That artichoke isn't funny anymore - 10/10 porkers thread

[CoupleofKooks]

For people who like to eat a lot of fruit and veg but also need to lose weight. We suggest 10 portions of fruit and veg a day, plus at least 10 mins of extra exercise. Weigh in day is Monday. No Atkins stuff or anything like that please , just healthy eating and exercising.

my wisdom tooth is erupting again and really pissing me off
it has been doing this off and on for about 20 years and is unexpectedly painful each time
it bleeds and the whole area is tender and throbbish
i have fierce chemical mouthwash that soothes it a bit but it numbs your mouth and you can't really taste very well, so every meal i have to choose between pain or it tasting and feeling like cardboard
i should theoretically lose a lot of weight this way! but knowing me i doubt it
i should have had them taken out years ago but it would be BIG operation under GA with things being sawed through and stuff
you see why i have let it go on 20 years

LOL yes, Franny, it did look like I plucked that extra pound out of nowhere! It was there I promise. I was surprised it wasn't first thing tbh but its not much of an achievement,
one pound in two or three weeks or whatever.

Pointy - its photos that get me every time. One of my inpsirations for losing weight was that I always felt miserable looking at the holiday photos as I thought I looked okay at the time and you don't want to feel miserable looking at your joliday photos now do you. Same with shop windows, I would think oh my god I look much fatter than I really am in that shop window and move along.

I have passed my deadline for being 10 by end of may and I am cross about it. I am going to have a very strict week, eating sensibly during the day but a frugal dinner like thick soup or veg stirfry with no bread or rice and see if it works.

Enjoy your norfolk visit, pink. We are camping this weekend anyway.Well, hopefully depending on weather.

Franny - poor teeth. I had all mine out years ago but I remember the jip they caused. I sympathise

avi does that mean you lost some or not? i am confused now
11 2 is not as bad as you thought, anyway, is it?
i am not sure about tooth
it usually dies down after a while but i used to avoid the dentist as i'd been told to have them out and i hadn't
i would go now just for advice but my dentist is miles away (followed ds1's nice dentist when she moved) and i can't get there unless dp has a day off
i don't know if it's infected or what
it is not excrutiating or anything but there is a constant dull pain which is now inside my jaw kind of thing

but ibuprofen is helping
and a good session of whinging always helps

guad i have missed all my deadlines! but i've still lost a shedload of weight
look on the bright side
i know exactly what you mean about photos
i always think i am better looking than i am LOL
the truth is a constant disappointment to me

ha ha, yes, it seems to take years after being a size 10 to stop thinking that you only occupy the same amount of space as you ever did as you sashay along - shop windows and photos and the like are inconsiderately bad light and odd concaved or convexed [whichever it is, science thicko alert] glass is the problem.

woohoo have done a long run in the rain
and falsely accused a man of stalking his own daughter oh goddddddd

There is something very wrong with that sentence.

I have had chorizo and chickpea and vegetable stew for dinner with no bread and I was feeling all virtuous for having no bread and I said to dh and ds1, why don't you have some bread and neither of them fancied any as it was 'quite a thick soup anyway' so I didn't feel quite so virtuous I felt greedy EVEN THOUGH I didn't have any freakin bread. How does that work?

oh x posts

what happened?

I have to do stories but I will come back to see

hem hem. You missed me off the weigh-in list, kooks.

yes, guad. And I think after I have had loads of cake this week, it will make me much better at cutting out treats nect week. I want to like my holiday photos

sorry pointy, we crossed posts last night and i missed what you said
you can always c+p and add yourself in if you want, i am not terribly reliable sorry

