Time for some JuShi fruit (and veg) with the healthy eaters

[TrillianAstra]

This is our mumblemumbleth thread. We want to eat more healthily and/or lose weight.

In theory.

Mostly we like to chat and admire teh thread mascot - he helps us not to over-eat.

If that doesn't do it for you, you can always go old-school - I know I'm too scared to go into the dark spooky kitchen now

It will be on an iced cake board Bitter and will have a ribbon around it is just the man handling of it that makes it worse.

Am feeling calmer now.

five / fanny (not sure which you prefer) yes please

she is a very lucky friend to have you bothering so much about this.

Sorry, that was the best idea I had.

Hope it goes OK, surely if it's iced and beribboned it should be ok?

I'm sure your cake will look beautiful, the cracks will all be covered up and fruit cake always crumbles when you cut it anyway.

Trills - so your own user name comes up then, the reader's not the poster of the link's? I was scared you lot would post obnoxious things as me and I'd get a rep...

J - we had that with dd for a while, thought my bed was our bed Took a little while to sort but with some bribery consistency not too bad.

hells - I hope my will can beat her stubborn defiance, but it's been a difficult week.

I like Shiney's warm haven too...

The link just takes you to the thread, cooikies or something on your computer fill in the gaps where your name and password go. Same with amazon - I could link you to a book and it would have my name at the top (if I were logged in) and then when you looked at it my name would not be there.

JuJu's -

I bet you do JJDad

Shiney, I am going to pretend that you have a caravan at a budget hoiday camp to justify that statement

Holiday

I hate to say it but there is almost a bit of a "mumsnet STEPS initiation process". It's kind of an unwritten rule that almost everyone abides by:

1: Lurk and read lots and lots of stuff and get to grips with the place

2: Post something unobtrusive in response to one of the tamer threads for your first post.

3: Build up a CV of posts so when people search on you they don't think you're a troll.

4: Gradually work up your posting but still being unobtrusive and agreeing with/sucking up to the mumsnet protocol.

5: Been on mumsnet for 4 years and still know nobody and nobody knows who the fuck you are.

6: Go on a christmas meet-up, get drunk, swear, act totally out of character, pass out and another mumsnetter has to get you home.

7: Mumsnet royalty.

Or you could do it my way....

1: Lurk for a bit

2: Get bored and restless and start 2, maybe 3 controversial threads in AIBU in the space of a few weeks.

3: Wonder why said threads won't go away.

4: Retreat and lick my wounds.

5: Start again.

Heh. It is a powerful thing, tis Mumsnet.

DH was a meeting with Justine Mumsnet the other day. He called to tell me! It is so on the map!

Shiney your boyfriend is a very naughty boy - he needs a good talking to and maybe a spanking

This is fo JuJusDad

When we talked to the clinic, we were advised to go down the gradual withdrawal method. We followed what they call a nightime hygiened routine although we have stopped this now as it didn't work for us as a family. This took place 15 minutes before bedtime so a quick but warm realxing bath, pyjamas and milk and then into bed. DD's natural falling asleep time was 8pm. So the idea was to get her into bed by 7.30, read to her until 7.45 or read and a massage and then we sit quietly on the sleepy cushion until DD is asleep and for 10 minutes after as this is how long it takes for children to fall into a deep sleep. If she woke in the night we took her back to bed and again sat on the sleepy cushion for 10 minutes after she went to bed. DD also has an ipod with stories on which lasts all night. You move the sleepy cushion every 3 nights until you are outside. It took us 10 days to get out of the room, but by the end of the first week she had stopped waking up. From the second week we introduced a timer on a lamp and she wasn't allowed out of the room until the light came on. This was initially at 6.30 and then became later. I was a bit sceptical about this but it worked.

Lastly, we had a Tinkerbell box. We got a box and notes/small presents were left in it from Tinkerbell. If DD had a good night then we gave her a small piced of tat, if she wasn't do good it was a note from Tinkerbell saying she was doing really well. These were phased out as DD became bored of them but they helped at first, also aided as she got a 'letter' from Tinkerbell.

HTH, if you want to ask questions then fire away.

umm, anyway.

SO if Five could post the advice from the sleep clinic, that would be most helpful.

Thanks awfully.

Am liking naughty and filthy!

and it was all meant so innocently....

Rollergirl, I don't get the whole 'regular poster' thing.

Maybe I am just thick skinned, but I have been on MN less than a year and have never felt ignored for being a 'newbie'. Maybe I just spend too much time on here.

Mind you, I don't expect anyone to know who the hell I am

jusjusdad: Tipsy lurking is a great phrase! Do you have a sleep-evasive child with you tonight?