The Ongoing Low Carb Bootcamp - Final Festive Fortnight

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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!

Viper how did you make your creamy vegetable soup? Every soup I used to make is quite carby ie potato carrot or parsnip. Need some soup inspiration

Celeriac makes fabulously creamy soup.

Lovely recipe i read recently, was onion, fried in butter, add chopped celeriac and fry gently, then add stock. Cook until celeriac is tender, then crumble in blue cheese. Can't remember if there was cream involved,, but i don't think so.

I did leeks, courgettes and celeriac softened in butter, boiled in chicken stock then blitzed and cream added. I hate cheese (bleeurgh!) and the only thing I hate more than cheese is blue cheese! Can't understand why anyone would eat food that stinks and has mould growing on it!

When I was 17 I went on a school trip to France. As part of the trip, we visited the caves where Roquefort is made. A whole factory built into the caves.

The smell is absolutely over-powering! I remember very clearly realising that I was either going to chuck up, or decide that I would have to like blue cheese. I chose the latter.

ok hung over is an understatement!! I actually think I am going to die, why oh why did I drink so much wine???? on the up side I was very good with food.... steak and Salad

BIWI just spotted your post re weight . You must feel great. Well done!

I am stuck at 9.6 but as this is the lightest I've been for soooo many years I'm not complaining too much.

newstart sorry to see things not so great for you. Lets hope the New Year brings in a change. for you.

Dosh sounds like the job hunt is going great guns! Cheers!

Waves to everyone. This thread takes some keeping up with.

Tree up, house decorated and presents nearly all wrapped. Struggling with writing cards though, just can't motivate myself with that job. Oh, and so glad I'm not the only one with a DH with OCD tendencies. Grrrr. I have been known to shriek sing that fab line from the Pogues. "Happy Christmas your your arse I pray God it's our last" to him whilst sorting the tree out.

BIWI, well done on the weight. Great news.

Singing, that is very funny. That bit of the song always makes me sad, because poor Kirsty died in the speedboat accident. It's a great song and always makes me feel festive though.

Had people over and had Spanish chicken, followed by pavlova. I'd forgotten how nice pavlova is. Yummers. I may also have had a couple of champagne cocktails and some wine. There is a carol concert this morning which my daughter is singing in and there will be mulled wine and mince pies. It's just one round of eating after another.

Have a good Saturday everyone

BIWI - woohoo on the weight loss!

Viper - I am with you, with the blue cheese, bleugh!

Well done biwi!

I am watching dp play rugby. It is bloody cold, an so can't tell which player he is as they're all so muddy!

I have had my first request for a January bootcamp!

Half I am also hungover. Shocker, I hear you say. Drank far too much fizzy wine with the girls. Was reasonably good with food (chicken in a tarragon sauce with a salad, didn't eat the baked potato or crisps, and gave my pudding to the dog when no one was looking) but did drink baileys and ate one baileys truffle chocolate as they were just too tempting. . Great fun to see my friends though.

Today we have achieved purchasing a tree (£35!!!! Who knew?? Have had a plastic one for years!!!) and have decorated the house. Christmas has landed chez dosh. Am very tired and won't be late to bed.....

Just dashing into the thread to say I did a sneaky extra weigh-in this morning before my night out tonight, as today was my original "end point" < when I thought this was another "diet" rather than a lifelong WOE as I see it now!>

149.5 lbs!!!!!

So I've made my original target of getting 20lbs off from start point of 170lbs, plus an extra cheeky half

I am so so pleased with this, and just want to say a HUGE thank you to BIWI and everyone else for all the moral support and encouragement.

Right, off to beautify and then bring on the !!! First in 3 months, I will probably be under the table by 9pm!!

Drunken Xmas smoochies to you all x x x

Sounds like a fab night Dosh

I have just finished icing our Christmas cake, now DH & DS's are making mince pies

How bad is Baileys? Is it not just cream and whisky and coffee? I bought (on the recommendation of someone on here) the Irish Cream from Lidls, as being 'better than Baileys' - and I can tell you, IT IS!

Only had 2 small glasses so far

Have fun tonight Toomuch and well done on the weight loss, bet you are feeling great

Dosh I am already in my PJ's

having a rough weekend here. hopefully will join you all in the festive spirit soon! dh horrible to me last night and eating has gone to pieces today. feel rubbish, look like rubbish etcetc. bring on monday.

maybe theres a way to make low carb baileys? any way captain, its a once a year treat so why not - enjoy your few glasses :)

sorry to hear you are having a rubbish weekend jangle treat yourself to a nice bath and a glass of something x

thanks so much. theres a bottle of wine left in the fridge from 5 months ago when dh and me separated... he drinks i don't... wonder if it would be off? does wine go off? lol

2 friends phoned me today and made me feel better. i feel so lucky and blessed to have good friends. dd comes home in an hour or so so need to get myself together in calm collected mother mode!

ps i do clean the fridge....the odd time, honest! i think i was leaving the wine for emergencies!

I reckon that wine will be disgusting! Sorry to hear you are having a rubbish weekend.

Evening all. After being off the wagon spectacularly for the past few weeks, and gaining alot, today i started a fresh. I am not going to give in over xmas either. I have realised that i don't really like mince pies that much and am not bothered about alot of stuff so hopefully i won't find it too hard.
A few weeks off plan has made me realise how quickly the weight can return when you go back to carbs and also that i feel much better without them. I feel like my body is saying "i've had enough carbs now, please start feeding me properly".

Well done BIWI on your whoosh, and to any other whooshers and losers.

If you remember me mentioning last week about my PIL who visited and i sent away with the Atkins book, well i have an update.
They are very happy. They started this woe on monday, although did admit to not cutting carbs completely and still having a bit of bread, which i will address on monday. FIL has already lost 9lb in 6 days and MIL hasn't weighed yet but feels like she has lost. They are so happy to have finally found something that works and tastes nice to boot. So i think thats another 2 converts .

FIL gets weighed at a weekly fitness session i think so it will be interesting to see what they say when he has lost so much and their response to low carb.

Dr Charles Clark allows a slice of wholemeal bread on his low carb plan, so if it's easier for them to do it, then it should be OK - as long as they're not tucking into potatoes and pasta/rice elsewhere!

Welcome back to low carbing. Hopefully you'll shed any weight gained pretty quickly.

I am going to have to pull myself together. I had arranged to go out with a friend tonight but she has just vanished off the face of the earth today and not replied to my text or calls so we are unexpectedly at a loose end with no tea planned and I have just eaten a chinese takeaway I don't know whether to be concerned or annoyed (about her that is, not about the takeaway although I am irritated that I ate it!)

I will be good from tomorrow!

glad to hear you have such good friends jangle I would give the wine a miss if it is a half empty bottle!

chinese sounds yummy viper very strange re your friend, is it out of character?