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!

[WillieWagglingRoundTheXmasTree]

hmm not certain of peer-review actually, so treat with caution, but interesting nonetheless

[halfthesize]

Hi back from the gym where my PT gave me a really hard work out, think I am dying

BIWI good luck with presentation and thanks for the pep talk, its just what I needed. Really back on track today, I have realised that going to the gym psychophysically keeps me motivated re LCarbing and makes me happy who knew!!!!

Just had a lovely cheese omelette with leeks in for lunch

[Toomuchturkeyatendofthedinner]

Morning all, well it's freezing here, actually it's below freezing it is minus 4!! So I think I have shivered off a few calories on my trip to village and back this am.

Weighed in, half a pound up, better than I was expecting. Strict today and tomorrow, to get ready for LBD night out on sat. I am wavering about putting a picture up for you guys, for my anonymity and because I am nowhere near as svelte as the other ladies. But it was a LBD bootcamp so maybe ... ?!

I think I will see if my local library has copy of IPD, sounds like it could help me.

Have a good day y'all.
B 2 eggs scrambled with butter and cream
S latte with full fat milk
L I think it will be bacon with mushrooms
D turkey mince needs using up, any suggestions?

[halfthesize]

toomuch you can just crop your head off, that way anonymity is safe

I also woke up too below freezing today, its still not risen that much brrrrrrrrr!!

[WineGless]

Too much you are gorgeous! Dont put yourself down and get the pics on!!!

[Toomuchturkeyatendofthedinner]

Thanks wine I'll do it if you do!!

[WineGless]

You're on!!

[halfthesize]

cant wait to see these pics ladies

Just had LC shepherds pie but feeling really bloated today since getting back from the gym Hopefully drinking more water will help..

[Toomuchturkeyatendofthedinner]

Deal!

It'll be an honest pic too as I don't own any spanx-y type squishy underwear.

[Boobz]

Am so behind on the threads as have been in Rome since last Saturday, but have skimmed and seen half's amazing pics! Well done!

Obviously carbs and plenty of wine carbs have featured this week and dreaming getting back on the scales but will be back on the woe and exercise from Sunday as still want to lose another 7lbs by Jan 18th..

Chuffed to be biggest % loser - although i know my diet is slightly different to everyone's here so hard to compare like for like. Well done all for a stirling 10 weeks.

[Doshusallie]

Evening all.

Really proud of myself. Totally smashed the interview and the presentation, even if I say so myself. Unfortunately there is a 3rd stage interview which is another presentation TO A PANEL!!! have told recruiter that I want some demands met before going through that, assuming they want me to.

So even I don't proceed with this one, prepping for the presentation, learning information by rote well enough to present to people who run that business has woken up they grey cells big time.

Tired tonight as didn't sleep great rehearsing my words. Had ds2's nativity this afternoon, which was fabulous. A boy in reception actually fell asleep whilst standing in stage singing a song....adorable.

Am drinking a glass of red to wind down...food wise have been a bit sporadic today....Greek yoghurt for brekkie, pkt pork scratchings for lunch on the road, celery cheese and 2 cold sausages for tea. So not much really.

picTURES, picTURES, picTURES!!

[halfthesize]

So pleased your interview/presentation and your ds2's nativity went well Dosh

[captainmummy]

Well done doshu - bit of a pain having to do it all again, but more so! At least you and they willbe sure by the time you get through.

Food tonight was a bit strange - I woke up with that hot,dry tickly feeling at the back of the throat, no energy, dizzy heavy-headedness that presages a rotten cold, so I made (and ate) watercress soup for breakfast, presume for the Vitamin C. Then bacon and egg for lunch.

Dinner tonight - couldn't face much cooking but knocked together a turnip gratin (perfect for comfort food) and a side dish of pureed sprouts with butter and cream, and bacon. It's a dish I saw somewhere as a side for the Xmas dinner, so thought as it's low-carb I'd give it a go. It's actually very nice, as sprouts go. Might make it onto my table with the turkey!

And after the office xmas do was cancelled - was supposed to be going out tonight for pre-christmas drinks with friends, but feeling to cold-y to bother, damndamndamn

[halfthesize]

Boobz hope you had fun in Rome and I am sure you will manage your next goal

[ViperInTheManger]

Isn't it amazing that there is all this information which is in plain sight and yet never seen by most people? I feel a bit like we've stumbled into The Matrix

[ViperInTheManger]

Sorry, that was referring to BIWI and Willies posts. Didn't realise we'd gone over to a new page!

