Emmsy's ladies - 4 years of weebling - still going strong!

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Here's to us ladies! Proud to be part of this - onwards and upwards..

I will join you cupcake, I have a stone and a half to shift. I'm off for a swim tonight and can't wait

4ever oh lovely we're all here to hold your hand this month, I'm glad you've got a holiday to look forward to. No appointments yet, I'm giving it a couple of weeks then will start making pone calls.

I've finished my final assignment, I can't believe 6 years of hard work is over. It's not submitted yet, I want to sleep on it for a couple of days and will submit next week. Eeeeekkk!!!!!

Cupcake I'll join you on the weightloss too starting tomorrow

Rumours Woohoo! Well done on the assignment. Clever girl!

4ever A big hug from me for a difficult month. Waving my pompoms for you too.

Hugs for Rumours and Blue and anyone else who needs them too.

Excellent, lovely to be joined for some moral support :) Friday is my weigh-in day (then I'm allowed one small treat at the weekend if I've lost some!) but you guys do whatever you fancy.
I'm basically following the Montignac diet but only for breakfast & lunch..too complicated to do it for dinner with dh & ds to consider. It's no sugar, and no fat with carbs. So breakfast is bowl of no added sugar muesli, & 2 slices of Brown bread with no butter just sugar free jam (st dalfour).
Lunch is salad with whatever proteins I fancy (tinned salmon, boiled eggs, cheese) - no carbs.
Snacks are plain crackers & fruit (pref not bananas)

I did this after ds1 and lost weight quite quickly. we'll see if it's harder this time!

Btw neeko & blue I've finally caught up with Grey's, watched season 8 finale yest, I'm in shock!! Can't believe I have to wait ages now for 9, been used to just getting the while next season straight away!

4ever that is annoying about the October hol.. but I think a good idea to get booked up & just play it by ear. Here's hoping you conceive this month then you could still go with a 4 month old in tow :)

Well the diet is going well...not! I've had a KFC for lunch them made some yummy chocolate biscuits of which a few I have sampled, but I'm celebrating the submission of my final piece of work. I was going to leave it a few more days but I thought bugger it, it's done. Now I can get chasing up appointments for both ds's

Also I wonder if any of you can help me, ds1 has made a paper mâché model and it bloomin honks. We made it with a water and flour mix and it's not due to be handed in for another 2 weeks. Is the smell going to get better or worse? And if worse what can I do? I've posted in arts and crafts but no one has replied yet. It's not 100% dry so it may smell better once dried

Sounds like a question for lbm! I don't know, sorry..only done papier mache with wallpaper paste.
Huge congrats on handing in the assignment! You must feel so relieved & proud of yourself. LOL at KFC and chocolate biscuits! (im jealous)

Sadly, cupcake and rumours papermache is not a strength of mine - the kids never have the patience and I've only done it with PVA once. It didn't stink mind

Good luck with the diets - I really should join you, if I could only step away from all the cakes and chocolate in the house...

Forgot to mention the other night - BB came up to me on Sunday, admist much prompting from her big sister looking pleased with herself and holding her hands behind her back. "big girls don;t need dummies, Mummy" and handed me her dummies. Since then, she has asked where they are a few times and we have just reminded her that big girls don't need dummies and she has settled quite happily.

However, I really don't like it - she's not a big girl, she's my baby and I don't like her growing up one little bit!

4.25lbs off this morning one very happy lady!
rumours I saw your other topic :( hope ds won't be too upset by it. What's the model of? Did it take him ages?

Ooh and lbm what a good grown up girl you've got! I have 2 thumbsuckers here so will be a while before that stops I'm sure!! In fact I'll post a little pic on my profile I took yest..

lbm I hear you on the growing up too fast, but what a good girl babybelle is

cupcake well done that is great weight loss. Ds is ok, I was going to remake it without him knowing but he's found out and it really is smelly now. It's a jellyfish and it smell like a washed up one! I've just made a start on the new one now, I'll do the main bit and he can colour it

