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The Big Fat List and the Days of Doom (TM) Part IV - A New Hope (And the Countdown to Xmas!)

929 replies

grinningzombee · 12/10/2011 08:26

Morning Dod'ers!

Here's a nice new shiney list for when the old one is full.

Pull up a squishy chair and feel free to help yourselves to the Sw friendly snacks. Posters from the old room will be moved in shortly Wink.

OP posts:
pixiestix · 14/12/2011 12:40

God Ria that carol concert sounds dire Xmas Shock We have all this still to come and it is definitely not one of the bits of motherhood I was looking forward to. Hope the assessment went well today.

to CSWS.

Poor you Lake. I was absolutely dreading my return to work Sad Hopefully you will have a similar experience to me ? once I got back it was actually great. I?m enjoying it so much more than pre-ML. Suddenly all the things that used to stress me out don?t seem to matter much at all and I just enjoy hanging out with my friends and getting paid for it (with a smidgen of real work thrown in to the mix!). It is actually a real break from T for me ? soooooo much easier than being a SAHM! Hope that today wasn?t too bad for you.

Bee without wanting to sound like a stalker Xmas Grin I truly am in total awe of you! Your self-motivation and dedication to this is something I can only dream of. Its really gobsmacking. I have short bursts of commitment to the plan and then fall back into the old ways and you totally and utterly put me to shame. You should have a massive sparkly slimmer of the year sticker!

Slinky your DS sounds like my DD! She loves nursery and hardly ever minds us leaving her there, but she just can?t sleep at all when she?s there. At home she has a massive midday sleep ? about two hours. At nursery we are lucky if she manages 40 minutes. She is always totally wrecked when she gets home. Confused Hopefully your DS will acclimatise a bit quicker than my DD has done ? she has been going since the beginning of September and this is still an issue!
Hope the Xmas shopping was successful.

Ugh, the diet has gone out of the window this week despite all my vows to the contrary. I?m rubbish. Once I start on one bad thing its like an avalanche of junk food from thereon in Xmas Angry I know I will be sobbing at my weigh in tomorrow but somehow I just have no willpower at all. Meh.

Hedgepig · 14/12/2011 12:56

it's lunch time and i have hit 20 syns already AND it is the works Christmas bash tonight! Lets sy today is a flexible syns day Xmas Grin

well done bee you are a star

CantSleepWontSleep · 14/12/2011 16:24

urgh - exhausted and out again tonight. What's best (but not spicy) to have at indian please?

Hedgepig · 14/12/2011 17:15

Tandorri mixed grill and plain rice probably you best bet or a birrianhi (sorry about the spelling)

Cheeseandbiscuits · 14/12/2011 19:00

bee has lost 2lbs this week, start weight 15st 11.5lb, Current weight 11st 4lb
Total loss so far 4st 7.5lb, Xmas countdown 24.5lb of 24lb
CSWS has lost 2lbs this week total loss 1 stone 11.5lbs
slinky has lost 1.5lbs this week, Start: 12st 11, Now: 10st 13.5, Lost last week: -1.5
Total: 1st 11.5
pixiestix has Lost 0.5lb, start weight 12st 12, current weight 9st 13.5, total lost 2st12.5
Hedgepig Height 5' 7" has stayed the same this week, start weight 14st
11lb, current weight 11st 2 lb (total lost 3st 9lb)

Early liost today as I have a million things to do tonight! Well done, esp to bee

SlinkyBells · 14/12/2011 19:23

No weigh-in for you this week then cheese?! you sound like you're too busy, so we'll let you off Xmas Wink.

I was just about to tuck into the Christmas biscuit tin, when dp presented me with a fresh-cream raspberry turnover! Xmas Confused. Flexible syns for me today too then Xmas Grin.

Great list - 4 out of 5 of us losing, only one STS, this close to Christmas is amazing I think! Oh, only my "loss" doesn't really count as it's what I put on last week, whoops! If I can just maintain the next couple of weeks I will be gobsmacked impressed.

Well done again bee - you must've been bouncing Tigger-like all day?! You did an extra 1/2lb on top of your Christmas target, and still have one more weigh-in to go, wooooo hooo!

Enjoy your nights out CSWS and Hedgepig. I'm out for a 3-course Christmas meal and drinks tomorrow night, a Chinese/birthday celebration Friday night, and another 3-course meal Saturday night! Followed by friends coming round for a roast dinner on Sunday....what was that I was just saying about maintaining?!

pixiestix · 15/12/2011 09:37

Well done everybody, thats a pretty surprising amazing list! Xmas Grin

I have my RL weigh in tonight and judging from the scales at home I will have put on anything from 2 to 4lbs. Oops Xmas Blush Oh well, it was nice being under ten stone for five minutes Xmas Grin

SlinkyBells · 15/12/2011 09:38

Did I kill the fred? Xmas Blush.

