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

Top of the morning STDG!

Cheese plates in bed Now that is worthy of the last days of the Roman Empire, that sort of decadence

I am having to go off line for most of the day or I will get specifically NO studies done, and will be a failure and end up pushing a trolley full of cats round St Paul's churchyard playing a penny-whistle for shillings, but wanted to say I think that just listing food on here is almost the biggest step when it comes to watching your weight. i know it helps me. We have to start somewhere, and even if you're not up to weighing in and plunging in with weekly lists, just being aware of what you're eating, and acknowledging it, is a massive step I think. For a long time I didn't even THINK about what I was eating, just mainlined the stuff while I sat miserably in my study trying to churn out another thousand words. Now I have to tell this rotten lot what's on my plate I have to think twice

Later potaters, as my pal MsFC says. She's supposed to be joining us!

Morning everyone, confession time here, .... on my way to work I bought 3 ready made sausage rolls, am mad with myself but nothing I can do about it now, have them all eaten . Where oh where is my willpower?

I'm not really here, but quick while it's fresh in your mind Ob - WHY did you buy them? WHat were you thinking at the time? Were you hungry or stressed? What was the trigger? And were they nice?

bloof sounds like you have a lovely weekend ahead. I'd be inclined to say have a very good week, with extra gym seshs, then you can relax a bit more at the weekend. But that's me.

Alpine fall on a penis hey?! Can't remember the last time that happened. And a thong, I'm impressed

SDTG - cheese in bed. How very decadent?! Isn't cheese at night supposed to give you nightmares? I agree with Bloof, writing your grub on here helps you acknowledge what you are eating. Another thing is portion size - I've started doing 1/2plate veg/salad, 1/4 meat, 1/4 carbs. Seems to help!

Mandalee- let us know how the trampoling goes! Can your 7yr old get involved at gym rather than crèche? Saw some kids at mine yesterday - think they can do bikes or summat.

Pix- all ok, doll?

C4ro - you need boxes of tetley and baked beans, couldn't be without them!

Gosh, busy thread can hardly keep up.

Couldn't bear to read that silly fat thread... I don't have the patience. Live and let live, that's what I say!

Obrigada - naughty naughty! Don't let it put you off being good today!

Bloofer - if you do end up homeless, you can come up to Scotland and live with me. We only have one cat for you to push round in a shopping trolley, but I do have a big, soppy labrador who will come and love you to bits, sit on your feet whilst you mumsnet, and curl up with you on the sofa to watch tv.

Oh - and I have just done the weekly shop online, and have tried to be sensible about what I have bought - but my biggest problem is this. I buy fruit - fruit that I like - and then it languishes in the fruitbowl because I can't motivate myself to eat the bloody stuff! It is right there - all I have to do is pick it up and eat it - can somebody explain me to me, pleeeeeease???

Because I was in the kitchen getting breakfast, I had the pleasure of watching ds1 make his - 5 weetabix, not waving but drowning in about a pint of milk! Apparently his record is8!! And I remembered what he used to call weetabix when he was little - it was E B C. In fact, breakfast was EBCbowlspoon (all one word). He remembers it too. He doesn't remember the morning when, aged about 20 months, he kept asking for 'more' after each EBC, so I kept on giving them to him - I found out that it takes 5.5 EBC to fill a toddler! He didn't want much lunch that day, and his nappies were a sight to behold!

Wednesday night is usually chinese night (curry chips and rice) in my house and was so delighted with myself that I resisted the urge last night and had an omelette instead but walking to work this morning, just thought sod it ... I want sausage rolls (which before I joined SW last week) I had been buying on way to work at least 3 days out of the 5. Need to keep my finger off the self-destruct button

Bit of an experiment, decided to forget the prawns and try the Sansbos BGTY Cumberland sausages - only 0.5 syns each.

After the surprise of dc4 I've made sure that falling on a penis in this house will not result in any more babies... The older ones actually thought the baby's real name would be Snip...

STDG I do get you, every thursday I get an organic fruit & veg delivery. I mostly do well with the veg - this week will be experimenting with turnip greens and komatsuna (!), but the fruit languishes in the bowl. Luckily over-ripe apples & pears can go to the horse but the oranges? Beautiful sweet gorgeous oranges, all it takes is a plate and a bit of time to peel. This week I got a couple of pink grapefruit, I really must make the effort to eat them!.

I'm going mad. I looked in the mirror today and thought I looked good, relatively in proportion (J Lo-esque arse), nice rack, flat stomach. But stand me next to another person and I look as though I've been squashed in a comedy mirror. :( I must have reverse-anorexia because I think I look OK but the scales say that's impossible.

B: greek yoghurt, pear & honey
L: prawn salad
D: not sure - either the aforementioned weird & wonderful veggies or bog (no spag).

Has to ask... what the frock is a komatsuna! and how on earth do you prepare it?
I'm with Eddie Izzard on pears, there is a nanosecond between the rock hard state and the mush state that you can eat them in and they are horrible if you miss it.

Ahhh, thank you google. Some sort of leaf veg thing.

I've got a horrible suspicion STDG might actually be the nicest person on MN

I hear y'all on the fruit 'n' veg front. I have now developed the strategy of having all my vegetebubbles not in a rack where I can't see 'em, but laid out in a sort of shallow wicker basket affair. Obviously this is partly because I am incredibly stylish down to each last detail of my kitchen hem hem, but mostly because they're unavoidably THERE every day, pleading to be eaten.

