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The Ongoing Low Carb Bootcamp - Final Festive Fortnight

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BIWIshYouAMerryChristmas · 10/12/2012 07:56

No spreadsheet to link to this week, as the LBD challenge is now over!

I don't know about anyone else, but I have definitely not had the greatest of weeks, and I'm keeping on keeping on until we get to Christmas.

Not quite sure yet what my own Christmas strategy is going to be, but I also guess it depends on where I've got to with my weight by then. I know that, having achieved my first major target of losing 2 stones, I still have more to go. So my next really major, very psychological target, will be to reach 9 stone. Something I have been trying (and failing) to do for the last 10 years! But now it seems so much more achieveable, especially with all you lot giving such brilliant support.

This week for me starts with a super strict day today. I'm out to dinner tomorrow, with a groups of ex colleagues, and venue is not yet chosen, but is likely to be a Chinese, which always brings its own problems. not to mention the wine

I'm also out to lunch on Friday, so it looks like Wednesday and Thursday will also have to be super strict!

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WillieWaggledagger · 05/01/2013 13:16

gotcha msrinky, sorry don't know how i missed you!

I've added them BIWI thanks, and we can keep adding things as they come up

halfthesize · 05/01/2013 13:16

Spreadsheet looks fab willie Thanks

MulledwineGless · 05/01/2013 13:17

Great idea Willie
I bookmark where I can but good to have reference

halfthesize · 05/01/2013 13:18

Good thinking about linking the threads MrsHP and BIWI loving the number plate starting with LC, its obviously meant to beWink

MulledwineGless · 05/01/2013 15:07

Great idea Mrs HP about linking threads.
BIWI - I read your post whilst out and I really did LOL! LC....its meant to be Wink

What a bloody disastrous day.
DD still not 100% and has whinged her way through the day but fallen asleep on way back to shops.
Went to JL for shoes but got the Saturday girl who wasn't arsed and had probably been out the night before. No shoes for DD in her size. Managed to get some for DS but of course none in the sale in his size.

Traipsed to our local town to get shoes at the lovely shop which is what I should have done in the first place. I ended up caving in to demands from children to treat them to McDonalds.
I have to report that I was virtuous and had a chicken and bacon salad (although pretty bland and tasteless was at least low carb)

I then got to wondering when my DC decided it is a treat to go to McDonalds.Its fucking shite food and they get it about 3 times a year. There is nothing nice about it at all, not even the drinks.

After all my pontificating on the threads about using food as a treat, emotional eating blah blah blah, I am setting my kids up for the same behaviour as myself.

Hmm....a challenge for myself to sort this out. DH will have to agree with me and support me otherwise there really is no point. However it has got to be worth a go.

Any tips vnmum and others?

God that was a long post and really wasn't meant to be [blush}

Doshusallie · 05/01/2013 15:17

I understand what you mean mulled, but if it's 3 times a year it's hardly a problem is it? But I guess you mean what it represents as a message.

Ds1 has requested a McDonald tomorrow after the cinema and I will take them as like you they eat it about twice a year, but it will be instead of sweets or popcorn. I think with my dcs it will be teaching an everything in moderation outlook for now.

EwanHoozami · 05/01/2013 15:31

It's interesting, the idea of treats for kids being food that is not as nutritious for them. Mine are too young for advertising and peer influence but the 3yo is already conditioned to think of chocolate and cakes as a reward for behaving well. I'm as guilty for introducing that concept as anyone because it works, doesn't it?

Sorry, no advice, just musing..

MulledwineGless · 05/01/2013 15:32

It's about their general outlook on food I suppose.
Sweets/biscuits/crisps/McDonalds are all seen as "treats"

I have been going with the moderation outlook I suppose.

We met my mate for quick coffee in JL and DC were trying to persuade her to go with us to Maccy D's. She had been the day before with her niece and nephew so said its not healthy to eat there too often etc etc DS turned round and said its ok they do chicken and bacon salad - thats healthy!

Bless

Hows the no drinking going Dosh?

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BIWIshYouAMerryChristmas · 05/01/2013 15:54

I love junk food Blush

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Doshusallie · 05/01/2013 17:10

Well mulled!!! So far so good!!! Miss my wine though. Sad

JessicaWakefield · 05/01/2013 21:12

Thanks for the spreadsheet Willie. It looks great and I can't believe how many people are on it! BIWI you have created something immense and as many of us on this thread can attest to life changing. Do your DH and DCs know that you are a brilliant low carb guru expert person as in do they know about your LC Interweb stuff?!

Wine I also feel really mindful that my DCs shouldn't grow up with any of the food issues that I had and which followed me into adulthood until I came across you lovely people. More and more DD (2.5) is eating the same foods as us. She doesn't have any grains at all - I bought the dinosaur book that Vnmum mentioned and while we're not paleo I definitely buy into a lot of the concepts. I know that Vnmum has mentioned in previous posts about seeing brilliant changes in her DCs behaviour on this woe and I can definitely attest to that too.

