Week 10 - Pre-Christmas Low Carb Bootcamp - the penultimate weigh-in!

[BIWI]

Morning all!

Come and confess all on the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

or on the Weight Tracker

Just one more week - hopefully we can shed at least one more of those pesky pounds!

12th would suit me fine. It would mean I would only break Boot Camp one day early for Burns Supper.

and I'll still make it as low carb as possible

OK I shall stick to calling it face planting then Pisses

I have my plan for christmas, 1 of each special christmas food type, but just one. Also to stick my head back into as much theory over why sugar is bad as possible. Tbh it is easier when ds is at his dad's less emotionally disordered (his turn for chirstmas this year). Ds dislikes christmas and it gets highly fragile around here this time of the year. I do find getting screamed at for 2 hrs straight because he won't tell his teacher he is struggling so that they can put into place the alternative arrangements (aspie child) very wearing and something I need to find a method for dealing with other than face planting. This is something that i am open for suggestions but it needs to be something immediate and can be done mid dealing with the screaming...

Gin

unfortunately i also have to stay fit to drive as ds often ends up needing A&E treatment for self inflicted injuries or those achieved in school

Oh Bitchy I'm really sorry to hear that, it must be so hard to deal with and know the best way to handle the situation. I can't offer any advice I'm sorry but wanted to say

Simple the best way to deal with the situation is as best you can, let him scream it out of his system and try to keep him safe. Odd bits of concussion and broken toes are not really the end of the world, am just fed up of concussion watch and glad that the hospital have witnessed his tempers in the past and thus have it on record he self harms so don't have to worry about repercussions. He is better than he was so that is a bonus. It will all be fine once Christmas is over for about 6 mths. So perhaps I should factor this in

Bitchy I'll share my personal LC mantra with you in case it's useful.

Drum roll please

"Empowered, not indulged"

In my case it works on all sorts of rebellion/comfort/control triggers that made me eat all sorts of stuff in all sorts of ways. Our issues are different but the escape into food implicit in what you've described might respond to the idea of being empowered praps?

It sounds very tough

Am definitely heading for a poor last week, despite vastly reduced intake in the wake of the bug. Last night, rushing out of the house late with sobbing DS upstairs (stress might have been factor), aliens took over my brain and I watched my hand pick up one of DSs marzipan fruits and put it in my mouth. No conscious involvement at all. I havent done this sort of thing at all the whole BC, its just not what i do, except i did. And this evening, work Xmas meal, i had a good LC meal of carpaccio salad, roast and spinach, no wine, and then a planned lapse of a baked apple - was temple-achingly sweet so left some. Not truly dreadful lapses but i suspect enough to nuke all last weeks effort.

Morning all,

Mine was most defintely a cheat 150g fudge inhaled in about 38 seconds but for once I got straight back on LC, didn't try to miss meals, say 'fuck it I'll start again tomorrow', or try to run a half marathon to burn off the excess and you know what, I'm back to my lowest BC weight today and didn't even go out of ketosis.

I hear what Pisses is saying about the emotive issue around words like cheat, but I do cheat/binge/face plant, always have. One day I hope I'll be able to have one piece of fudge and find it enough, but I'm not there yet, not by a long way.

Anyway, what I have learned is just get back on the bloody wagon, the sooner you do that the easier it is to minimise any damage. Not rocket science but it's taken me nearly 40 years to even try this out. And by God, it works!

If The jan bootcamp could start on 19th that would really work for me

For those that know my tablet, the fact that I was able to make a batch last night (for Christmas presents) and only have 3 small pieces for quality checking purposes only is actually pretty impressive! I even gave ds the pot for the scrapings

Very impressed, prettybird!

Well done Prettybird

This is what i love about this thread. You all made me realise that this is not a crisis situation. It is normal. It happens every year this time of the year. Thus it can be planned for. Something small and picky is what I am looking for, so am thinking that having in stock some little tubs of nuts and perhaps something in the berries line (possibly frozen) will give me what I am craving. The comfort of snacking, a slight energy burst BUT won't be too bad on the grand scheme of things. It might be I mix a batch of 'troll cream' (a whipped cream desser) and take the small hit of 1 tsp of Jam in the entire Large tub of cream as it will satisfy the sweetness without the HIGH face plant that has been going on as can't eat a huge amount of the cream in one sitting (although open to recipe tweaks on that but no artificial sugars) Thanks for making me look at the situation in a different way and come up with a plan!

