Week 10 - Low Carb Bootcamp - the last week!

[BIWI]

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.

Trash I can see a difference! Also glad you've washed your knickers what's the tattoo? Please indulge my tattoo obsession.

LMD will this be the last surgery you need to have? It sounds awful, I hope these next couple of weeks go quickly for you and you're back on your feet soon.

Durham well done!

Sayra, I've never tried duck. I'm trying to convince DP to take us to lidl sometime this week as there's a big list of stuff I want to try. I may have to add them to the list! Do you just pan fry them?

Weighed in today and sts. I'm actually really pleased as I ate a whole manner of terrible things over the weekend (first ever Mother's Day celebration was my excuse. Naughty 14 week old baby buying me delicious food ). Got back on the wagon on Monday and found it dead easy to slip back in to the LC way of life. I usually struggle to get back on diets, but I think the delicious cauliflower cheese I had last night helped also DP said he can tell I've lost weight too. I'm not sure if he was just humouring me, but I have lost 11lb since February which isn't too bad.

Well done Trash I love the idea of eventually flipping through the images.

11lb off is amazing Felix!

I've been reading news stories about "It should be 10 (or 7) a day instead of 5 a day" and "None of the 5 a day should include fruit juice, smoothies, tinned or dried fruit - its all too sugary"

Which makes me think about how our whole idea of a normal diet is so skewed. I used to think "how ever am I going to fit in 5 a day" - it seemed tricky when I viewed veg or fruit as an Add-on to the basic main food (ie, potatoes, pasta, rice, cereal, bread etc)

I think this WOE makes you consider vegetables more as the basic main building blocks of your meal. And therefore, 5 or 10 a day is easy to achieve. Mushrooms or salad with my eggs at breakfast. A lunch based on salad, or veg-based soup. Dinner where the fat&protein is teamed with a number of veg, rather than teamed with carbs.

Its a whole cultural mind-shift of how we see our food. Next week I'm visiting relatives and I'll be back in the old cultural mind-set, lots of meals based on the usual carbs await me next week.

Eva that's such a powerful way of putting it. I definitely construct my meals better.

Our shopping came this morning, and I'd treated us to Ocado (feeling sorry for myself, awwww) and DH had to do the fridge jigsaw, on account of I can't stand on my feet unnecessarily (!) and he was "you wouldn't have been able to do this" and "the vegetables don't even fit in the vegetable trays " and "we'll never eat this" we will, we always do, and I always eventually fit it all in with far less moaning It was very entertaining from where I was sitting

Actually, he is and has been amazing through unexpectedly having had the bulk of the work in the house thrown at him. I am having a lighthearted giggle. I've bought things like chicken pre-done with bacon cheese and leeks that I wouldn't normally because I can do it cheaper and better, but it is worth it given that he is juggling work and cooking LC for my sake.

trash wow you are both brave and effective - that must be such a motivation - maybe I will try it monthly... once I can stand up, obviously. Please, please keep waffling here, I love it, it means I can waffle too and it's always so real, and encouraging.

Durham that is amazing! - serious congratulations, and if you have found a happier (and by the sounds of it less processed) maintenance version then you are all set not to need to bootcamp again.

notso it must be so hard to engage with dysfunctional family and not let it damage you. Mine aren't a patch on yours really. I hope today is manageable, will be thinking of you.

Felix 11lb is awesome, and this is a WOE for life, so there are times we divert from it... as long as we return. You've been such an injection of positivity to the thread since you started.

Sayra as ever I can't wait for our LIDL to be rebuilt - they have literally taken it down apart from the steel girders and rebuilt it. I hope soon, sounds like I will cut my food bill and find some great things.

Have a good day everyone, :)

Oooh EVA not sure I could keep on keeping on without Bootcamp. I might just have to cheat a bit on the next one and not tell BIWi about it

Actually Durham thinking about it it would be really useful for those of us with loads to lose to be hearing from people who are at maintenance weight, and how it works then. Sorry if it sounded like I thought you weren't needed, you are, and especially if you need it.

LMD - thanks for the explanation, sounds really quite hideous, you poor thing! Hope it hurries up and heals and stops hurting so much.

I really have read everyone else's posts as well, but can't remember a thing - I'm now 53 minutes into "the day I fly to the UK with the toddler" so my brain is a little occupied with all of that and can barely hold anything else together!

