Week 8 - Little Black Dress Low Carb Bootcamp - One Fat Lady? Not here!

[BIWI]

Spreadsheet of Wonderfulness is here

Hope everyone is doing well.

I haven't weighed this morning - was a little bit distracted by a phone call from my lovely SIL in Australia, to announce the safe arrival of Gabriel Paul and Nell Florence Jean! Gabriel weighed 5lbs 2oz and Nell 4lbs 10oz, so good weights to say they are 3 weeks early.

So I'm a great aunty

Wine thank goodness you are ok...
Must be very shaken though, have a peaceful evening x x

I'm having a bloody blah day.
As I'm 5 kg from my goal and following IPD on phase 2... I tried porridge again as they said it was ok twice a week. Had with Splenda and double cream, very small bowl. Couldn't finish it and have felt tired and foul all day.
Had some left over spiced chicken breast for late am snack and smoked haddock and salad for lunch.

Having takeaway for tea but Indian so having chicken tikka, I really also might have some wine. I did 600 cals of walking too.

Am out dog showing tomorrow. Will take nuts and cold meats and cheese with me...
Have a nice
Friday everyone

How horrible wine, glad you are all ok!!!!

Boys "decorated" the ginger bread people (jezuz wept, never seen such a mess, managed to keep all my ocds in check), and I made these to take to the school Xmas Faye tomorrow.

Tea is salmon fillets and veg. And red wine because, Viper, I am extremely sophisticated. HA HA HA HA HA !!!

Hope you are all okay winegless

Glad you & DC are ok Winegless, what a shake up :(

Eek, WineGless, how scary.

Long day at a conference for me today. I ignored the bacon sandwiches on arrival, carbfest lunch, chocolate cake, constant stream of biscuits, sweets on the tables and instead virtuously ate my frittatas and my cheese and roasted veg salad for lunch...but then I nipped into Selfridges before getting a train home and was suddenly rendered powerless to resist a single salted caramel macaron

I'm blaming caramelwaffle for subconsciously putting it in my brain

Have googled and reckon it was only about 12g of carb though, so not too bad a lapse. And god, it was good. Avocado and brown shrimps for dinner.

You're sophisticated in my book Dosh, bet you even eat other posh, grown-up stuff like olives and blue cheese (bleeurgh!)

DH came in from gym an didn't even ask how I was

Trying desperately not to sink in bottle of wine

Oh WineGless
What a twat he is

Thanks BIWI - need hugs from someone.

Honestly - he just brushed it off. I have NEVER been in an accident as a driver and having DC in car shook me up.
Anyway enough wallowing - onwards and downwards and all that

IME men are SHIT when expected to behave in a certain way - but then redeem themselves in completely unexpected ways at unpredictable moments. My DH never, ever says the right thing at the right, expected moment. Which can make me feel frustrated, and hard done by, but then he comes good in the nick of time. Not sure why I am defending your DH, as it was clearly thoughtless and mean if him not to ask how you were, but men are from Mars and all that?

Having said all that......we are having our usual discussion about stockings. I do him one, the boys', and his mother. My sisters and I even still do my dad one now that mum is ill. I would like him to do me one. Nothing fancy or expensive, a bar of choc, (Lo carb obv ), some smellies. His reply? "oh for gods sake, it's so childish, why do we have to bother, it's such a pressure on me, to go out and think of things to buy you and I don't know what you like!! Huff puff etc"

I mean FFS. pressure on him? You mean unlike the pressure on me to buy every single member of our family a Christmas present? How hard for him can it be to think of me for a change, what i might like, things I enjoy (swimming, reading, clothes shopping, smellies, baking blah blah), take some time to think about treating me for a change. It's our wedding anniversary on Sunday. I might get a card, because I have reminded him. It's his birthday on Tuesday - I have bought him some Starbucks coffee, and taking him to London next weekend to stay in a hotel and see wicked. It definitely feels like a bit of a one way street.

There you go wine, you unleashed a bit of a flood gate!! should take my own advice shouldn't I?

oh wineglass yes Biwi is right he is a twat. and it is nerveracking when theres a dc in the back of the car....you can't even think straight for awhile its like a trauma. i hope you can do something relaxing this weekend to get over it and that your dh is more supportive. xx

Sorry you're having such a shit run Wine. It does shake you up having any kind of bump but I don't think men understand at all how anything that might harm our DCs affects us. I'm not defending your DH, he might well be a pillock, but I know that when my DH is at his most twattish, it is usually that he is genuinely oblivious. I worry myself sick about "what ifs" (like when DS was in NY) but they do not even cross his mind.

Wine you poor thing. Such a shock and especially nerve racking because you were with your DCs. Hope you have a restful weekend and that you feel a bit brighter after a nights sleep. My DM always used to say to us - it will all seem better in the morning

Hi all. Used to be on Bootcamp threads some time ago but life interfered in abig way. I had lost 3 stone but have put a lot back on - not weighed but clothes tell me, the few I can still get in.

Life is still and will continue to be stressful so I have a choice, comfort eat my way through it and get fatter and fatter and then add to my stress or do something about it and feel more in control and healthier. It's a no brainer as they say... But why can't I get going

Morning all! Frosty and foggy here.

Heartstart good to see you back. Sorry that things are still tough I remember that you were having a hard time of it. Come on you did it before you can do it again you know the ropes. .

wine hope you and the DCs are ok this morning and DH is being more supportive. Grrrr.