You're getting the idea Bitchy Plan ahead. We are all going to end up having excursions into the Land of the Carby People. We're humans not robots. Its a tiring and often stressful time and that certainly lowers my resistance and causes stuff I wouldn't normally touch with a long stick to become instantly attractive and irresistible!

I plan to get some nice macadamia nuts and roast them off with a bit of butter and some of my smoked sea salt. I've told the family not to waste their money buying me sweets and chocolate. DH, knowing I eat low carb, bought me 3 Toblerones last year! Yup, the ones like telegraph poles! I did eat some but still had the remains at the back of the cupboard when it was my birthday in September! I'm no angel though so I will have a supply of choc fat bombs and maybe some of the IPD truffles in the fridge. Not too sweet but very rich and luxurious with a good coffee. Going to make up some rich dips and have big fat prawns instead of boring old cucumber sticks. Sod the 'no dairy' I'm also having posh cheese and may bath in cream! (Dairy not Nivea!) I think that will deal with the need to feel a bit spoilt but without undoing a whole years worth of sensible eating. Should also stop me doing what I did on my first LC Christmas which was to spend the remainder of the week feeling like death!

On the plus side, I have the edge over some of you in that alcohol isn't an issue. Since I've had FMS I can't even take the cork out of a bottle without sliding under the table!

That's interesting about the alcohol and FMS Miffy, I find it really affects me now, so I rarely drink and if I do indulge invariably wish I hadn't. I don't have a diagnosis yet, but suspect it will turn out to be so.

I can get away with vodka in small amounts as long as I keep up the other fluids. And that is despite the FMS+CFS diagnosis. Mind you I have also managed to get off all regular pain meds recently so I know I am a every lucky one. I have had higher pain levels the last few days but I know I am balancing on the edge of burn out atm so am awaiting the crash and ouchies. In the meantime I am running around like a crazy person trying to get christmassy type stuff done. Whose' bright idea is it to spring clean prior to Christmas? family tradition

Early final WI here, 3.2lbs this week (first completely dairy free), 10 lbs off in 10 weeks and 2.7% down in body fat. So I wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who has supported me through the rough and the, errrr, rougher

Got a rare night out tonight, hence the early WI, and while I'm not going to deliberately fall into a bucket of carbs, I am going to relax and enjoy myself and have a bloody good drink. I'll be back on it tomorrow in the countdown to my Jan holiday.

Brilliant, Chester!

My scales have broken! DH reckons I shouldn't buy another set until after the baby's born but I reckon I might be addicted to weighing myself. Can anyone recommend a good set of scales that measures body fat?

I have to say I agree with your DH, stunt. Your body fat will increase fairly significantly as your pregnancy progresses and you start to lay down those amazing omega 3 stores on your hips and thighs in preparation for feeding. What will you gain by knowing the numbers? And what will you do if you don't like what you see?

I also agree ... (sorry)

You need to focus on your pregnancy and enjoying it, rather than worrying about your weight/fat percentage.

You know enough about eating/low carbing to know that you're not going to fall face-first into biscuits and cakes every day, surely?

(All that is coming from a place of support, by the way. As a previously hugely disordered eater I have to say I think it wouldn't be psychologically healthy to continue to weigh if you feel you may be 'addicted'.)

Mo I think "Empowered, not indulged" is absolutely brilliant.

and have a good night out Chester you deserve it.

So today I'm going for a leptin reset milkshake with the kids, its been a long 10 weeks and am still happily & slowly edging downwards towards my goal. As of this morning I'm 100lb down this year

Also it seems that I've not been taking in enough calories (low carb performance book), so need to really look into this and try and balance myself out a bit better... performance to loss wise.

Pisses, that is amazing, huge well done and what a way to end boot camp.

Am so looking forward to tonight, just back from a freezing cold run, DS has been despatched to the inlaws and I am about to start doing nails and all manner of exciting things I never usually get time to do

Well done Pisses that is an excellent result and higher inspirational.

*highly

Sorry brain is full of dust - we are spring cleaning atm. There are dust bunnies who need this woe lurking behind furniture.

Pisses that is an amazing achievement, huge well done!

Chester well done, have a great night out!

I'm holding out for Monday for my final weigh in as no plans for socialising this weekend.