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BIWIshYouAMerryChristmas · 06/01/2013 00:04

Jessica - thank you for your kind words. I think DH/DSs would snort at the idea that I am any kind of expert/guru! They know how much time I spend on Mumsnet, and I think I am generally indulged Grin

Low carbing has been life-changing for me, and if I can share that experience/understanding with other people, then that makes me feel good. I realise that I am pretty evangelical about the whole thing Blush, but I only want to share with others what I have learnt, because it has worked so well for me.

And - so it would seem - with others!

What gives me the most satisfaction/pleasure is when I see other people posting about their experiences, and passing on the learning to others.

(I'm making this sound like some kind of cult!)

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JessicaWakefield · 06/01/2013 07:34

BIWI you should be an evangelist, this woe rocks and I know so many of us couldn't have got to where we are without the support and friendship on these threads. I think that you have helped a lot of people so no need for you to be Blush when we're all Grin!! Now if you could find a way for my kids not to get up at ten to six on a Sunday morning then you would have made my life perfect! Thanks

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BIWIshYouAMerryChristmas · 06/01/2013 08:13

Ah. There is only so much one person can do ...

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barleywood · 06/01/2013 08:38

Finally delurking. Been on BIWI's bootcamp'ish since last summer. Survived the fast food at the olympics and a six week travelling adventure.

Christmas Eve...the scales actually briefly registered an eight...albeit 8.13.

Put on some weight over Christmas but now lost it all again. I love this way of eating.

Hunger pangs have all but disappeared leading me to toy with 5:2. Again it really suits me because you don't get derailed with one meal out or a Wine.

Overall I have probably lost around 20lbs. Not exactly sure because I was in denial over the 10.5 stones reading on the scales.

Thanks to you all, especially BIWI Smile

Without all the medical stories I would have been way too sceptical to increase the fat content of my diet.

JessicaWakefield · 06/01/2013 08:52

Welcome Barley! Well done on your weight loss, that's fantastic, you must feel great! I think a lot of us are finding that we're just not very hungry quite a bit of the time and I think for the longer term LC'ers often breakfast doesn't happen til late in the morning if at all. This means that some of us are therefore doing a bit of intermediate fasting ie if last eating of the previous day was say 8pm and first eating of the next day 11am that's a 16 hour fast which means that insulin levels have been low for a long time and this will of course aid fat burning. Of course BC rules are to eat breakfast which in the early days of LC is definitely important esp as quite a few of us are also trying to sort out disordered eating patterns.

barleywood · 06/01/2013 08:57

Smile Jessica....just found the new interim thread.

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BIWIshYouAMerryChristmas · 06/01/2013 09:59

An 8! Shock Envy

Welcome, barleywood.

I am another one who has considered the whole 5:2 thing, but ultimately couldn't do it when I tried. It took me straight back to the days of calorie counting, getting obsessed with numbers/weighing and what I could/couldn't have to eat. I hated all of that and vowed I'd never do it again.

What does work for me, though, is exactly what Jessica talks about, i.e. not eating breakfast or not eating until around 16 hours till after my meal the previous night. I'm generally not that hungry in the morning anyway, and can usually make do with just a cup of coffee.

I have also been reading that doing exercise in a fasted state means that you burn more fat, but I've always been a bit too chicken to actually try that! My work outs with my personal trainer are so brutal, I'm too worried I might pass out!

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barleywood · 06/01/2013 10:46

That's more or less what I do. I skip breakfast and have a late lunch two days a week.

By skipping one dinner and breakfast you can do 2pm till 2pm which works sometimes for me.

Overall it is the low carb that I favour but my appetite and food cravings have diminished.

I think I'll need to join you on the interim thread Smile .....now that I have finally delurked.

halfthesize · 06/01/2013 13:12

Waves at Barley well done on the weight loss.

WineGless sorry to hear you had a rubbish day yesterday, I also have a wingy DS2, though he is not ill just wingyWink

My dinner party went very well, though massively over indulged on the wine/bubbly front and boy my head knows about it today........ Am on my 7th pint of water as so dehydratedHmm

Just had big fry up, nothing beats itSmile

vnmum · 06/01/2013 23:40

wine i just told my DC we were going to eat healthier. Explained abit about paleo concepts in a way they could understand and just explain about how much sugar is in certain foods and that it is not good for them. I even explained that the teachers and other people at school might say things are healthy when they aren't. Gradually it has worked. Ds even gave a chocolate lolly he won at the school party back to his teacher before xmas because he didn't want it Shock. He also now chooses crisps over chocolate and cake most times when offered snacks at friends houses (we allow crisps as they aren't grains). Wether his attitude will carry on this way when he is a teen, i don't know Smile

Lighthousekeeping · 07/01/2013 06:16

First day today then? I started last night as I'm on nights. I had M and S fish stew before I came to work and have managed to ignore the carrot cake on the desk. I've drank two litres of water but I just cannot under any circumstances stop drinking tea and coffee during the night. Will that be a disaster?

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BigStickBIWI · 07/01/2013 07:57

Lighthouse - the issue isn't so much with the tea/coffee (although there are some who believe that caffeine spikes an insulin release, and therefore encourages the laying down of fat), it's more the amount of milk, and therefore carbs, that you will be consuming overall. If you can, drink it black. Or substitute cream for the milk - still carbs, but lower, and you need to use less.

BigStickBIWI · 07/01/2013 07:58

Week 1 chat thread is here