The Big Fat List and the Days of Doom (TM) Part IX - The One With A Wedding and Some Weightloss

[grinningbee]

Here we are again - new thread time! Can you believe we're on our 9th one?

I've been down to DFS and got us some new squidgy sofas. Feel free to add anything else you like

Bloody Hell how dare he put your dc's lives at risk like that?? I would like to think I would have left him on the side of the road.

The peppers are not very wrinkly, so it's chilli for tea.

Slim I should maybe have added, he didn't do it on purpose (otherwise I'd have taken drastic action). He has episodes of blanking out every now and again. It's very tiresome. Especially when you have to tell someone what day/time of day it is/how they got somewhere/what they are supposed to be doing. This morning he thought he'd just come in from work when he was actually just leaving.

Sorry, I thought the 'episodes' were as a result of the other thing he does (in secret). (hope that makes sense, can't remember what I've read on here and what's in the other place but don't want to be responsible for posting more detail than you want known)

Bee [angy]

Heh. So angry I can't type it properly.

It's ok. He's a saga all to himself, isn't he?

I've just had to put my shoes in the wash. Ds has wee'd in them. Nice. He's now laughing and standing on his head. Little monkey

Blimey bee. I've said it before and I'll say it again....I don't know how you do it.. Anyway hope your shoes aren't too squidgey.

jodie how are plans for the big move coming along? How's DH? Has he finished Olympic duties?

I have thr invasion back soon. On weds, to be precise. Dad wants an Indian takeaway. Perfect diet fodder. Then on Thursday night we are out in fancy London town! must remember to book somewhere. Needless to say, the diet has gone to the dogs
Can some one do the list? Promise I will be back on form for next week.

I'll do it. It'll make me stick around. I've been a very bad example just lately

Hi all :)

I hate Mondays.

Dsis had appt today, she has to have MRI scan as ct scan wasn't clear re: ovaries. So scary. She starts chemo at end of month and that'll last for a few months, it's so fucking unfair.

oh Fh&f it is so unfair. How is she doing? Best to get all these scans out the way so they can pick the right chemo to zap it all.

bee cheers, you are a doll.

I've actually been pretty good today
B; fruit and fat free yog
L; salad with chickpeas and a boiled egg
D; Quorn sausage and bean casserole with brocolli
HEB: 2x alpen light bars.

I have also signed myself up for a 5 k in 5 weeks so hopefully that will motivate me.

FHF I think of you and your sister such a lot. I don't know if it helps you knowing that, but it's true. Sending a great deal of love and prayers XX

Bee I agree: I actually think you are probably saint. I mean - ARE you a saint?! We should prolly be told if so, so that I can moderate my filthy tongue

Tom I am admiring your trunks, and I know you know me, but I can't work out who you are

DH is a shambling egg-stained hollow-eyed pallid wreck, but we are bearing up because things will change mightily come autumn! Plans for the Great Move going...well: I think they're going well. Great news last night was that DH has had an unconditional offer to do his MA (this was one of the reasons we were moving but we hadn't had confirmation so I was feeling more than a little oooogly about it). We need to be out of our London flat by October 27 (DH's birthday) so need to have found somewhere to live by then...er, and hopefully DH will have found a job .

We are hoping to find the PERFECT PLACE straight away, but such places don't come up very often, so we're prepared for 2 or 3 months of renting a wee 1 bed flat for a bit while we carry on job hunting. Would rather not do that because of removal costs (we have a fair bit of furniture, and about 2,000 books, and a piano, all of which drives up the cost).

ANyway I am rambling. Basically we are doing a lot of daydreaming about it all and just can't wait for it to happen!

Where is Face?

My food today (and the perceptive among you will rightly identify that I am a bit Sheldon about my eating routine when at work!):

B - black coffee, croissant
L - Avocade and rice salad thing
D - I think I am going to do something with prawns and puy lentils. Maybe a kind of puy lentil risotto. we'll see!

I believe that Face may be nestling up against Tom Daley's weiner Jodie

Fab news about DH's MA! Will he be at my old stomping ground? You guys are going to have such a great life up there. I am quite green with envy.

OH!

Sorry FaceOnTomDaley'sTrunks! Not fully awake yet.

Pix thanks! Yes I'm so excited I could just lie down and die, which would be distinctly counter-productive to the whole enterprise

It's been such a tough few years what with one thing and another and the prospect of seeing birds, and fields, and the sea, and gentle kind people (whenever we go to Norfolk we end up muttering about how is everyone up there in some kind of cult etc. etc.!), and a garden, and an old house not a new flat, and ...oh EVERYTHING!!! we are going to keep hens. And bees

I do worry that I'll miss the London Town we love so much, but I'll have to pop down a fair bit for work stuff and because of the music stuff I do, so that'll keep my hand in, as it were.

