Battleship Pumpkin - Veggers diet thread

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new thread for porky veggers trying to lose weight

have fun, be kind to each other, eat f+v, move around

see you in a bit

oh it is WEIGH IN DAY

you don't have to weigh in, but if you want to, this is the day

oh shit i have forgotten to plant our sunflowers - is it too late now????

back from walk - i really couldn't be arsed tbh and if I weren't Setting A Good Example To DD1 I may well have turned round and got in the car but by about half way into town it was fine, had half an hour in the library then lovely walk back with dd1 chatting happily and dd2 sleeping

dd2 is currently eating an adult size rice cake which looks disporportionately large in her hands - reminds me of wagon wheels when I was small, I'm sure they were so big that they had to be held in two hands to be eaten.

We have Blair WItch Project in our DVD collectino. I have never watched it

Oooh, Ellie, I ma saving that ti watch when i am in the mood.
I also have Shutter Island saved up

I can't watch real gore or mean kind f films but like ghosty stuff

Tiger, we planted ours last weekend and they are poking out the top now.

Muesli
banana
sweet potatoes
carrots
pear
chocolate

Am planning humous and tomatoes and cucmber for supper and some grapes.

However, dd2 and i made refrigerator cake and trifle today. we have friends coming for lunch tomorrow .

one weetabix and milk
tangerine

wen t to an organic farm shop cafe for lunch. dd2 hated it. Dry, heavy, unsalty brown bread, a burger with lumps of fat in it and heavily skinned peppered wedges. She will never go there again. DOn't think I will either - too pricey.

ANyway, lunch for me was a small bowl of morrocan soup (nice beef, chick peas, potato, little tomato and too little squash) plus one piece of aforementioned dry and heavy brown bread with some butter.

Tea will probably be a couple small potatoes with tuna, cucumber and pickled gherkins and beets.

You're selling the bread to me Pointy

My f&v intake is getting tricky. The past few weeks I haven't really been into breakfast, then this week I haven't bothered at all. And actually I don't miss it and I'm not hungry until lunchtime. It's most odd, and no I'm not pg!

rich tea biscuit
hummus, sweet pot falafel and rocket wrap, with cherry toms, cucumber sticks and cous cous on the side.
2 satsumas
7 mini eggs
chicken fajita's with roasted peppers, onions and mushrooms.

I love horror films but I do get more pathetic as I get older. Is Paranormal Activity the one that was filmed on a really low budget? I would love it but watch it through my fingers.

Oh and walked to and from Toddlers. About a mile and a half. Then lots of running around after Baby Lemur as he was manic and like an uncaged lion let loose.

We had to leave early as he got tired and went into overdrive. Luckily I got to him in time before he bit an older boy who was trying to stop him doing something.

I've noticed a pattern occurring. Something always seems to happen at Toddler group. At other groups we go to he's as good as gold. I wonder why the change?

Than had a lovely calm time walking around town buying presents for friends who are about to have their babies. Then we played in the garden all afternoon. The sunshine was glorious and I have a few freckles poking through already

oooh refrigerator cake
ooooh mini eggs

i have had:

cereal pineapple banana grapes raisins pear (4)

2 satsumas, pear, philadelphia and quorn roll, edam roll

various children's biscuits which were very hard and sugar free (but kind of nice)

veg stew with carrots, mushrooms, leeks, butter beans, kidney beans - yum
bread and butter - minimal

chocolate

plenty of walking and a trip to the playground

lemur, from observing at groups, it is my theory that they bite when they are too little, and there are too many other children around, and they feel overwhelmed
it's really common for little children, put into nurseries from young age, to bite
i would take it as a message that he isn't comfortable in that particular situation at the moment
(just ignore if you didn't want unsolicited bossy advice )

I'm liking the advice tbh.

I'm not really a great fan of the group but I go for ds so he can interact and cut loose. However it nearly always ends in tears.

I think it's the size of the venue and the amount of people that's part of the problem.

At coffee groups and the music group we go to he's fine. At those I never have a need to apologise for his behaviour or take him away from the situation.

Maybe's it's time to give it a miss for a while? I'm loathe to though as I have loosely agreed to set up the hall every Thursday morning. Oh crap.

if you're helping out that'll make it worse for ds IM(bitter)E
i think small and / or structured is better for this age group personally
we expect really small children to be able to cope in a free for all, but the skills to negotiate that kind of situation take years to develop!

just opening graze box
this better be good
if it's fancy raisins i am emailing them

wahoo
apple (dull but nice)
honey nuts
copacabana - brazils and BIG chocolate buttons - they brought them back! - i love them - i emailed to ask for them to come back and wahey they are here

You're right Fra.

