Week 1 - Autumn Low Carb Bootcamp

[BIWI]

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!

By the way, I don't know if anyone has pointed this out for any newbies or lurkers who may be worried by the spreadsheet.

Some of us (ahem) larger ladies are not comfortable putting our actual weight on the sheet, especially if you think anyone may know you in real life. We put our starting weight on as 100 and count down from there. Just let Willie know you are doing that so she doesn't think you are a teeny-tiny person losing large percentages of your body weight!

checking in as newbie here.
Have already committed cardinal sin of missing breakfast
However, had two big glasses of water so far and am just having a prawn saled with lettuce, spinach and grated carrot.
Going to take a bit of getting used to but I'm up for it

Brilliant - so pleased to be starting. Had a tricky weekend - not really carby but knowing that I was starting Bootcamp, I did gorge on fruit and wine.. berries, peaches and oranges.

This WOE really does suit my lifestyle, except for not eating fruit, which I love.

Good luck to us all. Have entered my weight in the spreadsheet. Hope to lose 7lbs at the very least.

oops.. *on the spreadsheet

hi I've added myself to the spreadsheet (which is a work of art!). I actually started last monday and lost 4lbs and feel so much better for it. Would like to loose a further 10lbs so we shall see.

Hi all, just added myself to the list. Feeling motivated now!

Googoogoggles - finger crossed you lose that stone on bootcamp! I'm feeling less ambitious... if I was under 12 stone by Christmas I'd feel it was a miracle! (I surely haven't been under 12 stone since... erm... ever?)

Hello ladies :) I'm back

I forgot to weigh this morning (and eat breakfast) but will be putting 100lbs on the ss.

I'm also doing bootcamp light due to medical reasons.

Good luck everyone

i was dreading finding out my starting weight this morning but was pleased to discover it was still in the 10s!! (albeit the very top end!)

have actively sought out and gorged on everything i've avoided since april this past weekend, so really was expecting to be back where i started. that said, i really haven't missed bread/pasta/rice/sweets at all - though have missed fruit and tortilla wraps. but it's so worth it! am hoping to be back in the swing of things after a few days - thanks to BIWI and Willie for doing this - and good luck to everyone

A big thankyou to BIWI and Willie. This must take hours of your time and it is much appreciated. I found the last bootcamp and tried to follow it. My eating habits have totally changed. I never feel hungry but do miss fruit. Unless you go to an Italian it is also easy to eat out - apart from the wine! I feel great.

Another newbie here . Thanks so much to BIWI and Willie for organising it all! I've been reducing the carbs for a week in preparation and am excited to be starting properly now!
So far today:
B - 2 egg omelette with a bit of smoked mackerel
L - massive salad with avocado, bit more mackerel, bit of blue cheese and tons of olive oil dressing
D will be turkey and chorizo stew with buttered cabbage and spinach

Oh and I've also Shredded today. Must drink more water though...

ok-- day one and I am starving- just had lovely chicken wrapped in bacon and salad... just am so used to having something sweet.. help! such a strong craving....

Of course have a low-carb snack: cheese, olives, ham, greek yogurt... Don't go hungry. But STAY AWAY from the sweet things! The cravings will pass, honestly.

Also, have another glass of water. That helps too.

For this way of eating you need enough willpower not to eat the carbs. But at least you don't have to have this willpower while being hungry! If you're hungry, eat.

Hi Newbies and Oldies.
After being on and off all summer I am now 3lbs up from last bootcamp final weight. Ruby and Twit am at a similar weight to you but being short have still some way to go.

Now drinking water and determined not to weaken and eat cake and drink beer like last night's madness. Good luck everyone!

Another newbie here! Hello all and thank you BIWI and Willie.

My DC3 started nursery this morning and I treated myself to a piece of cake after dropping him off

But I'm really up for trying this WOE and I will start tomorrow, I promise

Good luck all. Thanks Biwi and WW

I have also been a Massive Carby Twat?, and forcing myself to weigh in this morning was hard. I still weigh a shade over 2 stone less than my heaviest weight 18 months ago. However, as I had in fact managed to lose 4 stone by February, that still means that I have undone nearly half my hard work in the last 7 months. Am furious with myself.

However, no point beating myself up about it. Back on the wagon now. Mushroom omelette for breakfast, caponata and ham for lunch. Glugging the water.

Thanks for starting another bootcamp. I managed to lose 10lb on the last one but everything went to pot over the summer and I've

Whoops !! Put 5lb back on and completely fell off the low carb wagon !!! Hopefully I can get back on it and shift a lot more pounds !!

I am so disappointed in myself, was doing really well at the end of last year but since then have fallen off the wagon with a huge bump and now weigh 12 stone 10 pounds which is the most I have ever weighed.
Am now determined to stick to low carb as I know it makes me feel better.
Just got back from two weeks in Spain with bread etc every day so really feel bloated and fat!
Today I've had so far a two egg omelette with small amount of grated cheese, handful of watercress and 4 cherry tomatoes.
To drink one cup of coffee, 1 litre of water and just having some fennel tea.
Onwards and downwards hopefully.

Waves to all the newbies and oldies, Im from the original bootcamp and subsequently been dipping in and out of the following ones.
Unfortunately I appear to have but some weight back on since last November in the form of 16lbs and yes I have been a total Carby Twat!!! I am still down alot from what my original weight was 4 years ago. I am today 9st 12 and want to be 8st 7 so a way to go.

Huge thanks to BIWI and Willie for this massive undertaking!

I am a long-term low-carber and weigh the same today as I did a year ago BUT I am a totally different shape and have lost a lot of inches (2 dress sizes smaller) - so PLEASE take measurements as well as weighing - the scales may well stay the same some weeks but you find you have lost inches. Having said that I would LOVE to get rid of 7lbs so fingers crossed! Oh I also do a lot of exercise - mostly HIIT and weights with the odd run thrown in for fun (!!) & have no problems exercising on a LC diet ....

1.5ltr of water drank so far today:) am not the worlds best cook but had decided on caesar salad for lunch, however am so used to grilling rashers that I managed to burn the rashers when frying them this lunchtime. Aw well, will keep a better eye on them next time

I've added my weight to the fabulous spreadsheet. I would like to lose another 8 kg to be back to pre baby weight.

I'm still down 6kg from when I started in jan at the boot camp then - and I have been on hols, indulged quite a bit, but really stuck to lc as much as I could. I'm going to do the uber bootcamp this time too, hopefully!
Today I had

B- leftover courgettes and leeks fried in butter with an egg and 2 slices of bacon
L - the rest of the left over courgettes and leeks with slices of Brie and zapped in the microwave
D- slow roasted lamb, roast celeriac, cauliflower with butter. Dc had mash as well:)

I had a tsp of peanut butter too. I've drunk 1.5 litres of water which I feel is sloshing round inside me and I am going to go to bed early and keep off the wine :)

Ok you lovely low carbing experts, I love salad but usually slap loads of salad cream all over it Any ideas for a lovely creamy low carb salad dressing?