Week 7 - Leaving Lockdown Low Carb Bootcamp

[BIWI]

Evening all. Starting next week's thread early as I still have family here and it's difficult to get away to the laptop. The only reason I can do it now is that I'm in bed, really not feeling too well

Anyway here's the spreadsheet

I hope everyone sees a good result.

Really interesting and insightful posts about cravings and comfort eating. I actually think this is what makes low carbing (or any diet, frankly) so hard. The relationship we have with food is such a complex one.

Random. Of course the numbness of eating makes sense. Hope you find some peace in all that you're facing.

Gave blood tonight. They've switched to seat service for post donation refuelling, so accepted a bag of crisps before they'd let me leave. Had to sneak to them out under my cardigan in case they summoned me back to munch under supervision. It was a school sick bay matron vibe tonight, for sure.
Ocado have delivered an enormous bucket of 5% FAGE in place of Marks and Spencer proper Greek yogurt. Nobody else will eat it, so I'm stuck anyway really. Ho hum. It's a bit thin. Add cream, you say? Don't mind if I do

Oops fajitas are tomorrow nights plan!
Dinner tonight is sausages, braised fennel and cabbage.

. Add cream, you say? Don't mind if I do

@Tickledtrout 😄

LittleDoritt I am so very sorry to hear of the death of your sister. I worry about the impact of my son's death on my other son. Losing a sibling is distinctively awful thing -- and especially to that horrrible disease anorexia. Take care of yourself. xxx

Timetobuckup, thinking of the dear son that you lost. xxx And thanks for mentioning the Compassionate Friends. I did post there a while, and it is a lovely place. I think that I didn't have the resolution to stick at it and keep posting long enough to get the most from it. I should try again. Of necessity, everyone is intensely gentle and tentative there, so aware of people's vulnerability. So it would take a long while to get to the heart of one another I think. On MN, where immensely difficult things jostle along with recipes and dogs and guinea pigs and wotnot, it is somehow easier.

Thank you very much, all of you, for your kind words. All of us on the thread have difficult and stressful things going on in our lives and I hope you can all extend to yourselves the kind good wishes you have sent me.

Anyhoo, back to keeping on KOKO-ing:

Managed to get back with the programme yesterday (genuinely helped by posting on here and by your kindness):

B: creamy cofee
L: Coleslaw made with creme fraiche, with grated cheese.
D: Discusting pork and shitake mushroom meatballs from the Barnaby Low Carb Gourmet book. With salad.

Just caught up with the weekend posts on the last thread and the start of this one. So much interesting stuff I should just stay up to date really even when on holiday! No weigh in as away, probably for the best! It's funny how I made good planned choices except relating to drink while out with my oldest friends but ate all sorts of stuff offered at my Mum's! Unfortunately I don't feel unwell from carbs generally, I'm pretty tolerant so it's only the impact on my waistline to consider. I was feeling pretty slim as I started the week. Off in the campervan now. DS has been a horror at times, no doubt due to unprecedented levels of sugar plus maybe high winds! Big cheesy mushroom omelette planned shortly. Doing lots of biking which is great.

One small tip for those trying to stop eating in the evenings/night to go with teeth cleaning and 16:8 etc- I use the Zero fasting app. Once I've pressed the button after dinner to start the app, I feel I'm committed and can't crumble.

Just saying hello, back on track today. Hope everyone has a good day.

NSV to report , with apologies to anyone squeamish, for yoga for ages, I have had to wear a very long, loose top over my largest size leggings. This week, for the first time in ages, the waistband of the leggings did not buckle over and expose my stomach.

Because I wear a long top anyway, only I (and now all you lovely people ) know this

it's a big progress milestone for me. I don't get on well with scales, measuring volume as it were works much better for me.

Thank you Bootcamp et al.

@Timetobuckup and @LittleDoritt and to all others remembering and dealing with the loss of loved ones.

Well done @Random789 for getting back on plan. Glad sharing helped.

@Rayna37 - I’m going to do the teeth cleaning tip in the evening to curb evening snack cravings. Not hunger - boredom and because everyone else in the family is. Have bought some nice herbal tea and aim to start that as my night time ritual & kids are in bed.

Any deviations into eating sugary things, especially shop bought rather than home baked, doesn’t agree with me. I’ve had very unpleasant reactions twice now after eating kids choc Easter egg leftover. Small amounts with big ramifications

That sounds like a great improvement, finallyhere. The tops I wear for yoga usually billow downwards when I am doing a plank, so that I can look through the neck hole at get a sadly vivid image of my tummy. One NSV for me is that my plank tummy sags far less copiously than it did. But even now, although moderately taut in parts, its centre is a rather wrinkly, deflated balloon kind of an affair. I don't think I will ever get rid of that, short of doing an SAS induction course or getting cheap cosmetic surgery in a developing country.

