Shiney Happy Healthy Eaters This Way Please!

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...for our 31st Heathy Eating thread- I can't promise that we aren't re-cycling titles for the thread at this point, and like any sequel it will no doubt be full of inferior lines and piss-poor cinematography (after all, who can beat the links to Terry Wogan? Oops), but we are all here and welcome any newcomers who want to join in the frenzy and hilarity that are the Shiney threads, named for our glorious leader

We chat, support, and shout at each other in varying amounts, and try to stay on the straight and narrow for health, weight-loss or both. Join in, and have fun- it's cheaper than weightwatchers, and there are rude jokes and bargain shopping codes too- what more could you ask for?

Bugger, Squeezy, what a nightmare!
My sympathies re Insurance people, just be very firm and demanding with them, have learnt that the hard way!

Yes, we have a small electric heater so that is on full power. I have to laugh though because DH is walking round the house and playing his Playstation.......with fingerless gloves on, so very 1980s.

Actually he is like Steptoe

No chance of lighting a fire then Squeezy? Or do you not have that sort of house?

Playing at being on an adventure (with no water/heat) is fun for a bit, but I expect you're bored of it by now.

The chimneys are filled in Trills, there are small electric fires but they are rubbish (think of a cheap hotel hairdryer) so we got a portable one a while ago from Argos which has a better output.

The upstairs windows are all open cos it's windy, trying to dry out the roof damage so its freezing up there. Downstairs in the undamaged living room we have our heater on and are all wrapped up with fleeces and blankets.

Just realised that we'll have to turn the water on intermittently to flush the loo.....cue more water leaking......groan.

I'm aware that I do tend to go on a bit so anyone please feel free to tell me to shut up and get a grip

Oh Squeezy, that sounds awful! Can't you go to the loo at a neighbours?

Hope today is a bit better Mitts- I sometimes have a bit of a cry, and I did have one night last week where I was just finding it hard to cheer up. I don't tend to lose it with dd2, or shout though, but only because it doesn't actually work and she'll probably behave worse if she's frightened of me. She laughs when she's nervous, and seems to get quite hyped up by people being angry, so it doesn't really help.

If she could talk and say anything about the state of my house though, there's enough material to keep her cheeking me till Christmas As Shiney will probably realize, it is hard to keep a house clean with a child like her around- my standards have slipped somewhat and I now feel I'm doing ok if I hover somewhere above needing Kim & Aggie round.

I have just got a phonecall from Social Services, and some people are coming round to measure up for a www.safespaces.co.uk/ for dd2 in the first week of December

Afternoon, major sympathy from me for those of you looking after little ones with sn and mitts, you are saints compared to me, i am a wholey show of a mother, i really am

I was so tired last night because ds2 hasnt been sleeping well lately and it always seems as soon as i close my eyes he starts wingeing, well last night i totally lost it, screamed at him to go back to sleep and shuck him and screamed for him to tell me whats wrong then i stormed about the house slamming doors and made him cry

Nursery called about a hour after i got to work today and he is ill he didnt deserve to be shouted at and he doesnt derseve a bitch like me for a mother, i feel so so bad for him and just want to go home a hug him but i cant because i have to work

think i need to go and have a cry in the ladies loo

Something weird has heppened to my keyboard- what have I knocked? If I put the cursor in the middle of a word it "over-types" letters instead of adding to tyhe word IYSWIM? Any ideas on how to fix it?

hit the 'insert' button (next to page up, page down)

Oh Vinny- you poor thing He'll be fine, he will have forgotten all about it, honestly- nobody can go forever feeling tired without losing the rag, it just happens sometimes, don't be so hard on yourself.

Have never heard of that keyboard thing Bof? Weird.

Just reading and thinking about all you ladies and how you deal with your children, all in different ways with different scenarios every day and I just think it is fab. Not having children, it is hard to appreciate how much of a job it is and easy to respect the good work that you all do and how frustrating it must be at times. It's not like when you have a child, you get a giant book of instructions, if only.

Hopefully if I become a mum, I can be as good as you lot!

Vinny - you mustn't berate yourself. That was yesterday and today is a new day, you couldn't have known he was unwell and obviously if you did, you would have had an easier time dealing with the wee one. After work you can spoil him (and yourself) rotten and give him a big hug. I hope this afternoon flies in for you so you can settle yourself and feel better when you see him Remember you're still recovering too lady, you need to forgive yourself a bit more

Er, ok, I've done that once. Didn't sink in as a moral lesson though...Shall we have a whipround to fund our kids' therapy?

I have to beat myself up as there is no excuse for me really, not when i have a child who is practically an angel 95% of the time, if he was difficult then maybe i could fogive myself, but he is not, he only ever plays up when he is ill, i should have known, i am soooo tired lately i feel like im running on empty

Great news about the safe places bof

shiney, poor cat

BoF - you picked up a cat like a bowling ball once?

I think we all need one. When the kids start whinging, we can just crawl into it, stick some whale music on and leave them to it

They do behave much worse when they are poorly or sore, don't they? Recalling the poo I found on the floor the size of a baby's head. Explained a lot of last week's antics

Thanks all.... I am afraid I went back to bed. It seems to be my coping stategy. Knowing he has issues makes it hard to just deal with any situation, but it also gets annoying that simple 'discipline' issues are always in danger of being hijacked and turned into lastnight. I am doing better really but the big ones still knock me for six.

DD just kept going around sticking up notes about how much she loves her Bro, even though he was not very pleasant to her.

BoF, that would be amazing...

Squeezy, you have all my sympathy. It os horrible being cold.

Anyway, on a more positive note, much of my Christmas shopping is being delivered...just put my feet up and wait for the nice delivery people to do all the hard work for me.

Hehe, I wouldn't go near a cat if you paid me- and you couldn't pay me to risk that little manoeuvre

Good luck with that one shiney, i am glad those days are over for me although ds2 has taken to weeing in the bath, only becuase one day when i was bathing him and lazy rushing, and he needed a wee i said 'oh jsut do it in the water quickly' so i am now trying to reverse this and tell him to stop weeing in the bath 'rod for my own back' come to mind sometime

i always forget my s on words, sometimes i read my posts back and i sound like a forigner who is trying to learn/speak English