The Big Fat List and the Days of Doom (TM) Part VIII - The One Where We Waist Away!

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Yes, it is cushion plumping time again

Pull up your favourite chair (I'm bagging the one in the corner thanks ) stick your feet up and join in with the nattering.

Plenty of room for everyone

I wouldn't worry pix. Apparently if I get any fatter I will be out of this world!

Better day today, thanks for asking clodagh :) spoke to dh this morning, only very briefly but it was so good to hear his voice.

Jodie I don't think I know you from before (apologies if I do) but your posts really make me giggle :o

On the global fat list I was Kuwait and am now Estonia. That's quite some move!

Forgive me friends, for I have synned....

Starters; goats cheese tart with rocket
Mains; chargrilled chicken with veg and baby boils (plastered in butter)
Dessert; fresh fruit salad :)

2 glasses of rose and half a bag of salt & vinegar crisps plus ds's chips

Off to zoo tomorrow, hoping the walk will cancel what damage I do...

How is everyone?

Yo Yo gang,I'm back.

Weighed in this morning and I've put on 2lbs. It's to be expected really as I ate like a pig for the last 5 days. Fab break though, back to reality now.
Race for life tomorrow. Just been for a 4.5k run so hoping it will go ok.

Food today
B: weetabix and fruit
L: JP beans and salad or omelette and salad
D: cottage pie with turnip, carrots, baked beans and gravy.

Will catch up with thread but it's lovely to have old faces amongst the new.
jodie you ain't replied to my text yet.

FH and Face, sounds like you both have had (are having) a lovely break. I think we need to let our hair down on holiday anyway, otherwise it wouldn't be a break. Beats my mug shot banana and hidi bar dinner any day! If only I could give my unused syns to you then I think you'd be ok :o

morning all. Lovely day here for a change. I am stirring up the enthusiasm to walk the boys to the seaside. (DS1 has already gone off to meet his mates, on his bike! As a paranoid parent I think it is a very busy road. I am not panicking)
DS3s eyes look very swollen and sore.
welcome back face

I've been for a good run so feeling more positive now.
clodagh he will be fine .
I'm just about to start making tonights cottage and then it's off to the shops for the sale. Dd has just had a huge growth spurt and her lovely summer dresses are no good for this sodding weather.

DS1 survived the main road! (I think I may be one of those helicopter parents)

Just back from a lovely walk with the little boys, almost 3 hours walking time

Clodagh if you were a helicopter mum you'd have been hiding in the bushes watching him!
Ds and I have had a lovely day together, a lie in / lazy morning and an afternoon at our local farm (slinky knows where I mean ) ds is tucking into fish fingers and beans for tea and it smells yummy, I might have to have the same for my tea later!

FaceCrack OMG I thought I had replied but was clearly relying on my psychic powers Props on the running.

Anyway: evening all! Hope you're having a spiffy weekend.

I've just been to a vay civilised Hen Do and a most encouraging and enlightening encounter with a pal I last saw in Jan. She was looking loads slimmer. I don't like saying 'better' because i think we shouldn't impose some sort of qualitative thingy about being thinner BUT - yes, she'd been a gorgeous chic size 16 and is now a gorgeous chic size 12 and was obvs feeling really confident and happy.

We had a long chat about weight stuff. She's lost 2 stone and it took her 2.5 months (!!!!!!!). She did WW. It was just brilliant the way she talked about it - not like it was this awful drag but like a fun project. She said she loved weighing in because it was exciting to see how much weight she would have lost. She even said now she's at target and hasn't been donig it for 3 or so weeks she actually misses it . Anyway she was jut so encouraging and was saying things like "Go for it, it's fun, you'll enjoy it!" It was just so bonkers hearing someone talk about weight loss with no angst or upset.

Anyway.I shall ponder her words when I next get boringly mizz & feel strangely cheery!

Can't imagine actually looking forward to weighing in but might get to that state of mind soon.

Meanwhile owing to the hen party i am full of treats so just eating a bowl of fruit salad for m'dinner. Still sticking to my month off booze though. Crazy times.

WHY are my posts always so long?

I am so boring

I could beat you at long posts if I really tried Jodie NOT boring BTW.

Evening all Jodie, sounds like a great hen do!! And I know a woman who [hearts] her weigh ins too!!!!! My mate Sharon, she's lost an amaze 7st!!!!!!

What an amazing day! All zoo'ed out! Had cocktails, mmmmmm, a deliciously naughty bar snack (panini) for dinner and when in town earlier we bought the kids a lush bath bomb - so @ 7 & 10 we ''allowed" them 30mins in the tub alone (in next room) and had a sneaky shag

Home tomorrow, back to normality, back to food optimising and back to work on Monday!!!!

fairheaded I love your style!! Sounds like you have had a great break.
I have previous form for "body conditioning" sessions.

