New Mums still seeking new bodies - this time we'll do it.

[SolitudeSometimesIs]

So a new thread, a new more motivated state of mind.

We will be skinny. No more excuses.

I am like a 90 year old lady hobbling around. Some of it is SPD related, I was in agony with it when I was pregnant and I still have it now although it's not nearly as bad. I met with my public health nurse yesterday for a weigh in for TinySol but she could offer me no help.

Hi Beyond - are you managing to eat well or are you just off your diet?

Well I haven't been pointing but I would say I am healthier than if not dieting. I am going to point for the rest of the week though.

That's sounds so rubbish Sol, could you gp refer you for physio?

Lost one lb this week. House is cleanish and almost tidy. Just need to keep it like that till Sunday! Having a boring week apart from that, just trying to keep out of the kitchen.
I'll update the spreadsheet for you Beyond. It's been a real struggle to find any motivation this week, so I know how you feel.
Hope your back gets better soon Solitude. Pregnancy does rubbish things to bodies.

Congrats on your 1 lb Green.

Keeping the house clean and tidy is an epic task with kids around (and tired adults!). Surely cleaning counts as some sort of exercise.

Where has all of our motivation gone? I suppose some weeks are just like this. But we need to get back on course. It just seems like such a task sometimes, lots of effort for such little results. Especially me as I got a phonecall from the Maternity Hospital inviting me back to be weighed and assessed as part of a Maternal Health Study I took part in when I was pregnant. Oh the shame of being weighed .

Ooops, posted too soon.

I meant to say that I am going to be weighed PUBLICALLY. A room full of other women and their husbands will hear my weight. I'm getting mortified even thinking about it. I have 14 days to lose 7 stone thats's doable right???? Isn't it???? AAAGGGHHHH!!!!

I have a physio appointment for June, which was the earliest I could get one as I need a specific maternity one (the GP said that the regular physio's can be a bit sniffy when it comes to post pregnancy problems and I'm better seeing a specialist).

That sounds like hell. Why will they announce your weight? I don't think I'd want to go.

I would imagine that everyone else will be too busy worrying about their own weight, so they might not be interested in anyone else's. Maybe they will use Kg, they always seem to at hospitals. Nobody will be able to figure them out!
What was the study about? General health, or weight in particular? My local hospital is the one where the fat ward programme is filmed so they don't bat an eyelid at anyone who's only a few stones overweight.

It's good that you get to see a specialist, but that is a long time to wait when you are in pain.

The house has exploded with toys while i was trying to put washing away. It's still clean though. Cleaning is definitely exercise, i'm aching all over. The problem is once you start spring cleaning you keep finding more and more things to clean. It's like being pregnant again. Just wish I had the same enthusiasm for dieting.

Can you move some of the less played with toys into bedrooms until Sunday? Or do a toy cull and throw out some of the rubbish-y toys?

The study is about how a Mother's diet and health in pregnancy can impact on the health of the baby in the womb and when it's born. It's really interesting and will study the impact of our diets on our kids. In the end I only put on just over a stone when I was pregnant (I thought it was nearer a stone and a half but they sent out my info today) so I'll be keen to see how I'm doing now.

The room is set up so that there are seats around the sides and the weighing stuff is at the top. It's always really quiet in the room, people whisper and there's no tv or radio, probably because the team are trying to sort out information and do stuff on computers. When you get your percentage of body fat taken, you then get weighed and they discuss the results with you. And because the room is virtually silent everyone can hear.

But it's way better than it was the first time I went. There was this young guy (I sound so old) and he kind of shouted my weight to the person inputting the information on the computer so I said "My you are brave doing that" and he said "Doing what?" and I said "Announcing a pregnant womans weight like that, I can imagine every single woman you do that to hates you". I gave him my best steely glare and he was mortified. DH said he looked like he couldn't get rid of me fast enough but I was seriously hormonal and not in the humour to have my weight yelled across a room. But since then they have been a bit more discreet.

greenrabbit I did enjoy the pizza and Bootcamp covered a few of the calories so hopefully it's not too bad - I think I am heading for a 1lb loss tomorrow at weigh-in.

I started day 1 of C25K yesterday and wasn't as busted after it as I had thought I would be considering I haven't moved much in a year. I am totally motivated with it - just hoping to find the time to do it. I might try to do it again tomorrow night if I am not too wrecked after bootcamp.

I am still snacking a little too much but meals are balanced and low card/cal so fingers crossed the little changes are having an effect. I have to be careful this weeken - big night out tomorrow night with a few drinks and a family birthday party on Sun.

solitude You're brave going for that public weigh-in! I would never do that in a million years. Fair play to you. I feel for you regarding the SPD - I had it horribly from Sept-Dec last year and was hobbling round on crutches trying to look after DS. Luckily DD was cute when she arrived so made up for the pain!

Hope everyone is else is doing well.

I'm just going to take the children out for the next 2 days so the house stays tidy. I need to have a major clear out. I need to cull some toys, SIL keeps passing on all of her children's stuff. I feel like a charity shop.

