Week 6 - Low Carb Bootcamp - We're Past the Halfway Point!

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Morning! In a rush, so not much time to post - off to Leeds today so have to go for my train.

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Bloody hell can this day get any worse? The train to up North was cancelled!!! So now I'm on a shoddy East Coast train in 1st class which is not as glamorous as I thought it would be. I've eaten a white bread beef sandwich and a muffin. I won't be weighing myself on Monday. I've done so well and now I'm going to put it all back on just through this journey and my mother wi think I've been lying.

This morning's discovery is how nice proper coffee from our machine with a splosh of double cream is - I am late to this party I know

It is a beautiful day here by the sea so going to go out for a walk - coming back via Lidl for eggs, celeriac and the yogurt of dreams.

Morning all! One beef sandwich and muffin is not the end of the world! See above posts re WOE not diet and if you're hungry again, get another beef sandwich and eat the middle, and chuck away the bread. Water water water and cheese if you can lay your hands upon it. If your mother thinks you've been lying she can FROTFOSM and yes, the day can get worse - things can always get worse, but you are going to focus on all the good stuff. You made the trains despite all the shizwang stacked against you and you're alive and life is good!

I know and the man sat opposite me is easy on the eye

Awww, lighthouse - West Hampstead! My favourite part of London, miss it so much. I used to live on Ulysses road and then moved into a manky flat share in Gondar Gardens (have now completely outed myself probably) but I loved WH, it's such a fab place.

Anywaaaaay, this thread moves so fast, I can't keep up! Was out for dinner at a friend's last night and was a bit of a carby twat - rice, samosa and naan was consumed . Plus, of course, wine. And pudding. So, actually, I was a big old stupid carby twat. My defence is that she had made it all herself and was freaking out that it had all gone wrong and was going to be revolting, so not to eat it would have looked bad.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it, guv.

Today I will mostly be eating FAT.

Hope everyone has a fab weekend. Sorry I'm so useless on this thread, I feel as if I'm not really joining in properly.

I'm so tense right now. I went to change trains and asked a group of Grown Ups in front of me if it was going to my tone and they said yes. Lying bastards gits. I'm now im a town near Liverpool and I have to go all the way back!!!

oh no Lighthouse. What a pain

I just want to sleep I'm exhausted before I've even got there

Morning ladies,
StuntNun hope you've started to keep some ORT or other liquids down overnight and that baby is feeding ok.
Humph I get those flashbacks whenever I'm sick still - I can only imagine they are quite a bit worse when it's so recent.
Hugh how long has the current Mirena been in for? - sometimes the period control wears off before the 5 years (the contraceptive effects still stands however) - my first one was changed just before 3 years because I was bleeding past it and I had been so happy with no periods! I don't bleed currently at all - I think mostly I don't ovulate - and the effect on my sense of wellbeing is enormous.

I was out again in the evening last night which is huge for me - we went to the cinema which is more DH's thing than mine, but saw the Monument Men and it was really good. Also ate at Frankie and Benny's where I had the steak salad. I would call it the steak-with-garnish, tbh, it was a bit disappointing. I did badly with veg yesterday, but usually do well so hoping one day is not the end of the world. Had to have some yogurt when we got home. But, though a little joy-less, I did eat LC, DH enjoyed his burger and cheesecake, and next time maybe something like chicken and ribs, or order vegetables (if they aren't sweetcorn and carrots etc) as extra?

Have a friend of DH's coming tonight and will do wedges for them as well as beef ribs and roasted (allowed) veg. Pondering a LC pudding but I know they are a little controversial. I need to get moving really and swimming today too.

Oh no lighthouse it's all going wrong for you today... I hope you get where you are going soon and you stop feeling so tired and struggly.

LittleMiss, isn't it horrific? I don't even think I had it that badly. But there is such a world of difference between HG and morning sickness. I had MS with all my other pg and it was bad, but still.

Much better thanks LittleMiss I was definitely dehydrated but DS3 took a breastfeed this morning so I think the salty Ribena did the trick, it certainly stayed down which is the important thing. I had half a slice of toast and a tiny bit of Greek yoghurt for breakfast then tinned cream of chicken soup for lunch. I think it might take me a day or two to get back on track.

Oh Lighthouse, that's terrible! So sorry your journey has been such a PITA, do write and complain viciously to the various rail people.

Who was taking the Vit D supplements? Keep taking them, I eat a fair bit of oily fish, and take almost daily fish oil supplements, and have fair skin, and live in Australia and I was still deficient in vit D when I was tested back in 2011! So I was given 10,000 IU to take fortnightly to bring it back into line; and then while pg in 2012, retested and it had dropped again so went onto 1000 IU daily. I have since, off my own bat, upped this to 3000 IU daily, an amount that is recommended by the Vit D Council; but as I am still bf'ing DS2, I upped it again to 4000 IU daily. I haven't been retested yet but at that rate it's highly unlikely that I would be reaching any level of toxicity. And it's helping to keep the various bugs doing the rounds at bay! Whatever else I drop, I'm pretty sure I'll be taking the vit D daily now forever. :)

Heir - congrats on your near-job, hope you get it!

