Week 10 - Low Carb Bootcamp - the last week!

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Well, finally, we reach the finish line! One more week to shout your shit.

Here's the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

And the Weight Tracker

Hope the results are positive for you today - and that the rest of this week gives you time to drop another pound or two.

It's all gone a bit tits up this week. I need bootcamp :(

I've just read that Carbnite™ thingy and am that anyone could inhale 2 dozen doughnuts in one sitting!

StuntNun - a nice omelette? I fry courgettes and mushrooms in butter, with garlic salt (may not be available in the UK) and then add beaten eggs and top off with grated cheese - YUM!

LMD - ouchy ouchy hope it's starting to hurt less and heal a bit :(

Trashy - they gave you the goooood drugs, did they?

Pseudo - oh no! Mind you, I know the feeling, I've now eaten 3 whole bars of G&B milk and almond in one sitting - I mean, I've eaten a whole bar in one sitting 3 times, not 3 bars at once! But maybe there is something in the Carbnite™ solution because I actually lost a lb this morning!
I'm still managing to be pretty good on the general carbs, but chocolate is beating me at the moment :(
Need to get back on that wagon!

Can you convince yourself it's still bootcamp, Pseudo - you did so amazingly well, had you "decided" to stop or did it creep one thing after another after another?

Thumb and others that have asked, it is getting slightly better - but I am stunned and shocked, that this is "minor" surgery, that I came home Thursday night, that I am this immobile again, that I have misunderstood again.... have I really?. I am amazed by how much worse the virus has made the pain/recovery and the pain has made the virus. At times, I couldn't care less about food, because I just want something nice to feel, but I know that LC food is nice, that I will be satisfied, and that the outcome of not sticking to it will be that I will regain in a very short time all that I lost during BC - which is of course a good part of why I ended up where I was to start with. I feel terrible all over, everywhere, still, but the actual post op pain has fallen.

Crabby a lot of people near here have this bug too, sorry, missed you out before - I hope you are soon completely over it with no lingering effects.

trash nefapam shouldn't make you high as a kite (though it sounds like it was quite enjoyable!), I had a read through before and it's not on the regular side effects. Might be worth popping back if it doesn't settle down.

I've almost got through another day, just keeping on and whinging on sorry if I am wittering too much, it does help, especially as DH was out working much of the day and between church and visiting his mum tomorrow (and also Mother's Day not being a day I find very easy) it'll be the same pattern again.

Stunt how about salmon with lots of lovely hollandaise? And give the pancakes a go as well.

We had a lovely low carb picnic today in the sun by the sea. I will treat the piece of coffee cake I had with tea later as my small Carb Night ;) We did walk several miles so it's probably fine...

LittleMiss I was trying to have some 'time off' so that I appreciated the next bootcamp just as much. I barely cheated for 10 weeks so needed a small break. I haven't gone crazy on carbs but have dabbled and my stomach is most upset with me! God knows what the scales will say.

StuntNun Even just scrambled eggs for breakfast is nice (or the luxury version, scrambled eggs with smoked salmon). As actual recipes go, spinach and feta bake is good: mix chopped onion with defrosted frozen spinach, feta cut into cubes, couple of beaten eggs, grated cheese, splash of olive oil. (You can also add a bit of greek yogurt). Mix it all together in a baking dish, cook in the oven for about 40 minutes. I know that's a bit of a vague recipe, I've done it a few times with differing proportions due to amount of ingredients available, and its been different outcome each time but always edible! The original recipe I followed is here: greek.food.com/recipe/low-carb-crustless-greek-spinach-pie-118977

Lots of to you for tomorrow LittleMiss I am so very sorry that is such a hard day for you.

So far... after carby treats on Monday and Tuesday followed by low-carb normality Weds, Thurs, Fri... this morning I stepped on the scales and I have stayed the same! Which is my whole aim now. Marvellous. My digestion hasn't been too bad Pseudo - but I did feel very full Tuesday evening (Tuesday's treat was a lunch in a swanky restaurant - involving bread, lentils and chocolate) and for a couple of days it was back to the "carby mega-poos" - see Trash I can overshare too.