The study sounds interesting. You did really well only putting a stone on. I was mortified when I got weighed at 37 weeks, I'd put 3 stone on. I only lost about one stone having the baby. If she's addicted to Cadbury's Picnics when she's older I'll know I'm to blame.
I wouldn't want my weight shouted out either. I'm getting less tolerant of people saying stupid/thoughtless things as I get older. In the past I would have smiled and took it, but now I find myself saying something about it (politely of course). You probably saved someone else from being really upset.

I was in a clinical trial were they collected they blood I lost during the section, filtered it and gave it back in a transfusion. I actually felt pretty good the day after, but as my previous section was after a day of labour and no sleep for 3 nights, it was difficult to say if it was just due to getting my own blood back!

Hi Winter, my diet sounds similar to yours at the minute. Although I gave in to nann bread tonight. I'm out for an anniversary meal on Friday and have DDs christening on Sunday.

I'm still impressed with your exercising. Hope you get your loss tomorrow. Enjoy your weekend.

Green - If you have a Barnardo's or charity play group they usually are happy to take good quality old toys. I gave a load to the local school fair even though none of my kids go there, we got a flyer in about it so I contacted them and they were delighted to take them off my hands.

I put on a stone when I was pregnant but had polyhydramnios so my bump was 50 inches in circumference by the time I gave birth, it looked like I was expecting twins. When my waters went I had to stand in the bath while I was on the phone to the hospital as I'd flooded the bedroom floor. It was soooo dignified!

That's so crazy that they gave you your own blood back. Was that to save on using donated blood in the future?

Winter - I bow down to your exercise regime and your boundless energy. I feel very lazy compared to you. How are you feeling when you exercise, does it aggrevate your SPD or has yours cleared up? Yours sounds way worse than mine was, I wasn't on crutches, I just had to take everything very slowly and wore a huge support belt.

LittleSol finished up school for Easter today. He came home full of sugar from his end of school egg hunt, might have to let him out to play football so he can burn some of it off. All I want to do is watch my Homeland boxset snoodled up on the sofa but that's not going to happen.

Ugh!

We all have a stomach bug - thanks DS1.

Is it so wrong that I'm hoping I may have lost some weight?

Thankfully the baby seems fine.

Hope everyone's having a good weekend.

Hope you feel better soon Solitude. Stomach bugs are horrible so I think it is only fair to lose a few pounds. How is your SPD?

That sounds like a huge bump. How did you manage to move round? I never measured my bumps. I wish I had now.

The house is finally presentable. It will probably be trashed within minutes once the guests arrive, but never mind. At least it's had a spring clean.

There are plenty of charity shops locally, but it's the hassle of sorting and washing everything before donating. Plus DD usually falls in love with anything owned by her cousins, so it's hard wrestling the stuff away.
I do need a sort out of baby stuff, but I'm convincing myself there will be a DC3. I'm far too attached to some baby grows.

I think the aim of the study was mainly to see if it reduced anaemia rates after c sections. It was also to cut costs, so I suppose they would do that by not giving out donor blood. I was given about 500ml back, even though I hadn't lost enough to need a transfusion. It was pretty interesting.

Diet has completely gone out the window again. Went out for an Italian for our anniversary yesterday, and have loads of nice stuff ready for the Christening party tomorrow.

Greenrabbit – hope the house stayed clean and you had a good day with friends and family today, you certainly had the weather for it Good job on the 1lb loss.

Sol, your maternal health study weigh in sounds awful. They should be more aware of privacy being dependent on volunteers for their research. What a pain to have to wait until June for the physio, if it is any consolation seeing a specialist should be worth the wait, my friend suffered terribly with SPD and it worked wonders for her. Hope you all recover from stomach bug soon (you definitely deserve to lose a few pounds as a result, every cloud and all that).

Winter, hope the C25k is going well. I loved it the first time I did it as you see progression really quickly. Might try it again now the weather is improving.

So a mixed week for me. Been on the exercise bike 5 times as opposed to target of 4 and have continued to increase difficulty. However food wise I have not been so good, lots of leftover cake from last weekend and dinner out on Friday. Hoping the exercise will balance it out and I might STS when I weigh tomorrow?! Hey ho, back to being super good next week.

Only just managed to log in after the password reset thingy!!

Solitude - Hope you are feeling better. I am so pleased you pulled the guy up re talking indiscreetly. Honestly, the lack of sensitivity/confidentiality drives me mad, people deserve privacy. Rant over.

Winter - well done on starting C25K. I think I need to give myself a kick and get on with it. I always feel a bit inspired after the London Marathon… :)

Green - hope you had a wonderful day. Absolutely acceptable not to diet on an anniversary and many other occasions I would love a 3rd, but am too old and we'd be stretched financially. Also had difficult deliveries. I think I am going to sell the jumper soon, feeling a bit :( about it.

Gruffalo - fingers crossed on a weight loss for you.

I am going weigh in next week and being very vague about my diet resolve for the past 2 weeks…..

Have a good week everyone!

sell the jumperoo, not jumper!

Green - I hope you had a great day yesterday.

Gruff - that's an amazing amount of exercise. Do you find you eat better if you are exercising? I used to feel I should watch what I ate if I had exercised first thing in the morning.

