The Big Fat List and the Days of Doom (TM) Part V - Once we were plump but now we are thinner, and looking forward to our Christmas Dinner! (Also incorporating the New Year weigh in confession thread)

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So, here we have our nice new little thread. No food type is banned from being mentioned. It is Xmas afterall . So pull up a comfy chair, I've put a good film on the telly for you, put some logs on the fire and laid out some snacks. We have stollen, mince pies, chocs, shortbread, smelly cheese and crackers, wine and baileys.

Feel free to add anything else!

This thread will self destruct later in the new year, so don't worry about confessing to eating naughty nibbles, or putting on the odd pound (or 8).

Enjoy, and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Thanks for the welcome everyone :)

Can I tell you what I ate today?

B- 2 bacon, 2 eggs and a pear.

L- Veg soup, Supernoodles , 2 alpen lights.

D- Chilli and rice, a muller light.

Snacks- 2 prunes (donated by DD1), a square of dark chocolate, a sneaky sliver of rocky road, small bowl of shreddies (after my virtuous run).

TSP I run at night, but deliberately, I don't want anyone to see me

slinkyb when is your DCs 1st birthday? DD2's 1st birthday is the 8th Feb, I suppose I ought to think about organising something really!

*Debka I eat the low fat Supernoodles quite a bit when I am doing SW, would never touch them usually.

My curry wasn't syn free in the end, I stuck a sachet of creamed coconut in in the end. Still low syn though for a huge portion and it was lovely. DH came in saying how nice it smelt and he can't believe he can eat that on a 'diet'.

Had half a honeydew melon too. Does anyone else always feel like they could eat a whole one in one sitting, or am I just greedy?

I daren't touch alcohol, it will lead to chocolate/cake/crisps...

I am finding that by not buying all the usual junk that I love (mainly chocolate) I am not craving it much.
The only biscuits I've bought have been rich tea and nasty cheap bourbon ones. I find that I can eat just 1 or 2 biscuits and be fine with that. If I had choc digestives or hob nobs then it would be a different story altogether!

I keep making sugar free jelly too so I have something healthy to munch on if I am feeling peckish. Good job there is always plenty of it in the cupboard.

Still haven't managed to plan my meals for the week, I keep getting distracted by FB

No biscuits here.

The lentil pie was Ok, bit tasteless. Next time I think I will make it spicy!

Lentil Pie can be a bit, yes. I should have said that I do the following:

I bung in some dried chilli flakes, lots of black pepper, a chicken oxo cube and I put either wholegrain mustard, or as in the one we just ate I put two tablespoons of horseradish in the mash.

Feel a bit bad now for not saying!

I can feel the Nutella calling from the cupboard I shall have to make do with the last 2 clementines in the house instead.

Thhhaaaaanks bee I'm waiting for it to do its magic. I will try your additions next time.

Just catching up on Sherlock. It's good.

I'm still waiting for some magic here...., someone else to do my menu plan for the week!

I can give you my evening meals for the week if it helps Kid.

We will be having:

Sweet chilli chicken
Cheese and onion pie with quorn sausages
Spinach cannelloni
Spicy beef and pepper stew

Any good to you?

Must remember to get some more salmon trimmings too. yum yum yum.

We heard from our friend about an hour ago. Hospital suspect she also has lung cancer. More tests going on obviously. Tis totally crap. I've told dd that M is in hospital with a poorly head, and am leaving it at that for as long as I can. More and waiting.

Oh bee, that's do awful . Anything we can do? Wish I was nearer, I'd watch your DC.
Kid - we are having:
Steak and chips
Ham and artichoke pasta
Summer veg pasta
Butter chicken
Cassoulet and garlic bread
Spag Bol
Mushroom lasagne

Hope that helps!!

thanks for that bee, very helpful to copy meals from someone else.
Could I ask for the sweet chilli chicken recipe?

I am so, so sorry to hear the latest on your friend, how horrible for all of you.
I do hope they can offer lots of advice and support for everyone and some treatment for your friend. Its not a lost battle yet though, if you all give up hope, she may well give up too. Until they actually say its terminal, there is a tiny glimmer of hope that you all need to hang on to. Much easier to say than actually do but I think you have to remain calm and hopeful.

I think you have done the right thing in having told your DD the minimum information without telling her any lies.

Ooh my giddy aunt - another early night gone up in a puff of smoke trying to read the last couple of days worth of posts!
Now I don't have time to reply properly, so please take appropriate sentiments for good and bad news as given!

Midori et al - I am breastfeeding 2 of my dc still, but I don't have any extra HEs for it. They wouldn't be a lot of use to me as I can't have dairy because the boys are intolerant to it!

I'm so sorry Bee. What awful news for your friend

Midori and other breastfeeders - my consultant told me to have one extra A and one extra B, which she later cut down to just one extra A when I wasn't losing fast enough. Seems like there is a lot of conflicting advice out there!

Another sleepless night for DD. I am exhausted and thoroughly fed up of my life

Oh pixie, sleep deprivation sucks. Do you think it is a regression? Are you working all week?
kid it's on the recipe thread, I linked it a few weeks ago.
bee how are you doing today
tsp how did last night go

I think once your milk is established its prob quite flexible but in the early days is have the full healthy extras.
Another milestone here. Dd is out of sleep suits and in PJs. She kept tripping over the feet!
Food:
B: fruit and yog
Exercise: Zumba
L: scramble s egg, smoked salmon and hobbit toast
D: steak, chips and veg
(HEA skim milk, heb hobbit bread)

Weigh in tomorrow. Eeeek!

This morning was a bit of a mad rush for me but I've dropped dc off at school and I'm half way to work.
I'll have a look at that recipe thread as soon as I get the chance today.

