Keeping on keeping on until the new bootcamp

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Thought I'd better start a new thread whilst we while away the the time till the new bc starts and continue with Super Strict September.
link to last thread

How about a multivitamin instead user. Berocca is just vit C and other vits iirc. You don't need the sweet effervescent effect to get the active ingredients

YoLo when I looked at the ingredients that I could find the tablets seemed to have a higher carb content plus I thought that some of the vitamins in it are better absorbed in fluid form. B vitamins are supposed to be good for energy aren't they so I assumed they would be more effective in a drink.

I guess it depends how much cream you put in, YoLo. I only have one a day but I like it quite creamy, plus too much caffeine gives me a racing heart.

Well I need hitting with a couple of very big sticks and kicking in my very large arse.

Carby twat. Alcohol twat. A glass of fizz and a glass of wine. Fish and chips although I only had a couple of chips.

And that was just lunch.

Then came home and had more wine and carbs. DH did a curry. Had rice. And samosa and onion bhaji. And more wine. And cheese and crackers.

I have zero willpower when out.

Beat me now.

Tempus lol at the frosted brown glass

Cider I will join you in the carby twatness. I went to a dinner party celebrating the Jewish new year last night, and had wine, a lot of crisps before dinner, roast potatoes x a million, carby veg (carrots, peas, etc.) and traditional apples and honey plus a lot of honey cake, which is basically honey honey and more honey bound together with spices and a bit flour, oil and eggs. I went with good intentions but the wine was my undoing as my willpower seems to evaporate. Could that be the same in your case? I'm not a big drinker but think I'm going to need to abstain until Christmas with the exception of my bday, as I then think "ooh, why yes I will eat x, y, z" after just 1 glass. It's doubly frustrating as understandably, the scale has popped up and I am JUST over the edge of 14st and really want to get into the 13st bucket and have been hovering over it for ages.

Grah if this isn't an impertinent question, how come you're having all these blood tests? Did I read that you were in some sort of study? Obviously please do ignore me if I've overstepped and hope I've not offended you. I'd be curious to know my own levels but wouldn't know where to start.

Cider and mimosa you've done it now. It's done. Move on. Get back on the bootcamp wagon. Visualise seeing lower numbers on the scale, wearing the clothes you want etc.

Starsky - took your advice this morning and had breakfast. Hangover made it appealing!

Has anyone else got a dehydrator? I just tried doing thinnish slices of aubergine, and they’ve crisped up nicely - will be great as biscuits for cheese or for dips.

Yesterday was BC lite - drank too much but it was dry fizzy wine at least. Food-wise also more than usual as DH returned from business trip, but kept it low carb.

L: crayfish salad
D: crepinettes (French rissole things, no rusk or anything, just meat & offal), creamy cheesy mashed cauliflower, asparagus, home-made gravy (just reduced stock).

grumpy I own a dehydrator. Though it is currently living with the people who supply my veg boxes as they borrowed it. Interesting idea with the aubergine crackers!
Picked this book up in a charity shop earlier when I dropped off a load of clothes. Cost me pennies (6 books and a scarf for 65p!). I'll see how helpful it is and let you all know.

Lunch (11am, brunch?) was a bowl of bolognese with soured cream and a little grated cheese mixed in. Yum.
Dinner will be fathead pizza!

I just want to EAT today. Aaaaaargggh.

To paraphrase Gammeldagfinder #myPMTcanpissrightoff

YoLo first question is are you having single cream or double cream with your coffee? Double cream has significantly fewer carbs.

I'd try keeping first and last coffees if you must (absolutely understand the need for a morning jolt of caffeine that some people have though you really don't need it ) but try drinking water instead of the other 1-2 creamy coffees per day.

You must up your water intake.

Hi Gammeldags,

Mimosa1 done 3 tests

1. annual check up got results today. - Little high- a lot better than previous years But... a quick, "I'll see you next year then" stopped the drug talk.
2. U of Manitoba Study, I could earn about $1,000 dollars eating garlic, but blood pressure not high enough for study.

1. On a Canadian lifestyle study following thousands over 35 years. See if they can correlate lifestyle into medical factors that help in the future. They do wide range of test every 3 years, so a long slow progressing research. But also gives them a pool of people to ask questions about anything related to aging.

Stuntnun will drop you a line, thank you.
Found another name Chicharrones will be trying this
chicharrones recipe using pork belly,

And a very small SV only .3 but at least it was 197, halving the mayo worked. So hopefully will get portion control into life style, soon.

KOKO - it's day 1 of the rest of your life.

Grah that Chicharonnes recipe looks amazing, I may try that. I have deep fried pork belly in lard before which was pretty awesome.

I agree. grah The recipe looks total wow and I'm salivating reading the description.