Pseudo I need to get back on as well, after Thursday's bread buffet I had a work's do on Friday and had the hangover from hell yesterday after 2 small wines and 1 bottle of corona, preBC I'd have drank that in the day at the weekend and had more at night without any effect so yesterday was a carbfest to try and make me feel better rounded off with sticky toffee pudding and custard which I thoroughly enjoyed

Full of good intentions today but I'm psyching myself up to phone DM, she hasn't phoned or answered her phone for weeks so I've obviously done some thing again and I'll be told what a disappointment I am again. My parents live 2000 miles away and we're lucky if we get a 1 hour visit every other year even though they come home at least once a year to shop and see relatives/people they fell out with, which often meant we had to move house. I don't miss them but I'm jealous of friends who've got a fantastic relationship with their mums. Bastard commercial profit-making days should be illegal

I had three (dark) chocolates this morning in bed courtesy of Mothers' Day so I am only having 20 almonds and a bulletproof coffee for breakfast to compensate. I have definitely gone down another notch on my belt but the Whoosh Fairy is stubbornly avoiding the Stunt household. I have drastically upped the amount of exercise lately (and boy do I feel it after yesterday's level 2 shred) which will probably confuse the whole weight loss issue with muscle mass gain and water retention.

Just popping on yo send love to you, miss. I can't imagine how difficult today must be for you. Be kind to yourself. Take it easy.

I was brought flowers and celebrations for Mother's Day. Have the last 18m passed my family by, or are they just buying so that I will share?

Have a good day everyone.

Hi, I haven't got time to catch up on the thread till later, but just popping my head in to say hi. My crap eating continues for another day, because I hate to throw excess food away even if it is crap... But DS has permission to bin anything leftover at the end of the day. I am ubercamping from tomorrow!

Just a quickie... I think I'm winning on the pain front, and the catching up on sleep front.
Still pretty stunned that my world's completely changed in 5 days!!! So DH is off to see his mum, and she's a bit under the weather too, so the National Trust trip we've planned has taken a big raincheck and that seems to be ok all round.
The pain and the way life has been has distracted me from any melancholy about today. I think I'm getting my head round some things, and DH made my favourite low carb treat, known as cajun birdseed chicken! for lunch, and it was delicious (the less said about his attempt at "spaghetti" bolognese the better).
Happy Mothers' Day to all, snuggle with those that will still let you, and have joy in their lovely achievements.

Well I had been strutting about this morning feeling quite sleek and excited that I'm only 0.2lbs away from being under 11 stone. Even bought a size 12 jacket yesterday. And then I saw my reflection in a shop window. A dumpy little woman. I really feel crushed. But maybe it's for the best, will keep me away from any tempting carbs for a good long while.

Trashy I reread your post to try and knock some sense into me, as moping on the sofa muttering really isn't helping.

Littlemiss, be gentle with yourself. Any surgery must be big shock to the system, having a virus on top and everything else will take more out of you.

Humphrey that plan sounds very sensible. One of my colleagues had fab results with 5:2 last year.

Eeeeeeveeeeeniiiiiiing. Sigh.

LMD I am in utter admiration for your stalwart approach to no pain meds. I think the high as a kite thing is down to the codeine I am taking along with the nefapam. It's been absolutely fantastic to be relatively pain free in my feet. I think the chronic nature of it had become too much to swallow down. I am gonna have me a little 'pain holiday' for a bit, until it starts to fuck with my guts, and then I'll see what happens....

eva 'mega poos' is exceedingly tame, however the sentiment is greatly appreciated

seri I think there's definitely something up with shop windows. I'm utterly serious because I have looked at very slender tall people and even they looked short and dumpy

I must obviously be a weirdo because I haven't considered stepping off the bootcamp wagon. I am in this till I win this. Although, I do have the occasional apple, and I drink ff milk in tea (but limit that to 2/3 cups daily)

I did have one day where I only managed to drink 2 litres of water, and it showed up on the daily weigh as just over a kilo. I made the effort with water the next day and bingo, it went back down again. I also went out last night, which is quite a rarity for me, not for any reason but I can't usually be arsed, but dp and I went to see a band, and then a party and I quaffed vodka which I haven't fancied in yonks! Drank it with diet coke - it was like bloody nectar. We had a really lovely night, and I've guzzled water all day long, and they scales were down again this morning too!

Haven't got the dcs today as they are with their daddy, and my mother is an extraordinary cunt, and we are nc, but dps mum came round and his brother and sil and the menfolk cooked a lovely lunch (low carb!) and we all lay about on the new front room sofa thingy's.

We're at dps now and are gonna watch the next episode of Vikings.

Fuck me I'm wittering, oh well lovely love to all of us xxxxxx

Trash alcohol can trigger a whoosh because it's a diuretic and it helps to promote the release of water stored in fat cells. It will only work if you're due a whoosh anyway but it has been known to break a stall.

