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Week 8 - New Year Low Carb Bootcamp - We're Running Out Of Time!

462 replies

BIWI · 25/02/2013 08:31

The Spreadsheet of Fabulousness is here

Three weeks to go!

How are you all doing?

Anyone Ubercamping this week?

Good luck. Still time to shed almost half a stone if you really stick to your knitting! Grin

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MrsHerculePoirot · 01/03/2013 14:24

msrinky hurrah!!!! Congratulations how exciting and well done!

prettybird · 01/03/2013 14:30

Fantastic new MsRinky - I am sure the confidence you got from looking good in your new dress will have help! Smile

WillieWaggledagger · 01/03/2013 14:47

msrinky that is BRILLIANT

HavingAnOffDAy · 01/03/2013 15:16

Well done msrinky GrinGrinGrin

wyrleygirl · 01/03/2013 15:20

Raises a spk water to toast Ms Rinky- well done!

I read all of your posts and have managed to loose 13ibs todate,all of your comments are so helpful and make me want to continue. I would like to ask you how you find the willpower to give up chocolate. I am eating well all week and then sabatage myself at the weekend and am finding it really hard to not to reach for the chocolate and feel so silly for not being able to handle this. Any advice for me?

Lavenderhoney · 01/03/2013 15:34

Well done mrsrinky:)

Ds (5) made his first chocolate mousse completely solo! With dh watching of course, I was lounging in front of the telly with dd:)
he served me up some and I ate it- First chocolate pudding since the fondant mouthful last week, which was the first chocolate since start of bootcamp. Oh, and I had no sleep last night due to dd and ds waking with earache and misery.

So I had a chocolate digestive at about 4.30 am with my tea as the damn calpol didn't seem to have an effect. Have bought some junior pannadol instead.
However, everything else normal bootcamp today, roast chicken. Cauliflower and roasted artichokes by dh and ds. Lots and lots of water.

JakeBullet · 01/03/2013 15:47

Buggar it.....got delayed out today so was starving. Friend had a bag of peanuts in her car which for me are far far better than crisps (they are my addiction food of choice) so I had the bag of peanuts then clocked the carb count....

It made me feel better but realise I have to carry some emergency supplies with me. Mini Babybel perhaps.

Tomorrow it's my niece's 18th birthday and there is a party!!!! So am guessing there will lots of carbs there. However, I also know there will be stuff like chicken drumsticks etc. Might allow myself one glass of wine or something similar but will take fizzy water with me.

MsRinky · 01/03/2013 16:28

Champagne is low carb, right ? Grin

JakeBullet · 01/03/2013 16:35

Am sure it must be.....Grin

All I know is that I am 6lbs lighter and feel good.

Sunday is roast dinner day and as advised by Briffa "if Sunday is always roast day then keep it as roast day...it's what you do most of the time that counts"

DS has eaten chicken and mashed cauliflower tonight and loved it. No potatoes done at all.....just have to wean him off of sausage rolls.

Thinking of making up blueberry yoghurt as Briffa describes in his book with the tiny drizzle of honey and seeing if I can get DS tempted which will replace all the fruit yoghurts he likes.

Apparently need to be careful of protein quantities too from what I am reading.

captainmummy · 01/03/2013 17:20

Well done MrsR - you must be feeling great!
Jake - I love mashed cauliflower, i can't beleive I didn't know about it before! I am trying swede dauphinoise tonight with the leftover pork joint. Oh and i love peanuts too, all nuts in fact. I usually have a packet at least once a week!

Doshusallie · 01/03/2013 18:07

Oh well done mrs rinky, about time we had some good news re jobs!!! Fantastic. Thanks

BIWI · 01/03/2013 18:20

Bloody well done, MsRinky! Thanks

More bad news for me. Second project that I was setting up, to start in the next couple of weeks has also been pulled. Sad Angry

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Yama · 01/03/2013 18:52

Hey MsRinksy - well bloody done! And Friday is a terrific day to be told is it not?

