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

do I smell?

Well we didn't want to upset you bee but now you mention it..... :o

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Food wise I had a bad night yesterday and todays not getting much better. It involved lots and lots of straight vodka and a kebab but I had fun.

B: thin air
L: sausage and onion sandwich(heb) banana milkshake
D: 7 syn pizza sw chips and brocoli
Snacks fruit and yog

Apart from clearing out the shed at the school there has been no excersize today and prob wont be tomorrow so I will try and do one of my exercise dvd's tonight but I'm babysitting so I prob wont do anything but watch playhouse disney lol

:o

Cheeky so and so!

I'll play that to myself later on tonight. Dh has just told me he's had 11 pints so far. Goodness knows what the final total will be And he claims to be dieting with me...

How many syns in 25ish pints of Stella do we think there are? 250?

Hello. Stella? Vodka? Thin air? Prawns crackers? Have I stumbled in to freshers week? My phone is playing up so I will need to type winky.

I have been uninspired the last couple of days due to work pressures. Put my email on at five am this morning to read that the big boss had been relieved with immediate effect, clearly next week will be no less stressful.

As a result I stopped at a cafe this morning for coffee and petite fours. My baybee knocked my coffee over and picked my cakes. Obviously helping me out. I came home and had prawns crackers for lunch. And chocolate. Boyfriend made homemade burgers for dinner yummy. Walked about a million miles today on a fathers day mission. Bought two new tshirts. Caught glimpse of reflection and was horrified. Need to stop slouching, but nature of buggy beast rounds shoulders and makes you slouch. Want to be thinnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

Alpine sorry about the work stress.

I must hasten to add that it is dh on a drinking day. I am home alone with the children, watching In The Night Garden while dd throws all the clean socks from the washing line on the floor whilst wearing a clean pair of my pants around her neck!

Sounds like diet blahs all round! My saving grace is that being sick always kills my appetite. And this is the second week of it, so that SHOULD be helping, right?

I know what you mean about slouching, Alpine - sometimes I see myself and can't believe it! Am trying to adopt a dancer-style pose of upright carriage at all times - but it makes my back hurt, right between the shoulder blades! Must be an overweight mutant with some camel genes in there somewhere. Or elephant. Yup, that would explain it.

Making Italian chicken tonight, my own invention. Took bnls sknls chicken breasts, butterflied them and filled with fresh basil, LF fresh mozzarella, seasoned and closed, then laid them in a baking dish on top of a tomato sauce with onion, garlic and capers in it. Topped with a few seasoned breadcrumbs, sprayed with Frylight, and have popped in the oven for a bit. Will let you know how it goes!

(And no, as a non SW-er I have no idea how many syns, etc. are involved. But I'm going to serve it with steamed veg, and it seems pretty healthy to me!

That does sound healthy, much healthier than the big bowl of chocolate chip clusters cereal I just had for dinner!

Oh well, might do 2 aerobic sessions tomorrow just to try and make up for today.

At the BBQ, I had 1 sausage and bun with couscous and salad and I didn't have any of the cakes on offer so not too much damage done.
I really think I have gained this week, it's not been a good week so I think I should just draw a line under it and try harder next week.

Evening!

Dinner turned out to be a jacket spud with beans in the end. Couldn't be bothered to cook properly after getting the two dc to sleep. Dh has just phoned me. 18 pints down so far... yuck. He sounds piddled.

So... this is what having the remote control feels like I can't believe I'm not sitting here with a family sized bar of dairy milk! Instead I have a nice fig activia yogurt. Don't I just know how to have a fab Saturday night

Bugger. Thought the yogurt tasted nice. I've picked up the ones that aren't fat free Oh well, it's only 3.5 syns, and I haven't had any today.

Good morning!

Still just me? How boring

Last night was a mare - went to bed at 11.45, only for ds to wake up 3/4 hour later, and then dd woke crying too. I was up with them both until 3.10! Ds woke again at 4.20... I feel somewhat tired.

