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Week 2 - New Year Low Carb Bootcamp - Half way there!

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BigStickBIWI · 14/01/2013 08:38

Sorry to be a bit late this morning - no doubt you're all chomping at the bit to declare all on the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

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MrsHerculePoirot · 18/01/2013 11:28

penny I can only say again what had been said before. We haven't been doing this for two weeks yet and you have lost over 3 kgs. A stall or plateau is when you don't lose for weeks not days. You simply won't see losses every single day, weight fluctuates depending on TOTM plus many other things. You need to look at the overall trend over weeks - ad we haven't been doing it long enough to see this yet. Teddy who has lost 5 stone posted before that she lost a lot week one. Nothing at all in weeks 3 and 4 I think and then had a whoosh. Only weigh every week if you find it difficult to not see a loss everytime. I lost 7lbs last week a nothing this week - I don't see that as a problem I'll
Probably lose again next week.

BigStickBIWI · 18/01/2013 11:29

That said, please show me what you've been eating drinking over the last week to see if there is anything we can help you with.

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WillieWaggledagger · 18/01/2013 11:36

bessie i missed your post, i'm so sorry for your loss

do look after yourself (and this WOE is definitely one way many of us have found of looking after ourselves)

vnmum · 18/01/2013 11:48

Snow day here for us. The DC were so excited, even more than at christmas i think Smile. Went out this morning to play with them and built a bog snowmen and had a snowball fight with the rest of the street. Nothing like a snow day to get the neighbours playing together Grin.

I also have to try and get into work this afternoon. Will be staying overnight i think as am working early in the morning too, so is probably safer to stay.

WillieWaggledagger · 18/01/2013 12:22

BING BONG

ANNOUNCEMENT!!

Biggest loser of the week: OTTMummA
Biggest %age loser so far: thenightsky*

Between us we have lost a total of 113.2 lb / 51.5 kg / 8st 1.2 lb Shock, which is an average of 4.4lb each!!

Just to let you all know, I have removed anyone who didn't weigh in at the beginning of boot camp, as the empty cells skew the averages - no one has been kicked out of boot camp so if you would like to be reinstated please just let me know. anyone who hasn't weighed in this week yet has had their weight carried forward from week one, again to stop a blank cell skewing the averages. you can overwrite this if you want to weigh in

*I exclude those who use 100 for their start weight from the biggest %age loser as their %age loss is going to appear larger than it actually is - i hope no one minds!

thekitchenfairy · 18/01/2013 12:35

So sorry for your loss Bessie, I've had several MCs and IME the hormones take a bloody age to settle down, hope you're being kind to yourself Smile.

Thank you willie that is amazing... Feel v buoyed up that my 2lb loss which seems so small compared to some others is contributing to the fabulous average!!

Still not really hungry, but quite thirsty, have made a fabulous lunch, BIWI does it pass the test?

Chorizo slices fried gently, about 7 cubes paneer fried along side... Sitting on top of a Large bowl of watercress and Half an avocado.

How's your lunch slattern?

Kiriwawa · 18/01/2013 12:56

So sorry for your loss Bessie - it took me ages to get over a miscarriage at that many weeks - it's very hard on your body (as well as emotionally). Be very kind to yourself.

Wow!! Well done on your enormous weightloss all of you - I'm really impressed and very inspired to keep going with this WOE :)

I need to get into this weighing thing. I hate weighing myself so I don't. I did get weighed the other day at the GP so I know what my starting weight was.

Will I skew all your results if I add myself Willie?

WillieWaggledagger · 18/01/2013 13:01

kiriwawa i've added you, just put your weight in columns c (starting weight) and g (in your case i would also put in the starting weight here, then you can weigh in again on monday) next to your name

don't worry it won't change anything dramatically, and we love new recruits anyway so it hardly matters!

however, if you don't want to weigh you don't have to - we do have longstanding low carbers who just go on inches and/or clothes sizes so it's not compulsory!

FurryDogMother · 18/01/2013 13:04

For those worried about 'stalls' - the usual pattern of weight loss on a low carb diet is that people lose a lot the first week (some of which is water weight), possibly quite a bit the second week, and then perhaps nothing the third week, as your body 'catches up' with the change in diet. After that it tends to be a steady 1-2 lbs a week - so we end up losing at around the same rate as people who are eating low calorie, but with much less of a sense of deprivation, and a reduced appetite, which helps with sticking to it.

I started back in August, but didn't weigh myself at all until the beginning of Bootcamp - I just went by the way clothes fitted, and what I could see in the mirror. I find that weighing makes me obsess and want to tweak when I don't see a regular loss. Weighing more than once a week is counter-productive, because weight varies on a day to day basis (have you had a poo, have you eaten something heavy, is it TOTM, have you been drinking loads of water). It's the overall trend you should be looking at - and once weekly weighing is enough to see that.

Dr Atkins said (I think) that a stall is no weight loss for 6 weeks, so until that happens, please don't consider yourself stalled. Brief pauses in weight loss are often followed by a 'whoosh' of 3-4 lbs - known as a visit from the Whoosh Fairy Grin - you may also find you have a couple of really hungry days, for no apparent reason - this is often a herald for the arrival of the Whoosh Fairy!

Bessie, so very sorry for your loss.

GuyMartinsSideburns · 18/01/2013 13:12

Didn't think to weigh this morning, I'll aim to weigh first thing tomorrow. Can't remember which day I weighed originally, I'm having one of *those days I think! Grin

BlackAffronted · 18/01/2013 13:19

Biwi, thanks for the crackling tip! Id roasted pork belly joint yesterday, but the crackling didnt crisp up very well. Used yoru microwave tip, and have just munched on the most amazing pork crackling, dipped in mayo! Thanks!

