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Well, week 15 of Bootcamp has just ended. But the support and banter will continue! I, for one, am carrying on for the next couple of weeks until my holiday, in the hope that I can drop another pound or so before I go.

There have been some brilliant losses in the last two weeks, so I'm hoping that you'll all be sticking with it too!

Well, if you're bootcamping then neither are allowed, but if you absolutely must, then choose good quality dark choc over Atkins bars, definitely!

Remember, bootcamp (and low carb in general) should be about eating unprocessed, natural food as much as possible. Think 'food', not 'products' iyswim?

Yes tea iswym

Ell done Sybil I have recently found during the move my bag of pre pre pre pregnancy clothes and they look brand new as I never used to have to wash them constantly due to toddler mucky fingerprints or baby vomit. I am now determined to fit into them before Christmas because I. Don't have any money for new clothes!

Have decided to LC as best as I possibly can until bootcamp challenge begins, like the idea of alternate fasting but need to read up. More about it. Sorry for random full stops, toddler asleep on lap. I must drink more water though, that's my downfall.

9 2 this morning. However am wearing size ten m&s black cutoffs that were elways distinctly snug around the tummy and they fit much better so I must have lost inches round mu middle. Also think that I am more indented in the waist. Not that I have been trying in bikinis in the mirror or anything!

Had a prawn curry for tea last night a la DH. didn't want to be difficult so didn't even mention that he used a sauce that was 9g per 100gs carbs and served it with peas and green beans. So that won't have helped matters.

3 poached eggs for breakfast
Out for lunch today and had lamb shank with broccoli and cauliflower and a couple of carrots.

It is a beeyooteeful sunny afternoon here, I will be sitting in the garden in a minute trying to finish game of thrones book 4 before we go away, have been reading them since what seems like 1974......

hello all.

Well I am writing this weekend off completely and may not even weigh in tomorrow as I'm not sure I want to know the damage. It turned into a complete carb fest as my parents had no suitable food in that I could eat really. It made me realise how carb heavy their diet is and DF is type 2 diabetic too . Anyway I will be back on the wagon tomorrow and may try alternate day fasting this week as a way of repairing the damage as quick as I can. I know I said I was going to maintain for a bit but I don't want to gain.

offorfox It can really derail things when DH's are away for long periods of time doesn't it. Isyour DH forces too?

I am very of all those with their camper vans. I would love one but DH is not in favour. He would have a luxurious caravan, but not a motorhome or camper. I like the idea of the freedom to camp anywhere and not having to tow but also of not having to drive a great hulking motorhome to the shops if you need anything.

well done to all those who have lost or stayed on track this week

I have recruited DP - been telling him about the WOE and he would like to lose some fat round middle. So i made him an omellette for brekkie this AM, with tea (no sugar) then he told me that he'd had porridge and a banana before coming round!

Still, tea today was chicken kebab without the pitta with lots of salad. Very filling, infact I've still got some in the fridge in case i get peckish later......

vnmum my weekend wasn't so great either, lots of water and think of the bigger picture and know that you have lost before and can again. I will stand on those darn scales tomorrow if nothing else to show how important to me it is that I shift this stone. I have a very excellent reason to be 11 stone by Christmas.

I have to take a packed lunch on site with me on Tuesday, it will probably be very very hot and I am really quite worried about what I can get away with without giving myself food poisoning! Ideas?

Also, I made myself a menu board using a chalk board DH bought me years ago and I bought some chalk pens but it seems that they have completely stained the board. Gutted. They are meant to be wipe off!

Eyes how annoying. Think you can buy blackboard paint in a spray to renew blackboards????

Captain, hilarious, that's a bit like my mil she tells me she's been strict low carb and can't understand why she hasn't lost any weight, but proceeds to eat loads of chocolate and calorie count and choose skimmed milk and low fat yoghurts....overturning the low fat way of eating would be even harder after doing it for 64 years I guess....

Tea was those tescos chicken breasts wrapped in bacon with cheese x 2 with a big green salad with mayo. Was really full from lunch for ages but then started to get peckish. Watched DH pick at cheese, sandwich, cheese on toast and crisps, and peanuts and realised that if I didn't do a proper meal for myself and be full on it and not snack I would end up eating the same which would obviously be a complete derail. So I am full, replete, have no desire to eat anything else, and have a coffee with cream as my treat.

rubbish evening just got worse

toddler woke up 55 minutes after going to bed. I am so over my child's shit sleep, no joke that her continued night waking coupled with dh becoming increasingly volatile about her sleep and his lack of sleep, even though I ensure he gets extra hours of sleep every weekend. it is ruining my marriage.

anyway. I have to do the weeks food shop tomorrow and stuck once again for ideas. recipe thread too big to read and all notes are downstairs.
so. seven meals. all dairy free

Eyes...I can relate to that.
My 9 year old only started sleeping through in the last 5 months....Have younthenveyr her to your gp/talked to the HV?
With ds1 in the end we resorted to melatonin for 6 weeks.
It has completely reversed his sleep issues and he takes himself off to bed now when he is tired...ok he still wakes at 6 am every morning but it's a small price to pay!
Hope your evening gets better x

Watching the olympic closing ceremony with no booze and snacks.. But who cares! I get to see the spice girls!! Woooo

Melatonin made her worse, it's not just that she won't sleep well, it's that she will not sleep alone so we alternate as to who stays with her each night (not good for a marriage) and she sometimes sleeps 7-1 and 1-7 with just a stir about 5am, but other nights wakes after less than an hour.

