40+ Yummy (or not-so-yummy) Mummies, Come and Eat Cake

[ladymac]

Have taken the plunge, hope this is acceptable to everybody.

I am so impressed with all of you ladies trying to lose some weight!

One thing that really inspired me was to go here. It really helps to see what you will look like once you've lost the weight!

I may see what I'll look like 9 months pregnant!

MrsB - xx stone 6 lbs
Hedgepig - xx stone 1 lbs
Lilibet - xx stone 10.5lb

JW K is soooo big now! As JJ says,she doesnt look prem at all! She is just gorgeous!

Rosebury Another? I want another so much it hurts! A. has rushed headlong into being a big boy so fast I feel I have barely had a baby Sadly Dh just says "You m/c 50% of your babies, you fall apart every time it happens, you have a ridiculously high chance of having a child with a problem, you need heparin injections to keep the viable ones, you worried so much you were glued to your doppler, you got Gestational diabetes, you got preeclampsia, you havent had a full nights sleep in over 16 months, you are 4 st over weight and will be 45 in March ... we already have one exhaustingly healthy child that we can barely afford, why do you want another?"..Come up with a better answer than "'cause I just do!" and "'cause I don't want him to be an only child" to that little lot and I'll be trying again tomorrow.

Tesco didnt have the right batteries for my scales when I went yesterday ...oh dear ,how sad....so I get another day of blissful ignorance as to how many tonnes I have put on...Dh is bringing some from B&Q tonight so everything officially starts for me tomorrow (especially as Dh found some Terrys Choc/Mint Orange that had "missed" the clearout yesterday and "forced" me to help him dispose of it along with a nice hot coffee watching his dvds of "Yes Minister".

thanks Tee it look like we could have some fun with that site.

MrsB people like Jack Dee swear and make cutting remarks, but he seems to have more of a balance to his comedey.

yep hedgepig I like Jack Dee and have nothing against swearing but was just struck how the funniest ones were those who didn't swear out of the lot that we bought anyway.

Floria oh dear. Your DH's logic is hard to argue against. Do you think he would like another one himself but is trying to be sensible? IYSWIM?

well, it looks like Alli ha been given the go-ahead by the EU medicine regulators so it should be on sale here soon. \o/

Oh I've not got the guts to weight myself....I shall wait until I've been to the loo - that should shed a few pounds

Yep - funny men are way sexier than handsome with zero wit. I really quite fancy Jack Dee and totally fancy Alexander Armstrong....MMmmmm, yummy. That's it - funny men are the new CAKE!

lilibet Could the answer to number one be Pied Piper? And I think you're right about Peter Parker. not sure about Army Captain - I'll give it some thought. OOooo, I love a cryptic crossword....bring on the Telegraph - I'm hard enough! I do miss a good pub quiz.

Oh I love Frankie - he's very funny but have to agree - he justswears so much that i start to cringe a bit. DP hates swearing - of any sort. Weird - you'd think being in the building trade he'd be 'F'ing and blinding but no - he listens to radio 3 while he works - totally freaks out his clients!

Floria OOooooo, sweetie...(((hugs))))

A really superbly put-together swearing rant is a fine thing, it's when they litter everything with swearies which don't add to the humour that it becomes a bit tedious. (Peter Capaldi's character in 'The Thick of It' did such brilliantly insulting curses they actually had a swearing consultant to fine-tune them . I think it's the more nervous types who do it to cover their shaking - I've never heard Frankie Boyle sound anything other than completely gleefully in control of his fantastic foul-mouthedness - maybe I should look at that DVD.

jj, I couldn't live with a man who didn't actively like swearing (just as well, since he couldn't live with me either) ... although that is partly because my pompous FIL has such a massive disapproval of any swearies that it makes me love them even more . Pas devant les enfants, of course.

Did anyone catch Peter Serafinowicz over xmas? He is really off beat but so original and I was laughing out loud at his Terry Wogan skits

I love Michael McIntyre as well. He also makes me laugh so much and I think it's his cheeky school boy face as well that gets me.

I've just done Davina's warming up bit at the start and am knackered but Wii Fit is here so at least I'll get weighed (just waiting for lunch to digest). Then I'm off!

DH off to bridge tonight so WW is postponed until whatever day is the next meeting...I'll have to check

Oh Johnworf, when I went on dd's wii fit on Christmas day it said I was 58!!

