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New Year Low Carb Bootcamp

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BIWIshYouAMerryChristmas · 29/12/2012 21:30

Hope you all had a lovely Christmas, and that Santa brought you everything that you deserved!

By now, I'm guessing that many of us will be rather tired of chocolates and stodgy food. Mince pie anyone?

So. The next low carb Bootcamp will be starting on 7 January. It will run for 10 weeks, which will take us to mid-March. The idea of Bootcamp is that we have an initial strict fortnight, which will see a significant amount of weight loss, followed by a more relaxed 8 weeks.

Overall, if you follow the rules, you can expect to lose anything up to 20lbs in this time period.

So who is in?

If you want to join us, add your name to the list and tell us what your aims/objectives are.

I will start ...

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JenaiMorris · 31/12/2012 10:02

coco - I fell totally off the wagon. Bread, crisps, mash... :(

Jacaqueen · 31/12/2012 10:04

My 6lbs has gone on in a week because I have gone from eating very few carbs to eating vast quantities due to Christmas gluttony.

Around 4lbs will be water weight which I will lose as soon as I cut out the carbs again. The other 2lbs will be fat which should go as soon as I stop acting like a sloth.

In an ideal world when you get to your target weight you would slowly start to reintroduce carbs and that way you will not put on vast quantities of weight so quickly. I have just eaten like a pig for the past 7 days.

GinotPrigio · 31/12/2012 10:19

Oh dear, have just weighed myself and the damage is worse than I thought. 7lbs on in the last week . I am now a very hefty 13st for my 5ft 6".

I am starting tomorrow as I really don't have any time to spare (getting married on 30th March!). Is anyone starting tomorrow too?

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MulledwineGless · 31/12/2012 10:26

Ginot I'm starting today
I feel bloated and look like shit so that's me firmly back in the LC wagon

cocolepew · 31/12/2012 10:26

Weighed myself, in jammies, post toilet, pre breakfast and I was 3lb lighter!

12st 7lbs.

Had a boiled egg for breakfast, the perfect dippy egg but no soldiers to dip in it

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cocolepew · 31/12/2012 10:28

I'm starting today because I go back to work on thursday and I was hoping to be in the way of things by then. Plus if I feel crap for a few days at least I'll be at home.

ArfAPandaTreacle · 31/12/2012 10:31

Day1 for me.
Had chicken breast and half an avacado (which was sweet- yuck!) for breakfast.

Jacaqueen · 31/12/2012 10:33

Coco streaky bacon strips are great to dip into a boiled egg. You can even buy them pre cooked in most supermarkets. Asparagus is also nice to dip in.

NotMostPeople · 31/12/2012 10:34

I'm on an iPad so can't paste myself onto the list but I'm in. I'll start in the 7th, hate to think how much ice put on.

cocolepew · 31/12/2012 10:37

I'm going to get those jacaqueen. I put them in scrambled eggs but never thought of dipping them, thanks I also use them to eat Philadelphia with . It's weird eating fatty things to lose weight, even thought I never eat diet or 'light' stuff.

HokeyCokeyPigInAPokey · 31/12/2012 10:37

Can i come back?!

After being so good for so long i have eaten every carb known to man this Christmas!!

BIWI your voice is more of a whisper than an a shout when i open the sweet cupboard

Have added my name to the list, i am on for 7th.

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I wish you all luck and will power!

Jacaqueen · 31/12/2012 10:40

I cannot believe you lot all starting today. It is Hogmanay!

Am I the only lush left on this thread?

I have only been sober once at New Year in the last 27 years and that was 15 years ago when DS 1 was born.

HokeyCokeyPigInAPokey · 31/12/2012 10:42

I am not starting until 7th, i am going to eat all the chocolate in the house first!

Livelongandprosper · 31/12/2012 10:43

Will someone please add me to the list? My phone won't agree to do it
I've lost my appetite for anything but sugar. I know from past experience that this woe broadens the range of foods I eat and reduces headaches and hot sweats at night.
I also aim to do more exercise.
I am really going to need the support on this thread, sometimes I can hear nothing but the Call of the Carbs but luckily I also fear the big stick of BIWI and I thank her for this new thread.

ArfAPandaTreacle · 31/12/2012 10:44

NYE is like any other night for me. I'll be asleep by 10!

Willowisp · 31/12/2012 10:44

I'm feeling smug because I haven't put any weight on

However, I did the 500 cals fast on day last week & I haven't massively over indulged.

Thanks to BIWI & her choc pots, my sweet tooth has faded considerably !

(on spreadsheet & thread for support/ideas/lose a bit more leg fat).

cocolepew · 31/12/2012 10:46

BIWI has a stick?

I don't drink much and hate NYE, so it's not a problem.

HugAndRoll · 31/12/2012 10:47

Argh I caved and ate a slice of that Yule log. I didn't really enjoy it and I don't know why I went for it. Stupid woman I am.

MulledwineGless · 31/12/2012 10:48

Jacs
I'm working tonight hence the reason for me not drinking in my usual lush like fashion!
Have one for me as an exiled Scot -slainte

MulledwineGless · 31/12/2012 10:48

Oh god the stick of doom

And she shouts

In bold

cocolepew · 31/12/2012 10:57

angelinterceptor · 31/12/2012 11:01

Can I join please?
Can't get the cut n paste to work on phone - have about 5 stone to lose.

Thanks AngelInterceptor

halfthesize · 31/12/2012 11:12

Can finally cut and paste as at home:

Need to loose a stone, as totally stuffed face over Christmas period!!

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