Week 1 Weigh-In - Little Black Dress Low Carb Boot Camp

[WillieWaggledagger]

i know you're all dying to get started on the low carb boot camp, and for those who haven't done this before, here is the link to the spreadsheet where you should record your starting weight for Monday 1st October in column c next to your name. Please don't touch any other columns for now

weight is recorded in lbs, so if you have problems converting from kg or stones, FiddledeFat made a handy widget which can be found in the tab at the bottom labelled 'conversion'

if your name isn't on the spreadsheet then you can add yourself by adding a new line and dragging the formulae down from an adjacent row, or just ask me to add you and I will do so as soon as i can

good luck with the first week of bootcamp!

Hi everyone

Quick rundown-

B- egg, bacon and 1 sausage
L- M&S king prawn pack with mayo dip
T- slow cooked lamb Henry with swede and cabbage

I'm knacked and it seems to have been a sad shit day so I'm off to bobo's. Night all

Cake and Princess I used a 250ml carton of Blue Dragon Coconut Cream UHT for 4 servings of curry. It has 1.8g carbs per 100ml so 1.125g each if my mental maths is correct.

Cooked some sausages tonight, and a frittata - starting work at 8am so won't have time for breakfast

Am feeling rather virtuous now.

Still haven't bought batteries for the scales but I think it might be good cause I'm not obsessing about how much I've lost.

Thanks willie for adding me on the spreadsheet. I did weigh myself on Monday but only jst got round to entering it. 160lb same as last time I weighed in 5 weeks ago.. Hopefully this bootcamp will get things moving in the right direction.

When does the weight loss start? I'm one of those weighing myself every day (have done for years) and I've not lost anything... I'm eating well (being very strict and done IPD before so not a total newbie to low carbs), drinking lots of water. My only allowance is one cup of tea with about 2 teaspoons of skim milk a day - can't live without it...

Thanks BIWI for the list of calcium rich veg.

The hotdogs were those frankfurter ones that are 76% pork, don't usually buy them but DD1 wanted hotdogs in buns for dinner. Won't be buying anymore.

last night dinner was chicken with cauliflower cheese.

Breakfast this morning is 2 slice smoked turkey with some soft cheese.

butterflies weight loss should happen pretty soon - you'll know that the first couple of weeks should be fairly dramatic as you will lose mostly water used by the body to store carbohydrate energy. For me, after a carb encounter, this can be an be almost an overnight loss after a few days (sometimes over 6lbs in one day) or I'll gradually lose it over a week or 2, but it's just fluid not fat. Your fat loss will still be up to around 2lbs a week but with scales it's impossible to tell what's fat and what's water, all sorts of things can cause you to gain water even when you are losing fat, eg exercise, totm, carbs, ibs etc leading us to feeling a little disheartened but if you have done IPD before then you'll know low carbing works, so head done and stick with it, hope you start to see some movement on the scales soon.

Butterflies - how much do you have to lose? It might not come off so fast if you have little to lose?

Thanks tellme, will persevere!

Could do with losing 15kg....

1 lb down today, but still 1 lb up from last weekend, sigh. Not sure what's stalling it - the Shred?

Drinking cup of tea with ff milk and thinking about breakfast. I think it will be omelette with cheese and spinach. 2 eggs for me and 1 for DD.

Thanks BIWI

I think it was down to no caffeine after giving up my mahoosive buckets of tea. I had a double espresso and felt a lot better afterwards . Was quite surprised by how awful I felt though, had to have a little sit down halfway through dog-walking, really thought I might pass out!

Also thanks to NotAgain for talking me down - you are right, there's just no point in cheating, it would have literally been 5 mins of pleasure for so much kicking myself afterwards.

On the plus side, I weighed myself this morning (I know, I know) and seem to have lost 7lbs since Monday's weigh in!

