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

Morning!

I did manage to avoid eating butterfly cakes yesterday. Gave 6 away to a friend, and dd has eaten one leaving 5 in her cake tin.

Tomorrow is my official weigh in (although I will save the result for Wednesday). Remembering that it is the first week, and you lose a lot of water... I'm not going to be put on the naughty step if I've had a good'un, am I?

Todays food will be:
Weetabix and a banana
Cheese triangles on toast and an apple
Gigantic baked potato with beans and 6 syns worth of cheese
I dare say there will be a yogurt at some point too, and maybe some strawberries.

I have to food shop a bit today, and will also resist my favourite aisles - wine, chocolate, biscuits, cakes etc...

Oh, and anyone looking for new SW recipes to try - the sweet chilli chicken is gorgeous, as are some pork meatballs I made (although the chilli in the sauce was waaaaaaaaaay stronger the next day!)

Well done grinningbee on avoidance of butterfly cakes. I would not have been able to do that. Hope today goes well for you. We'll still let you join us if you have had a mah-oosive loss, we'll even put you top of the list if you are victorious!

Agree with muser about syns. You are never gonna stick to the diet without them. I use them for a medicinal gin in the evening, helps me 'relax'

Had a bloody awful night with DD. She has just discovered the miracle of rolling over. But frequently gets stuck half way and so gets annoyed, as anyone would. prob is, she likes to practise at about 3am! Found her wedged in diagonally in her cot this am!

Going to the Gower is Wa-les today for a few days with DH and DD. Will try v v hard to stick to the plan, esp as I know we are having lunch with hsi Aunt who will shove pubfood down my gob one lunch time.

B: fruit salad and FF yog
L: Eggs on (HEB) bread
D: Singapore Vermicilli thing from this months mag - its lovely

Right, as I'm off on my hols, I will report back on Thursday with my weight gain this week! Have a lovely time at your mummys bloofer, hope you get spoilt and well looked after

Thank you Cheese. How old is your lo? Mine is also doing the getting stuck thing. I often find him hollering having gone under his bouncy chair too

Have a lovely holiday. I like Wales, but dh has something against it so chances are I won't get to go for a while!

Aaah my DH is welsh, great place! We'll be by the beach, shame rain is forecast for the next 3 days.

DD is 13weeks, such fun but hard work. She's very active already and its only going to get worse! She somehow wriggled off the side of her playmat earlier. how old is yours? Makes dieting tough too, we spend a lot of time in cafes having cups of tea with other mums. Tough resisting the cakes.

Coupla bits of food for thought this morning, courtesy of the Melbourne Age:

www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/diet-success-is-hunger-all-in-the-mind-20110606-1fomd.html

www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/thin-is-better-right-wrong-20110606-1fnxp.html

He is 28 weeks old (where did the time go???) and can move around by rolling, and sort of doing an impression of an inch worm. Not actually crawling as yet. Cake should be an entitlement at the mo!

Just to give you all a laugh - I did the weekly food shop this morning with ds and dd. Dd is 26 months. We were in the veg section and she goes into full tantrumming meltdown, shouting "Raymond, Raymond" at full volume.

It took some minutes for light to dawn on marble head that she wanted to take "Raymond" the butternut squash home. That Mr Bloom and his flaming nursery!! We already have one at home. I'd better wait until she is in bed before I chop him up and roast him!!

bee I had to laugh at your lo tantruming over a butternut squash. I'm guessing Mr Bloom is a cbeebies creation?
Cheese hope you have a lovely holiday and the rain holds off for you

I've had an iffy day today had no appetite this morning and had to choke down a banana to keep me going but will become ravenous later this evening and scoff everything in sight. I managed to do my shopping online for the first time ever in an attempt to avoid buying things I dont need or lots of treats but the only delivery slot I could get was wed pm so still had to go shopping for some bits to tide us over till then and ended up buying cakes for dd which I will have to resist eating. Sounds logical right?
My friend poped over for a cup of tea earlier and brought with her some home made merangue nests. What can I use to make a SW friendly desert with them? Normaly I'd get some clotted cream or ice cream and stew some apples obviously cant now :(

star how about ff Greek yogurt (Total is nice but a bit pricey) and strawbs, other berries and a dash of honey 1 syn a teaspoon on the merangunes?

Today I am away with work so SW is pretty hard as we are having a bbq for the evening do. I will try and be restrained it will be fine if I don't get drunk. I am rather exhausted after the 50 mile (yes 50 mile) cycle I did yesterday , it was fun but really hard work.

I know I wasn't going to WI until Wednesday but I did it today anyway. I am truely shocked to say I have lost 2lb this week. That brings my loss to a grand total of 12lb in 4 weeks. Its been pretty easy too I've had a few treats along the way, last week I had a few lunches out and at least 1 takeaway every week. I haven't been eating chocolate apart from curly wurlys. I could well end up looking like a muller light yoghurt soon.

