Healthy, Revolutionary and Gorgeous!

[SixPackWellies]

Good morning Fellow Revolutionaries. Welcome to Thread 2!

Me today:

coffee with soy milk
2 ryvitas with half an avocado
spicy tomato soup (homemade) with a green salad
Small portion of roast pork, with lost of veg, a tablespoon of gravy!

Onwards and Downwards!

Lego well done on your wl and toning.
I hardly ever exercise. Just can't seem to leave the house alone and I am ridiculously tired ATM. I want to do Pilates and gym stuff and I like it but I am really struggling with timings and lack of sleep.
I've never had my colours done but i did go shopping recently and feel better for having a couple of things to wear that fit nd are not like my uniform of mis-matched sweatpants and grubby t shirts. But I don't really like clothes shopping tbh. I get stressed about spending time/ money on myself. Autumn is a good time to start I think as the warm/ neutral tones and clean shapes are generally flattering. Now I just need DH to venture out with me again to get some more.

Hi everyone. Sorry, have not vanished just am royally fed up with myself and my weight so have not been thinking about it!

Had a bad few days that has seen me comfort eat, so need to get back on track today.

Hope everyone is well. :)

((Wellies))
Or should we call you "ghouloshes" as it's the spooky month?

Ooooh! I LOVE that!

Hi all, just wanted to "see" you! Things up and down here, mega busy today so can't stop to bore you with my food diary! Will be back on properly soon, promise x

Hey hazel

Ooh. Maybe you should be "witchhazel" for spooky season.

You are SO on a roll Amanda!

I KNOW
Although I think that might be it.

Amanda - my 'exercise regime' mainly exclusively consists of me pushing a large toddler (for her age) many miles every week in a fairly heavy buggy over uneven paths, cobbles, etc, & usually at a pretty fast pace as I invariably leave myself too little time to get there and/or there is traffic and/or it becomes apparent she needs changing SECONDS before I was about to head out the door. Often with shopping as well, as we don't have a car. It's great for the arms, legs, general cardio, does nothing for my abs at all! (lazy exerciser!)

Well I'm FINALLY going to get my hair cut today. It's been about 4 months so it looks a total mop ATM. I'm even going with a photo so I hope to come out with what I want (Emma Watson pixie cut - I've got the same colouring as her, face shape like Michelle Williams).

Ooh we are not too far from the end of the thread... exciting (childish/tired!)

O&D FRs

Lego I love walking with the pram.in fact, today I am choosing to do that above a gym/ crèche session . It helps that the pram is quite heavy. I love walking.
I have no idea who Michelle Williams is . Your haircut choice sounds great though. Enjoy sitting down with a magazine.

I used to (pre DCs) go to a hairdresser where they gave me wine instead of coffee or tea . now i dash into super cuts after colouring my own roots with "nice n easy"

Witchhazel I love that! Hopefully no one else has taken that. I’ll switch later. I’m thinking you could be Theghostofamandaclarke for Halloween.

RAAAAR so cross with myself. I’d got back down to a weight I was happy with – still half a stone off target but I was happy with it…2lbs back on. My own fault I guess.

Weekend went a bit like this:

Sat
B – 2 slices of toast
L – scampi with ketchup
D – lamb shank with mash, veg and loads of gravy
S – 2 cappucinos, 2 biscuits, few glasses of wine

Sun
B – none
L – cheese and onion pasty
D – roast turkey with trimmings followed by an enormous salted caramel sundae
S – wine

DOH

Mon
B – boiled egg with soldiers
L – Sri Lankan chicken soup with bread roll
D – meatballs with pasta
S – packet of low fat crisps, glass of wine

Tues
B – boiled egg with soldiers
L – salad with meatballs
D – salmon with veg
S – packet of low fat crisps, 4 squares dark chocolate, ½ bottle of wine

So it’s no wonder I’ve put on a few lbs. I go away on Friday so there’s absolutely no chance I’ll sort myself out in 2 days. I’m trying to prepare myself for putting on weight whilst I’m away but that’s making me panic.

21st October it all starts again. That gives me just over 2 months until Christmas so plenty of time to get myself sorted.

I really need to exercise. I feel better for doing it. After we come back from hols, we’re starting some work to the house. We need a new boiler so DH needs to board out the loft for that to happen and I’ve said I want to get the skirting boards and doorframes repainted so I will have something to keep me active (and away from the wine) in the evenings.

