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

B: the last of the strawberries + chocoalte custard (out of yoghurt) + pints of coffee with cream
L: carrot, orange, pinenut salad + crackers with butter AND brie (portions tiny obv.)
D: spag bog or sausages + mash
Will make a fruit salad as have cherries, pineapple, oranges, pink grapefruit, apples, nanas & pears.

Oh gosh, thanks all for being so nice about my moaning yesterday . I did have a productive day in the end, and am about to make a pot of treacle-thick coffee and plunge manfully onward. I got all light-headed and hungry at about 11 (breakfast had been at 6), and I popped down to the caff and had a CHELSEA BUN . Imagine my horror when the raisins nestling within turned out to be giant lumps of chocolate and hazelnut. it wasn't even that nice, and I reckon it woulda been a good 20 syns. I could have had a bottle of wine and a dish of olives for that!! It's taught me a lesson about using loads of syns on things I'm not even really going to enjoy. I'll be at the library Mon-Wed next week so need to make sure I take something with me, I think.

Muse you're so nice, and I saw your post on my way home from the library, and popped into the Co-Op at bought myself some really lovely TREATS. You're right, just cos I can't have chocolate doesn't means I can't feel treated. I bought some hot-smoked salmon, some smoked cod and fresh cod (on offer, and I hope to god my mate Aries isn't reading this!), raspberries, blueberries and strawberries. And I had a hot bath and read the paper and generally returned myself to sanity.

Only I am well jel - oh, all my favourite places . I know what you both mean about the food though. Weird how Scotland's really not that far away and yet so different on the food front. But you might find you have still lost - last time I was up there (staying in Oban, so literally where you were!) I ate myself sick every day but was so active i lost a couple of lb...

RIGHT, food for me (EE day):

B - fruit, yoggit, grape nuts (HEB)
L - some sort of bonkers salad with hot smoked salmon and roast butternut squash, fruit salad
D - seafood stew, no idea what with. Stewed apple and honey (2 syns)
Snack - 1oz cheese (HEA) and an apple, oi reckon.

DoD approaches. Will aim for no syns other than the honey, but will keep some 'in hand', as it were, in case I crack like an egg towards evening

Hello

Glad you had a lovely holiday only. Sounds heavenly. Would you mind taking the list this week as I'm away in West Wales for 4 days so would only be able to do it on my I phone. I'm happy to do it again, maybe we could take it in turns to share it out? Hope I can stick to it while we are on our hols. Doubt it though, will try my best. Lots of walking though which should help!

Had a norty day yesterday out in the sunshine. Had 1/2 a brie and bacon baguette for lunch then 1/2 a sausage and burger at a BBQ plus 2 G+T and 2 whitewine spritzers. Urgh, oh well. Another day ....

Alpine I also partly grew up in Scotland but did see fruit and veg ( neeps and rasps). However, the diet up there is pretty shocking. My gran finds it bizarre that I dont have a wee drinkie every day.

star - wii's are so fun! Great to get moving while not realising it! thats why I love zumba

muser - hows it going lovely? Its tough dieting with a baby. A few weeks ago I ate 8 digestive biscuits for dinner. Sometimes, it just has to be that way. Dpn't be tough on yourself, as far as I am concerned just getting out the door somedays is a triumph!

B:eggs on toast (heb)
L: prawn salad
D: fish (?salmon) new pots and veggies
fruit and yoggies for snacks

I reckon the library is an excellent place to work cos you can't snack innit. Or have you said that already?

She'll kill me! yes yes, no snacking. And it DOES get me out of the house, which is nice - lately it's been a miracle if i so much as out my knickers on .You can't even take a bottle of water in though, which gets a bit wearing.

I think saving up the syns is a great idea - from about 9:05am you'll be able to start thinking about what you're going to blow them on and by 5:55pm you should've figured out what you're going to suck on the bus!

I live in Scotland and can get whatever veg and fruit I want - they even have Supermarkets up here!