Beyond - I think it's allowable to have a week or so off the weigh-in if you have been struggling to eat well.

I missed my weigh in this week due to DS1 being sick, I completely forgot about it. So I'll weigh in on Saturday and see if I lost the stone I had hoped for by Easter (Spoiler alert: I haven't!). Having said that i will be happy with an over all loss of 7 lbs.

I'm getting up early tomorrow and doing The Shred. No excuses! I'll get up before the kids and DH so that I can have the time to myself and be showered and ready by the time the rest of the house wakes up. My back is much better now so I'm hoping it was just a twinge and nothing serious.

So, out of boredom during the night when I was up with DS I was reading stuff on the internet about how celebs manage to stay so skinny.

Victoria Beckham main-lines espresso and runs 4 miles on a treadmill every day. She doesn't eat what she wants and sticks to a no carb diet. Amanda Seifried eats wilted spinach covered in lemon juice and hikes up mountains every day.

Myleene Klass doesn't work out, eats chocolate constantly and has a really unhealthy junk food based diet. Amanda Holden has a similar diet and doesn't work out except for occasional yoga. How the hell are they so skinny and toned then???

I know I shouldn't read this stuff and I know it won't help me but I found myself getting really irate that people lie about what they eat and if they work out and expect us all to just buy in to it. I like the honest celebs, the ones that say they work out and eat naff all (even though it sounds thoroughly unhealthy, I admire their stamina). I know I'm sleep deprived and probably being very irrational, but why do celebs lie?

I know part of me is jealous. I see their amazing figures and really gorgeous,not-covered-in-vomit clothes and want the same. It just seems so unachievable at 3am when my diet is shite and I don't work out and I'm not skinny and toned.

Ok, self-indulgent whiney rant is over!
(For now).

Hey All, so I STS. Can't grumble as I didn't deserve to lose. Done the exercise bike this morning and eaten sensibly so far today (partly due to the cake being all gone so no temptation!)

Beyond, we just got our jumperoo out of the loft for DD2, wonderful invention and I believe the resale value is quite high.

Sol, I don't find that exercising in the morning affects my food during the day, I think it is just a case of must try harder! Hope shred goes well tomorrow, admiring your motivation to get up early to do it. Completely agree about celebs, why is there a perception that you should not acknowledge it is hard work to have a nice figure!

Oh holy shit!

I just watched the shred dvd. I'm going to die aren't I?

On the plus side I got a hilarious video of DS1 doing the exercises, he is so cute!

Gruff that's good that you stayed the same. With all your exercise you might be putting on muscle.

Sol - Good plan to get up early - hard when you have 2 little ones though and the constant tiredness I feel like I should see what the Shred is about…. Agree re celebs. On a side note, what has Amanda Holden done to her face?

Gruffalo - well done on the exercise and fingers crossed for weight loss next week.
I think I will sell the baby stuff soon, also have a swing chair. I have already taken clothes/baby bath/moses basket to the charity shop. I also have an icandy carry cot which is hardly used. I need to accept I am not having DC3 though. If only I was 5 years younger!

I never read what the celebs diets are anymore, they just talk shite!! You can bet the ones who say they eat junk food and don't work out are talking out their (toned) backsides. I've managed to lose another pound in a week but been absolutely killing myself in the process - cant work out as young DD takes up most of my time and I'm a single parent 50% of the time (DH works away), but been keeping busy in the house with housework and the like. Have drastically reduced portion size and in turn my calorie intake,it's hard but I need to do it. Just hope I don't get fed up with it...

Hi everyone, too scared to weigh myself today! Going to give it another week. (At least). Had a nice weekend and Christening though. Starting preparing the veg beds today, it's a good distraction from food.

Beyond- our Jumperoo is probably on the to go list. We hardly seem to have used it much this time round. I doubt that we'll have a third child. I also have mountains of girls clothes in the loft that will need sorting too.

Sol- I love reading about celeb diets. It's one of my guilty pleasures.. Hope the shred is going well.

Gruffalo- well done with all the exercise, hope you get a loss this week.

Still sickness central here. Been out for a few walks with the kids but DS1 tires easily so we've been taking it easy. Been reading up a bit on fasting and I'm wondering if I can do it. There was a thread on here that got me thinking about it, and it seems pretty interesting. So I fasted all day yesterday and just had dinner. I managed pretty well and felt fine all day. On one blog the lady was saying she fasted every second day until she got the hang of it, then it just became habit. So I'll try it again tomorow.

thatdarncat - you're right. They do talk shite, but I can't help reading it and getting annoyed.Congrats on losing 1 lb, you sound like you have a lot going on. My DH works long hours and has to travel, so I feel your pain about constantly being busy and feeling like you never get a moment to yourself.

Selling baby stuff is so final isn't it Beyond? I've been packing up all my baby clothes for a local charity that helps families in the area, I feel then that at least the clothes are going to people who will benefit. It makes it a little easier to part with everyting.

Green - glad you had a good time at the christening and that everything went well. I had to google what a jumperoo is, I've never heard of them. They look huge.

Gardening is great exercise (disclaimer:I don't garden)my Mum swears it keeps her in shape. What veg are you growing?