Jan '07 part 16: We're back in our skinny jeans (we just can't do the zips up!)

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I like Lizz's

Croydon facelift is where you scrap your hair into a high ponytail but literally you scrap it so its really pulled back (does that makes sense?)

I am off work today as well as IL's are on holiday and my mum can cover mil friday but has to work today.

Hattie just gone down for a nap ellie doing Peppa Pig jigsaw and I am tidying up was going to head to the big park but its really windy and raining so not sure what to do, all my mates kids are either at pre schoolschool/mates at work so no chance of catching up with anyone.

I have started my weight loss programme today (doing it with eddas) went for well woman check up thing and was mortified what i weigh (same weight as when i was 8 months pregnant with ellie!!!) so am aiming to lose 2 stone by Christmas and hopefully another stone in the new year. I have had special k for breakfast and made fruit smoothie for me and ellie but hattie drunk all of ellies (put it in a cup with a straw thing and didnt realise hattie could suck through straws!)

I have a Croydon facelift when I can't be bothered washing my hair!

eah - have you checked out the 10/10 threads? They are quite inspirational. I've really got to shift 2 stone too. The jeans I am wearing fit fine when I was 5 months pregnant, but now, with an 8 month old, they are extremely tight...that is just wrong!

wilkie - ikwym the class obsession is ridiculous on this site sometimes. I truly believe that most people are a mix of all classes these days. There is not one particular box that each of us can be pidgeonholed into. y'know?

vino - i need the banana bread and butter pudding recipie to make my day. please post it!

lizz am on this thread eddas weight loss thread

eddas would love to come over shall I come over about 1.15ish? and I WON'T bring the normal chocolate supplies

have already replied but thought i'd do it here too, so's not to seem rude to all your friends That time is fine by me. PLEASE don't bring choccie or I will eat it DH's footie buddy brought dd some sweets, but also some marshmellows on sat she doesn't like them so gave thm to me, have so far resisted but they may go in the bin to avoid temptation Mind you they do say 0% fat

26% chav, but admittedly most of that was when I was about 17 - sneaking drink into clubs and buying fags off people! And what's wrong with 'nan'?!

and vino - that bread and butter pudding sounds great! mmmm, tempted to make one myself now, but I always end up eating the entire lot and then feeling sick...

hiya! well we slept through the tornadoes here, although the street was more of a mess than usual! been very funny weather here today. i've been in a weird mood as well, Z decided half 5 was a great time to get up and play, and then when i didn't want to play with him, to bite and pinch me! i put him back in his bed and hissed at him (trying not to wake dh as he had to get up for work!) and he stayed there, but fidgeted himself back to sleep, and kept me awake for another half hour! then when i woke up at half 7 i realised i had to get up as well, cause i was having the car today! oh well...

the weight thing is really getting me down now, i need to shift about 3.5 stone to get back to pre-pregnancy weight, i'm so sick of being lumpy and fat. i wanna fit in size 12 jeans again!!

someone say nice things to me...

Urban you are a sexy beast

UD - you are beautiful so stop being so hard on yourself.

excuse the lack of capitals, but s pulled the shift key off my laptop today... grr

ud - i am certainly feeling fat and lumpy too! but i went and bought new work clothes that are bigger than my old ones, so theres no incentive now!
allegedly it takes a year for your body to get back to normal, so don't be hard on yourself. and it's so much harder to eat well, exercise etc when looking after a lo. and if you breastfeed you have to eat lots of calories.

UD, if you lost 3.5 stone you'd be ALOT smaller then a 12.

I don't think you need to lose that much...not by a long way

LTH - i weighed 9 stone before i was pg, now i weigh around 12. so - 3 stone ish...

well, i'm not going to start the diet today. dh found some chocolate puds in the fridge and i just half of one with double cream (extra thick)...woe is me. and my tum.

christ UD, you must have been a rake pre-z then...I'm 9st7lb and much shorter than you (as you pointed out). IMO 9st would make you look really skinny.

skinny is not nice iMO

btw I'm jst aboutto eat my 4th yum-yum dougnut thing, i don't give a shit about my waistlive!!

waistline

Choc & Banana B&B Pudding (from p 112 of Oct Sainsburys mag)

a little soft butter for spreading
about 8 slices white bread crusts removed
6 tblsp choc spread
340ml double cream
340ml milk
4 medium eggs
110g caster sugar
2 ripe bananas
2 tblsp granulated sugar
cocoa powder for dusting
15cmx25.5cm ovenproof dish, 5cm deep, lightly buttered

1. preheat oven to 1980/gas 4
2. Butter bread then spread each with choc spread. Halve slices and arrange half of them choc side down in the dish overlapping, put rest of slices choc side down on top of them.
3. Bring cream and milk to just under boil.
4. Whisk eggs with pich of salt and the caster sugar.
5. Mash bananas, add to the eggs then whisk in hot cream and milk. Pour over bread and leave to soak for 10 mins.
6. Sprinkle granulated sugar on top and bake 45-50 mins or until it feels just set in the centre with a slight wobble. Remove from overn and serve warm with a light dusting of cocoa powder.