Went to see Skyfall last night (think I must be one of the last people in the country to see it). Great film but I didn't really enjoy it . Anyway, went for dinner afterwards and had mushroom fricassee, duck confit, red cabbage and a to die for rosti. God it was good. So if I ignore the rosti bucket of popcorn vat of red wine all was good.

Heartstart - welcome back! Sorry you've been having a tough time. But, you know, ultimately our own health is our own responsibility, isn't it? It seems so rewarding to comfort eat (or drink ) at the time, but in the longer term, there is little real reward for us.

However - it's all very well for me to say that - and it's very easy to say it to someone else. I know from my own experience that until I got myself 'into the zone', so to speak, I just couldn't get going. For me, there has always been one key, defining moment that propels me into serious, sustained dieting. This time around it was a day last year - around this time of the year. I was looking for a dress to wear for the MN Christmas meet up. I tried on a lovely dress. It fitted me (just), but it was a size 14 and already straining at the seams. (I'm 5 ft 2 in, so a size 14 going on 16 is going on 'outsize' for me).

I looked at myself in the mirror. The dress clung to the rolls of fat above and below my navel. It was a sleeveless dress, and my upper arms were all flabby and dimpled - that kind of dimpling that is about fatty deposits.

I was disgusted with myself and how I had allowed myself to get that far. I had studiously avoided weighing myself, even though I knew from my clothes - the few I had left in my wardrobe that fitted me any more - that I was piling the weight on.

It was way too late at that point to do much before Christmas, but I vowed that once Christmas/New Year had passed, I was going to get myself sorted out and that I would never, ever let myself do that to myself ever, ever again.

I set myself a date I was going to start and, most importantly, a plan for what I was going to do. In my case, that meant re-embracing low carb eating as well as signing up at the gym with my trainer. I pledged to myself that I was going to commit the time and the money to do it. For me

I think it's also a 'mummy' thing - we are so used/conditioned to doing things for others in our family that we sometimes forget to look after ourselves. In my case, I run my own business, and we had recently been able to pay ourselves a fairly decent dividend, so I ringfenced a proportion of that for my personal training costs. And I felt so guilty about doing it. How stupid is that?! To feel guilty about spending my money, that I had earned, on me?!

Oh, and here is an inspirational piece about why a calorie is not a calorie

This piece of video is about 9 minutes long, but it's really worth watching.

Welcome back head start! I too found it hard to get going again this time around, and then I get more frustrated with myself and then sabotage myself and don't do it properly. I am a bit better now, and can almost get back into some smaller clothes. I find that in the first few days in particular I have to snack like It is going out of fashion - no idea why, not hunger mainly, but my body rebelling against years of yoyo dieting maybe, so I stock up on pork scratchings, cucumber, celery pate and cream cheese and after that first few days/week I find it easier to stay on track.

Morning. Wish things looked better this morning. Instead it looks like a long stressful day. Anyone want to borrow an aspie child in complete meltdown? In the hour and half he has been up we have had two red mist incidents. I expect more to come today. Don't want anything sweet though. Last night's cheats were enough and I want back onto 'normal' food. and to go back to sleep and wake up to a calm day

singing your evening sounds lovely. I can't even remember when I last went to the cinema.

heartstart You can do this you want to do this but it is easy to let stress justify stuff because it is easier in the moment. Once you get started it does get better. And easier. It's just that first step that is hardest. Like learning to walk. expect a few falls to start off with but the more you practise the fast you are up and running. And then you will be wondering what the fuss about learning was. Deep breathe and just do this. You know you want to... and you can do it!

newstart hang in there...

Wine - hope you are all ok today, i know the stress can sometimes bring on back- and neck-ache, even if you are not whiplashed, IYSWIM.

Heart - well done for taking a stand.

I have a rare quiet weekend this weekend, but am off to Nuremberg with the boys on friday for the Xmas markets! I am so excited, i go somewhere different every year, not done nuremberg yet! I know it'll be magical, but also from a bit carb-mental, what with beer, gluhwein, nuremberger sausages, gingerbread. I will try to be super-good this weekend, to compensate!

Busy time of year, what with baking, xmas parties,

MrsHP - child in bath. I can cope with flooded upstairs better then the aggression and frustration. Just be glad when christmas is over and normal school routine is back as of Jan. I hate this time of year it is always horrific for ds meltdowns. This year has been worse then normal. Poor kid can't cope. I feel sorry that he won't experience the happiness and joy most feel at this time of the year. :(

NewStart, don't be sad, how old is your DS? I think you cope amazingly well with a really, really tough situation. As you say, water is just water and everything dries out! I think Christmas can be amazingly stressful for lots of people and that it isn't all happiness and joy - they are moments within a bigger picture. There will be moments within your bigger picture too when DS is content, they just will look different to what you see on christmas cards. Do you have anyone nearby you that you can have a cup of tea with when necessary?

yeah, i do. I have some amazing training partners who know the situation and are very good at helping me see the bigger picture. It really helps. Just some days are better then others. And being woken up by a red mist is a guarenteed hard day. Some days are like walking through a mine field, if you look carefully you can find a path through with least explosions, others a like having to walk through that mine field blindfolded and you only know about the explosions when you are right in the middle of them and you seem to find 101 of the damn things.

He is 7. Christmas day is fine it is this term at school. He'll get there but this year has been really bad. re-assessments, bullying, unrecognition of needs by school. We are off out in a mo. Stuff to do. Hopefully it will distract him a bit.

School sounds rubbish, hope they sort it out soon for him (and you). Have a nice time off out.