October 08 - New Year, New Thread.

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10th Sept (Due 1st Oct) - loulou33 - Boy - Joe Louis David - 6lbs 12oz
16th Sept (Due 8th Oct) - Ksal - Girl - Emma Rae - 6lbs
21st Sept (Due 5th Oct) - myjobismum - Girl - Naomi Caitlin - 5lbs 10oz
2nd Oct (Due 12th Oct) - star6 - Boy - Quinlan - 5lbs 15oz
4th Oct (Due 30th Sept) - Aubergenie - Boy - Stanley - 7lbs 12oz
8th Oct (Due 6th Oct) - ronshar - Boy - William Dexter - 7lbs 11oz
9th Oct (Due 17th) - 50ft - Girl - Martha - 7lbs 10oz - Elective c-sec
10th Oct (Due 1st Oct) - CantSleepWontSleep - Boy - Duncan Elliot - 8lbs 4oz
12th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - pistachio - Boy - Thomas Fraser - 10lbs 2oz
16th Oct (Due 11th Oct) - heather1980 - Boy - Alexander James - 9lbs 5oz
17th Oct (Due 10th Oct) - pepperrabbit - Girl - Jessica Rose - 7lbs 15.5oz
24th Oct (Due 29th Oct) - Ekka - Boy - Matthew - 7lbs 15oz
26th Oct (Due 20th Oct) - jenwa - Girl - Phoebe Jasmine - 9lbs 2.5oz
28th Oct (Due 23rd Oct) - RachieW - Boy - Jack - 7lbs 4oz
31st Oct (Due 20th Oct) - KnickersOnMaHead - Boy - Samuel Paul - 9lbs 11oz
5th Nov (Due 29th Oct) - Honeymoonmummy - Girl - Poppy Grace - 6lbs 15oz
5th Nov (Due 30th Oct) - MamaG - Boy - Harry James - 10lbs 9oz

We're over half way through this thread already. We've got to be the fastest moving PN thread on MN

Well done to 12lb 50ft. I've missed this discussion but are you following a diet like weight watchers? I need to loose some weight too but we still have Christmas biscuits so I'm not going to start yet as I have no willpower. I have done weight watchers before and lost 2 stone, for me it's all a question of willpower and organisation.

Well Star, firstly you need to be really fat like me otherwise there is no way that you could lose that amount of weight so quickly. Secondly you need to have a sickness bug that gets rid of your appetite for about three days and thirdly you need to be intolerant of wheat so you can cut it out and lose weight very quickly. I'll probably stay at this weight for a couple of weeks (and get very fed-up) and then start losing weight at a normal rate. Enjoy the cuddles, they'll last another few years but then he'll just want to watch Ben 10 or whatever the equivalent is by then.

Driving was good thank you Rachie. I was terribly nervous at first then it was ok. Yay to enjoying nursery. I imagine it is frustrating teaching any age as DS is in year 2 now but I still find myself repeating myself all the time.

Myjob - I am using a really fluffy yarn and it's a bugger to use!

CSWS - I remember how ill poor D was with slapped cheek.

Bloody hell 50ft. That's nearly a stone! That must be very motivating. As long as you are being sensible, that is.

Rachie - it's great that you're enjoying it so much. You were so nervous before, weren't you. My mum trained as a secondary school teacher, then worked at primary level for years, then ended up running a nursery school. She said she it was her favourite age group because, like you say, you see them develop before your very eyes.

Yay for a good driving lesson 50ft

Aubergenie you're right I was really worried at first as the Foundation Stage was so alien to me. Having done a term though I feel I have a good grasp of the curriculum and the observations so now I can start to develop areas I want to strengthen, like partnerships with parents. We do have the threat of OFSTED looming though but hopefully not until May so I have some breating time. How are you finding being back and is the job share still working well?

I'm wearing a lovely new dress that I got for £5 from redoute today I haven't had new clothes in ages so this is a nice treat! I feel feminine!

And my you look lovely in it star .

You can't even see me!
It's this one in coffee and it is sooooo comfortable, too. Black tights and brown boots, though as I couldn't find brown tights - I'm a fashion disaster.

Myjob. I hope you have got your feet up with a little bit of chocolate. It is good for you in little bits. I am really pleased that you went to GP and got checked out. Is DS still waking at night? Or are you just doing too much every day?