Today I avoided one bit of carby twatting by not going to soccer with the boys (so no hot chocolate) but then fell foul of a box of Cadbury's mini-blocks and had 3 1 or 2. Not bad apart from that:
Brunch: 3 egg omelette with courgette, mushrooms and cheese - courgettes and mushrooms fried in butter first.
Dinner: 2 lamb chops, more courgette&Mushroom fried in butter (I do love this combo, especially as I use garlic salt with it), carrots and broccoli, and swede and leek gratin, made with Boursin, cheddar and parmesan cheeses and double cream.
Pudding: cherries and blueberries and double cream. I make sure I buy the double cream that is already solid in the pot (can't hear it move when I shake it) so it's almost like fruity ice cream, just not as cold (nor as sweet!) I do use an awful lot of cream with my fruit...

Yay to losses, scales or size, and chin up to sliders. Keep on keeping on and never mind the small slips, move on from them and each day is a new one. :)

And thanks for just all being here - I'd never have stuck to this without BIWI and you all, it's just great having you all here to SMS at and share notes and mini-triumphs!

Argh! and I meant to say to the illing peoples - try ginger ale if you don't like lucozade :)
I know it's probably all in the mind because there really isn't much if any actual ginger in ginger ale (NOT ginger beer), but I always find that it helps more than any other fizz when ill. Ginger is good for the stomach so perhaps the flavouring is fooling my system, I don't know. Flattened with water though - can't drink it full-fizz when ill.

Hope you all get well soon, nothing worse than being ill and having to deal with a small baby at the same time! Mine was awake every hour last night too, no idea why, maybe planetary phasing or something

Great tip littlemissD DD3 is almost 4 , so mirena must be the same age .... I will go and have a chat with GP who looks so ridiculously young !

tea and mpr why do you think 'shouting shit' was invented? People use the thread as they see fit, and I personally really enjoy your input. Even BIWI can only poke her head in now and again, and she invented bootcamp!

Thumbwitch I am ordering vitamin D online right now. I have some friends who really looked into vit d after their son was diagnosed with diabetes, and there were massive pointers to vit d deficiancy. That and a host of other problems - the dosage they now take is massive.

I am now eating so much bloody butter that it's pointless putting it in my butter dish! The dcs are pretty unaware of dp and me changing our way of eating (we were a meat and two veg bunch to start with anyway) and last night one of them (age 9) looked at dp and said "you've lost weight" Dp was quietly delighted. He had much less to loose than me, and is very muscly anyway the sexy git but I could see a noticable difference in him myself. His weight isn't changing on the scales much, but I explained to him about whooshes (didn't say fairy though, in case he thought I'd lost it ) and feel he is due one.

Food today

B - Two duck eggs scrambled in obscene amounts of butter/flat mushroom in equally obscene amount/blob of mayo

S - Awfully posh pork scratchings (40gram bags are too small!) and a large handful of salted jumbo cashew nuts

L - Tinned tuna and salmon/avocado/chopped lil gem leaves/baby spinach/ celery mayo and couple of shavings of parmagiano

D - (plan) pork ribs. I want them to be sticky somehow... any suggestions folks?

Hope I haven't blown it with those nuts. They were frikkin gorgeous.

1 peppermint tea with coconut oil and two litres water so far, two to go.

Massive love to lurkers/shit shouters/superposters/misfits/conformists

Tea and suzy I think you both had unavoidable social-obligation carbs there! If it is unavoidable you might as well enjoy it.

Lighthouse I'm sorry you're having such a terrible journey! Don't stress about the carbs. (but definitely get back on the wagon when its all over). I loved Trash's soapbox post.

MPR that loss is good going!

I have a crustless spinach and feta bake in the oven (have become obsessed with spinach since vitamin/mineral research!)

What I love about Bootcamp is that each one seems to end up creating a new piece of vocabulary or phrase. From inner gobbler to carby twat to, from this one, shouting our shit!

Oh, and I met Crabby last night and I can tell you that she is as gorgeous in real life as she was in that photo that she posted.

Sms,
B: Roast chicken drumstick and thigh with salt.
L: Chunk of cheese
D: Fatty mince fried in butter with broccoli, spinach, mushrooms, salt and chilli flakes.

5l of fizzy water w/cordial.

Bloody love this WOE

Hubby is baking in the kitchen and tells me he is making Welsh Cakes. The reason ' Just incase' '!! As in just I case a Welsh person turns up up expectantly and is feeling a bit peckish and in indeed of a warm fresh from the oven Welsh Cake?!!!

He is at work tomorrow doing overtime so I'm hoping that he has made them for his colleagues and will not be leaving them in the house with me.

Does that count as abuse, Durham?