Morning all, how are we? I'm good. pixie it was ds's 2nd morning at nursery yesterday and he slept from 10.50 - 12.20 - hurrah! They had to wake hime for lunch Xmas Smile. Hope it continues (he has two more mornings next week, then starts properly in NY, althought admittedly only for 1.5 days per week). How old is your dd? I bet she's shattered after nursery then if she's still not napping there properly bless her.

pixiestix · 15/12/2011 11:40

Ahh, little legend! I'm glad he has acclimatised better than T. I work until late on her nursery day so DH always picks her up and he says she is always completely spaced out with tiredness Sad She gets quite clingy and whingy and is often asleep on his chest by the time he has put her coat on for the walk home Sad She seems so happy and content in all other aspects of her nursery life though that I try not to worry too much about it.

Quiet today. Where is our QueenBee?

pixiestix · 15/12/2011 11:41

Sorry, DD is 14 months Slink! She has been going one day a week since 11 months.

Cheeseandbiscuits · 15/12/2011 13:01

Nope, no weigh in for me. I forgot in the morning adn then only remembered at 5 [fshock} which is very convenient after eating crap all week! Can someone do the list next week as I am away. Thanks

Well done to all the losers.

Glad babies are enjoying nursery! We are off to centerparcs tomorrow but travelling to mums tonight. I am getting excited but it is Christmas chaos here. I am not coming back until the 2nd Jan so lots to get packed. The car is going to be jammed packed. It doesnt help that I had zero sleep last night, DD up to tricks again! Just got to stay consistent...

DD is now furniture walking pretty well. Its frightening - she is 9 months old fgs! Where is the time going?

Slink what news fo the house? What have you got DP for Christmas?

pixie how are you settling back into London?

I hope everyone enjoyued their Christmas nights out!

Cheeseandbiscuits · 15/12/2011 13:02

Oh and a latecomer to the list:

huffpot has lost 1.5lbs this week, total lost 12.5lbs!

What a result well done huffers

grinningbee · 15/12/2011 15:53

Back properly in a bit - I'll do the list next week Cheese, if you like.

Cheeseandbiscuits · 15/12/2011 17:39

Thanks bee Xmas Smile

pixiestix · 15/12/2011 21:18

Have a fab holiday Cheese! We have the Christmas chaos to come next week - the train to Cornwall with all our presents in tow! Xmas Confused I can't wait!!!
Thanks for asking after us. The move to London hasn't been too bad. All the issues accompanying it have been horrendous. Day to day life is fine, and actually a lot of fun a lot of the time BUT I still feel in a horrible sense of limbo. All the long-term plans and dreams I had have been replaced with a big blank slate and, without wishing to sound like a total drama queen, I'm not sure that my marriage will ever be the same as it was 12 months ago. There is still a lot of resentment and petty fighting and general misery. But DD and I muddle along ok most days, and it is beyond fantastic to be back with all my London friends - so not too much doom and gloom! Heigh-ho - at least there is mulled wine!! Xmas Grin

RiaInExcelsisDeo · 15/12/2011 22:04

hope it all settles down pixie.
have a fab time at CP cheese Envy

and yay for losersXmas Smile, but I'm with everyone else - bee for xmas super-loser award Xmas Grin

assesor thing was fine thanks. I am a bit pissed off with the others at work (one rule for all of them, another for me it seems) but I suppose that's normal. Missing festive lunch tomorrow due to funeral, so any festive excess from this point onward are purely my own doing with no social excuses whatsoever. And would be far worse if DH could extract any of th money he his owed from any of the people who owe it to himHmm

am glad all the LOs have settled at nursery and the return to work is going well for all of those involve, and wishes for the same for those who have to do it soon (sorry, a bit vague with personal details tonight). my boys all hated it and I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

very little intended willpower here for quite some time now (I have to encourage DS1 to eat, and DS2 's birthday is coming up...) but I'll keep logging in if that's OK. I haven't given up yet (though didn't WI today)

enjoy your festivities everyoneXmas Smile

RiaInExcelsisDeo · 15/12/2011 22:05

please read previous post including intended corrected spellingsXmas Blush

grinningbee · 16/12/2011 20:35

Greetings fellow earthlings Xmas Grin

Ria no-one is allowed to give up posting. I know things will probably go a bit quiet over Xmas (while we all pretend we're not scoffing chocs and mince pies), but come the new year we'll all be back on it again and nattering away. I hope! Glad things went ok with the assessor.

Cheese have a fab holiday.

Pixie You sound like you need a non mn hug, so ((hugs)).

To everyone else and those above, you're all treasures. Thanks for all the comments on the weight loss so far. Not sure I am worthy of being an inspiration or anything though... I'm just determined. I'll be determined again after Xmas too Xmas WinkXmas Grin.

I did a mega food shop yesterday. Got the Xmas pud and some boxes of mince pies. Smelly cheese and pork pie on the list for next week. And I shall resist all of it until mid week next week...

Dd had her first party today at playgroup yesterday. She loved it! We went back to see them all get a visit from Santa, and when she was called to get her present I almost cried! It was even worse at the Xmas concert/nativity thingy this morning. She chose to dress as Father Xmas (bless!). There was a big audience, and when she came out she burst into tears, and spent most of the performance having her eyes wiped by her lovely playgroup lady. To her credit, she didn't run over to me and sang her songs. I am a very very proud mummy Xmas Grin. I do have to admit to eating some cake afterwards though. Would have been rude not to!

