New Year Low Carb Bootcamp - The Final Weigh-In!

[BIWI]

So here it is - come and weigh in for the last time and tell us how much you've lost in Bootcamp.

The Spreadsheet of Fabulousness is here

Morning all, day 3 run done though I seem to ache more today, oh well!!!

I went to Prezzo on Saturday heir the food was great for LC

All chores done today and now waiting for close friend to arrive with her DD1 and new baby, lots of cuddles yey..

I find that when I fall off the wagon, I do it big style for a long period of time. I'm one of those people who can't have a biscuit. It's either the whole packet or nothing. I really identify with Zoe Harcombe's hypoglycaemia and food intolerance theory - when I have refined carbs I think my blood sugars go completely out of whack.

Right, after a disasterous weekend, I am back on it! Cravings disappearing again thankfully. Had a BAB of greek yog, protein powder, 3 eggs. Lunch was baby cabbage, broccolli & cauliflower oven baked with cream and parmesan. Dinner was gammon, salad, homemade coleslaw. Yum!

Made a gorgeous beef stroganoff for dinner tonight with leftover roast beef, and so easy!

Saute finely sliced onion/shallot until going golden
Add masses of sliced mushrooms, generous salt & pepper, some torn up thyme and rosemary and a knob of butter and cook for about 5 mins.
Add a couple of cloves of crushed garlic and cook for another min.
Add the strips of cold cooked beef and mix round.
Crumble in a chicken oxo and add a slosh of boiling water.
Reduce down for a couple of mins.
Chuck in some parsley (I buy the fresh frozen stuff)
Turn off heat and stir in some cream.
Warm through and serve with green veg (buttered broccoli and fried courgette here).
Yum.

Spilt that stroganoff recipe looks lovely.

I have eaten a lot today which is understandable as I am tired, but not really good for weight loss or morale. I seem to have found Easter worse than Christmas, which is odd as I don't especially like chocolate! Still tomorrow is another day. DD is 8 tomorrow. How did that happen?

Can i join in? I don't really need to lose weight, but had glandular fever last year which resulted in me being run down / various secondary infections followed ny strong antibiotics, and find that I now get recurrent oral thrush. To beat it I apparently need to cut out alcohol, bread, other yeasty stuff, sugar - think that's what you guys are up to? Have always been a big devourer of carbs, day 1 and i'm already eyeing up the toaster....

legalalien put the toaster out of sight in a cupboard or something. I find if I can't see things that trigger my carb cravings I'm not bothered by them. But if I peek in the cupboard and see crisps or whatever I go "oooh!" Out of sight and all that!

Thanks sybil.
I know what you mean, I have found easter tough going. I think you expect Christmas to be indulgence/temptation at every turn but with easter I just thought, meh, dodge the eggs and all is good. I underestimated all the other treaty bits, roasts with spuds/parsnips etc, cakes, puddings. At least I have not actually encountered any hot cross buns so am safe from them!

Glad you are back on the wagon black. It feels very healing eating a proper low carb day. Almost cleansing

Last week was my first week of LC'ing and I lost 3.5lbs...YAY!!...just weighed myself at the end of my second week and gained 2lbs back again....NOOOOOOO!!!!!!......I had lunch at my Italian inlaws on Sunday and the only naughty thing I had was a small portion of lasagne and a tiny piece of cake. The rest was all LC friendly, salami, pork and lettuce dressed with olive oil, cheese, and a couple of small glasses of red wine. I felt so virtuous not giving in to an Easter egg. Surely this isn't enough to deserve a 2lb gain? So disappointed, feel like opening a bottle of wine and drinking the lot. Help please!!

Bunny, do not despair.

Keep going and drink gallons of water tomorrow.

Had bacon, lambs lettuce, scrambled eggs with mushrooms for my BAB today.

Salmon with cream cheese at 2pm.

Dinner was chicken forestiere with sprouts and courgettes in butter.

Snack was pork scratchings. Yum!

flatblue it's basically just water weight that you've regained if I understand correctly. The carbs require water to be digested hence getting bloated after eating them, so you are retaining extra water. It's not "real" weight, but it is disheartening! Just be LC strict for a couple of days and it should go away again. Drink lots of water, that'll (bizarrely) help get rid of the water and flush out the carbs.

