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The Zero-Thinking Slow-Carb Cheatsheet

Your simple 21-day fat-loss system: no calorie counting, food weighing, or tracking apps—just repeatable meals and clear rules.

🛒 UK Supermarket Friendly ⏱️ Zero Decision Fatigue 🎯 Simple Rules

1. What This Is (and Isn't)

This is your simple 21-day fat-loss system: no calorie counting, food weighing, or tracking apps—just repeatable meals and clear rules. It's built for busy UK bootcamp members using normal supermarket food (Aldi, Lidl, Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's).

Low-carb, higher-protein eating with legumes helps reduce hunger, stabilize blood sugar, and support fat loss when followed consistently. Think of the 21 days as your "basic training" for long-term habits, not a quick-fix crash diet.

⚠️ Health Disclaimer

If you have any medical conditions (e.g. diabetes, kidney disease, heart issues, digestive disorders, current or past eating disorders, are pregnant or breastfeeding, or take regular medication), speak to your GP or a registered dietitian before starting this plan. This is general education, not personalised medical advice.

2. The Slow-Carb Rules (Memorise These)

Rule 1 – Avoid "white" carbs 6 days/week

No bread, wraps, naan, chapatis, pasta, rice (even brown), cereal, potatoes, chips, crisps, pastries, pies, or breaded/fried coatings. If it could be white, skip it.

Rule 2 – Every meal = Protein + Legumes + Veg

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Protein: eggs, chicken, turkey mince, beef mince, pork, fish, prawns, Quorn/tofu.
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Legumes: tinned lentils, chickpeas, mixed beans, black beans, kidney beans, lower-sugar baked beans.
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Veg: frozen mixed veg, salad bags, broccoli, cauliflower, peppers, spinach, courgettes, green beans.

This combo boosts fullness because protein and fiber increase satiety and help control appetite hormones.

Rule 3 – Don't drink calories

✓ Allowed

  • • Water
  • • Black coffee
  • • Black/herbal tea
  • • Sugar-free squash
  • • Diet fizzy drinks
  • • Small glass of dry red wine (not daily)

✗ Avoid

  • • Fruit juice
  • • Full-sugar fizzy drinks
  • • Milky/syrupy coffees
  • • Smoothies
  • • Most alcohol

Liquid calories don't fill you up but can quietly add hundreds of calories per day.

Rule 4 – No fruit on plan days

Save fruit for cheat day. Tomatoes and avocados are fine any day. This reduces sugar load while you're improving blood sugar control and fat loss.

Rule 5 – One planned cheat day per week

Pick a fixed day (most choose Saturday). On that day you can eat what you like—bread, desserts, fruit, alcohol—and then go straight back to Rule 1 the next morning.

Planned "refeeds" improve adherence and reduce feelings of deprivation, which supports long-term success.

Rule 6 – High-protein breakfast within 1 hour of waking

Aim for ~25–35g protein (e.g. 3 eggs plus beans) to reduce cravings and evening snacking. High-protein breakfasts are strongly linked to better appetite control and fewer high-fat, high-sugar snacks later in the day.

3. Your Plate Template (Zero-Thinking)

For every on-plan meal, just build this plate:

½ plate: Veg (broccoli, salad, frozen mixed veg)
¼ plate: Protein (eggs, chicken, mince, fish)
¼ plate: Legumes (lentils, chickpeas, beans)

No scales, no counting—just eyeball the plate and eat to comfortable fullness (not stuffed). Legumes are nutritional powerhouses, giving protein and fiber that keep you full and support weight management.

4. UK-Friendly Default Meals

Pick 2–4 meals you like from below and repeat them for the full 21 days to reduce decision fatigue.

🍳 Breakfast (pick 1–2 and repeat)

  • 3 scrambled eggs + 4 tbsp lower-sugar baked beans + spinach
  • Omelette (3 eggs) + black beans + mixed frozen veg
  • 3 eggs + turkey mince + grilled tomatoes

🥗 Lunch

  • Grilled chicken + tinned lentils + big salad (olive oil + vinegar)
  • Tinned tuna + mixed beans + salad bag
  • Leftover beef mince & kidney bean chilli (no rice) + extra veg

🍲 Dinner

  • Mince-and-bean chilli bowl (beef or turkey + kidney beans + veg, no rice)
  • Chicken thigh tray-bake + chickpeas + frozen mixed veg
  • Stir-fry with prawns or chicken + mixed beans + frozen veg (soy sauce, garlic, chilli)

🥜 Snacks (only if truly hungry)

  • Leftover chilli or tray-bake
  • 1–2 hard-boiled eggs
  • Small handful of plain nuts (not daily)

5. Weekly Rhythm (21 Days in Practice)

Your pattern: 6 days on-plan, 1 day off-plan. Repeat for 3 weeks.

