Week 3 - May 22 Low Carb Bootcamp - moving on to Light?

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Good morning!

Here's the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness once more

So today you have a choice: you can move on to Bootcamp Light, if you wish - which means you can re-introduce some fruit, some nuts/seeds and some alcohol. Note the use of the word 'some'!

If you wish, you can also now introduce/re-introduce intermittent fasting - most people drop breakfast, but it's up to you how you want to do this. @StuntNun has a thread about how to combine fasting with low carb for anyone who is interested in this approach.

You can, if you wish, remain on Bootcamp, if it suits you and it's working for you. Alternatively you can adopt a hybrid - so Bootcamp during the week and Bootcamp Light at the weekend.

Whichever route you decide upon, good luck!

@Bananajam get your DH to read some of the resources on the spreadsheet. It's important that he eats all the fat. He needs to understand that fat isn't the big bad villain we've all been told that it is!

However, also - what do you mean by 'the odd slip'? Low carbing isn't a very forgiving way of eating, so if you're regularly slipping off the wagon, it will impact on your weight loss.

On the matter of weight, we have so many societal messages. I feel so sorry for my parents. DF is around 8kg overweight, but it really shows on him because he's short. DM is around 35kg overweight. Also short. Has no 'off' button and probably never has had.

Talking to them about carbs, portion sizes, etc., is absolutely fruitless. DM can't cook due to disability now. DF is her only source of food. Yet he feels such pressure to ensure that she feels satisfied, which she never will because she doesn't have an 'off' button.

DF was brought up on double carbs (ie. Pie and mash. Stew, dumplings and mash, etc.) and the thought of going low carb is just completely alien to him. I think he can see the benefit for me, but can't envisage it himself.

I've tried to explain to him that in reality, any diet will do some good. It isn't carbs that the problem, or fat. It's carbs and fat. But all he can see is that it's restriction.

We laugh because their portion sizes are huge and when I point out that what he serves between 2 does 5 in our house he thinks I'm crazy .

On another note, DH has cut out snacks in the last couple of weeks and has lost 4.4kg (grrr). I know he's 20kg heavier than me (and more active) but seriously! It's good for him, I know, really.

It's infuriating, @Lougle, how much easier it seems to be for men to lose compared to women! You need to just ignore him, as much as you possibly can and realise that it isn't a competition.

Oh yes, you're so right. I'm really pleased for him, actually, and for him it is sooo hard to walk past the table of snacks in the staff room, whereas I don't much care for them anyway, so that's not an issue for me.

We are managing the carbs on carb manager every day and sometimes they're over the target of 25 carns a day, that's all I meant. Nothing that's high carb in the diet at all but as you say I'll remind him.ofnthe foods we should be eating and see how we get on!

On the sway back topic, your spine is meant to be a gentle S shape - hollowed at the waist and rounded at the shoulder blades. When we have a sway back - both curves become exaggerated. We extend at the waist, switching off our abs to do do, and round through our shoulders. Being aware of it is the first thing - then core strengthening, stretching the front of the chest and strengthening the scapula retractors. Easy.

On the other thread - the OP hadn't posted in several pages when I saw it. So I just skimmed through. Weight loss is to me - operating at a calorie deficit. Easy. Yet I'm a gold member of WW (Target achieved in my 30s when BF as in hospital & there was no availability to snack). I've given €€€ to SW. Paying €11 to be told you've gained or STS - again I hold myself responsible. The plan is laid out, I just kept eating! I cannot eat 2 fingers of KitKat. BC is hard. But it works for me.
Operating a calorie deficit is a hard thing to do! Your head says no, but your body (gob) says YES. I find this WoE really addresses hunger.

I like that it's a set amount of time. It's tough but it will end.
I love the food we do eat. Cheese, eggs, mayonnaise, veg, meat. It adapts easily to eating out.
I like that there's (almost) no moderation. A food is allowed or it isn't.That suits my simple brain.
I feel great energy on this WoE and my skin is great.

And if anyone finds any other way that works for them - that is great too.

On another note. I saw 165lb on the scale this week - then 166.something yesterday. I blame sore muscles from a hard class - or hope it is anyway. I mean to way tomorrow morning.

Today -
B. Creamy coffee, 3 eggs with spinach & feta.
L. Greek yogurt with cream
D. (Restaurant) Monkfish, samphire, green salad, coleslaw

Best wishes to us all tomorrow!

@Lougle men are ridiculous, they say I'm going to lose weight and then 2 weeks later with no noticeable changes they are 2 stone lighter, go back to normal and never put it back on.

