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Following on from this thread

That's enough tidying. Didn't take too long and looks much better. School run in half an hour so might as well chill on here now.

Even if helmets do lull you, does it really matter? It doesn't not save you from harm. Helmet - "Oh I am not going to save Shiny now she has fallen off as she doesn't have full faith in me!"

lol shineon...getting the message..

keep up all the hard work everyone!

x x

Wow...well done to big weight loss (sazzles?)

I only missed a day....all this talking must surely mean less eating.

I have been soooo busy and actually quite good. Found loading my phone with songs I can sing to me hearts content and dance to perks me up and gives my mouth something else to do other than chew!!

Fab...that is crap, it really gets you doesn't it? And they get over it quicker than we do. So much to catch up o would be a looong post.

I am re-evaluating also, still not weighing myself till a week monday cos of bloating. My PMT symptoms go on forever but am going to look at a supplement because it is miseryfying.

The book would need a bit about the motinvation side of the daily part of living with a diet when you are having a crap day, or PMT, or going out or just want cake and know you shouldn't.

I had a 'just a minute, this is my life and I want to be in control of it, not food' moment, so am giving cravings rude hand gestures.

CHALLENGE: Who can find me the nutritional content of one strawberry fruitella sweet - not sugar-free!?

Just in from a mega provisions shop- £92
I believe the establishment is known as Chavsda round these parts...with good reason, as a junkie tried to nick my handbag at the checkout! I was faster than him though < tightwad > so he didn't manage it

Oh BofF - are you ok?

TMW - since I had my coil taken out a couple of months ago, I feel bloated all the time. What supplement are you looking at

Im absolutely fine thanks- I am being a little melodramatic! He was moving in far too close to my mum at the checkout when she had her purse out, and when she looked at him he blustered that he was giving her a hand with packing (was he bollocks), and then I noticed him eyeing my bag on the trolley so I just swung it in towards me as he pushed past me and he shuffled off. You just get a funny feeling seeing people's body language though, don't you. I'm sure he'd have lifted something if he'd had half a chance. Vinegar, if you're reading, it was the new one in Bootle!

(Hopes that she can bump into BoF elsewhere though!)

It's all going wrong. Very wrong. Currently making strawberry tart with vanilla lemon custard. That wasn't the plan. I am being FED. With capital letters.

Sorry haven't had a chance to catch up with thread. I hope you're all doing well, or at least better than me.

at strawberry tart with vanilla lemon custard!

BofF - for some reason, I thought you lived further oop north?

Vaca - can you claw yourself back from the brink and save some strawberries (and even a little of the custard) and eat that without any of the pastry? If you do have to have the pastry - try to leave the outside edge - often a thick bit... you'll feel better for it in the longrun, you know you will !

Good tip about leaving the pastry! Bella, I have lived in Edinburgh for a few years before moving back, but I am a Scouser

Okay am typing and reading through together so bear with me.

I have another job next week. Bugger. Good obviously cos I need the money, but when will I have time to MN?

Am being good and eating yoghurt with dried fruit as an after-work snack. Same cals as a curly wurly but I am being healthy.

Well asking you lot for help wasn't very productive!

Anyway, I found it in the end, in Dutch! . It's 16 cals for anyone else who wants to know!

I've saved enough cals for a gu treat tonight - DH has got one for me

Scousers are such good fun! (pardon the pun)!

at Sycamore "only posting on healthy eating thread". That could be true, but we don't just talk about the healthy eating do we?

Also loving the 'I will review the situation in one hour and see if I still want that chocolate bar". Well, no, I don't, because now I've eaten a big block of cheese instead.

TMW I think you're right - we're doing lots of talking on here to distract ourselves from eating!

I want to write a bit in the book. Not sure what though. Do I have a special skill? Apart from going on abotu how amazing it is to have graphs?

DP also discovered a cool thing you can do with WW scales - you can weigh yourself before and after a wee and lose more than a pound!

Have a good night ladies, I am off to work , I received an application form in the post today for a receptionist post in a Dr's practice, which I will be completing over the weekend and sending right back.

Hope work isn't too awful for you, Bella. And exciting about the potential new job!

Good luck Bella, if you want help filling in 'why do you want this job' questions etc we are here to help (as are the people over in the employment section who might be more useful, but they're not as fun as us).

Oh don't worry, I will be asking you all for help - has been a long long time since I had filled out an application form never mind having a proper interview. I was at my last place of employment 13 years before DS1 was born and he is now 12.

'I want the job as a Drs receptionist because I want to prove that it is possible to be kind, polite and helpful to the patients who ring in when they are ill/scared/anxious' alternatively 'I want the job as a Drs receptionist because I'm really nosy and think that I could dianose most people without seeing them and tell them to stop wasting the Drs time and go and buy some paracetamol'

Is that any help bella?

mistle

or 'because I like telling all parents who call to give their babies/children paracetamol even though I am not qualified to do that'