Guad - one - total 10.5
Franny - half pound - total 8
Pink - 2 lb - total lots
Tiger - +3 - come on tiger, you can do it
Pointy - 1 lb - total 10

guad when these endorphins wear off i am going to be digging myself a big old hole to jump into i think
i was going along the river path and i straightaway noticed this young girl (15 or so?) walking by the river (i noticed her because she had a massive cuddly toy in her arms which had shoes on, and a plastic bag over its head. i thought it was a child at first )
a bit further on sheltering under a tree was a man wearing sunglasses (in pissing rain), looking at her
i went off a bit away to do my stretches before i started, and when i got back on the path i noticed she had walked on, and he was now standing further on under a different tree, still looking at her
i gave him a hard stare at this point

anyway i went for 28 min run and then came back to river path and she was sitting in the playground on a swing - man now standing by playground still staring at her
at this point i stopped and said "i've seen you a few times now, are you following that girl?"
he spluttered a bit and then said "i'm her DAD"
oh god
i said something like sorry but i hope you appreciate my concern
he was not impressed
i then said 'hope you don't mind but i'm just going to check with her' - well it was so odd him standing about 20 foot away all the time and not walking with her?
he said "ok but don't worry if she just talks rubbish to you"
i spoke to the girl who clearly had learning disability or similar
but did eventually get her to agree it was her dad at which point i shouted "ok sorry again" to the man and SPRINTED off, the adrenalin did wonders for my running

oh dear but was it a really stupid thing to do? i hate this paedo panic kind of stuff but it really looked dodgy and it was quite lonely out there in the rain, she was giving out these vulnerable vibes also, well i know why now

gosh fran, what a strange experience. Not sure if you are nuts or thorough

oh dear

Poor man. Odd that he wasn't appearing to be with her at all though. Why would he do that? I suppose there could be numerous reasons. Trying to help her be independant?

Imagine if you hadn't spoken up though, and he had been dodgy? Horrible situation for you too.

It was quite brave or mad to approach him though, if he was a bad egg!

i could no way have ignored it when i saw him the 3rd time
i mean the first couple of times i knew he was watching her but it could have been innocent - i mean I was staring at her a bit, she was quite distinctive what with the giant cuddly toy etc
the third time was about 20 mins later and he still appeared to be hanging around following her
i couldn't have gone home and not done anything
guad from what he said he was trying to get somewhere with her but she kept stopping, and for whatever reason he was just choosing to wait nearby rather than sit with her or try to get her to carry on
it was my impression that he was slightly exasperated with the whole scenario and just standing near enough to make sure she didn't get into danger or something

i wasn't scared of him - it didn't occur to me to be - but i was scared for her, and i was scared of having a confrontation with him - but i thought i could scare him off i suppose. i never dreamt they knew each other!!

Well you did the right thing. Weird situation though.

Did it make you forget about your teeth?

yes absolutely!!! i think it was the running
i feel great

well done

I am going to eat yoghurt with raspberry compopet. I deserve it after no bread and dh and ds1 are eating pear and alomond tart and I am not eating that THIS time of night, the very idea.

Right.
I am back.
I need focus.
I NEED to lose weight.
Today is day 1 of the new regime.
All I can think about is food.
I daren't weigh myself.
I need to get over the scales phobia.
I'm giving myself 2 months to shed some flab, then start thinking about ttc
I hope the ttc goal will keep me FOCUSED.

Today:

1 weetabix
tomato and lentil soup, with 2 crackers, cucumber sticks and an apple
fruit oatcake
small lump of cheese and some grapes
jp with beans (no butter or cheese, fuck that was painful)
2 satsumas
much peppermint tea and water.

Oh, and HELLO everyone.

I hope you are all well.

Now off to read the thread .............

ooh woohoo ttc
i like people ttc on the thread
well not ACTUALLY on the thread
hello lemur anyway

cereal and fruit and seeds = 4
mozzarella pesto and tomato toastie
farl with butter
brazils and dark chocolate
macaroni cheese, broccoli, asparagus, carrots = 3
cheese, pineapple = 1

8

28 min run punctuated by 3 min busybodying

morning
ds2 decided to get up at 4 am and sing for 2 hours
which was nice

hello!

haven't weighed.
Porridge, cherries, melon,

am feeling 40 and fabulous in a very swishy funky vintage skirt which i bought yesterday and every single solitary female i have encountered day has commented favouraBLY upon it