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

Seeing as I can pull my size 14 jeans down without undoing the button or zip, does that mean I can say I'm a size 12 now? even though my size 12s don't fit yet
Also, can I be guaranteed a loss tomorrow, pretty please?

I should be making lunch instead of being on here. Looks like I'll be getting up a bit earlier than usual in the morning, again.

Well done bra, fab!
Those sound yum kid.

Hey up slinks, sounds like you've been having a merry old time . How was the housewarming? How is T?

Please can someone else do the list tomorrow - I'm on call. Thanks!

Thanks for asking slinky. There's been a lot to take in so far, but still masses more to learn, so it's hard to say really. It's ok I suppose, but I'd rather be with the kids. Dh has been better than expected though, and has been preparing my sw friendly lunches for me during the previous afternoon, when he has a helper. Tomorrow I believe is lemony orzo and prawn salad. :)

Food for today (green):
B weetabix & kara milk (HEb + part of HEa), melon
L roasted veg and cous cous salad (recipe from the new green book containing rather too many preserved lemons), apple, pear, banana
D butternut squash curry and rice, with mango chutney. 4 syns for curry. Prob another 4 for chutney
S peanut hi fi (HEb)

Lucky you being able to do that with a pair of size 14's kid! The size 14 Next jeans I bought a few months ago are really tight now (had to undo top button after dinner!) but the size 14 jeggings I bought in M&S the other week are okay-ish. Proof if ever it were needed that stuff really does shrink in the wash, right? . I would love love love to be 12 but know it's unrealistic, boo.

House-warming was manic but good ta even if my depressed alcoholic Mum was drinking pints of wine and crying on my mates shoulders. Little T getting cuter by the day, he didn't want me to leave for work yesterday which was quite heart breaking. How's I? Have you made a decision on the job offer? X

Bra Yay! well done

Face I'll do the list if you like. Always happy to be the back up girl

Kid Thanks for the recipe. I think I'll be trying those. Yum yum! I'd also say if you can get 14's off without undoing them, then you must be a 12

X-posts. Glad to hear new job going well so far; I hate being the 'new girl', and the first week is always so utterly draining. Must be hard leaving the kids for the day (and handing over control to dh!) but sounds like he's doing a sterling job . Envious of your food too, always sounds so fresh and tasty. And at your dh preparing lunch whilst looking after three dc. My dp is good, but he's not that good

Evening, lovely to see so many familiar faces back

Face glad you're feeling better, the weekend menu sounds amazing. Where you off to on hols?

FHF congratulations on getting back to target, do you feel more in control again now?

Kid I'm a bit sceptical about SW baking since the custard tart evil fart tarts trial, but those brownies sounds pretty good, trouble is I would probably eat all 30 syns worth so will hold off baking them for now.

Bee what a relief to have a functioning washing machine again. I get very sadly excited about laundry these days anticipating a great drying day tomorrow think I need to get out more

Slinky belated birthday wishes and congratulations on new house, hope the move went smoothly. Good luck with JM.

I managed to squeeze a 30 min swim in this evening which was lovely. Lumpy if you're lurking I really don't know how you manage 50 (I think that's wahat I recall you saying you did on your usual pool sesh) lengths of backstroke . My thighs burn after 2, have to alternate 2 backstroke with 4 breaststroke to prevent drowning.

Food today was better, managed quite a bit of superfree (green):
BF: Berries, passion fruit + FF yog
L: Chicken (HEb) + salad, fruit salad
D: Pasta with onion, tomato + chilli sauce + few handfuls of rocket
S: Slice malt loaf (4 syns), garibaldi (2 syns), pear, melon, berries, Activia yog (1.5 syns - I think) 2 apricots.

Haven't been on scales at all this week so intrigued to see what DOD weigh in shows, jeans feel a bit looser but that might just be because they're ready for the wash .

Good luck for DoD tomorrow Lake (and even everyone else). Well done on swim, I think 30mins of any exercise is commendable.

The only problem with doing lots of laundry/good drying days is all the resultant ironing!

YY Lumpy if you are lurking then please say 'hello' - miss your witty banter.

P.s only feels like last week that FHF was re-joining and now you're back at target - congratulations!

Ooh I missed that bit - I'm not back at target, oh how I wish I were!!!

I'm 11.5lb away. Target is 8stone, currently 8st 11.5lb.

Hoping for even a maintain tomorrow night. Headed our with friends on sat night, but that's just drinking, no eating involved....

Glad work is going well csws :)

Bee never thought I'd hear anyone happy to have loafs of washing!!!

Brownies sound lush, wish I could bake :)

And yes, I have breakfast and lunch as normal, was worried when someone tolde yesterday they never eat AT ALL on WI day !!! Not good surely!

