Week 7 - Autumn Low Carb Bootcamp - Have you tamed your inner gobbler?

[BIWI]

Well, the proof will be in the low carb pudding

Come and confess all ...

Hope you have a good week.

Mine's getting off to a great start by going out this evening to see a friend I haven't seen for about 20 years, and so there will be wine involved.

[NigellasGhost]

"A slight increase in fat consumption recommendation is not a licence to eat more butter" (Nordic link) - they lost me with that statement!

BIWI I loved the fat fast - I wasn't remotely hungry and did the shred all the way through it. It's really kick started things for me. But then again, I do love my double cream!

[Wossname]

Thanks for replies earlier, think i prob am best to have a look at veggie bootcamp. I really am enjoying this way of eating though. Today my two toddlers have had pretty much the same as me! Has been so easy.

What's a fat fast?

[HumphreyCobbler]

hello everyone

very late to this one, but I am starting again on Monday after having a baby three weeks ago! Am not planning to weigh in or anything drastic like that , OR to do bootcamp proper as am still in the early days of breastfeeding, but will aim for a kind of bootcamp light. Need to kick this sugar habit as it makes me feel rather shit. I fear it will be hard to get through the sugar barrier though, I may temper it with some berries.

[WillieWaggledagger]

YOU HAD THE BOOTCAMP BABY!!!!!!!

congratulations humph! how is the gorgeous little thing, and how are you?

[NigellasGhost]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Humph that is such wonderful news. How long til you'll be pureeing celeriac?

[WillieWaggledagger]

wossname - a fat fast is outlined in the atkins book i think, and it's where you restrict your calories severely and increase the %age of calories you get from fat to 85-90%. this is quite difficult to do, as you are pretty restricted in what you can eat. most meats, even fatty ones, will increase the %age calories from protein too much, and you have to keep any portions of veg very small. people will often have 5-6 very small meals rather than three regular ones. this is something that should only really be done for a few days at most as you won't be getting enough protein and other nutrients for the long term, but i do know of people on another forum i frequent who try to eat like that all the time. i personally think this is risky and unsustainable (and there is a lot of beating themselves up when they fall of the wagon), but their choice...

i believe it is primarily intended for those who are severely insulin resistant, to make sure they really get into ketosis and fat-burning, or for someone who's experienced a lengthy stall (i.e. months and months, not a few weeks). i haven't done it myself, and would definitely not suggest it for anyone just starting out with low carbing!

nigella i bet after doing that you're definitely not feeling deprived doing regular low carbing in comparison with the fat fast! it's great that it's had such a positive effect for you

[WillieWaggledagger]

number 6 will be humphrey's baby in a few months' time (ignore the carby twat babies)

[MrsHerculePoirot]

Hurrah humph!!!! Congratulations! I shall be watching with interest what you do, ready for follow your lead in May (I am twelve weeks today )

[HumphreyCobbler]

aw thanks you guys

brilliant news MrsHP, congratulations xxxx

am loving the pic

baby is a boy and is gorgeous

[StuntedFrankenNun]

Congratulations Humphrey! I was bfing pretty intensely when I started low carbing and I found I needed to eat through the night as well at first or I was foundered by morning. If I did it again I think I would make sure I had lots of water, nuts and maybe an emergency piece of fruit on my bedside table at night time.

[captainmummy]

Congrats Humph!

[HumphreyCobbler]

thanks for the tip Stunted.

[AuntieMaggie]

Congratulations Humphrey :)

Not been a good week so far - not been overly twatty but a few bits here and there.

Ho hum... heres to a better weekend

[LilyAmaryllis]

Congratulations Humphrey! And good luck getting on the wagon, with all the other hard work of a new baby going on.

Wossname, I don't eat any meat and this WOE is working very well for me. But, I do eat more fish than I used to. I probably do try to eat cheese at only one meal a day most of the time. If you want any non-dairy days the ubercamp menus (on one of the spreadsheet tabs) are good inspiration.

I thought your menus looked fine. I tend to eat:
B - scrambled eggs and some sort of veg/salad (eg fried mushrooms)
L - salad usually either with tuna mayo or cheese. smoked salmon is another option.
D - often fish based but if not, an omelette, or veg curry...
Good luck, hope it works for you!

I was down ANOTHER whole lb this morning for the second day in a row. Could be a whoosh fairy but I think this is the stress fairy due to moving house. The broadband catches up with us on Monday so I shall not be able to MN all weekend!!

[BIWI]

Congratulations, Humph!

And brilliant, MrsHP, on your 12 weeks! More

[bigkidsdidit]

What a lovely thread of baby news my big lump is four months today too :)

More importantly, I just weighed in and I have lost a whole stone now! And I am in the 11 stones for the first time since I got pregnant :)

[bigkidsdidit]

I've just seen the date. He's not four months today but three days ago. Poor neglected second born!

[MrsHerculePoirot]

Such a lovely age bigkids!

[BIWI]

Twice recently I have dreamt that I have lost my DS2, couldn't find the baby anywhere. Very distressing. But also very weird as DS2 is now 18.

Hmm. Worried about him growing up, possibly?!

[StuntedFrankenNun]

BIWI you killed the thread!

I was at my ILs yesterday and my SIL very kindly made a low carb dinner for us! Roasted chicken legs and drumsticks - the skin was wonderfully crispy, sausages, mashed turnip and carrot, and chicory and celery salad with yoghurt dressing. It was a really good effort and very thoughtful of her.

[StuntedFrankenNun]

Here is an interesting article about reasons for not losing weight on the LC diet: PART 1 and PART 2.

[BIWI]

Morning all!

[BIWI]

Those posts are really interesting, StuntNun - especially the one about healing your gut.

I used to suffer from IBS and it was one of the things I noticed when I started low carbing, that I wasn't suffering any more. And now, if I step off the wagon too much/for too long, it's likely to come back.

I hadn't considered that there might be a connection between the gut and weight loss/gain, but it makes sense really.

[tenementmonster]

had a planned falling off the wagon yesterday which resulted in a lot of cake and chocolate.

just a case of (i hope) of clambering back on the wagon, saying enough and re-accustoming my tastebuds to non sweets stuff.

i don't want to sabaotage myself. It'll be ok wont it

[BIWI]

It will be OK! Just don't let yourself be sucked back into the carbs. Drink plenty of water and, if you can, do some exercise.