The Ongoing Low Carb Bootcamp - Final Festive Fortnight

[BIWIshYouAMerryChristmas]

No spreadsheet to link to this week, as the LBD challenge is now over!

I don't know about anyone else, but I have definitely not had the greatest of weeks, and I'm keeping on keeping on until we get to Christmas.

Not quite sure yet what my own Christmas strategy is going to be, but I also guess it depends on where I've got to with my weight by then. I know that, having achieved my first major target of losing 2 stones, I still have more to go. So my next really major, very psychological target, will be to reach 9 stone. Something I have been trying (and failing) to do for the last 10 years! But now it seems so much more achieveable, especially with all you lot giving such brilliant support.

This week for me starts with a super strict day today. I'm out to dinner tomorrow, with a groups of ex colleagues, and venue is not yet chosen, but is likely to be a Chinese, which always brings its own problems. not to mention the wine

I'm also out to lunch on Friday, so it looks like Wednesday and Thursday will also have to be super strict!

I've been buried under very sick and poorly children plus an older ds1 home from uni with girlfriend and Christmas stuff to sort.
However aside from a few slip ups
2 x 2 beers
almond cake
milk chocolate
noodle with a takeaway
DD is about to be admitted againwith her cyclic vomiting attack so diet is last thing on my mind tonight

Oh no Piffle . Hope she's better soon.

I have just taken delivery of a MASSIVE box of Thornton's chocolates from one of our suppliers . Save me ...

Uh oh. [fashions big stick out of cardboard wrapping paper tubes and brandishes it threateningly at biwi]

Oh gosh lots of poorly DCs hope they all get better for The Big Day.

I'm doing the big shopping list tonight. We're not doing a turkey, we're considering doing a really rich game casserole of some kind. I've got a houseful so secretly can't wait until it's all cooked, washed up and I'm sitting in front of Call The Midwife with a contraband Bailey's!

Ooh yes I have loads of empty rolls of wrapping paper. Dosh your post about feeling Christmassy was great, sums up how I feel about it.

Vnmum and piffle, really hope your DCs get well soon.

Teddy, well done! That is fantastic.

BIWI, let DH and DCs eat those chocs, you will find them far too sweet. Trust me. [fshame]

Met a friend today to exchange presents and she got out the mince pies. Had one to be polite and thankfully hasn't started any cravings or bad effects yet. Ahem.

I need to welcome somebody to our wonderful thread but can't remember name sorry. Will look back when I've posted this.

Welcome Pretzel! Really hope you come to enjoy this woe as much as the rest of us. Just one thing, if you have a question that you think has been overlooked just SHOUT. This thread moves quite quickly at times.

DH now home and we have electricity still (not sure for how long with this rain) so time for a festive Christmas vodka cup of tea.

ilove awesome!!! Well done you!!! And welcome to pretzeltime
Get well soon vnmumds

Well another night out last night, another fab meal with loads of , another day today of raiding the fridge to cope with the hangover. I think I've eaten nearly a whole packet of salami with Philly. and some toast whoops

Had turkey tonight with Brussels and carrots. It was just a frozen joint from asda, meant as a kind of "practice dry run" to get DS (6) to try it again before Xmas day. He liked it tonight, phew, so he will hopefully eat some on Xmas day and I can avoid the worried expressions of my parents about how he is "so fussy". My mum always says how I ate everything put in front of me no problem from when I was a baby, and I think (but don't say) yes mum and I have struggled with my weight all my adult life and always feel obliged to finish everything on my plate even if I don't want or need it, due to how I was raised. If Ds is more aware of his appetite and is more self regulating then I don't see this as a bad thing as hopefully he will not end up with weight issues.

Well done ilove 5 stone is fantastic!

Get well soon all of the ill DCs

Ilove, 5 stone is AMAZING! Well done!

Vnmum and Piffle. Hope your children get better soon.

Vnmum, awesome news about your husbands knee. He must be so relieved that they are finally doing something about it.

Pretzel, I was amazed at how little I want bad stuff now. Took a couple of weeks and then I really just didn't want it. My sons have been stockpiling Xmas goodies and I'm not even slightly tempted. Previously I was the worlds biggest carb addict. There is a thread further down in this section entitled 'I feel like I'm drowning in sheer uncontrollable greed'. I could have written it 10 months ago and now I've lost over 3 stone and it was easy. You just need to get through the first couple of weeks without cheating so that you are properly in ketosis and it's a pretty smooth ride from there.

I'm very sorry to hear about your DM's diagnosis Doshu

Hope all sick dc get better soon! Dosh - my fridge and freezer and wardrobe are stuffed with shopping - but I think I've finish ed!

Remember the green chicken? I phoned Lidl again, as I hadn;t heard for over a month, they said they'd sent a letter a month ago, and would resend.I got the letter (dated 23/11, but postmarked 17/12!) saying they would 'refund and replace' if i spoke to the store manager. Which I did, yesterday, and he said 'would you like a refund or replacement' I said, 'no, a refund and replacement' he said ' I can offer you a refund OR replacement' I said 'NO, a refund AND replacement!' ... Even tho I didn't really want a replacement (Cringe at the thought of more green chicken!)

So we are having roast chicken tonight, with all trimmings!

Oh and I got a further copy of the letter the next day.

