Auld Lang Shine- step into 2010 healthy, wealthy and wise!

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Welcome to our 36th healthy eating thread, where we will renew any healthy eating resolutions with all the viguor that the Christmas munchies require...

We chat, keep each other on track, and monitor our goals together- some on the thread have lost shed loads of weight, some are running ridiculous distances. Some, of course (like myself and Shiney, our dubious leader) have been a bit, er, remiss really. But that can all change with a New Year!

Come and introduce yourself, old and new, and let's get Mumsnet's famous Shiney Healthy Eating Thread kicked off for 2010...

Ooh glad you are now home safe Lizzy.

Georgi - I have been that angry person for being such a pig - don't by angry with yourself, I found there was no point as it just wound me up even more. Just start again with the healthy eating. What you have done is gone - poof, just look forward to tomorrow .

Babaganoush sounds divine Sazz

Well, we went into town. Took a trip into Lakeland and spent £40 , had a jacket to take back for DS (we ordered two but different sizes) and then we went into Pizza Express. I did have a glass of rose (a small one though) and I had one of those lovely pizzas with the middle cut out with salad plonked into the hole. I did partake in some antipasta but DS1 seemed to eat most of it.... I then had a tiny dessert and a coffee. It was lovely - 5 little figs marinated in this cinamony syrup with a quennelle of marscapone. It came with the dinkiest of coffee spoons, one for the dessert and one for the coffee (I do have some at home) but I took a fancy to them so they fell into my handbag .

Where is Shiney, BofF and Squeezy?

Oh Lizzy, what a nightmare! Whack the heating up and get toasty!

Georgie, Trills is very sensible, but I am a scales-dodger myself. Don't be upset though- you are in thr right place for all the support to start gradually losing it.

I'm having a small curry for tea, as I stand a chance of tasting it with my cold. I haven't eaten anything yet today because I feel so snotty it has completely killed my appetite.

I will try and remember to post the recipe on the recipe thread tomorrow as CBA today

Lizzy - glad you got home ok, sounds a bit hairy but at least you kept your head and then just walked rather than being flaky and falling apart

Georgi - in May i was 14 stone 2 and that was my point of horror, much as yours. It has taken me 7 months and i have lost nearly 3.5 stone. Hard work with the food and exercise but i can say totally worth it. You too CAN do it and please stay around and we will help however we can . I used calorie counting and exercise logging with Food Focus which i found great as i can eat or drink anything i want, just in smaller portion sizes and moderation. Something which just wasn't happening before

Thanks for the advice on the controlled crying ladies. I think your right, I'm going to have to cut out the early morning feed. Its a BF so I'll cut down on how many mins I feed him each night. All I need to do now is stay awake whilst I'm feeding him so I can actually tell how many mins I have been!

Well, had fish pie for dinner (v nice - not made it before but it wasn't too tough, particularly as I was a lazy arse and bought a sauce mix already made). Just trying to work out the points now though. I'm reckoning about 7, so I'm at about 22 for the day with a couple of nibbles I had earlier. Tomatoes for supper then (no points).

and if my magic she appears

Sazz - you have just said exactly what I need to do - have smaller portions. I know that I put far more on my plate than I should have. After a while you do get used to eating less.

I have seen Shiney about, she is off being smug about neglecting children with a 70s kitchen or something.

Hellooooo HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

I am back, i had a fabulous time and didnt want to come home

I drank copious amounts of alcohol and ate tons of delicious food, but we did lots of long long walks (me carrying ds2 all the way in his backpack) so i am sure i have burned loads of calories too

did everyone have a good new year? off to catch up on thread

Bella - i realised that i was dishing up the same for me as my 6ft1 DH, and he is overweight too. So it was simple really, just took me 36yrs to realise it

Babaganoush is what I lived on when on Honeymoon, yum indeed.

Georgi, don't feel bad or ashamed, we are all on a healthy eating thread, so none of us are happy with ourselves, we could all be thinner/more toned/less greedy, we are all just different balances of gluttony and willpower. You can lose weight and tone up, just feel postive that you can do it, not negative that you need to.

There are so many inspirational ladies with great ideas and motivation on this thread.

Have collapsed in a knackered menstrual heap all afternoon, have promised boys that I will go sledging with them tomorrow, which is a walk not a drive!

VINNY............. yay! Happy New Year to you too!

Vinny! Welcome back! That sounds like hard work, I am a wimp when it comes to carrying things while walking. You must have burned zillions of calories!

Happy New Year Vinny!

I am absolutely devastated that I failed to find this in time for Christmas for you all...

Hi Vinny, sounds a perfect break, glad to have you back

Sazz, I put on 2 stone within 3 months of meeting DH, I used to do exercise DVDs 3 x a week and could rarely finish a restaurant main meal. Was on 3 courses within a few weeks

BofF - those undies are enough to put me off men for life!!!

