Week 8 - Summer Low Carb Bootcamp - two months almost done ...

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Morning all

Here's the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness once more

So the finish line is almost in sight. I see from the last thread that some of you have been struggling to stay on track - just three more weeks to go, so stay focused.

That 'it's only one piece of bread/one glass of beer' moment really isn't worth it. Been there, got the t-shirt.

If you're bored with the food - there are two things that could help you. Firstly, think back to the last time you were doing a low calorie/low fat diet - how awful was it to have to scavenge the shelves looking for something low calorie enough, and how often were you eating food that didn't actually taste that nice, but delivered only on the basis of being low calorie? Rice cakes that might as well be polystyrene ceiling tiles, for example!

And then go and read the recipe thread for some inspiration, and find something new to cook. There's nothing on there that's difficult to do.

I'd also say that I see a lot of you are trying to recreate things that are high carb - pizza or bread, for example. These things are very unlikely to be the same, or as nice, as the high carb versions. And all the time you're trying to recreate something you're missing, you're just reminding yourself that you're missing something!

So try not to do this, but focus on things that are beautifully low carb and that you can enjoy for their own taste and benefits.

Here's to a successful week for us all.

That's a relief for you c4

I had some really sad news today. It's been a very, very hard day. All day long I've been fighting off a binge. I haven't given in. I gave myself a really nice supper - smoked salmon and scrambled eggs and strawberries with some of an amazing pouch of passion fruit innards which you can get at M&S plus a salad. So I'm trying my best. It feels really hard though. My brain is telling me that one serving of frozen yogurt won't hurt but will make me feel better. I know that's not true. It will make me feel better for a bit and then worse tomorrow and I don't want to feel any worse.

Just have to KOKO and find other ways of taking care of myself. Bought myself a small non-food present online which has helped a tiny but but I feel very full of grief.

Really sorry to hear you've had sad new dust

Thank you ASD It has come as a huge shock so it will take me some time to get to grips with it. I have good friends at least so they're checking up on me. I have had a tough enough month that I feel ground down already so it's not the best timing.

Very sorry to hear your sad news, dustmotes.

Life is glorious, the world is wonderful, but there is also much pain.

Decades ago there was a book called The Road Less Travelled by M Scott Peck. It was a self-help book, if you will, and began with this paragraph:

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult - once we truly understand and accept it - then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters."

I try to remember this daily.

That's very appropriate cleareyes I've felt that's true since I was pretty young. I do think it helps to say that difficult is normal to a large extent. I'd just like life to ease up on me a little. It's been tough for a very long time for me. I need a bit of a break

Anyway, am really so proud of myself not giving in with food. That's huge for me every time it happens. I like to think it means I'm going to get there with losing the weight. Fingers crossed. That in itself would be a wonderful thing that would make me very happy.

Sorry, I don't think those words were particularly helpful, in retrospect. I do think it shows real resilience that you're still making good choices for yourself and being thoughtful about your choices. I admire you.

Whoops. Cross post.

Dustmotes I'm so sorry you've had sad news today. Please don't give in to the binge it will just make the sadness worse
You've been really strong, dig deep and KOKO

Hi all.

Yay for little Alfie

Hugs for Dust.

I am feeling horribly fat after a whole holiday of carby testiness and I cannot bloody wait to get back in it. Last day tomorrow.

I just lost a post. Anyway, just wanted to say well done jim you are doing brilliantly even if you think you aren't. dust I'm so sorry you've had bad news. If you want to a share it with us please feel you are amongst friends. If not that's fine. You are also doing so well making good food choices when it's extra hard to do so.

And C4 you seem to be a bit chipperer today! Fabulous! Great news about the baby. And your DGC are lucky you are so involved. It must be hard not seeing them in person very often. I can't imagine someone making as much effort as you. The little parcels- genius! I second the monkey book. My DC love it and it comes with two little stuffed monkeys to role play with. It's rhyming too and I think the 6 yr old might like it.

Dust so sorry for your sadness. I would advise filling up on LCHF to make sure you're not tempted by the wrong things. Even if it's a little more than you would normally have, if you feel satisfied the emotional pull of comfort food will be weaker. Lovely quote ClearEyes.

OliversMummy, I don't think having tofu once every week or two will be as bad as having almond milk probably daily. You have to eat something.

