Week 1 - Autumn Low Carb Bootcamp

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So here we are! Over 160 of us signed up!

Here is the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness for you to enter your first weight

If you aren't on the list for any reason, just go to the bottom of the list and add your name - the lovely Willie will sort out the alphabetisation later.

From experience of previous Bootcamps, the chat thread can move very quickly! So, if you have a specific or particular question, please post it on the questions thread I will do my best to check it as often as I can, as will other seasoned Bootcampers.

If you have a really burning issue, please feel free to PM me and I will do my very best to help you as soon as possible.

And if you're looking for inspiration for things to cook, here's the recipe thread

Here is a brief reminder of the rules:

We do not eat any of the following during Bootcamp:

bread
rice
pasta/noodles
potatoes
flour
pastry
sugar
chocolate/sweets
biscuits/cookies
crisps

And here are the ten rules of Bootcamp:

1. You must eat breakfast.
2. Avoid processed food
3. Eat lots of fat
4. Make sure you are eating vegetables and salads with your food
5. Be careful about dairy (apart from butter, which is unlimited)
6. You must drink a minimum of 2 litres of water per day
7. No alcohol
8. No fruit
9. No nuts/seeds

10. No sugar or artificial sweeteners

More detail/explanation of these rules is on the spreadsheet ? look at the tabs at the bottom.

One final word from me ? the disclaimer! I am not a doctor, a scientist, a dietician nor a nutritionist. The advice that is given here is based on my own experience of low carbing, as well as the reading I have been doing over the last few years.

If you have a medical condition, or you are taking long term medication, please take advice from your GP/consultant before starting to low carb.

Good luck everyone!

Just marking a place to come back to later.

I started last Monday and have seen a 5.5 pound loss, plus I feel so much better already. It's really helping that DH is doing it too, although its much harder for him because of work.

I'm relying on my Pig to Twig recipe book - made a batch of muffins and they were great.

Looking forward to catching up and adding myself to the list.

Checking in - I have also been a Massive Carby Twat? since DD's birthday in mid-August, when I started eating cake and set off a hideous binge.

I'm too scared and ashamed to weigh myself

CJ Loving Massive Carby Twat - but don't think you can trademark it as I also lay claim to that title!!

However I have started bootcamp a bit early and not lost too much weight yet but I feel loads better, and the main thing is I really have stopped thinking about carbs all the time. Appetite is under control. Just need to keep going......

Hello
I am a newbie here at boot camp.
I have been eating like a fool for all sorts of reaons and I need to get a handle on it - i feel sluggish and dull.So this thread is a blessing for me.

Walked DD to school. Just out picking up some supplies.

I've bought some scales! So I can do this properly. I was really REALLY happy to find I weigh 12 stone 8lb. (Thanks to the bootcamp way of eating since last May)

I can't remember being under 13 stone for years. Not that I've dared look for years... So any newbies amongst the 160 bootcampers - stick with it, you will really lose weight!

Onwards and downwards! I do have a tricky few days ahead... family birthday today and then 2 days away for work, including a 6.25am train journey. A packed breakfast will be required I think!! But no idea what I will find to eat for the rest of the 2-day trip.

My starting weight is 146. I want to be 135.

I've been falling into vats of carbs for the last six weeks. Desserts, biscuits, wine, wine, wine.

I'm here, but I'm not spreadsheeting this time round, 'cos I've found that a weekly weigh-in is counterproductive for me - I start to obsess about weight loss and food. I had a month off after my first year of low carbing ended in August, but re-committed 8 days ago and am back in the groove. Yesterday it was smoked salmon and scrambled eggs for breakfast, some cold roast pork and camembert for lunch, and lamb medallions with green beans and bacon for dinner, followed by home made low carb strawberry cheesecake :)

Just about to have 2 fried duck eggs and some bacon for (a late) breakfast - planning a chicken curry for dinner, lunch will be cheese and meat nibbles again. Am off the alcohol for the foreseeable future!

Hi everyone!
I'm similar weight to you Lily, 12 st 6 or 12st 7 this am (petulant scales) and would love to shift at least a stone this bootcamp. Recently back from holiday feel clogged up/bloaty after far too much wine/carby breakfasts etc so Glad glad glad to have support/motivation from BIWI and everyone posting on here! We can do this!

I'm in and have recorded my weight. I'd like to lose 1-1.5 stones by Christmas.
B: 2 x coffee, scrambled eggs
L: peppered mackerel and salad leaves
D: roast pork, griddled courgettes and salad.

I'm back , and looking forward to getting started. I've done a major cook-up and so have heaps of food ready in the freezer. Work has blocked the spreadsheet so I'll look tonight and add my starting point.

Today: 2 glasses of water so far,
B:scrambled eggs with butter and a splash of cream
L: salad with ham and philly rolls
D: beef stew with cauliflower and brocolli

I'll need to add some fat somewhere, but forgot to bring in my salad dressing to work.