Checking in as am still alive after the excesses of the weekend although the bruises are only just fading

Haven't got time to reply to all messages but welcome to the new joiners and we will be back on it properly in January.

Am on nights all weekend so may post at random times if I get a break.

Off to collect bike for DD so will build that this afternoon and wrap DH presents. Two more presents to buy for nephew and MIL and then thats me finished. In more ways than one - am fighting off the lurgy still and feeling grim.

hope all the sickly children are better soon and in time for Christmas, and everyone is enjoying the festive season, excitement and stress involved.

toomuch i think you have a great attitude around your ds's food and eating - my dd is also very fussy and i try not to make a fuss and if she doesn't want something just offer something else and if she doesn't want anything i offer just wait till the next snack or meal time. im sure they know what they are doing (i also came from the 'clean your plate' camp)

today was meant to be going out for lunch with people i hardly know. very nice of them to invite me, but i feel now i just want a quiet day in so thats what im going to do, catch up on a few things, stay in my lounging clothes, put nice candles on, sort the exciting laundry.

welcome to all the newcomers, you will find this way of eating a revelation, just keep on going at it and you will feel healthier too.

I got my Asda order last night, not the Xmas shop, just standard fortnightly shop for dog food, toilet roll, tins of soup etc. Guess what was an unavailable item, no substitution offered? Eggs. So, as there were no 6 x medium free range eggs in store, couldn't have replaced with large size or a bigger box? No? Riiiiiight.

toomuch this is why I am braving the shops myself tomorrow. DH has not yet forgiven Mr. Tesco for replacing his festive ale with Kaliber one year

am sharpening my elbows...

I hit my 50lbs loss target! Woohoo !

Well done to everyone else, especially Ilove.

Can I just have a petty wee rant though? Although I have always loved chocolate, I never got given chocolates for Christmas presents. Maybe cause I was fat people thought it would be wrong or something? So this year I decided to buy myself some wee planned indulgences and enjoy them mindfully.

And what does everyone decide to give me this year ? Chocolates, sweets, biscuits, bloody boxes of the damn things. Yeah, that's what someone who has clearly been working her arse off (literally) all year is going to want. One "friend" has sent me four boxes, seriously. Bloody saboteurs.

Well it isn't going to work. I have my little box of salted caramels that I'm going to savour, and the rest are being "redistributed". And not onto my arse.

Hi All, crawling in with yet another hangover drinking shed loads of water.

Piffle really hope DD gets better soon x

Whippoorwhill my mum exactly the same comment and think the same as you re weight issues. Well done on the 3 stone loss thats fantastic

Sorry to hear about your mum dosh

Good luck too everyone who is braving the supermarkets, Tesco was awful on Wednesday!! I'm off too the cinema with DS's then home to do yet more wrapping. Really wish it would get colder and frosty like the other week as would look lovely and christmassy fed up of this damn rain

Salted caramels.

Good choice

no its not going to work MsRinky! they will be good gifts you have plenty of time to regift them, and to let yourself have PLANNED treats. you are doing great and nothing is going to stop you! they are just JEALOUS!!!

Just quickly catching up. Where has this week gone?

I was at the shops this morning looking for something to wear but nothing really caught my eye. I still have a few presents to buy along with the rest of the food shop. The fridge and freezer are full but there is nothing to eat. How does that happen? I need to get some cleaning done too. The boys stop school at 1 pm today and that is when Christmas is supposed to start, but I am just not feeling it this year. Everything is meant to all be done by now and we were going to spend the next few days watching DVD's, doing Christmas crafts, going for country walks, visiting the market in Edinburgh etc etc.

Oh well at least DH and I have had our annual festive falling out a few days early this year. Gets it out of the way I suppose. Normally happens around the 23rd when the stress gets too much.

I hope everyone who is ill, or has poorly children, get better soon.

Huge well done to those who are continuing to lose weight and who have reached their goals.

Welcome to the newbies and those that are lurking, I look forward to getting to know you better when Bootcamp restarts.

Hugs to those that need them.

I think that cores it for now. I will be back for a moan later.

Covers it!

That should say.

Well done MsRinky bet you feel fantastic

Well done MsRinky.

I am still 2lbs away from my 3stone goal. Can't see it happening before Tuesday but I live in hope.

Thankyou Jessica and half* - went to visit Mum this morning, and sang Christmas carols to her. My singing always used to make her collapse in giggles because she found it so funny becauseIcannotsingforsaltedcaramel

Dh off doing his mysterious shop that he does every year - mysterious in that he goes with a list I have written of suggested presents for people and comes back with piles of stuff that wasn't on the list. I talked about diamonds ALOT last night. fatchance

DS2 had his Christingle service with school at their church this morning. It was Christmas in a box. Utterly charming and goose pimply. He did a reading. I filmed it all in true mum style. Ding Dong Merrily on High lalalalalalalalalala...sigh. LOVE IT!!!!

Also filmed the river that has burst it's banks near us. Second the wish for some nice coldy frosty weather now please.

Lunch now I think - boiled eggs, pate, celery, cucumber - the usual. 9 1 this morning, ready for the Christmas onslaught of carbs.....got a Christmas drinks party tonight and egg nog has been mentioned.........do i even like egg nog? Does anyone even like egg nog? What the frig is egg nog anyway?