Blue How are things with you? I was so sad to see that you are at the receiving end of bullying/harassment I hope you get it all sorted and very soon
Blackrocked I am pretty sure we were on an mc thread a few years ago (I was molliemooma back then) sorry to hear that you are struggling to conceive again, let's hope this thread brings you some luck
4ever How is that toe of yours I think I broke mine on holiday in May, I just ignored it (such a martyr ) its nearly back to normal now
Neeko How is dd2, hope her cold is better? Can't believe your dd will be 5.5 when she goes to school
Rumours So sorry I missed Ajay's birthday sounds as if he had a fantastic time
cupcake Big waves to you missus, good luck with the diet, I've been doing Slimming World for the last 10 weeks and lost 13.5 lbs, still another 50 stone to go
lbm Was it nice to get the kids back to school or are you missing them?
4ever Taking a deep breath and getting shoulders ready for your horrible month of anniversaries, we'll be here for you my lovely. How spooky that you are on holiday the same week as us, I know you were meant to be away when we were in May too, we must be in synch for breaks, let's hope we can do the same with a bfp (moon too of course)

We are doing potty training at the moment, had a few number two accidents, really not a fan of washing out pooh filled pants but not going too badly to be honest, we've used good old fashioned bribery as he's desperate to move up to the preschool room with his little friends, so Ive told him that he can't until he's in pants (naughty mummy) On 2WW at the moment, but not hopeful, when this cycle is over with we will have been officially ttc for 12 months
Apologies to anyone I have missed x

Big handsqueeze to you buddha, know how much you want this bfp and how frustrating its been, any news on follow ups for your LH bloods after what you googled? Fingers xd this 2ww ends with a bfp so you don't need to chase it up.. I'm potentially on 2ww as well, but also not too hopeful as half hearted effort this month, as opposed to olympic effort made while still in 3m treatment window.. Well done on the weight loss btw, that's great going! Huge well done to big boy E too, but yuk to pooey pants! We invested in a peppa trainer seat for the loo, but as yet she's unimpressed, and preferred trying it as a hat

Rumours and a huge to toast the completion and submission of 6yrs of your hard work, dedication and general cleverness! Huge proud pat on the back for you from me! When do you get your results? Do you get to go to a graduation ceremony?! Hope the new papermache model worked out ok in the end? Was C ok about it?

Cupcake OMG just the cutest and adorable pics of your boys! Just turned my broodiness factor up a zillion if that was actually possible! Their delicious! Well done on the weight loss too and thanks for the inspiration too, Dh gonna get on board as well, but we are gonna wait til after the hols next wk.. Will kind of follow yours, no sugar, but avoid/limit carbs where poss, we have both piled on the pounds, I'm 3 stone heavier than when we married think he's the same, contentness and all that, as well as quitting smoking a few yrs back, but in my case 7 pregnancies, 5 of them within 2 yrs, definitely hasn't done me any favours... Anyway we are both geared up and excited to get on the case with some healthy eating (not that we don't eat healthily, just our portion sizes are huge, and we're both adverse to too much bread and cakes, biccies and choc!

Lbm well done to big girl baby belle, a proud and sad moment all wrapped up in one, lovely to see them asserting their independence but also a hard wrench to see them being little girls instead of little babies!

Big wave to neeko and thanks for shaking those pom poms and simultaneous hugs

Well one date down, remembering my 4th angel today, the one before Summer, so remembering with a

The sun is shining and its glorious here, lovely day yesterday out with DH and Summer feeding ducks and enjoying the weather, simple pleasures are the best.. Chilling in the garden today, think the paddling pool is required!

4ever we're absolutely the same, huge portions..so just trying to get my body used to smaller ones now..been feeling quite hungry this week even though I'm def eating enough! Cutting out sugar completely really makes a huge difference. Also you really don't have to cut all carbs, it's what you eat them with that makes your body produce fat..so no bread or pasta with cheese for example. Brown pasta with just veg/tomato sauce is fine. And Brown bread with sugar free spread fine too. I think it's similar to the SW diet buddha can verify?
Anyway..
Thanks for compliments about my boys you're lovely..I think they're rather cute too especially as they've both just gone off for a nap so I can have a cuppa!!

buddha can't believe it'll be 12 months of ttc, like 4ever I hope you don't have to return to docs..pompoms waving for you. Loving the bribery for pottytraining.. sounds like very clever mummy to me not a bad one at all!!

cupcake as one of the resident sliming world experts - basically you eat carbs or protien but not much of the two together - so pasta with tom sauce and a bit of cheese is good. Or a large steak and salald with a couple of bolied spuds fine but chat you can't do is a massive bowl of pasta and a large steak - if by any strange chance you should want to eat anything so disgusting!!

Morning ladies, think might go to pot today as I've been up all night with E and need crap food something to keep me going Spent all night watching him as he was coughing and wheezing and breathing wasn't right. Took him to access clinic this morning and he's got croup poor little sausage . More sleepless nights for me too

Missed the word diet doh!