✓ On-Plan Days (6 days/week)

You do:

  • • 3–4 meals from your plate template
  • • High-protein breakfast within 1 hour of waking
  • • No "white" carbs
  • • No fruit (except tomatoes/avocados)
  • • No liquid calories (other than allowed drinks)

You focus on:

  • 💪 Getting to bootcamp sessions (movement massively supports fat loss and mental health)
  • 💧 Drinking enough water (aim for clear-ish urine)
  • 😴 Sleeping 7–9 hours where possible—poor sleep harms fat loss, appetite control, and mood

🎉 Cheat Day (1 day/week)

You do:

  • • Keep breakfast protein-heavy (e.g. eggs, then add toast if you want)
  • • Then relax rules—eat/drink what you've missed (bread, dessert, fruit, alcohol)
  • • Enjoy it without guilt, then go straight back to the rules the next morning

You DON'T:

  • ✗ Turn cheat day into a "cheat weekend"
  • ✗ Try to "punish" yourself the next day by starving—just resume normal Slow-Carb meals

6. 21-Day Course Structure

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Week 1 – Setup & Shock Absorption

Goal: Learn the rules, set up environment, survive the first week.

Focus:

  • • Pick your start date and your weekly cheat day
  • • Choose your default breakfasts, lunches, and dinners (2–4 total)
  • • Shop once: proteins, tinned legumes, frozen veg, salad bags, basic spices
  • • Batch cook: Grill/bake 4–6 chicken breasts, cook a big pot of chilli, hard-boil 6–8 eggs
  • • Take baselines: Weight, Total Inches, photos

Expect: Fast initial weight change (mostly water/glycogen). Cravings for bread/sugar early—this eases if you hold the line.

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Week 2 – Consistency & Refinement

Goal: Make the system automatic and tighten weak spots.

Focus:

  • • Eat the same few meals on autopilot—this is a feature, not a bug
  • • Check yourself: Any sneaky "white" carbs? Cheat day bleeding into 2 days?
  • • Keep protein portions solid at every meal (palm-sized or more)
  • • Check sleep and stress: are you giving your body a chance to recover?

Expect: Scale may slow or bounce—look at inches, energy, and clothes instead.

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Week 3 – Lock-In & Mindset

Goal: Treat this as the bridge to long-term habits, not the end.

Focus:

  • • Stay strict on rules 1–4 through to Day 21
  • • Use the community/WhatsApp group for accountability
  • • Notice non-scale wins: better sleep, fewer cravings, improved mood
  • • Decide in advance what your "post-21-day" version looks like

Expect: Visible changes in photos and clothes, even if the scale hasn't moved dramatically. Realisation that full habit "automaticity" usually needs 2–5 months of repetition.

7. Tracking Progress (Without Obsessing)

⚖️ Weighing (once per week only)

  • • Morning, after loo, before food, same clothing or none
  • • Log the number and ignore day-to-day fluctuations
  • Water, hormones, and salt intake can move the scale by 1–3+ lbs without any fat change.

📏 Total Inches (TI) – Your Main Metric

Use a flexible tape measure. Measure:

  • • Left & Right upper arms (mid-bicep, relaxed)
  • • Waist (at belly button)
  • • Hips (widest point)
  • • Left & Right thighs (mid-thigh)

Add them up = "Total Inches". If TI goes down, your body is changing for the better—even if weight doesn't.

📸 Optional: Body fat % & photos

  • • Smart scales can show trends if used consistently, though numbers aren't perfect
  • • Front/side/back photos every 4 weeks show changes the scale misses

8. Common Problems & Fixes

"I'm starving between meals"

  • ✓ Check protein: is it truly a palm-sized portion or more?
  • ✓ Add a bit more legumes or veg before adding snacks
  • ✓ Ensure high-protein breakfast—this alone reduces later snacking

"The scale stopped moving"

  • ✓ Look at TI, clothes, and energy first
  • ✓ Audit for rule leaks: white carbs, extra alcohol, oversized nuts, extended cheat days
  • ✓ Don't slash calories—tighten rules instead. Starving slows metabolism and harms recovery

"Social life is hard on this"

  • ✓ At restaurants: choose protein + veg, ditch bread/chips, ask for salad/veg swap
  • ✓ Family meals: same base (chilli/curry), they add rice/pasta, you don't
  • ✓ Holidays: either run a "lighter" version or enjoy and then recommit immediately afterward

9. Mindset & Community

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Change doesn't become automatic in 21 days. Most health habits take 2–5 months to really stick, with big individual variability.

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The 21 days prove to you that you can follow a simple system and feel the benefits. Keep going.

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Use Rise & Shine bootcamp and the WhatsApp group as your accountability structure—support and community massively increase success rates.

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Focus on how you feel (energy, mood, confidence), not just how you look. Improved mental health and resilience are some of the biggest wins.

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Stick to the rules, repeat your simple meals, show up to bootcamp, and check your progress weekly—not daily. Give this 21 days of honest effort and let the results speak for themselves.

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