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The Shiney Path to a Healthy Life Revolution

1002 replies

BitOfFun · 19/04/2010 23:40

Welcome to our, ooh, 64th Healthy Eating thread. We are a bunch of friends who are happy to welcome newbies prepared to join in with our resolve to strive to be healthier, quite possibly slimmer, but certainly filthier than the rest of mumsnet. If you can embrace our mascot with reverence, then you're in!

Away we go...

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Lizzylou · 21/04/2010 11:30

Slug, goodness, hope you are OK, sounds painful

Claudia, thanks, my Mom was trying to make me feel better about the fact we never made it to emigrating to NZ by giving me horror stories!

SAF, am so sorry that you are upset.

I am starting to drop now, feels like bedtime.

ClaudiaSchiffer · 21/04/2010 11:32

SAF you sound like you have lots of insight. It is very sad and painful, but you also sound tough and forceful which will help getting through it.

Gosh, life is so complicated.

FiveGoMadInDorset · 21/04/2010 11:35

SaF having a child does make you more vulnerable as you no lnger have just yourself to think about but whether you child likes your partner and vice versa. I would back away for now, give it some space and then see how you feel about the friendship, just be prepared for it not to be reciprocated.

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FiveGoMadInDorset · 21/04/2010 11:53

I am glad you feel it is closed.

So this other guy, here or where you are going to?

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FiveGoMadInDorset · 21/04/2010 12:37

You need the dating guru's.

Has he been in touch?

Slug missed you had to go to hospital. Hope you are OK.

hellsbelles · 21/04/2010 12:46

SAF - sending you unMN style hugs.

Slug - hoping you are o.k.

Trills - I'm so so jealous. I hope you get to go...will it go a tiny bit to making you feel better about missing hols?

BOF - Jeez - that beautiful young lady likes to make sure life isn't boring doesn't she. That must have been really scary. And why why why are they taking so long to do the safe space. I can remember you talking about it months ago. have they given you an installation date yet?

Shiney -if someone else on this thread was talking about a fruit diet for a week you would be very cross with them....so please take it a bit easier on yourself

Iggi999 · 21/04/2010 12:50

Just logged on at work with a blatant request for sympathy (coz I know you're all so good at it). Just discovered friggin AF is here and my hopes of a honeymoon baby to make everything alright are out the window, again.
Seriously, if I can't get pg when the two of us are alone together in a hotel (at right time) how is it ever going to happen in normal life?
Feeling old and barren.

Will have wised up by tonight.

DeFluff · 21/04/2010 12:54

Iggi - I don't know backstory but I do know how it feels when the period arrives and you're hoping it doesn't so sending you hugs. xx

ClaudiaSchiffer · 21/04/2010 12:56

Hells Juicemaster sent me wierd. I juiced for a week, lost 7lb then on the eighth day I ate EVERYTHING I didn't eat on the previous seven. Also I was furious about everything. So dunno if I'd recommend it tbh. Did loose shit loads of wieght really quickly though

Oh Iggi, just read your post. Sorry it didn't work out this month. Is gutting. Keep on plugging on, t'will happen.

Slugbrains · 21/04/2010 13:04

Iggy it will be ok. it might take a while for everything to settle down after mc (hopes memory has got right person). Just relax, you are NOT old and barren. And stress makes it worse.

Blimey, i go for a routine appointment and you lot make out it is the end of the world. If you check my posts from last night i mentioned it. It was just an ultrasound test. No panic needed. SHoulders will be fine it is just the muscles reacting to being used in a way that they are not used to. They will recover with rest. Just bloody painful right now.

Iggi999 · 21/04/2010 13:04

Thank you! I can't tell anyone at work and was feeling then remembered you guys. Love the plugging away image Claudia!
No backstory really Defluff, have one DS and one mc this year. Am approaching 40 and am not patient at the best of times, so really want it to happen yesterday soon.
That said, it's a sunny day here and - oh damn just remembered MIL is in flat minding DS so will be there when I get home. An hour of chat. She brings good biscuits though

DeFluff · 21/04/2010 13:04

Shiney - will mail you now

HELP PLEASE:

No one on the thread can surely me unaware of what a tosser my exh is (although I have been very shy and retiring about it ), anyway (with apologies to those who've already heard bits of this), he often drives without insurance, has been done for it, went to court etc. He also often drives when MOT is up which invalids his tax and insurance anyway.