But (SMS) I just wanted to say that I half-heartedly stepped on the scales this eve, thinking "oh no this will be bad" - only to discover that I have finally got to 11 1/2 stone! YAY! Obvs still got a couple more to go, but I'm SO happy to have hit that little milestone (it was the next one for me after "losing a whole stone") - just have to Keep On Keeping On.

Keep it up, fellow losers!

Hi everyone, have been lurking on this thread for ages so thought I'd wave hello. It's really helped me when I'm struggling. I am trying to lose 2 stones. Technically I would say I'm paleo rather than low carb, so I'm staying away from dairy other than a tiny bit of Greek yogurt. I eat nuts too, the health benefits are just too great for me to give them up. I just keep my portions very small.

My biggest problem is I'm very sedentary so if I do cheat I probably pay for it more than most, but I've been working really hard on tackling my emotional eating so I am improving.

LittleMissDisorganised I will hang around because I love the support, the banter and the laughs. I will (hopefully) reach my target weight and then maintain it but due to past eating issues I don't think I could do it without the structure and encouragment provided by you lovely people

Welcome Jesuis!

Bon voyage Thumb!

Bad morning on the scales. Just had a planned two week deviation and 7lbs on. That is half a pound per day. Need to get that off asap. Back to egg in a cup for breakfast and water, water, water. I haven't caught up with the thread but very impressed with Trashy's underwear. I will be lurking looking for inspiration.

A cautious stand on the scales (I know I'm not supposed to be) in my physio shoes (but no cheeky stick use) shows I'm the same as my preop weight a week ago. A victory of sorts, the shoes are only plastic and polystyrene and I had a real off track day the evening of the surgery. Even if I STS for the immobility bit it will be a big victory. Back to sitting down now, tbh standing on the scales is a minor triumph by itself!!

Hello jesuis and welcome back pleaseand

Thanks Littlemiss. Staying the same will be fantastic. I spent a few months immobile last year and on a huge amount of medication. I managed to sts but most people on the drugs would have been expected to put on about a stone. the last thing I felt like was eating though so it was probably easier

Not much shit to shout here but I'm still bootcamping away and reading all your news. The scales are resolutely not shifting BUT of all the clothes I kept for years in case I could fit into them again there are only two pairs of jeans left that won't quite do up. I'm going on my first ever beach holiday this year, to Tenerife, so it'll be great not to be so self-conscious about my figure.

Pleaseandthankyou it's really good to hear from someone who's been through the same sort of thing - although I'm sorry you've been so unwell. Last year, my two major ops meant I put a stone and a half on in the 5-6 months and it's not inevitable from immobility but all the factors like boredom and comfort eating become huge by comparison to how they are normally, and I always struggle with them. So, to undo some of the damage but it's one meal at a time for me atm. At least there was a silver lining to you feeling so unwell.

StuntNun that's amazing. I don't have "those" clothes any more... but I have fully dropped a size on my top half, I suspect I will go like that as I lose, asmy tummy has always been the weight-gaining location of choice. I am getting really quite flatter in the chest too which is a bit disappointing - I don't really have any there to lose.

I am about to attempt to make the birdseed flaxseed pizza base - yes, sat at the table with one leg propped up. Unlikely to be my finest culinary hour but it's sounded so good from monkey and all others that like it, it would be lovely safe comfort food. I shall report back.

LMD How was the pizza? Its my treat on F1 nights when everyone else has steak baguettes I do miss tesco's salt & pepper baguettes. BTW you can have some of my boobs, I've gone from a 32FF to a 30G so although the backfat has shrunk the boobs have grown.

I've come on again so ate snorted a miniroll and bag of crisps without stopping to draw breath when I got home even though I wasn't hungry and now feel headachy, damn hormones

Off to pack up the bedroom, DH is decorating next week and I need to find new hiding places for all the shoes and stuff he doesn't know I've got

felix I have got half of an octopus on my right arse cheek it's a cover up of a tiny butterfly I had done age 15 I have to go back and get it finished on the 29th of april, which is great, cos the guy has an eight month waiting list. I made the appt last year after I got my big horse done (left arm) and he is squeezing me in to get in finished.

eva I feel pain on your behalf for the family visit. Aaargh. I know exactly what you mean about the fruit and veg, mainly, we eat meat, veg, eggs, fish, dairy lard so how can you fail to eat the recommended veg intake....

