Healthy Revolutionaries!

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Oh Okay, hardly original. :)

But describes us all. :)

Me today,

B- apple, yogurt, cashew nuts and honey
L- salmon and salad
D- honey sesame chicken legs with a greek salad.

O&DW FRs!

Have some very....untidy? thoughts about ttc and having my DCs.
I was scared. Of all the things that everyone has said.
And sometimes I am still scared.
But in a way, having my DCs has put some of that, well, all of it really, in perspective.
Obviously I am aware that I was very fortunate to conceive and if I hadn't been, that would have put a few things in perspective too.
When I am 80 (should I make it so far) I doubt anyone will be able to tell whether my tits are as pert as they would have been had I chosen not to have kids
Anyway, that's all just me talking rubbish.(2 hours sleep lt night. I kid you not)
Just to say: folic acid supplements. Important.

milly mouth watering at the prospect is the way to choose a meal.

Went to do the shop today but went to Boots first. Bought a gorgeous red nailpolish in the Boots range called Salsa. Its a lovely warm deep bronzy red, a highlighting conceler and a free rosy pink nailpolish. (Buy 3 get one free).....and also got a free present which was a deep pink full size lipstick, full size lipgloss and lip pencil. Yay!!!!! Good day.

food today.

Applewood Smoked Cheddar with red grapes

homemade chicken curry, popadoms and chutney with fresh coriander leaves and yoghurt

Real vanilla icecream.

a few of my chocolates.

Hello everyone! Hope you are all having good days.

Another visit to the counsellor today. I have managed to have breakfast every day, even if yesterday was just a cereal bar. I have also put on two pounds GRRRR........ but we had friends over last night and it was a huge meal of roast lamb with trimmings so probably not fair to weigh in this morning! Am planning on making a veg soup today, as feel the need for a few veg days.

Hope everyone is fine and well. :)

Morning all,

Thank you all so much. I feel much better now I know my fears are normal. I actually had a huge chat with DH on Friday night as I admitted I was scared. He’s scared too. We discussed putting it off for another month or so but I don’t think we’re going to. I take my last pill next Tuesday (I think, was a bit bleary eyed this morning so didn’t look properly) and that’s that. I have a prescription for another 6 months worth but I’ve not put it in and I don’t think I’m going to. EEEEEK! I’ve told my wonderful DSIL but that’s it. Oh, DH knows of course I’m excited. Really excited. I must be giving off “I want a baby” vibes as yesterday my friend told me to try out her pushchair around the village (with her baby in it, of course) so I could see how nice it was I have friends and family with small babies/children so I will still have a reasonable number of people to see and talk to even if the other friends distance themselves.

Amanda I take a multi-vitamin at the moment but will buy some folic acid today. Do I need any other supplements? What about pregnacare stuff? Is that worth (the frankly extortionate) price tag? I am completely clueless about this. I’ve just had a look at the foods I need to avoid – OMG!

Happy Anniversary for Friday Milly sounds like you had a lovely time!

Wellies Well done on having breakfast every day, that’s brilliant. I hope today goes well with the counsellor. X

I hope you managed to get a bit more sleep over the weekend Amanda

So, I managed to lose 2lbs last week – hurrah! ANNNNNNND then I stepped on the scales this morning. 3lbs on. It’s not really a surprise but I’m cross with myself.

Weekend:

Friday:
B – none
L – pasta with cheese, tomato and cucumber
D – scampi, chips and baked beans
S – 2 biscuits, 2 175ml glasses of white wine, 1 shot amaretto

(My bloody post from Friday has just reminded me I have a pack of jaffa cakes in my drawer. Doh.)

Saturday:
B – cheese omelette
L – sausage roll
D – Takeaway curry (chicken tikka chilli massala) with rice, poppadum and naan.
S – 2 175ml glasses of white wine, 1 200ml bottle of prosecco, 1 proper bottle of cava.

Sunday: One very large hangover
B – bacon and egg
L – sausage roll
D – lamb shank with mash & veg
S – cheese, ham and mustard on toast, full fat coke, green & blacks sea salt choc, 2 glasses of low % wine, 1 200ml prosecco, 1 175ml glass of white wine, 1 large glass red wine.

NOT.GOOD.

Today
B – boiled egg with soldiers which would have been lovely had the egg actually cooked. So I binned it.

L – ham, cheese, tomato, pasta with Dijon mustard
D – chicken stirfry with veg, no noodles
S – bag of quavers. Now avoiding the jaffa cakes.

No alcohol today. This week is going to be shocking on food (and drink) – I’m in Amsterdam for work on Wednesday and Thursday, then out for Thai and ice cream on Saturday.

