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 weighed myself this morning and I've put on six pounds since this started! I've been pretty strict about sticking to HFLC but I've been drinking more than normal and not able to exercise as much.

I'm still well within a healthy BMI but won't be for much longer if this continues! Will have to knock the wine on the head and try and fit in more exercise.

It's a difficult time @GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal - try not to be too hard on yourself.

Re exercise, as I can't go to the gym any more, and really don't like/fancy running either, I've bought myself a skipping rope, and I've started skipping every day. It's amazing how much that works out your body!

Day 1 I did 5 x 100m skips, then day 2 and today decided I'd do timed skipping instead, so did 4 x 1 minute of skipping (each minute is around 125 skips, depending on how fast you skip). I can really feel the ache in my abs as a result!

I'm aiming to build up to 10 minutes of solid skipping as this is, apparently, the equivalent of 30 minutes of jogging. So I'm building up to it gradually.

Hah! Correction - day 1 I did 5 x 100 skips

Thanks BIWI, I'll try to get hold of a skipping rope.

I've just worked so hard to get the weight off and keep it off, I'll be damned if this is what causes me to gain it back!

I bought mine from Amazon - just a cheap one, and a child's one, as adult ones are always too long for me (even had to adjust this one!). It has a counter in the handle so counts the skips you've done.

Just ordered one. Expected delivery 29th April though! Will have to keep up with PE with Joe till then.

Hello! I need to update my weights. Lurgy 2020 has diverted my attention somewhat but I am KOKO as best as I can. Plus I am cursing Joe fucking Wicks on a daily basis since the school shutdown.

My Pilates instructor is doing free Zoom classes for April so I had my first class in a couple of weeks today. I've also started the Plank Challenge again which is to work up to a three-minute plank over 30 days. There's an app for it that makes it very easy to stick to and you can set it to easy, medium or hard depending on whether you want to achieve a two-, three-, or four-and-a-half-minute plank. I do like the idea of skipping but I think I would need a decent sports bra as well as a skipping rope!

I really should get back to planking. It's a key part of my PT sessions, and I generally start off with a 2 minute one, then do several shorter ones through the hour (including hip touch and superman ones!). If I don't keep up with them at home it's going to be a killer when I finally get back into the gym

@BIWI do you skip with both feet together, like a jump or skip around in a sort of running motion (like a kind of lazy skip)? I'm guessing it's not the lazy kind...

I skip with both feet together - but I would have thought that a running motion would be harder!

I haven't dared try any fancy skipping yet

All that crossing your hands over stuff that I vaguely remember from a childhood spent in the street.

And jumpiing into an already cawing rope held by two other friends.

Funny, my remembered images all seem to be in black and white...

And skipping was effortless, wasn't it?! I'm aiming to build up to 10 minutes of skipping, but that seems like it's a long way off right now!

I loved skipping at school, especially when it was two girls spinning the rope - and all the songs we used to sing when we were skipping. (Not that I can remember any of those now!)

I seem to remember that skipping when young was more about picking your feet up, than bouncing up and down, iyswim, so not really 'jumping' as such.

Lettuce, mayo, and bits of hot roast chicken went down well.

Today is defrosted chicken casserole remains (so very little chicken) for lunch, and defrosted brisket with the last of the broccoli.

Oh, and a billion coffees to try and fill the hole where my motivation used to be

it is all very quiet here and I now quite fancy a riot for lunch. Are they high in fat and low in carbs?

Slaved all day making a bolognese last night, billed as “the best bolognese ever” by BBC Good Food—a sore I trust.

It was fine. It got compliments. I kept it LCHF and ate it over peeled courgette strips but honestly...I like my version better.

Clearly your standards are high and ShagMeRiggins Excellent Food is a step up from BBC's Good Food.

My standards are around the "Oh! It's warm!" level, so deeply impressed with anyone who already knows how to do something.

(mince and tomato, right?)

Hats off to all of you with a pelvic floor capable of sustaining skipping !

Morning everyone

Good to catch up on everyone's news and progress. Been a busy two weeks at virtual work for me dealing with online client meetings and being involved in helping to map out a new strategy for the company to weather this terrible storm.

Very sadly my partner's lovely dad passed away yesterday. Nothing Coronavirus related, he'd been unwell for several months.

Been koko and did my first weigh in for a while today. Lost another 2lbs. So 12lbs down from when I first started. Have stuck to my plan of making my dinners for the following week on Sunday and freezing some as well. What's kept me on track is not wanting to undo all my hardwork and results. And also I remember how unwell it made me feel for the first two weeks and I can't face having to restart and go through that again!

Best wishes to all campers, stay safe and koko.

I probably sounded like an absolute tosser about my bolognese

For those of you who like the mince & tinned tomatoes version, maybe now is the time to experiment. For me it’s about depth of flavour and using the soffrito base but also making sure there are herbs like basil and oregano, plus some kind of richness like stock and red wine and sometimes Worcestershire sauce. In the end, not that many tomatoes or passata used, and when it simmers for a few hours then gets eaten the next day—superb. Also good to mix beef mince and pork mince, or even turkey if trying to reduce red meat.

This latest recipe wasn’t earthy enough for me so at the last minute I added a tin of anchovies and let it simmer another hour.

Sorry, really should have put #wankeralert before that paragraph.

But I really, really love food. I mean, like, I would let my hair go grey—perish the thought, because I also really, really love good hair—before I gave up the occasional Coquilles St Jacques.

Ultimately yes, it’s fuel and it keeps me healthy, especially with LCHF, but to me food is love. Family love or love of nature or even self-love.

Food, music, laughter. Life would be nothing without these.

Someone really needs to tell me to stfu. Corona seems to have brought out the maudlin in me.

In other news, more on topic, tonight is Tina steaks marinated in sesame oil, sesame seeds, soy sauce, and a touch of teriyaki. Might add ginger. Served with a “we need to use the veg!” Stir fry of cabbage, pal choi, baby sweetcorn (aw, look, a baby!), and a tin of water chestnuts found in back of the pantry, to up the Crunch Factor.

Nothing difficult, not expensive (tuna steaks were frozen from Aldi).

Today will also be day 3 of Planking With My Daughter for 80 seconds. Fuck me.

Finally, last night Mr ShagMe and I watched the National Theatre’s ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ on YouTube. It’s up for the next week until Thursday’s new offering. Once you get past the boring first 10 minutes it kicks off. Great farce. Great modern version of Italy’s famed commedia d’ell arte form.

There are also endless repeats of Say Yes to the Dress. I recommend the Atlanta series.

Hello!

That bolognese sounds good. I love food too - and my love of meat and fish means it’s the only WOE that I can ever see as sustainable. IF or 5:2 have also worked in the past but I can’t do them if I’m at home all day. I need the work distraction of the office to manage without food focus.

I have had a lb drop off - and about time too! It’s been FOREVER. I am drinking the water in gratitude. Have had lamb for lunch and very full so just a light dinner, if anything. Here’s to another pound at some point over the next week!