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

Not me, I said you sounded like a posh bird

Umm I wondered that too.

Am sure

I'm very scruffy low maintenance, and also had never heard of primer. Will gladly follow Shiney's advice on avoiding eye shadow and using lipgloss instead of lipstick. Is mascara allowed?

I second the mascara thing!

Lots of mascara. Lots and lots. Very important.

bit late i know for the make up chat, but instruction, i am like you, and can never find a good foundation/blusher combo. I am quite red, and very prone to blushing, so i definitely need a primer, and when i had my benefit make over, they used a primer mixed in with the dear john cream (normal moisturiser i think) then concealer, then a tinted moisturiser. I kept glancing at myself in windows etc and thinking - wow, i'm not red Am currently saving to buy some decent make up, not sure i will go with the full benefit range, but defo the primer - mixed with normal cheap as chips moisturiser

and shiney - i definitely thought you were posh, as well as the rest of you tbh

ex has just dropped the girls off, and i reminded him that i dont have a lift anymore to drop them off for their overnight stay (pa was doing it,but she has now left) and that he would need to pick them up. Tis a 10 min car ride. His response - he will do it if i pay petrol. I couldnt help myself - i just laughed in his face, reminded him he was the one fighting for contact, and that how long am i having to wait for maintence. Junior looked stunned, and later admitted she was scared he was going to kick off, but i swiftly diverted attention onto mini.

Am fully expecting there to be trouble in the week ahead though

Foundation with a brush? How does that work then. God I'm a novice. But I have my debit card and am about to buy up all these lovely things mentioned off net.

truthfully, and i guess most of you know by now i have various insecurities, i worry that at our meet up, i will stand up like a sore thumb, as i think i am the only one on long term benefits

It sounds like you did amazingly well there with your ex Jet, well done you. He is being a twat, and it sounds like you stood up for yourself really well.

And eyelash curlers before mascara.

I'm not posh - I mean - have you noticed my name

jet - you will not stand out...

Defluff, the lancome foundation I use is on a pump, so I just blob a bit out on the foundation brush - tis quite a flat brush, maybe 1/2" wide and then just sort of flick the foundation over the bits of my face that need it.

The Lancome lady recommended it. The brush to buy was £26 alone and I said I was not going to buy it as it was too expensive. As she popped the foundation into the bag, she said to me that she had put a brush in the bag too as a gift.

Bloody cheek of your xp jet. It sounds like you did a grand job of telling him where to get off.

thanks guys

I am actually quite panicking over make up for the night shiney amongst every thing else - so may well book you in to do a make over for me

thanks for the kind words re ex trills - he keeps asking me when am i going to buy a car, and truth be told, i am not sure i want to, as i still have loads to buy for the house, and once i have to pay for the upkeep and running of a car, there will be not much left for everything else. I know what i am like as well, and know that instead of forcing myself to use the bus/train etc when feeling a little panicky, i will resort back to hiding away again in my car (driving 30 miles for a newspaper etc so i dont have to talk to the people in my local shop) and will stop benefitting from walking everywhere

But i think he thinks i am not getting one just to wind him up