Chiefs where have you gone?

[DoubleMum]

The thread has disappeared seemingly replaced by a biscuit!

Tea, they are going out/casual clothes. Skinny cords are unforgiving on my thunder thighs!
I too love fudge and apple crumble.
I am sat in a Primary school classroom waiting to watch a phonics lesson. My arse is overflowing on this tiny chair. Thank heavens that I chose secondary!
Pray none of the kids vomits or anything!

Are you enjoying the teaching Lizzy? Everyone is saying I ought to do it but no funding and we can't afford it. Plus I would still have the childcare issue with my youngest at least.

Should say both my parents were teachers and I have taught on a high school for 3 years in Japan so not a complete novice.

Fudge! And treacle sponge! Good job there's none left or I'd have wrestled Sylv and Double to the ground for it like Tea with a turnip.

Yay for the new clothes.

Had an inadvertent Randall today - went to the hospital with DD2 as we took part in an obese pregnant women study and they wanted to follow up now she's nearly 4. We stopped for a cheese toastie and a cake in the cafe afterwards and DD didn't want her toastie... so guess where it went, along with my own

Anyway, they went at me with callipers and looking at it online the measurements are not as bad as I'd feared. All the swimming over summer has at least toned things up, though it built muscle under my fat so now I look like the proverbial brick lavatorial enclosure

Tea it's great to see you back and glad you're still on that hockey ball. Are you playing for Somerset now (as well as having eaten it ?) I know they asked you but couldn't remember whether you accepted!

Double is it something you can see yourself doing at a later date when the childcare's less of an issue? Primary or secondary?

Hello all! And hello tea, nice to hear from you and hoping you will start talking about cakes you have made
We'll not so great here chiefs, food wise.... But no gains I suppose! Have had too many dinners with friends on weekends which is all very lovely but not v chiefly... Just made a veg curry for tea though, and have fasted all day so will see what happens. Well done all you losers!
Clothes lizzy, sounds good! I had a bit of a splurge in tk maxx like the classy gal that I am! and was over the moon with a deep burgundy silk Ralph Lauren top thing in a sort of 'swing' shape which of course is a euphemism for 'fat covering' .. £40 from £190 I think!

I still, from time to time, think about the apricot and almond loaf Tea once posted about

Love TK Maxx Dinky! They do a nice line in veggie/ethical bags which are basically plastic bags that they get to sell at a premium by using the words "vegan leather" instead of "plastic" Top sounds lovely.

Ooh buzzy stop it with your dirty talk! Apricot and almond loaf?

Double, you can get bursaries etc, depending on subject. Could be worth looking into?
I absolutely love it so far, though half term sees loads of lesson plans and shizz.

Dinky, I love TKMaxx, don't knock it!

Buzzy, are those calipers more accurate than fat % on scales? I keep thinking that I will bite the bullet and get calipered at the gym, might motivate me!

Braved the gym after school, was just full of teen meatheads

I think they are Lizzy. And my much reduced body fat on my fitbit scales when dreadfully hungover indicates there are occasional inaccurate readings.

Doubs .... you should do it. Teaching such a great vocation. Dead chuffed you're loving it Lizzy. And you are a braver woman than I. I have never purchased a piece of clothing with the word skinny on the label. Hockey playing thighs restrict jeans choice completely. I fucking hate jeans. They are my nemesis.

I have walked 11500 steps and chose salad instead of a wrap. I won't mention the flapjack or the shovelling of mashed potato that has just occurred into my gob. But two better than yesterday choices so it's a start. Stir fry for tea and no booze I will be much reduced in strength for turnip pulling up.

Dinks and Buzzy dudes. Ahhhhh. All present and correct. I can't do TKMaxx. My ass is too wide and the rails of clothes with no order make me anxious.

I did represent Somerset before I ate it. A highlight of my 40s it has to be said.

I have everything in the house for said apricot and marzipan loaf. It is the cake that I've been poised to bake the last couple of weeks. And you may have tipped me over the edge

Tea you are teeny! Bet you have hips of a snake and thighs of a gazelle.
I am cold, tired and hungry, I think I may go to bed so I don't eat any more

I have eaten way too much HM pizza and feel like a whale. With indigestion.
Re. teaching, I had always seem myself teaching primary. I have an English degree but just can't imagine myself teaching English TBH.

I was in a fab primary school yesterday, (and will be again today and tomorrow) Double, I am sure you can get bursaries for primary? There are the SCITT and School Direct routes also, School direct can be salaried, and Teach first is salaried too.

Yesterday was first time I actually thought that I could have taught in a Primary, I followed one class all day, yr 6

i brought 3 frusli bars into work today to do for times when i'm working late or have intended no breakfast but come 11am cant cope any longer. I've now just finished the 3rd one.

I just cannot have food in reach at work or I eat it. My office is right next to millions of shops and cafes and I have the sort of job where I can pop out when I want to so I just have to stop buying things and take the view if its essential I'll go out and get it - and that most of the time a cup of coffee/glass of water will do me instead.

I am so slow to learn these things.....

