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

[grinningbee]

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

Wave your loins in the air like you just don't care

Ello everyone. Ria The biking sounds good, but boo to the gone orf food. Bugger.

The quorn lasagne I said I was going to make turned out really nice. We're having the other half for tea tonight. I'll dig out the recipe thread again and bung it on there if anyone wants it.

I have to go and make cakey things in a mo for the playgroup coffee morning. I WILL resist!

Food for today:

4 x ryvita with 4 x tsp reduced sugar marmalade (2 syns), banana
Sundried tomato and garlic couscous (3.5 syns), apple, yogurt
Left over quorn lasagne (cheese on top hea)
2 x alpen lights (heb)

Speaking of smelly things as FHF was (much symapthy for leaky pipes and damp) - we had a really horrific smell in the kitchen at the weekend. Got everything out of cupboards, took u-bends off, kick boards from the bottom of cupboards - could we find what it was? Could we heck. I was almost physically sick the smell was so bad.

Yesterday my next door neighbour but one told me she was waiting for the water board as her drain was bubbling up. The penny dropped. We went into the back garden and lifted the drain cover (right under the kitchen window). There were fermented objects floating around and just about to spill over into the courtyard . Thankfully someone came around last night and sorted it (and waved the poo covered rods around spraying "stuff" everywhere). I wish I had brain and nose bleach though.

Sorry if any of you are eating

Hi everyone, I'm away at my parents' place for a few days so haven't been on (slow mobile phone) Internet for a few days. Been fairly good food wise though and it's been lovely to share ds with them too!
Had to lol at pork chop waving, brilliant! Sorry to hear about the disgusting bad smells though

Who's in charge of the list this week? Face?

Hi slimjim I was wondering where you had gone. How are you doing? Missing DH?

I'll do the list tomorrow.

I found out today I've got an interview tomorrow! Eeee...!

Being at M&D's is proving a welcome distraction but I think they are getting exhausted by ds. Their granddaughter (my niece) is so different to ds and they haven't spent any long amount of time with him for ages so I think it's been a bit of a culture shock to them just how erm active ds is! I'm having a nice time sharing the parenting with two other adults (and drinking wine in the evening - I won't drink if I'm home alone with ds)

Ooh, good luck for the interview too :)

bleurgh to smelliness

good luck for interview

and yay for sharing parenting with GPs.

Had a PANTS PANTS PANTS evening. DS1 is obviously more severly needle-phobic than I thought (I honestly thought it was a control thing). We spent over 30 mins in the nurses room, trying to talk him round... she had to ask us to leave as she had other appointments. Had to give him sugary tea as he was shaking, he is now subdued on the sofa under a blanket.

Am taking a pre-DOD risk and having wine. Have new SW mag to read too (have never spent so much in Tesco on 2.5 bags of shopping!)

Is currently precipitating at a great rate, due on the beach tomorrow with 50 children...

am planning to get up early so I can have a huge breakfast to make up for the lunch I won't be having, so I should manage to WI.

can anyone tell me the syn value of those yummy nature valley maple syrup flavour granola bars please? I forgot to buy alpen lights in my super-expensive shopping.

Just looked it up - they're 9.5 syns each.

Nighty night all. Good luck for the interview tomorrow Face, and good luck for DoD everyone

9.5
Sorry about the nurse / needles thing clodagh, you must be feeling rather stressed after that :(

I have a bit of a query which I hope won't be too insensitive/ stealth boasty - I have reached the lowest end of my target weight (3lb below target) and I can't seem to stop the weightloss (apart from the week I know I ate complete crap and I don't really want to repeat that) so what should I do? I'm already having 3x hexB as well as 1x hexA on ee plan and am eating hifis because I need to rather than want to!! Should I up hex again (Does it have to always be B choices FH&F?) or should I lower my target weight?

Morning all!

Clodagh Hope things were settled last night after the needle thing.

Slim Not boasty at all! I think you're supposed to keep increasing the HE's, whether a or b. If you're at a weight you're happy with I wouldn't lower the target unless you wanted to.

Bad night last night, both dc woke up and I was up with them till after 1am. H stayed in bed so I was trying to deal with both.

Baked shortbread yesterday for the playgroup, more to do today and some coffee kisses. Makes the house smell nice!

Food for the day:

Either weetabix and a banana, or porridge and a banana
Cheese triangles on toast, salad, apple and a yogurt
Beef rogan josh with veggies

Maybe 6 syns on two more slices of bread, or two alpen lights.

Speaking of which, I tried the new cherry bakewell version last night. Think I'll stick to the chocolatey ones.

9.5! Blimey. It's the day of doom so I expect PMs from you all!

slimjim I guess you either lower your target, if you want to or just eat more. ! Well done you!

bee I'm dribbling at the thought of shortbread. Nom nom.

Food:
B; fruit and ff yog
L: ham and cous cous salad (1.5 syns)
D: quorn sausage and bean casserole, rice or potatoes, veg.
Snacks: apple, 2x alpen lights (heb)

I will not resort to chocolate after my interview.

closagh hope DS has recovered. Are you cycling today?

Oh bee I feel for you being up all night :( even though he took 15 months to sleep through the night if ds is wakes in the night now it is gruelling.
at shortbread yum yum yum but I have to disagree when it comes to cherry bakewell alpen lights, I really like them (good job too as they are a staple of my diet at the moment!)
Face - good luck today :)

Ahem......I ate not one but two Krispy Kreme doughnuts yesterday

I have two more in my bag

I am not expecting a loss as have one night out and a naughty lunch and the above but will PM later after i have been told off in class.

