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 ...

Samantha, I love red wine but I'm cutting it out this week except maybe for a glass or two on Friday night. We were talking about it on the last thread and the advice has stuck with me, fat burning won't take place while there is alcohol in my system as the body will always metabolise this first. So my glass or two of red wine habit most nights will have to break. I'll feel all the better for it, not just weight-wise. Do you want to join me in a no booze challenge

Will be interesting to catch up of thread later. Have put 1lb on, visitors and stuck in a rut with food. Too much cheese as well .

Last 3 weeks 1 So cannot afford to mess about. Onwards and upwards , good luck all

Yy tiger, I try to do no booze in the week and I mostly succeed but I could with doing a 2 weeks no booze at all stint really...

The last few days I've been over on carbs as had family around & eating out at places where no low carb alternatives available... I know it will take time as I'm close to goal, I'm just feeling flabby(!)

Starting afresh today!

SJ, I will be here for a long time! I have squillions to lose, and doing a very poor job at the moment.

Welcome, Samantha! Don't worry, we won't disappear when the 3 weeks are up. We generally keep a chat thread going until the next Bootcamp starts.

burrata - ordered via the Waitrose website as a speculative move. They delivered it on Sat with the best before date the same day. DH put some of the shopping into the fridge for me, so I didn't find it till Sun morning, and felt I really should erm just attack it with a spoon as fast as possible.

re dairy, I'm still breastfeeding, so I do think dairy continues to be a good idea. However, I am almost exclusively drinking almond milk, but do have cream, butter and cheese. And lots of eggs.

By the way, if anyone is looking for somewhere to eat out that does low carb - can I recommend Loch Fyne? Generally, seafood or steak and vegetables or salad is a pretty good basis for an enjoyable low carb meal.

SJ, Tiger, I need to continue all the way into August so I'll be here :)

Keep having a few wobbly moments today! Eek.

Nobody, SJ, Tiger, I'll be here until bikini time in August.
I SO want to look half decent on the beach.

Well, I guess that the things I need to consider are
-making sure I drink more water
-more exercise
-cutting out/down dairy
-cutting out nuts and seeds altogether
-cutting out berries
-cutting out the occasional random indulgence

I think that the water and the exercise make most sense first off.

So almond milk should be ok, thanks herecomes.

SJ, Nobody and Middle..I'll be here till August too def

I found a tub of cheese sauce in Tesco, McLleland's Seriously Strong Rich Cheddar Cheese sauce. I know it's not home made but thought it would be useful to have in fridge just in case I need a quick meal as it would go well with fish/steak and veg. It seems to be grain free and only 1.5g carbs per 100g and has a long best before date (Oct 2013), hoping it'll be alright.

Does anyone have any suggestions for some nice sauces (one of the advantages of this WOE, yummy creamy sauces!).

It's amazing how different I feel today, no carb cravings yet I would have killed for that bag of Quavers yesterday

Just weighed myself..... 9st9... so according to the scales I've gone from 9st6 to 9st3 to 9st9....???????

Today:
B: small pot lidl yog and about 1tsp berries (all I had!) plus small piece cheese
L: salad leaves with mayo, small piece cheese (less than 1/2 small matchbox size) and 1 drumstick and 1 chicken wing in BBQ sauce (was about 3g carbs)
D: not sure yet but probably bacon 2-3 slices with fried mushrooms and 2 cherry toms (didn't get to the supermarket!), can add salad leaves
S: none as yet

Last week of putting myself down as STS, 'cos I'm back in the UK on Friday :) I have no idea whether I've lost anything in the past month, I've been sticking to the rules, plus doing 5:2 as well, so I can but hope! Right now, I feel smaller, 'mainly cos I'm blinkin' starving (today is a fast day), so I hope the scales reflect this next week!

Oh good luck furry - it'll be interesting to see how much yoiu've lost!

Sam - worry not - I'll be here for a very long time to come!! You will not be alone :O)

Hi to all - loads of posts today, far too many to mention individually!

I'm only down 1lb this week. It would have been more as it was 3 midweek, but it's that TOTM and I seem to have bloated into a small island. Hopefully the extras will fuck off go away soon! I am tantalisingly near A Big Goal - and losing and gaining those couple of pounds has been bloody annoying. I am also have TOTM cravings for carbs - but I'm resisting... I want the weight loss more or so I keep telling myself. Lack of sleep is not helping.

BIWI - the whole milk/cream/cheese/yogurt thing has me demented I cannot work out if it stalls me or not. I haven't had much cheese lately, I've pretty much cut the milk out (no more lattes -but a bit of milk out if they don't have cream), sometimes I buy Total (Briffa says it can actually help with weight loss) and sometimes I avoid it. I can't seem to pin the 'stall' or 'successes' on doing or not doing any of the above - or anything else! I just wish I knew what did what so I could stop 'suspecting' everything and just get on with it. It's so hard as a non egg eating vegetarian to low carb and cut out dairy altogether, but I'd do it if I knew it was stalling me.

I just keep plodding in - eating something one week but not another, then going back to it etc - it's no wonder I don't get invited to anyone's house for dinner anymore :( .

RUP where are you??

Hi Samantha - I'm going to keep going with it too. Someone said BIWI and Willie start an interim chat thread before another Bootcamp start-up later in the year to them both for starting and continuing all this.
What are yum yums btw? I think I want some.

Just realised posted without having read page 3 of thread, so my last post particularly dense now I've read it. Doh! Having one of those days ? not good for a Monday.
Back to work (beats self with big stick)

MaidofMuss

Yumyums - you do not want to know what they are - trust me!

(They are amazing, especially from Waitrose, they are sort of like square donuts coated in sugar and the very best ones have apple inside. YUM for sure. I haven't had one since January. I think I might have one for my 'Birthday cake' next February!)

biwi will beat you with an extra big stick if you go anywhere near a yumyum on bootcamp!

I will

You don't want to know what yum yums are! but www.mysupermarket.co.uk/tesco-price-comparison/Patisserie/Tesco_Yum_Yums_4.html

I use lots of garlic butter on steaks and fish. And fennel butter.

I'm glad loads of you are here for a while!

God I cannot WAIT to be thin, I've been a heifer for about ten years now and this is the closest I've got o doing something about it. :eyes roll at self:

Breakfast : Breakkfast "muffin" (India and Neris recipe)
Lunch: avocado with bacon, melted cheese and halloumi
Not sure what's for supper yet, maybe steak and salad

yum yums...... :):)

Still, as I remind myself when I am tempted, yum yums will always be around to buy at some point. I don't need to have one now no I don't

That's one good bit of advice I've got from these threads.

Bullet I know that foggy rage feeling well! Hope your day got better.