Oh well, off to collect hungover dh. He has just woken up apparently

Todays food
Banana and black decaff coffee
Toast with something or other
Leftover quorn bolognese thing with a couple of syns worth of oven chips
Fruit

Morning all.

Had a computer failure so on my iPhone-apologies for any spelling errors!
Haven't caught up on what I missed yesterday yet but bee hope your dh isn't too hungover. Maybe he can take the kids awayan youcan have some rest?

Had a couple of extra gins last night so went over my syns. Off to zumba now as penance.
B: melon and yog
l: pasta of some sort
d: chicken salad and new pots

must dash or I'll be late for the gym, have a good day

What is it with rainy days that makes me yearn for tea and toast? I'm afraid I have indulged (1 slice worth) because I am STILL sick and so miserable with it! Off to the GP clinic tomorrow, jiggety jig.

Bought the Dukan diet book on my kindle --> sneaky reading. Still mulling over whether I can live without all bread, pasta, cereal, etc. for a month or so. Though I do love eggs, and guilt-free steak for dinner would feel like a total treat. Oh, and prawns. And salmon... Dunno. Apparently, the first 5 days or so are ONLY protein (like, ONLY... no veg even!) Then you get to have protein and veg every other day, and keep the rest all-protein, until you get to the weight you want. Then you slowly add back things like cheese, bread and fruit, and last you get to eat as you like all days of the week except one all-protein day. Forever.

Points in its favour: it addresses what happens to your body when you lose a lot of weight, and includes this long readjustment phase to let your metabolism calm down and go out of crisis mode (which is why he says most people regain lost weight so fast when they stop dieting - your body actually is in a panic and sucks every last possible calorie out of everything you eat! Made sense to me - I certainly think my bod does that most of the time

Points against: it is VERY prescriptive, and I'm not sure I can do that. I haven't been a real "dieter" dieter for most of my life, and I tend to rebel. But maybe if the kilos were really falling off, it would be worth while.

And lastly - I'm not sure if I'd be embarrassed to admit to family/friends etc. that I was "doing" a diet - and it would be bloody obvious when I didn't even add veggies to my dinner of meat and more meat! It's a very short period, but it strikes me as very non-standard eating. Not sure how I feel about that.

What do you all think? Would you try it, if you could probably get to your goal weight in 2.5 months?

I wouldn't. No vegetables for a week? And then only every other day? Does not sound at all healthy to me. And it sounds like it would make your life a bit of a nightmare with eating out or stuff like that.

I think the reason most people put weight on so quickly when they stop a diet is because they revert to eating the way they used to. Learning how much you need to eat to maintain a weight is really, really difficult. And it's very easy to say "hooray, I am a size 8, now I can eat cake" until suddenly you're not.

And steak should always be guilt free. Nothing wrong with a bit of steak, unless you smother it in battered onion rings and creamy sauce. You could have guilt free steak every night with Slimming World.

Oh, forgot to add to my hypothetical: What if you had to be in your sister's wedding in less than 3 months in this dress?

Beautiful dress mandalee but maybe not flattering if you are boobilicious like me. I have to agree about the lack of veg, sounds a bit grim. That cannot be healthy. But I did Atkins once and lost 10lb in 3 weeks. Then I gave it up cos I got ILL from the lack of fruit and veg. But if you do want to be a slimjim quickly, it might work.

However, you could do something similar and healthier by doing SW red days. If you stick to it you could lose over a stone in 3 months....Are you exercising too, that will speed things up!

Its all going wrong for me
I'm really struggling to stick to SW the past few days. I think I have accepted that I am going to have a gain this week so am making the most of stuffing my face.

I don't even have much SW friendly food in the house and I don't get paid until mid week so can't do a big shop. I have potatoes, beans, pasta, tuna, couscous and thats about it I think.

Stupid SW diet, wish I could rewind back to last Monday so I could have a good week. I thought being back at work would solve my pigging out but nope, it made no difference at all.

Okay, moan over with. Time to get my SW magazines out to see what I can put together for meals this week.

