Week 7 - Summer Low Carb Bootcamp - Hurtling to the Finish Line!

[BIWI]

Morning everyone. Hope you all had a good weekend and that there wasn't too much cheating!

Here is the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

So we have four weeks left. Time to shed a good few more pounds if you stick to the rules

I go on holiday in less than three weeks, so it's nose to the grindstone for me from now on.

Just stopped for lunch and a quick catch up (eating my chicken/coleslaw!)
Well done to pretty bird for getting in suit ? and good luck for interview) kiwi for being a stone down and finding something nice to wear for wedding ewan for getting under target ? do so hope that will be me several months down the line and also black for getting back on it! Am totally mystified, too, by visual loss not corresponding to loss on scales mentioned by couch et al. Is there an explanation? Cue spooky SF music...

cross-post with daisy ? think best just ignore and move on! (Don't do what I have usually done/still will probably do - esp with a glass or two of wine in me ? think what the hell, may as well eat that flapjack now, too!
Tastebuds really do change on this WOE don't they?!

I am sitting here sniffing a pot of coconut oil, it smells lovely.

How do I use it in coffee? Do I just bung a bit in, it's cold pressed food grade.

I totally agree with the visual loss, find it fascinating.
Good luck with the job prettybird hope you enjoy the wedding kiwi and blimmin lovely photos crabby

Have a good weekend everyone

Why would you put coconut oil in coffee????

I read it here, I think I did anyway. It smells like bounty bars, maybe I'll just carry on sniffing it!

snowball you can just stir it in, though it can be better if you put it all in a blender as otherwise it's a bit oil-slicky on the top, depends on whether you mind

i will eat a spoonful out of the jar - it is a bit like the inside of a bounty!

ANNOUNCEMENT***

biggest loser of the week: Tigglette
biggest loser to date: Anchovies
biggest %age loser to date: letsseeificandothis

bravo all!

Brilliant! Well done all

herecomesthsun - I found a place online yesterday that was offering just that - a week in either Devon or France somewhere, with lots of exercise and specific diet. It sounded really great, but:

It was almost £2500 per week!
They also didn't say what diet you would be following

But they had loads of trainers, coaches and nutritionists involved, which is probably also why it was so expensive.

Hi everyone.

Well done on losses! The week 3/4/5 stall has been banished!

I am back talking to my scales today. 14 3 this morning!! I am NOT having any wine this weekend. I so want to see that again on Monday (less would be better obv but I won't be greedy!).

I am intrigued that coconut oil tastes like the inside of a bounty! May have to try it.

Summer Fair at school today so i have spent the morning helping to sort out cakes and sweets and booze etc. Resisted the plate of biscuits and just had a couple of cups of tea. Back home for a couple of hours before heading back to help set up and run the Tombola. Will avoide the cakes stall and the Pimms stall. And the sweets. Have just had a big lunch to keep me going as I don't think we will get home till about 7.

Got up at 6 this morning to go out for my run. Very proud of myself. Legs ached late morning. I think because I normally get home and rest for a while but this morning I was busy and then on my feet for a few hours.

B - yoghurt, flaxseeds and blueberries
L - burger and creamed spinach left over from last night's dinner
D - chicken curry and cauliflower rice. Already in freezer from last week. Will be interesting to see how the cauli rice will be after freezing.

Oh - welcome back Black. Fingers crossed your gain disappears quickly.

It's the opposite for me Daisy, trousers baggy on the bum but can barely do up at the waist!

Hoping I can withstand the weekend munches. Feeling a little bloated today, not sure why.

Had usual bacon egg and mushrooms for breakfast, tuna salad for lunch, having fried pork shoulder steak for dinner with spinach and some other veg!

Need to drink more but it's so difficult at work.

it's the texture too of coconut oil (at room temperature), there's something a bit bounty-ish

How does home made mayo rate, carbs wise? I use egg yolk, cider vinegar, a mixture of sunflower oil and light olive oil, 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard and salt and pepper and some lemon juice. It's yummy and I have it with lots of things.

it will depend on your serving size, but will be very very low carb - small amounts in egg, vinegar, mustard and lemon juice but as long as you're not eating a bucketload a day i think it would be a maximum of 1-2g carbs, if that

thanks willie off to try it.

big well done to the biggest losers.

