The Big Fat List and the Days of Doom (TM) Part II - Revenge of the Diet Dodgers

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Hi all!

Hope the title is ok - if not, someone else can do another one

Crikey, Costco is a real baptism of fire if you go there for your tea! Choice of pizza, chicken bake (grease), shep pie or jumbo hot dog Ended up with a chicken salad which wasn't too bad as I'm on a red day.

Just to clarify, for brekky I can have weetabix mini's with skimmed milk on a red day can't I? (too late...had 'em!)

I thought weetabix was a HEb on either day.

Alpine hope all went ok with your parents. Where in Wales were you? I hate processed food too, bloats me up. Hows the 1st tri going, other than constantly wanting to puke?

Johnworf weetabix is fine.

kid hope you feel better.

Dinner was singapore vermicilli again, will post the recipe.

obrigada wondered where you had got to. Welcome back

Have copied all the recipes from the old thread onto the recipe thread! Yes, I am bored...

Allo!

Joyous start to Saturday, cleaning poo off the lounge carpet. DD coughed and sneezed while I was changing her nappy and so pushed some diarrhoea out about 1/2m across the room..what a joy at 630!

Exercise:pilates and a walk
B: Scrambled Egg on hobbit toast (HEB)
L: JP and baked beans if go shopping or chicken and couscous salad if go for a picnic in the park
D: Spaghetti with meatballs and salad

Cheese - I think poo-scrubbing at 6:30am counts as an official Cardiovascular-type Exercise.

Sorry to have been AWOL, have been lurking for lack of sufficiently informative or amusing things to say. Welcome to all the newbies!

Hi mandalee Ha wish it did, do I earn a G&T extra syns for that?

Weeelllll... maybe not the syns, but as a fellow parent I vote hell yes DEFINITELY to the G&T...

Sheesh, it is a quiet day in here, isn't it??

I've been out at school summer fetes all day. Spent a fortune as my kids have a knack of spending money at great speed! Oh well, we hung around till the end so got quite a few freebies too so that kind of made up for all the money we'd spent.

Have just ordered a takeaway as I've not long been in and am too tired to cook anything. I hardly have the energy to stand let along actually walk to the kitchen. I have done far too much walking today, almost 3 miles plus I have been standing since 11am. That kind of makes me feel less guilty about eating that fresh cream sponge cake at the fete

Dinner is within syns (if you don't count the cake) and I have gym tomorrow which I am not looking forward to at all. Its a new class so I don't know how hard its going to be. I'm assuming it will be hard (cardio combat) so thats why I am not looking forward to it.

Thanks mandalee, I am on my second....

Kid sounds like a lovely day out. jealous of the takeaway. Cardio combat sounds tough but you will feel fab afterwards. I have got zumba.

Had meatballs for dinner, yum yum! DH and my sister had cheesecake for pudding and I had strawbs and ff vanilla yog

Have a 3rd I reckon cheese, 0630 poo scrubbing sounds pretty grim.
Don't wish to take advantage of another's misfortune but made my 7am eviction due to DS2 milky puke in my bed seem positively insignificant - thanks for that.

Alpine Hi and congratulations. Empathise with the nausea / eating trap of 1st trimester, it's really difficult and ginger tea never did it for me, it was a daily large flapjack or 2 which sadly continued after the nausea had long gone. Have you found anything that perks you up?

Mandalee don't be a lurker , your posts make me laugh and sadly I don't find lack of informative or funny content reason enough not to waffle in a self indulgent manner. I think my ramblings on here really give me a chance each day to think about my food and regroup a bit of motivation so thanks all - will try and make posts a bit briefer

Food today (green)
BF: Cinnamon porridge (HEA and B) + banana
L: Onion and tomato omlette with cottage cheese
D: BBQ at my folks which I took loads of salady things to- sausage (HEB), bean salad, tomato and red onion salad, some Greek giant butter beans in tomato sauce and loads of salad leaves.
Watermelon and strawberries.
Snacks: Fruit
Rediscovered Mini Milks are 1.5 syns so will have 1 of DS1's supply later - hope he hasn't counted them

