BigMoFos Week 46

[JackieNo]

New week (thank goodness!). Must do better this week.

Well done LMS

opens little tub of mini eggs

cheesyfeet. What is it about mini eggs that is just so delicious? I'm still only half tasting things, but would probably eat a whole load of mini eggs regardless.

hello - fingers crossed won't have PMS this week

The weather?

ooh yes - damn weather

Too hot/too cold/too windy/too wet etc.

Or can we just grit our teeth and think resolutely of summery days ahead, when it would be nice to be just a bit smaller ?

good point Jackie - wearing a pair of shorts again would be nice one day [wistful emoticon]

shorts??? hahahhahahahaha

passes mini eggs round

Schneebly & Cheesyfeet. What does citalopram (or whatever it's called) do? My gp talked in very vague terms about "there are things we can do to help you as well as weighing you regularly", but I was too much of a chicken to ask further.

Is is something you can take while you're trying for a baby, or is it completely imcompatible with ttc?

hellooooo Littlefish - how are you and your dd?

(sorry have no idea what Citalopram is - thought it was some kind of fancy buggy)

Sorry folks, forgot to email weigh-in. DH arrived home yesterday from 3 wk exercise so been bit pre-occupied! NOthing to report anyway, stayed the same this week.
Well done to all who lost! Will try and catch up with posts over weekend.

Hi SJ - dd and I are fine. Actually, dd is gorgeous, incredible and wonderful. I'm doing lots of lurking on this thread, but am feeling rubbish at the moment so I don't feel I have anything positive to contribute.

How is your gorgeous boy. Have you started back at work? Is the childminder working out ok?

Yes I have ben working three days a week in march - go to four in April To be honest three days is perfect but I cant can;t afford to take the pay cut, money is budgeted to the penny as it is! He goes to CM 2 days at the moment (will become three in april) and my mum on Wednesdays. He ia a little more unsettled but nothing too bad. He adores my mum (though I think she finds him a handful!) and he loves having lots of people and a couple of dogs at the CM. Touch wood it seems to be working OK so far.

Now I just need to win the lottery...

I think it's wonderful that your mum has him one day a week. We have the same arrangement with my MIL (2 days a childminder and one day with MIL). It has meant that dd has grown up knowing her extended family in a way that I never did, but she also has a wonderful time with her cm and a variety of other children.

I have always found that dd's sleep routine goes out of the window at the cm because there's always something interesting going on!

You might be tempted to catch up on housework/shopping etc. on your one day off (when you up to 4 days at work), but try very hard to resist that temptation and instead, arrange to do some wonderful things with ds. It makes it feel so much more special, and reminds you that you are working part time.

Litlefish pmsl at the thought I would EVER be tempted to do housework! I do just enough to ensure you can beat a path from teh front door to all the vital rooms and keep the place clean enough that DS doesn;t get salmonella and pay a cleaner for a couple hours a week.

My day off is for things like Kew gardens or Mothercare cafe! (though not entirely I must confess)

That's just like my style of cleaning!

I have a cleaner every week. Whenever I see dd eating something which she's found on the floor, I just heave a sigh of relief that I know it can only be a week old at the most

I love Kew gardens - am very that you live near enough for regular visits.

Littlefish - citalopram sounds like you are feeling the same as I was last week! {{hug}}

Thanks Schneebly.

Feel like such a fraud. Have had 8 months of counselling which I stopped because I felt I had gone as far as I needed to.

Since then, I've felt worse and worse about my eating/weight, but can't face talking to anyone about it. It feels like too big an issue to even start tackling.

Why do you feel like a fraud Littlefish - I don't understand? Do you not feel able to back to the same counsellor - presumably they helped last time. When you're ready to stop counselling, ease off and don't go cold turkey and perhaps you will need to accept that you will always need counselling for the issues you have with food (and I suspect your family). Nothing worng with having a counselling session once a month for the rest of your life. In fact if we were in America it would probably be expected.

I admire you for getting as far as counselling which is further than I got I once went for hypnotherapy to try to deal with my weight (just the practicality not the underlying causes) and the therapist decided that I should deal with the issue of my pillock of a father at the same time. Ha - I think I was her first failure. Even hypnotised I wouldn't talk about it! I'm so controlled that even hypnotised I won't let go . Ironic really when I'm going through a phase of not being able to control my eating!

Hello!

Well I'm back on the wagon so will be posting more this week I hope.

Hope people don't mind me being rubbish with posting - it's not that I don't want to, it's just that I get so down when I'm eating badly and I can't bear the thought of posting somewhere when I'm not really trying - it's like I'm being fraudulant.

Anyway, I put 0.5lb on last week, which is good for me at the moment! My WW leader was lovely and noticed I was very stressed about the weight starting to creep back on (4.5lbs on now in the last 3 weeks), so has asked me to bring my tracker sheet (where you record what you've eaten and how many points it is) back to her to have a look at next week! Kind of like being at school and having to do your homework, but it was the push I needed, so I'm all re-inspired and have filled it in properly and even did some exercise this morning...

Evening all

Just waiting till dp gets in so i can go out for my Indian,mmmmm yum!!!!

Have been extra good since Thursday and been to the gym etc so gonna have a nice meal and eat what i want.Will be good for the rest of the week(hopefully lol)and will not put too much if anything on.

It's hard to post when you're not feeling motivated or not trying the way you want to.I often wait till a Thursday when i have been weighed as thats the only time i feel i can be seen to be being good eg having lost

Littlefish - I think you're incredibly brave for doing the counselling at all. Maybe Sue's right - keep going, or ease off gently, rather than all or nothing (but what do I know).

Dottydot - nobody minds you dipping in and out as much as you need to. Equally, we don't mind if you're chatting but not weighing in - and whether you're losing weight or not. It's always lovely to hear from you regardless .

Mmm - have a lovely time tonight, agalch. I'm guessing you won't be doing the whole traditional hen night thing? Or can we expect to see you posting drunkenly at midnight?

Lol no into the hen night thing Jackie.I may be on here at midnight thoA nice dinner and some booze is all i need.