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

bloofer and I have talked about this extensively before, but in a nutshell: despite ttc for 12 months (one mc in that time) I went in to total meltdown at my bfp. I still don't like babies (except my own) and much prefer my little boy now he's on the move. I look forward to a house full of teens and young adults. I didn't give up me when I became a mum, I went back to ft work ASAP, ride and ski. My child is a beautiful addition to my life - not my purpose of existence.

Pony yeah, as you know I'm with you on a lot of this. Sometimes I worry that I don't have an absolutely overwhelming urge to be a mother. I would very much love a child but I can't honestly claim I think that's why I'm here IYSWIM...

Have had triumph: evening at pub with pals, all of them drinking, most eating very nice looking pizza from the Italian fellow in the corner - and I had a Diet Coke

Not sure about food tomorrow. I will be in the office, and then in the evening I am doing a 10k sponsored walk (not run - walk. Yes, I know, I know....), so I'll hopefully have the usual fruit, yog and all bran for B, and get a jacket spud and cottage cheese from Hall at lunchtime. They will lay on sandwiches and whatnot after the walk which I will try to moderate/avoid, but I'll be FAAAAAMISHED by then I should think!

Well done Saint Bloofer! That's impressive, well restrained. Good luck on your walk, can we sponser you? I agree motherhood enhancing and not the centre of the universe. It's bloody hard work, frustrating and thankless and I'm only 10wks in. I miss my old social life, my freedom and my job but I also love my baby. I'm looking forward to getting some bits of my old life back ASAP eg my career but it'll be better knowing Ive got a little family to come home to! Barf.

Today on Extra Easy ( in best john torrode voice)
B: fruit/ nat yog/ branflakes (heb)
l: cous cous, chicken, sala
d: Thai green curry and jasmine rice from SW mag. (1.5 syns for coconut milk)
hea skim milk, fruit for snack

Oh I would love to be sponsored but no pressure or anything! It's here! . It's the London Legal Walk. There'll be about 5000 judges, lawyers and sundry vaguely legal hangers-on (ie me!). The money goes to all sorts of legal charities, and it's even more important now that legal aid is being smashed to bits. Charities include those that help the homeless, and women in domestic abuse situations...

And it's not barf at all to think about how having a family to come home to sort of enhances everything else. THat's kind of how I'm thinking about it!

Yeh, when I'm old (er) and grey (er) I'd like to have family around me.
Sounds like a fab charity, public sector is taking a hit. I work in the NHS, it's going to be very different when I go bk to work.

Do you have a just giving page?

Gosh, I can imagine this is a slightly itchy time to be in the NHS. It's so sad. It's really affecting the police too - not so much direct threats to jobs, but the most bonkers shift systems so that officers are absolutely bled dry without ever getting overtime paid

Yes yes, link to page in my post above!

Morning all!

Have fun on your walk today Bloof, sounds like a very good thing to do. I am just trying to catch up with everybody's news but having had a skim, I would agree with those telling you not to wait before TTC. I put on 9lbs during my pregnancy (watched what I ate very carefully although did indulge in a Mini-Cheddar obsession for the whole of the second trimester), so after I'd given birth the weight just fell off. It was the kick start I needed to start shifting it in earnest, and I'm three stone lighter than my pre-pg weight now. So go for it!
At the risk of stating the obvious and being fish-slapped, hve you tried something like the Clearblue Fertility Monitor? I got pg on the second cycle of using it and heartily recommend it over gusset-checking and uncertainty. Sorry if that its a comment akin to "Just relaaaaaaax and it'll happen"

No fish-slaps for you dear Pix - yar, we have CBFMed to the max. It didn't 'work' as in, get me pregnant (we prolly used it for about 6 months) but it was great to know that I was ovulating when I thought I was, IYSWIM. I think when the thesis is done and we start again in earnest we'll use it again...So encouraging of you all though, that getting pregnant as a fatso (I speak hear of myself, and of no-one else ) need not mean that come the child's 1st birthday I'll be 20 stone...

Oh yeh - sponsered you, good luck.

Don't think I'm going to have lost weight this week, just weighed myself. Urgh. One pizza and 4 vinos may have ruined it!

Oh oh bless you Cheese, thanks so much! And nil desperandum on the weighing front: you have all today and tomorrow to sort that out!

