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)

[grinningbee]

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!

scarlett - DS1 is 14. I don't mind him watching Black Books, it's "intelligent" comedy in my book - I like it too I would rather that than him play COD (I really thought it was about gangster fish) Have just torn him away from The A-Team ('80's style)

I SO KWYM about long-term weight issues. I was always much taller and heftier than all my friends (and most of the boys) at primary school, and got picked on at secondary. I remember being a size 14 when I was 16/17 and was convinced I was hideous and overweight and was always trying to get thin (one particlar bastard boyfriend used to compare me often to someone much slimmer and daintier that he would have preferred to have shared his motorbike with - she quite rightly set her sights higher). I have had MH issues since 17/18 and had married DH and had DS1 very young, so I seem to have been fat forever (15 years at least). ATM I would probably be thrilled with 15st. 13 ideally. I think those charts suggest 11 stone is the top-end of a healthy weight for me, but I think I would feel too thin at that if that makes sense?

am going to give MFP a go for a bit, as I'm finding SW too time-consuming ATM. I need to be more organised for SW to work for me. and I'm not.

Evening DODers

Well, a gain for me this week but bollocks to it because I'm back on a mission as of monday morning, writing it all down and feeling like I'm on a journey to target etc etc
Could have been at target before Christmas if I'd stuck to plan but hey ho - really need to be there by Easter at the latest now.
What is it with the ridiculous self sabotaging business?

Like kid I got to my slimmest with SW pre DS1 (was going to group then) and it was very weird to see and feel myself becoming a slim person (something I'd never been since pre teens). It really did feel fantastic and my self esteem was sky high. It's good to know I've done it before, so can do it again but even more frustrating when I have a month like the last one when I destroy nearly all the good work done

Slinky it does get better.
I'm 5 weeks into return to work now and finally feel like it's getting a bit easier, still feel like my brain isn't quite firing on all cylinders but it is getting there very slowly. If only the work trousers weren't so tight snug but that's my penance for weight going in the wrong direction, I refuse to buy a size bigger, the next pair I buy will be a 12!

bee hope you're OK, those stats are amazing.

Right off to do food diary and spend 5 mins planning tomorrow's scran.

I've been good today with sticking to plan.
I had a red day:

B: 2 weetabix (b), milk (a)
L: prawns, feta cheese (6 syns), cucumber, tomotoes , onions
Apple, satsuma
D: Homemade chicken and vegetable soup
Muller light yoghurt.

Still need to plan tomorrow, quickly!

Right here is the list.

Midori didn?t PM me but I am going to mention it anyway lost 5lb this week, total loss 8lbs

Friendofdorothy has lost 4.5lbs this week, start weight 15 stone 6lbs now weighs 15stone, total lost 6lbs

TSP has lost 3lbs this week, total loss 7lbs

cheese has lost 3lbs this week, start weigh 13stone 3lbs, now weighs 11stone 10lbs, total loss 1stone 7lbs

CSWS lost 1.5lbs this week, total lost 2stone, 7lbs

pixie has lost 1.5lbs this week, start weight 12st 12lbs, current weight 10st 6lbs, total loss 2stone 6.5lbs

Hedgepig Height 5' 7", has lost 1lb this week, start weight 14st 11lb, current weight 11st 0 lb (total lost 3st 11 lb)

debka has lost 0.5lbs this week, total loss 3stone 8lbs

kid maintained this week

huffpot gained a 1lb this week, total loss 1stone 1.5lbs

LakeFlyPie 1lb gain this week, current weight 11st 10lbs total loss 11lbs, target weight 10st 7lbs.

Sparkly half stone sticker to midori and *TSP8
Sparkly 1.5 stone sticker to me
Sparkly 2.5 stone sticker to CSWS

Well done everyone, I am very impressed.

The gym was hellish. I was a class I have never been to and I got destroyed. Ah well, I plan to go again next week. As the instructor kept shouting in my ear "no pain no gain"!

kid, are you becoming soup queen? you need the covent garden soup company cookbooks. honest, you do. especially with EE, most soup recipes are adaptable for SW. (I am a bi souped-out as DH made quite a lot over xmas/NY)

bee, hope you are OK

please link to new thread when it happens.

dental appt in morning. wish this week would go away.

off to watch a Midsomer Murders DVD with DH (unless there is Marple on repeat). Watched a Come Dine with Me that was filmed in the local town last night - where do they find these people???

Cheese - next week can you do me a favour and reset my start weight to 16st 7lbs which is what I was when I started doing SW last January.... I am feeling like I need to acknowledge all the weight I have lost and not just the bit since the start of the year.

So, I have lost 1.5 stone in total :) Thanks :)

well done everyone fab losses, and good maintains and excellent gains (in that they are small)

I'll be on there next week. I will.

long day at work today but stuck to it
B Mullerlight and banana
L Baked pot and beans and salad
D Chilli with megga amounts of beans and lentils chucked in and rice.
Sins 8 large glass of wine.
center parcs was amazing thanks Cheese.
back home now with 2 out of 4 dc I'll. DH bumped car and work is very demanding. Findin it very difficult to plan food and tomorrow will be testing as working 14 hoursand on call overnight . beans beans beans.

Tesco doing Heinz beans fridge jar for 99 p tonight ! keeps for 5 days too x

Glad you had fun. What do you do? Is it the same as me? 14 hour shift plus on calls....

Well done everyone

Thanks for not making me feel bad for chickening out this week. Hopefully it'll be the first and last time that happens.

Need to think of a new thread title....

Well done everyone!! Sorry I missed The List again; I think I stayed the same but failed to WI this am (convenient). I have next Weds and Thurs off work so will def WI then (remind me).

Just caught up on the thread, can only do it on laptop right now as it's so full .

Five full days off work now, thank the lord! Thanks for the words of encouragement, was week 4 this week, and am now not working a five-day week until w/c 16th April, by which time I'm hoping to be part time so can return to spending FAR too much time on MN.

Witty title failure tonight I'm afraid, but a nice fresh thread is

here

for your amusement.

We'd never make you feel bad Bee! Crikey, you weighed-in all over Christmas, you're allowed a week off now and then, esp with everything you have going on right now.

Hmm, new thread title, I've a feeling TSP might be along soon with a suggestion or three. Is it too early to shoe-horn 'spring' into it? Looking forward to some 'Feb-ulous' losses? Ok, I'll shut up... first time for everything.

My soup tonight was so much better than last night. As I was having a red day, I decided to add some chicken that I'd boiled separately to it.
The soup was much better blended tonight as I used the correct gadget - don't ask!

I will have a look online for some SW soup recipes.

I will post my sweetcorn chowder one for you kid, though not tonight as I'm going to bed. I prepped everything and put it in the slow cooker pot last night, then added boiling stock this morn and left it for 4 hours on low (except for adding a bit more water, as the recipe quantity wasn't enough).

Just highlighting again the NEW THREAD

sounds good. I'll give it a try at the weekend.
Is it okay to freeze soup?

Here you go kid

Fanks for new fred bee

most soups freeze very well, yes, but I'm not sure my chowder would as it has quinoa in it. I suppose it might, but I've never tried freezing stuff like that.

Sorry, meant to say good losses folks.

Will be up there with you next week

that link won't open for me Lake