How can I lose 10lbs before my holiday on, er, Monday?

[WhatsGoingOnEh]

In a panic. Was meant to start diet in May but one thing (or rather, one pizza) led to another and now I've got less than a week.

I'm 5'6" and look great at 9st 7. This morning I was 10st 11! Shiiiiiiiit!

What can I do? I really REALLY need to crash some of this off. I don't care if it's unhealthy, it's only for a few days and I can do it properly when I get home.

Any and all ideas MASSIVELY gratefully received. What are your tried and tested tricks? Thank you!

I haven't tried that, Favadi, but I will give it a go. All suggestions gratefully received.

Have a bug. Surely that'll get rid of a few lbs?!
Now, Scarsdale, anything I can substitute for artichokes, I can't get them here anywhere.

Weigh in, still 12 stone but at least no increase.

Made sweetcorn soup for lunch. Was delicious. Having chicken for dinner tonight with roasted in olive oil baby potatoes.

I feel like I am missing the joke and not part of the gang. Why are you all calling Duncan James from Blue, James Duncan? .

I just booked DM and I into a day spa for Monday. I'm sure champagne in a hot tub is as good as dieting...

I also feel the need to confess my dirty secret. I'm running a half marathon in 7th Sept and have been (halfheartedly) training. Can I stay?

I don't know what I've been calling Duncan, or James fir that matter!

It's all because my knowledge of him is very limited.
Sorry if I've caused a confusion.

I just hope the bloody diet works.

It'sfab - because James Duncan sounds (obv) like Duncan James. It's nothing more complicated than that!

Of COURSE people training for marathons can stay. Eat them, run them - all marathon-lovers are welcome.

I just read back a few pages and realised if missed Scarlett's bridesmaid post! HOW WAS IT?! Hope you had an incredible time! And that you drank till you vomited (slimming). ;)

I'm having quite a good, healthy day today. But evenings are my weak spot so I hope I don't find myself head first in the chest freezer tonight, baying for ice-cream.

Dry toast with Bovril on for breakfast, black coffee and grapefruit.

Cottage cheese (I'm lucky, I actually like it) with chives and Melba Toast crispbreads (something insane like 20 calories each and NICE), and a banana for lunch. Then I had a sweet craving :( so I had one teaspoon of that biscuit-spread stuff... Can't remember the name. V fattening. Worth it.

I've got chicken and veg tonight.

I want to get the timetables of the other gym in my town where I can go on my membership. (Two gyms run by same company.) it's got a pool and I think I'd like to start swimming again. It destroys my fake tan but I might be citing back on that for winter anyway...

I'm back on the healthy wagon! Feels good!

Very exciting update:

My next door neighbour has Norovirus. This could be the answer to my prayers. I'm going to go round tonight after work and give her a cuddle to make her feel better.

I've lost half a stone! In five days! Get in!
Cabbage soup diet rawks.

Give her a snog Keith!

Hounds! That's fantastic!!

CatThief -- ditto the snog idea. Or go through her bins. Or get a cup out of the dishwasher and lick the rim (so to speak).

LOOK AT THE UNBELIEVABLE STATE OF MY BEDROOM! I'd kick my kids out if theirs ever got this bad. (Please note abandoned rowing machine.) There's no excuse for it! I don't know what happened. It's been like this for a WEEK! (My fiancé has not been here this week, apart from one day when I forced him to take me out for lunch so he wouldn't see it.) Remember I'm still living at my parents house. I have reverted to teenage room-wreckage. :(

I'm posting it here to shame myself into tidying it up. I have to post a TRANSFORMED After photo within the next 90 minutes, or do 500 sit-ups and an hour on the rower.

The Duncan (James) -from - blue reference comes from somewhere upthread where someone did a type when referring to the dukan diet and called it the duncan diet instead.

Mnet then did it's usual and ran with it. :)

Ha. That's impressive OP.

Is your transformed photo going to consist of you kicking it all under the bed where it can't be seen? That's how my teen used to tidy.

O, I'll do it properly (fun Saturday night! Wahoo) because it's a) beyond squalid, and b) stopping me doing anything productive. I can't do anything till I've tidied this, but tidying this is daunting so I haven't started yet. Cycle.

Fuck! I'm wasting minutes!

19:24 is the time for my after photo. I'm going in!

WhatsGoingOnEh - my parents told me one Christmas Eve that Santa wouldn't bring me any presents if I didn't sort out my room. I was 21.

Ours isn't great at the mo as I am moving stuff round the house and it always gets worse before it gets better.

Haha, that room looks a lot like mine
DH is making hazelnut pesto and pasta for him and the boy, it smells amazing
I made another batch of soup yesterday and its a bit gross so I haven't eaten any of it today - gonna have a tiny bowl with my steak and tomatoes tonight. Might have a cheeky bit of rocket or cavalo nero too.
So far I've had a coffee, a bucket o' fizzy water 250g steak and 6 cherry toms.

I just can not wait until the kids have gone back to school purely so I can get this house tided.

Last Monday I got rid of all the certificates on the kitchen wall and all my stupid post it notes and it immediately made the room look better. Less cluttered. Why does no one tell you that you end up with A LOT of stuff when you have three children? There are even two toy boxes and beds in the lounge belonging to the cats!!

Had yummy dinner. Chicken thighs and drumsticks marinated in BBQ sauce, new potatoes and carrots.

Me too fab, next Wednesday is gonna be clean, clean, clean. until I sit down to catch up on Criminal Minds
I've only got one and there is just stuff EVERYWHERE! Lego and Skylanders covering every surface.
Your dinner sounds yum :)

Halfway through and I've ground to a halt. primal - your 21 y/o story made me laugh!

I'm going to create an exercise corner where I'll do sit-ups etc every night. Will I? Probably not.

I can't wait till school (Thursday) so I'm back in a routine again. I never realised how much I like routines!

Hounds - how long are you doing the soup thing for? Another two days? I'd be boaking by now. How much should you have lost by the time you've finished?

I just ate two dry cream crackers and bolted a cup of black coffee. Going back in...

My house is trashed too, and dd only goes to play school twice a week.

Hasn't helped that I have worked loads of extra days.

Maybe I could burn off some extra calories tonight doing housework. Before I get the Norovirus and have to stay in bed for two days.