whitershadeofpale sorry to hear about your friend. This is a long term way of eating and sometimes when we're in the midst of awful situations we just have to go with what's going on (and that is how our bodies were designed - to be able to cope with a big influx of carb / sugar when the tribe came across a honeycomb once in a blue moon, and gorged themselves on it). Well done for getting back to bootcamp so quickly.
I'm away on training course so eating a mix of food I brought and the best of what's on offer.
B - avocado, boiled egg, slice of cheese
L - chicken, broccoli, melted butter, salad (avoided the lentil soup and the cous cous)
D - salad, aubergine in cream sauce, tomato in olive oil (avoided the nut roast and the hasselback roast sweet potatoes). Swerved the apple crumble and custard and had crème fraiche with a few raspberries and blueberries.
A good friend commented 'oh you are sooo good' when I didn't eat desert. It was odd because it doesn't feel to me like I'm being 'good', I've just decided I don't eat that kind of food any more. Decision made a while ago and no need to agonise over it at every meal choice. I sort of view it like an allergy, I just can't have it. Of course I know if I accidentally or deliberately ate a heap of sugar it wouldn't kill me, but I do believe that over the long term, doing it repeatedly would.
I find it more challenging at break times when people are munching chocolate digestives (oooh, I can smell them, one of the few sweet things that still gets me) so I have a few almonds in my pocket to give me something to nibble on. I'm not normally a 'snacker' mid morning or afternoon but at least this is a controllable way to avoid the worst temptations.