Week 3 - Pre-Christmas Low Carb Bootcamp - 'full' or light?

[BIWI]

Morning all!

Here's The Spreadsheet as per

Hopefully you've had a good second week, and have settled down into Bootcamp ways by now, and any trace of carb flu is but a distant memory.

By now, if not already, you should be well into the switch from burning carbs to burning fat. You should be finding it much easier to go between meals without snacking, and should find your energy levels picking up, maybe even feeling like you've got more energy than you had before.

So as we start week 3, you have a choice: you can continue on Bootcamp if it's suiting you, or you can move to Bootcamp Light, which means:

• you don't have to have three meals a day
• you can have some fruit (berries)
• you can have some nuts/seeds
• you can drink some alcohol

Please not the use of the word some! This isn't carte blanche for you to go mad. Just remember, all these things will add a lot of carbs quite quickly - so it's very much in moderation.

You also need to know/remember that week 3 (and 4) is infamous for being the point at which weight loss slows - sometimes even stops - so this is another good reason to go easy when you relax things

A good compromise is to stay strictly Bootcamp during the week but Bootcamp Light at the weekend.

Whatever you choose, hope the results this morning are positive, and wishing us all good luck for the week ahead.

I had cheese on seriously low carb toast today. It was really good! I'm going to try not to rely on it but definitely going to order a few for the freezer, justify the exorbitant postage costs. I don't really crave sweet stuff but I do really miss the old bread products. Thanks for the recommendation

@StuntNun I found a recipe for low carb version of KFC chicken on 'Nicko's Kitchen' on YouTube. He has over 60 videos of low carb versions of favourite foods including garlic bread, chocolate donuts, even MacDonald's Big Mac.

@Takingontheundead that's great you got to finish the night with an old favourite treat. Better that than some random sweet
I've been having mini involuntarily convulsions around the DC's fruit today, my body clearly wants it so bad and it's been so tough resisting! I wonder if I should buy some vitamins.

Well, I ballsed it up tonight by having more gin and more dark chocolate. I regret it because I am out of the habit of drinking and now I have a headache. Good news is that I won't be drinking again for a while!
New day tomorrow!

I'm laid up in bed with spectacular v & d. I wonder was it the Indian last night?

I'm sure I've lost a stone as a result. I've booked a rona test tomorrow just in case, because for some people that can be the starting symptoms and I have a bit of a temp 🤮🤒

What I am positive about is that lovely as I'm sure all your meals are tonight, I don't think I will eat Ever Again.

@Oneborneverydecade

My loss has stalled this week

Surely you must have read what I've posted about week 3?! (And week 4)

Don't be downhearted - it's very, very common to see little or not weight loss in weeks 3 and 4.

Just KOKO and you'll be fine.

for all having crap days and so sorry you’re suffering with D&V NigellaAwesome

We had a Giggling Squid takeaway, I ordered beef with aubergine, but it tasted really too strongly beefy, which really put me off.

Back to home cooking tomorrow

The replacement of my central heating has meant that my carefully calculated Lino tile in my bathroom is no more

In fact, for the next year (roughly) until we can afford to do the bathroom, we will have uneven floorboards, with a runner to protect our bare feet

I'll weight mostly tomorrow on the runner and one or two of the floor board positions to try to get to something similar to what I saw this morning (just under 12st).

It's been difficult to drink my water allocation today (and yesterday) as the water had been off most of the time That's also a disincentive to go to the loo!

The work should be finished by Sunday so we'll have a warm house for the first time in 6 years

Oh no @NigellaAwesome hope you’re feeling better soon.

Commiserations to those whose takeaway wasn't as expected and strength to those struggling with willpower or life. Tomorrow is another day and a fresh start.

I went fakeaway tonight. Chinese five spice chicken with egg fried cauli rice from my new cookbook. I've liked the 4 things I've made from the book so far but this was a revelation. It did not taste like diet food at all.

I had a dessert of Greek yoghurt and peanut butter. It was ok but I preferred yoghurt with raspberries. Thanks for the suggestions. I was brought up on a low fat diet so find upping the fat content tricky. I still take the fat off Parma ham, bacon, duck, only like slivers of cheese not chunks. My saviour is butter so buttered veg is heavenly.

@plumstone I don't know if you do intermittent fasting, but if you do, can you eat between 8 am and 4pm? So scoff on all the eggs and smoked salmon and caviar and sour cream at breakfast, then have salad (of the English luttuce type, not the Russian potato and carrot type) at midday, then a creamy coffee, eggs, ham at 4pm.

Been too busy today and rushing late and stressed.
Brunch - Omlette and ciffee
D - salmon in caper butter with avocado salsa

That sounds horrendous for you, NigellaAwesome, hope you feel lots better really soon.

prettyscarybird my scales are under my bed sitting on a square of flat wood because my room is carpet. That works well to give me a reliable and consistent weigh. Is that something you could do?

Tonight is the first night I have had a small conversation with myself about whether I was having a drink or not. I didn't and I am glad.