There is a lot of money being spent on improving the diet of the poorer folk in particular - a 'fruit barra' with seasonal fruit and veg at excellent prices, healthy eating initiatives, school meals etc. Lidl with their 6 special offer fruits/veg is here too.

Although... a walk through my town will reveal most buggies contain a large child with a Greggs sausage roll sticking out of their gob.

'Lo all,

All this talk of Scotland is making me a wee bit jealous. Hubby and I had one of the best holidays of our lives up there a few years back, must get up there again soon and show the spawn what he's been missing.

Have had the creeping crud this week, but feeling better now. Went for a most-of-the-day walk yesterday with the whole fam (including dog) - which I reckon offsets the pint of lager I had when we stopped hot and sweaty for a mid-hike rest. Right?

Also summoned the balls will to step on the scales again for TD weigh-in (almost a week late!) and found that I've lost another half-kilo and finally broken through the 82-kilo barrier. Almost couldn't type "81", it's been so long. Hurrah, have felt magical ever since (and been v good).

Glad to hear bloof has acquired the treats she deserves! Writing can be miserable hard work sometimes, and I know because I did it for years. How did you feel after the healthy treats, bath, etc? Better than if you'd dived into a tub of B&Js? Or did you still want the nasty stuff?

Mulling yoghurt and grape nuts now. Sounds nice!

What happened to my sunny weekend? Miserable here now in East Anglia, cold grey n windy.

I'm jealous too . My best holidays have been there - I feel as though I am simultaneously 'away' and 'home'. Hard to explain really .

Grape nuts are my new favourite thing! I sprinkle them on fruit salad for pudding too - extra 3 or 4 syns but make it something yum instead of just MORE bloody sliced banana and grapes. And it DID all feel like a treat actually, and I'm looking forward to my hot smoked salmon luncheon

Anyway WELL DONE on the half-kilo loss :)

Hooray for healthy treats!

I too love Scotland, planning on going on holiday sometime soon to stay with my dad. Two years ago now we went and walked the West Highland Way for our holidays. It was the most amazing holiday I've ever been on, just fantastic. I am daydreaming about doing it again with baby in a sling. One of those proper walking slings mind, not my wrap sling. Must be mad though.

So, am still struggling to get back on track a bit. Just keep doing things to sabotage myself. Yesterday started off well: muesli, yog & strawbs for breakfast. Lunch was a big plate with ham, babybels, carrots, celery, pickles, low fat hummus on. Then dinner ended up being sausages. And I had a belgian bun at one point and a calippo. Didn't even do any exercise as baby suddenly decided to fall asleep in the house instead of making me walk the pavements for hours.

Today I must be better, but having been woken every 2-3 hours in the night I really just want to eat chocolate all day. But no. I must be strong.

So today's menu, I think a red day today:

Breakfast: scrambled eggs with cheese (HEA) on toast (HEB) with some butter (4 syns, worth it).
Lunch: barbecued pork ribs, heaps of salad
Dinner: something light after the ribs, not sure what.
Snacks: well I have a ton of apples to eat.

And there will be a big long walk to get my bottom moving again.

It is hard dieting with a baby Cheese, I have to keep my eye on the prize though.

Mandelee - congrats on the loss. Pretty damn good.

Bloofer am so glad you are having treats..otherwise work and boring food would just drive you insane. Im dribbling at the thought of hot smoked salmon. I'd kill for a roast beef dinner with roast pots and cauliflower cheese and yorkshire puds and lashings of gravy. . Anyway, what you are doing is hard enough, so allow yourself the odd treat.

Best Scot holiday Ive ever done 9and did every year from the age of 5-18, is a week camping on Arran. Such fun.

muser - todays food looks yum. What I have found helps is (to sound like a girl guide) being prepared. Having things to grab like strawbs, grapes, apples means that I dont often reach for biscuits etc. And there is no crisps etc in our house anymore. Which means I have to get baby in the sling/pram and walk down the shop just to buy chocolate. Which, even I think, is more hassle than its worth!
I agree - keep your eye on the prize. Or as my mother so charmingly put it...you want to be a yummy mum rather than a slummy mum

I have no biscuits in the house anymore. I have some Alpen light bars and a lot of apples. If there were biscuits I would just sit and eat the packet. But I am out of the house so much due to the need to have a baby who goes to sleep that temptation is never far away. And that little voice of "well you've just been walking for an hour, one little slice of cake won't hurt". Which is how I end up eating cake every day and not losing any weight. But I will be STRONGER.

