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

Btw, with respect to the vits & minerals found in veg & veg-avoidance. The inuit people have one of the most "restricted" diets in the world (until recently obviously when Walmart offered cheese-in-a-can goodness) and they get nearly all their essential vit & minerals from polar-bear fat. But tbh I've never seen that in Tesco. They were traditionally a very healthy people with (until recently) virtually no cases of cancer.

alpine congratulations on the BFP. Excited? How's things at work.

Will return later but wanted to add my congratulations...

Congratulations Alpine! Lovely news

I'm approaching the weight that I got pregnant at, not that I need to worry at the mo. After the epic child wakiness on Saturday night, I didn't think it could happen two nights in a row. Wrong. It all kicked off at 3.30am with both dc, and didn't get settled until after 5am.

I am knackered.

At least dh was here this time. Oh, and his final tally for his lads day out was a disgusting 31 pints. Yesterday was a waste of a day due to him feeling "delicate".

Ok. Todays food will be:

Weetabix and a banana
Toast with cheese trianlges or a ham sandwich and an apple
Sausages, bacon, eggs, tinned tomatoes and a few syns worth of oven chips
Fruit

Now I need to phone the water board as our water is coming out white and chalky looking. Need to make sure it's drinkable!

Right I'm back...listening to DD grizzle next door so may have to dash.

Kid - tuna pasta, Jacket Pots and beans, get some eggs and make a frittata with the eggs. Just write off yesterday and restart today

bee 31 pints, bloody hell, that IS good going. My Dh can only drink 4-6 these days and is pretty pished. He must have felt rough yesterday. Sorry you had a crappy night again.

Alpine what happens with the band and the baby? Can you eat enough to keep you both going? Hopefully MS will stay away this time

Food:
B: mushroom Omelette
L: JP with tuna and salad
D: Sweet chilli pork
Snack: fruit and yog, toast (HEB) with spread (will work out syn)
Exercise: 1hour walk as will walk my sis to our nearest tube and back home then walk up to the gym. Booked Iz into creche so I can have a swim + sauna (was supposed to be doing intermediate pilates but I'm wimping out)

Oh, forgot to ask - how did the cooking for the masses go Cheese?

And (silly me, pressed post too soon!) while 31 pints might be good going, when you work out the cost... . I think stella is around £3.30 per pint. It's getting on for 2 weeks worth of food shopping!

Nuff said.

Hello everyone...Sorry for long absence: have been feverishly catching up!

well firstly CONGRATS to our Pony :) - splendid SPLENDID news. And i do remember you saying getting the band tightened was the sure-fire way to get a win ;) And I have been threatening to get one done....

Mandalee about the Dukan thing - I'm torn. I am at the stage when I'd consider doing anything ANYTHING to lose a good amount of weight, just to kick things off so I feel in control, so I understand the allure. But looking at it level-headedly it sounds so terribly restrictive and unhealthy, and I am trying to make myself believe that you can lose lots of weight by healthy nourishing diets. So erm, that wasn't a helpful contribution was it?!

The dress is BEAUTIFUL but I cannot begin to imagine having a body that would mean I could wear it, so I just look at it in envy and amazement...

Kid I feel exactly the same (more moaning from me later) but Muse speaks words of wiseness. I always used to think, meh, I've fucked up, so I might as well fuck up totally. But actually a couple of days' control means maybe only gaining 1lb as opposed to 3 or 4....good luck!

Hope you're less knackered now Bee -that sounded unspeakably zausting

Well now. It hasn't been a great few days. I did do OK staying with the Aged P's, but wasn't as in control as I'd've liked. Then Saturday I had a party and got absolutely WANKERED until about 3am, having eaten the most appallingly unhealthy junk food and chocolate. Then yesterday I was shockingly hungover and ate huge slices of soda bread and honey, and chocolate, and all sorts.

I have to say I am finding it almost impossible to sustain the stress of studying with the additional strain of dieting and coping with weigh-ins. My weight will always be a very emotional issue for me, tied up with a lifetime of self-loathing and obesity issues, and absolute rage that I lost so much weight, and was so happy, and ruined it. So, I honestly don't think I can cope with the DoD this week. It's my last week of studying before going back to work after almost a month off to finish my thesis (still not sure this is going to happen!) and I will not be able to exercise, or even be ordinarily active (i might manage the odd walk and maybe a trip to the gym but my priority is my remaining 10,000 words). A gain (almost certain given what has happened) will just make me incoherent with misery at a time when I need to be calm and focused. So what I intend to do is log all my food here and stick to SW as much as I can, and join in on the next DoD. I hope that's OK.

I know I have done a lot of moaning here and can only promise that i am not by nature lugubrious and that I am capable of sticking to a damn diet - it's just a dreadful bleak ghastly time that hopefully will be over very soon!

Oops forgot the food!

B - fruit, coffee, yogurt
L - cous-cous salad, feta, yogurt (HEA)
D - tagliatelle with bacon (from SW mag), stewed gooseberries (HEB) with honey (2 syns)

You know the booze isn't helping right? Never mind the calories, it fucks with your body and brain so much that you're a zombie the next day. The only way to quickly fire up your muscles/brain is to eat shite. A nutritionally viable meal plan (sans alcohol) would make you feel much better about "almost everything". I can just imagine your waking up sunday morning, a combination of shakes & nausea, so you reach for the soda bread & honey which doesn't replenish the goodness in your cells but adds to the heaviness and bloating in your gut... etc., etc. :( You can lose the weight, you've done it before. :)

B: yoghurt, walnuts, banana, honey
L: strawberries, pineapple, cheese & crackers
D: I'm going to make some sort of salmon & asparagus risotto - perhaps even with artichoke.