I speak as someone having to apply this medicinal program quite a bit at the mo. Had some butternut squash at lunchtime (but no rice and no pudding). And then the bit I didn't fess up to when posting my stroganoff recipe was that as I really fancied it I had a small bit of rice with it. It was lovely, and is only my second taste of rice since the first week of Feb when I started this, so it was properly appreciated.

flatblue the evenings are the hardest bit. Can you go and have a bath or something? Something where there is no food in reach! And then go to bed, and get up and look forward to whatever your fave LC breakfast is? I find it's really easy to start the day well which feels like you get off on the right foot. Eggs in any form, bacon, mushrooms, smoked fish, buttered spinach, greek yog all really good options.

Thanks Ruprekt and spilttheteaagain I've no intention of giving up, I've got a holiday in Rhodes booked in exactly 18 weeks time so that's my focus. I know I don't drink half as much water as I should so I'm going to make a mammoth effort to drink more.

And I've just had sausages and scrambled (with butter) eggs followed by a bowl of greek yogurt. I could open the wine and have just one glass, but I know it'll lead to another, then another lol so I'll have a coffee instead

Grrrrrr. I have been a sugary twat - I had to resort to cough mixture and lemon & honey to try and kick this awful cold / cough. It was horribly sweet, didn't work, triggered cravings and I have gained a stack of weight and still feel rubbish. Sigh.....

Legalalien, if you are trying to sort out recurring thrush, you might be as well avoiding things like mushrooms and anything containing vinegar such as ketchup or pickle.

Oh, and welcome.

Ruprekt I'm with you on wanting to do this WOE forever, it just feels right.

Welcome legal alien, put away the toaster... Before you know it you will be merrily buttering radishes and cucumber... No that required!?

Tree have you tried the BAB? I've been having smoked mackerel, spinach and eggs...really fills me up for a good 5 hours. Can't remember if you can do eggs but the uber bootcamp that limited dairy really worked to get me over the effects of a boozy weekend.

And water... Water.... And more water... It really does seem to make a difference!

welcome alien
flat be careful of sausages can be very high carbs.
I've had a good day food wise and now of to bed, see you all tomorrow

Apparently I have to cut all the good stuff out (vinegar, Vegemite, miso, fruit because of the fructose), black tea.. The list goes on. I shall be living off a diet of probiotic yoghurt, cucumber, broccoli, lemon juice and garlic by all accounts. And eggs. Not sure if I can achieve perfection but anything is an improvement I guess!

Thanks. :)

Welcome, legalalien!

Have you read Zoe Harcombe's book, "The Harcombe Diet"? She sees candida as one of the three causes of weight gain, (along with food intolerances and hypoglycaemia). The first 5 days (I think) of her diet are an anti-candida diet, and there are some good recipes in the recipe book that goes with the diet book.

I really sympathise/empathise - I suffered from recurrent thrush for several years, and it was horrible. But going low carb definitely helps. (As does coming off the pill, by the way)

Welcome legal :)

Just had my BAB. I am visiting my Gran today, she's a proper Scottish granny, so lunch is going to be tricky! She likes to feed you, and is too deaf/old-fashioned to grasp LC so I will just have to try my best. It will be lovely seeing her!

Loving the new moniker, BIWI

This time 8 years ago I was on a sea of morphine with a 10lb newborn. 5 hours old and utterly gorgeous. Now wearing skinny jeans and a cath kidston bag. How times change.

Have a lovely time with your granny Black. Steer clear of the tablet!

Ah, I've found you again

I've been 'off plan' for a while - illness, holiday etc etc blah blah blah

I'm starting again today & can't wait!

Will there be another bootcamp BIWI?

Gaaaah. Thought I would treat myself this morning to a grande Americano with 'pouring cream' at Strbuks this morning. So I line up, tell the girl my name (HATE that) and ask for cream. Watch as her eyes widen and she scuttles off to check that they do, in fact, offer that monstrous, fat-laden item. Wait in line with 67 other people all orders g triple shot skinny lattes with extra syrup .

Get to the front of the queue, pick up my drink, check with the barista that it does indeed contain CREAM. Walk to office.

Sit down at desk, take swig of grande americano with CREAM. .

Realise I'm drinking plain black coffee. Weep.

FFS. It's CREAM. Just CREAM. I'm not asking for them to add the freshly-squeezed dew of a thousand mountain lilies. I bet the calorie-counters got their skim milk with no problem.

AIBU?

Hello everyone, I've been up a mountain for a few days without Internet so it's nice to catch up with you all

Easter is v tough so well done for coming out the other side. Dp has been a proper sugary twat with Lindt bunnies and Easter eggs!

Lol tea - The only thing worse would be if they gve you squirty crap! i love asking for extra butter for my steak in restaurants