The Big Fat List and the Days of Doom (TM)

[BlooferLady]

You lot! Over 'ere! Sorry for taking liberties with the previous thread: I am no good with suspense, and it was like looking at a gigantic throbbing pustulating boil and not being able to squeeze it

Ooh that's a good un bloof. Last time u dressed up I was Shepherds Bush (tube stations). Highly entertaining!

alpine sorry your DH isn't being supportive. Men can be right stupid. oh and I slipped and fell today (1st time post baby). Bit like losing yer virginity again.

muser- 10lbs very do-able. You can enjoy your first DoD on weds - what a treat for you!

evening all

kids

pony - I SO know what you mean about DH .... mine eats like a fucking house - let alone a horse! To be fair he does SHIT loads of exercise, so does need the calories but the quality of what he eats is bloody awful..... on the frequent rare occasions that we get a dominos I have a small pizza and he has a large... plus sides and is the approximate width of a twig bastard.....

Cheese well done on the zumba

Muser welcome (didn't see you arrive!) and 10lb is very doable if you are far more strict than me who isn't at all

bloof - I love murder mystery things, but never done one got one bought for us and we haven't done it yet - YEARS on! must get around to that!

Hello everyone, I'm back. I've been obsessed with an online competition and couldn't keep up with fred. Anyway, I am determined to stay with it from now on and stop messing about.

Smallboo has started swimming lessons and I can swim at the same time in the lanes part of the pool while still being able to see what he is up to (which is ace, and he is very confident, and I am very proud, but I digress) so this week I did half an hour's good solid swimming.

Hello, how nice to be on a fred with you again :)

Well done on the swimming boo

crikey I'm stiff from zumba. No exercise planned tonight, prob go for a walk!
Today's grub:
b-branflakes (heb),melon ffyog
l- salad and couscous
d- sw pesto recipe (2.5syns) with pasta, chicken, mushrooms and capers
hea-skim milk for tea and coffee, snacks - fruit and mackerel dip with crudités
really hoping for a half decent loss this wk!

I'm impressed with the bodybalance class, first time my abs have ached like this in years (c-section aside ) - since I attended an abs class run by a 6' peroxide blonde killer lesbian - which actually sounds like the plot for a bad porn film, but isn't. I promise.

B: greek yoghurt, walnuts, honey
L: my usual prawn salad, not very exciting I know
D: Going to do something with the turnip greens, with mushrooms and onions I think, possibly with an egg or a salmon fillet.

Fruit a-go-go.

c4ro How was the trip? Actually, you won't be online for a few days I suppose unless your husband has already kitted out the new apartment.

mummynosey I wouldn't mind if he had the body of a god, but he's still young but eats like a pig. He says "oh but we all ate shit in the army" - and I think "yes, but you were 16 and forced to run up and down hills all day carrying 8 stone on your backs". I also remembered he had a KFC last week. :( I really don't care if he's a bit tubby, not the end of my world, but I do care about the fact he's so unhealthy and will have a heart attack by the time he's 35 if he doesn't pull his finger out. He also says things like "mcdonalds was only once a month when we were little, I don't want the baby seeing it as normal". Dickhead. I know what the frying pan's for.

Pony no chance you can tell me more about the hottie lezzer ab-queen is there?

Gah and to unhelpful and downright sabotagey other halves. And I know what you mean about worrying about the health of the menfolk above their appearance. The OM is not fat but was carrying a fair bit of extra timber round his middle and chin(s), and I didn't like it because his job his heart-attack inducing enough without being overweight. Anyway we realised that because of his bonkers shift patterns he was eating 4 meals a day . He's lost half a stone in about 3 weeks the sod from cutting back to the ordinary 3. It helped that I've thrown away all my baking stuff so cannot furnish him with lunchtime cakes

Now then! We have 48 hours in which to gird our loins for the Doom That Cometh! Food my end (EE Day):

B - banana, grapes, yogurt
L - grilled chicken, pea and edamame salad, fruit, diet coke
D - puy lentils, roast veg, feta (HEA), stewed apple (HEB and 2 syns for the honey)

How is Fish? I have been thinking about her and job stuff lately...

