Hello all - have had a lovely holiday and just spent half the morning lazily drinking coffee and cream and now fennel tea with coconut oil and catching up with the threads whilst periodically shovelling endless laundry into the maw of the washing machine.
Welcomes to mary spilt and jake - hope you are not suffering too badly from carb flu - I found I had a dodgy tummy to start with too - but it settles down, just stick with it and particularly drink lots of water.
Happy birthdays to black timid and kitchen 
- hope you are having a spoiling time and enjoying furry's treat not cheat philosophy. i loved that. Definitely find it helps for me.
A huge well done to thehumancatapult - what an inspirational story.
And skandi hope you've recovered from your parents' visit - can't believe you've had to do that on top of all the house decorating and no sleep - hope you are surviving OK.
And last but not least, a huge thank you again to BIWI for the WOE - I was hoping to STS on holiday (because, like Gless, although I stick to the WOE with food fine, I have trouble resisting the wine, and on holiday decided just to drink what I wanted but other than that stick with the WOE), but seem to have lost nearly three pounds! 
DH cannot believe after dark mutterings of "what diet?" all week as I hoovered down the cheese. And (like lavenderbriggs - well done! Glad the pain has settled down too) it's a psychologically-boosting drop to below the nine and a half stone mark for the first time since DD eight years ago. Still can't believe it - I really don't deserve it as drank way too much and also had milk in tea/coffee and a bit carbier veg than usual eg french beans.
I was worried about getting enough low carb supplies out there (small mountain village just with tiny food shop) so my packing also included: celeriac, cauliflower, swede, turnips, savoy cabbage, courgettes, Total, olives, pork scratchings, babybel... 
And sneaked cauliflower and button mushrooms into the fondue restaurant so that I could enjoy the fondu without worrying about the baguette. And I resisted croissant and baguette all week too. I am feeling very smug (well, about that bit, if not the wine).
My favourite new meals/recipes away were:
- Mountain cauliflower cheese: no oven in our apartment, so boiled cauliflower and then fried over high heat to brown a bit, then stirred in cubes of reblochon until they melted and then some cream. It was really delishcious.
- Low carb tartiflette: boiled swede, turnip and celeriac slices almost until done, then fried in generous amounts of butter with some onion and garlic (would have done leek but forgot to pack), then again stirred in some reblochon, and had a mound of savoy cabbage on the side. And had the leftovers for breakfast with fried eggs, mmm.
- Gin and slimline tonics with saucisson and olives
- Smoked mountain hams/speck with fried eggs and leftover celeriac chips for breakfast
- Seared scallops with a splash of wine to deglaze the pan, then some pesto and cream to make a sauce, with celeriac chips and grated courgette sautéed in butter
I love this WOE! Thanks BIWI