Week 7 - Summer Low Carb Bootcamp - are you still with us?!

[BIWI]

Morning all

Here's the spreadsheet - sorry to keep you all waiting!

So we have four full weeks before our final weigh-in - still time to lose half a stone if you stick at it.

Here's to a good week ahead

After dumping a load of coconut oil in my coffee and necking it, I've only just realised
coconut oil is a laxative.

There may be trouble ahead

Oh no I'm of the 'never fart in front of me and I'll never fart in front of you' school of thought too

Just amazed that you have managed not to accidentally let rip when eg bending over! Mind you my legendary gassiness has reduced by about 95% on this WOE.

Giving birth in front of your partner makes all the mystery disappear for sure. I pooed in the birth pool and made a joke about who had the net At least the midwifes took me away to be stitched up in private!

9 years before a public digestive event? We lasted all of 9 hours. Me (uproariously (so I thought!) pissed). Chucking them down merrily while flirting with STBDH, who I'd met about an hour previously. 5 hours later he had to take me home, hold my hair while I vomited, barely made it out of the bathroom to give me some privacy before the other end started, then sat up with me all night while I alternately wept, demanded to sign the pledge and vomited. That was nearly 35 years ago (child bride, obviously!)

Sounds so romantic cherries

I'm lying in bed really wanting to binge. I feel like shit.

I've washed my hair and moisturised my legs and trying to think of other ways to take care of myself this evening which doesn't involve carbs. Help!!

It helps at least that I know this will pass and I know binging would only help temporarily. I know it would make me feel shit tomorrow.

Can you have a cheese binge instead?

Dust I've cancelled going out tonight so am spending this evening 'pampering', always sounds like I'm wearing nappies, and am going to burn my most luscious candles - not to dispel any remaining noxious gas, oh no!- and binge on Gypsy on Netflix.

Am on the tea rather than my usual wine and I've done a little plate of some cucumber, cheese and olives.

Am also looking at what will be my new wardrobe once I've lost the rest of this weight. I find it very motivating.

I'm really sorry for those of you who had reduced libido on anti-depressants. My experience was true, but I didn't mean to gloat!

I feel honour-bound to post this

Enjoy.

I once pulled a muscle in my stomach after eating too much Thornton's diabetic toffee. Just saying ...

No cheese in the house plymouth

The cravings are luckily passing. So just hanging on in there. And sasha i think i have a pack of olives in actually

Those reviews are hilarious Biwi

I'm currently mulling over what to wear tomorrow -got a hen do, starting mid afternoon in an escape room and then dinner and cocktails, no idea what will be appropriate/ footwear etc!

Bloated and hungry today! Not alcohol related so not sure what's going on
B: blueberries and fage
L: salad with crispy fried broccoli and a fried chicken thigh (with smoked paprika and chilli powder)
D: my spinach kofta curry ended in Ghostbusters suitable mush, but I saved the sauce and turned it into a prawn/veg/peanut/coconut curry that was lovely. So lovely I'm going to post the recipe.

1. (May be skipped) burn fluorescent green mush and throw in bin
2. Rescue sauce comprised of 2 chopped fresh tomatoes, 5 or 6 chopped eschalon shallots, large piece of chopped ginger, handful of peanuts and 4 big chopped garlic cloves. This has been frying in ~40ml of vegetable oil
3. Add 1 tsp of each coriander powder and cumin powder, 2tsp of garam Masala, 1/4 tsp of tumeric and 1/4 to 1/2 tsp of chilli powder. Add salt. Cook for 5 mins or so until the oil accumulated at the edges.
4. Add a tin of ff coconut milk and a squeeze of lemon juice and take off the heat. Blend until the peanuts are still a bit crunchy (or to taste)
5. Put back on cooker and heat sauce. Add chopped green pepper, chopped green beans and 2 pierced green chillies. Cook until veg nearly soft
6. Add bag of frozen prawns and heat through
7. Add chopped coriander and another squeeze of lemon. Add more salt if needed.