Last time dd went down there we asked for his docs. He sent them through but through various means found out that although he sent his insurance details through, he'd actually not paid it for months and they'd cancelled it. He was driving without insurance again (and knew damn well, he'd not paid it for at least 3 months). Anyway, he got new insurance, which we checked thoroughly.

Now dd due to go down again this weekend, because my parents are kindly taking her down on way to somewhere else. His car mot is up. We have asked him for docs to show it has been mot'd. He says hes 'waiting' for the guy to mot it.

He says his dad will drive all weekend (in his dad's presumably insured / taxed / mot'd car) and therefore he doesn't need to show us his docs anyway.

I say I don't want my dd in an un mot'd car and that as he lies about everything anyway how can I trust he won't take her out in his car.

He says dd would tell me if he did when she got back. I say that's a little late.

What does everyone think? Let dd go down there or insist on the mot certificate?

Sorry for the long post. Trip is this Saturday.

MitsubishiWarrioress · 21/04/2010 13:06

Iggi... I am not sure what the key is. And lots and lots of sympathy. Ex and I started trying for another baby not long after DS was born, he was 4 by the time I was pregnant and we had actually just decided not to bother.

All I can say is we went on a health binge, cut down drinking, H cut down smoking, lots of fresh air and exercise. I was 33 so not ancient but older. Ermmm... al fresco was fun but maybe not an official fertility tip... .

Slugbrains · 21/04/2010 13:08

TBH i would probably insist on certificate, and no trip. But as he is so crap about seeing dd that will cause other problems. DD will tell if he doesnt put her underpressure not to tell. Ex's can be a bugger for that. I am assuming this all goes through the solicitors. Would they be a good person to ask?

Slugbrains · 21/04/2010 13:09

Sorry that wasnt much help defluff.

DeFluff · 21/04/2010 13:13

Slugs - that's how I feel, my parents are pressurising me a bit to let her go down anyway. I don't think I should because it sets a precedent but want to make sure I'm not being mad (what with being a bit hormonal at mo)

All contact goes through my DP. If I speak to ex I lose it and last time dd heard some of it, not my finest hour and very stressful for all So apart from last time I haven't spoken to him in over a year.

He's still fighting paying me all the maintenance he owes me, £4.5k ish. That's going through court.

Sorry, only bugs me when I have to think about it, eg in times like this

Lizzylou · 21/04/2010 13:15

Oh Iggi, it will happen, as Slug says let your body adjust. I know how disappointed you must be though, quick snog

Slug, sorry, I thought you'd broken something, glad to hear it is less serious (though still painfull I'd warrant)

Hells/Claudia, I did the juice thing but only for 2 meals and had a light dinner, meant I stuck to it and I lost loads of weight. BUT then my old juicer packed up and the one I have now is a bit shit so I only have a juice for breakfast. It is invigorating and very healthy though. Especially when you blend avocados in, just like a smoothie.

Defluff, gawd, I dunno. Your Ex is a strange one, why not just get insurance and an MOT done fgs? What is your gut instinct?

SAF, do you want to meet up with this guy? If you're going in 9 weeks could you not just keep it as an email thing only, enjoy the flirting and nice messages?

Just done another Level 2 workout of the shred. hat Jillian woman is a BITCH
I am shockingly bad at plank stuff.

DeFluff · 21/04/2010 13:16

No Slugs it was

Slugbrains · 21/04/2010 13:23

Defluff be strong. tbh i would try to get a solicitors letter to say that in view of your past experience of him driving with invalid insurance etc then until proof of current and full documents being recieved by the solicitors the visits will be stopped.

I would strongly suggest that you ignore the pressure from your parents and do what you feel is right!

Iggi999 · 21/04/2010 13:31

Sounds like he needs some kind of supervised visits, due to plonker status. (Is the car taxed I wonder? Thinking of those ads showing people getting their cars taken away and crushed.. he wouldn't be able to drive her around then.)
He could get an MOT done today if he actually wanted to.

(enjoying my snog by the way - hey maybe I'll have your baby Lizzy, kissing gets you pregnant right?)

If I get arrested for public indecency Mits I'll be blaming you! (I would be struck off, or whatever you call it in education)

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