Most of that is probably water and I think my starting weight was artificially high due to Sunday night's carb fest 'Last Supper' but I'm really chuffed. Clothes definitely feel looser too - onwards and downwards!

toomuch - tomatoes are allowed, but the point I was making is that taken altogether all the carby things you were eating could be adding up to quite a lot. You just need to be aware of that.

butterflies - if you're a daily weigher (and I am too) then you will know that the scales behave in mysterious ways. You can go for days with nothing happening, and then they will suddenly show a loss - or worse, a gain. If you're sure your carbs are low, you're eating enough fat and you're drinking your water, then you will lose weight. And we are only on day 4!

TooImmature - keep on keeping on

My very boozy week last week, with way, way too many carbs (damn MN meet ups!) had a real impact on the scales. I couldn't bring myself to weigh in on Monday morning, but by Tuesday I was showing 9 stone 12.5lbs, which I was by. 3.5lbs up. But, today I'm down to 9 stone 10.75, so things are definitely moving in the right direction.

For me, this shows two things:

First, going off piste, whilst often thoroughly enjoyable, has a significant impact on weight.

Second, if you get back on the wagon immediately, it can be reversed pretty quickly (especially, I believe, once you are ketogenically adapted, i.e. your body has switched to fat-burning rather than carb-burning)

So if you are going to cheat, you need to be aware that you will not lose weight as quickly, and you could also put a significant of weight back on. Whilst you may lose it quite quickly, in effect it means you will have lost a week from your overall plan.

'significant amount of weight back on', obviously

Well done to all of you who are sticking with it and seeing and feeling the results.

I have been struggling a little, but not too bad. Found a rogue can of diet ginger beer last night, but I will not buy anymore. Surprised by how tired and headaches I have felt this time round. I really thought I had been keeping the carbs fairly low over the summer, but it seems not. Hopefully I will start to have a bit more energy in the next few days.

I was going to post that I was going to withdraw from bootcamp. The scales have just convinced me to stick with it.

Yay!

Tell us the good news then - how much?!

Wine Gless I was thinking of you yesterday and will be again today.

I hope you, your colleagues and the families get some comfort from the public response at the funerals. I was very moved watching it on the news.

Sorry you've been struggling, Jac. We're on day 4 now, so hopefully by tomorrow/Saturday you will be over it. It really demonstrates the insidious effect that carbs have, doesn't it?

Not hungry this morning so just a coffee with cream for breakfast. Hoping to get out in the garden today, so will burn some fat off I hope.

Make sure you have planned something to eat for lunch, captainmummy, so that when you are hungry you have something appropriate to hand!

Help I have just failed. Have eaten two homemade peanut cookies, they were Atkins recipe but I know not allowed in first weeks. My excuse is that I have decorators in the kitchen and they turned up mega early, before I had breakfast and I couldn't face nothing. Does this really mean that the last three days of being mega good have been wasted?? Also what can I eat the rest of the day when I am not allowed in my kitchen?

Oh have bacon and eggs and tomatoes for lunch planned, BIWI,- even when i'm doing IF (6;1) i can't go more than to 12-1o'clock without food!

If they are an Atkins recipe, then presumably they are (relatively) low in carbs? OK, not ideal for Bootcamp, but if you can't get in your kitchen ...

Mind you you must have known you had builders coming?!

Do you have a supermarket nearby that has a rotisserie? Buy a rotisserie chicken (not a flavoured one as they put sugar in the flavourings) and a bag of salad. Nip quickly into the kitchen when the builders aren't looking for some olive oil and wine vinegar for your salad dressing, and Bob's your uncle!

Morning!

Scrambled eggs with cream and butter for breakfast - mmmmmm.

Now off to do Ab attack and Buggysize (circuits basically), then the dogs need a walk ....

Lunch will be tinned salmon, mayo, avocado, lettuce, cucumber ....

WineGlass will be thinking of you again today xx

Still 9 3. I am well and truly stalled.

3 boiled eggs for breakfast.

Can someone suggest a homemade low carb sauce for bolognese? Dh has asked that i prepare a bolognese sauce for tea that he can reheat when he gets in from football, which might as well be my tea too, but the jars of sauce we have are high carb.....