Good evening

Haven't caught up yet - not sure if I'll have enough time before my services are demanded with helping get children into bed!

Ran today - first time in ages, new sports bra (old one too big), new long running trousers and tracksuit top as my other stuff was too cold to run in. I have a new plan for running. I was trying to run longer and longer, but I got fed up and bored so have decided to run for 20min and see how far I get. And then run that distance over and over again until I can run it in a few minutes less. Today I ran 1.6 miles so will run that distance until I can do it in 16 minutes, which will be a ten minute mile. Then I'll start running 2 miles until I can run that a bit faster.

I also have started worshiping the Lord of Ford again. I really, really want to get rid of this tummy! Lots of crunches, reverse crunches and 'the plank', apparently! Every night, without fail.

160kcal over my target cals today, even with the run I didn't weigh out my supper though and just guessed - guessed rather too much, which would be the reason I've not been losing so fast as I've been 'just guessing' for quite a while now! Lord Ford is the way to go, annoyingly!

Georgi there's no point being angry at yourself (as Yoda would say, anger leads to the dark side) it will just make you unhappy and full of self-loathing - which leads you straight to that half-eaten tin of quality street I bet you still have left over from Christmas! Set small goals and think positively about achieving them, and we will push help you all the way!

Bella if anyone ever EVER dared give me a pizza that had the middle missing and salad substituted instead, I would eat their hand raw. And I say that as a card-carrying veggie.

oh i love the Hoff, he is hilarious

I am bloody freezing, the house was so so cold when i came in and is taking ages to heat up so i am now sat in a nice hot bath with ds2

It took me over 4 hours to get home because the M6 was a night mare, i should have just come home tomorrow but was getting back today because xp wanted to pick ds2 up and have him tonight, when i rang him to see why he had not been in touch he claimed to have forgot the tosser

Sazzles - have you got 'before' and 'after' pics? If you do, they must be quite striking!

I've found a photo of me when I first met DH when I was 18. I'm totally at how thin I was! It's up on my fridge to motivate me. Not that I think I'll ever be that thin again but...

Anyway, I do think that clothes have got bigger. I have never been a size 6, but I am much, much smaller in this photo than I am now, and I can squeeze into a size 8, so won't have much to lose before I can fit in size 8s comfortably. How come?

Lizzy - glad you got home ok!

Georgi - you can do it, just as long as you're motivated enough and the people around you are supportive enough. Stick with the thread.

Vinny - what a tosser - for you.

for you Vinny, but the bath sounds fun.

DH is eating chocolate and the smells are wafting over, have bloody herbal tea, no wine and no chocolate. This is not the usual me, that'll teach me for just completely troughing over CHristmas. I am so greedy, I just have no bloody stop button, it's like a feeding frenzy once I get started on chocolate.

oh Vinny - what a prize idiot he is.

Georgi - trills is right I reached my shock point when none of my clothes fit and DS said I had a nice face (well trained he is ) but my body was big because I had DD - I didn't have the heart to explain that 10 month pp that is not an excuse any more.

So tonight I think I must have gone wrong on South Beach because supper was so lush. Roasted vegetables with melted hallumi on top (half fat version). After coating in garlic olive oil - I roasted butternut squash and jerusalem artichoke (as well as red onions, garlic, red and yellow peppers) as I had them in the fridge and couldn't find them on the banned food lists....now my tummy is so full I'm betting they are probably not allowed. Still - was very healthy and totally delicious.

now if I could just have that glass of wine all would be perfect...only 12 more days to go

Lizzy - have you got any nuts?! They seem to help stave off the chocolate pangs a bit. I'm lucky as DH is doing the diet too. But I do have to watch DS scoffing down the remains of the christmas chocs!

You lot are lovely. I have to do this. Without wanting to be shallow, I don't want DS to be embarrassed by me. At the moment (he's nearly 3) he thinks I am the most beautiful, wonderful person. I don't want some snotty kid to upset him in a year or two by telling him "your mum's so fat."

DH has been an absolute love and taken me shopping this afternoon - got a lovely faux fur bolero thingy from L K Bennett in the sale to complete outfit for neice's wedding - worth the money as won't exactly be too big and would look fab with jeans and spangly top as well. Now he's cooked dinner while I put DS to bed - beef casserole with lots of veg, no potatoes.

You're right Crimbo, clothes have got bigger. I bought a size 16 dress from Monsoon on ebay a couple of weeks before Christmas and it was too big for me. Now I know size 16 isn't small, but come on, I weigh 15 stone. I am not a size 16. At least I wouldn't have been 15 years ago.