OK, so what's an SW red day look like? curious

(And no, not boobilicious - more like hip and thigh-ilicious. Defined waists make me uncomfortable!)

NOT to mention that my sis is now an American size 4... count 'em, 4... I try not to hate her, really.

Chin up kid, I was feeling the same yesterday as I just kept falling off the wagon. But I don't want a gain this week, I want a loss. So I am pulling back. And if I do get a gain, I want a tiny one, not the kind of gain that a whole week off plan will do. You can do some meals with what you have, get inspired with the magazine.

Today has been a good EE day, as follows:

Breakfast: muesli, fresh raspberry, milk (HEA)
Lunch: scrambled eggs with cheese (HEA) and ryvita (HEB)
Dinner: the dish I didn't make last night. Chicken thighs, cooked with carrots, celery, onion, fresh garlic, swiss chard, tomatoes and chickpeas, with paprika & cayenne. Then some cous cous chucked in at the end. It was a lovely warming stew for a rubbish rainy day.
Snack: Apple + 2 babybels (HEA)
Dessert: strawberries, fat free greek yog, meringues

And I've had a small glass of red wine.

mandalee: roughly, a SW red day would be: eat as much meat (lean with all visible fat removed), fish and poultry (skin removed) as you like. Eat as many vegetables and fruit as you like (excluding peas, potatoes, corn and some other starchy veg). Fruit must be whole and uncooked, juices or smoothies do not count. You can also have unlimited eggs, quark, very low fat yogurt, and some other things too.

Have 2 servings of Healthy Extra As (milk/cheese/dairy things), have 2 servings of Healthy Extra Bs (wholemeal bread, ryvita, some cereals, basically high fibre things, or olive oil is a B). 28g of cheddar is a HEA, or I think 175ml of semi-skimmed milk, 2 slices of wholemeal bread from a 400g loaf is a HEB, or 3 multigrain ryvitas, or 2 alpen light bars.

Then you can have 5-15 syns a day, which could be anything from wine, to oil for cooking, or some rice/pasta/whatever. My small glass of wine tonight (175ml) was 6 syns.

I like SW because there is very little counting, unlike Weight Watchers, very little weighing, and you can eat proper meals easily. And when I was following it well I was losing 2lbs a week fairly consistently.

mandalee As she's your sister I shall try to be as diplomatic as I can. 1. Why do brides always seem to wish to sabotage their bridesmaids and 2. Whose bodyshape would that dress compliment? I'm thinking someone wafer-thin with long, tanned legs - actually Bambi might suit it. For me it would make my tits look lumpy and like a giant mess, my neck look short, my shoulders like a rugby-players, my legs like totem poles (varicose veins to act as carvings) and my arse the width of a bus. I do like the colour though!

For the meaty/easy on the veg diet. I try and eat in this "Paleo" manner. I'm not a veg-avoider, but I try to avoid e.g., potatos as I don't see a massive amount of goodness in them and we're lucky enough to be wealthy enough not to have to eat stuff just because it's readily available. I can happily avoid milk but cannot leave my greek yoghurt/stinky cheese.

kid If I were you I'd make a bit cous-cous salad using the tuna. Are the beans baked beans? If yes, I'd rinse off all that mucky kid-friendly sauce and add those. Got any veggies around? Do you live in the countryside? Maybe you can find some wild garlic or half-inch something from a field. Wild mushrooms?

I don't think I have lost this week despite eating "pretty" well and not until I burst. I suspect this has something to do with the BFP I have received as I've felt heavy & bloated. I cannot help but wonder if the "quick" loss of 10lb this month resulted in the BFP. This leaves me in somewhat of a quandary as to the band over the course of the pregnancy. Right now I can eat enough to healthily sustain me (and the baby). Last time I put on very little weight during the pregnancy but piled it on within weeks of getting out of hospital (partially drugs, partially just thrilled not to have ms anymore, partially cakes). So actually I'd like to lose a couple of stone over the course of the pregnancy, but what will be will be.