Morning my lovelies, those Brownies look yummy kid, I hope you are all well. Everything is bonkers here at the moment, trying to sort out buying the house and DH getting a new job 'this all go!

What a bloody morning!!!!!!

Ds had a letter home from teacher yesterday, he was very annoyed about it, but not as annoyed as I was at him!!

He was disruptive and keeping other children back and i fully support the teacher in whatever way he deals with it.
BUT I'm a fairly private person and dh and I dealt with ds, speaking to him and explaining why you don't disturb others etc, banned the laptop, etc.

Anyway, I don't have the best relationship with my in laws. When I work on a tue night, dh leaves the kids there for an hr til he plays footy.

When I came home last night all hell had broken loose cos dd (10) had walked into in laws and told all about ds note home. Ds had cried and got all anxious, putting his hands over ears and crying. That might have. Even bad enough, but mil then told sil who doesn't actually speak to dh or I.

She visited mil and proceeded to quiz ds on "what he did"

This might seem like nothing, and I'm not a precious parent, but ds is a sensitive wee boy and when mil tolde this last night she said he was bawling his eyes out when dd told them.

Am annoyed at dd for going in there and telling our private business, am upset that mil told sil and that sil questioned ds (7).

I am probably being a bit bleuh about it, but dh was cross last night too, how come when we're do private, dd is a blabber mouth!!

Morning hedge, hope move is going OK.

csws the first couple of weeks back at work sucked so it must be doubly as hard to start at a new place. Your DH sounds like he is doing a great job!

bee new washing machine AND new car? You are living on the edge. Any news on the house?

fh&f sorry, I read your message wrong, I thought you were back at target. still 11.5lbs won't take long.

slinky I have a similar mother! Arf! I is fine, teething so grumpy! Haven't decided yet, I need 30 min to have a Grown Up Discussion with DH, hoping to do it tonight.

lake I think swimming us the hardest exercise. I prefer a gym class personally! I'm going back to the gym tonight, first time since I had pneumonia, I'm going to be so unfit.

B: ummmm missed
L: left over stirfry
D: sweet chilli chicken with lots of roast veg

Have a good day all!

slinky you have been busy lately! and i also can empathise with the mother situation although i can bet mine is worse.

ff&f sorry you have had a crap morning, its awfull when in laws interfear in your buisness. Hope your DS has calmed down a bit and not so upset at being quizzed.

lake i cannot swim at all, although would love to learn (its on my list of things to do after driving lesssons as i promised the dc).

Kid im going to be trying out those lemon drizzles and brownies this week as they sound yum and im partial to a bit of baking also.

bee i will pm you shortly for the dod.

B - not had, prob wheat a bix
L- omlette
D - not decided as off shopping

about to head out for a run as sil is doing school run this morning, but going to take it easy as had a migrane last night and still feel a bit head achy and sick this morning, then have to pop into work to finnish signing some people off on training.

its lovely and sunny here, so hope you all have a lovely day.

Well done Bra made up for you

Kid all your receipes sound amazing however I think I too best hold back or I just know it will kill my diet!

FHF at your SIL !!! none of her damn business!

Bit miffed, just unloaded my food bag in work and have forgotton my brown bap, luckily i put a tub of cottage cheese in so will have that with my salad and ham at lunch, hopefully it will be enough

Congrats to everyone on last weeks list and good luck for this weeks WI x

FHF and on your behalf. They should butt out.

Face Ha ha, hardly living on the edge. It was the cheapest machine we could get, and bought with some vouchers I won a long time ago on here. And the new car is 11 years old

I'm also having an interesting day. The house situation has got me so wound up that I wish I'd never heard of it. The council cancelled all our benefits in error, so we are in arrears on rent and council tax on both properties AND we've had a £475 bill from Anglian Water for the other house as well!

I went over to it today and it is far from being finished. Plastering of walls still to do, they've dug up the back courtyard to damp course the house, then there's all the painting, woodwork to finish and ceilings to plaster too.

Oh, and yesterday the house next door flooded, and the water went through their celings. I do hope it won't affect us too!

I'm pretty much at the end of my tether.

So, food for the day:

Nothing
2 x slices hobbit toast with cheese triangles, yogurt and a banana
Quorn bbq fillet with mushy peas and a few syns worth of oven chips
2 x alpen lights later

Good luck for the DoD today everyone! Don't forget to send me those PM's

Yoohoo! Anyone else out there who wants to be in the list tonight, don't forget to PM me. I'll be doing the list somewhere around 9.30 to give everyone a chance to get on.

There are a couple of corking losses so far... (and neither of them are me!)

I should be home from group after 7. Will pm then, have lovely chilli on cooking st the minute!!

If I get a maintain tonight I'll be ok!!