I’ve had my hair cut and coloured recently which has made me feel better. I’ve got rid of the blonde and gone close to my normal colour. I’m still getting used to it but at least I haven’t got to look at my bloody roots anymore

Harrumph, someone already has witchhazel

Hazel hope you are okay and the stress is easing.

nothing to report here. I have had days of binge eating and just feel quite flat. have just had some Weetabix and milk, and will try and have a healthy lunch.

Lego if you can rock a pixie cut!!!!! Love that look.

Hi Ladies
oooo I loved "Hermione"!!!
yesterday
banana
one cracker with Philly
homemade curry with two popadoms
Haagen daaz macadamia brittle (salty) icecream
couple of squares of Malteser chocolate
cups of tea

Morning all. :)

Hope everyone is well this morning.

I have fallen into a heap, so have decided I need to scale right back and make teeny tiny sustainable changes, that I can consolidate which will hopefully lead to weightloss. Sigh.

So, This wee I will;

eating aim- fruit and yoghurt for breakfast only
Drinking aim - no cal drinks all day. 1-2 small glasses of wine at dinner
Exercise aim- 17,000 steps.

I am not going to think about anything else but those aims. Simple. Achievable, and when consistent will hopefully have a cumulative affect.

I cannot get my head around eating properly ATM.
Tired/ stressed/ hormonal.
So cross with myself.
Must get back n track.

OOO pain.....knew I shouldn't have eaten Kellogs Crunchy Nut Cornflakes. Bad tummy ache. Had them this morning....tummy ache and had them tonight....bad tummy ache. I don't generally eat lots of carby things and this is why......

Kellogs Crunchy Nut cornflakes
4 squares chocolate
small portion braised beef in red wine, spoon of butter mash and small portion of carrots and peas
wrap with soured cream, vintage cheddar and baby leaves

just had a small bowl of bio yoghurt to try and sort tummy out. Owwww!

I hope you're feeling better Rules

Lego come and tell us about your haircut please.

Hazel thinking of you. (oh, you could be witchhazelbrowneyes!?)

Ghouloshes Well done. It's quite a useful thing to be able to employ those small changes when you feel it's going tits up.

I cannot manage those tactics right now . I am beyond exhausted. DS is great. So energetic and demanding (as all toddlers are) DD is teething poor little thing, so not sleeping and also biting when feeding. I have been comfort eating .
I am feeling quite of ppl whose parents are involved in their DC's lives.
Hey HO. I know I'm blessed so best just suck it up. I am very grateful really.
Fasting today as it's really the only way I can control my intake lately. And previously even with a serious magnum habit and plenty of snacking I lost weight doing 5:2.
Also waiting for AF (tmi, sorry) which is not helping with any aspect of..... Well, anything really

I also feel about GPs being involved in their lives. DH's DP's are elderly and incapable largely. My Parents live in a different country. They came to visit in August and will not come again until next September. I have been comfort eating too a bit this week.

TheReal can I ask why your parents are not involved? I brought up my two kids who are 21 months apart with no help from parents, friends or anyone. My parents decided to have nothing to do with me and moved back to Australia and DH parents were useless. They had no involvement and couldn't be bothered. To be honest, im glad. I brought up my kids with no interference from anyone. No one telling me that I was doing it wrong or commenting on what I did or how I lived. I think it helped me to grow into a much better parent and human being. It did mean that DH and I never got much time together but we used to go for lunch when the kids were in school and now there much older we now go out a couple of times a week on date nights and are more like a couple in love again. Its hard bringing up kids, it really is, you tend to lose yourself as a "woman" and just become "mum" and then your just not sure who the hell you are anymore. But kids grow and then you start finding yourself again and it does get easier. Im still Mum when needed but Im also just "me" again.

O and tummy better. Evil Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes.

I think it is true about losing yourself as a woman, Rules. That is certainly a part of how I feel, and is perhaps one reason why i have put on weight again, and feel so frumpy and dreadful.

My DPs still interfere though from afar....... i sent a picture of our youngest this week and my DFather actually rang me just to tell me he needed a haircut!!!!! I went ballistic, and it was about 'how dare you comment or judge when you are so far away'.

We have made up now though. :)

I am sorry you are estranged from your parents Rules. Regardless of why or how, it must be painful.