Week 3 - Autumn Low Carb Bootcamp - The Crossroads!

[BIWI]

So we have reached the end of the first two, strict weeks.

Come and confess all on the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

By now, if you have stuck to your knitting, you should be ketogenically adapted - which is to say, you should have switched your body from burning carbs to burning fat.

Hurrah!

You now have a choice. You can relax things a little and can include some fruit (berries) and some nuts/seeds - and a little alcohol in moderation The rules of Bootcamp Light are on the spreadsheet.

Or

You can stay on Bootcamp, if it suits you - as long as you promise me that you are getting your carbs from vegetables and salad!

Another option, which many of us adopt, is to do Bootcamp during the week and Bootcamp Light at the weekend.

The choice is entirely yours!

I hope that everyone is enjoying their food, which is the most important thing. And good luck for the next week.

BIWI long time lurker here delurking specifically to say thanks for the huge amount of effort and enthusiasm you obviously put into this. Hope your lower lip is well and truely dewobbled.

I have learnt an awful lot from these threads, and have found them very supportive though haven't posted previously.

Am I too late to add myself to the spreadsheet and join in properly? Been keeping track of my weight since start sept, but felt a bit of a fraud as am sticking to bootcamp light as feeding 3 month old.

Biwi, I think you're lovely and incredibly giving of your time.

Shame on me though, I've just dipped a pork scratching in clotted cream & it was delicious!

Well BIWI you can carry on bullying me into being thin any day of the week! A couple of weeks ago I would post my daily food and hope that it would pass muster with you. And if you hadn't told me wherre I was wrong I would now be wailing and wondering why the scales had not budged.

We are all behind you ..... all ten tons or whatever of us in our combined weights!

You're a brick.

Oh BIWI that's awful about the bullying thread. I agree with others that you are so supportive and kind on here and wonderfully generous with your time and knowledge. And when you're not here you're raising money or making woolly hugs. You are lovely. Fact.

Sorry about that stupid thread BIWI.

I'm proud as I went to a wedding yesterday and was NOT a carby twat :) I had one glass of champagne and one of wine, and absent mindedly ate one triangle of bread with my salmon but that was it. No potatoes with my lamb, refused my pudding, no biscuit with my coffee, no other drinks. Hurray :)

Managed to get through a 6 hour running/biking/kayaking charity event yesterday without resorting to carbs! Huge thanks to BIWI for the advice and encouragement - I had quite a few people saying I wouldn't be able to do it but they were wrong. Refused all the sweets, chocolate and energy drinks I was offered and managed on nuts, cheese, turkey pieces and an Atkins bar (which was very sweet and pretty revolting actually). And of course lots of water. Didn't feel lacking in energy at all. Afterwards there was a hog roast so just had meat and salad. Did succumb to two bottles of lager though so not perfect. Planning to be strict today and drink a lot of water (and take lots of nurofen for my aching muscles!).

Well done! steppingonlego tat sounds amazing but a lot of hard work. You must feel so smug proud!

BIWI we all luffs you. Ignore them (I haven't seen the thread). You have revolutionised my life!

toomuch great progress!

Steppingonlego you sound like superwoman.

I cooked Ewan's spinach and feta pie, I can really recommend it. Very rich.
greek.food.com/recipe/low-carb-crustless-greek-spinach-pie-118977?ic1=obnetwork

ANNOUNCEMENT

For week 2:

biggest loser of the week: Vicky08
biggest loser so far: roobot
biggest %age loser so far: Vicky08*

bravo to you both!

this week we have lost 105lb altogether, 386lb in total for all those who are still on the spreadsheet

*please note, I exclude those who like to index their weight, so starting at 100 and counting down from there. please don't be annoyed - it's just that the averages are a bit skewed in that instance

BIWI I didn't see the thread that upset you. Forget about if and enjoy the weekend.

SteppingOnLego - applause.

Well done everyone, losers or not.

