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

Week 8 chat thread is here

@C4pinkwheels I'm so sorry I have no words of advice for your situation, as I have no clue how I would handle it. However, I just wanted to say please don't take MNHQ's action personally - even if it's very difficult not to - please understand that it's their policy and they apply this one very strictly. And I'd like to echo everyone else here in saying how much I value your contributions - please don't disappear, please keep posting. I hope in some very small way we can help you at least feel better, and supported. There's a small corner of the internet that's rooting for you and sending you lots of healing vibes.

@C4pinkwheels please don't stop posting. We are all here for you and we want you to keep posting please. I didn't see your post and I'm sorry it was deleted but it wasn't personal

Don't go C4. If this thread brings you a little bit of light, hold onto it. I know it's hard to fight back when you're feeling low, but don't take the deletion personally, it's just business. Come back soon.

C4 you've shown more courage in the last few days than I think I've had to use my entire life. Please don't leave! Personally I find you an inspiration. It makes me power on and Koko. You've been under an enormous physical toll this week and that must leave you very low even without the step-fuckers to contend with. How old are they? Can they leave? Your dh really really needs to address this. In any case. Don't give up. They'll fly the nest soon uni or whatever and you can just not see them. I understand this isn't really what you want but you need to think of yourself. 😘

C4 Don't go.
Your long post wasn't wasted. I read it, as I'm sure a few of us (other night owls) did.
How I saw it was that 'MN have to follow the rules and their comments weren't anything personal.

Have you got your appetite back yet?
I finished my egg fast last night so I'm also in a bit of a quandary as to what to ear.

I need ideas!

I hope you're ok c4, please don't go.
I also didn't read it as MNHQ being personal- just that they have a policy which they had to follow and they wanted to explain themselves. I also didn't think they were trying to get you to leave this safe space- think they were just making a suggestion which was obviously slightly ill judged. Please stay here and offload to us, we are all here as moral support to each other and

Oh and C4

When you're feeling up to it (and only then). Get your ass over on Week 8!

You're an inspiration to a lot of us and we need you as much as you say you need us !

The Namaste Bitches have spoken! xxx

I didn't see your post C4 but I hope you're feeling more positive now it's morning. You give as much to this group as you receive and there are quite a few of us that you have personally helped to get through a tough time. Your generous spirit shines through in your posts and I'm saddened to see it being dampened by your step-kids. It is despicable that they are taking advantage of your illness to further their own spiteful agenda. I hope you can focus on yourself and your recovery and rise above this difficult situation.

Don't go C4 . I read your deleted post - it wasn't wasted. Honestly, apart from the fact that I'm going on holiday in 5 weeks, you are one of the reasons I am KOKO. I've been a bit of a carby twat these last few days and have been ready to say 'Gah. Fuck it'. Today is the start of a new week and I think to myself 'if C4 can do it, then so can I' .

We need you on the 'between BC' support thread too. Someone needs to tell us off (apart from BIWI) and remind us TO THINK OF OUR COLONS when we don't eat our veggies .

C4 Do not go anywhere! You are needed here, I get so much inspiration from you. Your posts and amazing attitude are one of the reasons I read this thread.

I saw your post and can appreciate how hard it was to write and open up like that. You have been through so much and don't deserve this treatment from the skids. But remember you have people who care and love you, your kids, your husband, your bootcamp bitches.

I really think you should see if you can get your therapy re-started, both for yourself, but also the couples counselling, your DH obviously wants to stick by you, but there are clearly issues with the ex and skids that need to be talked about, even if they can't be sorted.

Take care

C4. You have so many difficulties in your life I'm not surprised you are feeling so fragile. Do you have help from your local mental health service. I really think you and your DH need therapy again and support. Be kind to yourself.