She is very 'first trimester' tired Bloof but has had a very positive sounding job interview last week, will let her update you when she's on :)

Great stuff - tell her she's not forgotten!

morning all

I have decided to try and get my head into paul mckenna stuff again - so no weigh ins for me for a while ... hoping I can get my head in the zone as I KNOW it works! When I did it the first time, I lost 9lb in a month without trying or thinking about food! Unfortunately I then suffered a miscarriage and all thought of concious eating disappeared from my mind! I think if I'd have had another month on it, it may have become habit- bloody typical isn't it

so anyway... time to drink lots of water, eat slowly, eat what I WANT, and stop when I am full!

Morning all, foodwise I think I did ok over the weekend, but like many others the intake of red wine probably cancelled that out:( Aw well, will know tomorrow night when I weigh in

Morning peeps.

Well, 10 hour through the night drive completed and we arrived here in Vienna about 700am Saturday. It has been scorchio all weekend >25 and even today it is the same. DH of course has not quite managed to get house sorted. No internet and I am currently sat at work abusing their internet on the quiet and getting settled in. I'm in a nice office with a German lady that is doing some highly ill-advised starvation diet thing that seems to consist of drinking hot water most of the day and a handful of oats soaked overnight in soya milk for breakfast. She says its taking off over 2kg a week and she prefers 2 weeks of this for a kickstart and then to transfer to more normal dieting.

The new rented house is quite spartan living- no internet, only 2 kitchen chairs to sit on, matresses on the floor for now and 150 boxes lined up in rows still needing to be unpacked. There is no storage here at all so we need to go to Ikea and spank the credit card a few times to solve that.

On Sunday DD and I met the nanny for the first time. She is about 20, Hungarian and speaks only a small amount English. She also drives an Audi A3! I get the impression she has "naice parents" funding her to be mooching about here in Austria as we met her chap too on Sunday (he has better English so helped her with the contract) and he repairs motorbikes for a living. Hope nanny and DD are getting on well today as there wasn't time for any niceities like an introduction half day or getting-to-know-you stuff.

Unfortunately I have found the scales box already so I will be able to join in on DOD. That is not a good thing as I've snacked and ice-creamed and snacked again all weekend long- I may be leaving the plateau in the wrong direction (IE upwards).

My DH is not a bad diet-saboteur as some of your describe but he does prefer a large evening meal where I prefer a lunch and then snacks at night. Hence I've been having two large meals a day for a long while that I think has contributed to my spare tyre. Oh and it is me and not him that likes the Burger Kings .

Hopefully I'll be back online Weds then. Cheerios until then, will read fred properly when not feeling guilty as it's work time an' all!

morning glad you got there safe and sound C4ro and the minimalist flat may not be such a bad thing, less to dust I suppose (not that I dust myself you understand I'm a firm believer the dust eventually gets to a sate of equilibrium so long as you don't mess with it ).

Nora good luck with the Paul Mackenna it sounds like sound advice, but I need a bit more of a frame work hence the SW

My DH is quiet supportive of the diet but he needs to loose weight too but is convince exercise the key, but he doesn't have time for much exercise so I think a bit of a biscuit reduction on his part would be a help , I'm hoping my example will encourage him to reduce his snacking.

Madamboo enjoy your swim. I'm pleases fish is doing OK and the job front is looking hopeful.

best do some work I suppose, food today

B- 2x weetabix and some milk HEb and I suppose HEa for the milk but I never drink anywhere near the allowance as I don't have the evil stuff in coffee or tea
L- Salad, turkey and a dab of coleslaw (from work so probably high calorie but yummy)
T Turkey (again woops) escalopes and mash and veg (from the SW extra easy cook book)

c4ro - glad the move went ok. I'm sure you can spruce the place up! Ikea sounds like a great idea, but I do hate going there. We desperately need to go but I keep putting it off.

My DH is following the diet too through gritted teeth which helps. Plus I do the cooking so he has no choice really. It has been hard for us both as we do shift work and long hours therefore frequently resorted to takeaways. So over the years our weight has piled on!

boo glad fish is doing Ok. Send her our love

Anyone mind if I join in too, or am I too late?

Glad you've arrived safely C4Ro - and I am both alarmed and tempted by your office-mate's diet! Commiserations on finding the scales. What an unholy ache in the hole.

Nora I will be intrigued to know how the McKenna stuff goes. Like Hedge, I need structure - tell me I can eat what I want and I'll have my face in a roast capon and bread sauce before you can say 'hardening arteries' - but I like the notion that you can sort of re-programme yourself...

