Some Veggers Are Bigger Than Others - 10/10 porkers thread

[CoupleofKooks]

General healthy eating and exercise thread with aim of losing weight / shaping up. Aim to eat 10 portions of fruit and veg a day, and do more exercise. No bizarre diets please. Weigh in day is Monday (you don't have to weigh in but we will punish you by with-holding stickers). Diet coke will be frowned upon.

please describe and / or photograph said cakes

Lovely time. Very tiring. Ate lots of toast with real butter, pasty, fish and chips, ice creams, sweets, fudge, ice cream with brownies, sweets, chocolate and toffee sauce, cappucinos, sugar in my tea and coffee, jelly, apple pie, (just deleted a bit about chicken - TMI and wouldn't be appreciated on here!) and just generally lots of everything!

dd1 has the camera. The house is overrun. Me, dh and dd2 are sitting in the small back room.

I bought one of those disposable cake stands from sains. Have you seen them? Brill.

Top layer: chocolate cupcakes with candles
middle layer: mini meringues with a dollop of cream and a raspberry on top
bottom layer: bite-size blondies with pecans and bite-size fridge cake (choc, hazelnuts, coconut, sultanas, biscuit, syrup)
Round the bottom: lemon and raspberry jellies

3 jugs of different mocktails

Ooh cakes and cocktails sounds lovely :)

Did I mention cakes and scones with jam and cream in my list?

The thing that appeals to me most on your list, gradeA, is toast and butter. I'd like to eat lots of toast and butter

Mmmmmm. Real butter nomnomnom and chocolate spread.

You have weigh ins now? Thats new. I am 10 stone 8, and hoping to eventually get to 9 stone 8.
Today I had,
cereal, skimmed milk, sultana's, with some natural yog
cottage cheese, with cucumber, carrot and celery sticks
veg stir fry
Prunes, banana and yog.

I am starving .
CoupleofKooks, nice to hear how your boys are doing, I think you asked me about mine earlier in the thread. They are all good, ds1 is now 7, and completely football mad all of a sudden which I am finding a bit trying. Dts are also great, they are 5, dt1 is going through a hitting his brothers all the time stage, but is very sweet natured usually. Always very cuddly and will give you his last sweetie. Dt2 is finally toilet trained, and I am much closer to him, his speech has come on a lot, and he too is very very cuddly (aren't boys lovely that way). He seems to be a natural comic, and has that elusive thing that is comic timing, and has us all in stitches.
I believe you asked about work, I really like being back at work, I feel like I am coming alive again in a way, but it's true what every one says about the juggling act.

Also did my exercise today btw, 30 minutes of step ups.

ooh toast and butter, another fan here

pointy the cakes etc sound amazing
you are star mum now surely?

overrun, weighing in is not compulsory but it does help to focus the mind :o
this thread is just for people who wanted to lose some weight, i think there's another thread for ordinary veggers (although i had a bit of a row with them so i am not altogether sure )
love to hear about your dc! ds1 is also football mad (well football CARD mad to be precise) and it is VERY BORING

i forgot to list yesterday, was caught up in AIBU thread about ds1's trainers
i didn't get much of a kicking which surprised me (although someone said he had inadequate boundaries, yeah you are telling me )

cereal fruit raisins seeds milk = 4
egg mayonnaise sandwich
strawberries and cream and cake (small piece)
apple juice = 1
bit of kids' cheese pasty
hummus, mushroom, carrot, avocado, cucumber = 3
chocolate
2 satsumas = 1
crumpet and butter
ice cream cone

9

ds2 after dinner said "can you get this avocado out mummy?"
Me: "out of where?"
"can you get it out of my tummy?"

i really want ds1 to stop being so vague and irresponsible with his stuff
he will happily leave his (ruddy expensive) bike out all night unless hassled about it
i have never had a 7 year old boy before, so i don't know how much of this is par for the course, but i do wonder how much of childhood 'uselessness' for want of a better word, is due to learned helplessness or just lack of experiencing the reality of what happens if you don't look after things

however i don't like placing unreasonable expectations, on children who are just too young to DO the thing they are being expected to do (eg separate happily all day from mum when small)
maybe this is an unreasonable expectation and he is not developmentally ready to look after his own frigging trainers

lol. I would get the dds out of bed, yes, avi. However, as they are now 14 (yikes! 14 today. She hugged me for the cakes, yes I am star) and 11, they cannot wait to get back into bed again. I suppose a 7 yr old might muck about and be all alert. I can't remember a 7 yr old's night time behaviour too well .