The group is run by the mum's who attend so we all pitch in and help. We now have some lovely WI ladies to do the drinks and snacks, but before that we took it in turns.

Whenever it was my turn to do the drinks ds turned from a happy little thing wandering around the toys to a clingy little scrap who wanted to be picked up - which isn't like him at all.

You're right, I'm expecting too much of him. I often say it to other people and I'm not heeding my own advice - what an idiot.

Thanks for the advice, it's appreciated.

I love brazil nuts. I love their greasy, nutty, crunchiness.

littlerach - yy, 'xatcly - I cannot stomach gorey films At All! Not even films like Last King Of Scotland.
But love being scared!

I bloody cried 3 times at Nanny McPhee 2 by the way...

my friend is cooking supper, it is chicken something.

lol at crying at Nanny McPhee.

I don't mind gore but I have to say that THAT scene in Last King of Scotland did make me go a bit green around the gills.

Enjoy your chicken something! I'm sitting here tapping away while dh is off on a run and ds is snoring away in his cot

I had black pepper cashews in my graze box. And orange raisins. Yum

must go to see nanny mcphee, espesh if crying is involved

grapes, pineapple, cheese, crumpet

ooh it took really quite a long time for dses to fall asleep tonight
anxiety seems to have lessened a lot though, hoorah

ds1 is having a disco party on saturday, so i am cooking tomorrow and trying to think of disco games

Good morning.

Nanny Macphee was good. Where did you cry three times, Elli?? There was the obvious bit I know but I can't think think where else you would have cried!

I had a salad in the chinese. Salad and fruit. I ate more salad than Boco.

Melon, bluebrry, apple, orange and passionfruit salad this morning. I am going out to eat for a friends birthday tonight too. This is not looking good for mondays weigh-in where OF COURSE I will have lost all the holiday weight.

We've been for a swim this morning. Well I say swim, but I actually mean that dd1 thrashed and floundered about with her armbands on and I pushed dd2 around in her floaty seat thing. Good fun was had by all though, with the added bonus of dd2 who is generally a crap sleeper is spark out.

A couple of portions of dried fruit in granola
OJ
Coffee
I will not add the post swim hunger prompted cheese butty on white bread as I would not eat that sort of thing as I am losing weight. Oh yes.

I'd love to go to the pictures but the local ones are not baby friendly.

Oh well done. I Am Very Bad at taking my children swimming. Ds2 has been about twice in life. I don't like being cold or surrounded by damp surfaces collecting fungal infections.

But, I like swimming in a very cold sea which does not make sense really. Loads of crap in there too and last October I got mild hypothermia. I think. I couldn't feel my extremitites or speak coherently for ages but then I started shaking and I was alright.

Have just made and eaten chicken, vegetable, barley and miso soup. Was delicious. I needed it after all that salad.

i hate swimming pools
you can't hear or see anything and i am a rubbish swimmer anyway
plus there are fetid puddles of other people's verrucas everywhere, and hairy backs and stretch marks (i have stretch marks myself, i just don't think we should spend our leisure time gazing at strangers' cellulite)

i am cooking party food
i have eaten about 100 licks of uncooked lemon curd cookie dough

I try not to think of them as virus infested germ pits but often fail

But the dd's love it

Guad I didn't take dd1 until she turned 3, but she asks to go now and I don't really seea good reason to say no - virus infested germ sludge aside of course

dd1 can't see well without her glasses, I must look into prescription goggles for her, that would probably be ££££ thouhg and she seems to cope just fine

the one I went to this morning isn't council run, it's attached to a private gym but they allow the proles in unless they have classes etc. therefore it's warmer (eek germ multiplication), shallow all the way along (genius) and the showers are a squillion times nicer. And one gets a better class of verruca.

lol @better class of verruca

Did you see that awful embarssing bodies story about the little girl with hideous verrucas? Really sad. She had immune problems but was okay in the end I think - thank goodness.

Mmmmm, I think I need some lemon curd cookie dough. We are about to maje raspberry buns after walking in the graveyard.

Wot Salad Guad? do you mean that bit of cucumber?

I had eye sprangling at the war office letter, and at the end. I guess you could cry at the bit at the war office too. I was quite bleary eyed when you turned to me and said 'Is this a VERY long film?' so i'm guessing you weren't particularly moved.

Not eaten much today, a sandwich. Am feeling a bit cold and wrong today. Did go out with friend which was nice but not feeling enthusiastic about food.