I've been good today and refused cake and crisps plus had a 5km run. It's race for life tomorrow pm so wish me luck!

jodie yar I must have missed those vibes. Sounds like a lovely hen Do. I don't mind weighing in - I normally have a fairly good idea of where I am headed anyway. How are you feeling sans booze? I don't know how you do it.

Will be thinking of you tomorrow face!! Give 'er Dixie!!!

The kids are gently snoring in their wee beds, I'm not a natural mother, but my heart is swelling at the sight of them exhausted after a fab day! Hopefully this means a better nights sleep!!

Ds (7) woke crying last night looking for me, I was in same room!!! Mammy mammy mammy, dh said she's here, beside me, he says I want to LOOK AT HER!!! Plus 2 families must be holidaying together and are in & out if each others rooms all night, I just had to go & ask them to be quiet (not in a cunty way) but they'll probably be lying in wait for me in the morning (and gob in my fried bread).......

Clodagh do feel free to keep me company with megaposts

Face Good luck - and check your phone! xx re. not drinking - pal, I have NO IDEA how I have managed it. I am so proud of myself. I have no self discipline at all and I honestly think this is the first time I have said "I'm not doing this" and I've not done it! I didn't even drink at the hen do when there were raspberry bellinis. Mental. And now I think: well if I can do that, surely i can calorie count for a few months, no? You'd bloody think, anyway.

Fairhaired I do luff your posts: it's like watching a sitcom Arf @ sneakyshags. Those are the shags of which DH is most popular

Right, well, inspired by the Girl at the Hen Do I faced facts and weighed in this morning (I'm going to continue having Sundays as my DoD and just use that figure for the list on the following Wed - is that OK?). Staggeringly months of not really watching my weight and I weigh pretty much precisely the same . This always happens. My current heft is obviously how my body settles if I'm a lazy-assed biscuit-monster. Helpful to know

Food today - all cal counted (I have a new myfitnesspal profile as JodieHarsh):

Breakfast - a spot of muesli and about a pint of strong coffee
Lunch - roast pork, new potatoes, veg. Ice cream after
Tea - stewed butter beans with a bit of feta, and some blueberries.

I shall also do a 3mile walk.

Please to send me all the loves and lucks for Monday and Tuesday - I'll be down in Essex for the funeral, and will be unhappy and stressed and with no control over what I eat. ACTUALLY of course I have control over what I eat - no-one is going to force feed me! But, well: you know.

Happy St Swithin's Day everyone!

Morning everyone

Baked 3 cakes yesterday, one for my friend who is going through the most traumatic and heartbreaking time and 2 Hermans- the friendship cake. Had some last night and oh my word it is amazing, not helpful to my eating plan mind! Though not getting stressed over it as pretty happy with weight loss to date.

Put on a dress I bought in June that I worn for 20mins on holiday (it was too dressy for the occasion), it is now huge on me, completely pissed off as it is gorgeous and wasn't cheap. Flip side is yes the eating plan is working, but still I would have loved to have got more than 20 mins out of it iyswim.

Ooh sun is shining, time to get up, enjoy your day everyone x

Face good luck for today, you've worked so hard, you can do this!

Just very quick post to say
good luck today face :)

Morning all! I am taking advantage of works internet access again The furious typing fools them all into thinking I am working ver ver hard.

Good luck today Facey! I can't run the length of myself, I am very impressed.

FF I am of your Dublin trip. I love Dublin zoo, I had the best day ever wandering around there completely mashed up and chatting to Spunky the polar bear I did a big at your sneaking shagging!

Jodie I didn't realise you used to be Ead - we were Frolickers together for about 5 minutes back in't' day.
I will be thinking of you over the next few days. She sounds like a very much loved lady from what I read on The Other Place and that must bring you a lot of comfort
I agree with you on the weight plateau/ heft settling thing - I used to settle at about 13.9 if I didn't make any effort to diet. Having shifted a chunk of that I now plateau at about 10.8 and can stay there quite happily while stuffing my face. It will be interesting to see in my dreams what my "natural" weight will be when I get there yeah right.

Quick one to sau good luck today Face!

good luck face

bored bored bored.
I have done some ironing, and we are going out in an hour to take DS1 to a bowls match (!) and hopefully to go and collect my new bike. I feel like I've been up for weeks.
On the plus side I had my first SW "fry-up" for ages, and I am too full to eat lunch

Good luck face!!!

We're homeward bound xx

Race done in 36min. Would have been quicker but I went in the joggers pile. I got stuck behind some really slow people / walkers. Either way I ran the whole thing and am damn proud of myself.

How is everyone else's Sunday going?

jodie I hope she gets a damn good send off on Tuesday. I also know she would be right proud of you and Rob. Keep going. It's a hard time for the pair of you, losing a parent must be awful. I will add you as a pal on MFP too.

fairhaired hope you get home ok.

clodagh sounds like you have been productive .