Biwi - I'm sorry your project has been pulled.

I've been a bit stressed by work and back pain but have been sticking to original Bootcamp rules which is keeping me sane.

I've also been drinking Wine this week which has resulted in a quarter pound drop in weight each morning. Dehydration I guess.

Had the most delicious rib eye steak for dinner tonight with leeks, courgettes and a couple of flattened fried meatballs from Lidl (0.2g carb per 100g).

MaryBeardfanclub · 01/03/2013 19:15

congrats mrsR hope you are celebrating tonight

had health assessment today - dr asked why i changed my diet to reduced carbs, /i said to lose a few lbs at first then I felt good so stuck with it - I said I have lots of energy since cutting carbs. My diet assessment revealed:
9% carbs
60% fat (mostly sat fat)
31% protein

dr: you need to watch your sat fat intake
me: why?
dr: sat fat increases cholesterol and that will clog the arteries with symptoms such as high blood pressure
me: but we just tested my blood pressure, it's low
dr: you are eating too few carbs, your body needs carbs for energy, your ketones are raised, any higher and you would be in ketosis which is extremely dangerous
me: why is it dangerous?
dr: because then your body is burning fat for energy instead of glucose
me: wouldn't fat burning be a good thing ?
Hmm
thank god for the internet that's all I can say otherwise we'd go on being hoodwinked to an early grave with that sort of advice

my cholesterol is 6.5 - of that 4 is LDL (shd be 1)
but apparently there is no point testing cholesterol when you are bfing and so these figs are meaningless - googled the composition of breast milk btw and it's made of 55% sat fat and 30% cholesterol - funny how it's good for babies and then kills you in your 50s

BIWI · 01/03/2013 19:19

Good for you, though, to be prepared to stand your ground! What a ludicrous conversation. Honestly!

I've just finished reading The Great Cholesterol Con, by Dr Malcolm Kendrick - it's a bit like reading Briffa/Taubes all over again. Complete revelation. No point having your cholesterol measured - and certainly no way on this planet I will be taking statins, ever.

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MyHeadWasInTheSandNowNot · 01/03/2013 20:13

Jake well done!! You should be feeling really pleased with yourself!! Grin

MsRinky CONGRATULATIONS!!! Grin When do you start? Tell us more... :)

BIWI - sorry to hear about the project being pulled :( 'Funding' I presume?

MaryBeard - I saw a dietician this week (just been diagnosed as a T2 Diabetic - so they make ask you to go) and she was lovely, thrilled with my results, pleased I'd done xyz etc etc then looked at my diet sheet, said it all looked good asked loads of questions (she's going to read Briffa) then we still had much the same conversation as you did?! Anyway, at least she was nice and supportive (more than can be said for the Diabetes Nurse who just thinks I should eat porridge for breakfast, sandwich for lunch and pasta for dinner and isn't even nice)

Commisserations & congratulations as appropriate to everyone

halfthesize · 01/03/2013 20:30

Congratulations MsRinky Thanks

Of to read thread properly now..

BIWI · 01/03/2013 20:34

MyHead - no. Rather than doing the kind of research that we do (qualitative) they have decided to make it quantitative. Which we don't do.

Two weeks ago we had no work. Then we thought we had two significant projects. And now they've been taken away. Worse feeling than the feeling I had when we had no work Angry Sad

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spilttheteaagain · 01/03/2013 20:55

Woohoo well done mrsrinky!

BIWI really sorry Sad

Marys well done you on questioning the doctor and not being browbeaten. Also very interesting about what you say about the breastmilk composition. I'm sure I read somewhere that babies at birth are fat burners (I guess hence all the sat fat in the milk) and they only start glucose burning when carbs are introduced at somepoint in the weaning process. Makes you wonder what the hell we are all doing to the next generation with baby rice, baby porridge, rusks, starchy gloopy thickeners in comercial baby food etc.