Ahh buddha poor little man, and poor tired you too.. Hope he makes a speedy recovery little mite..

Lbm & Cupcake thanks for diet tips, more I look into them all and GIs and good carbs and proteins more confused i get! Think info so far and a bit of common sense should hopefully do the trick!

Think Summer read my post yesterday, she is now loving the trainer seat, and had successful first wee's in toilet, hooray!

Edd of 4th angel but perhaps subconsciously barely thought about it, til after putting Summer to bed Dh called up to look out the window, and saw a Chinese lantern flying up into the night sky, felt very apt and peaceful
Did have a strange dream last night,sounds wierd, but saw my 6 angel babies heads, almost like dolls heads, in a box, but not at all in a horrible way, as it sounds, in fact really lovely, I saw all their faces, they looked like Summer, 4 with brown eyes, 2 with blue, they were like newborns and a couple looked like they smiled briefly, but the age it would just be wind... Very vivid, very real feeling, and strange as it sounds, very peaceful and comforting

Ah thanks lbm it is quite similar then. It's a really effective way to lose weight. buddha I very much enjoyed some sticky toffee pudding made by dh on sat as my treat for the week so mine also went a bit to pot! But was delicious! Then had to endure dh & ds1 eating it last night while I ate an apple ..ds kept going 'lovely pudding! I love pudding!' Haha, he's taunting me!!

4ever so lovely about your dream.. let's hope your subconscious is telling you a bfp is on the way :) congrats to big girl summer with the toilet training too!

buddha your poor little e :( hope he's ok..do u have to take time off work? We also had horrendous nights at weekend with ds2 full of cold so awake a lot, & ds1 kept sleepwalking and crying, bit weird he was just in a complete daze.

Anyway, back to routines today thank goodness, all our groups back on so must get boys dressed!

Got ds2's appointment through to see the paediatrician, it's 2 weeks today. Very impressed with how quickly we'll seen.

4ever I don't get my results til December, but that will be here before we know it!!

cupcake I can't diet just now, I'm comfort eating way too much. I find baking relaxes me but then I end up eating, vicious circle . I've put on half a stone in the last month so I'm going to try and eat three meal and no snack and smaller portions, so cutting back rather than diet.

blue thinking of you, hope you're continuing to be the strong lovely you are

buddha hope your wee man is feeling better and you've managed to catch up on some sleep.

Pom poms are a jigglin for you 2ww's

Where's mls? Hope you and your brood are ok.

cupcake I've just read through my post while eating a cake, so really not sticking to my plan at all

Haha, rumours I miss cakes etc soo much :( my favourite thing to have a cuppa & cake if both boys go to sleep.. so yes totally get where you're coming from!! I can only just fit back into my thin maternity jeans though so I have some serious work to do!! Fab news about appointment.

Oh and also watching Great British Bake Off every week really isn't helping, I'm salivating over the tv

The GBBO is my favourite programme at the mo, yummy telly

Hello.
rumours I'm with you on the cutting down instead of dieting. Just can't cut out the sweet stuff. Great news on the prompt appt.

4ever Hugs today. Glad your dream brought u comfort. Well done to DD too. My DD2 saw her boy cousin doing a wee today and promptly sat on the loo and did 1 too! Sure it's a one off, Contrary Mary that she is!

Cupcake Well done on the weight loss.

lbm Hope everything is ship shape now you are back into the routine.

Buddha Wishing DS a speedy recovery and you a good night's sleep.

Yawn... Poor baby was pooly last night, I was stupidly still awake at nearly 1amwhen she got in bed with us, she tossed and turned and got all distressed itching horrible insect bites she has on her ankle, til eventually put meg & mog dvd on to distract and settle, worked for a bit then kept wanting to get up, wasnt obviously distressed just really unsettled, by 3.30am I was so exhausted Id of tried anything so decided to take her for a drive, DH insisted on coming despite having work at 6am, so I sat in back with her expecting her to drop off by end of the rd... After driving to all surrounding areas she was still.awake, but seemed a bit wierded out, thought cos I was in back with her, gave up and decided to just come home and as arrived on our rd she threw up huuuge amounts, everywhere..

Got her and car cleaned up, more dvd for distraction and she brightened up, then got the runs and more sick Eventually went to sleep at 5.30am, me just.after but dh up at 6am. Woke properly at 9am so am absolutely hanging, thankfully though, she seems brighter...

Its my Ddads birthday today and luckily had planned on Dmum coming to us for a takeaway rather than a restaurant, just as well!