Yes cleareyes it is double cream and I have a dollop . Probably a tablespoon full but I don't measure it. It's not the carb count as such but the calories I think might be doing me in. Maybe I am eating more than I'm using up in energy. I don't count calories so I wouldn't know. I could start tracking my food with an app but I'm not starting to weigh portions and do that shit at this stage. It's too much hassle and obsessy for my liking. This woe is great for simple basic rules which I stick to (bc/bc lite occasionally). Since this bc, I dont drink, eat bread, rice, pasta or cakes, pizza, pastries, fruit or sweets any more. My vices are creamy coffees and a little dark choc 2 or 3 times a week. The odd berry. Most of my food is cooked from scratch. I'm just wondering if I should cut something out and the obvious indulgence is the creamy coffees please don't say the dark chocolate. Don't want to fall headlong into craving cake though!! Ive had a long stall before so im not overly worried. Perhaps I will cut them down to 2 a day and see. I could drink more fruit tea: fluids and no caffeine!

mimosa and cider... Oh dear!!!! What I think helped me loads was looking at this woe as a lifestyle change. Not a diet. I made the decision at the start as to what I wouldn't eat so the decision is not a daily choice or dilemma for me. I just stick to my original decision to eat well and healthy as part of looking after myself. If I ate all the crap used to, then I would be letting myself down, and it would be a form of self harming because it would make me feel like shit both physically and emotionally, and would damage my body by making me fatter and heavier. I would be full of guilt and regret and hating myself. I need to live myself and look after myself. This woe is one way in which I can achieve this. And it's totally in my control. I no longer view eating cake as a treat or a reward. It is a poison that will only harm me in the shoet and long term. This perspective really helps me. And it's hard when you are fighting against a childhood of bad food association and then 30 years of dieting/failing/emotional eating/ getting fatter cycle. The key to this WOE for me at least was understanding WHY I ate all the sugar. Then it was easy not to.

Koko. You are worth it. Think about what BIWI is an acronym for and why she cares so much to motivate us all shove that stick up our arses !

I just moved from calorie counting using MFP to low carb. It is now day three & I am really struggling with low carb flu. Feel like death & very low energy. Any suggestions?

Moan, drink bullion, eat fat, drink your water. It passes :)

YoLo, I absolutely agree. I haven't been off piste since the day I started four months ago. I knew I couldn't cope with daily will I/won't I/ oh, fuck it, once won't hurt etc. I accepted it was probably going to have to be a change for life, and there would be fomenting I just wouldn't eat. Now I'm pretty much impervious to food other than what's on plan.

Fomenting = some things.

@YoLoGammelZammoDag That's a lovely thing to say - thank you

But I really do!

@Moanranger - it will pass soon, honestly! In the meantime, you need to make sure that you're getting plenty of sodium, magnesium and potassium.

For the sodium, make sure you're cooking with salt and adding it to your food. Try drinking a hot drink made from Oxo/Bovril/Marmite.

For the others, salmon, avocado, spinach and full fat natural yoghurt are all good - and you could consider using Lo-Salt for potassium (as long as you also use ordinary salt).

I agree about finding this woe eating easier because there isn't a dilemma over what to eat and whether something has too many calories. I find i do well with strict rules, I'm an all or nothing kinda person. I think I'm going to find it much harder once I reach goal and want to maintain, as there won't be rules to follow.

Today:
B fasting
L half protein roll, avocado, bacon & fried egg
D duck leg, roasted broccoli, creamy cabbage & leeks

Someone mentioned Hush clothing. I took a look. Expeeeeeeeensive!!!! Not worth investing for this interim stage. Will wait til I'm a size 12 before spending that sort of money. Get me! UNTIL I'm a size 12, not IF I get to a size 12.

I've never had "an investment piece" of clothing. A stylish, timeless quality lovely item that cost a lot but would last years. Because I have never felt i would or wanted to stay long at the size/s i have been. All those lost years being fat and miserable. No point in regret. It's the rest of my life that is going to be slim but still buxom and fabulous!

I would love the figure of Holly This Morning. Curvy and sexy. What about you lot? Who is your aspirational celeb body role model?

All kneel, the one who is all mighty and holds the big stick of justice and goes by the name of BIWI is in the temple. Your loyal Gammeldagets are here to do your bidding oh great one

@YoLoGammelZammoDag
Am I merely medicating my caffeine addiction?
I assume you are when doing to the study center no allowed coffee/caffeine 2 hours before the BP test as it has a negative effect on the reading.

CiderwithBuda and Mimosa1 wacky wacky --
Welcome to day 1 of your LCHF way of eating. Hope you enjoy and don't suffer to much with the week 2 carb flu and the week 3/4 stall. 1st few days will be a carby craving have willpower AND DONT HAVE ANY be a pair of s and stay away from the

Gammeldagfinderonwheels well there goes any chance of watching location location without inappropriate sniggering.

So how are you getting to Cardiff, cab or PA driving. went to Cardiff several times years ago was beautiful back then. Nice people for the most part.

Finally got rid of the ten on the scales - this morning's reading was 9st 13!!!!! Never want to see a ten again! However, knowing my scales they'll decide to play awkward buggers with me and will spend the next month at 10st 1, just because they can!

I didn't succumb to the chocolate last night, just because I didn't want it. But it was nice to have the option.

Am hoping this woe finally eliminates my belly. I've had a overhang since my teens and it would be nice, just for once, not to. I suspect that would see me a size six though, which seems ridiculous, but that's my bone structure - tiny. As I've said in the past, my friend was far slimmer as a 12 than I was as an 8. If I don't get there it doesn't matter, but that's my current aim, at least.

Right, I now have a short-term goal. Thought all my size 8 jeans were in the loft but found one pair in my room. Labels still on as I bought them at the stage where I refused to believe I had put on weight so kept to the same size hoping I'd slim into them, but never did. I can get them most of the way up, but the crotch is an inch or two too low and, of course, I can't do them up.

So my first aim is to be able to wear them. And I feel this is a proper test because, seeing as they're unworn they won't have been stretched. Am hoping this will happen by the end of October - fingers crossed!