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!

Good luck with the house Bee nothing ventured nothing gained

Quite right Hedge. Go for it Bee!

Another nodding head at Pimps wise words. You have summed up beautifully what I have been repressing miserably for years

TTC with a 7 month old Midori? You are one brave woman! Congratulations and I hope things happen quickly for you.

I'm not even going to bother talking about myself. Things are Not Going Well.

Now you can't say that Pixie. C'mon, what's up?

I'm here and listening, with just a snoring lump on the floor for company!

Not sure how long my internet connection will hold out for - its very dodgy!

Feeling so low at the moment. Really breathless and anxious like I will have a panic attack at any minute. Eating all kinds of crap to the extent that I was sick last night. Shouting at DD who is the sweetest little thing ever, but I just have no patience with her. Just feel like everything is unravelling. I can't seem to get my thoughts in order.

I know I will probably be fine in a couple of days. Its doubtless all down to the three weeks of hellish sleeping that we have just had. I just feel like there is a huge weight on my chest when I try to think about what the hell I am doing with my life right now. I just cant breathe.

Oh Pixie is there a friend or relative who can give you a break for a bit to go for a coffee and gather your thoughts? Or is there anyone you can speak to? GP might be worth a go?

Your dd is only a few weeks older than ds, and I know how challenging it is, even if they are saintly which he is not.

I haven't really got anyone - they are all 300 miles away I feel kind of bad because an accquaintance offered her services on FB the other day and the thought of all the chatting and catching up I would have to do in order to accept the couple of hours off made me shy away from it.
This is awful but I felt like this about six months ago and when I told DH I was thinking of going to the doctor he told me that outsiders messing around with our business was the last thing we needed and I shouldnt go So I never did.

at your dh. Could you say you were going for something else? Tell him you're going for a smear - he won't ask for details I'm sure! Seriously though, it's not good to bottle stuff up.

Don't s'pose you're in Lincolnshire are you? I'm free! (ish).

Bless you but thats a bit of a trek! I really just need to man up. You have not one but two little terrors darlings to deal with, and with everything happening with M I really have no right to be off-loading on you, my friend.

Anyway, heres to a sleep filled night for both of us!

Don't be daft woman! I'm a pretty good listener, even if I would use cake to make it all feel better .

Anyway, just 'cos there are things going on here doesn't mean you can't unload. Sounds like you need to natter.

Similar situation here tbh. No-one now to babysit (M was it. Weeks ago we'd planned to go out tonight to go to the cinema for the first time since Nov 2008) I do have family close by (well, my dad and step-mum), but they have never ever once offered to babysit and dd is going to be 3 soon.

Anyway, before thinking about it gets my hackles up, gp appointment - book it!

Hope you get some decent sleep tonight

H still snoring here. Anyone want an 18/19 stone draught excluder?

Morning all!

Happy Day of Doooooom

Today my food will be a lot like this:

Ready brek, 1 ryvita with 1 tsp marmalade, banana
Cheese triangles on toast, apple, clementine and a yogurt
Beef rogan josh with lots of broccoli

Off to do the playgroup run in the rain shortly. Yuck! At least it's only a 2 minute walk... if dd will go in the buggy anyway. You can add another 10 mins if not .

Good luck everyone

Slightly disappointing Weigh in for me especially as I had no booze over the weekend, but that's water retention for you.

pixie can you get to Shep Bush Westfield this afternoon, fancy a coffee? I agree that talking to your GP will help. Tell you husband that you are having a smear .

bee sorry about the sitter. Come to London and sit for the wee ones.

Looks like the rain is back. Hoping to get to baby group this morning if my food delivery arrives on time. Then off to Westfield to return my croc books from DH.

Food:
B: fruit and yog
L: chicken rice salad
D: either fish pie or spaghetti carbonara, depends on my organisational skills.

Anyway it is the day of doom so PM me your results.

Er, I can't remember who I message with my loss.