Nor me bee, thats for sure! , hope you get all the issues with the house sorted, sounds like a nightmare.

KidJust made the lemon drizzle cupcakes and they are very tasty, if a bit on the small side. I dont know how the heck they got 16 out of that (must of been minis) i just got 12 and a couple were rather flat as hardly much mixture, so mine were 3.5 syns each as divided total syns by 12 and rounded up. Will see if the kids enjoy after dinner, and im going to try the brownies tomorrow i think.

dinner has been decided and im having a quorn fillet in whole meal (HB) bun with salad and wedges, coleslaw 2 syns and possibly a corn on the cob on the side too.

Well I WI this morning and I'm not disappointed with my loss. Goes to show that planning ahead is the best way for me. Even those little snacks that I keep having (within syns) are not doing any harm it would seem.
I felt slimmer today, funny how losing a little can have that effect on your mind.

I'm having a red day today, something chicken based for dinner tonight is all I know at the moment. I'll have to check my meals to see what we're having as I can't remember.

Green days are so much nicer I think.

Afternoon

Am languishing on the sofa having a 'sick day' off work due to failure of my 'cast iron constitution'.
It would seem that I haven't learnt to avoid referring to it; last time I boasted I succumbed to amoebic dysentery.
Don't think it's anything so tropical this time, just The Shits which I'm fervently hoping DC don't get.
However Every Cloud and all that, as DC went off to my parents (they usually do on wednesdays) so I got the longest period of undisturbed sleep I've had for years (literally) and DOD WI on waking reflects my overnight losses shall we say. I did drink a couple of glases of water before WI as don't want to be rehydrated but 2lbs heavier next week .
Don't think my loss is really reflective of the true state of play, but it's a mental boost to see the numbers (if not slightly deluded).

FHF on your behalf.

Bee that sounds like a nightmare, you're really due a dose of good fortune soon (in addition to the slim bod you've worked your ass off for)

Kid glad you got a good result, I find green days easier too. The only red ones I seem to have are Indian takeaway days and always seem to include a lot of ham (not part of the takeaway obv)

Bit unsure what to eat today as hungry but guts still feel a bit grumbly, so far have had 4 cups of Rooibos and bowl of muesli and FF yog.
Not sure my stomach can handle superfreefruit and veg today although the fridge is full to bursting with the stuff.

Lake How about a nice bowl of speed curry, lentil pie or scan bran cake?

Anyway, ill or not they're great results. I'm handing out lots of stickers tonight, so get ready for some pom pom waving later!

Right, better go and see what to cook the dc for tea. They'll only fling it on the floor, but I have to go through the motions

Lol at grinningbee's last line juxtaposed with poor lake's current condition!

Ha! It wasn't intended

The dc's dinner did end up being thrown on the floor. Poor things have very little appetite at the mo. Nothing I love better than grubbing on the floor under two chairs gathering carrots and cauliflower etc.

Last call for the list tonight!

It's a good'un

LakeFlyPie has lost a stonking 5lb this week, Current weight 11st 7lb, Total loss so far 9lb, Target weight 10st 7lb. Well done! A fantastic pom pom waving 0.5st sticker and a basket of wrinkly fruit to you!

Brafullofcrumbs has lost 3lb this week, Total loss so far 2st 8.5lb and a fantastic pom pom waving 2.5st sticker goes to you

Chocolategirl3 has lost 3lb this week, Start weight 13st 9.5lb, Current weight 12st 4lb, Total loss so far 1st 5.5lb and has achieved her Club 10 ? so it?s another sparkly pom pom waving sticker to you

Kid has lost 2lb this week, Total loss so far 1st 7lb and a fantastic pom pom waving 1.5st sticker goes to you

CantSleepWontSleep has lost 1lb this week, Total loss so far 4st 0.5lb and another fantastic pom pom waving 4st sticker goes to you

FairhairedandFrustrated has lost 0.5lb this week, Start weight 11st 11.5lb, Current weight 8st 11lb Total loss so far 3st 0.5lb, 11lb to go for an 8st target

Grinningbee has lost 0.5lb this week, Start weight 15st 11.5lb, Current weight 12st 8.5lb, Total loss so far 3st 3lb

MadeInScotlandFromGirders has stayed the same this week, Start weight 14st 8lb, Current weight 12st 13lb, Total loss so far 1st 9lb

FaceCrack Start weight 13st 3lb, Current weight 11st 3.5lb, Total loss so far 1st 13.5lb

Big well done to our Slimmer of the Week and 0.5st sticker achiever LakeFlyPie, our Club 10 achiever Choc, 2.5st sticker achiever Bra, Kid for her 1.5st sticker and also CSWS on losing a fab 4st. Brilliant results

Well done everyone, what a fantastic week! You?re all flabuless