Weighed myself on a friends scale on Saturday and not an ounce had shifted which left me a bit deflated, ate sensibly enough over the weekend but still trying to get the hang of syns so probably have overindulged in them. Have weigh in at SW tomorrow evening and am trying to motivate myself to put in some extra effort but it's not easy:(

Gym fail this morning and carbs for lunch. Oh my. :( Going to ride later come rain or shine .

B: Greek yoghurt, banana (half), honey, almonds
L: Roasted veggies, pasta, indiscriminate supermarket sauce
D: Burritos sans tortilla - i.e., mince, salsa, rice (spoon), black beans (spoon)
Fresh fruit, canna 7-up, green fag

I miss green fags. I might switch back

Green fags Bloofer

Anyone know how many syns are in a Tuc biscuit ?

Menthol cigarettes, my dear Obridaga, as favoured by our own dear Pony!

No idea about the Tuc biscuits. Not seen one of those for years - are they those efforts with sort of cheese icing in the middle??

Thanks for clearing that up Bloofer, with regard to Tuc they are more of a cracker than a biscuit.

I want one now

argh - just did a reply and lost it!

brief version....

shitty day - hardly any sleep, thanks DD! Long busy day at work, debating doing shred tonight - first time in AGEEEES ... and possibly a lunchtime run at work tomorrow! eeek!

What's shred?

Sorry you had a crappy day. How's DD? Hope you have a better night tonight

Its an exercise DVD Cheese - the best of its kind, I would say. I did it in March and lost 6 pounds. The drawback was that I was starving for the whole month and ate like a famished tiger, so I probably would have lost the same amount of weight if I had just sat on my arse and ate healthily. (But I felt heaps fitter so don't be put off Nora )

Right...packing pretty much done using the patented Cheese technique and it was surprisingly trauma free. I have even packed my trainers with the intention of doing some nice long walks

Stepped on the scales to weigh the luggage and was pleasantly surprised to see that I've lost 2lbs. God bless M&S changing room mirrors! I'll not be here for official weigh-in so good luck to everyone else.

Must run. Just home from the gym and I could eat the arse of a nun through the convent gate so I'm going to go scoff some aubergine bake then epilate my legs. Oh the glamour...

Evening all

Not too bad a day today - most of the week's exercise in 3x25min fast walks - will be trying more if I get a chance, honest.
Caved and had a couple of biscuits with coffee at baby group, but otherwise
breakfast - greek yoghurt & banana, orange juice
lunch - rice cakes, cream cheese, ham & cucumber, yoghurt, grapes
dinner - nicoise-y type salad with lettuce, green beans, tuna, egg, tomatoes & olives, more yoghurt
(spot the supermarket offer this week...)
Can't face artificial sweeteners, so just ordinary low fat I'm afraid.

Tried to stay restrained in the face of delicious Sunday lunch cooked by friends yesterday, piled up the veg, easy on the roasties, then just had fruit & yog in evening, trying to atone for Saturday's failings before I step on the scales again.

Will now go catch up.

Obridaga a Tuc cracker is 1.5 syns and the Tuc cheese sandwich things are 3.5 syns.
evening all, I'm very tired Ds2 is sleeping appallingly and we are barely functioning at the mo. I fell off the diet wagon big time on Saturday but have been Ok today. Hope you are all well I'm off to bed soon.

Finally read all of fred.

I've got a fridge full of 'good' food but I've had the heaviest of heavy periods and just couldn't be arsed to think about it this week. That said, I've eaten healthily and been to body balance, swimming and for a healthy walk so I'm feeling quite chipper about the DOD.

Haven't been counting syns though - just trying not to overeat, so we'll have to see.

Bloof I'm late with my addition to the weightloss/ttc debate but I have something to add. I got gestational diabetes when I was pregnant and so had to eat a low GI diet - I'd lost a stone on my pre-pregnancy weight when I gave birth. I'd lost half a stone with sw when I got pregnant with smallboo and I was about a stone ish lighter than I am now back then. As we've been ttc #2 without success I thought maybe the weight might be an issue - although because I'll get GD again in my next pregnancy anyway I've been viewing getting diffed as a weight loss plan in itself :o I know it doesn't work like that and I want to be slimmer anyway, for me, but I do think it might make a difference.

I'd say just carry on and see what happens. I know it's not earth shattering advice but should you get your BFP, you can continue to eat healthily in pregnancy and not put too much weight on - I found, especially towards the end, that I couldn't eat much in one sitting anyway, and that eating little and often was preferable.