To want to kill someone, anyone.

[foureleven]

I am in a murderous mood. I get PMT about once a year and when I get it I GET IT bad.

So, Im dealing with a naked 5 year old who has snuck in to the garden to make a mud pie. And a pre-teen who wants to ask my advice on what to do about the fact that her hair wont grow quick enough and 'all' the girls at her school are laughing at her about it (which is a huge exageration of course)She is also slyly sounding me out over her 'holiday shopping' requests.

DP comes home and excitedly tells me that he saw a nutritionist today who, I am pretty convinced, is about 21 and a size 8 with blond hair and feux secretary glasses who's sole aim in life is to steal my man... (first thought of such a nature I have had in the 2 years we've been together) Apparently she has told him that eating carbs after 5pm is pretty much on par with eating Mcdonalds for breakfast lunch and dinner.
So he has suggested that on her advice - the carb fearing bitch - we shouldnt have carbs for dinner any more.

Oh well thats just fucking great. Not good enough that he has a meal that would put heston and delia to shame every night, oh no, now it has to also revolve around some kind of steamed fucking fish and green beans...

I may actually go searching for a Claire Knaw thread just so I can vent some of my anger.... Grrrrrr

Umm... thanks for reading

haha that is so true sidge!

I shall not eat any carbs for dinner from now on and tell him that I need to go to bed straight after the kids are in bed - no nookie.

I give him a day and he'll revise his opinion!

Now that the more reasonable 4/11 is back, I shall suggest that we have 3 evening meals a week with no carbs by way of comprimise.

foureleven - tell him that the no carbs rule is fine for those three days, as long as he can think up reasonable meals which don't have carbs in them. Hand him a cookbook and tell him to pick something out which won't take more than your usual cooking time. If it's going to take longer, suggest that he cooks it himself. It won't last, unless he really enjoys eating meat and salad and nothing else.

Honestly, there are "carbs" in everything! Has the helpful nutritionalist provided meal suggestions which are suitable for growing children who need a balanced diet? You can't not give them carbs - they need them in order to grow properly, and burn up a lot at night.

YANBU, by the way. No woman is responsible for her ire when she has PMT.

Joking aside the "nutritionist" is talking bollocks. There is no clock in your gut that says right it's 5 o'clock, no more carbs thanks I'm off duty now.

I think many of us do have a carb-heavy diet, and maybe could do with more protein, veg/salad but I really do not know of the physiological basis for this sort of advice.

I think it's only a true compromise if he cooks the no-carb meals.

and washes up too. Unless there's carbs in washing up liquid

No, the washing up will help him burn more energy. What a good idea!