A fab day here. I think I have probably either gone into ketosis or managed to properly keto-adapt or something. But anyway I had dinner yesterday at 5.30pm, and was full until I went to bed. And woke up, not hungry just ate breakfast as a matter of routine. This is a revelation to me. And I've lost 3lbs since yesterday. And again, no hunger between meals today, and whilst I enjoyed my meals a great deal and ate a generous helping, I wasn't all that hungry tbh. And the thought of sweetness/cakeyness/biscuits etc has not even crossed my mind all day. Huzzah!

B: Eggs scrambled with spring onion, chilli and tiny sprinkling of cheese. Greek yog, few seeds and almonds and 1 strawberry on top
L: Crustless quiche, cold gammon, slice of cheese, coleslaw, salad
D: HM burger topped with gherkins, mayo, bacon and cheese, mix of swede and celeriac chips, coleslaw, salad. Greek yog.

Sounds like you are doing well jake. Other portable snacks are pork scratchings! Mmmmm.
And if doing a roast dinner, no reason why you can't do roasted celeriac chunks/turnip instead of roast spuds, and then have your normal meat and appropriate veg. Just don't bother with stuffing (unless sausagemeat which is blardy lovely isn't it) or yorkies.

Got 3 dover sole for 35p each today on reduced, and a meals worth of lamb casserole steak for 50p. Grin

spilttheteaagain · 01/03/2013 20:56

And I have so much energy!! I have walked about 5 miles today and not felt the need for a sit down with a cuppa to recoup

mumat39 · 01/03/2013 21:07

Congrats! Ms Rinky. Hope you're having fun celebrating!

BIWI, I just stumbled onto your work thread. Fingers crossed it all works out in your favour. Sounds like a pain so hope you're not too stressed out by it.

I'm still having a bad week but I've decided I'm thinking like a fat person and will start afresh on Sunday. Apologies to everyone for letting the side down.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend. Xxx

BIWI · 01/03/2013 21:12

Thanks, everyone. It's bloody tough at the moment.

And, perhaps not surprisingly, I'm finding it hard to stay focused on what I'm eating. And I'm drinking too much as well. I had got much better at keeping alcohol only for the weekend, but the last couple of weeks it's not been so good.

To be fair to myself, partly that's because I've had a few social things - and last night we went down to Brighton to celebrate with DS1 (his 21st birthday yesterday) - but I've allowed too many carbs to creep into my day-to-day life.

I think it's probably only because I've been exercising every day that I haven't put more weight on than I have.

Next week is DS2's 18th birthday, so another night out, but after that I can really start to focus again.

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MyHeadWasInTheSandNowNot · 01/03/2013 22:01

BIWI - bugger! It's definitely worse once you've had your hopes raised then dashed! Fingers crossed something else is just around the corner!
I was in much the same situation today - then another job rang in this afternoon - it's only a tiddler, but it's something and sometimes one little thing leads onto another bigger thing... if you are lucky.

Well, if you are going to drink wine and eat off-plan then enjoy it, don't do it feeling guilty... there's no point in that. You know how to get back on track and you will when you are ready - but try to remember how much better you feel when you are 'on track' :) Perhaphs try to reign in the mindless carb creep and enjoy the planned 'treats'?! Be kind to yourself!

I can't believe the boys are 21 & (almost) 18... how fast the time flies by!!

Ruprekt · 01/03/2013 22:04

Still not weighing myself.

Sorry things are tough BIWI.

B eggs and bacon

L celery, ham and cream cheese

D sm salmon, HM coleslaw, salad

Had Dominoes pizza delivered to school for a disco the pta ran and I had nothing! Not a sniff!! Or pepsi.

Well proud of me! SmileSmileSmileSmileSmile

QuickLookBusy · 01/03/2013 22:09

BWIW sorry you're having a hard time re work. Rings are very shit hard at the moment for people. Last year my 2 DDs had their 21st and 18th three weeks apart. It was a very expensive and lovely time!

I've had 2 glasses of wine tonight. I haven't drunk 2 glasses sine the start of bootcamp, and am feel rather tipsy. It's rather nice