Back on red tomorrow I reckon, possibly looking like...
BF: run out of my fave muesli so maybe weetabix + berries and banana + sk mllk (HEA +B)
L: Melon and parma ham
D: Chilli + brown rice (HEB)- will make it really hot and make an onion raita with FF yog to put out the flames.
Never got around to making the fruit salad so still got apples, strawbs, raspberries, flat peaches and big ripe pineapple that needs eating - I love the abundance of fruit in summer

Sorry, another huge post, must try harder to reduce rambling

Hi lake they aren't that rambling, don't you be worrying yourself! Your food looks yum, hadn't thought of putting cinnamon in porridge, how much do you add in? I am still sipping my second, while browsing on here. DH on nights again, so I can lurk to my hearts content! Ho old are your kids, thanks for the sympathies with poomagedon!

DD has started steealing food from my plate for the last 4-5 days so gave hersome baby porridge at teatime, happy as larry. Dreading the poos now!!

Thanks cheese - have got a pepper pot style cinnamon jar so it's a good few shakes, maybe 1/4 -1/2 tsp. I love the flavour of cinnamon and think it works really well with the sweetness of banana.
Mashed banana with peanut butter and a liberal sprinkling of cinnamon is one of mine and DS1's (3yo) favourite breakfast toast toppings, although have been avoiding that one for my virtuous 1st SW week effort. Must look up the syn-age of peanut butter.
DS2 is 7mo and slowly starting to get the hang of eating, maybe he'll reduce his 3 hourly day and night bf if he starts eating a bit more food
How old is your poo machine DD?

Hope you have a quieter night on the poo front.

Are mini milks only 1.5 syns ::jumps up and down excitedly:: I love them and now I can scoff loads
This evening has mostly been wine, can you tell

Re Mini Milks - I'm using a year old SW book and it definitely says 1.5 syns.

I've heard a lot of talk of Curly Wurly (6 syns I think) as a treat from fellow SW folk recently but give me four a Mini Milk anyday.

Sadly no sign of Mini Milks in my freezer, DP kindly went to corner shop and none there either

Will definitely be stocking up tomorrow.

Will go to bed dreaming of mini milks!

Just got through 2 grobags...it's not much poo but there's quite a bit of liquid with it and she can shoot it over the back of her nappy. No grobags left so I'll be up putting the blanket over her repeatedly in the night! Sigh.

Are mini milks those round shaped lollies? If so, I've never liked them! Much prefer my curly wurly treat.

We had Indian takeaway. I had veg biryani but due to my recent lack of appetite, I couldn't eat it. I managed half and have put the remainder in the fridge. I don't see the point of stuffing my face if I'm not hungry. It's very strange to not be feeling hungry, I'm not complaining though, honest!

I had a bit of drama here earlier. Ds (9yo) fell and hurt his hand. He rarely hurts himself but after falling, he cried for ages. I did all the usual first aid of ice pack and inspecting/comparing his hands. I'm sure it's swollen but I'm not convinced at all it's broken. I'll hold off a visit to a&e for now and will reassess it in the morning.

My neighbours son is having a birthday party. She warned me earlier in the week which thought was very nice if her, but I've had enough now!
She said she'd be home at 12 to throw everyone out. It's now 12:07 and it's still going loud and strong. I'm very tired after such a long day plus I have to get up early tomorrow for the gym. Let's hope they decide to turn the music off real soon.

cheese My folks live by the Elan Valley so there was lots of outdoorsey stuff done which was lovely. :) I'm just a bit shocked they eat like that - I think it's just a case of "not moving with the times". E.g., dad's salad consisted of some chopped iceburg (flavourless) lettuce, a few tomatoes he brought back from Spain (so tasty) and some tinned sweetcorn (wtff? ) - wheras obviously I've turned in to a right old food snob and the base of my salad is always rich, dark green leaves bursting with flavour & vitamins. [HardToPlease]