Another answer to craving sweet things is peanut butter on a square of dark chocolate. Luscious. Feels like I'm eating a dark chocolate peanut truffle.

Woo hoo, Buda!

Well done everyone for losses, and good luck for interview prettybird

The coffee with coconut oil is actually ok! Trainer at my gym recommended it before workouts. I usually put a cupful of coffee in a pyrex jug, add a good tsp of the coconut oil then whisk it up really well with a mini whisk (this helps prevent some of the oil settling on top of the coffee).

Peanut butter and dark chocolate, yum!

I've been for my swim today, when I got out of the pool I was sooooo hungry as hadn't had much for lunch. Knew that I would be in danger of grabbing the first thing I could eat when I got home so looked for suitable snack while at service station getting diesel on way back. Best thing I could find was a packet of roasted and salted peanuts, are these oK? I've eaten them now anyway....

isn't coffee with cream and coconut oil a 'bulletproof' coffeee? I' sure I read that. I use coconut oil in my rooibos tea, i quite like the oil-slick. That is my usual breakfast - i don't eat again til 1230!

(but i do have 2 normal coffees at work)

Just wanted to post as the thread has run away in the last 2 days! Well done to all the losers, those dropping into another stone category, those fitting into brilliant slim clothes and of course.... v importanly those jumping back on the wagon.

Ended my 4 day ultra-strict-no-dairy-apart-from-double-cream-in-morning-coffee-camp yesterday with v small glass of red (woohoo). Need to keep motivated though and not go crazy with the cheddar slices - sure they were my downfall. Usually avoid weighing self as good results end in euphoria and bad food splurge and bad results end in doom and gloom and bad food splurge but did weigh self this morning and have dropped 3 lbs since monday to 10 stone 11 - so am in the 10 stones for first time since 2010!

Am just really relieved mainly as in the 2 weeks prior to monday had just lost 2.5 lbs in total. I had a v small number of diet fails when visiting family/ friends abroad like rice and fried chicken dinner placed in front of me and small slice of apple tart (that felt rude to refuse as had been bought for visit of me, DP and DDs and DD1 didn't want anyway) and bit more wine than usual. But on the whole I spent 2 weeks of sticking to diet and did not have much loss to show.

So am recommending a 3 or 4 day ultra strictish camp for anyone looking to kick start things a bit. Just keeping fingers crossed there is no evil bounce back on scales!

I have decided that my decidedly lumpy upper arms are a bit less so.
Wish I could say the same about the bulges above my hips. Maybe next week?

Wow, 4lb down! Well done negroni ? that's great! What did you eat? Do let us know if you've any particularly tips on getting through it. May be a plan for the last week to go out with a bang (not a wimpy) [thanks to John Cooper Clarke]

and to this week's biggest losers!

Yes congrats to the biggest losers!

It's only 3lbs down maid. But I am happy to have a couple of pounds buffer from the 11 stone zone. Think the main thing is not having alcohol, cheese, teaspoons of philadelphia, tea spoons of cream, tablespoons of yoghurt is that there isn't such a big chance of a carb creep. There are only so many spinach leaves/ florets of broccoli that you can snack on, whereas I can always have a bit more wine or cheese.

Though I still have the dreaded back fat (albeit in reduced form). Totally envious of all you pear shaped folk. As an apple shaped person, my legs stay slim but fat goes last from stomach and back and boobs. And it's hard to show off legs when stomach is still there! I will literally have to be down to target weight (well over another stone as short) to totally banish back fat. That must be my mission!

negroni I'm very pear; skinny shoulders, flat chest & then a tyre that goes round my tummy & bum. It is not a good luck, honestly. I bet Claudia Shiffer stands in front of the mirror complaining!