Well done Vicky and Roobot. Stunning results

Spinach & feta pie sounds yum - have bookmarked the recipe to use later in the week :)

Have parents coming over for Sunday lunch later, so I've got a big tray of roasties in the oven for everyone else, and an almost equally large tray of celeriac, butternut squash and garlic in the oven for me. (I'm counting on leftovers for breakfast for a couple of days!) I've also had a go at a crumble using ground almonds and butter for the topping - I'll report back once we've tried it...

I didn't read that thread. I really don't like that sort of thing. Biwi I just want you to know I'm sitting here in a pair of size 12 skinny jeans and it is thanks to your encouragement. Keep waving your big stick .

BIWI a lot of regulars have been picked on just because they are regulars. don't let the bastards get you down. You know that your advice is invaluable. And greatly appreciated by many. You can never please all the people all of the time. And people like to complain more then they praise. Just remember how many people you have actually helped. That number is huge. Be strong and try to focus on this more then the negative miserable minority.

I got asked if I had lost weight yesterday. Made me feel bit better although i did put on weight last week. The bigger picture says I have lost weight this year must remember this and remain focused Finished the NSAIDs, still a lot of swelling so not hopeful for tomo, will be glad when the side effects disappear too. Feeling meh and yucky today. I love that ds is so sharing. Wish he wasn't such a germ cultivator though

Not hungry at all today so haven't eaten yet... AF here so not sure if thats why.

BIWI ditto what everyone else has said

Ignore the haters biwi they are bound to be carby twats!

Good luck with the weigh ins tomorrow everyone.

I have missed all of this as have just got home after a week away (draws veil over sustained carby twat eating ) but I have been on MN for years and on bootcamp from very early on and have never seen BIWI bully anyone, sometimes in the face of severe provocation too! Ignore ignore ignore!

Evening campers
Hope you have all had a good day low carbing. It can be tricky at the weekend with temptation in your way.

B black farmer sausage and egg
L cream of celeriac leek and courgette soup
D roast gammon and loads of veg whilst everyone else also had choc gateau

May have had red wine

You are all bloody lovely

I haven't got time to reply individually now, but I will tomorrow.

Thank you all for your lovely posts. I really, really, really appreciate the kind words.

BIWI - don't let the buggers get you down. I echo what everyone else on here has said. The time and effort you put in here is amazing and so appreciated. I haven't read the bully threads but can imagine how they went. You are def one of the good guys.

BIWI you have a bosom! I visualised you skinny as a rake with a couple of fried eggs for a bosom.....

Today was my biggest challenge. Went to a party in a small kitchen with a lot of people and tried to look like I was eating when I wasn't. After eating the insides of a couple of cheese and tomato sandwiches, I tried to prolong the eating by slowly nibbling the corner of a dorito, and resorted to licking about four doritas clear off all their flavourings..never ate the crisp itself...Realised as I had fininshed that I must have looked a right weirdo doing that! Still, tomorrow is weigh in day... the moment of truth.....

whodunnit!

Actually I do have a bosom, although it has shrunk considerably over the last year or so. Whilst I was a bit disappointed about losing cleavage, I have also lost crepeyness, which can only be a good thing!

Mind you, if I continue eating like I have this weekend ...

I have been a thoroughly carby twat this week, and have given in to my inner gobbler.

Tomorrow is another day, to quote someone sort of famous!

Thanks, Buda.

well, BIWI, I was looking at my profile sideways today and feeling slight disappointment that my belly and boobs are all still in a vertical line I had hoped to see the midriff and its underlings leaning in a bit further. Then I realised that my boobs had shrunk a bit, so it is all in the same proportion but a bit smaller. Tested it by trying on a bra from 8 years ago. It was tight and not great, but I was a lot closer to getting back into it. Not that I save all my ancient underwear....this was just a pretty hardly worn one that I didn't want to throw away.

Just my musings for the day.....

That's the thing, whodunnit - and it's why it's always good to have a particular item of clothing to keep trying on.

I found that I lost weight in proportion. So it was difficult, looking in the mirror, to really believe that I had lost weight. The only way I realised that I had, was through my clothes.