(If, in 6 months' time, I keep posting about how desperately lonely I am and how I can't make friends, kindly do not remind me of what I have been saying!)

Morning!

Exciting times Jodie! It's all go, isn't it. As for being a saint - nope. Just stoopid. So you can be as filthy as you like Whereabouts in Norfolk are you headed? Obvs you don't have to say

After I've been sliced and diced, and got over it, I'm going to get some chickens, so you can talk chickens with me . I did also contemplate bees, but that might bee a bit ambitious.

FHF It's good they're doing another scan, then they can be very clear about what is where. And yes, it is bloody unfair. The chemo can vary, but M had hers every 3 weeks, and was just in for a couple of hours or so while she had it, then back out again. Fingers crossed for you all, and I'm keeping my positive thoughts on you guys.

My dc are evil tantrumming spawn today. And they woke up so angelic

cooeeee hope you are all OK, we moved last Thurs the pipework under the kitchen sink sprung a huge leak this morning arggggg and so the water is turned off and DH is waiting for the plumber. I'm sooooo stressed wtf have we bought ....runs off blubbing like a blubby thing....... just needed to off load in the virtual work rather than bursting into tears in the office (sorry )

I do hope you lovelies are all OK xx

Hedge! Come here and have a cuddle You know it is the law of such things that something will always cock up just before/during/just after moving. Jodie you didn't read that last bit - okay?

It will be sorted and all will be fine. Remember the backed up sewer drain we got in our garden? Yuck.

Moving is bloody stressful, but after you've been in a week or two you'll feel much better. I've been here 7 weeks now, and it feels like much much longer. And it does feel like home now. You're bound to feel blubby and "wtf have we done".

Failing that, pm me your address and I'll courier over a bottle of vino to you

Cheers Bee it is all fixed now so I have calmed down a bit.

Morning all!

Tis Doom Day. Please pm me with your vital statistics

I won't be doing it till after 9, so everyone should have a chance to join in. Back later as I'm off to the seaside with the dc and one of their friends. Wish me luck

Hedge Glad it got sorted

Bee I didn't read it, oh no, totally passed me by

Hedge duckie are you feeling better this morning? Be easy on yourself. I think I read a kind of leaderboard of misery and stress once, and moving house came third only to bereavement and divorce. Do try and have a breather now and then won't you?

I'm skipping this week's DoD because I've had a really bad few days AND I am so full of PMT and water retention I need a wheelbarrow for my belly, so a weigh in today is utterly pointless and would just sent me into a spiral of despair and cake

Am thoroughly back on the wagon though and looking forward (weirdly ) to next week's DoD...

I'm going out to a pal's tonight but a) he's ill and not drinking and b) he also is trying to get healthier so it will be something virtuous and alcamahol free.

B - black coffee, croissant
L - Erm, not sure. Something low-cal from Boots!
D - not sure but it will be healthy

I'll also walk to my pal's and back which is about 30 mins either way.

Hello Hedge. Glad your waterworks are all sorted.

I am in the naughty corner. I've gained 2lbs and am off on an alcoholic bingefest for the next four days so there is no hope. I have a sicky sinking feeling that the target I set myself LAST January, which was to be in the "normal" BMI range by my 30th birthday, is going to pass me by Although "pass me by" implies that it was out of my control and not due to me stuffing my face with crap for the whole of my twenties

Oh pixie :( How about you make your 30th your turning point, a new start for a new decade of your life?
I've had a bad day and am trying to resist the urge to eat crappy comfort food. If only DS didn't like and I didn't have to buy and have in the cupboard tempting me chocolate mini hobnobs....

Ello you lovely lot. I've had 2 pm's

Okey dokey - here comes the list:

SlimJimBra has lost 1.5lb this week, and has lost a stonking 3st 6.5lb so far. 2.5lb to go for a 10st target!

Chocolatemakesmefat has lost 1.5lb this week, current weight 12st, total loss so far 1st 9.5lb

Pixiestix has gained 2lb this week, but has lost 4.5lb towards a 15.5lb target

GrinningPig has gained 3lb over the last 2 weeks, starting weight 15st 11.5lb, current weight 13st 12.5lb, total loss so far 1st 13lb

Yay to Slim and Choc for being our Slimmers Of The Week I've got a couple of slightly wrinkly apples to contribute to the fruit bowl

Here's hoping for a better week next week for some of us!

oooo a wrinkly apple cheers Bee

Thanks for doing the list off to celebrate with a single stick of Twix !!