Well there's some dangerous knowledge Stunt! Sounds like a great day/weekend Trash and there's nothing weird about carrying on on the bootcamp wagon. In fact apologies for unsupportively talking about carbs. I stayed on the bootcamp wagon for 10 months, this is the first time the end of a bootcamp has changed my behaviour.

Thank you for your lovely generous words LittleMiss.

My weekend's achievement was to thoroughly spring-clean and tidy both the kids' bedrooms. They've gone from pits to LOVELY. Shame I didn't get round to my own bedroom, which is still a pit.

OOo Stuntnun - that could explain why I dropped a couple of lb despite going out for dinner on Saturday night! We decided (not very mindfully, I have to say) to have a bottle of wine between us, and of course I had to have more than DH because he was driving. The meal itself was quite low carb - confit duck with veg, no spuds - apart from pudding which was dark chocolate brulée, something they do very well .
I expected to really suffer for it, but no! Must have been the alcohol - phew!

Well done on springcleaning, Eva. I somehow never get round to that.

Trashy - sounds like you had a good day :)

Seri - I swear that shop windows are made specially like that to make us feel bad! My mirrors at home may all be too kind or something, but I never look as bad in any of them (and I have quite a few!) as I do in a shop window or mirrors alongside escalators.

LMD - glad you're winning the pain battle. Hope it keeps getting better.

I am 3 nights away from a plane trip back to the UK with a 6yo and an 18mo, on my own. I shall be forgetting about LCing completely during that 24h, and just doing whatever is necessary to survive.

I've totally fell off the wagon this weekend! Back on today though 100%. Just quickly logged in but will have a proper read later as haven't caught up since Thursday. Hope everyone has a good day

Here's to a new week!

to that, Pseudo! Virtual, of course.

Still plodding on here, but can see how it was so easy to have gained so much after my last two major ops. The day is limited, there is so much I want to do but can't, and not doing, if anything, compounds fatigue and makes me realise I'm doing to spend weeks re-building my stamina, stretching out my day length, and food brightens the day. Except I've not got much appetite, it would all be comfort eating.
I am whingy and sore and frustrated. But I'm sticking to it, and when I finally stand up again, I really hope it's going to have paid off.

trash I'm not without painkillers - just for my long term chronic pain I have slow release versions which don't make you loopy and mean you can drive and are less addictive. Since Thursday obviously I've been on decreasing doses of the strong immediate release stuff - I tend to get a bit anxious as well as woozy - they are needed in the short term but glad to be off them as soon as possible. I can only empathise with foot pain, it really is awful.

I'm just having lunch. Lettuce, cucumber, tomato, avocado, dressing, coleslaw, mayonnaise, smoked salmon and philadelphia. The whole plate glows with vitality. I can't see how any boring sandwich could ever be as good as this!

Sounds great, Eva!

LMD - I'm just being nosey, so feel free to tell me to mind my own business, but what op did you have? It sounds quite horrible, anyway. :(

eva am starving..... budge over and pass me a fork. I forsook ( is that a word?) my lunch to go to a spinning class......

as I went for the all in one go method - as advised by many on the chocolate truffle front..... and when I say ALL , I mean...... LOTS - all low carb ( darkchoc/dbl cream and butter), but..... I was a snorty pig..... and yes trashy - I think my body did go into supershock and am shitting pure truffle today.

It was worth it though - a lovely lovely day... pottering around Porlock weir ( Exmoor meets the sea), in the sun with DH and DDx3 - lovely walk, lovely lunch and then a snuggly film back home. It was a day when time seemed to stand still and pulled us all out of our mad busyness. However.... I did eat a lot ! all low carb - but am talking volume....

Therefore - water, water, water and mad spinning class.

Starting the research for a puppy ! top choices so far are - Labrador or Wirehaired hungarian visla...... anyone got any expereince of the latter ( i know all about the mad traits of a labrador - I adore them but have full insight into housewrecking capability). DD3 is desperate and exDh got custody of DD1&2's dogs ( lab and lurcher)and we only get them once a month for a weekend . DD3 , lies on the floor and cries when they go - so think time to do soemthing about it.

whoosh - I have precisely no experience of the visla dog you mention but since one of your DDs already had a lab, I'd suggest getting the visla instead because it's different, iyswim. Or some other different dog, not another lab. Probably silly logic but it makes sense to me!

Hope you don't feel too sick after all those yummy chocs!