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

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Morning all.

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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.

I'm still here but haven't been posting much. Only 1ib off the target I set myself to hit by the end of bootcamp! but have realised that actually, I still have 5 or so ibs to go in reality.

I settled for a barely drinkable no milk in it coffee :( I am suffering some sort of virus that is affecting my sinuses and neck so I am probably just feeling miserable anyway. Doubt there is much point in seeing the GP though as there is no green gunk, which appears to be the normal criteria for anything other than the oh you must steam advice Might speak to my lovely physio and see if he can help with the slipped shoulder though.

Trash, sounds like you have the wrong bra for you. I have just got a new one, my flat chested dd said I should just have used two bicycle helmets. It is so comfortable I can't feel it when I wear it. No one looks good undressed in a changing room unless you are very young. Some of my beautiful thin friends have bodies that are far from perfect. They dress to their strengths. Remember to stand up straight and you will always look better if you smile. PS are you still writing your book

bitchy have you tried a sinus rinse? Horrible (think going underwater in the swimming pool) but feels great afterwards. I'm on my 2nd round of antib's for a sinus thing I've had off and on since before Xmas - but the rinse seems to be finally shifting it. It's made by a company called 'Neil med'.

I will have a look into it, unfortunately I am super hypersensitive to meds and a few really nasty reactions recently to prescription meds has made me incredibly wary of anything new.

2 breakfasts to get loads of fat in, green smoothie and a BPC - i actually missed them, although green smoothies still taste like grass!
Feeling very full. Hoping that what i read about coconut oil helping you get back into ketosis quickly is true.

Agent has just had to cancel sat and has re booked for monday, so that atleast gives me more time to get jobs done, however now i will actually be a client she has advised me the price should be £10 000 less than she originally said!

It's just a bottle you use to sqoosh water up your nose. It comes with sachets of salts to make sure the water is sterile. Loosens everything. Good luck. X

Chester I would just eat the ok things and decline the rest, you could have a few berries and cream for pudding. I would 100% not give a shit if he was offended, he knows what you're doing and should respect it. It's not a real treat unless it genuinely takes you into consideration, so in my view you are the one who has every right to be put out. (sorry if that sounds a bit harsh, it really pisses me off when men do 'grand gestures' which actually don't really consider our interests and then get miffed if they don't get a bloody medal - ExH I'm looking at you ).

Trash you will get there, keep focusing on the goal.

Ah thanks for the reassurance Gcalgske Hot oat bag on my shoulders has made a huge difference to the pain in my neck so lovely physio it is for that. And a hot bath when I can evict the boxes of stuff waiting to be decluttered. Bicarb/bleaching the shower in a bit too so that should help with the old clear out

I'm with charlie chester. I would not sabotage just so he can feel great about doing you a good turn. That's not the point of mother's day is it?! Tell him all the things you will eat and I agree, add berries to the cream.

Im still eating loads. I am a slave to my emotions and I hate it. I can never be on an even keel. I'm the same with everything, cleaning, eating, motivation, sleeping, mning. Sometimes I can do loads of everything and then the next I can't do any of it. It's like someone sucked the energy/life out of me. It bugs me to death.

I use to do the salt rinse thing gcal I got a little bottle with a pipette from the chemist, mixed a salt water solution and whoosed it up for my rhinitis.

Thanks Charlie and Sass, I have had a word row with him about it this morning and he's agreed to do some things I can actually eat. His justification is that I've had a few meals off here and there, twice when eating out and once she I had awful PMT and needed chips, and he assumed mothers day would be one of those times. I do feel ungrateful and quite down about it all TBH but I'm sure I'll get over it.

Don't feel bad Chester you decide if you go off piste, for your own reasons, not to suit others. My DH feels bad about not doing any cooking at the moment, not because he loves cooking but because I'm doing it mostly and he's uncomfortable with it - but it's easier for me than giving him a list of instructions about how things must be done, so it's just how it is - he can take me out if he feels too badly (but only if I agree the place ), blimey I sound like a total harridan, but it's so important to me and it won't be this strict for ever.

I'm lucky in that sense charlie. My dp has read/watched loads and agrees with it, so he's following it too.

Sass I find it's not so much mine doesn't agree with it, but I'm all into detail - so e.g. If I make an alternative mash I whizz it in the food processor whereas DH uses the spud masher to save on clearing up - mine is so much nicer and if I can't have proper mash I want the best possible alternative. I also often cook some of my veg in butter separately, where he will bang it all in the steamer to save on pans, and add a knob of butter later. The bugger of it is he does the clearing up either way

Oh thanks guys, I do feel marginally less flat today, and the kind words really really help

pleaseandthankyou I am still writing, slowly but surely. And the bra is actually fine I realise, unless I'm trying to do 'lounging' I've been wearing ones like the picture I took (soft crop tops basically) so a return to wired was always going to be a shock to the system.

afternoon all, been doing an application if they knew how long it had taken me I'd never work again.

Bitchy try salty warm water, its a bit ruff but snort it over the sink, will help with your sinuses.

Trashy give yourself a break you've ill and been broken, bit of a rest perhaps a glass of something this weekend in the sun (that I'm praying for) and then slowly back into it next week. I would love to give you bra advice but have a feeling you might tell me to F-off But chin up, suck it up, and get on with it as you know you can do this.

back on the yogurt .ummm and cream and hitting the fatty belly pork in a big way, under two weeks until my big run and a rest, then end of bootcamp and a week of martial arts convention that I want to make a big impact "Ta-Dah" at SO..I.. MUST.. REACH... GOAL!!!!!!!!