Rachie, slapped cheek is a nightmare. It makes them so poorly. Like you say though an illness to cross off the list.

Aubergenie, I am with you on the hellish idea of being trapped in a room with 3 year olds.

CSWS, what a bugger about the car. Will you have to look further afield now to find a similar car?

50ft. Well done love. That is a huge amount to be losing in one go but like you said you were poorly and cutting out a food group will make you drop pounds very quickly. (Only if you have it to lose though Star and Myjob). So how much have you lost in total now then. Must be a good figure. You should be very proud of yourself. By August you will be in a bikini on the beach.

Pistachio. I love that you are in your running gear already. When does DH get home?
Star my sister used that site to find her nanny. She said it was really helpful to her.

Seriously myjob. I was about to use your real name then. You have to put back in what you use. If you are out for 2hrs being active a small bit of choc or a banana is needed just to keep up your sugar levels. You may be having trouble loosing that last bit of weight because your body is holding on to it.
I shall leave you alone now because you dont need me nagging at you. I'm not your mum after all. I am worried about you.
Did you have fun out in the park? Has all your snow melted away. Ours is nearly all gone. Except on the pavement going up to school where it is still a nightmare getting the pushchair up the hill!

Myjob - Your stomach has shrunk down to such a tine size that you're not feeling hungry anymore. You need to start increasing the amount you eat to try and get things back on track. Your body needs calories in order to burn fat, as Ronshar said your not losing weight because your body is hanging on to any fat desperately because it thinks there's a famine on. You need to eat more protein (because your body has probably started eating your muscles for fuel) and some good complex carbohydrates. You eat really well, you just need to eat bigger portions. You may put on weight AT FIRST, but once you're body has recovered, you'll lose it healthily.

Ronshar - I am avoiding the scales until Monday as that is my weigh in day. If I weigh myself more frequently & the scales show anything other than a loss, I'll go off the rails and end up either a) bingeing in a huge grump or b) starving myself. I have to be careful! The most annoying thing is that because I'm such a chunky monkey at the moment it doesn't really show! Ah well, it's a step in the right direction. And ha ha ha ha to binkini in the summer! Not with my stomach, the huge scar in the middle is probably the most attractive thing about it!

Ooops. I meant bikini.

I agree, I get hungry, too. But, if you stock up on broccoli and sugar snap peas and mange tout, you don't feel so hungry And it keeps your metabolism going - especially if you add in some quinoa/brown rice/couscous and some seeds. I snack on seeds a lot. I've stopped eating totally for 2 weeks at a time before just to look nice in a dress or for some ocassion and I don't find that difficult at all. Just drink water and keep myself busy and go to bed early and the pounds drop off fast. But it's not a healthy way to go and you end up looking emaciated. Unfortunately, emaciated is the look the most dressmakers go for when designing formal dresses!

I've decided to start giving Q chicken . I was just too stressed out about him getting enough protein. He gets definitely enough iron - no need for red meat, but trying chicken. he ate chicken nuggets once from M&S - the ones that have real pieces of chicken inside... I'm not fond of the pureed processed crap chicken that's inside of others. Anyway, he's also had some chicken breast...
but now, won't touch it. Maybe his throat is still sore. He survives on practically nothing some days and others he eats like a piglet. And he's still very chubby and yummy!

I wouldn't do that now, myjob, no worries! That was before I studied up on metabolism.

about chicken because we're vegetarian and I wanted to raise him vegetarian, too. He is usually I guess with that exception... not sure if he'll really go for it in the end anyway, we'll see.

Star, S went through a phase of not eating chicken so I chopped it up really small and put it in a mushroom risotto and he wolfed it down. You could maybe try that? Do you give him fish at all?

That dress is very nice BTW.

I made my own breaded chicken goujons for the dc last night , and ds loved his.

Does Q have Quorn star? That's a great source of protein. We use the 'chicken style pieces' in stir fries sometimes, and today had their gruyere cheese escalopes, which dd declared were lovely!

That is a lovely dress star, though I am frowning deeply at black tights with brown dress .

haha csws. I actually like it now. In fact, I'm also wearing a black cardigan type thing over it. So I'm black and brown all the way today

I think I will do that myjob. But no red meat. Just not necessary. he has had quorn a bit, but I was worried over all of the soya in it... might be an unfounded worry, though.