Morning all. Reporting a 1lbs loss for 79.2 kg. I'm pleased with that as I've let un rather a lot of Bootcamp light between entertaining, going out and general excitement at loosening the reins.

My work clothes are still very tight and I need to be in the office all week this week so I shall KoKo and avoid the massive snack table of doom. Hoping to break into the 78s by next week. Good luck to everyone weighing in today.

Well done @mimosa1 - great that you've still lost despite being 'lite'.

Well after 3 days of being 66kg exactly, I'm 66.4kg today, but that still makes it a 2lb loss for the week and 6.6lb since starting bootcamp, so I'm happy. 40% of my target.

My clothes are already feeling generally more spacious. Especially in the arms and legs, which is good.

DD2 has her SALT assessment this afternoon.

Just caught up on that other thread and now I have the rage. How patronising can people be. It's like mansplaining, you don't know your own body cause your fat so must be also stupid 😡😡😡

Morning, just checking in with a fabulous 4lb loss! I've been given a kick up the backside to KOKO, no more falling off the wagon! 8lb off this bootcamp for me!

Have a great day campers!

Great SVs everyone!

I've lost 1lb which, given I thought I was on plateau, I'm happy with. I don't think I drank enough water yesterday so possibly it would have been more exciting if I had. I can fit into all of my clothes now though. 31lb since Christmas and 8.5lb this bootcamp.

I had written a philosophical post about LC but then when I previewed it chunks had disappeared and i panicked and clicked back instead of edit and it's gone now and i haven't time to do it again.

@ZiggZagg fabulous!

1lb off this week for me which is ok. I'm trying to temper my desire for the weight to fall off and remind myself that the time will pass anyway, so I might as well lose slowly and sustainably than fall off the wagon.

I do think it's coming off my midde which I know is important for health so very pleased with that.

@glamourousindierockandroll that's a great attitude to have. Remember though that a bit of a ledge/mini-plateau in weight loss is common around this point in BC and it doesn't mean that it will be this slow afterwards - you might have a slow week or two (or even three) and then you'll probably get a whoosh and off you go more briskly again.

Well done on the sv’s everyone! Haven’t managed to weigh yet, busy morning getting out the house to the office. I seriously don’t know how I did it every single day!

my dh is the same @lougle. So infuriating

Sts again this week but after 3 nights away/out I'm taking that as a win.

Something odd happened on the gym scales when I went for a swim on Sat - normally they are aligned with my home scales where I'm teetering just under/over 11 stone. The gym scales were well under 🤷‍♀️. My next target is 10.10 which is 'normal' BMI which according to them I've met!

Body fat % is still trending down so I'll take that too.

Well done all. Water is the focus for me this week

Hi all - I am 1lb down this week to 10st 10lbs. Very happy about that. Feel like I look thinner even though my waist measurement this morning is the same as last weeks.

Today will be creamy coffee in about an hour
Salmon with feta and mint (found the recipe on the LC fish recipes thread) with buttered asparagus and olives. Got 5 salmon fillets on offer yesterday so salmon for lunch every day this week
Dinner is Butter Tomato Paneer. Found the recipe in Madhur Jaffery Vegetarian Curry book; will post it when I get home tonight. Has butter & double cream and only takes 10mins so sounds good. Will have mine with shoogled veg

Good luck to all today

2lb down (finally!) and have lost 3" from my waist and 2.5" from my hips. Two more weeks and then we have the first "big" festival of the summer 😎, praying for decent weather and decent food trucks! DD is coming for the first time so that will mean far less alcohol than usual as well

Morning losers, plateauers & kokos!

After spending a couple of weeks static weight I’ve lost one and a half pounds! And im very close to tipping over a stone bracket now, which feels like an important milestone.

good luck if you are weighing in today.

This morning's weigh in showed I have lost three quarters of a pound, and the cat has put back on the 0.2 of a pound she lost last week.
We've had a chat about the dangers of choosing Dreamies as a snack but not only does she not give a stuff but she then caught a cockchafer in the garden and brought it in and released it in the kitchen for me to chase after.

Wow, some great losses on here! Well done all you losers and KOKO to all

3lbs for me and I am absolutely delighted. Feeling better for it and will push on. Have a holiday in July so that's the goal. Well done everyone

Week 4 chat thread is here

@Bananajam - I was exactly the same as your DH with regard to fat until someone said to me 'think of it as diesel (carbs) and petrol (fat), some cars run on petrol and some on diesel, but they're both fuel'. She used to call low carbing her 'petrol diet' - in other words our fuel comes from fat.

You wouldn't try to mix petrol and diesel in the same car so you don't in this food plan.