I was surprised at the 'lack of supervision' type comments. I applaud your devil-may-care attitude to playing outside in teh rain, fran.

Today:

4 roses chocolates
2 slices cantaloupe
a few blueberries but they are rubbish tasteless ones and I just couldn't eat more than about 8.

ANother party tea on teh cards for this evening.

what judgey thread is this you're talking about? My 9 year old runs outside in thunderstorms. Once i have persuaded him to wear rubber-soled shoes and taken the large pointy spike off his head, he just goes and plays in the rain.
He likes them, I do not so much. Am i a bad mother?

ah found it. i have self-same prob kooks. But he likes to wear sandals in the rain which buggers them up. Is it too feral to tell him to go outside barefoot next time it is a rainstorm?
And fwiw, ds1 who is almost 13 still doesn't get 'consequences...' natural or otherwise...sigh

pointy, your cake-fest sounded divine. Wonderful mum!

Hurrah for cakes and cocktails Pointy. I didn't realise your girls are that old. Not that they are old of course, but not little ones either. I'll shut up shall I?!

I need to go and hunt the trainers thread.

I love toast and butter. So simple yet so wonderful.

weetabix
slice of veg pizza, cucumber, cherry toms and olives.
pear
rhubarb flapjack
strawberries and blueberries

4 roses chocolates
2 slices cantaloupe
grapefruit juice
a few blueberries
a lean pork and pickled red cabbage open sandwich (I remember when open sandwiches were all teh rage - weren't they also called danish sandwiches?)
another roses chocolate
and then greek salad, bean and pea salad, garlic bread, prawns in mayo, tiny bit of quiche, chunks of cantaloupe, 2 cocktail sausages, slice of cake

maybe about 8. Hmm. Doesn't seem so bad.

I forgot to add my dinner to the list:

lasagne, fruity cous cous, cucumber, toms, radishes and a few roasted new pots.

Probably about 11 portions.

Yep, they were called Danish sandwiches. I love pickled red cabbage. I love the tang and the crunch.

veg soup
tomato
grapes
spinach
onion
peppers
oj

oh dear...

anyone seen any shooting stars yet?
Perseids!
tomorrow is supposed to be better but is v ery cloudy :(

good morning

i have a vegger related story to outrage you
ds1 went to a sporting / dancing thing yesterday and he was wearing a t-shirt that had pictures of fruit and veg, and said "enjoy fruit and veg" or something
the children at the group apparently said "why are you wearing that t-shirt?" to which he answered "because i like it"
they said "do you like fruit and veg then?"
ds said "yes"
they said "ugh, WE like sweets"
ds said " well what the heck, EVERYONE likes sweets"

he is aggrieved about the whole affair
he says "i MEAN, you DON'T comment on someone's clothes"

oh bless him....he is such a sweetheart. Tell him he is just ahead of his years.

ahh, Britain's anti-health subculture, at such a young age too.

Your ds needs to go for a more subtle approach. Maybe just one big apple on a t-shirt

lol at ds1.

I've been watching Shooting Stars. It makes me laugh just as much as it always has.

Jeremy Paxman, Jeremy Paxman, Jeremy Paxman's budgerigar.

Ulrika Johnson, Ulrika Johnson, Ulrika Johnson's wee wee jar.

I have no idea why that made me laugh, but I was in stitches

We've just got back from the Toddler group summer party. DS had a fab time. Lots of glueing, charging around on the ride-on tractors and a huge plate of party food. He was in heaven.

The party ended with a disco and the dancing started to get a competative with the mums. That awful song by Steps (5,6,7,8) was on and some of the mum's were trying to outdo each other with their moves.

afternoon chaps hope you all had a good day
bit wearing here, but a bit of auntie mabel just improved matters immensely

lemur, glueing, tractors and party food sounds the absolute business