Here is the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness
Hopefully the scales are moving for us all now, albeit rather more slowly than they were to start with. And this is good. Honestly!
To keep weight off, it's much better to lose it slowly and over a longer period of time. Remember, despite how people may talk about low carbing, this is not a crash diet. It's a way of eating designed to allow you to switch to fat-burning, rather than carb-burning, which will therefore allow you to lose weight - and which brings with it a myriad of other health benefits.
Please share with us your successes as well as your frustrations. Even if we're struggling, which all of us will do from time to time, and it might be galling to read that others are doing well, ultimately it's important for us all to hear the successes because it helps us to (continue to) believe that this is a WOE which can work for us.
And PEACE AND LOVE!
Hope you all have a good week.
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Week 6 - Autumn Low Carb Bootcamp - and we head to the finish line!
BIWI · 14/10/2013 07:29
Hello everyone, I was on the New Year's thread and lost a stone. I felt great, but sort of fell back into old ways after moving jobs 
I'm pulling my socks up again and I've been low carbing for a week now. Not done the boot camp if that's alright BIWI, I remember the diet well and I've fallen back into it quite easily.
I'm feeling SO much better. I've been a bit tired in the afternoons and had a few headaches, but I think that's my body craving sugar. I've not given in, and aside from that all I've had are itchy fingers in the evening, when I'd really rather like some crisps 
If it's alright, may I slip onto the thread for support? I found it so fabulous for that last time! I've not got much to lose; perhaps around 16lbs? My body shape doesn't actually change much, it's more for health and general bounce that I'm doing it! 
Congratulations mrshp :) I'm tax too (ssh) so fingers crossed...
Thanks to this woe my pcos symptoms have reduced even after coming off the pill, my blood sugar is stable, my gastric issues are better and my blood pressure is better. And my GP said I look healthy, like I've lost weight even though I'm heavier than I last saw them and like someone who could get pregnant.
So thanks BIWI 
Congratulations MrsHP.
Repeats "the only person I am cheating is myself"
Just read thread! Congratulations MrsHP - very exciting
And yes crabby I remember motorcycle boy too. So glad he is doing well.
What've you been up to NSNS?!
Argh! I'm going to London today for a meeting, from Edinburgh so a long train ride. Got to the station early thinking wether spoons would be open and I could have a fry up, but no. Literally no other low carb options, only things open are caffe Nero, bagel factory, a baguette place. I've had to go to smiths and buy a bag of chicken, a pepparami and some babybels. How delicious 
Hello Bootcampers! How's it going? I quit a while ago, but BIWI said do pop back, so I am .
I'm essentially still lc-ing, just not quite as lc as bootcamp. It's working really well for me - steady, sustained weightloss and still feeling the wonderful lack of hunger and yo-yo-ing energy. But thank you to Bootcamp (BIWI, Willie and all of you) for setting me on the lc path, even if I needed to tweak it a bit for me. 
Hope you are all continuing to be big losers!
Aw thanks everyone. I should tell him, shouldn't I, that there are lots of lovely low-carbing women on the internet rooting for him too!
Well, I went to the GP yesterday to get the results of my fasting cholesterol test. Not good. I figured that when I rang for the results and they told me that I needed to make an appt. to see my 'usual' GP. Lovely as he is, I thought 'bugger that, you're not putting me on statins' and waited until I could get an appt. with the lovely lady GP I saw last time who told me not to worry!
My total cholesterol is 7.9 mmol/l
My HDL is 2.67 mmol/l
My LDL is 4.6 mmol/l
My triglycerides are 1.27 mmol/l
These levels are very high, including the HDL which is the 'good' one. The GP hummed and haahed a bit and looked up the NICE guidelines, but ultimately said that even with those numbers, my recalculated cardiac risk factor is very low... 1.3% and therefore she wouldn't want to put me on statins and doesn't think I should worry about it. Wonderfully, she's still really positive about the low carb diet and agreed that diet has only a small effect on cholesterol levels. I think I luffs her!
She was incredibly positive about my weight loss (another 2kilos off since I saw her last) and over the moon about how much I've cut down my drinking - not drinking Mon-Thurs as a matter of routine now, whereas before I was rarely managing one or two alcohol free days a week. Also I've managed to veeeeeeeeeery gradually reduce my antidepressant dose over the last few months and am now on 20mg/od rather than 40mg. It was really difficult to do this year and I'm glad I've persevered.
So the jury's out for me at the mo about how much this WOE might be affecting my cholesterol levels, and indeed how much of a problem that is if the are. I'm reading the cholesterol con and very much want to be convinced, but I really wish he'd reference his assertions a lot more than he does. I guess I really need to go and study the research myself, but it's hard to find the time and the motivation.
Anyway, enough of my rambling. Purple that's a bummer about the holiday. Did you complain? Welcome back Holmes, glad you've found a way that works for you. French I like the sound of that light clock. I am 
of a cepes and chestnuts festival... I love both of those with a passion!
at New - come on now, get back on the wagon!
Food yesterday
B - greek yoghurt with berries, linseed.
L - courgette and tomatoes with home made pesto.
D - same again but with some pork.
Have a good day everyone.
bigkids thanks for the babybel idea; it's shopping day so there was nothing left for breakfast. Stopped at Sainsburys and bought some chicken satay, babybels and pork scratchings. The latter of which, I seem to have developed a slight addiction to
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