Week 7 - Low Carb Bootcamp - Fast Approaching the Finish ...

[BIWI]

Morning all!

Hope all who are ailing are swiftly recovered.

And hope all of those who have fallen off the wagon can climb back on with agility and aplomb.

We still have three weeks left, so a chance to get shot of another few of those pesky pounds.

Here is the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

and here is the link to the Weight Tracker

Good luck everyone

Thank you WhooshFF, BIWI and Suzy.

Suzy the lurcher got (along with occasional scolding)...
a) a kong filled with livercake, kibble and fishy wet-food to keep him going until dinner time. This he greatly enjoyed!
b) his usual 'snack' dinner of kibble (pending his normal dinner when he goes home).
c) tidbits of pork belly.

He's a very, very spoiled boy! He also had a lovely walk today. Despite it starting to piss down half way round he was particularly bouncy and full of himself. When we walked past the Macbeth set he got very excited (presumably by the smell of some of the animals who've been on set) and ran round and round the set at top lurcher speed. It's very funny to watch and meant that we were like this >>> whilst the lone security guard in his van was a bit like this >>>

Lucky lucky lurcher

And a for everyone else.

I have had a very busy week & visitors staying, have been out for meals and been mostly very good. I did find myself stuck on Saturday in a theatre cafe, very hungry with nothing low carb on offer so I chose a croissant. The next day I cannot believe how awful I felt - sick, terrible headache and I have a hunch it was from that, and not having enough water. I can't believe how my body and its reactions have changed, also what I enjoy eating has changed so much too. Thanks to everyone on here for keeping me going, evn though I don't post much I do read thread when there's time.

Oh Crabby, how exciting! I remember the day she was going and now she's BACK, yay!

Thank you mirpuppet, Crabby, Whoosh and BIWI for the welcome back - I'm just not sure I can do it. I'm hopeless. But thank you all anyway.

Will sleep on it, drink lots of water tomorrow and report back tomorrow night.

Nell - you are no more or less hopeless than any of the rest of us!

BIWI

An early link to Week 8 chat thread

Nell I am New I think you should come back and you cam be my buddy. I began last week and seem to have put a pound on! So today is day 1 again I've started with coffee with milk but that was unavoidable and that's ok isn't it? Come on let's do the week together

thank you BIWI

I've been ok over the weekend - prawns with garlic and chilli butter yesterday, plus aubergine and feta wraps

Drank wine but wont have any during the week though.

I haven't posted on here for ages!

Well done to all you losers and commiserations to the STSers and the gainers.

I've had many wobbles and frustrations since I started this but I would say to anyone wavering for whatever reason STICK WITH IT!

I'm still losing. Slowly but surely. Only probably 1/4 of a lb a week but can't be sure as I don't weigh often. I've lost 12lb since 6th Jan and I'm aiming for about 8lb more.

I really don't miss bread. I don't particularly miss cakes etc but I do, very occasionally, stray as long as it's a conscious decision. Example - I'm quite happy to watch the rest of the family have a pudding at the weekend and I'm perfectly happy with a square or two of dark chocolate. If they're eating something I've had before, I remind myself that I don't need it - after all I know what it tastes like! - but if it's something new I'll have ONE spoonful only. That's enough.

However last weekend DS made his favourite sticky toffee apple and pecan steamed pudding with toffee sauce. It's my absolute favourite and I was getting quite down about missing out :(

So I thought fuck it. It's not every day. I will NOT make myself miserable. One of the things I like most about this WOE is not feeling hungry/deprived; it's why I've stuck to it so relatively easily. So I had a bowl. And loved every mouthful :)

BUT it was enough. I quite easily dished up the leftovers the next day without a single pang, and didn't crave carbs (I'd worried I would) but went quite happily back to LC :)

Hunger feels TOTALLY different nowadays. Calmer. I can wait. It's a more distant hunger if that makes sense? Rather than building and building it evens off at a less intense level than it would preLC. I don't get as grumpy when I'm hungry. I sleep better. Plenty of energy. In fact over the weekend I was so busy painting the bedroom I didn't stop for lunch. I was hungry but not desperately so I waited for tea time. Unheard of!

I am a very very happy LCer :)

Welcome back Nell - there's every reason to just start back in on this WOE again, any time.

Crabby, yay for your DD being back soon - hope everything is fine and she arrives on time etc.

SMS:
Well, as expected, weight isn't down where it should be given the naughtiness over the last 4- 5 days - so need to just haul myself up by the bootstraps and get back to it. My need for snacks seems to have recurred, thanks to the slips as well, so need to get that back under control.

Am going to do my weight tomorrow morning.

Oh dear I'm wavering crying baby naught toddler sore back and mother just told me how shocked she is that I'm 11 stone I feel awful now and didn't lose any weight last week my first week. Someone inspire me and please don't say go east in yourself because if you say that I'll eat all the tunnick teacakes!

Well for starters you should ignore your mother!
How rude

Babies and toddlers and sore backs = difficult to carry on; but it will be worth it if you can do so. Especially if you can stick 2 fingers up at your mum for being so rude!
Drink more water, it will possibly help with the sore back as well as with the weight loss (bet you're having troubles drinking enough, are you?)

Put the tunnocks teacakes away - they are only going to make you feel worse if they're inside you. And come over the the Week 8 thread for more inspiration and hand holding. :)

Thank you thumb witch sniff sniff didn't eat the teacakes so hanging in there. Just yes I will move thread x thanks

Calamity Lovely post! Well done you! That is what we all aim for and I'm glad it's coming together for you

sweetiepie How rude of your mum! Also, how unkind when you have a lot to deal with. Take it from me, as somebody probably old enough to be your mother and well more than 11 stone, you are doing well, sometimes it takes time to get the ball rolling. It isn't easy battling babies and backs so be kind to yourself.

Bad headaches

Thank you for that link Crabby, I'll have a look. I'm very functional in society now, though I think I give off the appearance of being quite cold and disinterested in people which I'm not at all, so maybe I should look into this stuff and start trying to improve. The only thing with socializing is that when I do it 'right' I feel exhausted afterwards at the effort I've had to put in! I read that NT people feel energized by socialising, people with ASD feel wrung out by it. Anyway that's me going off on a tangent because what I actually want to talk about is cream scones

I had a ham omelette for breakfast. I will probably have halloumi for lunch and then don't know yet for dinner. I'm having bad cravings and I've gone back to feeling fuzzy headed. I think I might make a jelly to have with cream. It's a shame we can't read all our old posts on here because I can remember writing about loving some things but I can't remember what they were at the moment!

Wow, this board has really slowed down! Three weeks ago i couldn't keep up with it!

there is a week eight thread Gatorade, can't link as feeding baby

Gator we're HERE - busy as ever.

I know what you mean about the socialising. I enjoy it when I'm in the right mood but find it quite exhausting and often drink too much to compensate and also find that I'm very anxious afterwards, replaying in my head whether I said or did the wrong thing, talked too much, interrupted etc.

You can look up your past posts in Advanced Search - just type your name into the 'posted by nickname' box and they'll all come up.

Lol, oh no, no wonder it was so quiet!!

And thank you for your help Crabby