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

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ladymac · 30/12/2008 16:45

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

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lilibet · 13/01/2009 11:25

I can see your halo shining from here jw

I'm fine until night time when I am still hitting the wine and then the resolve goes flying out of the window. Last night it was crisp butties ar 11pm

mrsboogie · 13/01/2009 11:26

that's more or less what I'm doing - am dropping the porridge this week though. Also still drinking a little wine at the weekend which I know isn't gonna help but I don't want to lose my sanity along with the pounds so not giving that up.

Tee2072 · 13/01/2009 11:31

How healthy you're all being! Remember not to deprive yourselves too much, that way leads to binging on boxes of Dairy Milk Trays!!

Off to the OB and Endo this afternoon. I haven't weighed myself lately, but I would imagine I'm up a pound or two. Baby has been very active, which is nice!

johnworf · 13/01/2009 11:39

Nah I don't deserve a halo. It's just what works for you. Btw, my DS#2 who is doing weight training tells me I must have at least one cheat per week to fool my metabolism otherwise the weight loss reaches a plateau. Fantastic!!

loganberry12 · 13/01/2009 12:01

why are you all talking about losing weight im confused have you had your babys, only i thought this forum was for pregnant women !!

Tee2072 · 13/01/2009 12:05

We're a mixed bag loganberry. Some of us are currently pregnant, some of us have had our babies, some of us have several babies!

All that matters is that we're all over 40...well, except me for another 3 weeks, then I'll be 40!

mrsboogie · 13/01/2009 12:09

ah loganberry sorry - some of us have had our babies - it's just that we liked the chat and stayed on here - most are still pregnant like - tee, ladymac ermintrude

It is a bit unorthodox

mrsboogie · 13/01/2009 12:10

tee meant to say - you are feeling movement quite early given its your first - nice for you!

lilibet · 13/01/2009 12:18

Loganberry - my youngest is 12!!

I had a miscarriage last year and now just hang around like a bad smell

BonzoDoodah · 13/01/2009 12:23

Hey all of you - DON'T cut out the porridge! Of all the things you should be eating it's perfect! The oats reduce cholesterol (proved scientifically) (also my ex had high cholesterol and when I was dieting we both ate porridge and his cholesterol lowered significantly), they're slow release carbs - so they help you last for ages between meals without getting hungry and so less likely to snack ... AND ... if you make it with low cal milk then you're getting your calcium AND I read that if you eat the same calories of dairy products as other food you actually lose more fat from your body (the dairy seems to carry the fat out) - just don't eat more cals with the dairy.

Porridge is perfect for diets!
[this has been brought to you today by the oats marketing board]

Tee2072 · 13/01/2009 12:23

It is very nice mrsb. I am loving it!

Well, not too bad of a smell, lilibet...

BonzoDoodah · 13/01/2009 12:25

ahem Mrsboogie - me too (scan this afternoon)

Loganberry - there are other thread for people with the same due month as you are ... if you go looking in the pregnancy topics. You can find people at the same stage as you - but here we're linked by being older and (ahem) wiser.

Tee2072 · 13/01/2009 12:29

Wait, I'm suppose to be wiser?

mrsboogie · 13/01/2009 12:51

well, we are less argumentative - at least on here - some of us do venture out onto other threads when we feel like causing a bit of bother

sorry bonzo didn't mean to exclude you - just read down the names on the page I was on and picked off the preggers ones

ooh scans - yummy. I saw a scan pic yesterday and it made me go all eehmm broody cough.. what? I didn't say that!

ermintrude13 · 13/01/2009 12:58

Have returned from shopping and am feeling faintly at having maybe shared a bit too much. Especially as now I can't possibly tell you the titles of my (2 so far) published novels because I write under my own name and would blow my cover and my DH would be named and shamed in the Daily Mail . Poor lamb; he's had to put up with celibacy for months, after nearly 2 yrs of frenzied conception attempts; how was he to know that my libido would return so suddenly?

Your diet plans sound v sensible ladies - no starvation or only eating peas with grapefruit, and not counting fruit and veg as carbs. I second porridge as a great diet food and cholesterol-lowerer provided you don't have it with lashings of clotted cream and golden syrup - mmmmm! Sorry.

Tee, when you wake up in 3 weeks' time you will be blinded by a wondrous light and many revelations and truths will become known to you, and after that you will be wise beyond belief

mrsboogie · 13/01/2009 13:10

awww ermintrude shame - am dead curious now. But how fab that you are published - am v impressed.

BonzoDoodah · 13/01/2009 13:18

Hey ermintrude - we'll pretend we didn't read it ... and anyway ... was funny and honest and made us smile - when we weren't reading it and were looking the other way (ahem).

Tee2072 · 13/01/2009 13:22

Good to know ermintrude! I'll look forward to that.

jeanjeannie · 13/01/2009 13:22

Hello all - been entertaining my 84yr old friend!

Am eating an apple and then I WILL weigh myself - I promise. JW forgot to say - well done on such a good result old bean! I wish my eating habits were calming down. I think tiredness got a lot to do with 'needing' carbs - plus my blood pressure keeps nose-diving which is giving my body the illusion I need feeding up!!

ermintrude You now have more of an interesting allure then you've ever had

I am PMSL laughing at your description of a returned libido coinciding with an unfortunately timed hand job

I am also that you've got the brain power to write a novel - I've not got the ability to read one at the moment!! Being a journalist you'd think I could give it a whirl - but PAH! I'm am the only person in the world who doesn't have a book inside them! Well done you on the agent - my mate has just secured one but only after yonks of trying. Mind you - I've read her novel and it's chick-lit(not very good either) and I don't really do that kind of stuff.

lilibet ah subtitles. Well, when I'm this tired I'd need binoculars on top of my contact lenses to see them!

Gosh, I know we're older...but wiser

bonzo lol at your porridge marketing appeal. My mate is the ad man for Scotts Porridge oats - i'll pass it on!!!

mrsboogie · 13/01/2009 13:29

don't forget to subtract the weight of an apple from whatever the scales tell you jw it's only fair!

mrsboogie · 13/01/2009 13:36

totally agree re the porridge - however I think I must have been eating enough carbs last week to stop the fat burning malarky from kicking in. Will def reintroduce it when I have eliminated it from my enquiries.

jeanjeannie · 13/01/2009 13:38

Oh I have to tell you all this.

Iris has a bed now and she loves it. So much so that when we put her to bed we hear her upstairs stomping about, usually taking books and teddies in there with her. Just went up to see her and she wasn't there Looked down and there were her feet - poking out from uderneath. She'd fallen asleep under there with her teddy....Swwweeeeet. Just put her back in bed and I looked underneath and she's made a sort of den!! Awwwww....bless.

Must remember to hoover regularly underneath as it's usually full of fluff balls

mrsboogie · 13/01/2009 13:40

awwwww how sweet jj and great that she enjoys being in her own room.

sorry meant you to subtract the weight of an apple not jw

jeanjeannie · 13/01/2009 13:51

Oh I shall mrsB every oz counts

johnworf · 13/01/2009 14:27

eh? heard my name.....who woke me up?