I think I will have to make that now!

Had a good day at a friends whose ds is 3 weeks older than Ellen. They slept alternately so didn;t really get to play with each other. Took them to a soft play place this aft and discovered Ellen hates ball pools. She just cried!

I weigh the same as I did before I was pg but got more of a tum that I used to have....sit ups are the answer but not got round to any yet.

I weigh about 4lb more than I did befre I got pg but was trying to lose weight before I got pg. I don't hate my figure but would love to be more toned - I know exercise is the answer but quite frankly I can't be arsed!

Im just a umpa lumpa

i saw myself in the mirror at baby signing this morning and was a bit aghast - wobbly arms, bum and tum. i need to lose about 8 - 10 lbs. and i'm not even 5 feet tall so i really notice the extra. i am going to try to get back into exercise this week. and i emphasise TRY.

bloody shift key.

I'm an absolute heifer at the mo.

I rejoined Rosemary Conley last week and lost 2 1/2 pounds!!

UD - there is no way you need to lose 3 stone!!!

hello - am a bit of a lurker with the odd post thrown in as I can't keep up with you chatterboxes! UD my mum lives in Flackwell Heath which is near High Wycombe - where is your hubbys new job?
Regarding everyone being fat - me too! need to lost 10 pounds and although I'm now going running I see that as an excuse to eat more! Being back at work is also a nightmare as I sit on my arse all day long.
Are any of you still having constant sleepless nights? DS keeps not wanting his dinner or milk at night time, then wake up starving at 12.30 ish or 1.30ish then wakes again around 5/5.30 so I'm exhausted - I thought by nearly 8 months old he'd be sleeping through by now - think he is teething but its very annoying! DD who is 3 also keep waking us up with nightmare and needing the toilet so between us we're up about 5 times a night at the moment.

I'm off to Longleat on Friday for a long girly weekend with my sister in law so looking forward to lots of sleep, chocolate and reading trashy magazines!

Hi Becks, yes Ds4 is back to waking me up 956 times anight.

He rolls over, then gets stuck because he's in his sleeping bag and the cot isn't wide enough to roll again, he still to sleepy to realise he can roll back the way he came iyswim so he lays there maoning.
I turn him over and 10 minutes later he does it again.

From 3:30am this morning I think he got me out of bed about 8-9 times. I feel like sewing the sleeping bag top his mattress!

Nothing much to report here, was meantto be going to the docs for a smear later but I told ds3 we'd go shoe shopping then remembered the smear.
Had to cancel the smear because DS3 LOVES shoe shopping and as ds1+2 ruined his b'day yesterday I didn't want to not take him.

Smear rebooked for 23/10/07 @ 3:45pm....can you all please remind me of it because I know I'll forget. Only remembered today becase th surgery called to remind me yesterday.

Becks - another one still not sleeping through here. He wakes at 10ish (or whenever we go to bed) then usually at least once in the night. We co-sleep though, which makes it a lot easier. Could your dh sort your older dc out and leave you to sort the baby??

Thanks for reminding me LTH... just booked another appointment for a smear as I've cancelled the last few times (lunch with friends seemed more appealing, then I forgot, then it was school holidays and didnt fancy DD and DS1 asking why the lady was doing that to mum !) so booked in on 10th Oct at 11 am for now !

DS2 was weighed yesterday and at 40 weeks is just under 22 lb so its no wonder my arm is a big as my thigh !

Had a with the HV when she said he should be eating meat and fish now with juice to aid iron absorbtion and to reduce BF. He hasnt really been eating much the last few days in fact 3 mouthfuls of weetabix was all he wanted yesterday. I think its his next teeth that are coming through which is putting him off eating. Plenty of milk though

Sleeping is crap. Wakes up 34 times between midnight and 7, but hey ho ....

Right, better go, LO gnawing on a pencil which I thought was a breadstick !