Chiefs Randalling on to svelteness

[Lizzylou]

Hola.
Thought we needed a new thread
Last day at work for me

Well done Bssh on only gaining 1lb holiday weight, am hoping to emulate this!

Oh gawd, I haven't had one since student times.
It was a burger with mushrooms and swiss plastic cheese. Bk burgers are lush.

That does sound good actually!

Stilton and walnut scones? >
tea is going to go mental when she sees all this food porn later, we will all have to sit on the naughty step for aaaaaages.
Butter with sea salt. With blue cheese scones. Total x rated.

And it's not even my fault.

Congrats on Dream House keys Lizzy

I am doing a not very good fast day today. I am immune to the food porn. Hate blue cheese, hate BK, hate KFC and can take or leave McDonalds. The cakes I'm making for the school cake sale, however... Should've made blue cheese scones instead!

Randall, I could do eat that butter with the salt crystals in slices

I am feeling happy. The best book I read all summer The Thirteenth Tale is being dramatized on bbc2! If you haven't read it, do! When you read you don't eat peeps! I read so many books over the summer, but this was the best by miles.
And now David Mitchell is on bbc2
Who needs fast food?
Or cake, step away Dinky!

Actually, that should be Buzzy, not Dinky. soz

Mmmmmmm Stilton Scones. I think they're on the list for the weekend now.

dinks only dude on the naughty step today is DS4. He is a terror. I don't think I've parented differently but he's as stubborn as a mule and wiley as a fox. He's a Fule or a Mox. Anyway, he refuses to do as he's told and just won't accept anything, including the consequences until we end up really shouting at him. The others were NOT LIKE THIS! I have a tether and the end of it is staring me in the face

I have not done so well either today. I had Thornton Chocolates and a cupcake for tea

And those muffins look lovely too. Yum.

My baking mid-life crisis started two years ago. Had never made a cake in my life. Now I make one a week and spend hours cooking and decorating wonky birthday cakes for the boys and gingerbread monstrosities. Perhaps it's a reaction to my mis-spent youth. Someone reposted my mince pie bricks on pinterest a couple of weeks ago. I literally pissed myself laughing [trying hard to work that language is an evolving lexicon vibe but realises that there is a huge amount of irony in that as I have a reputation for requiring more control emoticon]

And Lizzy has a dream house. That's brilliant Chief. How exciting. Next week . And legoland. Cooooool. Oh God, it'd had slipped my mind that it is half term next week

Incidently buzz I remembered at 0530 this morning I had used the cunt word in a non-feminist way. In the aforementioned mis-spent youth some sleeze politely asked me to sit on his face. I believe my response was something along the lines "why? is your nose bigger than your cock? stop being a cunt. cunt."

I did walk a lot. And I did a Bssh by not eating anything else to keep the calories under control. I'm soooooo tired. I need to eat crap.

Now about that Chief-up in South-Africa .....

Will download that on the kindle for next Lizzy. I'm reading home by Bill Bryson at the moment and I'm reading slowly because I'm enjoying it soooooo much.

Tea it's 99p on Kindle right now! I don't read this style of book usually but for 99p and the fact it's been highly recommended by a Chief - I'm off to download it now...

Ooh, the pressure!
I hope you like it.

lizzy I loved that book! 'twas fab! If you liked that may I recommend a book I read recently, 'the secret keeper' by Kate Morton. Loved this one also. (Very book clubby all of a sudden but will keep us from snacking?)
And congrats on new house, how fabulously exciting. And how wonderful to have that empty house ness, you know, where you don't have those drawers and cupboards of mixed crap that you build up? It's worth moving house for that alone I reckon.
tea you DS sounds very cute actually, gotta love a bit of spirit!
I have decided its a carrot cake weekend chiefs, so am googling recipes right now (yup, I'm at work!) am also fasting. Not great combo

Well carrot cake is practically a vegetable, no? So probably doesn't count on a fast anyway. Just count it as a carrot.

Oooo I think this wine farm might be a destination fit for Chiefs in Seffrica: www.kleinconstantia.com/
And we wouldn't consume a LOT of wine or cheese would we ... We don't only do food porn on this thread - it's holiday porn too.