Good Luck!!

lilibet, that reminds me of last Christmas when I was doing Brain Training on DD's Nintendo DS. Started off somewhere in my fifties, worked hard at getting it down to the best score and proudly announced to DH that I now had the brain of a 20 yr old . 'The BRAIN?!' he said, 'I'm not interested in you having the BRAIN of a 20 yr old.' Nearly threw the bloomin thing at him [fmile]

I can't go to WW until I have lost enough weight that there isn't a risk of me breaking their scales.

Have just done a work out with my flexi-bar which I bought for post natal recovery. 'Twas ok - not a huge amount of room to do it but managed it. D was most entertained and was yelling encouragement from the sides while the cat was a bit spooked. Cat not in best of form anyway as we have run out of catfood and he is having to have biscuits. Keeps sitting near my feet and glaring at me - trying to transmit psychic messages to me to get him some nice chunks in jelly. I haven't submitted to his silent instructions yet as I don't see why I should be the only one to suffer round here

My Davina dvd isn't coming 'til the 15th so flexi-bar will have to do for now. I believe that Mr Motivator is coming back to the telly ladies - and not before time!

I do really hate the way that I look and it stops me doing a lot with my life because I am embarrassed.

So why do i still eat and drink as if the end of the workd is tomorrow?

This fat person really isn't me.

And I hate being heavier than dh

Rosemary Connelly worked best for me (I've done 'em all) but I can't afford the money or time at the moment.

My next OU course starts in four weeks and I have to make a start on the reading.

I'm doing 15 minutes a morning on my stepper and I will make an affort to go back to the gym that I joined about a fortnight before I found out I was pregnant!

me too lilibet I hate going anywhere. I hate seeing myself in shop windows. I hated meeting DH's rellies at Christmas as I am sure they are thinking what is he doing with this fat forty -year old frump? I really can't bear it any more. Am dreading going back to work huge.

I am a terrible yo-yo dieter - can go great guns all week then when it gets to the weekend I weaken and eat and drink whatever I want. End result is no weight lost.

Shop windows are the work of the devil, they reflect back a fat middle aged woman that does not exist

yes with a downturned mouth and a matronly bosom

And bingo wings (Thank God it's not summer!)

And jowls.

and a double chin

and an arse that stretches to the back of her knees

jowls is probably the single worst thing.

the jowlyness is killer

Oh Gawd....now I'm depressed!

Well, I also bought a stepper and joined a gym just before I got preggie with Verity. Back on the stepper now and I rate it quite highly.

Have to say - never been a gym-bunny - too many distractions. The only thing I've found that works is both speed walking and running. There's no easy way out with those - whereas at the gym I tend to make shortcuts! Yep, I'm the kinda girl who thinks ...."Oooo, a pop video and an easy setting on the bike - marvellous"

I'm back running once this frost has gone. Well, I say run.....it'll be a swift walk and a hobble up the hill

ermintrude I really want a DS Brain trainer. I reckon it'll help stave off dementia - as I've no hope of getting through a book these days.

My lovely (once VERY fit) gay mate has just rung to tell me that his Wii fit has just told him that he's 74 He's sooooo upset!!!

WHAH! Jowls....yep - where do they come from?!

And no chin - it now just sweeps down into my neck....no definition.

right, well I am doing wii fit when OH gets in this evening!

not to forget the comedy sized bust, how nice it will be to have a bra that is not like scaffolding.

JJ I agree with the running I was really getting into it before I got pg but it is too cold at the moment.

hedgepig I've just realised about the scaffolding bra thing....eek! Best get something or i'll break my nose

I can't run - I would love to but the knockerage is too big. Have tried - can't go more than a few steps without collapsing.

May I suggest that all you diet and fitness types stand next to me? My baby bump is still quite small but I'm carrying my mince pies high .

Seriously though, enough self-flagellation already - it is just after Christmas, and we are women who appreciate fine food, fine wines, and erm basically any sort of pie or chocolate. And whose bellies, in most cases, have been stretched by childbearing. And who have to think about feeding other people all the flippin' time and don't pay personal trainers to police our meal and exercise regimes. So no wonder there's a bit of flab around, don't get depressed by it before you even begin. GOOD LUCK everyone!! xx