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.
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C4 enjoy it - it would be rude not to! 😀 don't feel guilty
Ilove that's a lovely thing for you mum to say - I bet you're walking on cloud 9
Welcome to all the Newbies and returnees I'm fairly new myself - 6 weeks in and love it.

Cleareyes at the risk of sounding smug and possibly a sad old fart with no weddings or parties with tempting foods to go to I am still keeping to my SSS. Yay!!!

I'm trying to make a start on 16:8 today - I don't eat breakfast til late on a weekend day so I thought I'll wait til 12ish and make my eating window 12 - 8 tonight - wish me luck! I'm just about there at 12, having filled the time by perusing jeans on m & s website in size 14 to fill the time - I ordered 3 pairs !!!! I can always take them back if they're not right or I get guilt feelings about the expense. Retail therapy instead of eating 😀

How much does your menstrual cycle affect weight? I had some mid cycle bleeding and am now firmly into the later part of my cycle. I am bloated and I have put on a kilo, despite my super strict regime. Does anyone else get this? It is so demoralising, as I have been super strict!

Note to self: do not attempt to do Jillian Michaels 6 week 6 pack after having two mugs of coffee.

I nearly threw up!

In my defense I had the coffee a couple of hours ago so thought it would be ok.

Afternoon everyone! It's turned into a nice sunny day here and I'm off swimming with the 5 yr old soon.
Weekends are the hardest test of my willpower but I'm staying strong!
B: 2 soft boiled eggs
L: avocado salad
D: will be steak and creamed spinach

Have a good day everyone!

Whoops

I had forgotten a whole course, I think it was between desert and cheese

Coffee with cream and chestnut liqueur served with chocolates on huge platters, they are the brides favourite.

There were six different choices and I tried all of them. They were all delicious so I tried some of them again.

This was followed by chocolate liqueur poured over ice cream.

I have to point out that this feast went on for hours and hours.
The soup was served at 5:30 and cheese at 1:45pm, Danish weddings make British Ines look boring. There is a break between each course for speeches and songs written by guests for the bride and groom.
The B&G make a speech to each other, father of the bride, mother of groom, siblings, best man, best woman, work colleagues, cousins etc etc
Lots of the speeches were accompanied by videos. They also show footage from stag and hen parties.

During the first dance all the male guests form a circle round the B&G and gradually get closer and closer linking arms until they are touching them. The bride escapes and the groom is lifted above the heads of the men, passed around for a while to loud foot stamping and clapping and then they remove his shoes and cut off the toes of his socks. Bizarre but great fun.

That should say 1:45am

Clear I've stayed SSS too. One of my rules was no dark choc & cream. Extra chuffed that I managed to resist both yesterday.

ilove that's lovely about your mum. Do you think you might convert them to LCHF?

Sayrra I can't drink coffee before I run, it gives me terrible stitch.

C4 that sounds epic! I might need to persuade DH to renew our vows, Danish style (I am one eighth Danish after all!)

I am currently eating the most delicious cheese & ham omelette I have ever made. The secret ingredient? Garlic powder and smoked paprika. Just lifts it! Yummers!

Clear eyes now I have started to get into shape I realised how long I have been ignoring my weight and shape. I had a life changing diagnosis 5 years ago and apart from being in shock I concentrated on controlling the side effects rather than being overall healthier. I am on strong steroids in my drugs and I gained weight gradually over this period. I need to keep an eye on my weight and finally this woe has worked. Though I think once you lose any weight you realise you have more to lose than you thought and you can be thinner but without being toned it can make you look worse!

Hippa, probably not convert them. They are 85 and touch wood extremely hale and hearty, so I think it's it's not broken, leave it alone. But they have completely embraced how it's helping me and even though I've told them they don't have to not eat stuff on my account, they've kept carbs very low profile between meals. We all had a square of 90% with our coffee today, they would def have had home made cake if I wasn't here.

C4 - Danish macaroons are wonderful Not sure I'd be able to resist them - but would eat them very mindfully

I'm exhausted. Last night was a meal with DPs parents where carby twattyness was a bit unavoidable. I'm already vegetarian so they have to cook a separate meal, I couldn't bring myself to say oh also no carbs. Luckily they eat fairly healthily and portions are reasonable so it was lentil curry and brown rice with fruit for dessert. I ate no carbs all day in an attempt to mitigate. Anyway the dinner was with extended family so tiring and then I dropped DP in town on the way home as he had arranged ages ago (pre meal arrangements) to see friends. So me, toddler and baby didn't get home until gone 9pm and I had to wake them to get them in. Neither could get back to sleep until 10.15pm and then we had 4 wake ups before getting up at 6.30.

DP is busy this lunchtime so it's just me and kids again and they are both whingey, likely because I'm shorter on patience. Now got to take them to the supermarket and I almost could cry. Want to eat all the double chocolate chip cookies in the world. But I won't.

They are both screaming full volume in the back of the car. Mistake to mumsnet in the carpark while I thought they were asleep...

So another 2lbs gained seemingly overnight. Wtf is happening?

4lbs net loss in 4 weeks. I get down to 13.9/10 stop there and then go up again.

Crazy!

Ilovecherries your mum sounds wonderfully supportive, you are a very lucky to have her. I think I love your mum a little bit.

