Sept 10 - Now they're all one, where has the year gone!!!!!

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Sorry, I've jumped in with the new thread! Its been running through my head for the last week!

When I lost all the weight a few years ago it was after a very dysfunctional relationship, I realised that I'd become something I really didn't like while I'd been with him and decided I needed to make massive changes in my life. I lost loads of weight and was slim for the first time in my life and found that people treated me differently and I liked it and that spurred me on to keep the weight off. Even when I got with dp I stayed slim as I was so used to my new eating habits that it had become second nature. It's only since having grace that I've put the weight back on and I really think it's because I'm happy and I know dp loves me whatever I weigh that I'm strugging to find the motivation to slim down again! Even though I want to more than anything. I'm more pissed off that non of my clothes fit and I can't afford to replace the

Over the last couple of weeks though something has really clicked and I've decided to watch what I'm eating and I really feel ready to stick to it again! So it's salads and long walks in the park for me now until this weight has gone! I've got too many pretty dresses going to waste that I am determined to get back into! I would do a slimming club but I'm too much of a wimp to get weighed in front of people! Maybe we should do a fortnightly weigh in on here to keep us motivated!

When I lost all the weight a few years ago it was after a very dysfunctional relationship, I realised that I'd become something I really didn't like while I'd been with him and decided I needed to make massive changes in my life. I lost loads of weight and was slim for the first time in my life and found that people treated me differently and I liked it and that spurred me on to keep the weight off. Even when I got with dp I stayed slim as I was so used to my new eating habits that it had become second nature. It's only since having grace that I've put the weight back on and I really think it's because I'm happy and I know dp loves me whatever I weigh that I'm strugging to find the motivation to slim down again! Even though I want to more than anything. I'm more pissed off that non of my clothes fit and I can't afford to replace the

Over the last couple of weeks though something has really clicked and I've decided to watch what I'm eating and I really feel ready to stick to it again! So it's salads and long walks in the park for me now until this weight has gone! I've got too many pretty dresses going to waste that I am determined to get back into! I would do a slimming club but I'm too much of a wimp to get weighed in front of people! Maybe we should do a fortnightly weigh in on here to keep us motivated!

Sounds like a plan newmum001, let me know when you want to start!

Should we start on friday? I haven't got scales so I need to weigh myself at my mums.

Should we start on friday? I haven't got scales so I need to weigh myself at my mums.

Ok will do!

Well.... my diet today has been total shite junk
in this order: you will all feel so healthy after reading this!

2 cups of tea with sugar
One piece of crap white toast
2 "a finger of fudge is just enough" chocolate bars
Can of diet coke
Duck and Hoisin sandwich
Apple juice
Walkers crisps they are made from veggies right??
4 blueberries that had already been on the floor
Cup of tea

No wonder i'm starving........ still not had tea and all i've eaten is stuff that doesn't fill me up and not enough of it

I'll start a 'count the 5-a-day' thread i think

I bloody love em

Hehe beady!

I'm similar newmum in that DP doesn't care if I put on weight. I care a lot more than anyone, I'm sure. I do feel stupid sometimes because I'm a healthy weight, it's just about those extra inches and bits of flab I have now that I never used to have. Actually, my main problem is probably just that I've stopped exercising. I used to do yoga and pilates one a week each and that was enough to keep me reasonably toned. Maybe I'll just have to restart that and stop whinging!
I also don't have scales so I weigh myself at my nan's ever Sunday. I don't know why I bother, it's always the same weight, 9 stone 4lb. I know!

It irritates me sometimes saoirse, I know I should be really happy that he doesn't care how much I weigh what I look like and I suppose I am but sometimes I wish he'd be a bit more sympathetic about my body hang ups. Instead of offering me more cake (which I always eat cause I've got zero self contol these days) his auntie has got one of those fat wobbling machines (I'm sure that's not the technical term for it) I'm gonna start going on that. Apparently if you do 10 mins a day for 2 weeks you drop a dress size! I need to sign up for a gym again really but they're all really expensive!

It irritates me sometimes saoirse, I know I should be really happy that he doesn't care how much I weigh what I look like and I suppose I am but sometimes I wish he'd be a bit more sympathetic about my body hang ups. Instead of offering me more cake (which I always eat cause I've got zero self contol these days) his auntie has got one of those fat wobbling machines (I'm sure that's not the technical term for it) I'm gonna start going on that. Apparently if you do 10 mins a day for 2 weeks you drop a dress size! I need to sign up for a gym again really but they're all really expensive!

