Week 8 - Summer Low Carb Bootcamp - Only 3 weeks left!

[BIWI]

Morning campers.

Come and confess all on the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

So only three weeks left. I know that things have been moving quite satisfactorily for some of you, so hopefully these last three weeks can see a few more of those pesky pounds disappear.

I had a bit of an altercation with some sticky toffee pudding this weekend (at the PILs) so I've got my work cut out over the next few days to undo the damage!

Off for a run shortly ...

congratulations to those who have lost.
Beryl - i hope you can managed to get your mum's care sorted.

Right I might be on my second cup of coffee today BUT i have already made my tea. Whilst i could be bothered. So i have a rather lovely cauliflower cheese sat in a pyrex jug waiting for me to reheat and eat later when cooking just seems too much effort.

Breakfast: 2 eggs scrambled, 2 low carb sausages - was hungry today.

If i have a salad at lunch and the cauli cheese at tea is this getting towards a better level of veg? or do i need to up it even further

BIWI- Bootcamp...

The Jelly is gone, as has the diet coke. I'm feeling a bit reluctant to let those strawberries go..

I don't want to cut out the dairy. On average, how much are you meant to have?

So sorry to hear about your Mum Beryl

Beryl - that is rubbish about your mum's hospital food/ medication. I hope that both get sorted.

I can't believe that more isn't done about refined carbfest that is hospital food. The little shop in the ante natal dept I visited regularly last year only sold chocolate bars, crisps, fizzy drinks and sausage rolls for a customer base of pregnant women and their toddler children. It is utter madness. I know they are oursourced businessness but still... madness.

Millie - congrats on being a stone down!

Black - am in awe of your patience with both oil pulling and pulled pork cooking!

Summer still going on here (London) albeit a bit overcast but still v warm and dry. I have been feeling a bit meh these last few days and also noting that my weight is creeping up. Am half a pound up since Monday and a pound up since last Friday - basically since I stopped the uber camp! Think it is basically due to being unmindful of my eating and generally eating too much cream, too many berries, too much peanut butter, not drinking enough water. So am back on ubercamp till my do on Saturday - and then again on Sunday - as do not want to actually have to register a weight gain come official weigh in on Monday!

Beryl, that is appalling. There are so many institution where not a single bit of the food is real food. If I go into hospital I would have to have my meals brought in for me I suspect or take a lot of tins of tuna and sardines and raw veg in.

A very interesting piece here about how exercise is not the be-all-and-end-all when it comes to weight loss

And another one, about how exercise might actually suppress our metabolism

Hello all
Didn't get on yesterday aas I was in town for a conference. Bloody working lunch of sandwiches and fruit! I had booked beofore starting this woe but will definitely become 'coeliac' before the next one and order a special meal.

So yesterday was:
B: pork terrine, cucumber, mayo
L: sandwiches and two strawberries, loads of water
D: Chilli, cauliflower rice, cheese and yoghurt
S: book group, so a bit of cheese and a few olives

Today I am a lb up so will be a strict day:
B: bacon and eggs
L: smoked salmon terrine on celery and salad
D: salmon steaks with fried leeks and courgette

Sticking to that should see me lose that lb hopefully.

Hi all!
Well, here I am sitting in the dust watching the the wagon diminish to a speck in the far distance. Fell off it yesterday and to use analogies cited earlier, promptly jumped on my smashed phone/slashed the other three tyres on my car). Feel rubbish today ? partly because of the carbs, partly because I'm so mad at myself.
Sitting at my desk, trying to give myself a good talking to (and not quite succeeding).
to you Beryl
Well done to Millie for loss and Crabby for getting in those trousers! and everyone else for staying on the course!
Please someone give me a pep talk!

Beryl how rage-making is that hospital. Can you take in some "packed lunches" for your mum? Or, as you are snowed under with work, can you ask some of your mum's friends to take in some suitable food for her. I bet some of her friends would be so happy to have something "specific" to do that would be really helpful. (apart from complaining to all the "health-workers" who have created this situation, of course)

And crabby if you can zip up size 12 trousers I would like to nominate you for a name-change to crabbysmallbottom

maid the wagon has screeched to a halt and is coming back for you and we won't take no for an answer!

I am in my size 10 jeans

They are far too tight, fat is spilling over the top & my hip bones hurt where they're digging in.

I had to lie down to do them up But I'm wearing them all day until I can't resist trackies any longer!

OK I'm going to go nerdish on the numbers!

Until now I have not weighed myself, don't have scales. I did not want to (ever) know how heavy I was at the worst. I've just been watching the back-fat disappearing and my clothes getting baggier.

Today I was at the doctors and she wanted to weigh me as part of the diagnosis! So, I am 84kg, 13 stone 3lb. This is a BMI of 28 (overweight).

The previous weight they had logged at the docs was 88.5kg, 13 stone 13lb. No idea when that was, and I bet I had got bigger since whenever that was. Even so, that is an Obese BMI. So, better already!

To get to normal BMI I need to be at most 73kg, 11 stone 6lb. I can't quite believe I could EVER be that weight but it will be interesting to see. One thing is for sure, this WOE is the only way I will find out. Nearly 2 stone to lose - wow!