BigStickBIWI · 18/01/2013 13:37

My pleasure! I love crackling. In fact, sometimes I buy a joint of pork to roast for the family just so I can have the crackling Blush

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BigStickBIWI · 18/01/2013 13:40

STOP PRESSSTOP PRESSSTOP PRESSSTOP PRESSSTOP PRESSSTOP PRESS

If anyone is interested, there are still places left on the Dr Briffa course on 27 January. It's in Bloomsbury, central London, from 10-4.

If you're interested, contact [email protected] and tell him I sent you - I may get a discount that way Grin

I seem to remember, vaguely, promising to buy Champagne with any money off I got ...

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WillieWaggledagger · 18/01/2013 13:41

i would love to do briffa course but i have tickets to V&A exhibition that day

thenightsky · 18/01/2013 13:54

I've never won anything in my life! Wow. So, so pleased with this WOE after years of stupid calorie counting and losing and regaining the same 4 or 5 lbs.

Grin
NoveltySlippers · 18/01/2013 14:03

Haha well done thenightsky

BIWI thanks for letting us know. I would've absolutely loved to have come to see Briffa talk - I've finished Taubes and am now reading Briffa's book, which I'm really enjoying. But it's the end of the month so can't afford a trip to London, sadly irritatingly.

Valdeeves · 18/01/2013 14:03

We've done the snow "I'm finished now mummy" said my son after about twenty minutes. It took us an hour to get dressed to go into the garden. My baby DD (not DS - typed that before!) needed about a hundred layers and then I couldn't get her carrier on over my clothes so everything came in and off again. She has not wanted to be carried all day and I'm so exhausted my eyes are crossing.
I am soooo bored - we can't go anywhere as snow too thick to plough buggy through and blizzardy. Also my baby DD is 18 pounds and I can't bear the weight with a change bag too for any long distance walking. I've got back problems - long story.
I want a hot chocolate and a brownie!
Really bad.
Had no breakfast, just had smoked salmon, scrambled eggs with butter and full fat Greek yoghurt. It's going to be a looooong day.

coldethyl · 18/01/2013 14:19

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Jacaqueen · 18/01/2013 14:21

Fantastic post FurryDogMother. Please please please do not get disheartened if you don't lose weight. I cannot tell you how many times over the past 10 years I have given up on low carb because I relied too much on the scales. Just stick with it. Trust in the science. It works!

Well I was coming on here to talk about 5:2 and IF and I see you already have. I bought the Michael Mosley book (the fast diet) today on a whim. I have been interested in this since the Horizon programme but have never really tried it. I then went to visit my mum and a couple of her magazines had articles on IF, 5:2 and Alternate Day dieting. It definitely seems to be all the rage.

I too seem to do IF by missing breakfast now and again. I don't really look on this as something I am actively doing. It's just I don't feel hungry so decide to not bother. I am going to carry on with straight forward low carb for now, but maybe once the weather gets warmer, I may give the 5:2 a go. It's not really for the weight loss, as I know low carb alone will deliver, but the long term health benefits seem to good to ignore.

ToomuchWaternotWine · 18/01/2013 14:28

Sorry bessie and mrshp for your losses, be kind to yourselves.

I am in the NE of scotland and the worst of the weather seems to have been further south for once. We've had a few reasonable flurries but all schools and roads open and ok so far.

Off to collect Dr John Briffa book at library, really wish I could go to the talk but too far/too costly for me. Hope to hear good things after it though!!

BigStickBIWI · 18/01/2013 14:35

Grin coldethyl

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NellVarnish · 18/01/2013 14:40

BIWI - I've just made a chilli for the hungry hordes tonight - can I pick out the kidney beans in my portion or go for something else?

Jacaqueen · 18/01/2013 14:48

I would pick out the beans. I always take my portion out before I add the beans and just re heat in a separate pot. I sometimes add button mushrooms to mine to pad it out a bit.

Ilovemyteddy · 18/01/2013 15:07

So sorry for your losses Bessie and MrsHP. I had a miscarriage at 9 weeks, many years ago. Two strapping lads and a not-so strapping DD now! Be kind to yourselves ((hugs))

Can't add any more to the excellent posts about weightloss slowing down, except to say that this WOE is just that, a Way of Eating. If you want to keep the weight off then this is the way you should be eating from now on (although it does get a bit more relaxed on Bootcamp Lite)

I went out to sell some books this morning before it started to snow, and took the money for the books, plus the ones they didn't want, to the local charity shop. Picked up a Laura Ashley top (£20 full price), a Braintree hemp t-shirt (£40 full price) and an unbranded skirt for £6!!!!! The top and skirt, plus Spanx, make me look positively skinny! However I think I have replaced my obsession with food with an obsession with clothes Grin. I have FIVE enormous bags of clothes to go to the charity shop. I think I'll have to go in there with my eyes shut!

BTW Music Magpie are now buying clothes, if anyone needs to make cash from their too-big garments. They only buy certain labels though - hence five bags going to charity from me!

captainmummy · 18/01/2013 16:10

Jaca - I read those articles on IF too. I followed the 5;2 threads for a while too, but, like BIWI, couldn't be arsed with the counting of calories again. I wanted to do low-carbing and maybe IF 1 day a week, but didn't know how many carbs were allowed per day - i know they say 500 cals,but I didn;t want to go from low-carbing to low-cal then back. I could see myself putting weight back on! So I just miss breakfast now most days, as not hungry anyway.

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