LMD am so pleased your lovely dh is attempting taking such nice care of you. I hope your leggies are feeling better every day, and that you approve of me waffling

Thumbwitch I really hope you're managing/managed to stay sane on your flight

jesuis well hello there well done for de-lurking, it has threatened to get quiet hear lately, and we can't be having that. Paleo is where I ended up last time I low carbed, and it's a great way to eat. I actually find bootcamp more permissive, if that makes sense, and therefore easier for me to maintain in the long run.

bah to your 7 bastard lbs....

stuntnun that's amazing, I'm 'well jel' I have got the worlds shiteiest wardrobe right now. My working wardrobe consists entirely of supermarket bought clothing. I have got on big bag of thin clothes in storage, but as I'm so tall and currently size 18 (down from 20 woo hoo) normal shops do not fit me. I have promised myself a brand new wardrobe of posh clobber when I reach my target. Ooh and a lovely holiday where I too don't feel shit about my wobbly bits. How exciting for you!

snort at notso you sneaky shoe buying demon! I am aware my mega norks will resemble savoy cabbages when I shrink. The skin takes ages to catch up, but the pay off is all the tiny pretty tuppence ha'penny bras I can buy from primark and the like

My weight is going steadily down after my oh so crappy start to bc. I am currently 235lbs which is 16st 7. My lowest since bootcamp. I'm fucking ecstatic.

My latest addiction is nail polish. I have been painting my nails obsessively for days now. Last week I sported four different 'looks' including a yellow with pink tips, black with sparkly red tips, and sparkly red. I'm currently part way through re-doing a french manicure because the one I did yesterday was to pearly and the tips looked too white. i am slightly ashamed to confess that I went to tesco today and bought two more different types. I now own three sets of french manicure

The flat has a certain 'dog eared' look to it as I mainly do house work in the evenings, post work. I pulled a muscle in my back yesterday, so did sod all apart from load the dishwasher yesterday, and have done bot all today....

I have to go and have my throat checked at the hospital tomorrow morning cos the gp saw something dubious right at the back during an examination for something up my nose, (which is fine now). I'm really hoping I won't have to have a biopsy, but que sera and all that. I will come home and demon clean after that because the twins are bringing friends home after school, to play a dungeons and dragons role playing game, which dp is hosting.... so we need to be clean!

shout out to crabby and whooshy are you both alive? And snowie

Notso I'm a 30G as well. It's all but impossible to find bras in my size.

Ugh, I am being a proper carby TWAT. Meals ok but a tonne of biscuits and chocolate sneaking in in between... Have a hen do this weekend where I've no say in the food, then we're going skiing and staying in catered chalet - which will be bread and croissant and cake-tastic. Might have to bow out and come back for next bootcamp. Well done all of you who actually have some willpower unlike lardy me.

Heir Noooooooo. You. Have. To. Stay. Everyone falls off now and again, and we are keeping on keeping on. Plus GOT starts on Monday (will you be back?) and we'll have things we must speak about regarding Lannisters and dragons and Starks etc. You're probably just pre menstrual or something. Here [pleading emoticon]

Birthday weekend. The chocs are stacking up and DS has made his special brownies.

I will promise to be super-strict next week and drink gallons of water.

Stunt have you tried bravissimo for bras? www.bravissimo.com/ That's the only place I can find bras that fit... I'm now down to a 30HH from the heady heights of 38K pre-bootcamp!

Heir don't beat yourself up. Enjoy the food while the decisions are out of your hands. Enjoy it all the more for its not so usual inclusion in your menus! When you're back from the chalet - resolve to get back on this WOE, guilt-free. and don't weigh yourself until you've been back on this WOE for a week!!

In mad dash - more later xx

I went to Bravissimo once Eva but I wasn't that impressed. One of the bras they sold me was so uncomfortable that I ended up never wearing it.

Hi everyone, I guess we are so rarely happy with what we have. I think my particular flat chest frustration is that I am losing in my chest measurements almost the same cm as in tummy etc... I have a lot of tummy to lose. So as a ratio the amount I'm losing from my chest is more... I'm not the most flat chested though and I dare say I'd always find something to worry about. Very grateful to be able to have the choice of M&S tho!
Completely shattered yesterday... some 13-14 hours sleep later with no tea... I know that's not how 16:8 is supposed to work, but it's been 14:10 most of my post op period with fatigue and not much evening appetite - will see how effective it is!

Lovely to hear all the chat, please don't edit yourself trashy!!

Trash that sounds amazing. Am I right in thinking you're up in Newcastle or did I totally imagine that? Who do you go to? I've promised myself that if I ever slim down I'm going to treat myself to a massive pirate ship down my side