It's also DH's attitude which stinks and he is aggressive and unpleasant about her and her crap sleep which makes it worse. He moans constantly about how tired he is and yet he does get more sleep than I do. Just incredibly stressful. We are under a sleep phycologist (too tired to correct that sorry) and yet they just tell us to leave her to cry.

Oh eyes:(
I feel for you. I really do.
I couldn't leave ds1 to cry. We also did what you are doing...and it's nt conducive to an intimate relationship, no doubt about that.
Ds2 needs one of us to get him to sleep but can sleep quite well when he isn't over tired.
No answers for you...just lots of sympathy :(

Is co sleeping a possibility?
We got a king size bed and just gave up for a while...and ds1 was in with us when he woke.
It meant we all got more sleep.
It worked for us til ds1 was older.....

co slept since NICU, she would not sleep in a cot until 19 months old. still co sleeping in a double while the lucky one with the night 'off ' gets the king size. sigh

it's more the inconsistency which frustrates me and dh's attitude! dd can't help it, it's all she is used too . Ty for sympathy, it sucks

It does suck, yes :(
All I will say to you is it wont be forever.
(easy for me to say) but we are coming out of the other side of this and it makes such a HUGE difference to be able to to have an evening together - even if its just watching the TV! - and then going to bed together.
Ds2 didnt come in til 5am so feeling lucky this morning!
Fast day for me today - 500 cals max!

Hello all, back from our week away and have maintained exactly the same weight, I must admit I was a bit disappointed as I have been pretty good and can only think that I maybe was eating bigger meals rather than anything really bad. I'm determined to shift some pounds this week! One rather delicate question, I read previously on one of these threads about low carbing affecting your period. Something about oestrogen being held in fat cells and that when you low carb the oestrogen floods into your body affecting your periods. Anyway I normally have really light short periods (lucky me!) I'm on the pill so am always regular. When we were away I was midway through my cycle when I started the most horrendous period I have ever had. No pain but just huge amounts of bleeding with massive clots. Could this be down to low carbing or is it just coincidence? I am only week 3 in this new WOE. I would be really grateful for any explanations or advice, many thanks.

173.4 for me so 51lb down. Yay!!

Tiptoe, sorry you have STS but do remember that weight loss on this WOE is not linear so you might have lost inches without weight. A big loss might also be around the corner! My periods are a bit funny too, so I'd be interested in the answer to your Q as well.

I had a cup of tea before I got out of bed so will weigh tomorrow. I have lost a lot of inches for not that much weight and weigh very heavy for my height anyway so perhaps that makes a difference.

Have a great day everyone.

Teddy, have you lost 51 lbs? Or 5 lbs? Or even 1.5 lbs? All brilliant amounts. Well done.

Tiptoe well done for maintaining!

9 1 for me today whoop!

Eyes/badvoc sympathies re sleep. My 2 particularly ds2 have always been very early risers, 6 am latest, but you can cope with that if you have had a decent night. I got into a real habit of giving ds2 milk at 5am so as stop him waking ds1 but did controlled crying with him eventually and it worked for us. I am sure the impact is much worse for older children but just to play devils advocate here, if you do leave them to cry what's the absolute worst that can happen? It might be extremely distressing for all involved and take a few more nights but if the end result is their realisation that this is the way it works from now on, mummy and daddy sleep in their bed and he/she sleeps in their own bed, life could start to resemble something like normal again (whatever that is) and you and dh can work on your relationship. Nothing does a marriage more harm than no sleep, resentment and constant arguments about who's had more sleep etc etc. and would the professional psychologist really propose something that would do long term damage? Sorry if I am sticking my oar in here, obviously I don't know you or your children, but IME the hard way is often the best way.

Lolling about today waiting to go on my holibobs tonight. Nothing in to eat anyway so cheating unlikely!

N the night I was bitten, punched, kicked, scratched and have the bruises and wounds to show for it. Only two years old but it seems quite determined to get what she wants (milk), hence why I want to cease breastfeeding and co sleeping.

11.12 today, must stick ti drinking more

Eyes I really feel for you my ds2 (3rd child) didnt sleep for more than 2 hours a night for the 1st 18 months and now we still have nights where he will just wake and need re settling. He had a rough start and pretty much co slept for the 1st 18months.

My DH does not do well on lack of sleep either, so I have taken on the sleepless nights to avoid the added stress!! It means Im pretty much always tired, but at least no arguments over who is the most tired.

I really hope things improve for you fast

My weight STS today x

Sympathy eyes i hope the sleep situation improves for you

Today im taking the kiddies for a picnic in the park.. My lunch will no doubt consist of 3 cocktail sausages and a drink as i havent made myself my usual chicken salad :/
Ill have something nice with veggiea for dinner tho! X