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.

Eva I'm going to weigh myself tomorrow. I've been very virtuous since Tuesday despite finding out I'm being audited the same week as our IIP reassessment, all I need now is for bastard ofsted to phone, they're well overdue and then I realised, at 4pm, I'd had my top on inside out all day thank god my hair covered the label I even declined more krispy kreme donuts although I did bring a couple home - well 1 would've been mine and the others will be stale tomorrow.

Food today

B - BPC and egg muffins
L - lamb salad
S - egg muffin
S - BPC
D - chicken in leek sauce with cauli rice and mushrooms (I think)

Psyching myself up to bath psychopup because the bastard farmer's spread his fields with the foulest smelling shit literally and stupid DD let her off the lead and she went for a roll across the slurry trail from one field to the next, ffs she's bad enough when she finds fox shit but we don't know where that is. I bet she thinks she smells divine - they're both banished to the garden til I'm ready

Well, jeans shopping was grim. Nothing fits right. My old jeans are currently being worn yanked up with a belt too big now. I have a pair of the smaller size but they are Next bootcut and so very low waisted - they do up fine but so unflattering especially with my "dropped" tummy (sorry if TMI). But, once I'm at work, and we get warm weather, I have a couple of pairs of linen trousers for the weekend and won't need jeans. So maybe I'll give in and make do for now.

I did buy a pair of trousers for work though that fitted well so it wasn't a completely hopeless afternoon.

Feeling a bit low and struggly, DH related I think, hopefully it's just a bump in the road.

ARGH!! Shit, shit day. Have lost £420 that I cant afford.

What Id usually do is fall face first into comfort eating. Instead, Ive made a MASSIVE flaxseed pizza with 300g flaxseed, but only half crushed. I figure I can gorge on that and it'll just pass straight through me without making me fat [hopeful].

LMD thats great that your old jeans are too big. Hang on to that when you feel down.

I did a monster clothes shop today, everything in a size 10. Most too small atm, but I think Im only 5-6lb away from being in them comfortably.

I wish I wasnt a comfort eater. I feel a bit lost tonight

I'm having my first planned carb day tomorrow - it's my birthday and my daughter has made a tiramisu, all full fat and eggy but with a couple of oz of real sugar as I don't really like any of the sweeteners I have tried. Iight also have a latte ( oooh)! And we are going to a meaty restaurant later on. Part of me wants to get it over with so I can get back on the wagon! How should I manage Saturday? Is there anything I can do to put me back on track quicker?

If I was you, Id have salad with my steak. If you avoid bread/pasta/rice etc, the sugar shouldn't hurt too much.

Ive had easter eggs and wine aplenty over the last week, but haven't gained.

You will have an amount of sugar that you can have whilst 'maintaining', so while you may not lose this week, you shouldnt gain iyswim?

Hope everyone has their elephants almost under control?!

Whoosh left over duck is because I live myself so when I have the duck I have one breast for dinner and the other for lunch the next day

Had a good day at pole, managed to do a tricky move called figurehead so I feel very pleased, and bruised!

Food

B: fried eggs, fruit tea
L: tuna mayo, salad
D: Swedish meatballs with cheese on top
S: salt and vinegar peanuts

I also tried some mini eggs things that my friend sent from Denmark but I didn't enjoy them so I will take them to work tomorrow and let my colleagues eat them instead

Thanks BIWI and MrsHP that is reassuring and although my weight loss gain actually isn't going well, I will put that down to excess wine, chocolate, lack of portion control etc and also the fact that I was previously on a very low calorie diet. I have realised that I really need to be more mindful of the amount I'm eating - just because its low carb doesn't mean I can eat with abandon!! Also fear I may have buggered up my metabolism with the low cal diet. I'm looking forward to the next bootcamp and this time I'm going to be a great big loser

sue best advice I can give you (apart from following the rules, of course ), is to be consistent, and - if you've been chopping and changing - just give it time.

Dear bloody bollocks, what a week. Have finally added my weight to the tracker. Tomorrow I will do me nearly naked selfie. I was eight pounds up!!! Eight pounds in three days? What the actual fuck??? I didn't go off piste that badly, but I did lapse with water. I drank 4.5 litres yesterday, and this morning two pounds downs. Have drunk about the same again today, and have been totally on wagon for two days, and Easter is but a distant memory apart from the mountains of dcs arsehole chocolate that's everywhere

Easter is a complete bastard whooshy

Am still in puppy heaven, she's lush I am smitten, and fyi chihuahuas have to wear clothes.... it's erm... written into their... contract [smug emoticon]

Am pissing myself at psychopups beautific expression in her ... wedding gown? Face palm at your ignoramous dd for the slurry fest notso.... Grooooooh.