Have a good day all.

The amount you eat and drink doesn't affect milk production though cheese (it's a common myth) so I imagine they just allow extra because it can make you hungrier, and to ensure you are getting plenty of calcium for your own needs, though that can be got from other sources too .

Bee I am so terribly sorry. What awful news It is such a cruel and terrible disease but as someone has said, there is always hope. Thinking of you, as I know how hard it will be to handle talking about such a massive issue with little ones.

Pix I am so sorry you're feeling low. There is truly a reason why sleep deprivation has been used as a torture method...I wish I had some advice, but I am useless in this department other than to say that old mantra 'this too shall pass'. Poor you.

Cheese i was on stand-by all night and she didn't call. I know she loathes the phone and was quite possibly up North still with her Mum, so I didn't call because it would look as if I were pestering her so I could make plans, IYSWIM. I have left a message this morning saying I'm still here if she needs me. It is so hard to know how to be there without being intrusive

Well I had an awful night too: I have been very low for so long now, and I managed to really really piss someone off without meaning to, so feel increasingly as if I can't even talk about stuff without digging deep holes all over the place. Urgh, rolling my eyes at myself. Trying to turn this into incentive to be really, really good and meet me weight loss targets. Everything else in life feels out of my control, but this is one thing I can take charge over.

Food for today - the eve of the Day of Doom!!

B - Skinny cappucino, BElvita
L - oatcakes, low fat cream cheese, ff yogurt, banana
D - veg and butterbean stew with feta and flatbread, ice cream.

I will also walk home, which is 3.5 miles

You are totally right TSP, this too shall pass. What a crap new year we are all having.

I'm not sure if it is a leap or a regression or what Cheese. I am not working until Friday but sometimes that is actually worse - I have to be in the little bastards tinkers presence all day without a break instead of interacting with real adult human beings.

I have blown the diet big time so it seems that I can't control that either! I am looking at a gain this week unless today brings some pretty magic results. Idiot.

pixie the only thing I found that helped Isobel was a strict daytime routine. Pah, sleep deprivation sucks. Do you have lots of friends / activities to drag T to? Wear her out? My diet went out the windows in Nov/dec partly due to exhaustion. What can you do though, you just have to survive!

I've been to Zumba just now. I'm dead! I forgot it was 1/2 zumba, 1/4 weight And 1/4 abs.The colonic pie has had its effect, I though I was going to shit myself half way though. Haha

Pressed send too soon.
tsp what a good friend you are. It's hard to give your friend the right amount of space vs letting her know you are there. I'm sure she will pick up the phone when ready. I avoided wine last night in the end but had a v weak gin!

morning another exhausted sausage here too, DS2 was in my bed pulling my hair in his sleep most of the night, i ended up sleeping on his cotbed mattress on the floor just to get some space I really need to sort out his crap sleep but don't have the energy!

many sympathies to all of us having a rough/tired time of it

Sorry about your friend Bee and the house situation, I have friends also trying to change house and the hoops they have to jump through seem really big. Hopefully something will come along.

Food:
melon and summer fruits (I got a frozen bag in Tesco and defrost a few overnight) and yogurt
L salad and mozzarella and ryvitas and cheese triangles
D leftover suff concocted into something delicious (hopefully)

Morning everyone!

Yay for the progression to pj's MiniCheese!

Boo to peeing someone off without meaning it TSP

Pixie Sleep deprivation is awful. Is there anyone who could give you a break? I know that doesn't solve the problem though ((hugs))

Bless you all for the kind wishes, and thanks Cheese for what you said last night - wish you lived closer too!

I am not giving up hope. She's in a fab hospital (QMC Nottingham) where I had both my dc, dh had his big C treatment and they sorted me out when I had anaphylactic (sp?) shock. If I ever had to go anywhere that would be the place.

We are hopefully going over tomorrow afternoon, and if we can't take the dc in the ward we'll visit in shifts . I'm going to get dd to make a get well picture at playgroup tomorrow to brighten up the bedside a bit.

Now, back to Lentil Pie. Any interesting side effects today Cheese? It lived up to its colonic properties for me today . That's all I'm saying!!

Food for today:

Banana
4 x ryvita dark with marmalade (2 syns for the marmalade)
Yogurt and fruit
Sweet chilli chicken with veggies

morning all. big to bee and TSP, and much hope that your respective friends are as comfortable as they can be and all goes well with tests/treatments etc.

I am well versed in putting my foot in it without trying so hugs for that too.

good luck with the housing bee, and sorry Mr Cheese didn't pass his exam. Does he get to resit?

I am in a bit of a dark tunnel with the old black dog, and made the mistake of taking yesterday off work sick (I did have an awful headache and nasty slicing stomach ache). Am off today too... and am in a tizz about going back, don't want to go to college or placement, can't face school run etc. Think I have been too introspective since Friday and have demonised my life a bit (and now I feel a bit melodramatic getting like this over nothing when you guys have real situations to contend with). Damn January!

needless to say, I am now a week behind with my planned new SW regime. I even made DH buy the Mirror at the weekend for the SW leaflets

also haven't started c25k yet, what with nocturnal DC and poorliness, (I plan to "run" under cover of darkness!)

Ria I too have the black dog, and do not have anything like the tragedy my friend is suffering. It's making me angry and unhappy and bitter and it is pissing people off because I don't have 'reasons' for it.

Poo poo poo to the whole thing. Just letting you know you are not alone, if that helps. Hopefully it will be sent on its way before long....And going back to work won't be as bad once you're there. I know that sounds like the sort of thing one's Mum says, but it is true...

thanks TSP