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[francagoestohollywood]

Welcome!

The good thing about breastfeeding is that you CAN'T possibly go on a diet, or at least I felt like that and kept eating a lot .
Peppa pig is really sweet, I find.

Bf and diet just don't go together as your body stores the fat ..Its just mine stored more than it should !! Rained again on the mainland but nothing here..Muggy and humid again !

lol rosa!
it rained all morning here as well. I should wash my hair, but I'm scared of the humidity (frizzy hair alert!)

ciao

Gay Paris was as gorgeous as ever but sadly had no time to do any shopping. It was muggy and humid there too, so my painstakingly straightned hair from that morning had turned into a fuzzy-wuzzy helmet by the time I arrived, so I feel your pain Franca.

Rosa, for your farfalline try a sprig of bay leaves inside the cupboard. I read it in this old-lady naural remedies book and so far this year I have no farfalle so it seems to work - had a major invasion last year, worms and cocoons everywhere. Yuk! I think you're supposed to tape a bayleaf inside the lids of jars too but I haven't bothered, mainly as I ran out of tape.

Breastfeeding aided my weightloss, but only because DD was a limpet feeder and I could never get off the settee as far as the fridge to make anything. I was soon back in my skinny trousers, but only the low waisted styles I could hoist my belly over. Alas, once I could put DD down for 5 minutes at a time i began eating my body weight in chocolate so the belly is still here. I had a smock style top on the other day and wondered why this woman kept smiling at me, then I caught sight of my reflection in the bus stop...

All this talk of cakes is inspiring me to make something

lol lol lol at smock story, 6 mths after ds was born I was offered a place in the front of the queue at the PO due to my seemingly advanced state of pregnancy . One of the reasons I have decided to break my cardinal rule of eating whatever I want, life too short blah blah is exactly due to a reflection of myself in smock top! Standing next to lovely trim Italian woman in a fitted top . Perhaps I should have at least broken the cellophane of my Pilates in Pregnancy DVD.....

Lol, someone gave me a power yoga DVD, the cellophane is still on that too.

If it's any comfort to you, I tried a Pilates class once and found it really boring, but then I'm more of a need to work up a sweat kinda person.

lol lol at the smock top. I was wearing one yesterday, looked at my reflection while waiting for the 24, I expected to look like Misha Barton and instead looked 5 months pg .
Bugger.
I'm a lazy cow, and I'm enjoying my pilates classes. But it'd probably work if I could afford to go 3 times a week.

Gio send the Dvd up ( or maybe copy ( shhhhhh) it I liked Pilates before I got pg and found I could start seeing the benefits . But instructor said she was not qualified to help me with pg exercises ( she will be doing course next year !!!). I did a yoga video but the instructors were so airy fairy that I used to crack up laughing half way through and give up !
I like sweaty leaping round gym stuff in the winter but not in the summer as find that the ac is always soooo low.
Smock top - Went to H&M and the L ( maternity)was so tight on my arms/ chest that I reckoned another 2 mths and I would be Dolly Parton coming out the top. T shirty one was not 'smocky enough' so ordered 2 off big girls site and mum has posted them!
Girls you keep wearing your tops if you like em !

oh gosh yes, nothing will stop me wearing my smock tops. I can't do "attillato" anymore. Plus I don't really mind looking pg

No, I can't do attilato anymore either. I have a lot of tight, midriff skimming tops from the distant days when I had abs, which now only ever see the light of day if I don't have to leave the house.

Yesterday I tried on the most beautiful smocked dress, perfect over tight jeans or as a copricostume. Linen, color lavanda. But I chickened out, as it was 49. But I'm still thinking about it.

euros

I saw a nice one in Zara a couple of weeks ago. It looked lovely on the hangar but when I tried it on I got the "sausage boob" effect. But then that's Zara, everything is too tight on top. Plus I've become a funny shape and I find things don't fit so well anymore.

I saw a really gorgeous flowing silk top in Rinascente but it cost something really scary and knowing me I'd snag it as soon as I'd put it on.

I think you should go for the 49 euro top, that's not actually a bad price these days. Plus you'll probably get loads of wear out of it.

I should have got it, shouldn't I? But I have other expenses lined up: waxing (needs to be done) hairdresser (it;s really time to cut it again. and colour) + I would really like some new occhiali...

I'd get the top and put off occhiali until the autumn (unless they're broken or you need prescription sunglasses or something), every time I got new glasses in the summer I ruined them. Agree heartily that the wax and hair colour cannot be sacrificed.

Go back to the shop tomorrow

gosh you are reasonable. BUT I saw a purple frame for 65 euros!

Hmmmm, dilemma. Can you not live off pasta in bianco for the -rest of the month a couple of weeks to recuperate the cost?

no way

Well, you do realise that if you get the purple glasses you will then discover that the lavender top would match them oh so perfectly and so have to go out and buy it after all. Of course, you may then choose to dye your hair a completely new colour, only to discover that it then clashes with your funky new glasses....

I think the only invariable and unmoveable here is the leg wax.

Is there no other indulgence you can sacrifice? Something of your DH's perhaps? Does he have a post prandial cognac that can be rationed in the name of a sudden economy drive? Or even substitute il prosciutto San Daniele for Esselunga own brand?

lol lol. I don't particularly need new glasses, apart from the fact that I'm bored of my current frame. But given that I wear glasses 12 hrs a day, I think I'm allowed to get bored after three yrs?
I'm having the waxing tomorrow, will book the hairdresser and forget about the top and the glasses . che palle.
Nah, dh already has francescane habits.

go on franca get the dress. and wait for the glasses they still be there in a few months.
new glasses needed this way too, just lenses actually but soo expensive as pippi's very blind, as completely scratched. god advice brang, will wait till autumn as I am so careless, will scratch new lenses again on the beach somehow. thanks.

when I said I went back to my size I obviously did not mean I have lost the belly which, like you brang, now hang on top of the new denim (this makes a good picture of me). breastfeeding does not make you loose weight nor stops one's period ! had a scare, imagine being pg already???? that might be tough to say the least!!!

my birthday tomorrow. dh and i will be going out on our own!!! YUPPIEEE!!!!

(dd of a friend has nits...keep scratching my head...surely not!!!!?????)

sputnik do get peppa pig, is sweet and lovely. one of those that you won;t mind too much watching for the 154678th time IFSWIM.

Oh dear. Are you sure there's nothing you can do? There must be some solution. Is there anything insured and not used that can be "disappeared". How about if you were to "break" your current glasses (read unscrew the aste)? You could then melodramtically announce to your DH that it's such a disaster your glasses breaking now, just when you're strapped for cash etc. and he might take pity on you and pay for a new pair as a present. You then come back saying that you found this wonderful pair supeerscontati and to celebrate your good fortune you had to buy the top too....

All this talk of occhiali has made mine steam up, so I think I'll trot off to bed now.

'Notte

Pippi, buy the glasses in Italy. Cheaper, ime.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! were are you going? (yesterday night the dc stayed at my parents and me and dh went to the cinema. Together! Last time we went together was to watch the last episode of star wars!)
off to bed here as well.

Am so glad you still have the belly Pippi (well, not glad for you, but it does make me feel relieved IYSWIM). One of the girls in my corso pre-parto was 6kg lighter than pre pg weight at 8 weeks post birth and non aveva un filo di pancia!!!!.

Yes deffo glasses after summer, I always used to drop mine on the beach and get them all scratched from the sand.

You have periods already? I didn't even finish the lorchia until 7 or 8 weeks, and I had a cs (God only knows when I'd have finished otherwise).

I know someone who got pg with her second when her first was 6wo, so technically 2 children in the same school year. Scary.