I've ordered an Indian takeaway for tonight as I was helping my neighbour cut a tree for a couple of hours so I didn't get to start dinner (thats such a shame )

I wonder if I can hit a 1stone loss by next week? That would be amazing.

Am quietly plodding onwards towards DoD here.

Ooh Cheese you lucky thing going to Gower. It is one of my favourite places in the world I think, walking along Rhossili beach at sunset/rise with the dogs and not one other person in sight. There is a big old scruffy house we rent in Rhossili village and pack in friends and dogs and beer, a fabulous place indeed.

I totally agree with the cake/new-ish baby thing - it seems almost obligatory to eat cake all afternoon to counter the tiredness of being awake all night. The other thing I noticed was that cake and biscuits don't need heating, buttering or precise cutting and can be eaten one-handed without fear of dropping anything hot/wet on the baby's head. I had one of those limpet babies that you can't put down, and one day after I'd made and eaten porridge from scratch, using only one hand, I thought there has to be an easier way to do this - and lo and behold, there was. Cake.

Kid best of luck for your 1 stone weightloss target. Reading your post is like reading one of the success stories in the SW magazine. In a good way!

Hedgepig please tell me your 50 mile bike ride was on the flat, no hills?

I'm sure I've said this before, so ignore if so, but CurlyWurlys take longer to eat if you've frozen them first. That is my Top Tip for the day.

I've been pretty good this week but it is not reflecting in the scales at all. I think I'm stuck on a plateau . We've had fantastic weather the whole 3 weeks since we've been here in Vienna- only 2x under 20 degrees, mostly over 25 degrees and I'm stuck in long sleeved stuff as all my summer stuff is summer before last and way too small (pregnant last summer). There is no way I'm putting on any of my maternity stuff again so I really need to be about 3 kg lighter right now just to give myself a tiny amount of summer wardrobe options.
Hopefully a miracle will occur and a half pound will evaporate over tomorrow before the DOD to give me some hope.
Have a nice hols in Wales cheese- my realisation of total unfitness/ fatness dawned first on a gasping plod up Sugar Loaf in 2009.

Just a quickie - I am watching channel 4's Embarrassing Fat Bodies showing a woman who lost 14 stone in 2 years. All that excess skin It really worries me that I'm going to end up with big flappy bits...

c4ro do you do the same plan all the time? I know in the past it helped me to change to a few green days if I was mainly doing red.

Oh, and I meant to tell you all my Moment of Doom in Scotland - you know that moment when you see yourself as others do. I was in a small boat with DH and DD. DD at the front, at the pointy end, DH in the middle with the oars and then me at the back. I reckon the boat was tipped up at an angle of about 45 degrees in the water, with poor DD about 3 foot about the water, and me being perilously close to it. Horrific. Thankfully no one on shore had a camera, else I'd have been obliged to fling myself in the water to avoid a photo of the tippy up boat.

C4ro is it not an option to go and get a couple of cheap tops from somewhere? Or would this be a bad thing?

Oh dear I just tried to do the 30 day shred dvd and had to give up after 10 mins as all the furniture was shaking and I was worried about upsetting my neighbors (I'm in a flat) it probably sounded like an elephant was going to come through the celing :(

thanks onlyaphase, I have tried SW sooooo many times and keep failing. I did suceed once which was when I wanted DC2. I fell pregnant the second I hit a good weight (9st 4lb). I did it once, I should be able to do it again. It feels like such a long way off though. I don't know why I let myself get this heavy before doing something about it. Oh well, can't go back in time so I'll just hve to deal with it now.

I do worry about excess skin grinningbee but I doubt I'll have as much skin as the lady who lost 14st. What a horrible position to be in though. Its great to lose all that weight and a huge improvement on her health, but will she ever feel confident to wear tight/skimpy clothes? Maybe they would operate to remove the skin?
I'm terrified of general anaesthetic, totally pathetic but the fear is there now after my puppy died under GA last year. The dentist thought DD needed a filling and the only way they were going to be able to do it was with a GA, I couldn't agree to it. It turned out she didn't need it in the end but I was well scared!

At least you were brave enough to get in to the boat onlyaphase, I would have let DH get in with DD on his own and stood by watching.

I saw some photos of my on FB, I'm not liking what I see!

When I lost 8 stone last time I escaped mostly but got a tummy tuck. Operation did not go well and I haemmoraged despite my blood pressure dropping to dead levels. I've had 5 GA's and 3 have nearly done me in. They're not for me. My boobs and arms were ok but when I was very fit my thighs looked like Tesco carrier bags in the wind. I don't know if they'd have caught up because I decided to get fat again. I really didn't fancy the whole body lift, it's barbaric.

A whole body lift does seem quite extreme.

c4ro That dreaded moment of doom. I remember the feeling. Yuck. Last night I decided to measure myself, you know, those "vital statistics". Wow. I kind of wish I hadn't but it will be good to see how it changes. I am still boob feeding but that doesn't really make it seem any better plus it doesn't excuse the waist and hip size!