I'm sorry I haven't been on here much lately - I haven't been doing at all well with the diet/eating sensibly. I'm going to try to pull myself together tomorrow and get back on track.

Urgh I know about the walking / baby refusing to sleep therefore a slice of carrot cake is definately deserved. Hard work innit. Oh how I love a good old alpen light bar!

Just dropping by VERY QUICKLY (have to write another 600 words before I've 'earned' lunch ) to say ALPEN LIGHT BARS ARE LIKE CRACK TO ME. I can't have them in the house. I once ate six at my desk one after the other (at work when it was hella stressful). I am very rarely like that with food, and certainly not with pre-packaged stuff, but I think the fact they're sweet and 'low cal' does me nut in, and I think I can eat them like grapes

Sorry, boring interjection - back to the books!

Afternoon everyone. I've made a batch of 12 beautiful looking/smelling butterfly cakes. Some for dd and some for a friend we're seeing later. After I'd put the buttercream in them all I had to put the unscraped bowl straight into soapy water to stop myself being bad.

I could cry

However, the scales are looking good for the first weigh in so I must resist!

Todays food:

Weetabix and a banana
Cheese triangles and toast, maybe
SW meatballs in tomato sauce with broccoli and some oven chips (7 syns)

The usual snacks of more fruit and yogurt.

All that writing sounds tough Bloofer but the treats sound yummy. And to those with small babies/children, yep I know how you feel. Both mine have colds (and now mummy does too), ds is teething like a loon and dd is just getting her first very back tooth.

I want a butterfly cake!

I like Scotland too. We went to Aviemore a couple of years ago for a friends wedding when dd was just 6 weeks old. Lovely place and I'd love to go back.

grinningbee well done on resisting the cakes, you have more will power then me.
Cheese I'm the same if I have anything pre packed be it cereal bars, biscuits or chocolate so I dont have it in the house so I wont be tempted.
SDTG Well done on not giving up. I find getting into the swing of the diet is the hardest part and I sometimes have some false starts along the way but one thing that always seems to help me is being organised ie making sure theres no crap food in, meal plans, lots of fruit and veg but also easy simple foods for the days where I dont have the time/energy/motivation to cook.

I am trying to plan my meals for the next week so I can do a big shop tomorrow and as usual my minds gone blank. All my recipes and I can't decide between them at least dd'd back at school on tuesday so I can make a couple of batches of soup for my lunches. For some reason when presented with a bowl of homemade soup she gets this look on her face as if I'm asking her to eat a bowl of radioactive waste my cookings not that bad honestly!
Any ideas for dinners would be greatly appreciated the only foods we dont like are fresh tomatoes and ham :)

B:coffee
L: tuna & cucumber sandwich followed by a yogurt (heb)
snack: carrott and yellow pepper
D: Jacket pot with cheese and beans (hea)

I'm going to have a go on the Wii and do my exercise DVD so will prob end up munching on some apple/pineapple

Hey Bee, have you successfully avoided the butterfly cakes?! See, this is why I threw away my self-raising flour!

I'm going to be really tedious and relist all my food because I have BEEN NORTY and I need a proper record if I am to see why I FAIL DISMALLY on the Day of Doom (tm). Sorry about the shouting...

EE day -

B - fruit salad, yoggit, grape nuts (HEB)
L - pasta with hot smoked salmon & peas, and orange
Snack 1 - 3 Dairylea (HEA), punnet of cherries
Snack 2 - 2 slices of rye bread and honey ( 8 syns )
D - prawn and pepper and potato stew and glass of BEER LOVELY BEER (I think about 5 syns - 250 ml

I think I have had a total of about 13 syns

and I have also bought a small rye loaf because SRSLY every time I look at weeny bread I want to kill myself, and as the syn value is the same by weight, I'm going to use it as my HEB.