I’ve got my pedometer on today and I’ve only done 1794 steps. I did 1k of these before work. I really do just sit on my arse all day

Vitamin c, vitamin d, folic acid.

Thanks Amanda

I didn't really take anything for conceiving. We just decided to start trying and expected it to take awhile. Then "boom" pregnant straight away. I just ate what I could in the beginning as I nauseous a lot but found ginger nuts as soon as I woke up helped. After that just ate lots of meat fruit and veg as usual and listended to my body....I was growing a baby after all so I guessed my body knew better than me what it needed .
Exciting times Hazel...........!!!

How exciting Hazel!!!!!

It is scary, very true, but exciting also. Gosh. I am delighted for you. :)

I took pregnacare, but generally my diet was pretty good. I just wanted some insurance really. The list of forbidden foods, well, they freaked me right out and from one pg to the next they changed, and also my family are all abroad and what was forbidden there was different to here. So, I just avoided the obvious things (fish more than a couple of times a week; soft cheeses; liver etc) and then listened to my body for the rest of the time. The only thing that worried me is that for the first time ever, with DC3 I craved peanut butter and ate it, and he is the only one with a peanut allergy. Our allergy specialists said there is no concrete connection, but I feel like I caused that really.

My cravings tended to revolve around vitamin c and dairy.... cheese toasties and oranges were my everyday lunch.

Gosh, how exciting!!!!!!! Keep us posted!!!!!

Oh, saying I 'caused that', that came across in a scary way- the specialists we see say no way, just happenstance, but guilt is the first port of call for a mother!

Yesterday....
one poached egg on toast
one slice pizza, little salad and blob Mayo
Sticky chicken with rice almonds and brocolli and peppers.

3 slices Terrys chocolate orange
lots of tea

Hello!

The second meeting with the counsellor was quite good, and this time she has asked me to keep a food diary- but more about what I am thinking when I eat, as I eat mindlessly.

Today has been a busy day with meetings and various bits and bobs but I ate breakfast, then had 3 cups of coffee, then took our bookkeeper out for a sandwich and had a chicken mayo toasted sandwich.

Have a few pieces of fish hanging around so plan to just crumb them. No veg so will do a pasta salad. Not interesting, but too much going on today!

Glad it was a successful second meeting Slightly.

Hello!

Hmmmm... me today;

Weetabix, milk, nuts and honey. Was not hungry but felt I needed to eat
Veg soup- I was cold and bored and I was procrastinating.
5 oven cooked chicken drumsticks- they were there
Dinner was ham, cheese, a slice of toast, chopped raw veg. My Dcs all have a cooked lunch at school/pre-school on Wednesdays so I did asnacky dinner.

No other news. I was supposed to be very active and doing lots of home stuff today, but got distracted by MN (again)!

How is everyone else?

Good going wellies and milly

I hate food right now.

I feel utterly overwhelmed by planning nutritious, timely, economic food for the family. It's astonishing how the act of arranging three meals a day for DCs and a DH can obliterate any actual enjoyment from food.
So I am eating all the time in a failed attempt to stave off tiredness.
In no time at all I am certain I will be back to being fat.
The next time I go to a toddler group and hear about helpful grandparents and consequent afternoons napping/ in the gym I think I will need admitting to hospital.

Today: raisin toast, porridge with honey, coffee.
L: soup
D: chicken Kiev.

Oh Amanda sorry, but you did make me laugh. The tone of utter utter fed-upness. you need flowers.

Right.

Does your DH cook? Can he take over any of the meals?

Can you take all decision-making for breakfast and lunch away for a bit.... just have the same things every day for a while. So you do not HAVE to think of anything for two meals of the day and everyone still gets fed.

Dinners..... Make a pot of spag bol. That is today. Leftovers tomorrow can be turned into chilli and jackets. Leftover the third day can have a sheet of puff plonked on the top and that is a tomato-ey meat pie. One meal three ways. (I am crap at doing this myself I have to admit). Although for me today I was planning on making a creamy chicken casserole and turning that into a pie tomorrow also.

Your exhaustion...... you have been so so tired for so long you poor thing. I also do not have any family near by, and very few RL friends so I totally get that frustration. (I have a friend whose parents take her kids every afternoon..... I get weak at the knees with jealousy!). I cannot think of anything helpful about that at all.... but snacking to stave off exhaustion is normal and a few weeks of that is not going to hurt in the long run. Make a big bowl of popcorn? Hardly any calories depending on how you make it.

I wish I could just reach through the screen and make it better. >>.

wellies
Thanks. Sorry to moan.