LMD Jeans are the work of Satan himself. I spent fifty quid on a pair from LTS. I have worn them twice. TWICE! They are so uncomfortable. I spent a rubbish afternoon searching the charity shops for some trousers/bottoms that aren't leggings as I am sick to the back teeth of wandering about like an escaped tramp. I found a lovely red linen frock in the end, but I feel destroyed by clothes shopping. Can't wait to be a size ten or even an eight. Yes, a size eight, that'll be about.... a year I think. This time next year Rodders...

sayra for some reason I read your menu as fried tea and fruit eggs, and was wondering where the fuck you'd bought those cos they sounded great

Now I am in elephant driving mode, I'm gonna post my menu up to keep mindfull

Breakfast
leftover lebanese takeaway - grilled baby chicken/tabbouleh/chick pea and tomato and aubergine thingy, but called moussaka, but not the thing I call moussaka

Lunch
leftover grilled chicken with half an avocado and some rocket

Dinner
Houmos (asda one with pesto topping) few mini pepperamis dipped in, cucumber (also for dipping) rocket salad with oily dressing and some ff yog with handful of blueberries

4 litres water

no fucking tea! oh, I tell a lie, one cup of earl grey with a splash of cow juice.

Now, on a parting note, I was reading the nutritional info off the back of the kids rice cakes. A rice cake is 0.1g of carbs..... what the hell is that about?

okay, night night everybody. eva I am very excited about the next bc. Yip yip yip

How can a rice cake be 0.1g of carbs?! That doesn't make any sense!

Look here!

trashcanjunkie I forked out 50 for the LTS jeans too - 50 on what are basically saggy thin jeggings.

Like you Monkey somehow I have got away with it (Easter I mean) and I am the same weight I was before Easter. PHEW! I'm feeling that I'm an extremely lucky person.

LittleMiss I'd been wondering how your jeans shopping went - what a shame it was disappointing! If you can ever bear to go again, I went to boring old Debenhams and as they have so many different clothing labels in the same place, I did track down trousers and jeans that fit my shape. Low-rise jeans are the very devil and to be avoided for sure.

Trash my lovely I don't wish to be a downer for you here, but chickpeas, houmous, and I would be fairly sure tabbouleh, are all fairly carby foods. It is a shame as I love houmous. So they're OK if you're being more relaxed and aiming to maintain, but not if you are hoping for the scales to ease downwards.

Parsnip the key thing is to really enjoy that tiramisu. (Its my favourite pudding, I think) And then, to know that carbs are sneaky addictive things, so watch out for eating the tiramisu triggering all sorts of carb snacking and face-downing. The willpower will get temporarily harder. Leave it at the tiramisu only and don't look back. If you feel snacky on Saturday make sure its low-carb snacks. (lots of water, minimise the dairy if you can yada yada) don't weigh yourself over the weekend!

Aaaaargh piss flaps! I knew it was too good to be true - why oh why are they lying about the carb content on the houmous? It's asdas. Am I being a twonk by going off the 'of which sugars' bit?

Gah. Disgusted of Newcastle. Gotta re think lunch plan now...

And the tabbouleh - it just looks like bits of parsley and lemon juice. Those bastards at the Lebanese place are going to feel my wrath. Nevermind - I am always grateful for a bit of correction on the food front Eva

I am most certainly not being relaxed, so they will have to be palmed off on some unsuspecting carby twat my lovely neighbour who took the shit easter egg MIL gave me

BIWI Re ricecakegate I know!!!! That carb count is ludicrously stupid.... I mean, it's along the lines of 'low fat fat' ffs! I wouldn't touch one with a ten foot barge pole.

Had scrambled eggs with streaky bacon and fried mushrooms for breakfast. Am going to have a snooze for an hour now cos I am all wrong - then go to the doctors again for more looking up my nose. Bah! Strangely feel very excellent though....

trash Firstly I do love your posts! Secondly, are they very small rice cakes or else you've been reading the sugar bit again - it's all carbs, and I'm not surprised for there to be 0.1g of which sugars per rice cake. I hope you manage to evict the unwanted carbs and you will soon be onwards and downwards again.

Eva that's a good idea re: Debenhams, a lovely friend is taking me into Liverpool next week (I am limited in where I can get myself to, and DH runs out of enthusiasm quite quickly) and both there and Monsoon (because my ultimate navy work trousers are from there - sooo comfortable and wear well) are on my list. trashy charity shops are also a great idea.

monkey that's fab that you 'got away' with Easter eggs. parsnip I think either that, once you've been LC months rather than weeks, or trashcan's experience can happen - but the ridiculous gain IME falls off pretty fast once you get back on it and often takes a lb or two with it (very kind of it). Enjoy your tiramisu!!

I am really slipping on the artificial sweeteners front. I'm still addicted to sweet stuff really. I should remove them NOW... but I'll probably wait til the official bootcamp start date... Really addictive stuff. Maybe I should start with food listing too to help me be more disciplined I might leave out the diabetic chocolate and diet coke creep

Have a good day all!

