Week 5 - Leaving Lockdown Low Carb Bootcamp

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Welcome to Week 5!

Here's the spreadsheet

Hopefully we can now put the horrible weeks 3 & 4 behind us, and get on with the serious job of shedding the pounds of fat

By now, hopefully, low carbing eating should feel like it's the 'new normal', and you should be getting used to it. However, there's also the opposite danger, that you're seeing carbs creeping back into your menus.

This is a good time to take stock. Have a think about the things you've been eating over the last week and ask yourself if they are really 'in the spirit' of Bootcamp. Are you really keeping your carbs low, and focused mainly on vegetables and salad? Are you really eating enough fat? And, perhaps most importantly, are you drinking all the water?

From now on, you should see the scales move again - albeit that the weekly loss should be in the range of 1-2lbs a week (possibly more if you have a lot to lose).

I really hope that you are finding that you're settling into this WOE, and that you're enjoying the food, not feeling deprived, and are seeing the scales/tape measure reflect your commitment.

At the end of this week we will be half way through Bootcamp!

@Random789 I've often said that I'm not over weight, I'm just under tall

Oh, that's a shame. I've never read it!
I love that plate and agree about plain white shelves. I went for rustic in the downstairs cloak and it ended up a bit too airbnb in Cornwall- like I was missing a few starfish stencils.

Off work today with a poorly DS the scales are saying 2lb up but hope that is just a blip.
Done all my cleaning and prepped tea for tonight. Chicken skewers with salad and possibly chips for DH. Though he has been swerving them lately! He’s on a health and fitness kick so should help me also!

I love the plate too. It brings back memories of Greece, which is where I bought it

These are the IKEA shelves that I'm thinking of.

Never read any Dickens either but loved that film.

Maybe I should overcome my antipathy

That's the spirit! Strong opinions, lightly held.

Those shelves are the right look. Only question is whether the chrome would tarnish (or whatever the right word is when they go manky) and/or the varnish bubble away from the mdf (is it mdf?) in damp conditions

For @MrsKoala 's sphincter. I hear you, my friend. (And so does everyone else ). Congrats on your amazing whoosh!

@nowlook the last thing I read that really blew me away was The Seven Lives of Evelyn Hardcastle, but apparently it left many people cold 🤷‍♀️. I like a lot of Dianne Setterfield too.

I also liked Thursday Murder Club.

I've been avoiding anything more substantial too, although I do love a bit of Dickens.

I lost my little gain from last week, but that seems to be all. I'm having to be stern with my disappointed inner voice. Week four is notorious! (We are on week four, aren't we?).

NSV, though - I am wearing trousers that wouldn't do up before Christmas. They fit beautifully now

I think I've read the sequel to that @MilesJuppIsMyBitch...where she had seven deaths rather than lives

Oops!

Two old books I've just re-read and really enjoyed all over again were Gone With The Wind (so much better than the film) and Peyton Place. Can definitely recommend both of those - the former because the story is about so much more than Rhett and Scarlett, and much more about the history of the US, the civil war and slavery. And the latter as a really interesting depiction of and insight into 1950s small town America.

Dickens is just loads and loads of fun. Fortunately my first experience of him was the really crappy Sunday teatime TV adaptations that used to be on all the time, so he never seemed like anything lofty or arduous. I was briefly put off by having to do Great Expectations for 'O' levels, but once I recovered from that, Dickens became a box of chocolates again.

I did quite like the film of David Copperfield, but I couldn't understand the hype. Alongside the book it is like an Oxo cube compared to roast beef.

@nowlook

That's the spirit! Strong opinions, lightly held.

Those shelves are the right look. Only question is whether the chrome would tarnish (or whatever the right word is when they go manky) and/or the varnish bubble away from the mdf (is it mdf?) in damp conditions

That's my concern too. Although they're cheap enough that they could just be replaced if that happens. I'll have a look in the bathroom section of IKEA too and see what they have there.

I started seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, need to go back to it.

Stepped on the scales this morning and I have lost 5.8lbs in total, which may not be award-winning but it means that my BMI is 39.9. For the first time in a few years I am not morbidly obese! Obviously I still have loads to lose but I'm so chuffed to have hit that first goal.

Also, love a bit of Dickens.

Well done @LittleDoritt

We'd never have guessed that you like Dickens

Brilliant progress @LittleDoritt

I think the risk of white and those shelves pretty are the look being quite clinical. I’d also say it could look more bland seaside holiday let than a luxurious bathroom you really want to spend time in. Blue and white colour schemes in bathrooms are often problematic because they can look a bit of a naff nautical theme. Also I struggle with shelves in small rooms - I think they visually draw the walls in towards you and make it feel even smaller. I prefer all the storage to be under eye level and closed away to give uncluttered cleaner lines.

Just taking Chippy to the vet for her eye. Had bacon, leeks and mushrooms fried and topped with 2 small fried eggs. Not sure about lunch today, maybe tuna salad...

Just had a heron fly straight past the bay window - and realised that the "scraping" sound I'd been hearing was it squalking just round the corner (where our downstairs neighbours have a pond ).

MrsKoala - I'm going to need some shelving, mostly for spare towels but also a couple of boxes with "extra" stuff that doesn't fit in the vanity unit) and probably a basket for loo roll as our house isn't good for storage (bloody Victorians - lovely big rooms big no built in storage ). But I'll only put it on the one wall.

It will be one of the last things to go in, after the bathroom fitter has finished and we've painted (dh has only just realised that "navy" blue is dark - but as I said, if he/we don't like it, we can always paint it a different colour ).

@Random789 completely agree re the film vs the book, but I guess it's difficult fitting all that story into a couple of hours. My first taste of Dickens was a Tale of Two Cities which I really didn't enjoy but started reading (and loving) others after seeing the BBC version on Martin Chuzzlewit. I stick to the funny ones now

Can the towel shelves go on the facing wall above the bath. I think that can look quite stylish and as it’s facing you it won’t just into peripheral vision as you enter.

(Sorry, on phone outside vets. Why is it still so bloody cold? 😡 )

Definitely no space for that - they'd be about 6" wide on the one side (given that I want to make a feature of the traditional white wooden window surround) and the other side would be a wee bit wider but also has the boxed in soil stack and rising main.

After your comments though @MrsKoala I've seen this idea which might be a compromise

I also might put a shelf above the door for extra towels - depends on how high the ceiling is under the lowered ceiling and whether it's in a fit state to be uncovered

I do like the look of shelves being the same colour as the wall. We’re planning some shelves/ cupboard in the alcove in our lounge and thinking similar.