Btw - gooseberries? I saw them for the first time in about 15 years on friday, I should've got some but was unwilling to re-mortgage the house.

Gosh, you're completely right pal. The booze is always the killer for me. but I find it impossible to rock up to a party and primly turn down the boozeage and neatly sip 1 x Gin and slimline. And that's EXACTLY what happened Sunday morning! Lost a whole damn day's studying too.

Once again, I will have your food today please thanks

Yes - picked from my parents' garden! SO EXCITED! Obviously I want to make a crumble to give them full credit but best not, I think...

Hey, congrats, Alpine! (though still not sure what a BFP is - big f$*%^in' pregnancy?) Terrific news for you.

Must say these red day things sound like the go for me. I have the most success when I cut right back on bread, pasta etc, so will start having my HE carbs in the am when I have all day to burn them off, then stick to protein and veg with some fruit the rest of the day. And weigh in with my 'group' on Wednesdays, of course!

How many syns in a (slimline) G&T?

Re: my skinny-minnie sister - I don't think she's TRYING to be mean with the dress, in fact she let her (other) bridesmaids try a bunch on and pick the style that suited most of them. And one is at least as big as me, so I have some degree of hope.

I do, however, think she has NO IDEA what someone larger than a size 6 goes through with regard to clothes. However, she is also a recovering bulimic whose illness has screwed up her babymaking apparatus right proper, so I'll take my childbearing hips over her situation any day.

Bee, my commiserations on your fatigue. To the best of my recollection (and it is all a bit fuzzy) I was a total zombie until my son was about 2. And I only have the one! Take it easy on yourself today, if you can.

Welcome back Bloofer I think that's being very sensible. Get those words written, maybe have a celebratory cake or two, and then focus on the diet.

Dd is sitting having her breakfast. She decided on grapes, cheese and sliced ham. All good, except she is having a lady gaga moment, and wearing the ham on her head

Right. S'pose I ought to move my carcass and Get Things Done.

Oh, and I definitely vote to give dear Bloof a pass on this week. Good grief, woman, you have enough on your mind! Just nourish yourself gently with Good Things, and get back to us next week. Remember those lovely treats from last time!

ROFL at the Lady Gaga moment!

Bloofer - God, I don;t blame you for letting off some steam on Saturday night, you have had a tough old time lately. I agree, give yourself some time to rest up, do your thesis then concentrate on dieting again. I was only saying to Dh yesterday how easy it is to diet and exercise now I am at home. When I was working 90-100hr weeks, it just wasnt a priority ( how I ended up fat in the first place...).

Bee - chilli chicken was fab, thanks. We did it on the BBQ, yum yum! Also made a huge lamb rogan josh so very successful. My sister is still here (and still in bed..Grr) Laughing at lady gaga, tres amusant

mandalee have you tried it on. how does it look?

mmm gooseberry crumble, yes please!

Not yet, cheese, had to order it from America. Hopefully it will be too big by the time it gets here!! fingerscrossed

And ditto to what Alpine says about the booze - I'm pretty sure that's how I got to where I was... post-O/S move stress leading to consumption of close to a bottle of white per night Not only highly calorific, but NOT a smart habit to take up for the daughter of an alcoholic! Much better now, though I still sometimes trip up if there's a delicious chilled bottle of Sauv Blanc in the house.

Phewww ... looks like I am not the only one struggling at the minute, I just seem to have lost a grip on what I am eating.

Although now it looks like I am on my own here today :) Going to sit down this evening and work out my meal plan for next few days and stick with it

No, you're not! I just thought people might have got bored of me talking to myself yesterday

I'm here too, just in from the gym. Fecking knackered, exercised 4 days in a row, so ready for bed. Interestingly, I didnt have my HEB or any carbs till just now and felt like I was going to collapse...2 pieces of toast and I feel like a new woman.

Come on, obrigada you can do it. Just restart tomorrow, as if it was day 1. Start planning your menus on here again.

Yawnnnnn bee......

Just worked out todays synnage
Sweet chilli pork 2.5 syns
butter (on HEB toast) 4 syns
4 olives 1/2 syns
Enough left for a gin and tonic tonight..2.5syns!

It's my DoD tomorrow. It'd better be good! Obviously it won't be like last week, but a couple off would be nice... I promise to keep it secret till Wednesday, and I will pm it this time.

I'm here too! I'm not supposed to be: the OM pointed out, quite reasonably, that if we didn't have the internets I'd've finished ages ago and be doing nothing but frolicking about in gay abandon by now . But I had to look up some Burke, so while I'm actually online it seems rude not to check all the social media available, non?

THANKS for all being nice. Is it awful that I'm slightly reassured by others struggling too? Not that I WANT people to struggle, just that it's easy to feel like you're the only numb-nuts not cheerily losing 3lb a week, no stress

I have made some banana bran muffin things. 1/2 dssp of sugar per muffin and equal portions of all bran and flour. Obviously better to eat no snacks at all but if one must, those are as good an alternative as any I s'pose...

1/3 dssp sugar per muffin!