Revolutionaries of The Shiney Path - The Gorillas In Our Midst Eat Healthily

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Welcome to our 22nd Healthy Eating thread under the auspicious eye of Shiney the Cult Leader. She is vegetarian (like a gorilla), but you don't have to be! Or hairy!

I may be getting distracted by my over-cryptic thread title (it is hard when all the obvious ones have been done- fwiw The Shining Path are a South American guerrilla group and I'm looking at watching Che on dvd later, what can I say...), but I have been appointed Tsar With Authority for Titles, and starting this on a Friday night may be ill-judged, BUT...

We are here with the aim of eating healthily, losing weight in varying amounts if that is what we wish, and most of all posting as often as we're able to support each other. We have a good laugh too. Allegedly. But we're no trouble, no siree...

New-comers very welcome, just introduce yourselves and pile in!

Hiya Syc - lovely to see you back and glad the nanny is working out well, must be such a relief for things to finally start falling into place. Food control will now follow i'm sure

I will be having grapefruit, egg salad and salmon with thai noodles & yoghurt tomorrow and hopefully a gym/swim session in there somewhere

Think Clangers.

Trill, that they do, very wise.
I was 10 when mine divorced but I know from rl mates that it doesn't get any easier the older you are.
Hope he's OK.

Oh dear, I have just scrolled up to see Shiney having the Day From Hell- I'm sorry lovie, wish I could come round and look after you...a few hours of me wittering away and farting on your sofa, and you'd be sufficiently recovered to cope alone again, I'm sure. You poor thing

LOL DIB - i was going to say think of what food fills you up best but beware any firey tongues. Thought that might be a bit cryptic though

Yes Trills, it is right that he should talk about it. mine got divorced when I was 16 and it was largely the elephant in the room that nobody talked about ever.....which ensued in lots of years of mad stuff that probably could have been avoided. It's good that you're there for him too as he will want to let off a bit of steam now and then. You guys sound like a nice couple

It's easier to be nice when I can have a teeny little moan at you guys (on the phone for hours, grump grump)

See, I have let off the tiny bit of steam that I had (not much at all really, but better released over here) and can be nice now he is off the phone.

Oh that was much better Sazz!

At the risk of sounding Little Miss Sunshine, I think there were a lot of positives for Slimey today. There was only really one poster who was unkind, and that seems to be her raison d'etre (sp?). The vast majority commented on how discreet the original post was and put forward their support.

The Beware of The Shiney Gang, or whatever it was, was a bit though.

It is just that you we are very scary DIB

Maybe we should be more scary? Syc is very effective, but imagine how much more so she would be if she were to turn up on your doorstep with a big stick

I think sometimes people get a bit prickly about what they perceive to be a clique. It's silly really though, because it doesn't take much to be friends with anyone on here: just be a bit nice to them! There aren't any exclusive clubs, just people who rub along well on whatever threads they are on. Perhaps if you feel you've been left out of groups in the past at school or something, it makes you a bit defensive? But I don't see any impenetrable cliques on here, it just takes joining in with a joke and a smile, et voila! Why people need to get all bristly about it, I don't understand really.

BoF, what a beautiful poem. I didn't know much about your DD2, but DD1 has obviously got a beautiful soul.

I have had a crap evening with DS, he had a major rage and I was completely unprepared. He has been buying litre bottles of lemonade after school every night and he is a sugar junkie..

So sorry shiney..what a shoite day for you. Not like you at all. A bit crap at hair stroking but I can do you a nice duvet day and take your DC's off your hands for a few hours if that helps.

I like you as Bella better Bella, of all the name changes I couldn't quite rest with that one.

I have read the thread but brain too frazzled to remember anything. He tried to smash the PC monitor and he is so strong. He says I am the only person he trusts to help him deal with his angst but it can be tough if I am not on top form to listen to all the verbal abuse and not let it get to me. I did tonight... I had to call his Dad because I couldn't cope with him.it is a fucking nightmare sometimes.

If anyone has experience in dealing with adolescant rages and coming out sane I would really appreciate it. We have done amazingly in that they used to be two or three a day, and now they are once a fortnight or so, but I still feel so inadequate. Bummer.

Hey Syc

I will be having Yog for breakfast, just made my home roasted ham buttie for tomorrows lunch at work and we are having chicken curry and rice for tea - mine a smaller portion bulked out with salad

There are some mince pies in the kitchen that are calling me, but I am managing to ignore them.

DIB - your last sentence - I thought that was just priceless when I read it on the thread.

Quite BoF.

You are being very wise today, may I say.

There are little groups everywhere on MN - chicken keepers/slatterns/pushchair shed etc, i have NO idea why people get huffy about it. As you say BofF just jump in and start chatting rather than blasting off about quiches. But then some people are quite clearly not all there when it comes internet etiquette and plain down to earth pleasantness

Mits - am sorry you are having to deal with rages . At the moment we have DS2 who is just a bloody nightmare and we are sooo frustrat know what to do anymore..

frustrated

Oh Mits, how

How old is DS?

Sorry to hear you have had a shite day Slimey

Bof that poem just melted my heart

Did someone mention quiche?

Sorry to hear of boy troubles TMW and Bella. Being the mother of 2 girls under 3 and having a sister i'm afraid it is all alien to me, so no great gems of wisdom from me. Hope the hormones calm down soon and give you a break

I like bella better, couldnt really get used to calling you salsa

Can i have a new name please, i am a bit bored of this one and of my old one. would like the Sazz bit to still feature though

So, girls, tell me, what do I do with a boy who will be 10 next month who spits and swears like a trooper? We ground him, we ban him from things, we make him play literally outside the house rather than ride around the village and he actually will do anything but play outside the house, he just rides off...and can be gone for ages. It can be the first day he is let out from being grounded and he will still disappear.

I like the name game (although I'm a bit rubbish at it)

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