Just want to share this link in case anyone knows somebody who could benefit from it.
Steve and Sandy both treated Jack at the center shown in the video.... the massive lion was Jack's best friend!

I am sorry I seem to have turned this into an eating/weight loss thread! Just because I am feeling very proud of myself I will continue , I have lost 6lb this week! Yay!!! Definitely go back to yoga saoirse86, if I wasn't tired I would go back to aerobics but I can't get my arse off the sofa at the end of the day!

Happy Birthday to Dixiebell, hope you're having a lovely day and being spoilt.

Luke is back to his normal little self today, except with a huge appetite!!

Hi girls sorry its been a while but my internet connection has been shocking and I have been up to my eyes in it with work.
Was so looking forward to the weekend. Work night out tomorrow at the dogs then hotel stay without kids with DH and supposedly xmas shopping on saturday. Had babysitters, savings and loads of plans.
Today DS1 was sick at school. DH came to bring him home. Got phone call 2 hours later that DH was now very ill had been to the doctor and has pleuresy! For about 2 hours they were debating bringing him to hospital but he has steadied up. DS2 has been sick for 2 days with a bad cough. I came home at 4 to find all the sick bodies in bed and phoebe napping as she is teething like mad. Its an infirmary! And there goes my plans but to be honest DH gave me such a fright. He couldnt breathe. my sister was here while he went to the doc etc and helped him when he got home. when I got in he cried as he was so frightened! I cant remember the last time he cried. thankfully he is steady now though in pain still. What a bloody day! will it ever be plain sailing????????
Will read back soon and catch up. x

Thanks cinnamon, I've been at work so not exactly being spoiled! Supposed to be going for dinner sat but just phoned 4 restaurants and all booked up for sat unless we go at 9.30. Ahem, I want to be in bed by 10.30!!! This time last year I spent much of my bday BFing Arlo in a public loo!

Grrrrrr...... I am so angry I could explode!!!!!!!!! One of my mums lives on my street and is a nurse, I have minded both her kids but now only one they are adopted so she has a lot to do with social services. Anyway she pulled me one side today to have a word as she is concerned about probably 2 maybe 3 pictures I have of James on fb with his willy out from about 2 years ago!! She said that society has made it unacceptable to see boys willy's and that to someone involved in child protection it screams wrong!! I have child protection training to be a childminder and don't believe that I am breaking any of the guidelines I had learned. She said I don't know who of my friends dh could be pedophiles. I am angry she thinks I would put my child at risk in any way, that I am that naive and that she can speak to me in such a patronising fashion. She may be older than me with older children but I'm hardly a child!!!!!!!!! I personally feel the more we cover children up and stop people taking photos in places like pools the more we sexualise children and make them something other than the innocent individuals that they are and that to me is wrong!

Rant over, sorry to hear about her dh and ds's mammyG, hope they all improve soon and you salvage some of your weekend.

Why not have a late night dixiebell or a takeaway from somewhere nice and a romantic evenig at home.

Hope all is alright after seein your fb statuses newmum001.

MammyG How scary! I hope they all get better very soon and I'm thinking of you!

cinnamon When I saw those photos on fb I actually thought how good it was that you did it. Everyone is far too concerned about what others may think these days and I don't see why it matters to anyone else. Especially in this case where you would think she'd know you'd never exploit your child. I'd be really angry too!
A friend of mine put a picture of her DD on FB when she was about 2 in the paddling pool wearing a swimming nappy, and someone (she doesn't know who) reported it and it got removed! I found that completely shocking that someone who she thought was a friend would think something so sinister about a picture of her child.

Cinnamon are you still up for the fortnightly weigh in thing? I weighed myself yesterday and (brace yourselves girls it's not pretty) I'm 14st 7lbs (eeeeek) I'm setting a target of losing 2.5 stone. The least I've ever weighed is 11st and my mum never tires of telling me I looked gaunt and ill! I'm having a blow out weekend and the diet starts on monday!

With regard to the naked pictures, I wouldn't put any on fb of grace cause imo it isn't a secure website and would hate for them to fall into the wrong hands. As far as I'm concearned you can't fully control what people can and can't see on the internet! Having said that though I don't think you were irresponsible for putting them on, nor do I think you have done anything wrong. When I saw them I just thought how cute he was!!!

Mammy hope your family are feeling better and that you get to have a night out soon!