Just to say I'm still here and reading and cheering you all on. Been feeling a bit lot crappy and not like posting though. Will do a proper CrabbySuperReply™ and Fishy Update soon though.

Hi crabby looking forward to fishy update hope you feel less crappy soon

I've not had a great day, carb wise I have been amazing but something at the end of the day made me feel shit.

I play badminton at work at lunchtimes, we are a nice group but fairly recently a new guy started. He is alright but a bit odd and very difficult to play badminton with (he leaps in front of you and takes your shots when playing doubles). He has told us on a few occasions that he has very few friends and has asked a colleague for lunch (just the two of them but not a date [hmmm]) she didn't go herself but a group of us did.

Anyway, we don't want to be his friend but don't mind being civil and the occasional lunch is do-able as long as there are a few of us.

Today he sent an email to the whole badminton group plus the basketball group he plays with asking if anyone would be interested in going hill walking weekends with him so he can get to see Scotland. He wants to get a group to go, I was the only one not included so my friend emailed him and said "you've forgotten Sayra, was that a mistake?".

He replied to her (don't think he realises that we sit beside each other) and basically said he only invited people that he thought were capable of walking for two days straight and he didn't think I'd manage. Reading between the lines, not just me, my colleagues too, he means Sayra is too fat to come walking with us.

I am upset for a few reasons, one is that he thought it is acceptable to leave one person out because of their weight, two because I am fitter than some of the other people he invited even if I am fatter and three because my colleagues obviously read between the lines in the same way and kept telling me how horrible he was for leaving me out which I feel sad about for reasons I can't seem to get down on 'paper'.

Why do I care? I don't like the guy, I don't enjoy hill walking and if he had invited me I wouldn't have gone yet I am still upset at what he said

I am now roasting a delicious chicken and I will be sticking to my LC plan and not let this be an excuse/reason to go off track.

thanks trashy...... I needed that - I forgot how to swim to the top of the shit choc lake.....am out now and drying off. 8lb my friend...... good effort.....

( and 'pissflaps' is my favourite hilarious saying so far !)
monkey - how can you lose £420 ?
lmd jeans shopping is hard labour - I did get some in the end , but cost a fortune. I too have been down the LTS route, my legs just are too wide all the way down ( no knees to speak of - totally wierdo !)

Hello to all - just popping in to report am totally lowcarb now - even if lots of low carb snacks, dairy and cheese.... will cut all those once the choc dribbling and desperation disappears....

monkey i think I may need the flaxseed Pizza recipe......?

eva - seriously impressed to ahve wiped Easter from your body's memory. !

crabby can you devise me a duck recipe.... my favourite irish duck thing in Lidl's is sold out I blame sayra no idea how is so delicious - am sure a wiser sayra will explain

xxx

With my colleagues I think I mean when the friend who was emailed came to tell me he had replied she said "I don't think you should read it, it is horrible" and when I first read it I didn't think it was that bad. Then I realised she thought it was bad cause she thought he had implied I was too heavy/fat/unfit then I realised that she must think that too for her to read that from the words he wrote.

(never been good at expressing what I feel so ignore the above if you can't make sense of it!!)

Thank you Eva

Ah Sayra from what you first said it sounds like this guy's judgement and social skills are crap anyway so who gives a flying f* what the loser thinks. Don't go on any more lunches with him.

But I do see what you mean about worrying whether this is revealing what your other colleagues think too. Sod them ALL because you are doing something about it already and it IS GOING TO WORK and in a few months time you will be swanning around feeling slinky. And every week (mainly!) you will be going in the right direction.

Throughout my (mostly overweight) adult existence I've thought it so unfair that you can go on a diet/start exercising etc and yet, even though you are being so good, for ages you are still overweight. But, for example, smokers can become non-smokers the day they give up. (I realise perhaps its not quite as neat as that...!) The worst thing is the patience that losing weight takes.

I don't quite know where I'm going with this, except a sort of SOD THEM and know that you are doing brilliant things already to get the figure you want.

Lots of to you Crabby hope you feel cheerier soon.

Whoosh I cannot believe my luck at staying the same over this Easter period. I am feeling superstitious at the moment and collecting examples of good luck: 1 weight 2 I've just won a local prize draw raffle. I want this run of good luck to continue because next week brings the appeal on the loads-of-houses-they-want-to-build-on-the-nearby-field (I wrote about our protests and planning meeting decisions earlier in the bootcamp) and we really need good luck to win this stage too. So foolish to be superstitious but I am.

Gosh x-posted with both crabby and sayra ....

crabby - hope the black clouds crack very soon my friend - get outside breathe deep xxx

and sayra ..... Hideous fucker - how very dare he - hold onto the fact you will have the last laugh when you are super slinky AND with fabulous blood sugar , fabulous cholesterol and super healthy .... Fact is we may be big now - but when we are slim we will NOT forget rudeness and small mindedness
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And .... We could shut him a room with trashy for a few minutes to 'discuss' the issue ?!