In constipation news, take it from one who knows (incipient fissure, after effects of amoebic dysentery, lifelong constipation, recovered 15-a-day Senokot habit) that the best thing I've found so far is a Turkish herbal tea called Dogadan. 1 cup before bedtime and all's right with the world. You can buy it online.

Pony I think we've all been there - you get ready to go out, glance cheerily in the mirror in kind light and adopting a flattering pose, and then some little snap-happy little shit with an iPhone paps you standing next to a 6 stone 15 year old in American Apparel leggings and behold Quasimodo

It's Japanese Mustard Spinach apparently... We got chard in our bag this week, think next door's rabbit will be getting it. We get a mixed fruit and veg one which we generally manage to get through.

The sausages were really nice actually, quite spicy and didn't taste too 'diety' so will deff be getting them again.

komatsuna - isn't that the book of sexual positions?

I think you are right, stinkypinky - presumeably quite athletic ones, so they will burn up the calories!

Bloofer - thankyou for saying I am nice - my children disagree with you, but that is because I am unspeakably cruel to them and make them tidy their rooms and empty the dishwasher. I should be reported.

On the subject of pears, are they ok to eat if they are over-ripe??

STEW THEM!! (pears not children)

Is that another way of saying don't eat them if they are overripe Bloofer?? Reason I ask is I ate a couple of yesterday and ended up spending most of the morning in the ladies

Oooo lucky you, I'd bloody love to to have that much poo-time . Hope you're fully recovered now!

I doubt it was over-ripe pears - it's green fruit that tends to do that, non? I just always stew over-ripe fruit cos I can't stand it being all pulpy and gooey in my mouth . I do not like PAP.

Not so lucky as I was at work and part of my job is answering phones stomach still pretty dodgy

LOL! Have thought hard about stewing the young one once or six times twice.

Currently typing to you lot in order to continue ignoring the packet of gigantic white chocolate biccies I purchased for my son in a moment of insanity. He ate one, which leaves three... maybe I can convince the husband to devour them all tonight and rescue me.

On the positive side, I did manage to wrestle down the impulse to have the whole lot a small bite of one in the car... told myself if I still really wanted one when we got home, I could have one with a cup of tea. So far, so good.

Overripe fruit won't hurt you, obrigada - could it be the extra fibre you're getting in your new healthier diet?

Incidentally, kale is loooovely if you slowly saute it with some chopped lean back bacon and onions... if you do it in a nonstick pan, you can use Frylight and then add a little chicken or veg stock when you chuck the kale in, cover and simmer for 5-10 mins. Even my husband eats it (and that's saying something).

I have been known to have the same problem re fruit. My solution for the fiddlier things (mango, pineapple) is to 'treat' myself to the pre-cut kind. So easy to grab, and making it a bit of a luxury item seems to help psychologically. Or maybe I'm just bonkers.

Evening

I too am always thinking I look better than I actually do (until I see a photo). Having had crushingly low self esteem at one point, which just about wrote off 8 years of my life, I like to think that when I glance in the mirror and don't see the wobbly reality it must mean I am much better these days. Or maybe I'm just delusional.

Breakfast - yog & banana
Lunch out - chicken caesar salad. Dressing probably not great, but I didn't eat all of it. Very yummy looking Danish pastries avoided (thought I had better be good after eating chocolate mousse after boring meeting last night)
Dinner - waiting for DH to come home with something. Had planned for veggie pasta earlier but he is making noisess about asparagus and Nice ham. So long as it's not Nice cheese too, or I will cave....

whats this thread?

evening all - my god I missed loads!

have had a non stop full on day and eaten crap so shall make sure I go for a run tomorrow and try to beat my pb

I do the thinking I look better than I do.... I look down when I am dressed - can't see too much tum as boobage in the way and go woo! then look in the mirror

oh I can't remember anything that was said apart from 'fall on a penis' ... is it me or does that sound fun?!

mandalee I entirely see your logic re. those stupidly over-priced fruity things. In those days a coupla years ago when I managed to drop a lot of weight, I somehow re-programmed my daft brain into thinking that what constitutes a 'treat' isn't chocs and white bread, but wholesome stuff like fruit and good rye bread and puy lentils and sea bream and whatnot. I think we - or some of us - must have some need to feel 'norty' or 'treated'. How lame!

Well done on the Danish-avoidance, Ducks.

I had A Funny Turn t'other day: keep meaning to ask folks about it and see if it rings bells. I had a sticky sugary flapjack the day of the 10k walk (I thought it was justified ). It was very large, rich and filling, and literally the minute I had finished it I wanted another one, to the extent of feeling a bit twitchy and heart-rushy. I realised I hadn't had that feeling for days while I'd been eating an almost sugar-free, low-carb diet, but that it used to be (in my customary eating habits!) pretty common. Do you think I/we/it is possible to have a sugar addiction that is OK as long as you clear off the stuff, but that if you eat it you just want more and more and more immediately after even if you're not full???

Strikingly, if I eat a really healthy and wholesome meal I don't want to eat immediately afterwards, because I'm sated even if not full up. But I know for a fact (or at any rate suspect) that if I had a red velvet cupcake right now (to take a totally random example ) I would be jonesing for another 2 or 3 straight away.

Does this ring true with any of you lot?