Anyway, today is my DOD and although I won't say until tomorrow...

There, that's better

I don't like the excess skin on my belly already - who knows what it will be like if I ever lose any weight from it. At the moment it is only my legs getting skinnier, which is making me look even more like a toffee apple.
So today, in an effort to redeem Sunday's kid's party meal of tortilla chips and cupcakes
B - banana & yoghurt, orange juice
L - probably cous cous salad
D - scrambled eggs & asparagus
Will be plenty of fruit on theway as well!

Oh, and todays food will be:

Weetabix and a banana, maybe some strawberries too
Toast with cheese triangles or a bacon butty and an apple
Sweet chilli chicken and roasted veg
The usual snacks of yogurt and fruit

Hey chicas! Gosh, I have loads to catch up on...

C4Ro I'm sorry about the plateauing. I know how dispiriting that is. It's very very hard to continue sticking with an eating plan when you don't seem to be seeing the benefits...I mean, if you're not going to lose weight why not eat what you like (is my thinking). When I hit a plateau, and by 'hit a plateau' I mean I started 'dieting' and didn't do it properly the first 3 weeks, folk here suggested I a) eat all my syns, b) stop kidding myself I am sticking with the plan when I'm clearly not, and c) eat lots of foods with SS next to it. I am sure you already do all these things but all the above really worked for me.

Embarrassing Fat Bodies gave me a serious case of the sads. That poor, poor chap with the hanging belly . I did however giggle slightly at the fat pubis. They kept saying it! 'Fat pubis'!

bloof I was outside with a green fag when I read what that woman said and my jaw physically dropped. I think I may have eaten a fly (HEA?). What a rude cunting fucking bitch.

B: Greek yog, pat of jam
L: salmon in butter & thyme, roasted veggies
D: fruit salad, need to prep the poo chutes for the morning.

bloof I'm shocked at that lady! How bloody dare she
You can excuse a child because they are innocent and don't do descrete very well. But the mother should have known better. (Hopefully she is now a big, fat, huge blob!)

I've had a couple of incidents with kids insulting me. One asked if there was a baby in belly. I told her there wasn't and are lovely little response was 'Oh, did you belly stretch like my mums did when I was in her belly?'

Another child said about me 'Look mummy, that lady is having a baby too' then she turned to me and asked if I had a baby in my belly. I told her that my baby had just come out of my belly and was at home. I didn't add that he was 2 years old!

One rude parent at DCs school came up to me in front of the other kids and announced 'You've got fat' I grinned and replied that I am now losing weight. What I wanted to add was 'Well you're ugly!' but I didn't want to cause a scene

Its funny how you can remember word for word when someone says something mean to you. Its actually the way they made you feel that you remember which is why I think its important to be kind to people.
I work in a school and the look on the kids face when you acknowledge something they have done well, however small.

Right, what shall I have for dinner? Cannelloni sounds appealing to me. I was meant to be going gym but there has been a change of plan now (not that I mind in the slightest!)

Hi all,
we're headin home early as weather here crappy and got plumber coming early Thursday morning so I'll do day of doom list. Send me your stats and I'll publish tomorrow pm!!

Been pretty good, stuck to diet yesterday. Today had a few chips with lunch but otherwise doing ok.
Tomorrows food:
b: fruit and yog
l: jacket and beans
d: meatballs and pasta
heb: 2x aloen lights. Fruit and yog as snacks.

Good luck 2mw everyone

It was a bit shocking, wasn't it?! Looking back, I wish I'd thought of something incisively brilliant yet foul-mouthed to say. Ah l'esprit d'escalier, always the way!

Ahem. Folks. I have Fallen Off The Wagon in the most high-larious way. And in a way so typical of me and my ishoos that I'm not even depressed about it.

I decided I wanted the HEB choice of a baked apple stuffed with mincemeat. I distinctly remember thinking, now then Bloof, you know you're a demon for eating spoonfuls of things out of jars, but I thought I had conquered it. By the time my apple was baking I looked at the jar and realised that between squishing roughly 4 times as much as I needed into the apple's cavity I had also eaten enough sneaky half-teaspoons to constitute HALF THE JAR, adding up to some 600 calories. Gosh I thought, I can't have that in the house, I shall end up eating it all week - and yet I cannot possibly throw it away In The Current Economic Climate! Reasoning that the OM has 4 night shifts coming up, and discovering half a bag of probably weevil-ridden wholemeal bread flour in the back of the cupboard, I have rustled up a batch of Christmassy cupcakes (having rigorously tested the mixture some half-a-dozen times) and will shortly almost certainly settle down with a cupcake and a cuppa.

That, ladies and gents, is what happens when you give an addict a sniff of their drug of choice.

Great timing too - that's done for my DoD weigh in and no mishtake