Week 8 - Low Carb Bootcamp - Eek! Only 3 weeks left!

[BIWI]

Morning all.

Spreadsheet of Fabulousness is here

And the Weight Tracker is here

Three weeks left. So a chance to rid ourselves of another 3 pesky pounds!

Good luck all and hope the week is a good one.

charlie I was going to reply along the lines of - you fussy bugger! But then thought- I'm like that.

Sass I totally am, I don't give a monkeys tbh, there's so much I can't have that I want what I can have to be delicious. If I really can't be arsed I relax my standards accept his offer

Hello all. Work and RL currently so busy I'm missing all the thread! Been really good for two days then scoffed 4 left over chipolatas this afternoon because I'm clearly a self sabotaging twat!
Also, new scales have arrived. Was convinced that they'd tell me I was really half a stone lighter. Sadly not. Turns out the old ones were pretty forgiving...

charlie I'm not really like it with food. Just everything else! I have rules/order. I can't bare anyone washing up. Pans before glasses??!! Wtaf. And tidying away the dc's toys, why just pile it in any free box? Next time they want a certain toy they won't know which box it's in, and therefore every box will be emptied. Emptying the dishwasher drives me up the wall. Dp and dd1 will both put things back wherever they sodding feel like. Why? They use the bloody pots, they must know where they got it from........why not put it back there??!!

Also i hate it when I turn my heating on in MY car to get rid of the steamed windows and it's been turned onto feet, or my radio isn't on my channel or I go to bed at night and MY charger isn't at the side of my bed where I leave it always .

I dream of a retirement one bed flat for ONE, that is pristine and every thing is actually as I left it.

bitchy thanks, the easy one looks do-able even for me with zero sewing skills.

B - 2 buttery scr eggs, crispy pancetta, courgettes & mushrooms fried in bacon fat. Bacon fat, where have you been all my life?
L - big crunchy salad, hm mayo, pancetta, 2 hb eggs, a few cubes of edam - my favourite cheese, sad but true
D - will be defrosted shepherds pie and kale as it is bedtime stories for DD at school tonight featuring hot chocolate and marshmallows, how kind of them to put all the kids in a room, giddy as anything as it is out of school hours and they have their PJs on, read them a story, fill them full of sugar and then let you take them home for bedtime

Sass Pans before glasses is grounds for divorce, and don't get me started on putting tea towels in with darks

I'm so sorry to have been so absent over the last few days. Bloody work! How dare they keep my diary full.

MN birthday party last night was fun - although I drank far, far too much Champagne (well it was free ), and the food was canapés; I think I only had 5 of them, and I think only one of those would have counted as low carb. Which involved me eating something unmentionable later on in the evening

However, DH is away at the moment, and I have control of the remote and no-one to bother about who might moan about me being on Mumsnet.

Ta da
Post letters
Ds to school
empty dishwasher and put on a cleaning run
put washing machine on a cleaning run with soda crystals
collect recycling together
5 mins decluttering frutility floor
clear out, clean and rearrange shelves in frutility room
rearrange furniture in lounge
collect washing up into kitchen
get rid of the dead flowers
put bathroom bin and my bin in to soak in disinfection liquid
empty on suit bathtub and clean it
put toilet in main bathroom to soak in cleaner
take tea for tomo out of freezer to defrost
Sort out the jam and find missing jars
Half fill in the paperwork for the school trip
Consider the issue of a play for ds to read - An inspector calls is clearly to grown up in material but I think it would probably need to be a similar level
Write shopping list
Collect stuff together for a tip run
Put hand washing in to soak
Air the house out - so nice to get some fresh air in. Will be glad when it warms up a bit though
Consider where the rake for sortingout the gravel drive would be likely to be stored and if I have the energy to play go hunt it
Update the master calendar and my calendar - consider sorting out ds'
Consider the order that things have to be done in and try to resist the stupid urge to wash the upolstery of my car...
Soak in an epsom salt bath
Deal with hand washing
Pop up to next town and do some shopping
Doctors for ds' prescription request
Pharmacist for some ibuprofen gel and paracetamol
2 loads of washing
fold socks
ds' lunch and bag for tomo
Drop scones for tomo's breakfast for ds
speak to ex re easter hols
take out the recycling
move crafting stuff being stored for the mother figure