Never too late Grin! Tell us about yourself duck

cheese 'tis a necessary evil in our gaff being as my boyfriend works there. In fact we are off this afternoon to buy new sofas flexing staff discount card. I wish my house were not furnished by IKEA but having spend the last 6 months half-heartedly looking at sofas we've discovered PVC orange horrors for 600 euros or nice stuff starting at around 1800, only IKEA fall somewhere in the middle. :(

Before I met my boyfriend I'd had 3 mcdonalds in 8 years. :(

I love IKEA. So there. My house is 50% IKEA 50% battered old turn-of-the-century junk

I love ikea too... although tbh some of it is horrific!

Hello lovelies,

Sorry I have not been round much lately-i'm still here lurking most of the time but i dont have time to read all the posts I missed and catch up so it all gets a bit overwhelming to keep up with.

Nice to be missed though. Thank you all for thinking of me.

I am not even following slimming world to the barest shadow. I am addicted to licorish comfits and cheese and crisps and feeling sick almost all the time at the moment-just low level nausea but still ever present!

I had an interview with the adult education section of the county council-not heard anything definate yet but the lady who interviewed me said "I will definately be taking you on" so i am waiting for the call.

yayay on the job front Fish!

booo to the nausea... I had that with both DC rather than sickness really, just the nausea all the damn time

What would you like to know?

On the Ikea front, I was only there on Saturday. And it wasn't busy! I do like it, but managed to avoid buying anything I really wanted other than a new highchair. Oh, unless the pack of smoked reindeer counts. Was bloody lovely! Dd ate half

Let's see then, basic info.

I am short, fair, fat and forty. 2 year old dd, and 6 month old ds. I have started SW twice in the last 3 years - both times resulted in pregnancy . I also did it quite a few years ago and did really well.

Need to lose around 5.5/6 stone, but seeing as it's been with me for the last 15 years it's time it went even if it's slowly. Dh has promised to join in with me, and I've joined online today.

I fully expect to start again and have a dc3 on the way in the next few months!

In the last few weeks I have really got into baking, and discovered the Hairy Bikers Coffee Kisses recipe last week. I could cry. They are gorgeous.

Maybe that's why I decided to join SW today actually....

Anything else, just ask away!

Hooray Fish!

Have had the most RIDICULOUS day here. Like the kind when everything takes twice as long to complete as it should, and you do everything wrong. Twice. I even tried to book us a weekend trip to Paris on a weekend we couldn't possibly go. Yes, TWICE. Am herewith giving up doing anything significant for the rest of the day and may resort to apple crumble in fridge.

Welcome, grinningbee! Sounds like you are def in the right place here. Lovely lot, this.

Wish me luck for not falling off a cliff whilst walking the dog or something - today I fear I'm capable of anything!

Ace news Fish!

That'll do to be going on with thank Bee! And...now I want a pack of smoked reindeer...

Mandalee step away from the internet before you do something truly awful and calamitous. Like starting a Mumsnet thread on BF vs FF or something

Just dropping in to own up to having eaten 9 syns in snacks - 1.5 each for 2 cocktail sossinges and 6 syns on an ounce of cheddar. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa etc. etc. etc.

welcome bee - definitely sounds like you are in with the right crowd!

Mandalee I wouldn't be leaving the house if I were you and would also resort to that apple crumble with ice cream

is 9 syns bad bloof? how many are you meant to have?

Just back from a lovely weekend in a forest lodge type thing in the Forest of Dean. Lots of cycling, walking and wine in the evenings and NO INTERNET. Tis amazing how much extra time one has when there is no internet. I only watch TV once a week for a hour on Monday nights, so there was lots of time to fill.

Have had hideous day - so very windy here, my beloved garden is trashed and worst of all my shiny expensive new greenhouse (only been finished a month) has smashed glass and twisted roof vents galore. Arseyarse. I've been positive and upbeat all day with DD (4 years old and tired from a weekend of fun and today she was stuck with mummy again) but now she is in bed and I'm sitting here all despondent with buttered toast and Nutella.

On the bright side though, I may be depressed but I'm surrounded by scented white peonies, sky blue delphiniums and pink and purple lupins rescued from the garden and stuck into vases. Its like being in a very expensive country house hotel reception in here.

I have the dentist tomorrow for root canal work, my mother in law visiting for the day and it is forecast to be very windy all day again, so no doubt the roof will fall in or something tomorrow as well. Bah!