I like the sound of teaching too - am a governor in a primary to try and get close but its a bit of a different thing - do teachers hate governors? Its made me so impressed with what goes on in schools, but i wonder if we're just seen as checking up.

Bugger bugger bugger

Inadvertent 4 hour boozy lunch with work... Well that is this week fucked then. Def suffered from a bounce up following my decade low - arse

Am I the only person who gets the shivers at the idea of teaching?! I'm very grateful that there are people who don't... Could just about cope with primary kids but NOT the parents! I see DD1's teacher fielding about a million queries every morning, some of which I know (from what the parents have said in the playground) are extremely pissy in tone, and think... it must be a constant struggle not to deck these people on a daily basis - hats off to you all, quite frankly. Or maybe that's just DD1's school.

Lizzy I think the callipers are supposed to be accurate, but maybe it depends on what measurements they take vs where you carry your weight? They measured my bicep, tricep, sub-scapular and whatever the top of my hip is called. All those were OK or just over (sub-scapular they had a real problem getting any fat to measure at all!) because I've got lots of muscle on my upper body, and big hip bones. But you can grab big handfuls of fat on my boobs, bum, thighs, calves and lower back, as I'm enormously pear shaped - think size 14 dress size if it has a flarey skirt, but size 20 jeans size at least, if I bought them which I don't.

I obviously don't have a healthy body fat measurement as I'm 15st and 5' 7" and it's presumably not possible at that BMI (32.8) unless you are a professional rugby player or something. SO probably for somebody like me, they clearly wouldn't present a complete picture without body fat scales or at least more measurements IYSWIM? You probably need to look at everything together - body fat scales, callipers, BMI, dress size and the mirror! But you and Tea must be whippets with your machine-like ways so perhaps this would be less of a problem.

Apples I hear you. I can't keep cereal bars or chocolate bars at work. Do you have one of those offices where there are always biscuits around? That's a total bugger too but at least there is the peer pressure of not wanting to keep getting up for another biscuit - not so easy when they are lying on your desk winking up at you!

Chuckling at the idea of an 'inadvertent' 4 hour lunch Hinky!
Am still being relatively good except yesterday where I had 'accidental' pizza which fell into my mouth. Oh and a flapjack.
The scales were very good to me this morning but I'm not logging it in case it's a complete lie, and also because I'm not meant to be weighing myself so often.

apples sooooooo get you with the work snack thingy. If I ever do that the items just sort of haunt me till I give in and eat tHem all.
Glad the scales were good double I always log the lows and ignore the high ones....
buzzy right with you on the teaching! I honestly do not have the patIence. The way I talk to my kids over homework (especially dd with maths, arghhhhhhh) is frankly outrageous. I mean eleventy ten ffs!
hinky love the idea of a 4 hour lunch.....
lizzy and tea do not believe for one moment re the chunky thighs etc! but will boast in did a whole 20 mins in the gym while kids did swimming this even. Yip, and rewarded myself with a glass of wine for my efforts!

Hinky, I used to have long boozy lunches pre dc, how fab!
Buzzy your body shape and fitness don't sound like normal BMI rules apply. I am more hourglass but with wide shoulders, I would love to be less top heavy.
Dinky, not at all, I have to exercise to stay this blobby, I am just naturally huge. My thighs are huge.

Buzzy you're right, peer pressure should limit face stuffing. I need to find some people in the room I'd like to impress. I ate apples walking to school all through the 3rd year so the good looking geography teacher would notice my healthy ways...

Is that how you chose your MN name Apples?
I found that I ate less on holiday when we sat with friends (hotel was buffet style) when we didn't my plate groaned with the piles of (mainly healthy to be fair) food.

It was a most lovely lunch and pleasant surprise as it basically never happens these days with children etc. Had to call my dad to ask him to pick me up from the station!

It was a very very tasty lunch so I'm working on the basis that really good quality food it has less calories in... Mozarella with spinach and roasted onion squash followed by shoulder of lamb on colcannon and a pavlova with almond cream and plum compote accompanied by a vat of italian organic white wine and a mojito.

think i managed to consume my entire day's calories in one sitting.... still on the plus side I've not eaten since yesterday lunch time as I still feel full so i have kind of carried back my calories from today.... that works right?

Hinky it's done, it was lovely, draw a line under it and just get back to plan from now.

It is Lizzy, it is. My friend and I used to chant apples, apples mmm, mmm in a form of self hypnosis - even then I preferred toast to fruit and had to work at the healthy eating thing although I wasn't fat as a teenager.

Hinky, fab meal and yes your subsequent good behaviour will partly atone - and as Double says tis done now. We need those occasions to make it all worthwhile anyway

Weightwise I've finally got back to what MFP thinks I am - 13,3 - but head away for a week now to Spain. Creeping up weightwards was quite depressing this time so I'm going to really try not to gain. We're in a villa and will have a mixture of meals at home and in restaurants so I can control food - just need to limit the holiday drinking, but I'm feeling pretty motivated. It's quite ridiculous really how a few days of 13,2 or 3 on the scales rather than 13, 5 or 6 make me feel so much better - but I hadnt seen those numbers since July.

Oops, just realised Ive outed myself as back to daily weighing. My name is Apples and I'm obsessive..