Oh, and anyone have a dc with sensitive hearing? Does it sort itself out? Dd seems to have a problem with tannoys/amplifiers etc and I don't know whether I need to get her seen.

tinselstix · 17/12/2011 13:37

Just rushing in to

How bloody cold is it?? I am literally wearing half of the clothes I own today and I'm still freezing! Xmas Grin

grinningbee · 17/12/2011 18:40

Aaaarrrgggh!

Major diet fail. Ooops. Been a very odd day, and a somewhat tearful one. Dh is off on a lads night out and staying away. So I have eaten 2 yum yums, jammy dodgers, couple of tunnocks teacakes, and am going to have pizza for tea. Oh bugger. Also bought some 90% dark choc.

On the upside I feel very bloated and yucky, so maybe I won't feel like stuffing as much over Xmas as my greedy brain thought.

My brother met my ds for the first time today. Total lack of interest, which hurt. His wife totally ignored ds too. They also ignored dd (but they have seen her before...) Then again, they are not "child" people. Hmm. She once referred to her own nephew as a "long bodied freak". Says it all really, doesn't it.

Still, it was enough to have me sobbing in the car on the way home, and at random moments since. You'd think I'd have learned that feeling miserable isn't made better by stuffing gooey things.

I need to be uber good now tomorrow and Monday.

Hedgepig · 17/12/2011 21:48

Hugs bee I know what you mean the moment I get miserable I get scoffing. Sorry about your brother & SIL but some people just don't get kids, heavens knows why cos they are fab little things grin
My syns tonight are most of a bottle of wine and 10 Roses (20 syns for the choc without counting the wine)

RiaInExcelsisDeo · 17/12/2011 22:53

a big fat to them bee, and you don't have to share your gorgeous DC with them, they are all yours. (My aunties are all anti-child, having none themselves, so anyone under the age of 30 freaks them out!) We all understand the joys (and "not so joys") of having DC.

I too am having a pants day. Got the funeral over with yesterday, which was possibly the most surreal thing I have ever done (erm, until today). It was a little like no-one had even died, and all the bitteress and nastiness we've lived with all these years has just vanished (which obviously is a good thing, but it's a bit weird).

and then today. stayed in, finished the last bunting order, cleaned the conservatory (would have liked to shop as DH has finally been paid, but by cheque by the company rather than BACS, so we have to wait for it to clear why they couldn' do that the first week they cocked it up I don't know.). Putting the boys to bed tonight and Dsis rang in tears - she and BIL are over - Sad and very Angry. It seems a weird thing to say, but when I went through this with DH it was FAR easier than this is. It was horrible but I found a coping mechanism somewhere, and I could deal with it, and kept busy and managed (quite well actually, and there are some fond memories there, of tidiness and cash and no grumpyness...). I am totally stunned and very defensive of Dsis and really wish there was something I could do. Maybe not to fix things as a whole, but to fix Dsis and help her through to the other side.

why oh why is DH watching the dirty dozen? I always feel so sorry for Kiefer's dad (though I can't remember what happens actually). Watched "Kinky Boots" last night - that's kind of film. Trying to convince DH to watch it again to distract me.

Happy Sunday everyone - I'm doing a reading at chapel tomorrow! and if no little girls turn up I may have to dress up as Mary (DH PHSL at that. He thought the reading was funny enough, needless to say he isn' coming with me.)

grinningbee · 18/12/2011 07:59

Thanks Hedge and Ria. I know children aren't the be all and end all, and I'm sure jetting off around the world to Vegas for Xmas, and New York for new year are lovely... but just acknowledging that they exist would be nice.

It got better yesterday too. We got threatened yesterday by someone who has had a grudge for over 2 years. Thought it was all in the past, but he went into where dh was drinking last night and threatened him, and said that "people" would find where we live and come round, and that he'd get what was coming to him. He's already run dh off the road, and clipped him with his landrover when he was walking. Police have been informed, but honestly. When someone knocked on the door last night I nearly crapped myself. Especially when there was no-one there when I looked.

Not a good night.

Anyway. Must be a good girl today after the food fest (and vino).

Good luck with the reading today Ria and glad the funeral is over, along with any ill feeling from the past. Sorry about your dsis ((hugs)).

I love the film Kinky Boots. It's set in my home town, and I know exactly where that boot factory is. Have driven by it many a time. Watching it at the cinema was funny when you know where places are.

Enough rambling from me!

Have a good day everyone Xmas Smile

Hedgepig · 18/12/2011 12:02

Shock Bee stay safe sweetie, that is really scary. Sorry about your Dsis Ria . Today we are going into Cambridge shopping Xmas Shock we must be mad

Food (good so far)
B Melon and yog
L Tomato veggie sauce and sweet potato
D Shepards pie

RiaInExcelsisDeo · 18/12/2011 15:32

Little Voice was filmed where I'm from bee. Just a shame that wasn't a funny film as such! that sounds very scary, hope you are OK.

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