Sorry for the stats-fest I've gone from one extreme to another!

beryl - my DM has coeliacs and has terrible problems with decent food in hospital (apart from when she was in Glan Clwyd - they seemed to be switched on) - we used to take food in for her. Is that a possibility for you? You shouldn't have to do this, I don't understand why hospital food is so poor when really, good nutrition is the base of good health but might be a solution?

You'll get there Lily! Just keep plodding away!

forcing myself to log in here and be accountable, have had 4 days completely off piste with RL getting in the way as well... BIWI your stick would be broken in pieces you would need to beat me so hard

there has been and and i'm scared to step on the scales!

off to catch up with the thread since monday, hope everyone else is managing ok.

hi guys! been really having moments of struggling last 2 days for first time (could easily have scoffed a doughnut) but fine again today. Sure it was the chocolate brownie I ate on Saturday night awakening all my sugar receptors again!

I have thought long and hard about the dairy issue as I eat a lot of Greek Yogurt with a bit of double cream mixed in (sometimes a tub a day if unwell and can't get anything else down).

I've decided, looking at research including this (check out sidebar for more) , that I am going to keep eating it. I need the calcium for one post hysterectomy and secondly there is not much else of this type of easy meal to eat on this WOE. It seems that everything needs cooking or preparing apart from nuts which I try not to eat.

chicken and spinach curry tonight. yum!

Thanks Lily ? maybe it's hormonal. Feel bit down in the dumps for no particular reason. Well done on yr own weight loss btw. Think on this WOE it is probably better not to watch the scales too much, as BIWI et al say. Snap Ruby Back fighting carb cravings today!

re the weather - when it warm and humid i don't lose weight, this might happen to others? when the weather gets cooler again i tend to see a drop

Thanks BIWI. It is consistent but a pound every 3 weeks (after the initial loss) is frustrating!

Never known my height but have just measured when you asked and I'm 5 foot 7 and a bit. (Quite pleased I am taller than I always thought )

I would happily stop at a higher weight if I was slimmer - I did Jillian Michaels shred dvds somewhat consistently for 18 months and have certainly developed new muscles all over so don't expect to weigh the same as I did before weight gain. Unfortunately the muscles are still obscured by a layer of fat!

I will up the veg and fattier protein, down the nuts and attempt to cultivate the virtue of patience! Thanks

decaff - you have only 4.5lbs to go before you become 'desirable' from a BMI point of view! (And that's forgetting the 'bit' of the 5 ft 7!)

Your loss will be slower as you have less to lose. I know you won't see it like that, as you want to lose more weight, but you will need to be patient and just be happy that the scales are moving in the right direction.

And it's what Atkins advises - longer periods of slower weight loss as you head into maintenance, the theory being that you get used to eating this way. He recommends losing less than a pound a week for up to three months.

Back on the wagon maid and ruby! I'm back on after a fall off on Monday night.

Just been to Waitrose and stocked up on bits and pieces that won't involve dairy over the next few days.

Lunch was a yummy salad of leaves, 4 cherry toms chopped, some yellow pepper chopped, half an avocado, smoked mackerel and wasabi mayonnaise. Yum.

Enjoying my final cup of tea of the day before tackling a pile of ironing.

For those of you who have dropped off the wagon, the key thing is to identify what those triggers were for you.

There are lots of times when we will eat things that are high in carbs - sometimes we simply can't avoid them, like couch25cakes and her conference. Or perhaps you've been invited to a friend's for dinner, and are presented with a plate of pasta.

But when it's something that you have done of your own free will, why did you do it? And more importantly, when you know you are sabotaging your own best efforts and hard work so far, why did you think it would be worth it?

Imagine you are in the same situation this time next week, feeling as you do about it now. What will you do next time? How will you avoid the carbs?

BIWI for me it was being pissed off about the scales dying as I had been so good and I knew that new scales would weigh me differently and I wouldn't really know my real loss. Stupid as I said but it was enough for me to give into a glass of wine. Which ended up being a bottle. And the led to a total carb fest. At that stage I wasn't really thinking is it worth it. I was just doing.

Fast day for me today, so am having a seared tuna steak and salad in an hour or so. Off to the UK tomorrow, have already got a Tesco's order done which will arrive at Dad's just after I do - loads of low carb goodies like venison and duck breasts (and more down to earth food like chicken and salmon!). I'm having a planned treat on Sunday, when we go to my favourite restaurant for lunch - there's a creme brulee with my name on it! I'll be back on plan on Monday (which is also a fast day).

Tomorrow may end up being another fast day, because I can never find anything low carb to eat at our small local airport, and by the time I get to Dad's I'm past the point of hunger, and just want a swift vodka to put my feet up and relax.

at Cider "just doing" after the wine..
Oh BIWI (deep sigh at self) ? with me it's a truly stupid mindset I get into when I think, okay I've blown it now (with unavoidable dinner or whatever) so I may as well eat that huge bar of chocolate and have those crisps while I'm at it and, what the hell, another glass of wine. At least it's only been a day ? which, trust me, is a result.
Drinking lots of water today and hoping will be able to wash away my sins.
Still feeling bit deflated (mentally if not physically)