So
B. yogurt + cream
L. Ham and cheese omelette, salad
D. Pork belly swede
lots and lots of water

mrsk sorry to hear you have flu, I had it over Christmas (brilliant timing eh? we had turkey sandwiches for Christmas lunch as that is all I could manage) and it was horrible, felt so weak and vulnerable, good job your DH is going to be around this weekend as if it is flu proper you will need complete bed rest, guilty pleasure TV on a constant stream and fluids on a regular basis, took me about a week to get over it - hope for your sake it is a bad cold, there is an easy test: quick the house is on fire, can you be bothered getting up and going outside? if the answer is 'no' then it is flu!

trash glad you are feeling a little better today, keep on looking forward. PS I have 'house' bras, ones that are comfy and completely broken in just like you switch from outdoor clothes to housepants, switch your bra as well.

bitchy +1 for the neilmed sinus rinse, better than the netipots. Actually my sinuses are a lot better after switching to this WOE and DH used to have what we suspected was GERD as would 'croak' and 'cough' a lot while eating and that has completely gone away - he was about to see a specialist but now there is no need

Well having read about how everyone else is feeling I actually feel a little guilty about feeling so great today but going to post anyway, not to rub it in but to add something positive to the mix. Got my first 'you are losing weight' comment from a colleague yesterday; my face looks more defined, my tummy does look flatter(ish) and I needed to add a belt to my work outfit today as the waistband on my skirt was sitting on my hips, not quite ready to fall down around my ankles but not a good look. I need to learn how to take skirts in as don't want to buy any yet and a belt will only do so much, there is a certain about of 'bunching' going on as it is.

Lex - there are some excellent you tube videos, and I know I have pinned some on pinterest from there. I will see what I find if I can get 5 mins before bedtime. It is ds' computer time evening so I suspect access will be limited until he goes to bed

bitchy that would be great thanks

Charlie, I agree with the others. As lovely as it is of your DH to think of cooking a nice meal for you, he really has to think about what you want to eat, not just what he fancies cooking / eating himself. Otherwise it isn't done with you as the real focus.

My DH struggles a little with me drinking so much less now. He is really proud of me doing this WOE and being so committed to it, and really wants to help me lose weight as he know how much I hate being overweight (and that I am a little less 'me' because I am unhappy being overweight). But at the same time he wants me to join him for a glass of wine more often than I want to drink! Sometimes I think he gets a bit 'caught' between the two conflicting pulls, IYKWIM. Plus he loses weight / maintains his healthy weight so easily, so I think he still can't quite understand how hard it is for me, despite being such a terrific DH. I can see how hard it would be to really understand being over weight / struggling to diet if your body burns fat properly without much thought or effort!

Has your DH read any of the literature around this WOE? Maybe the Gary Taubes article in the New York Times, as a fairly short summary? I've got mine reading the Why we get Fat book at the moment, just so he can understand all the ins and outs and the science of what I am doing.

Sorry, just realised my post was completely lacking in actual useful suggestions for dealing with the situation!

Perhaps just eating the bits you can, as someone else already suggested, and adding in berries to the cream. Would it work if you gave your DH a straight forward BC friendly recipe for a side dish or sauce he could make, to add to what he has planned already?

I am also not keeping up well this time. Mostly because I am still not kicking the alcohol habit.

However, I am staying on track with my meals; but slipped and hit a small bush with a few squares of 85% G&B dark chocolate today.

Today:
B - nothing
L - lump of cheese, stick of celery with Boursin
D - butter-fried salmon with lemon, dill and coriander coating, broccoli, and garlic-butter-fried courgette and mushrooms. Avoided anything dessert like until the 85% chocolate. Glass of white wine spritzer (with sparkling mineral water)

I'm still at the 162lb mark, which is amazing because today when I looked in the mirror I could see my jawline/neck had thickened again - and that is my biggest trigger, even more than the muffin top.

Big sympathies to everyone else struggling and slipping - it shouldn't be so hard to stay on this WOE, and in general it isn't, but once I've slipped then the "taste" for chocolate comes back massively to bug me every day. Takes a LOT to shift it again. :(

Bitchy - do you take vit D? May I suggest you start if not? Vit D is often forgotten in the list of immune-system support supplements, and it's also often below-desirable levels, thanks to changes in food production and fat reduction. Of course, on this WOE we are eating the fat; but that doesn't help with the food-source reduction factor. Although the general health recs say 1000IU/d, people who are in the know about the importance of vit D would suggest 3000IU instead. Can't easily buy it at that level, I don't think (thanks, fucking EU bastards!) but can just take multiples of 1000IU tabs. Or there is a sublingual spray that contains 3000IU per hit out there.

how to fix gaping jeans

stick with this one, how to add darts - part of a bigger set of instructions for making a skirt.

easy with pictures instructions

not great but instructions on how to take in trousers with non bulky material

Right ds is home and that is the end of my break, I have and entire basket of socks to pair hence the procrastination. Hate pairing socks. Shame ds won't entertain the idea of mismatched socks and I am a little obsessive with how they are folded

Already take a certain amount of vit d with my calcium tablets. I am deficient in calcium so on a huge dose of that. on 1000ug of vit C atm along with Vit B complexes and a multi vitamin. Not got a great digestive system and bad eating habits means I rattle with all the suppliments and meds I am on atm. But I am better than I was. Neck appears to be more muscular than sinus, which is what was bothering me most. I have some ibuprofen gel and had a hot bath which helped. Stress is probably a contributing factor and working on reducing that.

B:2 eggs poached (poaching tin in butter)
L: broccoli and butter

I have salad that needs eating up so aiming for that for tea and will probably snack on something before bed. Will be feeling it this evening. I have spent more energy than I have today. I need to sort out my emotional eating. It is where I am slipping on this.

imust it was Chester whose DH went off and bought the sticky toffee pud - all under control here. My DH is type 2 diabetic, he totally gets the food, he just can't be arsed with faffing around doesn't apply the same attention to detail as me