Week 6 - Summer Low Carb Bootcamp - We've Passed the Halfway Point!

[BIWI]

Morning campers!

Lovely weather at last.

Here's the spreadsheet of fabulousness

Come and confess all.

The last couple of weeks have seen quite a lot of slippage and falling off the wagon - a euphemism for cheating! - so I'm not expecting that we're going to see many fabulous losses this week. Indeed, I think many of us are going to feel a bit downhearted when we step on the scales today.

BUT NEVER FEAR!

There are still 5 weeks left, which is plenty of time to get properly back on the wagon and shift a few more of those pesky pounds.

Good luck everyone!

Crabby, its true though! Its how they make white bread do soft

Well, its some thing called L-Cysteine which is extracted from chicken feathers, but wanted to put my kids off white bread

morning all
lol at feathers in white bread, will try that out
I'm 2lbs down today thank god as very upset with holiday weight gain
MrsHP loving the reverse psychology

Black I've never wanted to eat white processed bread again since watching a couple of documentaries about it a few years ago. I didn't know the chicken feathers thing though. Methods of mass production of bread and other processed food is a bloody scandal, imo. I do love good bread though, dipped in good oil. I shall be able to eat that again at some point, occasionally, just NOT NOW!

I've just measured myself again and have lost the following since I started this on 7th May:
4.5cm from waist (narrowest point)
2cm from round navel
5cm from round hips
2cm from round fattest bit of bum
3cm from tops of thighs
1.5cm from just above my very fat knees!
1cm from my calves
5cm off my upper arms, which are the bit of me I hate the very most!

Hooray for BIWI and all the others of you who give their time here, and hooray for low carbing!

morning! I've managed to lose 3lb overnight so weight gain must have been water retention from oromorph. pleased as that means I've more or less stayed the same (are a week behind so knew to expect this).

just had yummy greek yogurt for breakfast.

Round should have been around, sorry.

Well done Kiwi. I take co-dydramol most days, and I'm wondering whether that's affecting my weight now. Going to have to do a bit of research on that I think, it had never occurred to me before.

crabby you will have to change your name!

Wow - well done crabbySmallerBottom

I am supposed to be getting measured again thus week sometime at Tonacise. Must book that.

NewStart - what kind of training do you do? Respect for carrying on in face of everyone telling you not to. I am the type who grabs any excuse not to exercise with both hands and holds on tight!

I had a bit of a craving for something sweet last night so had some strawberries with clotted cream. And lots of water. DS thinks there is something wring with me as I was going to the loo so often!

Weighed in this morning and a pound down on last Monday's weigh but a pound up on Fridays. But am at the 14 7 I have been desperate to get to. So have to be happy with that. Really want to get below 14 atone before we go on holiday a month from today. So I need to be really focussed.

Have just done my first C25k run. I didn't manage to run all of the runs. Did 6 and a half. So I think I'll do 6 of the runs on thurs and sat and then try the 8 runs next week.

I am also envious of any children who eat veg and try new things. DS is 11 and eats sweetcorn and cucumber. I have to count ketchup as one of his five a day! He is not really keen on potatoes unless chips. Occasionally eats a roast potato or some mash. Won't even contemplate any of the new things I am having. Loves pasta. He does love meat though. Can't get him to eat fish. Drives me mad as he was much better as a toddler.

I've been watching the Smashthefat guy, very closely see if you can spot my comment on day 6 of his eating trial

I'm 2lb down on yesterday's weight this morning. Why couldn't I show this weight yesterday?

I am 174 lbs now, so only 1 lb off in week 2.

I am qiute unhappy. Are you sure/very sure that amount of food/cals altogether doesn't matter?

MrsCoyote - but you have lost 6lbs! That's brilliant! 12 packs of lard, if that helps you to visualise things.

Weight loss isn't linear, and there will always be weeks where you don't lose, or you gain - for no apparent reason.

That said, are you following the rules? Are you eating plenty of fat and drinking lots of water?

And I'm very sure about the food/cals - at this stage.

Tell me what you've been eating and drinking over the last week, and let's see if there's any tweaking we can make.

Lol at 'smash the fat guy'!

MrsC - have you been strict? Drinking the water? Eating the fat? (Remember fat doesn't make you fat - sugar does. Fat gives you energy, your brain is made up of it, your nerves are sheathed in it - you need it. Unlike sugar.)
Try listing out all you've eaten in the past few days and I'm sure BIWI will spot something.

Oooh x-post with BIWI!

Hmm, I have PUT ON 1.4lbs OVERNIGHT. Whhhhhhyyyyyyyyyy??

So, I come on the thread....and then have massive slip up. I bloody knew I should have stayed lurking. sigh.

Last night D = hm veg soup with grated cheese - great...................and a bowl of hm lemon ice cream - which wasn't too bad as it's just double cream and ff greek yoghurt and lemon juice and rind....but then. I ate a m&s meringue. Oh fuck it. I'm having an awful time atm, and if this was happening last month I'd have eaten literally a shed's worth of cake and pasta.

Back on the wagon
B-ff yog w a few almonds
L - olives, grated courgette fried in butter, wilted spinach in butter, radishes, grated cheese.

kohl was your dinner satisfying enough? it's particularly important in the early stages (and just after a slip-up) that you choose the most delicious meals you can, ones you can really look forward to and which fill you up properly, as that makes it easier to avoid the temptation from carbs. especially sweet things after dinner which is often so ingrained in us

Oh please, please, please BIWI - put me back of the spreadsheet or I will eat the whole box of After Eights I found in the back of the fridge!

sorry i missed your earlier post thechocolateteapot - you are back on the spreadsheet. now throw the after eights in the bin.

They're gone - luckily they were no real competition for the asparagus and salmon I'm about to tuck into!

Forgot to say - STS at 10st10lb, which wasn't too bad given the temptation which I gave in to of the cake stall on Sunday, with no other food available.

Would really like to make the drop into "3 figure" weights. Hopefully next week! :)

Kiwi, are you KJ? I left a comment one day too :D

Have just been to the Asian supermarkeyt, stocked up on coconut oil (only £1.98 for a big jar!) and lots of spices.

Protein pancakes and bulletproof coffee again for brekkie, protein shake after training and now I'm having a big bowl of broccoli, green beans, basil and a ton of butter -yum!
Dinner will be pork belly and.... Some kind veg!

Thank you Willie - and no, you're right, it wasn't particularly delicious or satisfying. I think I might need to throw a bit of money at this just in the next few weeks as am so ridiculously pushed for time, to buy some delicious things that are quick to make rather than a few bits of spinach and sad radishes in the bottom of the fridge. (which led me to have a chocolate frappuccino just now. I KNOW).
On your advice I'll sack off more bloody grated courgette tonight and buy some salmon that I can have with some creamy celeriac mash and green things.