C4 I think hearing the GC read school books daily is brilliant, you are really part of their daily lives.

Chin up Dust, sorry life is crap right now.

Gah, should say soya milk not almond.

Dust sorry to hear that you had sad news, tremendous respect for KOKO in difficult circumstances.

And everyone else, you lot are all awesome, this is such a warm and supportive thread, thank you all.

I have that book, Cleareyes you have encouraged me to read it again.

Sorry, I'm posting while sorting out restless DCs! To clarify, I'm not advocating you sabotage things Dust, I just find a creamy coffee or a small bowl of Total can save me from disaster on an emotionally difficult day. I suppose this is still emotional eating so not ideal, but better than the alternative when things are tough. Hope that makes sense

Dust Sorry to hear you've had sad news. Well done for not letting it derail your eating though. I'm glad you've got the support of friends in RL.

Naschkatz im sure they would be great especially for joint story times with their cousins here some of whom are much younger.

Jiminny you can shut mrs Cambridge bitch diet down so easily, you have a brain the size of a planet, I loved your analysis of the fat melting pills, just waffle some of that at her.
I had a morbidly obese friend who did Cambridge she even sat with her bowl of cup a slop while her whole family tucked into a massive Christmas dinner.
She lost 7 stone getting down to a size 22 in time for her 50th birthday. It took her less than 14 months to put it all back on plus an extra 2 stone for good measure.
So do please tell her really enthusiastically that you have a friend (me) who knows someone who lost a life changing 7 stone on Cambridge, make her believe that you really think Cambridge is the holy grail. Flesh it out with "people who came to her 50th couldn't believe the transformation, she looked fabulous" etc etc. Wait....wait.... smug smile spreads across Cambridge bitches face...wait, reach for a delicious snack, waft it around a bit and say "14 months later she had to spend a fortune on new clothes" take a big bite, lick your lips, make satisfying noises, Cambridge bitch is floating on fake shake fart air at this point and then, with your best resting bitch face say "because she had put on 9 stone". Job done go to the toilet and laugh out loud and post of here of course.
I want my Jiminny back you haven't told me you love me for at least two weeks. I think love you a little bit xx

DH has come home in a foul mood because he's been told by company chairman that he has to take over driving global sales because the market sector they are in is really tough right now. He's peed off because he doesn't want to do it. It's got huge implications for me because he will be jetting all over the world probably twenty plus overseas trips a year. It's not doing much for my anxiety right now. < reaches for diazepam >

Crisis team came and want to come every day for two weeks, they especially want to speak to DH at the weekend.

I've done rubbish at eating again today:

B creamy coffee
L nothing
D 1 slice of gammon, small pice of cheese, half a celery stick and a piece of cucumber.

I guess the positive I can take from this is that I haven't been a carby twat

Aw you guys! Dust, C4, Jiminny. Lashings of bootcamp love to each and all of us.

Plymouth it's not just reading, I supervise breakfast too, DGD1 "get the bowls and spoons" DGD2 get the cereal and milk" etc etc. My DD stays out of the kitchen because it's our special time. We were there in Dec/Jan it was the best time ever we took them away for a few days, bought DGD 1 a new pony for her birthday, it was heavenly.

This is the view we had from our bedroom, it was the height of their summer but they live at the base of a glacier.

Style I think I'm going to have to stick with a one piece

Me too.
I'm back from bikini shopping. I think I left it a bit too late.
There's only the crap candyfloss bikinis left.

My days of being able to get away with wearing those are well and truly over.
These days I need the heavy duty, strap em in and hoist em up ones. (more like proper bras than bikinis)

I found 2 but they had sold out of my size.

I knew shopping for a bikini would put me in a bad mood.

That's a stunning view. My fear is that my kids will grow up and move far far away. Selfish of me. And i wouldnt ever try and stop them but it would make me sad not to see them very often.

Yay for little Alfie
Hugs for Dust

Ditto.
(makes my bikini woes seem so trivial! )

style try john lewis. And online at brastop, bravissimo, debenhams and figleaves. The freya brand is good.

Thanks for the suggestions YoLo

Style mine is** last years secret slimming ruched affair (to try and disguise my natural ruching) from M&S. It's ok. Disclaimer: I'm not very stylish
Also, this years prints are pretty grim.