Week 8 - May '24 Low Carb Bootcamp - one last week!

[BIWI]

Morning all.

Here's the spreadsheet for its penultimate outing

Next Monday will be our final weigh-in.

I'm not going to be around much this week, as DH and I are off to Vienna tomorrow for a few days. @prettybird will take ownership of TBS while I'm away.

Thankfully I'm not a great cake/pastry fan, so the whole 'kaffe und kuchen' thing won't be a distraction - but I'm hoping for some lovely food nevertheless.

I've heard lovely things about Vienna so I'm very much looking forward to it.

@BIWI 😮That would drive me mad!! I had one the other week and it was £93.00. A lovely surprise! Hope it's a biggie!

I won £39 last week so I'm not assuming anything for this one!

@BIWI Think of all the big sticks you could buy with a big win! 😂You could get a gold one!!

I've just had to take DD to the chippy as she fancied Fish and Chips, with fritter! 😮🤐The smell wafting from the living room is heavenly!

Sorry I have disappeared from boot camp. I haven’t been well and have been existing on toast. Improving and hope to be back to join you in a week or two and will catch up on the threads then.

@Pleaseandthankyou 😟Glad to hear you are improving and a bit jealous of you having toast! 😃Take your time getting back on your feet. You have a lifetime to change your WoE.

Dh has been comforting himself with bovril on toast - something I introduced him to as my mum used to make that for us if we weren't well.

I'm trying not to be jealous

😂😂Must admit, marmite on toast was always a firm favourite! Only on white bread though. Tasted totally different on wholemeal. All soggy and floppy.

You're right (Marmite works too). Needs to be white bread and plenty of butter on hot toast

I'd better get the Big Stick out and self flagellate

because I'm outside the uk I can’t sign in

A VPN can sort that for you. There are loads of different ones, I tend to use https://www.vyprvpn.com

One feature is that you can choose the country which provides your internet service, so that you can pick a uk based service and appear to be in the uk. Hope it's good news.

Oooooh! Fish and chips is my nemesis. Tricky business!

We used to have chippy every Friday night as a treat! Mine was always a Pukka Steak & Kidney pie! I could live off those! 😪

Let's get to target then have chippy food once a week

😂My target is at least 1 year away!! Not fair!!

Hi all. Sorry, I've been quiet - busy few weeks!

I'm posting this eve to try to help me stay strong. I'm really craving milk chocolate (period craving). Sadly I don't even have any dark chocolate in the house (but there are Cadbury milk chocolate buttons in the cupboard).

My strategy is:
a) post here to tell you I'm not going to go near the Cadbury chocolate
b) go to bed

I really, really don't want to slip. I've been trying so hard to lose a few pounds and I'm only averaging about a pound a month!! I've been getting so frustrated about why I'm not managing to lose these few pounds.

Evening all, day 3 and I've lost my hunger! Love this bit

Had burgers with garlic mayo for lunch
Got home and can I bring myself to eat? Nope, I managed about 5 olives and a slice of beef!

I know I need to eat more than that but the thought of eating is making me feel sick so maybe a peppermint tea and bed for this evening!

@Magnolia82 Everyone loses different, but it's still a loss so 👏

@ZiggZagg I know exactly what you mean. My eating has been poor the last few weeks. Today I've had a bite of cheese, bag of scratchings and 2 sausages with scrambled egg for dinner. I'm just winging it. I'm sure under eating is just as bad for us.

@MissBeck Thank you. Yes - I am already at a 'healthy' weight/BMI but I know I feel/look better around 7 pounds lighter. I'm quite short, so my calorie needs are quite low, so I know it will be slow, but I'd really hoped I'd be at my target weight by the school summer holidays.

Anyway, posting my last message really helped me. I'm upstairs, brushed my teeth and the Cadbury chocolate buttons are still in the cupboard downstairs!

Definitely @MissBeck ! I usually have a few days at the beginning that I can't really face anything then eat a lot better! Not usually this early though haha!

@Magnolia82 Yay!! You fought that demon and won!

@ZiggZagg My weakness has always been planning. All the way through I've never planned meals. I even had a plan to plan meals a few weeks ago and haven't touched any of my index card meals! 😂😂

@Magnolia82 gratters in resisting temptation

Every time you resist, and do not succumb, you build your power to resit and make it stronger. This for me is a strong motivator.

@MissBeckIsAtWork
Is that stick pic rhubarb?

Bit high carb there!😱😀

Well done @Magnolia82 resisting the buttons’
I can’t stand fish & chips. Since I can remember I’ve had to peel off the batter and I don’t like the chips anymore for some reason. Maybe they changed it to a healthier fat that just isn’t the same. They did use proper potatoes though. As a kid I used to like the ‘scraps’ - crunchy bits of fat leftovers that you’d get for free!
Going ok ‘Down Under’ mostly having BBQ lunches of one of chicken / ribs / snags / pork belly and a big salad for lunch & then eating out for dinner. Steak & veg Sunday, BBQ & Vietnamese Tues, Italian last night but avoided both pasta & bread. I’ve forgotten Monday 🤔 Maybe it was bbq & salad at the house. I am drinking a couple of glasses of wine with dinner though. And iced lattes with almond milk. But LOADS of water too. KOKO

😂😂Nooo, it was a gold stick that Biwi could buy with her lottery win! 😂I was at work when posting so just picked the first picture Google threw at me.

This morning I have a coffee morning and 'award' ceromony at school for the SEN kids. Not sure how this will go as I ripped into the SENCO over email 2 days ago (to which he never replied), but hey ho. Wonder if there will be cake?