Littlebillie I understand what you mean by the thinner you get the fatter you feel. So why not deconstruct it and look at it differently, I have similar feelings but as you probably realise I try and put a positive spin on most things.
So it goes something like this for me:
I'm getting thinner but not as quickly as x, I'm getting thinner but I still look unattractive and fat which means I'm no good at dieting so I may as well give up, why is it so much harder for me, I'm useless.
All horrible negative stuff so take the facts and only the facts, no feelings allowed now make them positive.
I'm getting thinner = I'm achieving what I set out to do
It seems to be harder for me than others = because of my health condition I'm having to be even more careful than x, this show how strong and determined I am.
I still feel fat even though I've lost weight = I've successfully lost weight and I'm now motivated and determined to lose more.
I can't exercise because of my health = I will be as active as I can be within my limitations.

It might make sense to you but you also might read it and think what a load of bollocks, either is fine because I'm sure I'm still drunk from last night because I can't say words with more than two syllables, can only carry out one task every 15 minutes and need instructions repeating several times before I understand them. But I'm very happy.

c4 that wedding sounds amazing! Thanks for the motivational post, I've been feeling fat and that really helped!

Lunch - spinach, bacon, cream cheese and feta.
Dinner - 2 lamb loin chops, slow cooked in red wine, shallots, garlic and Rosemary. Huge pile of cabbage. Small spoon of carrots. Gravy (made from juices etc).
Pudding - oppo salted caramel ice cream.

C4absolutely fabulous, so glad all the trials and tribulations of getting to the wedding were so worth it. Take care and wean yourself out of carbytwatdom over the next couple of days. Get safely home, then refresh your Alfie cuddles, puppy training patience and then KOKO.

Hi to all newbies and returnees.

Fyi I'm a guy so no help with pmt hormones or jiggle bits.
Grimbles
I have the San experience on the scale as you. Been stuck around 14st 1 to 5 lbs for a week or more. Have to remember the imperial (UK) pint weighs 1.25 pounds.
So it's probably some form of water retention. The fat cells will store water until the body decides to remove them. Then we get our favourite whoosh. So koko and drink the water.

Yum yum. Just had the most delicious salad made by mum. Really simple but lovely. Shredded raw spinach, handful of pecans, warm crumbled Brie, 3 finely diced strawberries for colour, EVOO and smoked salt.

Oh ilove your mother (and the salas) sound lovely.

C4 - sounds like an epic party!

Today was also not a good food day for me. We were guests of our lovely neighbours with some friends of theirs I'd not met, and I was embarrassed to say "sorry I'm on a diet, could I have something else" so had a very carby lunch/brunch, and unfortunately though "sod it" a bit cor the rest of the day.

I love going out, but I think until I get into the swing of things, I need to try and arrange to meet friends at restaurants because I find it oddly uncomfortable to say anything about my dietary requirements to others, as though I'm committing some sort of faux pas by drawing attention to the fact that I'm overweight the end up getting derailed. The thing is, I am too fat for my health and height at the moment, and I need to do something about it, so why do I find it so bloody awkward to say anything?!! Sorry, a bit garbled but hopefully you understand what I'm trying to say.

On the plus side, I'm having a bit of a clear out, so I tried on an evening gown in my wardrobe this afternoon to see if it still fit, and my toddler said "mummy, party dress! you are beautiful" then insisted we dance for ages round the living room

Mimosa1 my sympathies I've struggled with this too. It's really hard when you're out with friends or people you don't know very well to have to say you're on a diet and then have to put up with all their questions and looks etc. I sometimes tell little white lies like my weight has affected my health (partly true) and my doctor has told me I must lose weight and I owe it to my children etc Move on and upwards and practice what to say for next time - each time gets easier. If you let this get the better of you then they've won and you are still overweight and unhappy 🤙💐

This has dropped off my TIO . Shocking!

I'm still here. Just busy.

Aw Mimosa that's the cutest!

Thanks BIWI I'll try that

Mimosa I also feel ashamed to tell people I'm on a diet, not sure why, i have told some people I'm not eating carbs because of my IBS. Love the image of you dancing with your toddler

C4 sounds like an epic wedding, glad you are making the most of it!

Today:
B fasting
L meatballs, spinach, tomato sauce & cheese
D chicken tikka masala, cauliflower rice, sprouting broccoli and no poppadoms!

So today
Had a lie in, punctuated by three half hour breastfeeding sessions but I'll take it so didn't eat until 12ish
Had a small green pepper stuffed with feta cheese and shallots and roasted with some mixed leaves dressed in olive oil
Dinner was two smallish chicken thighs roasted with skin in olive oil with cabbage stir fried in butter, coconut oil and some spices
Really fancied something chocolatey dso had a little low carb choc cake with cream

Hi bootcampers, happy Monday! Not so happy for me - my car is leaking oil, so got to take it to get fixed!

Although I have dropped 2lbs this week, so only 1lb off from my holiday weight, woo hoo.

Food plan:
L - really fancy the ham, egg & cheese omelette again from yesterday
D - chicken thighs & salad & mayo

Sorry your car needs fixing hippa and that they can sort it quickly for you.

Another bootcamper here, who finds it difficult to talk about my 'diet'. Even here i only ever talk about my way of eating (thanks stuntnun) Actually, though, I've found this woe the most easy to not mention. Tucking into roasts and looking for creme for coffee isn't (yet) on many peoples' radar as an attempt to shift some pounds.

If i am being pressed to eat something, I put a hand to my stomach and say quietly that it doesn't agree with me. So many people have suffered some form of digestive distress, that they understand immediately and really don't want any more details...

Being consistent means that people seem to have got used to the way i eat, in the way that they used to know I was always up for another biscuit or another chocolate, all they had to do was urge me. I like it better this way, and am very glad and grateful for finding bootcamp and all you lovelies.

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