Cinnamon are you still up for the fortnightly weigh in thing? I weighed myself yesterday and (brace yourselves girls it's not pretty) I'm 14st 7lbs (eeeeek) I'm setting a target of losing 2.5 stone. The least I've ever weighed is 11st and my mum never tires of telling me I looked gaunt and ill! I'm having a blow out weekend and the diet starts on monday!

With regard to the naked pictures, I wouldn't put any on fb of grace cause imo it isn't a secure website and would hate for them to fall into the wrong hands. As far as I'm concearned you can't fully control what people can and can't see on the internet! Having said that though I don't think you were irresponsible for putting them on, nor do I think you have done anything wrong. When I saw them I just thought how cute he was!!!

Mammy hope your family are feeling better and that you get to have a night out soon!

Our scales are set to kg for dh so I will have to convert newmum001, was 92.3kg which is 14stone 11 by my calculation.

I agree that things aren't totally safe on the internet but the chance of someone bothering to hack into my fb account to find two or three photos when they are so much other horrible stuff out there is pretty slim and it was just the fact that she felt she had the right to tell me what to do and that I hadn't even considered it. If you let a possibility put you off you'd never do anything. There is always a chance someone is perving over your child in a swimming pool but it doesn't stop you taking them.

On a more cheerful note I took Luke for his first proper haircut today and he was so good! Looks very grown up now, didn't realise just how much hair he had :)

Dh and I going to see breaking dawn tomorrow lunchtime. He doesn't want to go in the evening as he's too tired and we have planned it at Luke's nap time as my stepdad gets frustrated with him getting into everything! At least he will be asleep a lot of it and ds1 is really easy to keep happy.

I think she was very very rude to approach you! You're not a silly teenager and just because she has dealings with social services does not make her an expert! and not only are you a parent you are also a registered childminder so I think it was rather silly on her part to assume you were being irresponsible!

Me my sister and friend went to see breaking dawn last night! I enjoyed it but found it a bit naff compared to the others but it was setting the scene for the final one which is shaping up to be amazing!

I don't really get the photo thing. Like you say what are the chances of someone hacking in! I also think it is entirely up to you & non of that womans business. I put a few photos of my neice on when she was 1st born & my brother very nicely asked me to take most of them off cos my sil didn't like it. Thats fine. she's her child. I do still put the odd one on but don't tag them & oftens you can't even tell she's on there.

Olly had his hair cut today too but not a lot! I love his long curly hair. What really really really hacks me off tho is dhs step dad calling him Olivia & asking ds1 where his "sister" is and being down right rude about the fact he has longer hair.

I've had a crap week this week. got flashed by a speed camera on wed, had to deal with my 1st patient death in about 5 years (not the 1st to die, the 1st when I've been there) and just crazilly busy yesterday. I had 17 patients to see in 7.5 hours!!!!! Making up for it with date night tonight!

On the up side, My friend who had to have IVF has had her scan and everything is fine

Lumpy we're having date night tonight too, staying in tho! Dp is cooking and I'm currently drinking mojito in a can (a fabulous idea and very tasty) then moving onto wine!

Dp let me have a lie in this morning as I've had a shit week with grace she's been very very clingy and whingy and crying a lot! Took her to the drs on friday morning cause she kept thumping her head and walking round with her hands over her ears but the dr said there was nothing wrong with her! Her bottom fangs are comeing through tho so think it's all to do with that. Had a lovely lie in and when I woke up dp and grace had been out and bought me flowers and chocolates :) then he took her to his mums this afternoon so I could have a chill! I feel very spoilt today!

Lumpy really sorry to hear about your patient, I know it's all part of being a nurse but it must be very difficult!

Lumpy we're having date night tonight too, staying in tho! Dp is cooking and I'm currently drinking mojito in a can (a fabulous idea and very tasty) then moving onto wine!

Dp let me have a lie in this morning as I've had a shit week with grace she's been very very clingy and whingy and crying a lot! Took her to the drs on friday morning cause she kept thumping her head and walking round with her hands over her ears but the dr said there was nothing wrong with her! Her bottom fangs are comeing through tho so think it's all to do with that. Had a lovely lie in and when I woke up dp and grace had been out and bought me flowers and chocolates :) then he took her to his mums this afternoon so I could have a chill! I feel very spoilt today!

Lumpy really sorry to hear about your patient, I know it's all part of being a nurse but it must be very difficult!