@Random789 😀

A bit poorly here today too. I’m supposed to be working but ended up taking my laptop back to bed with me until lunchtime and just keeping an eye on messages.
I’ve got showered and dressed now but still a bit wobbly. Managed a bit of Greek yog and seeds and a coffee but woefully behind on water.

Me too bestiswest definitely got a bit of a cold. Must be because mixing more?

Not sure what the cause of mine is. Not sure if it is the post meno bleeding which is still going on. I really should have taken the morning off. Just sent an email out to half a dozen people starting ‘Ho all’.

 @Random789 's cheap plastic surgery plans. #lifegoals

Have had quite a good day. And am all organised for tomorrow which is very unusual.

B/L cheese crackers and prosciutto.

D Brussels sprouts with cheese and bacon and green beans

Yoghurt.

Feeling stressy because the scales unexpectedly went up 1lb this morning, but trying not to dwell. Also, don’t judge, but today was a completely mindless day of leftovers.

B: black coffee, couple of spoonfuls of chilli.
L: chilli with avocado and tomato salad
D: chilli with avocado and tomato salad

W: getting there.

Morning all. Mad day "off" yesterday,, did not manage breakfast or lunch bar a nibble of cheese. Dinner was very little (courgettes roasted in oil with spices and feta, bit meh) plus omelette (also meh,) and I couldn't sleep for indigestion. Extra meh.

Tonight we have my nephew's fiancée being brought over for mutual inspection. Also window fitters to finally install our new slidey patio doors, which had to await a reroof when we discovered the existing one had gone in without benefit of lintel, because why shouldn't the window frame take the strain? Mad sods!

So, I must practice cheesecake resistance tonight.

Morning all.
Hope those feeling ill or had a bad day yesterday are feeling better today.
Feeling better for not snacking and @StuntNun saying 'I dont need to eat now' is working really well! Thank you.

Plan
L Green veg, boiled egg, wedge of cheese
D turkey Fajita salad and yoghurt.
Workout vidomeo of some description.

Morning to all. Random I am so very sorry to hear of your loss.

Scale holding steady at 11,3. Would love so much to get in to the 10s!

Oh, sorry, plan is salmon for lunch and who knows for dinner, I am just so sick of family cooking! I just want to subsist on pate and celery and cheese.

After many hours drinking cocktails at the weekend I was 3 pounds up. 2 days back on bootcamp and 3.5 pounds off. Great incentive to keep getting back on the wagon. Ha ha - autocorrect had me drinking cockatiels.
I hope you are feeling better @biwi. Was Christmas less stressful out of season

BIWI - hope you're feeling better now.

Random - I know that eating for numbness feeling too.

1lb on for me, but the scales are currently heading in the correct direction again after a bit of a bumpy 10 days. I am possibly going to be catching up with an ex of mine for coffee in 13 days' time after not having seen him for 4 years, so that's definitely an incentive to stay on track for the next fortnight!

Thanks @VeryLittleOwl, yes much better. But a worrying issue that I think I need to see the GP about. (I'm sure not helped by regular attendance over our Christmas by Cathy Twat)

Good morning
Weather starting to get nice again
Hopefully it lasts for weekend
First dinner in a restaurant last night
Had salt chilli chicken had a spoonful of coconut rice as meal was very spicy.
One spoonful of oreo cheesecake that dd left. And a pint of water to wash it down.
Rest of week to work it off.
B Greek yogurt
L spinach egg tomato tuna
D omelette with spinach
Water

On a family holiday with dh and SILs. Breakfast and lunch are fine since we're all doing our own things, but dinner is shared so a bit of a challenge at times, and I'm eating round the worst of it. The difficult bit (or not really so difficult) is that every walk is punctuated by a stop for coffee and cakes or tea and scones. Fortunately I'm not a big cake fan, so I don't find it hard to say no but my SILs think I'm very strange and controlled for refusing to 'let my hair down and enjoy myself'. Annoyingly they are stick-thin despite the cake eating! Anyway, it feels good for me to be strong and to stick to my choices. It makes me happy to do so

Hope all those who are feeling under the weather or dealing with difficult emotions are managing OK.

Not much time to post but reading when I can and nodding along empathetically.