And that is the end of that, I am ready for bed, ds heading towards bed. Early night is needed I think. night night

Oh shit, sorry wrong thread, you are most definitely not the fledglings

Bloody hell Bitchy you must be knackered

Actually feeling really frustrated that I didn't get more done Totally going to pay for this with burn out for a few days. I really should know better

No, but that sounds like my next free day is going to be Bitchy

I agree about order in all the things stated; XH used to be so orderly though that socks went into the wash paired, tins all faced the right way, dish towels had to hang equally on either side of the rail, any more will out me but apply that level of detail to everything and it is exhausting. My closet slattern has re-emerged somewhat

He was also very fixed in his ideas about what we needed to eat when. It actually took me a while after we split to think - don't need to do that anymore...

In an ideal world, Chester, your H should be happy if you eat the bits of the meal you wish to, he can eat the bits he wants to.

B coconut and flaxseed mix
L 3x hard boiled eggs, Mayo, olives and cheese
D courgette, green beans, bacon and some passata baked
S cucumber sticks and Mayo

Remembered my supplements, had a large soya latte this morning as lacking sleep, walked half an hour.

trash did you use the S&B bra intervention method for measuring? Which is not adding four inches to the band measurement, but using your rib cage measurement as the band size and then adding inches from the difference between that and the boob measurement to get the cup size. Doing it that way made a huge difference to how my bras fit. I hope that makes sense and ignore if not helpful.

X- post, no we are not the fledglings, I meant! I need my bed

Ahem, I have been having wardrobe a sort out and have an embarrassing pile some size 18 clothes going to the charity shop unless any of you lovely ladies would like first dibs. I checked with BIWI and she said it was ok to throw this out there. If anyone is interested I can take pics at the weekend, but we are talking things like Next relaxed skinnies in 3 colours and Capri pants in black, brown, stone, navy and pink , plus tops & dresses various. Preloved but vgc.

Hello all,

Am catching up with the thread, and have only got to Tuesday's posts so far.
MrTrash - well done!

Sadly it will be quite some time before I can hope to join the 11stone club, but I have worked out I am 15st 5lb, (normally work in kg, so this is a revelation). I would be really happy if I could break into the 14 stone zone soon - I am sure I can do it.

Thursdays are a bit of an epic day for me - I usually work a long day, to allow me to have Fridays off. I also got new cleaners 2 weeks ago, which I can honestly say have brought me back from the brink of divorce. I feel a bit sheepish now about my separation announcement , but at the time I was well and truly at the end of my tether and could see no future at all that involved my DH.

Anyway, my (brilliant) cleaners come on a Friday, so on top of my long work day, I have spent most of the evening chasing round, tidying up for them coming. It is worth it though.

I have got 2 weeks to go before we go skiing, so really want to drop a couple of pounds more before we go. Am getting physio to prepare my knees for it.

Aw, Beryl, if your cleaners help things, that is great . No need to feel sheepish, not separating is a good thing if there is a positive way forward. Hope the ski-ing holiday helps too!

Oh, started off meaning to post my food, but got all personal instead...

B: coffee w cream, bacon & poached egg
L: egg mayo with cucumber & sliced peppers
D: 3 cold LC sausages

1 more coffee w cream
cup of tea
bit of water

Charlie thank you for pointing that out so nicely! I'm such an idiot, esp as that is the second time I have put you instead of Chester. All the more embarrassing given that reading and paying attention to details are fairly critical parts of my job!

Beryl a friend of mine says that their cleaners are the reason she and her husband are able to remain married. And that if they had a serious dip in finances she would give up everything else entirely before she would lose the cleaners.