Yes DH does cook but he's slipped a bit lately. I have taken charge of meal planning as i'm on maternity leave and we were spending a fortune on food. DH tends to decide what he wants for dinner and shop for it all at about 4pm. That way worked well for us when I worked ft before DCs.
It's easy to eat mindfully that way, but it's not conducive to life with small DCs.
I'm ok. It's just the tiredness really. Hey HO.
Thanks for letting me ramble on.
Right. Off to the park. Again

Amanda cooking for a family every day really does put you off the meals you cook doesn't it? I cook but really would prefer not to eat what I cook. IYKWIM!!!
It's easier to grab what you really want when you want it.

Hi everyone. Sorry I've been absent for a while. Various problems (bad internet connection, MIL & DM both being a pain, DD not well, DH nearly gave up his course, etc) plus I am utterly fed up of food.

Amanda I know what you mean about getting fed up of food. You can spend loads of time planning a healthy menu for the week, shopping & cooking it, & by the time you come to eat it, your appetite is totally ruined & you just want something else.

DD is ill today, has been 'off' for several days. She was massively sick the other day, living room now not the most pleasantly fragrant place I've ever been. We may have to chuck the rug. can't afford to replace it. She's asleep now but I can't put her down, very miserable (she's usually a really cheerful little thing).

Ho hum.

Hi Lego good to see you. Sorry to hear about poorly DD. I hope she's feeling better. It's so miserable when they're not well.
DD has been grizzly for a few days. Usually mealtimes and through the night. I'm pretty sure it's her teeth.
It sounds like you've had a stressful time (((hugs)))

Yesterday I decided I would just try to eat mindfully.
I skipped breakfast as I wasn't hungry for it.
L: Soup and walnut bread (with butter )
D: 1 sausage, spoonful of beans, jacket potato (yes, with effing butter), 2 mini magnums.
S: 2 glasses of Rioja, 3 chocolate biscuits.
I am struggling to avoid snacking. Snacking is not good.

Amanda walnut bread - yum!
How old is your DD now, does she have teeth already or would these be the first? We found that DD was generally fine all day, grumpy at night when teething. Dose her up with Calpol etc before bed. (we do, she now calms down at the sight of the bottle. Bath, cuddle & story, teeth, Calpol, sleeping bag, milk. Tis part of the routine when teeth are coming!)

Thanks, DD appears to be on the mend now. (I've caught it now, I get better fast though so I'll just have a slob day today, & lots of vitamin c & I'll be ok tomorrow.)

On the plus side, I've got below 9st - just! Will weigh when I'm better.

O&D FRs

Meant to say, Amanda don't stress too much about the butter. I'm coming to the belief that margarine is nasty & I mostly just use butter now. Just enjoy it as a treat & don't spread it too thick!

DD is 9 mo. she already has 7 teeth.
She's napping now after 2 nap fails earlier today. I need to wake her befo 4 pm. It's mainly after 1 am that she wakes very frequently. Hey HO. She'll grow out of it. I've started to give her nurofen or carpool at bedtime now and I think that helps her a bit at the front end. I might try call pol at bedtime, then some nurofen when she wakes around 1 to give her a better chance. But obviously I don't want to be doing that long term. The other week my friend's mother told me about the popularity of adding brandy to babies' bottles when we were kids fear not. I won't be doing that but I can see the appeal
I might try a small glass of red with my dinner though

I had a pancake with blueberry syrup for bakfast, some walnut bread, with butter and some Welsh cheese (just for you Milly), cucumber, bag of low fat crisps, 1 cookie for lunch. Oh and 3 chocolate buttons. Oops.
Spaghetti bolognaise for dinner.

Haha yes I've heard about the 'brandy in the bottle' thing as well. I can see the appeal, but Calpol & dentinox are definitely better. Save the booze for yourself!

Hey Lego so lovely to have you here again. :)

I agree about the butter issue. We have just moved to full fat milk because we think we want less of the good stuff rather than more of the icky stuff IYSWIM.

I was once so desperate with teething that when my DM dipped her finger in brandy for DC1 to suck I did not raise a whimper..... DC did though!

Amanda you sound knackered. I think a glass of something lovely is deffo what you need.

I am still stuck at 10 stone 7. at your under 9 stone Lego. Today, for a treat we took the Dcs to McDonalds. That is very rare indeed... the two youngest have never been. I managed to eat my Big Mac, finish off 2 lots of Happy Meals and eat 6 chicken nuggets. Clearly the counselling sessions are working. . . No, I was just chomping, and kind of observing myself from the outside at the same time thinking 'how interesting...'