SLIMTEMBER: Duncan from blue and tea that makes you poo

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It's here!!!!!! Forget all you've ever known about steady, gradual weightloss, SLIMTEMBER IS HERE.

Yours sounds delish though Wyrd!

Wyrd if your going to sack the diet you may as well do it in style, I am drooling at the thought of your meal.

I have had about a pound of hair cut off, every little helps.

Hello fellow strugglers, I'm really struggling too, today.
I still have a massive headache, I wish I had fruit instead of dinner; I wish i did't had cheese to the courgette omlette at lunch and had a piece of fruit instead.[grr] Lunch and Dinner (chicken and green been in home made thai green-no fat, no coconut) were nice enough but not enough carbs for me.
It's almost 3 weeks since I had a piece of chocolate and now I want a full bar (200g), I have even checked how many calories the raw chocolate nibs that are in the cupboard (too many!). Victrix, can you share your 0 cal gluten free dark chocolate banana loaf recipe, please, pretty please with a cherry on top?

Not giving up, just having a monumental fall of the wagon day (did I mention the Mojito that washed it all down?)

It's DD's 10th birthday at the weekend so I'm up to my eyes in prep for that, first full week back at work and manic for various reasons, and DD's school is in the theirs of being taken over by an academy.

They have a new leadership team who seem hell bent on making lots of changes as quickly as possible without keeping the parents in the loop, and DD, who idolized the old headteacher, is finding it all a bit of a struggle and is having some very moody & tearful phases, as was I today.

Luckily I work with a lovely bunch of people and if any one of us has a problem there is always plenty of tea and sympathy on hand but that doesn't give me more hours in the day which is what I really need between now and Monday!

I don't have a calorie free choc cake recipe, but having made DD's birthday cake last night I can certainly point you in the direction of one that is so sweet & rich & gooey a couple of mouthfuls will put you off for life !

I'm sure DD and her friends will love it though.

Certainly

0*Calorie Gluten Free Choc Chip Banana Loaf

Ingredients:

250g self-raising GF flour
250g golden caster sugar
125g butter/margarine- I use stork.
3-4 ripe bananas
2 large eggs
1 tablespoon-ish ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon GF baking powder
200g dark chocolate chips
1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Method:

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180°C, and grease and line the loaf tin (900g tin) with baking paper.
2. Cream the butter and sugar together, beat in the eggs one at a time and then add the vanilla essence.
3. Sift the flour and baking powder into the mixture, add the cinnamon and mix until combined.
4. Mash the bananas and add them to the mixture- I use an electric mixer to get rid of any lumps. Stir in the chocolate chips.
5. Pour the mixture into the loaf tin and bake in the oven for at least an hour. I usually end up poking it with a skewer after about an hour, then testing every ten minutes. Think average time is about an hour and a half.

*Calorie amount calculated by hormonal woman prone to delusion and wishful thinking and may not be accurate, but the cake has fruit in it and folk are always going on about the antioxidants in dark chocolate so hey

Oh yeah, and if you are a lucky proper bread eating BASTARD aren't gluten free use plain flour and 2 teaspoons of baking powder.

Thank you, I'm already inhaling it, Ds (also GF) would love it. :)
900g tin? My tins must be are really old, when I bought them metric had not be introduced. The label on the tins told you how many inches in diameter or how many 'eggs' a sponge would need in that tin!

Just bought ds a couple of GF baking books but we haven't got round to try any bread recipes yet, because, as any cook would, I would need to test, test again and then, just to be sure...

Just measured my loaf tin- it's about 8.5in x 5in if that helps

I've only done bread once but it was a gf packet bread mix and it was awful. It's on my list to try out though.

I find most normal recipes that use plain flour you can pretty much just swap for GF self raising and a bit less baking powder.

Got it! A 'loaf' tin for a banana loaf! I have never baked a loaf before, thought they were just for eating. I might still have a silicone one somewhere, never used of course, which I bought to experiment with gf bread! Oh, how exciting! I'm going to bake my first loaf next week, when we are allowed up two slices of 'bread' a day and it will have 0 cals too by then!

6lbs down after Day 3 and hoping for another loss tomorrow.Talking of baking, my muffin top has definitely shrunk

Well done Tessie! Day 6 and I've lost 6lbs on this morning's weigh in.

Duncan is slipping a bit, I'm having toast for breakfast instead of grapefruit juice. I'll follow rest of the day though.

I'm 3lb down after four days being rubbish at Duncan. I'm really quite annoyed with myself for giving myself excuses to cheat. I need to sort myself out

Forgot to weigh first thing. Looks like another good day for me as I've managed to persuade DP to take the rest of the cake to work with him

Gallstones are an excellent reminder to not eat crap

Am also now slightly high from using a hot skewer to poke air holes in the side of a plastic tank for my new python bby who will be arriving today

Waiting, 3lbs is pretty good - it's not the promised stone, but I bet you'd take it on any other week of any other diet??

Ohh, a python how exciting! I love snakes! Can you post a pic when s/he arrives? We have applied for a puppy now, its a german pointer x english springer DH is head over heels for it! I guess I'll be getting even more exercise than I thought...

Tummy is growling a lot today, I think it's because I had sprouts for lunch and the cabbage and broccoli for dinner. Brassica overload!

I will

This is my other bby, Tesla the corn snake. I also have a cat and two degus so my individual zoo is off to a good start

Just to clarify, I have fairly small hands. Tesla is teeny.

Ahhh, it's so wee! I want one!

Not cute to me but congratulations. Cool name is it after the SI unit of magnetic flux density?

Scales stable for me today.

My annoyance is that it's the same half stone flighty. I started these threads at 12st 6lb, got down to 11st 13, back up to 12st 5lb (largely due to pre-run eating) and am working my way back down.

I love my new gym and am very motivated as DS loves the crèche and that's my only space in the week as he's abandoned naps. I just wish exercise made me lose weight.

Timidly returning to thread after a 7 day chocolate and cake bender. Still closing my eyes so I cant see the scale sitting in the corner of the bathroom but at least I've stopped squinting so I can't see this thread on mumsnet.

Is it any wonder I am the size I am.

Oh I know that one waiting, I'm currently having to lose the 2.5 stone I lost over a year ago.

Unless I get up at stupid o'clock I have no time for exercise as my husband works completely unstructured and un-patterned shifts and there is no-one for childcare.

Day 4 - 8lbs lost. Not sure I'll achieve a stone by the end of the weekend but we'll see.

I had wine and pizza yesterday.
Ashamed of self.

Should've weighed this morning but didn't dare after last night.

Glass of smoothie for breakfast and a bowl of iceberg lettuce and prawns in Marie rose sauce for lunch.

Don't really have time to think about eating today which is just as well.

Off for more party prep!