Morning everyone

Bee I have some spare brain bleach to share with you following a thread a while back which encouraged you to google words like munting - note to self, never google anything suggested by a mumsnetter!

Face Good luck for your interview, hope you get the job

Slim i am at your target

Off to staple lips together so i dont eat the other doughnuts

Morning all!

Thanks for the loves yesterday. It was very sad, but rather beautiful. I couldn't stop bloody crying and muttering "Whose stupid idea was it to sit at the front", and all three of us were just absolutely worn out by the end of the day.

BUT. The chapel was crammed, and everyone said over and over how despite 40 years of pain and operations she was ceaselessly kind and smiling and loving, and so cheerful, with such a daft sense of humour, and how you only had to look at her to feel better about things. And I thought: well what a lesson. IYSWIM. It made me resolve to be nice and smiley like, all the time. We'll see how long that lasts about 24 hours if we're lucky

I had asked my darling Mum to make lunch for us to eat after the burial and before the memorial service and for some reason it was unbearably touching the thought she put into it, like a sort of tribute to MIL - all the best china and linen, and my Dad had raided his preserves cupboard and instead of putting it all out in jars had decanted it into little silver serving dishes Oh God I'm going to start crying again .

ANYWAY point is what with that lunch and the tea the chapel ladies prepared after I am STUFFED TO THE GILLS with cake

I will make amends today, viz:

B - black coffee, croissant
L - avocado and salad thingy from Itsu
D - spicy tomato prawns with peas all in it, homemade flatbread, ice cream

Bee chick, I am so sorry about being up all night

Face and Pixie - I had my first drink last night, officially about 12 hours early . LET ME TELL YOU, a month of abstinence is almost worth it just to feel the sensation of the first sip of the first gin and tonic. I swear it was like a speedball*. DH looked at me severely. "You, madam, are an addict."

*I am not sure what a speedball is, and I have never done one. Just to clarify.

OH YES SORRY Face darling GOOD LUCK XXXXXX

Jodie I don't care what the rules are here - have a hug x

I've apologised to both sets of neighbours for the dc's nocturnal squeakings last night. Luckily everyone is ok about it. To my face anyway . Nah, I'm sure they're ok. After all, theirs do it too!

Ds has just stolen and eaten my banana. Bless him. I really must get up and do something. Our old lovely neighbour is coming to visit later, so I need to hoover. Time for coffee first though!

I did sample a smidge of shortbread last night. I'd pressed brown sugar into the tops before baking. Ooooh, it was nice . I'll be making more later, but won't eat any.

Btw - is it just me who forgets to put the oven on sometimes? Was reheating the lasagne last night for tea, went to check it after 30 minutes... oven stone cold. I switch it off at the wall to stop ds switching it on and forgot . It was a late dinner last night!

Jodie sounds like you did your MIL proud xx

FACE! Good luck with the interview! :)

Jodie, glad you have yesterday over you - I don't know what a speedball is either but you make it sound like something I need to check out...

Slimjim - you keep increasing your heA and your heB choices until the weight settles where you want it to be. You can move your target, but it has to be by another half stone, so if you don't want to lose another half stone then keep increasing your hes. and are you having your full quote of syns? You could probably have a few extra, but not so as to slip back into old habits again.

I've to work tonight again so won't make the DOD list, but will weigh in in morning and update!!

Good luck at interview face and bloody well done on R4L time! (very similar to mine I think?)

Jodie sorry for your loss

Sorry not been about much, wedding thoughts life taking over a bit. Weighed myself this am and have sts.

Last boot camp class and final weigh/measure tonight, eek. Have suggested to the group we stay behind for a drink after (is in the back of a bar), bad influence or wot?!

Have been keeping up with 'fred and smiling, frowning and wretching away (yes, that was your story yesterday bee) Hope you're all keeping well.

sorry for your loss jodie

at effortlessly losing weight.

I have a gain to go on the list, but I know why and I'm not surprised, so will Draw A Line.

Lovely day at the beach, am exhausted. Short cycle later as I have to get DS2 to school for his play, and then collect him an hour later, so DS3 and I may ride around the park or something.

Clodagh Sorry about the gain. By the way, a little arf for you. When we were in your neck of the woods, we went to Robin Hood's Bay. Beautiful place. Thought we could get down to it from that car park at the top with the kids in a double buggy... We'll try it again when the kids can go under their own foot power!

Slinky Me, tell horrible smelly stories that make you retch?

I've just made more shortbread, and some coffee kisses (Hairy Bikers recipe). Oh I want to eat the cakes

Can't be arsed to make the curry now, so we're trying those quorn fillets with mozzarella (7.5 syns) which we have stashed in the freezer. They'd better be nice.

Quick post: I got the job!!

Oh and I haven't had many PMs. Don't make me open the can of woopass!

Fantastic news well done have some to celebrate!

Well done on the job face and very sorry about your MIL Jodie.

Diet wise I am doing blooming badly , no will power at all. I think it's cos we are getting close on buying our hou se and it is just so stressy (excuses excuses). I going for a run in a minute as soon as DH gets back fron footy with DS1 , DS2 is zzzzzzzzzz finally . I can hear it raining I must be strong and go