Jan 09 - weaning,smiling,laughing and chatting and loads more fun to come:)

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Like the blouse, love the skirt - you are much better at this than I am. Perhaps you should be my personal clothes shopper (Jules/Tink is my personal decor shopper).

No skirts though - I don't do legs.

Am thinking same about skirts Moose - might go for this instead hide those calves

When did clothes get so expensive?

Lenni/Spink I really need to get on with my sugar detox too. I'm finding myself constantly reaching for sugary stuff instead of eating proper food. I think its because I'm just so tired all the time, my body is screaming out for quick energy fixes. Thing is, I know better and hate the crash afterwards. (Am sat here now eating a bag of Thortons fudge, raisins and toffi-chocs. )

I know that once I get through the detox and my sugar levels even out I will feel so much better, but keep putting off doing it because I know how bad I will feel for the first couple of weeks.

Lenni I find it easier to exchange to bad carbs for good first as they are more satisfying and help to control the sugar cravings. Its a good idea to avoid things like bread during the sugar detox as well if you can as a lot of bread contain a surprising amount of sugar.

If anyone wants to give it a go with me I think I might try Monday after next as detoxing during half term with all 3 kids at home would be a recipe for disaster.

Now that skirt is lush Tree I might even be brave enought to wear that one - but am only 5ft 7ins so not exactly a Long Tall Sally.

If I get rid of sugar as well as dairy I'll have nothing left to eat . As I mostly eat crap.

Will find you similar skirt. Or I will try.

Tree - while you are there if you come across a GG cup swimsuit that will make me look like I don't have a saggy belly and thunder thighs and lifts my boobs a good couple of inches then I'd be forever grateful.... [wishful thinking emoticon]

swimsuit mecca

What do you think of this one? Is it going to meet the requirements? What do you think a 36G will be like? I'm a size 16 at the moment [grrr] do you think it would be big enough?

Moose - I'd love to do the detox with you, I have to start sooner though since I've gone mad on my holiday and need to get back on track. Will no doubt fail miserably this week though since we have loads of sweets and chocolate left over from DD's party and lots of the Mum's gave me chocolates as we asked for no presents since close friends bought for her birthday anyway.

that's me in it btw

x-posts. That one looks pretty damn good on her had to LOL at "The back offers good rear cover" now that's what I need!

Ha - x-posts again! Tnought it was

good long skirt

Thats a good skirt Spink.

Like swim suit LenniEd, figleaves have loads of choice which I appreciate.

Ahhhh shopping.

Dh has done lounge playroom and bathroom whilst I have settled the baby shopped

Off to scrub bedroom painted floor. White floorboards all very New England and all that but bit grubby now!

I can't do long skirts - they start going out from the waist and never stop so I end up looking like I'm wearing a large tent.

DS in his cot for the first time tonight. Have still got the co-sleeper in position as he will probably co-sleep from about 5am but want to get him used to his cot before he moves to his own room at 6mo. Just went in to resettle him and he grabbed my hand as if to say don't leave me, bless him. He seems so far away from my bed too, it'll never last. (He's all of 4ft BTW!)

Lenni Sounds like you had a fab time at centre parcs! My DD is constantly going on about horses, going to try and sort something out when we are on holiday in June. I am just outside of Stroud in the cotswolds but know Bourton-on-the-water very well! We love it on a sunday, DD loves birdland/model village/stream and ......Brum at the motor museum! I love the cake shops! I do have some friends that have taught at the Cotswold school. I did my training at Bournside and Winchcombe in Cheltenham and now teach in Stroud. I teach general science but Biology and Psychology specialist, not brainy enough for physics A-level! Did you also live near Burford? I love the wildlife park and I do have an aqquaintance who teaches P.E there. Where are you now, up north isn't it? Do you still have family down this way?
Well done with the diet, I need to do something ASAP so may be joining you moosey next monday sounds like a plan!

DS rolled over back to front yesterday and can sit for several minutes now, he's so pleased with himself

I have had a shitty afternoon tidying the house and 2 arguments with DH about the whole moving/being stuck in a 2-bed house thing. The estate agent says we are stuck unless we lower the price AGAIN and we can't lower the price and get anywhere decent . Am very of any of you in 3/4 beds even if they are shit-holes, I just need more space....arrrrrrgggghhhhhh [going mad emoticon].

DH just got knocked out of his tournament, won £25 (should just about cover the petrol expenditure getting there and back for 4 nights in a row. What a waste of time, will pretend to be pleased for him though!

tree just about to read your egg thread!

Spink glad shopping went well.

Can't remember much else, will have a hot chocolate and then come back for a read

Oh forgot these for missJ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!! {grin]

moose so sorry for your crap shopping trip and dog diarrohea. Think you can rest assured that I never let anyone into my house without a good few hours notice.

HKZ sympathise with the toddler thing, they can be so rude and hurtful sometimes however, play-group duty was an eye-opener as there are kids that are much worse behaved than DD. Know that shouldn't have made me feel better.... but it did

Oooh I got left behind.

Like both of the swimsuits but my feeling is Tree's one will offer better norkage support.

Love that skirt Spink but am a bit that they are back in fashion as I had one the first time round - I am now officially old.

Dog I am an 18 on the top (norks still a 34 JJ although really I think I might be a K but in denial) with a 14 waist and 16 bum/hips. Absolute nightmare to dress. You sound a nice hourglass shape to me. No advice on what to wear though I'm hopeless at clothes shopping.