Sorry for this repeated food-listing. If I am to diet successfully I have to be Mental about it

I fail to see how you have been norty Bloomers. You have stuck to plan. You have stayed within your daily syns. What is problem?

Trying not to have syns is, in my view, a bit pointless. As my old leader would say: it is a 3 part plan. Do all 3 parts. And then you will be able to say "yes, today has been a good day" when it HAS been a good day. Especially as your day does not appear to have included 3 slices of White bread with butter and a bar of Galaxy. Like mine. Because I am doing proper sabotage here.

That's such a good way of looking at it Muse. I always think that having any syns at all is failure - but I guess it's better to think of it as part of the plan. I think that's where not going to the groups is a bad thing - not getting advice - although with you around I don't need a group leader :)

Sorry about your butter'n'choc spree...must be damn hard to juggle baby + food control... I guess that's what flexible syns is for!

Syns are an integral part of the plan. I remember seeing people at group who weren't really losing much. When they started eating their syns they started losing more. It sounds illogical but it kept happening. It is a 3 part plan, syns are as important as healthy extras.

I think it's really really hard to 'surrender' to the plan, you know?! You think, this CANNOT be right! But looking back the weeks when I gained 5lb didn't do very well I was telling myself I wasn't going to have any and then sneaking in probably about 50 uncounted ones. I am going to have an experiment - I'm going to eat all my syns tomorrow and Tues and see how I get on. It'll be very liberating if I still lose!

Well, if we're confessing, I made a cheesecake yesterday and appear to have eaten 75% of it (so far). I made an attempt to make it healthy by liberally sprinkling berries over it.

I don't get on well with those cereal bar things - I hoover the lot and they never hit the spot. Like stargazer, I just can't keep anything "like that" in the house else I'll eat it - I also don't go down those aisles in the supermarket. That way fatness lies.

bloofer for bread - how about some pumpernickel? It's very, very filling, very very very tasty and is full of lovely healthy stuff.

muser I found it really hard to eat healthily at your stage - I was so tired that I was using the sugar as a quick fix and I kept saying "oh you've just had a baybee, have a cake" - but getting back to what stargazer said, I couldn't buy just one cake - I'd buy a pack of 4 muffins and whilst my boyfriend is ever so helpful, we were getting through a packet of cakes a day. :( And of course I wasn't breastfeeding but I remember when I was that I practically inhaled battenburg cake!

Ha! I know what you mean about going down that aisle....I walked down the one with some of my favourite things in yesterday (viz., Japanese rice crackers, green & black's, those Dr Karg biscuits with Emmenthal cheese baked in, etc. etc.) and thought - this is like an alcoholic walking down the booze aisle. I think it's the first time it's really occurred to me I might have genuine proper lifelong food ishoos

I chuffing love pumpernickel. The stuff I bought is pumpernickelesque but doesn't have all the lovely extra bits. I am worried that I'll end up eating more cals than I should if I replace the weeny bread, but every time I looked at it I felt like I was being punished, which isn't good for long-term healthy-eating

RIGHT. Food today (EE...and my syns!)

B - I had what the SW mag charmingly calls a continental breakfast - 3 Dairylea (HEA), 3 slices ham, 2 slices rye bread (HEB)
L - courgette and butterbean stew with feta (3.5 syns)My
D - prawn and butternut squash curry with COOOOOS COOOOOOS, fruit salad
I shall have yoggit and berries for snacks.

And if I have some syns left tonight I shall pop to the shops and have a CURLY WURLY (6.5)

I am going to stay with my parents for a few days later this week, so I can study in a bit more peace. My Ma has done SW a bit before, so I'm hoping together we can stick to the Plan. I have this party on Saturday that requires my long lace black dress and all-out glamma so I can't really be blowing it at this stage....

STDG was nice to see you chick - it's a Monday - that's a good day for starting again with a bit of healthiness!