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!

I want some choc too! Dd is up for the 2nd time this evening, this could be a long night.

Hope pixie and bee are ok -a very wise post from ria there.

Hiya pixie glad you are finally clean

did the Tesco shop today, following my shiny, well-considered SW meal-&-shopping plan, and it came in under £80 (including cat food, washing power, loo rolls etc, and 2 bottles of wine). I feel strangely cheated out of something I obviously haven't bought! Am really hoping I have planned correctly and it lasts the week. DH bought a tray of eggs from the farm this morning (have included that in the £80), so hopefully another £10 or so to account for extra milk, bread for the kids and more bananas should do it.

do any of you know anything about hair loss? (don't want to start a thread really). My mum (69 and on preventative osteoporosis drugs) has this last year grown her hair longer for the first time ever, and it is falling out. She is quite worried as she has fine/thin hair anyway. We don't have a hairdresser that we trust enough to go to for advice, and I don't think getting it all cut off is the answer (seems such a shame as it looks lovely. Plus mine comes out in handfuls, but mine is seriously thick so it doesn't matter quite so much). She is looking at "wellwoman" haircare vitamins after I found her some websites to look at, but they are £35 Just wondered if the wisdom of MN could help?

I think it's hormones or lack of them Ria, my friend who is in her late 50s was complaining about it yesterday. I would doubt vitamins could do anything tbh (I am very very cynical about the wonders of vitamns tbh), may be worth looking at the patient for her medication to see if it is a known side effect.

I just ate 2 3 biscuits

Yep it's her age and hormones, vits won't really help. You can get a bog standard multivit, that will do about the same as the expensive ones.
£80 isn't bad at all ria

Patient leaflet

thank you (I heart MN advice - most times)

Still up with DD and by god I am hungry!

Morning all.
I've had 4 hrs sleep, yawn. Quick post as I can't think

B: fruit and yog
L: Tuna salad pasta
D: it's date night, not sure where we are going yet. I'm going to try and have some sw friendly

Sympathies cheese. I'm only about half an hour better off myself.

Coffee?

Gosh Cheese and CSWS, sorry about the lack of sleep Much as I would love a family I do tremble at the whole sleep deprivation lark....

nice to have date night to look forward to Cheese - ours is tomorrow, and I'll have the Day Off the scary man on Channel 4 promised and declared was good for long term dieters.

I'm going to have to read King John today as I'm reviewing a production of it this evening. And what could be more fun than ploughing through 100 pages of what is probably a justifiably abandoned play

ria, just a thought - is there a connection between your Ma having grown her hair long for the first time ever, and the hair loss? It's just that having had eveything from a crop in my early 20s to waist length hair, i know that when it's longer more of it comes out because it snags on stuff, IYSWIM, not because anything is wrong. Failing that I imagine it probably is hormones/age - i hope she can get some advice because it's so important to feel that you look good, whatever age.

Who's watching the test match? Strauss was so out.

Thanks. I really could do with a Starbucks. I'm going to go to the gym this morning though as its body pump - I can work off some energy. Weathers crap innit?

You kind of get used to the lack of sleep. The worst bit is waking up in the morning when your eyes are burning. I'm concerned about how I'm going to manage an 11 hour day at work on the back of a crap night but I'm just going to have to suck it up. She sleeps through 3-4 nights out of 7 so not hideous either!

King John hey? Bit depressing that one. Who are you reviewing it for?

You're going to a body pump class on 4 hours' sleep?! Sheesh, respect!

Oh just an online arts thing. I get free tickets and it's the only way I can afford to go to the theatre!

morning large coffee around , I keep waking at 3am for a wee and then DS2 wakes up too yawn.

Today is wait for it..,......another meeting!

Do tell about the day off idea Pimp I tend to relax a bit a weekends but have never seen a proper diet person espousing the idea

Sympathies all you sleepy Doomers

Haven't read all the thread but Pimps is it the King John at the Union theatre?? Is it?? Is it??

Morning Hedge :)

Ooo well, I always did the day off thingy, even back when i lost 3.5 stone on SW. Back then, I did it on weigh-day, on the assumption that I then had a week to recuperate.

Anyway, there's a programme on Ch4 at the mo called 'Fat Fighters' I think (!) and there is a terrifying bulldog of a trainer who said, if you are doing long-term weight loss, you should have 1 day off a week and it won't damage your loss. He said it prevents you from sulking that you can never again have a curry/cake/fry-up, and consequently breaking like an egg and abandoning the whole enterprise.

It's way too early days for me to see if it is going to work this time, but I know it's helping to keep me focused. If I get mizz I think, well, it's only 3 days until I can have a treat, and it prevents me from sabotage! I'm also told it's good for your metabolism to occasionally indulge, else your body just gets used to the diet. Dunno if there is any science behind that mind.

Pix yes! You're not in it are you?!

Ah, yes I used to belong to that too but now I cant go out coz of the baby - a fifty quid baby sitter somehow negates the good deal!

No, but my mate is playing King John!
I haven't seen it yet so he might be total crap but he's a lovely real life person!

Smuggle the baby in: there'll be lots of shouting and carnage

PS - belong to the theatre or the arts website thing?

Oh, sorry, major cross post - oooooooo tiny tiny tiny world I'll PM you a link to the review when it's done!

I'm liking the day off idea. And the "science" bit makes sense because I have had weeks of absolute carnage where I have lost brilliantly - obviously only in the middle of a really saintly stretch. The weeks that are just carnage after carnage don't generally see much of a loss

Cheese - re the going to work on no sleep comment upthread, if it makes you feel any better the days I go to work after a hellish night are SO much more pleasant than the days I have to look after the small girl on no sleep. The change somehow cuts through all the zombieness.

Ooh many cross-carnages!!

Dont flatter it if its crap - you know these actors and their egos. But he is quite easy on the eye so at least you'll have something to watch if he's terrible!

I work in a theatre - not the Union! - and belonged to the website as a perk of that job.

Shall I go up and introduce myself?

"Hi, hi, great show. So I met a pal of yours recently. Well: I say 'met'...so you know Mumsnet, right ... No? Oh. Well it's like this website where you talk to friends. Well, not friends exactly....what? Oh, everything. Thrush, anal sex, makeup. Yeah so I'm on Mumsnet...no, I haven't got children actually. Anyway, so we have like this weight loss club. Hm? Oh: The Big Fat List And The Days of Doom. Yeah! Cool, right? Anyway so your friend Pix....what? Pix. PIX. PIX! No that's not her real name. I don't know. I don't know her real name! Why would you put your real name on a website?!....anyway she's on the Big Fat List too. Why? Well we'd both like to lose wei....seriously have you been listening to any of this?! ... About three stone actually. Yes, I carry most of it on my arse...yes, I've tried getting a bit more exercise, do I look stupid?! Actually don't answer that. Anyway your friend Pix ... PIX! I literally mentioned her like three seconds ago! Oh you know what, never mind. Congrats on the death scene."

Best not.