Have finished Thorntons and feel really sick now I am such an idiot - I need to lose 2 stone.

Right, I'm with you moose whenever you want to start give me a shout

I'm with you Pat we are struggling in our 2 b/room... especially with dh working from home though it is good that he's around, and he is v close to ds, much closer than he was with dd at this age. My house is a tip though- whenever I think 'right, I'll tackle x' either dh is in that room (he likes to pace a lot whilst thinking ) or ds wakes up... gah. I actually managed to iron a few things today, but my floors are a disgrace

I could not really contemplate going sugar free... it would be unbearable I am back to booking weight now, but I was overweight then, as I put on weight when I went back to work after dd. I would like to lose 2 stones really, though there is no chance whatsoever of exercising. Am exhausted permanently, and daytimes are a write-off.

I think I am going to have to bite the bullet and go properly dairy free... ds has been coughing loads the last few days, and it seems he has silent reflux- no vomming at all, but I can hear stuff coming up, and his breath is a bit nasty. His weight gain is still minimal. I just can't believe I haven't had the willpower to do anything about eliminating dairy until now I feel terrible. Cot is propped up, so hopefully he will sleep a little better tonight... last night was a killer.

Lenni my heart went flip/flop when you said he grabbed your hand... ds likes to have his hand held as he drops off... it is so sweet. I think DH really likes doing it too, as dd would never let us do anything like that.

spink glad shopping went well, moose sorry yours wasn't quite as successful.

You're on. Definitely Monday 1st June. Although I may fall off the wagon so-to-speak as am out on the 5th and 8th (first nights out in 12 months!) and its my birthday on the 12th.

Hopefully doing it together will help, as we will be able to listen to each others whingeing support each other.

Am feeling all exciting and worried at the same time now I have made the committment.

Ok, so is this the 'lose 2 stone club' thats ideal for me, need to get back to about 10 stone, was 10 and half before DS and 9 stone before DD (sob!). Never get back there I realise but would like to return to feeling confident and wearing a size 12 without feeling squashed into it .

Are we doing sugar-free, dairy-free or just a whatever it takes???? Thinking of booking myself in for an evening spinning class now DS going a bit earlier and being more consistent in the evening.

DH has promised a trip to the tip this weekend...... Somehow a pathetic attempt to make me feel better about the state of the house/garden, I'm sure the thought was there....

Pat we were in a 2 bed house before this. It was tiny tiny tiny - special small sofa tiny.

Am very lucky to have the space, so mustn't moan about cleaning. We had to drop our house price by loads, and this was before credit crunch malarky - but we got this leaning tower of Pisa cheapish as it had been on market over a year. It's near a very busy road and has no drive etc so t'was a compromise. Engineer assures us it won't fall over, even though you can't leave a ball on a table - it would just roll off such is the lean.

i think the house market will pick up again so maybe bear with it until then? Unless you can find a house where you think the seller needs shut, then you can make silly offers. You never know....!

Wow, I'm away for a few hours and you guys have shopped until you dropped and planned your detox. Impressed. With lots of exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!

From what I know of your fb pictures, I think you are all a deeply attractive bunch with gorgeous children, so no need for the diets. But weight-loss aside, I too need to stop with all the sugar. I am so hungry all the time, I am almost obsessed. I met my Mum for lunch yesterday, and before I had barely greeted her, I had grabbed the menu and said, I think I'll have to have the pasta! And I was already planning my pudding! And the day before that, I worked out that I had managed to eat 4 puddings that day - choc brownie, apple pie, gooseberry fool, and finally my MIL's torte. I am sure I will have no sympathy when I tell you that despite all this, I somehow manage to weigh less than pre-pg, but really, all this sugar is making me feel jittery and ill. So I will join you with the refined sugar ban.

Really hectic day today - delivered the luggage to guests in Hay in the morning, then back to the farm and did admin for OH while LO slept, then banking in town, then supermarket for food for the B&B, then back there hoping OH would be ready to come home and chill out with us - but he had made plans to take one of our mares off for horse sex with a stallion, so ended up staying at the farm, bathing LO there, then got him to sleep in his car seat, helped serve dinner and finally got home at 10pm...... the whole day has just been too much rushing around, and has made me realise that I never get any time at home to just chill out with LO and spend time with him - we are always with other people. I think at the beginning I felt I would go crazy if I were home alone with him for a whole day, but now I just want to snuggle up with him and play and read books and take baths and have fun. I know I will never get this precious time with him again when he's so little and dependent on me. So that's what we're going to do tomorrow, and everyone else can get on with the busy weekend.

Anyway, that's why I am down here trying to get my breath back at 11.30pm with a glass of wine while OH and LO fast asleep upstairs!

Sorry for very long, selfish post! Hope you and all your LO's are sleeping soundly!

I hate to think what I weigh right now, I've lost the scales so I can't check. I went to the Pushy Mothers exercise class today, I would never get round to going to a gym but being out and about is more preferable. I was at the back of the class and pretty hopeless but I'm getting a bit of exercise and walked there and back too. And joined part of the local Children's Centre "Toddle Waddle" this morning too. (It's been a busy day). But I keep snacking on all kinds of total rubbish. But good luck all of you who are planning to do sugar detoxes or whatever.

And I'm sure I have the most disgusting house. Actually most of it wouldn't be bad now, it's a lot better than it was, but we have a recurrent problem with badly behaved cats. The house is an overcrowded tip and totally unchildproofed but I can live with that, it's the smell of cat's pee by the front door that makes me cringe with embarrassment.