Hoping everyone has a good day.

I've entered my weight on the spreadsheet, slightly up from last week due to totm. I'm hoping to lose 15 lbs.

Egg mayo with mushrooms fried in butter for breakfast, lunch will be cold left over roast chicken with salad with home made dressing and home made mayo and possible a couple of small slices of Brie, dinner will probably be chicken curry with cauliflower or something. Maybe a snack of "Posh" pork scratchings!

Thanks BIWI and Willie for spreadsheet/advice/encouragement

Morning all, hope everyone is ok?
Could some one put me on the spreadsheet please as my iPad doesn't want to ? (152)
For breakfast I have had a hard boiled egg with mayo, a black farmer sausage and water. I am now having a decaf coffee with cream.
Lunch will be a couple of pork belly things with buttery spinach
Tea will be bolognese with fried courgette wedges and big mushroom filled with soft cheese. (Pasta for the family)

Morning, I won't be weighing till tomorrow evening but at last weigh in (2 weeks ago), I weighed in at 13st so I expect it to be in or around that weight. Am going to take my measurements this evening so hoping to see some movement there over the next couple of weeks.
Good luck everyone:)

marking my place.... onwards and downwards bootcampers!

Morning everyone. Happy to be on my first official bootcamp. Had scrambled egg, salmon and avocado for breakfast fried in butter. I was going to use coconut oil but couldn't get the lid off. Off to Asda for a big low carb shop. 2 glasses of water drunk only 10 to go.

have added myself to the spreadsheet. I'm around the same as I was at the end of the last bootcamp, but have put on a few pounds over the summer (mostly in the last 2 weeks on holiday in Italy). I hope to lose a stone by christmas, but would be happy with half a stone as that would take me to my lightest as an adult.

I also need to exercise really too. (or at least sort my stomach out).

Like several of ou I made the mistake od weighing a week ago and as I'd been relatively good all summer (with the odd bit of carb creep) and weighed way less than expected I also had a carb binge this weekend.

Still I'm not that much heavier but my clothes feel tighter and more bloated.

Food today will be B- Lidl yogurt, L Broccoli cauliflower and Stilton soup (with cream) and D- Leek and mushrooms with smoked salmon in a creamy sauce.

I'm going to make my lunch early and reheat as If i leave it too late I start snacking.

Oh and this thread has just reminded me I need to up my water intake (first glass of the day oops)

Good Luck everyone I can't wait to get going.

Beattie have you tried shreding (really good for core muscles) I think I'm going to start that next week.

Hey everyone! I have been a carb monster since the last boot camp it's 8 weeks until my wedding so I want to lose about half a stone - I'd better not lose much more than that or my dress won't fit! Shouldn't be a problem as I do seem to lose weight quite slowly on this woe.
I've had a bulletproof coffee this morning, I must eat something soon I guess - I don't really feel like it as DS started school today so I've been sobbing all morning :(
Good luck everyone - don't be a sugary twat!

Ok, so having started last week, I am really disgusted at the lack of weight loss this morning. I know what it is and am cross with myself.
I went go-karting on Saturday night and had a really bad crash and have either badly bruised or cracked my rib, so having had a couple of nurofen, I ended up in the pub with everyone and had a couple of drinks to further try and help numb the pain. Well I put back on 2 of those 3lb I had lost up until then. Gutted! and sore!
So let this be a lesson to you all, don't indulge in alcohol for the first few weeks learnt at my expense

Morning all

Will update my weight later when I can open the spreadsheet. Have been doing it by myself for the last couple of weeks and was 10lb down but had a blow out at the weekend which put on 3lb...

Posting my meals as i think it helps me keep on track:

Bfast - frittata type thing with 2 eggs, grated cheddar, chorizo and chilli
Lunch - left over keema (spicy mince) with a bit of buttered cabbage
Snack - babybel
Dinner - mozarella and bacon salad

Gallons of water

Hello
I'm another bootcamp newbie.
I have been half heartedly low carbing for a while with Paleo/Primal but I wasn't getting on brilliantly with it but I started BIWI's bootcamp on Saturday and am finding it much better. I feel less bloated already.

Morning all! Just to give a bit of a boost to those of you just starting out and as apprehensive as I was.

I began this exactly a year ago and am now almost 3 stone lighter I still have more than that much still to go but, after years of yoyo dieting and failure with the likes of WW,SW, etc, I feel positive that I am learning to eat healthily and address the issues that all those years have left me with.

Just one piece of advice READ THE INFO ON THE SPREADSHEET AND TABS CAREFULLY. A lot of the times I have struggled, and seen others struggle, it has been easily understood and solved using that info.

Good luck everyone!

Thank you whoever added my weight