Me me me me me me me

Sorry for the disappointment Cheese. Sodding periods eh.

Is the spaghetti recipe one from the latest mag? You'll have to let us know if it's any good, although I'm sure I remember someone else saying about it but I can't remember who. Was it you Kid?

Must post the beef and pepper stew recipe today. It is gorgeous.

Got the food shop to do today as I didn't get round to it yesterday. Boo!

I have put on weight this week... I am blaming the fact that I am half way through the period from hell rather than the fact I ate too much stuff I shouldn't have!

I think it was kid who recommended it, bee. I'm hoping to have time to make fish pie as DDs meals are running low in the freezer. I need to do some baby cooking but she does love fish pie.
Enjoy food shopping

Was that the beef and red pepper stew that was in the magazine?

If so, I made that one too and it was yummy!

It's on my meal plan for this week. Yum yum!

It was Dorothy. Very very very nice! Must get a bigger pot though, or halve it! It does make a lot, doesn't it.

Nom nom nom

It made loads, so I had some for lunch the next day with pasta.

Morning All!

Bee, it's so heartbreaking reading about M. Without wishing to sound gushy, you and your H are being extremely stoic and kind friends and anyone would be lucky to know you. So there. Fingers and toes crossed for the house!

Also, do not talking to me about snoring DHs. Mine is the ebst man living, swear to God, but the ear-shattering noises he makes as soon as he drops off are going to ruin a long and beautiful marriage

Pix treasure, I am so sorry you are feeling a bit wretched . I have recently known precisely how you feel - an odd feeling like there's a little imp inside you screeching its head off, and you feel a bit panicky in case it comes out too and starts screeching?

Look, I do know what your DH means re. seeing the GP. For a lot of people it's a bit of a stigma still. But people are wise and right: they are there for a reason and there is so much they can do to help - not white coats and pills, but advice, and a listening ear, and some strategies for coping. I won't bore you with it here (you can PM me if you like) but I've had a couple of times in my life when seeing the GP was essential and I've had to not be ashamed but think of it has like catching pneumonia when you get a chill, or food poisning when you don't cook a chicken properly. Sure, you might have avoided it if you kept warm/cooked it to buggery, but it's nothing to be ashamed of at all. Big fat-armed un-MNetty hug.

I have just weighed myself and will be back shortly once I have stopped crying gathered my thoughts. Good luck to everyone!

morning, I'll pass on the offer of the draft excluder if you don't mind Bee
Pixi petal sorry to hear you are down, do you have a friendly HV? you can talk to them about you as well as the LOs, mine was very helpful when I was very down after DS1.

I have to go to my meeting now, see ya all later diet buddies

Right ladies and gents, I have rather hubristically not lost any weight this week.

I am baffled. Aside from 1 x cupcake and 1 x stir fry last Thursday (and I follow the 'one day off a week' advice, though clearly that worked for me ) I have stuck religiously to a very low cal (for my height and weight) regime, and done plenty of stout walks. I am especially gutted because I have felt so in control, and so optimistic about the future and really getting a grip on this part of my life after so many years, that I was actually looking forward to weighing in!

I guess here are the choices:

a) throw a massive self-pitying strop, eat a curry, and give up
b) accept that water retention/constipation/Mother Nature fucking around is to blame; that unless I am made differently from every other human who ever drew breath if I eat much less and move around much more I will eventually get smaller; and that I shall just have to pull up my socks and carry on!

I have opted for b). I am going to get some scales that include body fat analysis. I am going to arm myself with information!

Thank you for your advice. I will think about what you are all saying, I really will.

Thanks for the offer of a meet up Cheese. Unfortunately our boiler broke yesterday so DD and I are stuck in waiting for the boiler man. Hope you find something nice to replace the Crocs.

that so many people are having disappointing weigh ins. I now have 17.5lbs to lose of my 15lb Easter target

Pimps you know B is the way forward and you WILL get there in the end even though I would be scurrying as fast as I could towards A but thats why Im still a lard arse