Today food has been crap, not enough fat, too much protein.
B: two boiled eggs, coffee with almond milk
L: egg, ham, chicken, peppers
S: 2x dairy lea strip cheese
D: haddock from the chip shop with batter pulled off and two picked onions, 2 choc truffles

Ah pisses you know me so well i had excellent visions of you having a Sam Fox style cape fuck up reading your post

Lex You wear a bra intentionally in the house???? I just can't... I occasionally panic that all dp sees is some flap titted minger, but he is quite happy with my 'long boobed look'

bitchy Dp has a NeilMed thingy I bought him, because he gets chronic sniffy/nose issues and I can't bear listening to the fucking sniffing. He uses it if he's suffering, and really rates it, although if he's having a sinus flare up it can feel a little uncomfortable at first, but well worth it. On the subject of sock folding, (well, tenuous link really) may I direct you to google 'the crazy russian hacker' who has inspired my dts age ten to fold all of their clothing as if they're in the russian military and then fire their t-shirts at me as they are like bullets.... I'm intrigued at the sewing links. Have decided to properly learn to sew from scratch.

sass I would chop the bastard hands off any one who dared to touch my charger

romey I did not.... I didn't get measured either though, this is my bra purchasing method.

• Collect handful of bras in size 38 E,
• try on first bra on middle hooks with straps adjusted, ensuring bra strap sits in right bit of back. (just below where most people think) Bend at right angle and scoop all of me booby flesh into the cups. Check all available flesh pulled forwards. Stand up. Check middle of wire sitting on breast bone. Feel pleased at fit of cups. Examine large vertical fold of flesh in centre of back, and think, 'bugger, I need a wider back'
• Try on other bras in vain hope its just that one.
• Discover it's not.
• Listen to measuring ladies in other cubicles keep going to get size 28 D for some cunt out there.
• Get handful of bras in 40 E.
• Curse and swear silently.
• Buy four of the bastard things.
• Get drunk
• Look better in my clothes.

I will post photos tomorrow for your delectation.

Charlie I am completely interested in your size 18 cast offs! I will pay postage and everything.

Beryl Thanks on behalf of dp, and congrats cos you are below me weight wise. We can trudge to 11 stone club together. I'm really pleased things are looking up for your marriage. There is no need to feel a fraud, you were bloody finished, and obviously feel better now, which is just lovely.

Food today has been good, but I think I might be getting stuff the wrong way round. So often eat my carbiest meal in the evening.

So today,

B - Boiled eggs mashed with a lot of butter, mayo and fried streaky bacon
L - Piss tiny serving of tuna with mayo and cucumber from fenwicks food hall whilst buying charbonnel and walker chocs for dm and dmil through gritted teeth for Sunday

D - small rump steak, with a large serving of salad (rocket,spinach, half a lil gem, few radish, celery, crumbled feta and kalamata olives with olive oil and vinegar dressing) plus salt and mayo.

just wanted loads of the salad. In all probably a dinner plate full. But then, looking at the actual ingredients, should that matter? I felt fine at the end, not over full....

Drank 3 litres water and a cup of tea.

Gutted but happy about Terry P

Bawled eyes out watching 'stop cutting our girls' - comic relief FGM programme. Very emotional excellent sad telly.

Think that's partly why I'm blethering so epically.

Dp has infected his brand new mac with some kind of Adware virus. He's having an actual panic attack in the other room. I'm unsympathetic as he was doing stupid stuff on torrents. I will take it to the apple genius people tomorrow.

Good night....

Gcalske tomorrow is another day

The thought of the crazy russian hacker makes me twitchy. Folding has to be done just so. I get very twitchy if someone folds it wrong. It gets refolded. Few things annoy me but I am obsessive on how things are folded

trash, your method involves some elements of the S&B intervention method, that is, the bending over and scooping etc, but it is lacking the (surely important?) tape measure. For the record, 28d is smaller than my 11 year old DD who is 5' 1" tall, so you are talking about a petite person or a 'starter' in the next cubicle. You are really tall, if I remember rightly.

So, do some bending over, an under boob measurement and a boob measurement and see if these are (or close) to 40 inches and 45 inches respectively?

Sorry, 40 and 46, I mean, forgot to include DD in my calculation for what 40e would be