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

Great start KKKaty!

Im am wearing a smaller pain of jeans today! Havent fitted into them since before I had DS, 5 years ago!!!

Here is the recipe thread

I kept losing the thread, so I have added it to 'Threads I'm Watching'44

EMUZ - those photos are great - what a difference!

Iamaslummymummy - and for you. How stupid and ridiculous. I hope you manage to win your fight.

Good news Jake!

Lavender - hope your DD is better soon.

bravo, Black!

are you sashaying around the house??

No idea where that 44 came from!

Hi littlefreida - I could swim, but then I'd have to kill myself

Problem is I don't much like sport and 'exercise'. I used to do step, circuit training and go to the gym because I should, but I never enjoyed it. Running was good because it was outside and interesting. I used to plan my route with an OS map, did quite a lot of cross-country too.

I may well have to think again about doing something else but right now walking a few miles every day is OK.

My concern with adding butter to everything is that my non-LCing DH is going to end up as fat as, well, butter...

This is the blog linked to the Company who have the Groupon offer. I am NOT promoting them at all as I know nothing about them - but there are some useful bits on their blog www.naturalketosis.co.uk/blog

Willie, I am indeed I feel like stopping people in the street and saying "these jeans are a size 22!" lol. But I wont

EMUZ - that's amazing! I bet you're really pleased. Such a difference to your shape.

Yes, to those who are a bit confused/shocked by NHS response. I saw my doctor yesterday. He was impressed by my early weightloss but told me I was eating a 'dangerously low' amount of carb (told me to stick above 100g). But in fairness to him, he did say he might read up about it a bit because he knew it was controversial but that didn't mean it was necessarily wrong. He told me that it was dangerous to be in a ketenogenic state as that's what happens to diabetics and it can damage your liver and make your blood too acidic (I think that's what he said). It did freak me out a bit, to be honest.

I've been given leave to proceed with caution and come back in three months for a weigh-in/bloods. So that should give me motivation to carry on and prove how healthy I can be!

ecuse, your Dr seems to be confusing being ketogenic with being ketoacidosis. Read this

NYC attempt to ban sales of soda in large volume containers is stopped - unfortunately a judge ruled it needs more work before it can be implemented

the Lancet editorial says at the end 'It is strong public health interventions that influence the consumption behaviour of individuals' - i.e. they need to stand up to the food industry. the lancet Obesity series does mention calories in - calories out, but actually focuses less on what healthy eating is defined as and more on the fact that high-level intervention is needed

Not sure how much of this is freely accessible

A bit sad but not surprising to read the answer from Matt Roberts in the recent MN Body Confidence discussion here

In answer to a question about a Low Carb diet - which is assumed to then mean high protein - he doesn't challenge the need for it to be high protein and although his adice isn't too too bad, you'd need to really analyse it to see he was advocating having some fat. He also obviously doesn't know anything about adapting your diet to be in a ketogenic state.

yy prettybird "Carbohydrates - or carbs - are the body's preferred energy source". aka its first choice of energy source before your body fat!

Thanks cheating slightly as I've followed alongside but not been on spreadsheet, but that was probably 10 weeks of LC
Long way to go yet!

Yes! Ketoacidosis is what he said. Thanks, black, will have a read.

Arrrgh. Work bought pizza for lunch. I tried to resist by buying soup then realised my 'moroccan chicken' soup was actually mostly lentils. So I thought 'sod it if I'm going to be having carby lunch it sure as hell is going to be pizza not lentil soup'. And now I can't stop eating biscuits, which I haven't touched in nearly a month. I am utterly, utterly convinced about eating carbs meaning you crash and need to eat more carbs shortly afterwards.

gah how annoying ecuse. but you can stop it now! don't write off the rest of the day/weekend!

ecuse - step away from the biscuits. Step towards the water.

Fill yourself up with water. Not only will it stop you eating biscuits but it will help mitigate the damage you've done with your lapse.

You can do it.

Pork Recipe
I'm still with you all, but haven't reported as I've lost no weight since monday. I've been really careful, but I think my portion size is too big.
Anyway, I read a recipe on here for pork cooked in coconut milk, I've bought the ingredients but can't find it anywhere. Can anyone help, or did I imagine it?
Also, I've got celeriac for a mash, do you just mash like potato with butter?

Fantastic weight loss results for this bootcamp, well done everyone

Well done EMUZ fantastic pics, bet you feel great

Feel loads better. Just a way of life now, I've told myself "I don't eat bread/pasta/potatoes"
Because I've followed the gym plan and Briffa my rules have been slightly different and I've been allowed sweet potato and any veg I want. Mainly because of the amount of gym work I'm doing!
Prep has helped me massively but I live alone which probably helps so I portion everything up in containers

I am drinking gallons of water now

middleagedspread I find celeriac is better whizzed in a food processor - it is quite lumpy if you just use a masher.

Great thanks Bessie, will do.