Well done on the interview Dosh. Nativity sounds lovely, I miss all that now DCs are older.

captain I had a "start of a cold" last week that never materialised, hope yours fizzles out too.

Going to personal trainer tomorrow . Have had to take last couple of weeks easy after a knee injury but hoping to be back to normal soon.

[hazchem]

Well the choc nut balls were not so good. The cocoa nibs made them make your mouth dry??? Back to the drawing board am now think of vipers truffles with just a small ball of nut paste in the middle. All this is in the name of science of course!

MRSHP I seam to be in a bit of cycle at the moment of going well on LC WOE and then something trips me up (yesterday very hot, weird unhappy conversations with my mum, bit of small fight with my partner ect ect) then all of a sudden I need chocolate and "treat" myself. I know mentally I'm not hungry but want to eat just for eating sake or something. I think the IPD book would be good but feel need to find a home and jobs ect before buying books.

On a sort of side note to the Willie we started giving DS Safflower oil daily to drink. Basically he was covered in weeping eczema leavving him scratchy and unhappy within about 2 weeks of him drinking the oil on a daily basis it went. Safflower oil is high in linoleic acid which is hard to get into a baby. The great think about the safflower oil was the dose was however much he wanted so first day he drank about 75ml of it the next day maybe 50ml he then went down until he wouldn't have any and his ezcema was gone.

wine and BIWI thanks for your posts.

[captainmummy]

Haz - sounds like you are developing a LC ferreroRocher! (Sounds good to me!) Don';t forget the hazelnut in the middle. Re the 'treat' thing - I keep 85% choc in the cupboard, don't eat much (don'tneed much!) but it does help me. I can't even eat 70% choc now without noticing how sweet it is - god knows what milk choc is like now.

My 'cold' has robbed me of my voice - I sound like a hedgehog barking,and it feels like one is stuck in my throat too. Breakfast was linseed-crackers with marmite- again prob for the vitamins (is it B?) and lots of water.

[EwanHoHoHozami]

Dosh nice one for the interview-smashing and good for you for asking for some terms if they ask you back again. I was once up for a job where I had four FOUR interviews before they gave the role to their internal candidate. The buggers.

Totally agree about LC and sugar-ditching being a real slap-on-the-forehead moment. I was watching a TV show about morbid obesity the other night and the dietician was prescribing the patients measly portions of cereal and fruit and wondering why they weren't losing. I was shouting at the telly "GIVE THE MAN A BLOOMING STEAK and BIWIs big stick "


I'd put up a photo but I can't find any 'before' ones because I was such an expert camera-avoider. I'll have another look. Gulp...

[halfthesize]

Ewan it took me ages to find a before and to be honest the one I put up was not me at my biggest. Like you I was good at avoiding camera, quite sad though as hardly any of me with my 2 DS's when they were young

After my workout yesterday I feel like someone has punched and kicked me all over, hopefully it will feel better as off to gym again!!

Just had bacon and egg for breakfast, god I do love this WOE

[BIWIshYouAMerryChristmas]

6.50 am this morning, and already rowing with DH. So I completely forgot I was going to get back on the scales today.

Silly twat stayed up all night watching the cricket ("I was asleep for most of it, and I slept really well") then decided it was time for everyone to get up because he has to go to work, so came upstairs to very thoughtfully open the curtains. Today is my first day of my Christmas break, and I was sort of hoping for a lie-in.

Anyway, I think all is going well so far, although I don't know if I'm holding at 9.5. I have a Christmas lunch today, at a Chinese restaurant, so suspect today isn't going to be so great.

[halfthesize]

BIWI thats rubbish, men can be so thoughtless... Hope you have a lovely lunch. I am off out tonight on our Mum's xmas night, I already know there will be way too much wine involved

I also forgot to weigh in this morning after DS2 decided he wanted to be up most of the night to talk so not in the best of moods at the moment.

[BIWIshYouAMerryChristmas]

Well - TMI alert - realised I hadn't been to the loo, and had only had half a cup of coffee, so did the necessary and then got on the scales.

9 stone 3 and 3/4 lbs!

Very pleased and I shall stop being cross with DH now

[halfthesize]

WOHOO BIWI thats fantastic

[BIWIshYouAMerryChristmas]

It is absolutely fantastically fabulous.

I'm very, very pleased.

That makes 29.75lbs since I first started. Just 3.75lbs to go!