Just back from book club where I ate my body weight in salted caramel almond brittle. And there may have been quite a lot melzane parmiggiano or whatever it's called involved too. I'm blaming the cheese on the bad company I've fallen into here . And now, as per stern Randall instructions I have to log every last feckin calorie.

And tomorrow is weigh-in for me. Bugger.

Dinky carrot cake definitely counts as one of your five-a-day as does Fanta Grape

He is cute. He is also three. Three is a bad-ass age on the bright side they are very funny. Today he told me his "ninja man was a bit spicy." As he chomped down a gingerbread man.

Yes it does count towards your 5 day Double … in my current state my five cakes a day.

Today was a bit better. It was healthier largely unfortunately there was a bit too much of it to tip the scales in the right direction.

I did play hockey though so I am riding the mid-field endorphins and I love you all.

Melanzane parmigiano is not too bad cals-wise anote - to the extent that it can make a not too bad fast day dinner. Even the Pizza Express version, which is really cheesy, only has 600ish cals (I say "only"...) You can make a good low cal version by cutting aubergines lengthways into slices about .75 cm thick, spraying both sides with oil, and baking for 12 minutes (in my oven) at gas 4. They come out with a lovely fried texture but no greasiness. I always save a couple of slices for snacking on, then layer the rest with a reduced tomato sauce (basically boil the fuck out of 2 tins of tomatoes with a chopped onion, clove of garlic, oregano, s&p, tsp of sugar and tbsp of balsamic) and top with as much cheese as I think my cals allow - a little goes a long way for the recipe though.

Tea I have one of those toddlers too [drinks gin]. DD1 is freakishly well-behaved. DD2 likes to act like a twat just for the sake of it (though when she isn't doing that she's the most loving little thing imaginable). Scribbling on her sister's pictures and homework while they're being completed springs to mind. And believe me I come down like a ton of bricks on that, but it makes no difference [swigs gin again] When some

Melanzane parmigiano is not too bad cals-wise anote - to the extent that it can make a not too bad fast day dinner. Even the Pizza Express version, which is really cheesy, only has 600ish cals (I say "only"...) You can make a good low cal version by cutting aubergines lengthways into slices about .75 cm thick, spraying both sides with oil, and baking for 12 minutes (in my oven) at gas 4. They come out with a lovely fried texture but no greasiness. I always save a couple of slices for snacking on, then layer the rest with a reduced tomato sauce (basically boil the fuck out of 2 tins of tomatoes with a chopped onion, clove of garlic, oregano, s&p, tsp of sugar and tbsp of balsamic) and top with as much cheese as I think my cals allow - a little goes a long way for the recipe though.

Tea I have one of those toddlers too [drinks gin]. DD1 is freakishly well-behaved. DD2 likes to act like a twat just for the sake of it (though when she isn't doing that she's the most loving little thing imaginable). Scribbling on her sister's pictures and homework while they're being completed springs to mind. And believe me I come down like a ton of bricks on that, but it makes no difference [swigs gin again]

0.8 lbs down this week, 76.6 lbs lost in total, 8 lbs to go :)

Today is a non-fast day and I have a jacket potato with baked beans, Cheddar and coleslaw planned for lunch. Yummy!

Oh FFS, sorry for the double half post!

When people bang on about how boys and girls are soooooo different because girls want to sit about in princess dresses and boys want to eat mud, DH and I always have DD2 at the back of our minds - if she'd been a boy with the same personality we'd have been twittering "ooh, patenting boys is soooo different".

Diet not gone badly this week so far - fast day came in at a rubbish 900 odd cals after the fairy cakes got me, but I haven't gone really nuts, though tbf probably haven't eaten weight-losing amounts either. Was going to have another fast day today but I forgot when I got up at 6am and ate chocolate for breakfast Might aim for a low ish day.

Great work Bssh ! Enjoy lunch. Have pickle on it

I am off to legoland for the weekend.
Queuing burns calories, right?

Well done Bssh and so pleased it wasn't just me with The Thirteenth Tale. Couldn't put it down.
Will also try that aubergine recipe.

Anote your suggested Seffrican destination looks just the ticket - we can do distracted shared parenting of troublesome toddlers whilst eating and drinking - I actually enjoy dealing with their challenging ways these days as a break from teenage indifference

Have had a pretty good week foodwise - feeling the call of Friday night wine already though. That's bad isnt it.