7.Eat. lots of it

S. 2 squares 90% chocolate, handful saluted pecans

I have just eaten half a bar of dark choc in desperate need to calm myself down. I just cannot get DD2 to sleep when DH is not around. He is home late tonight after a trip and this is the 3rd night of protracted bedtime stress. DD2 is still up and crawling around the living room, I just gave up on trying to get her to sleep. I feel like such a shitty parent, I lost my temper and shouted at them both, I can't even get my little girl to sleep. I know chocolate isn't going to solve this problem but I just needed to calm down and it helps me do that. Not even sure why I am writing this to you all just wanted to reach out to grown ups having had all playdates today fall through and not seen other grown ups all day except for half an hour with PILs which was depressing as my FIL was saying how he needs to diet as he is 13 stone and here I am at 15.9 stone, heavier than a 6 foot man with a beer belly

*salted

Its all relative books
I'm 5'6 and a good stone heavier than you. My toddler sleeps ok but has a bad habit of pushing the other kids around. Nursery keep having words. I bet both you and your DD have wonderful traits you could concentrate on as a kind of reset.
(And if FIL has a beer belly he may well be more unhealthy as a result of his weight than you are)

Oldbook snap! DH out and kids refusing to sleep, DS2 has finally fallen asleep, but DS1 is still awake, although is currently staying in bed at least. I have also shouted. I find bedtime so hard after being with them on my own all day, I'm so ready for a break in the evening.

Wow! Who needs laxatives when you can get Sugar Free Gummy Bears.
Don't ever eat a whole tube of sugar free polos either.
Or those evil little boxes of M & S sugar free sweets. Butterscotch are the worst.

Oldbooks my twins are 20 months and we both find it difficult to get them to bed. One in particular was coming to bed with me at 10pm. DH was driving me crazy as he didn't seem to mind!!! Since being back from holiday however it seems to have mucked up this pattern and they are tired earlier. So I'm still battling for an 8pm bedtime with dh going oh they're not tired just another 10 minutes . You just need that hour or so in the evening for your sanity I think

my FIL was saying how he needs to diet as he is 13 stone and here I am at 15.9 stone, heavier than a 6 foot man with a beer belly

OldBooks, I have a connection with American sports so stayed up in January 2016 to watch the Super Bowl.

During the pre-game commentary, while they featured the players and their statistics, I learned that I weighed more than an NFL Linebacker.

#proudmoment #feelingyourpain

#namastebitches !!!!

oldbook and star there must be something in the air, my dh is out tonight on his leaving drinks and it took me well over an hour to get d's to bed, ice been out on a trip all day and shattered, sunburnt and hungry..finally got him to sleep and then had to read dd a story before I could get dinner.
He won't go to sleep without a bf and then me cuddled up to him, with his hand on my boob.. I'm still feeding him morning (5am!) And evening and I'm desperate for him to stop.
Today I did ok, considering I had a long day again, af started this morning, and was in Brighton...no ice creams, no chips, no doughnuts...proud of myself!
B. High protein roll and egg.
L. Salad, chicken, cocktail sausages
D. Omelette
S. Got chorizo crisps and just had a bit of dark choc with hazelnuts.
Glass of red, really need it, been a long week!

Thanks all both finally asleep and I have a cup of camomile tea and catching up with Doctor Who finale. Kids are hard work, eh? I put a lot of pressure on myself to be a "good mum" (whatever that means) probably because mine messed me up and I am terrified of doing it to my girls. Tonight I didn't meet my good mum standards

Comparison is the thief of joy isn't it! Although does anyone else get incredulity when you tell people your weight? People don't believe I am so heavy from looking at me

jim glad you are getting some help and so quickly too. Your gp sounds excellent. I can't remember if you've said you've tried this before but if not have you thought about a course of CBT? Your gp may be able to arrange it or you could find out if your employer has an Employee Assistance Programme which would give you free and confidential access to health services like this.

Thanks for all the poo stories everyone. Had me chuckling but I know I shouldn't. I have never got over the embarrassment of pooing during childbirth. Midwives were not phased at all as they see it every day. I welcomed my newborn baby into a room that stank of shit. The young student doctor who was observing could not contain her disgust though she did try. I kept apologising I was so ashamed. That memory is one I wish I could change. Sorry that's not even a funny story!

cleareyes I'm really sorry to hear what happened to you when you were young. That's such an awful experience to have its no wonder it has had an effect on you long term.

My reasons for being fat if I think about them are greed, hormones, always having to clear my plate as a child, and comfort eating through having an ongoing shitty and stressful life, having poor self esteem due to bullying at school and then by my H for many many years. I was never worth being taken care of. Being fat I was worth even less. I self medicated with sugar and so on. It becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Not any more. This is the new improved me and I'm only going to get better, fitter, slimmer and healthier.

C4 how are you doing today?