Week 5 - Low Carb Bootcamp - time to get rid of all the Valentine's treats!

[BIWI]

I rather suspect that a lot of us have been so far off the wagon this weekend that it's disappeared over the far horizon!

having to post on the spreadsheet may sober us all up, in more ways than one!

I hope any cheats were enjoyable. There's nothing worse than deciding to cheat and then not liking it.

But from now, it's time to buckle down and get back into the swing of things. If you did cheat, please don't complain that the scales aren't being kind to you. It's an inevitable consequence.

So let's focus on a really strict week, recognising that this is the end of our first half of Bootcamp.

Good luck to us all

I'm going to invent my meals Athelstane. Like when my MIL used to phone and ask what I was up to...official answer was always ironing or spring-cleaning

@pinkpinkeverywhere if you felt it was too creamy, I'd say you didn't put enough cheese in it!

But if you really don't like cream, you could make a sauce using cream cheese, letting it down with a little bit of milk or water, and then adding your grated cheese

I'm fully expecting to be half a stone down next weigh-in as I waxed my legs today.

Might go for the full stone and do my underarms tomorrow ...

@BIWI

I'm fully expecting to be half a stone down next weigh-in as I waxed my legs today.

Might go for the full stone and do my underarms tomorrow ...

Haha! I just had a bath and shaved mine too! First time this year....🙈 They feel cold now!

I’m doing my all-over ‘maintenance’ tomorrow so I shall be at least a lb lighter just from that!

@Onelittlepiglet

I haven't shaved since we went into the last lockdown. At this moment I'm indistinguishable from DH

I only shave every six months in normal times. I'm overdue now though - last effort was around July.

@BIWI

I'm fully expecting to be half a stone down next weigh-in as I waxed my legs today.

Might go for the full stone and do my underarms tomorrow ...

Yeah, that made me snort with laughter.

[quote Oneborneverydecade]@Onelittlepiglet

I haven't shaved since we went into the last lockdown. At this moment I'm indistinguishable from DH[/quote]
As did that.

Quick picture of my new belt on me. Ok, so it's on the easiest hole .....but it's a size small , in contrast to the size large that dh bought me for Christmas

Yay! Well done @prettybird

I bet DH will be hearing about that for a while yet!

(Did he maybe get confused with the boobs? 😁😆)

And wearing a shirt tucked in!

@ShagMeRiggins will be very pleased with you

Indeed ShagMeRiggins will!

I do love a belt, a tuck, a French tuck, the right colours, the right fabrics, ad nauseam...

Mostly what I love is people feeling great about themselves. That’s my driver (which used to be known as motivation, back in the day.)

Anyway. My sincere condolences to Athelstane and Christ.

Kind of makes my Gel Nail Experiment look pathetic (because I know that’s not important in life), but I’m still working on it.

First kit was shite. I was furious. Second kit was still short. Still furious.

Guess what? It is a really good idea to read the instructions! Turns out I didn’t do it right, I just barrelled through like a numpty.

Tonight or tomorrow I will do it properly and report back, promise.

In the meantime, I haven’t eaten a damn thing all day—lots of water and not hungry—so going to make a basic salad with additional veg and a massive bleu cheese dressing.

Had my inoculation yesterday for covid. Sending the very best for everyone to get theirs ASAP and hoping your areas and GPS are as efficient as ours seems to be.

Just catching up.
I've had a good day foodwise but really am struggling. Just eaten quite a lot of dark chocolate and I'm not sure why. Got that horrible claggy taste in my mouth now which is unpleasant. I'm a binge eater and worried im slipping back. Feel like my motivation has gone and just feel really quite fed up. I'm not going to eat any chocolate at all cos I just binge.
I've got TOTM which doesnt help I guess.

Thinking of all of you that are having a hard time.

Any tips or motivations to help me KOKO?

Actually feeling really quite hungry but totally uninspired.
I do seem to have sorted my tiredness though now I'm having electrolytes.

@cheeseisthebest you have my sympathy as a binge eater/overeater myself, TOTM can be hard to not crave old habits too. I’ve found I cannot have dark chocolate in house at all as I will just eat the lot...and yes get a claggy mouth. Could you try something else like a big tub of yoghurt maybe? Vanilla or cocoa or even a low-carb syrup flavouring in it? Or have a milky drink like I’m now having at night, it’s quite comforting tbh.

Just remembered I used to make a gorgeous low-carb rhubarb clafoutis! It was great comfort food, I need to make some ASAP and definitely recommend clafoutis to everyone.

*vaccination not inoculation

Any tips or motivations to help me KOKO?

Remember who you were, who you are, and who you want to be.

Thank you. Do you have the recipe? I was thinking of having a look at the low carb desserts although that might be a slippery slope for me!
Just feel a bit like I was doing so well and have lost my mojo!

Trying to limit my cheese has made it hard too and am missing crunchy things!!

Pork chops tonight and cabbage & broccoli in lots of butter. The pork juices mixed with the cabbage and it absolutely devine! Been a good day today and even went over water allocation. Hope the scales are kind over the next few days as they havent budged yet since Monday!

@ShagMeRiggins

Any tips or motivations to help me KOKO?

Remember who you were, who you are, and who you want to be.

Thank you! It's hard at the moment, life is so joyless at times.