excuse for not exercising really).

I thought for the first time in 7 weeks I had not lost weight but the scales had moved (old fashioned ones not battery operated) so I did lose a pound last week. In theory I want to lose one a week.

It is a good time to lose weight. I look at some of those 20,000 who have died of CV and of the younger ones so very many are over weight - that is either because most people are over weight and they are just a representative selection of UK people or else this horrible virus really does have a nastier impact on those with weight around their tummy area particularly men but a good few women too.

I went out to the supermarket yesterday at 6 (not too bad a queue) and got everything I wanted including samphire which I like to fry with my steak in olive oil and I had not had for 5 weeks....currently I have one drawer of our two fridges (and part of the back of the door of one) and my student son twins have all the rest and all the freezer sections for their food. It is like living in a student house at times but their cooking for each other every night is really good, loads of fresh veg and good food (one is vegan) and we re all getting on fine. For lots of families it is very very hard. My parents spent about 50 years rowing until death. My own 20 year marriage was awful too. Now I live in a peaceful nirvana where no one ever even raises a voice. I appreciate that every day. I think we are just very lucky, the 3 of us to be quite clam and happy. Mind you we have it made - I work from home, enough money and work still I hope coming in and they can finish their degrees this term from home. I got off the diet topic.......

Good luck to everyone in their efforts. It is another lovely sunny day but I think it is going to get colder so let us make the most of it. i would love to get back out in the garden to move more compost I had delivered on to beds but must start work now........

Erm, can you not go out Brassica? Or do you mean an hour's blast round the local walk is not what you're after?

Sounds like you're really bored in general - is there a new 'out' you can try? A different walk/cycle/erm... obstacle course?

Apols if that's the wrong end of the stick, and what you mean by 'out' is nightclubs, sequins, James Bond and martinis.

Congratulations on joining the '1lb this week' club, Xenia. Tiny bit jealous of your samphire - my local shop has had nothing but iceberg and leeks since forever. I so miss broccoli.

Having said that, I'm reminded I have a bag of frozen in the freezer. Never tried it before, will give it a whirl today.

I so agree with the feeling of luck and thankfulness to have a quiet house. My husband was not a... placid person even before he became ill. Years on I still bless every day I wake up in peace, and sit down in the evening in peace. Now, of course, I am extra grateful that I can still WFH full time, save the commuting costs, and continue paying the mortgage and not quite blow all the savings on stuff for the garden

There is plenty to be done/built/shifted in my garden and I am very grateful to have it. But I do miss my munros and the feeling of space that a day's walking and climbing gives. Going around in circles in the garden with a wheelbarrow isn't quite the same.

Yeah, I'm just a bit bored. Stuff I could do but bored. We live 45 mins drive from the beach, and one of them a real quiet one, but it doesn't feel right to go.

We also live about 2 miles from marsh/sea. Hmm, maybe we could swing that one. That marsh is likely to have samphire growing. Although it's a bit early for that I thought? More June to August if memory serves me.

I sometimes just go for a drive (this isn't a full on MN CV thread so I can safely admit that here 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️) But I've got a flat which DH will sort around some point.

I want to go out to a restaurant I think. Nothing fancy, just a pub dinner. Hey ho

Ahhhh... that vibe. You want someone else to do the bloody cooking?

I'd check out the marsh/sea - it's been mild you might find some? Have a general treasure/shell/frog hunt?

sorry short, have cat on arm

Lol. Yes, that! And if I'm wishing, I want someone to do the thinking about food as well as the cooking!

Kicked my own arse and done a hard 2k on the rowing machine.

My twin sons have cooked for themselves since mid teens and still do - they are now at university so they buy and cook their food which means I only have myself to think about. I am very lucky.

Impressed by Athel's moving of compost. I over ordered and got 3 x 900L including for a new veg part and have been shovelling about 2 extra large wheelbarrow loads a day on various bits of the garden and that is my limit. However I am very pleased as I am half way through the first of the three already just putting it round various sundry bits of the garden so I suspect it will all be used in due course. I have never had as much compost as I need for the garden all at once which is good.

Doner kebab in the oven for dinner. Will do garlic mayo and HM coleslaw. Family will have it in a wrap.

First clause of gardening: there is never enough compost. compost envy

Loads of veg now planted out in new raised bed, plus various other bits and pots that have been sitting around for a year. This is relevant because it = shedloads of chard, spinach, kale, sprouts, perp. spinach, and leeks for later in the bootcamp season. Plus some non-bootcamp peas, carrots and parsnips.

All the dill, chives, lovage, parsley, spring onions, celery and oily herbs found a home too. I do love a herb (non FECKING iceberg) salad.

B: coffee
L: coffee
D: so far, wine and crisps. Clearly not bootcamp. Will do something leeky and cheesy probably.

Athelstane I have been desperate to post you one of my three Romaines all week but won’t as that would involve obtaining your address and that’s just fecking creepy. #enjoyyouriceberg #iwanttomakeatitanicjoke #yesiknowthesesrenotproperhashtags