Back to School! The next (low carb) Bootcamp sign up thread

[BIWI]

This next Bootcamp will start on 11 September, and as with previous ones, this will last for 8 weeks, taking us up to the end of w/c 30 October.

Sign up here if you want to join. Please say if you don't want to be on the spreadsheet, and if you're a vegetarian add a 'V' to your name, or if you're a vegan add 'VG'

Please copy and paste the list of names into your post, and keep the numbering going!

1. BIWI

@BIWI @FinallyHere I'm not sure how to do screenshot sorry but my concern re real names showing was from the 09.29 post by @LadyBird1973 on the Back to School thread?

"@FinallyHere the spreadsheet opens for me but the column to add weight is dated 25 September, week 3. Also I can see someone's real name in a red box"

HI @medianewbie I'm afraid I'm being a bit thick here, not managing to track down the thread or the post you are referring to. I would be very grateful if you would post the name of the thread together with the date & time of the post that concerns you so that I can follow up.

Ideally a link to the thread but np if that isn't possible for you.

In my work life, I'm the GDPR coordinator, so have understanding of the seriousness about not keeping personally identifiable PII data are to be kept private. I'm confident that we do not mean to display real names, and can't even imagine how it would happen and have sufficient experience to be very grateful to you for flagging up anything that appears unusual, as it has been known...

Sometimes people try and add notes to the spreadsheet and, by doing so, their email address is displayed - perhaps that's what has happened @medianewbie?

But whatever the cause, I can assure you that there aren't any real names on the spreadsheet any longer (beyond that of the admin, and I don't think we can do anything about that)

@medianewbie Looking at the spreadsheet via Google Sheets on my phone, I see that while I am 'in' the spreadsheet, whatever user name I am logged in as will be transiently displayed in the shared spreadsheet.

If you don't have, or want to set up, a user name which disguises your name, then perhaps the shared spreadsheet is not the right place for you to log your weight.

Thank you again for drawing this to my attention, and apologies again for the delay in understanding your concern.

Please let me know, by DM if you prefer, so I can arrange for you to have a local copy of the spreadsheet tabs which provide so much useful information around this way of eating. kind regards

Hi! Sorry for the very late request to join. I've just spotted this whilst scrolling for low carb recipe inspo. Would it be too late to join. 👋

Not at all! Head over to the week 1 chat thread and jump on the link to the spreadsheet, and just add your name to the bottom. (Alternatively, @FinallyHere might do that for you)

I'm on it, @Sunshine1606

I just came upstairs to do it from my laptop, got distracted so here we are. Thats done for you now. Enjoy !

Perfect, thank you so much ! excited to start!

Can I join too please.

Absolutely @ChimneyPot

Hope you have already found the other thread, I'll check later when I'm back at my laptop that you have been added to the spreadsheet.

As well as the weigh in sheet, gave a look at the other tabs which have loads of information about this way of eating.

Do have a

Ah, glad to see you are in the sheet already. Enjoy c

Hi all. I was the poster who saw a real name on the spreadsheet. It was just the one name and was in a red box. I've actually forgotten what the name was (maybe Tricia?) but I'm terrible at remembering names anyway.
It's not there now anyway.

Hi @LadyBird1973

Thank you, we have worked out that whatever user ID is used to access the spreadsheet appears transiently when the sheet is open.

Anyone would like help to set up an ID that does not reveal their RL name please let me know.

Can I be added please

@mauveiscurious of course! Just jump on to the week 1 chat thread, and click on the link to the spreadsheet, then add your name. @FinallyHere will re-alphabetize it later.

@mauveiscurious Hi & welcome.

Sorry, I posed this same message on the main thread, apols for the spam.

Ive added you to the SpreadsheetofFabulousness

There is absolutely no pressure to log your weight, you are encouraged to have some way to track progress, people do everything from daily/weekly/monthly weigh ins, photos esp. wearing a particular garment which started not fitting and actual tape measure measurements.

Whether you use the spreadsheet to log your weight, do have a look at the other tabs, so.much.good information Enjoy.

Hi,

I missed the start of this bootcamp! Am I too late to sign up?

thanks

Hi, can I sign up too please? I was working away last week so couldn't join until today.

hello lovely @SunshineInMySprocket & @Frumpyunicorn

You are always welcome to join us. Ill add your names to the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

Please do have a look around the many different tabs, lots of background information to support this WOE including a handy list of acronyms

There is no pressure to log your weight, the weigh in sheet is available if you choose to do so.

It is good to have some objective means to track, from those who use scales to weigh daily/weekly/monthly etc and tape measurers. Many of us have a key garment and measure progress towards fitting into it and 'how my clothes fit'

78.HikingforScenery

Apologies i can’t copy the list. Please can i join?

I’ve just come across this as i looked at low carb posts on here

Absolutely, you are very welcome

@HikingforScenery

Hope this is a link to the current thread where you will find the current chat.

4 - Back-to-school Low Carb Bootcamp www.mumsnet.com/Talk/lowcarbbootcamp/4910589-week-4-back-to-school-low-carb-bootcamp

Do please also go through the earlier threads. There will be a thread with 'prep' in the title, then one each for week 1, 2 & 3. There is lots of really useful information.

The first (or sometimes the second) post will have a link to the 'spreadsheet of fabulousness. This has absolutely everything you need to know, most of which you will have picked up from the threads i have suggested you use to catch up.

I'm on holiday at the moment, so may not immediately be able to add your username to the first tab of the spreadsheet til the weekend, incase you want to use it to track your weight. You are welcome to add yourself if you like or wait til the weekend. It doesn't impact your access to the other parts of the spreadsheet.

Two more things.

Lots of us find taking body measurements is really useful esp when the scales are being stubborn it's good to have objective proof of shrinking dimensions.

Another important point is that the chat represents the forth week of 'bootcamping' for many on the thread. For others it's a lot longer.

It's critical for your success that got the first two weeks you keep very very strictly to the original rules so that your body can change over to burning fat. If you keep strictly to it, that magic will happen at some point over the first fortnight. You will know when it has happened, most people at some point in that time wake up or later in the day when they would usually eat only to find they are just not hungry. That means the body has switched and is burning fat.

It's an unforgiving lifestyle, in that too many carbs in that crucial period risks stopping the successful switch.

Hope it all goes well for you. Do post on week 4 if you have any questions mentioning how far in you are for the best available advice on this way of eating.

Welcome.