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 have had an Indian takeaway - had a spicy fish starter, cauliflower Bhaji, mushroom Bhaji and spinach with cheese. Fish thing tasted suspiciously like it had been fried in batter but I couldn't really tell as it was covered in spices. So not brilliant. It not tragic.

Other food today has been three poached eggs for brekkie, cheese, celery for lunch, low carb sausage and all the kids leftover mashed swede. Not bad for a hangover day.

Vnmum great news about your parents - my friend, whilst losing 10 pounds in two weeks has not been able to stick to it, mainly because she gains it all back so quickly when she falls off the wagon.

Viper - did you hear from your friend at all in the end. Hope all is well and ou can just be annoyed.

I am loitering at 16 stones which for now is fine based on what I have been eating. I did cook for DH for his birthday lamb shank, celeriac mash and green beans which was ok. If I can stay where I am until Jan and new bootcamp that'll do me I think!

half the wine is full unopened but still should be chucked probably!

dosh sounds like the indian could have been a lot worse. i hope you enjoyed it, and you did great the rest of the day :)

i did ok the rest of the day after i messed up yesterday. unfortunately dh's parents came to drop dd off last night and really had a go at me and started a huge row so there was that, and then dd was up half the night, so i am hoping this won't affect my eating today and just really hoping for a better week next week.

toomuch I'm jumping up and down with you - I've just broken the 150 barrier too! Well done us

I hadn't weighed for nearly a fortnight after the Drunken Pizza Debacle? as I'd been feeling a bit 'padded'. A few days of strictness have paid off!

jangle how are you feeling today?

Well done all those spreading the LC word. I've got a good pal having a miserable time on SW but thinks what I'm doing is 'faddy' and won't give it a go the stubborn mare I swear, if she mentions Syns once more...

oops jan x-post! What arses. Be strong today. Can you eat your very favourite LC thing?

Oh jan - that's awful Sounds like you need to try and distance yourself as much as you possibly can from your 'D'H and his family.

Well done toomuch and Ewan - go you!

I'm thinking that I'll get the next Bootcamp started on Monday 7 Jan, if that suits everyone? Gives us all time to re-group after Christmas. Again, it will be for 10 weeks. That will take us up to 17 March.

What do you reckon?

Is there anything that you would suggest we do differently, or do you think it has worked well this time around?

thanks for support. im trying to distance myself. i have to remember im not responsible for all their problems no matter how much they make me think that.

quote of the night from MIL 'well did you not know what he was like before you married him? did you both not know you would be incompatible?' doh.

i got some nice local made greek yog yesterday so that will be my fave thing for today.

wouldn't it be lovely if we could all meet up for a LC Christmas dinner together :)

i think maybe a couple of meal plans would be a good idea on a future bootcamp

Ok whose dumb stupid feckin idea was it to have vodka shots after buckets of wine????? Oh that will be me, then.

Never mind cropping a photo for on here, could someone please cut my head off. For real. It would be a mercy killing.

Thank fuck I drank 3 cups of water with my ibuprofen when I stottered in the house at 130am last night and then 2 more cups when I got up to pee sometime in the wee hours. Still feel like seven shades of shite tho. Fuck.

Morning everyone. Little bit of a hangover here as I was 'celebrating' last night. My period is over a week late and all week I have been working myself up to a mild panic that I was pregnant. Finally did a test yesterday and it was negative.

I am 43, DH is 46, DS1 is nearly 15 and DS2 is 7. So it would have been a shock for us all I think. I have told DH he is not getting near me until he has had a vasectomy.

I know there are a couple of people on here TTC and I dont want to seem insensitive, but I am so relieved.

Weight is up a few pounds but I am fairly happy with myself in general. Just going to keep at it and hopefully I will maintain this weight over the next few weeks.

God toomuch I'll join you with the hangover... I have a horrible feeling jaeger bombs were involved Last night (student flashback)

Had to swap meals with dp as he accidentally ordered something that contained things he's allergic to, and I managed to eat round the carby stuff but it wasn't as good as the lovely steak I had ordered for myself!

Hello mirai!

Jan 7 would be perfect for me as it's first day back at work so back into routine

Sorry jangle that you're having such a rough time. You know we're all here though

Vnmum that's fab about your inlaws. Dp's parents would really benefit but tentative discussions have had them not countenancing the idea of increasing fat. I know dp's dad binge eats in secret though (he doesn't know I know)

Morning all. Weigh in this morning showed 9 2 so that's great.

Dh has taken boys to play football. House is clean and tidy, Christmas carols on the stereo, log fire scene on sky on demand burning away on the telly (have you seen this? It is genius!!! and I am sitting at the kitchen table surrounded by good food magazine, radio times and iPad, planning THE SHOP and what treats to bake. Bliss. Off to see the hobbit later.

I'm glad it isn't just me that forgets I'm not 18 and ends up with jaegar bombs and all sorts of other shots on the occaisionaly night out!!!!

Dosh - sounds divine btw!

Jan - sorry about your night, sounds like you are having a bit of a rubbish time. Well done for staying strong, I am in awe of you doing it alone so well for your DD

Well no hangover here, and I've been to the gym with my trainer this morning [smug git emoticon]

Welcome mirai! Although I think Briffa is fab, just be aware that (from what others have reported here) his plan seems to suit maintenance rather better than weight loss. Depending on how much you have to lose, you may find that you need to be a little bit stricter than that, at least at the outset. Which is why Bootcamp is fab, of course

Rest of today - food shopping (lovely. not) and writing the rest of my Christmas cards, to get in the post tomorrow. Out for dinner tonight, as ever. Not quite sure where we will be going yet.

Comiserations to those with hangovers, congrats to those who lost weight and a general wave to everyone else because I've been terrible for keeping up with the threads and I bet I've missed loads.

Puppy has settled in nicely and is being cute and adorable. Just waiting for the itchy teeth stage to pass now, she's gnawing on everything. My dogs are raw fed so she's a low carber too.

Now I'm sleeping properly again I'm eating better and have dropped the weight I put back on and two extra pounds... so I'm under 11 stone in time for Christmas. So happy, I might get into that dress after all.

Brilliant, whippoorwhill! What a lovely Christmas present

aw how cute little pup!! i remember well the crazy puppy days, everyone will be cooing over him!

Biwi impressed with you being up and to the gym this morning!

Mrs thank you - honestly i would never have been able to do it if i had not had a lot of support God interfering and esp from those on mumsnet :)

'Only a stone', IME, is the hardest stone to lose!

Well, I went shopping today, as my jeans that I bought in April are now hanging off me in a most unattractive way.

I found a nice black pair of jeans, tried on a size 10, and then had to say the most wonderful words I never thought I would ever hear myself saying:

"Do you have these in a size 8?"

(And they fitted, and I have bought them!)

I would love to sign up for boot camp on 7th Jan too please. I am one of the original boot campers but fell off the thread because I had reached my goal weight. 5 months later I am still maintaining at my goal weight , which is unheard of for me. I have been in a cycle of losing weight and gaining it all back as soon as my "diet" is over , but now this is just the way I eat and I love it.

A bit of a push after Christmas and New Year sounds like just what I need so count me in!