First trimester is horrible - I am the world's worst pregnant woman. :( lakeflypie Last time I found that giving birth helped a lot! Seriously, I was still puking the day I gave birth and as they were stitching me up. I woke up the next morning puke-free and bursting with energy - I found looking after a newborn a piece of piss because I suddenly had energy again rather than crawling around on all fours. Yes, I'm having a right old moan!

cheese Cat poo? Oh joyous joy. :( Is it worse to discover the cat poo in the middle of the room or to feel it in the dark squidging between your tows? One of life's greatest conundrums.

kid I think you should be happy they warned you. In my experience bastard neighbours pull this sort of shit on the night you really, really, really need a decent night. :(

I hope bloofer is back soon, I think she's really stuck in to the books right now as she's not been on facecrack either - so I think she must've put her phone in the freezer too so that she can work. Poor thing - it'll all be over soon though.

B: greek yoghurt, honey, gooseberries/red currants
L: mediterranean cous-cous - and might fry up some aubergine
D: spag bog

Quite frankly your guess is as good as mine as to how much of it I'll keep down given that last night I threw up my rehydration drink. I'll also have two cans of full fat fizzy stuff to keep my energy up when I'm out.

Ah Alpine you poor thing. SOunds hideous. On the positive, does this mean after your preg you will be like sylphlike? Vomming your rehydration drink? Have you tried fat full fat coke? I puked every day for 18 weeks whenever I brushed my teeth and I thought that was bad. Iceberg lettuce is the work of the devil, I cannot bear it either. Can you still get out to ride?

Not catpoo by the way. DD! Yeh, she still has the runs. I am not worried as she is so so happy in herself. Her cough is much better, and I am hoping once she is less snotty the explosive poo will settle too.

kid hope you got some rest last night.

Exercise zumba and maybe maybe a walk
B: Fruit, flean bacon sandwich on hobbit bread (HEB)
L: Salad with prawns
D: M&S dine in for £10 minus the wine as DH on nights and minus the pudding as my v skinny sister ate it last night...so griddled steak and roasted veg!

What's "hobbit bread"? I do like a nice interesting bread, if I'm going to eat bread, for it not to make me blow up like a walrus and put on half a stone, it needs to be as heavy as a brick and carved mostly from seeds. Hobbit bread sounds good!

I am still getting to ride and managed some good work in Wales (jumping lessons) and I rode yesterday, but I don't know how long it will continue and it depends if she pisses me around. E.g., if I have to spend 20 minutes chasing her around the field to catch her I won't have the energy to ride... and the other day I went up to ride and had to sit down whilst I was holding her, so called that off. Not much point getting on if you can't even stand up! So I'm just taking it a day at a time really.

Unfortunately am unlikely to be sylph-like post-partum. Tell me why it is that it's possible to vomit up healthy food and yet battenburg cake rarely makes a re-appearance?

ON saying that, I'd like to be the same weight at term as I am now, that would be a good achievement and perfectly "healthy" given my starting weight. Last time I put on a stone in my first trimester and so far nothing, so it's good so far. I think I'm also coming to the realisation that although you feel like eating will dissuade the nausea, in reality nothing will. I have medicine from the docs for the ms but haven't taken it yet, am just trying to be a hard bastard!

Hmmm cyclizine can help, but if you are 'ard enuff....

Its those 400g loaves of bread so everything is just smaller, I get the hovis wholemeal one. Its essentially tiny small slices. My sister calls it hobbit bread - its just not satisfying enough for her tiny small frame apparently! But that is the joy of being 21.....

Well done on riding. I found in my first tri that no amount of sleep was enough to lift the tiredness. I did quite a lot of night shifts and really struggled. Haribo got me through!

Re: battenburg, I genuinely think you need a bit of stodge when preg. Carbs help!
Got to go..I can hear rumblings from DD bouncy chair and she has a tomato red face - something myst be being pushed out!

Ds still had a swollen hand this morning so we went a&e. His hand is broken

Oh poor boy kid, is he in plaster?