Eeeeek!
The Spreadsheet of Fabulousness is here along with The Weight Tracker
Here's to another good week.
Four weeks left, including this one, so chance to lose up to half a stone if you're really focused!
I'm glad to see that we're all thinking about Christmas and how we're going to deal with it. My own personal problem is that I find it too easy to let things slide - well, I've already had that, so I may as well have this as well - and before I know it, I've scarfed chocolates and eaten a sandwich and start to eye up the pasta as well ...
Other people are much easier to deal with than yourself! 
Anyway, I have one social event this week to negotiate, but other than that all should be manageable.
Hope you all have a good and successful week 
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BIWI · 10/11/2014 07:22
Sainsburys or Asda for me. I have bought off Amazon when Sainsburys ran out as I can't go out myself and didn't trust DH to get it! Too expensive for mistakes!
I can eat it straight from the fridge with a coffee. I decant it into ice cube trays as its the devil's own to get out of the jar when its hard. Makes a lovely curry if you fry off your onions and spices in it. I also love courgettes cooked in coconut. Didn't take to it for eggs though. I do love my butter for eggs.
I've been told that its yummy to fry off blanched, green beans in it but haven't tried that yet.
Yep, its quite similar imo (though smoother) to the inside of a bounty
ooh i love a bounty! not great for dh tho who hates coconut. if i cook with it in curries he may not notice. 
otherwise should i stick with cooking with olive oil? i'm not sure i get enough fats atm.
I went oldschool and bought a block of lard. It is minging
ktc cocount oil (find it in the ethnic aisle if your supermarket has one - or from your local ethnic/Asian) shop has absolutely no coconut flavour 
and is only c.£1.49 for 500ml.
I say ml - it's usually solid at room temperature except in heatwaves when it goes liquid again
A spoonful in my herbal tea (liquorice/pepmermint, salted caramel green tea, gingerbread green tea, rooibos) melts very quickly and just gives a nice roundness to the tea without a hint of coconut.
I've checked and it doesn't use any nasty hydrogenation process.
I thought coconut butter was different from the oil. I notice this has hemp seed oil added. The coconut oil is just coconut.
MrsK my hubby hates coconut and he never notices the taste except to say he enjoyed it! I've had Lucy Bee (Sainsburys) and Groovy Food (Asda) and neither is overly strong. Both around £6 for 300ml.
I use coconut oil all the time. DH 'hates' coconut. Has he ever noticed?
Well done toomuch I agree with what you are saying with this WOE and I have similar goals just now
Poor beyond I hope you get sorted soon, I've never fainted but can't imagine that it is very pleasant
Stay strong chester you don't need junk food to get you through, you will manage fine.
I think I need to try coconut oil again, I have some left over from making bath product stuff. I am sure it won't be as good for you as food grade stuff but might be ok. I tend to cook everything in yummy butter.
miffy same here with the chocolate, if I eat it now I literally have a square or two and that is enough for me. Seems so strange that prior to this WOE I could have eaten a big bar no problem.
sarah of course we won't chuck you off sorry you've been finding it difficult recently. I think it can be quite hard when you allow yourself to have some carbs, you think that wasn't so bad and allow yourself some more and it spirals out of control.
You are so close to goal and I think that you, pisses, miffy, please? and ready might all be in the same sort of situation where you are 'normal' or an ok weight but not exactly where you want to be. It seems that for you all being so close to goal is actually more difficult to deal with than you'd think.
I am sorry that I can't help, I am still miles away from goal
My lovely mum was round for dinner this evening but as I knew I'd be back late she offered to bring dinner. She had recently told me she had started back at Scottish slimmers (weight watchers type thing I think, you get points or something) so I was worried she would bring something carby like pasta. She didn't, she is fabulous and is being so supportive (she hasn't always been when I've been on a 'diet') she made a hairy bikers curry and brought a cauliflower to make cauli-rice as she was trying to think of something we could both have
Its a nice thought SayraT but I'm no where near goal. BMI still 30 and about 2st away from a very moderate goal. I am just trying to accept that the most important thing is to stick with the plan so that my blood glucose and FMS stay under control and I'm continuing with my weight training.
I may just be kidding myself but I do seem to be building muscle and my fatty bits do look more wobbly so maybe I'm just putting on muscle around the same rate that I'm losing fat. I'm getting a nice shape now. Even Hubs has noticed! its just that the fatty bits stuck around the nice new muscles do look rather odd and ikky. I tell myself that I am not defined by a number on a scale but I don't always listen!
Thanks for the suggestions everyone!
That sounds like quite a bike ride toomuch
I haven't read that book, Tanuk; I think I'll have to have a look. I've got the I Quit Sugar book but because she still has a lot of carbs in the recipes I haven't found it that useful. Bizarrely I'm one of those that can stop at a square of chocolate, but I eat the 85% stuff and it's just not sweet. The 70% stuff is sweet enough that I could do the whole bar easily!
Miffy I love Vinney and Pholek and their books are great but there were no answers for me in that one! I think their take home message is "don't eat carbs and you will fat adapt eventually" which I would do well to take heed of .
Sayra I'm sure you will be at the close to goal stage one day! Could you please bottle "supportive mum' and distribute her? I genuinely think my Mum competes with us with respect to weight and feels threatened if her daughters are thinner than her. She's become better as she got older though. My parents were responsible for the Shepherds pie on Sunday, despite me saying that I would bring my own dinner. She rung me and informed me that there was no need to bring anything as my Dad had cooked something specially. Great 
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Oh sorry miffy I hope I didn't get anyone else wrong! Its hard to remember what stage everyone is at and I must have ready something and thought you were at goal.
toomuch I am sure if I started eating a sweeter chocolate then it wouldn't be the same story but I have been having the occasional square of lindt intense orange which is 9g carbs per square. That is a wee bit higher than I'd like but only have it once or twice a week and quite often not at all. I think that it makes OH feel better that there is a small thing he can buy me as a 'treat'.
Tanukisan I was like that at the start but I've now been LCing for almost a year and I didn't rarely chocolate at all until the last month or so to try and lose the cravings. Can you genuinely still not stop at a square of dark (85%) chocolate? Or do you mean you can't stop if you eat a sweeter milk chocolate. I don't feel the same compulsion to eat an entire bar with darker chocolate but could still do so with milk I think.
sarah I was really impressed with my mum, I was expecting pasta or something! She has also said that she won't buy sweets at Christmas and asked if I wanted her to have a word with Santa about the chocolate orange in my stocking. I asked her if Santa could possibly give me a dark one (5g carbs per segment) instead of milk (5.25g carbs per segment) I know its still not ideal but I don't want a real orange!!!
Maybe we should stop talking about chocolate in case we trigger someone.
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