Hello all, sorry to hear so many people are having a tough time, keep going, you have the whole of bootcamp routing for you

It's my birthday tomorrow so I'm allowing myself a few vodkas, I only drink on special occasions I'm thinking soda with cordial or diet lemonade- any advice on what would be better? I cannot just drink soda alone yuk!

Also is this the low carb bread everyone is talking about?

🎼HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU🎵
🎼HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOO YOOOUUUU🎶
🎼HAPPY BIRTHDAYYY ZiggaZiggArrgggghhhh 🎵
🎼HAPPY BIIRTHDAYYYY TOOOOO YOOOOOOOOU 🎶🎵

Yep, that's the bread I bought. I'm on my 2nd order and it hasn't interfered with my weight loss at all unlike the pizza that set me back a week Ooooh a birthday tipple sounds nice I usually have 7Up free in my drink. I hope someone more wise to the different choices comes along to help with better suggestions.

I could use a strong drink right now, my 2yo woke me up at 12.25am using her blanket as a lasso to flick my face followed by an almighty screaming tantrum, which I'm sure is what set the neighbours car alarm off!!!

I'm now sitting downstairs while DP tries to get her back to sleep. This is going to be a long night

Happy Birthday @ZiggaZiggArrgggghhhh 🥳

Stay strong those of us who are about to spend the day unwrapping lollies and opening Haribo for their little monsters! 💪

Felt like I was seeing some positive effects. Made it through a weekend at work and was managing to avoid eating the cakes etc without even trying.
Not sure what has gone wrong this week, couple of stressful days after which I admit I had a glass of wine and some chocolate brownie. Now weigh more than when I started the boot camp - not hard as I barely lost anyway. Just feel like I can’t get a handle on this.

potas what are your meals like? Are you enjoying the food? Are you drinking that water?

I spent Friday night re-organising the cupboard under the stairs (eg the place where all the junk goes). This stopped me thinking about my "usual" Friday night drink, so win-win! I'm thinking of making a low carb fish pie this weekend - topped by a nice celeriac and cauliflower mash. It looks like a weekend where comfort food will be much needed!

@ShagMagicRiggins

potas what are your meals like? Are you enjoying the food? Are you drinking that water?

Yesterday B Cheese and spinach omelette L Salad leaves with half and avocado and almonds T roast cauliflower, baked eggs with cheese on top (not much) Greek yoghurt with nuts Snack - home made chocolate brownie

Drinking water.
I love all those foods although I think I eat too much dairy and nuts.

@ZiggaZiggArrgggghhhh
🎂🎂🎂happy birthday!!

@ZiggaZiggArrgggghhhh oh and diet tonic in a vodka is far nicer than soda!

@potas

Felt like I was seeing some positive effects. Made it through a weekend at work and was managing to avoid eating the cakes etc without even trying. Not sure what has gone wrong this week, couple of stressful days after which I admit I had a glass of wine and some chocolate brownie. Now weigh more than when I started the boot camp - not hard as I barely lost anyway. Just feel like I can’t get a handle on this.

Sorry to hear that

List out for me your meals over the last 3-4 days, including everything you've been drinking and let's see if we can spot anything.

However, I would say that at just over 9 stone you haven't got a huge amount to lose (unless you're very short!), so weight loss will be slower.

Don't use this as an excuse to dive into the chocolate brownies and wine though! The only guarantee of that is weight gain - as you've discovered to your cost.

But don't despair - we're still only in week 3 so plenty of time to see movement on the scales, and still a couple of days before weigh-in. Remember, your body weight does fluctuate quite naturally on a day-by-day basis, so it could just be this - along with the extra carbs that you've had.

Drink even more plenty of water, make sure you have a super strict couple of days and do some exercise. If you already do some, do some more. If you don't normally do any, go out for a brisk walk. That will help to use up the glycogen that you will have stored in your liver/muscles from the carbs.

Happy birthday @ZiggaZiggArrgggghhhh!

Don't have the cordial, as that is too sugary (i.e. carby). Diet lemonade or tonic is the way to go, if you can't cope with plain fizzy water or soda.

@potas

Cross posts!

One day's meal:

B Cheese and spinach omelette
L Salad leaves with half and avocado and almonds
T roast cauliflower, baked eggs with cheese on top (not much)
Greek yoghurt with nuts
Snack - home made chocolate brownie

Ignoring the brownie (!), there is a lot of cheese/dairy here, as well as nuts. Are you a vegetarian? Because there also isn't much protein going on.

How about fat? Did you have an oily dressing on your salad, and/or mayo? Were you roasting your cauliflower in plenty of oil?

Drinking water

Yeah - but how much?!

Let me see another couple of days' menus as well.

Happy birthday ziggazagaarrgghh 🥳 hope you have a great day.

Struggling to keep up with the pace of the thread this week, but reading everything. So much support and inspiration.

Woke up to tier two in the whole of my county, feeling for those in tier three. It feels a bit depressing really, making me realise the lovely weather at the beginning of lockdown did make a huge difference.

Anyhow, wishing everyone a great Saturday and a spooky 🎃