BigMoFos Week 56

[JackieNo]

Fresh new week.

Well done EllieG - quite reassuring when that happens, isn't it.

Littlemisssensible, sorry to hear about your woes - hope you're starting to feel better now.

OK so have rediscovered this thread after buying a company in work. Also I insist you all check out my new photos of DS on my profile because he is offically the cutest child (sometiems ) that ever lived.

Have been avoiding the weightloss threads like the plague because I've been having one of those months where I eat everything in sight then feel such a failure for not being able to control myself. It doesn't matter how often I do it and how often I think "it's really not up there with Pol Pot and Hitler" somehoe I alwyas feel a massive disaster area and end up eating more.

Silly really becasue the BEST thing to do in situations like that is to tlak about it but I feel such a berk saying it again. I know I will be fine in a week or so but first need to wean myself off cake for lunch every day and bacon sandwich for breakfast every day.

I do feel a bit better today so am hoping that I can at least feel OK and not such a failure.

OK rant over.

PS did I mention I bought a company last wek

Wow - MTPW

That's bloody amazing - you must feel brilliant. Are you on for the surgery now? I am just so pleased for you.

Sue ... we need to know more about this company!

oh blimey didn't read other threads in my keen-ness to bore you all with my plight.

Well done MPTW thats amazing!

WWB - really very dull only three people and a few hundred thousand in revenue but its sounds good doesn;t it? "what did you do in the office today dear?" "Me? Oh I bought a company"

You have to start somewhere in the quest for total world domination, Sue

Today three people, tomorrow ... who knows!

but I have had my attempt at world domination (at least the advertising world) whn my job title was offically "City high flier" . Have bought and sold much bigger companies but not for a long time and its was quite fun to do it again. These days I am more concerned with leaving at 5pm to pick up DS than world domination so my career isn;t what it once was

Sounds utterly reasonable to me. How is your gorgeous little boy these days?

(Note to self: stop calling Kew Sue ...)

don;t worry WWB - I am the least well disguised person on MN . He is divine about 60% of the time, a horror about 20% of the time and in the middle about 20% of the time - so about nromal for an 18 months old. He;s at that funny age where he looks like a baby if you dress him in some stuff and like a little boy in other stuff. Understanding a whole heap but not really talking yet. He;s very cute though, people stop to talk to him in the shops because he smiles at them!

Sounds completely and utterly charming! And I can see from the pictures that he's still gorgeous.

I loved that age; from about 16 months to 2 years was wonderful. They are funny, exciting, interested in everything, easily entertained (most of the time ...) yet still reasonably portable and compliant!

Wait until he's 6 and rediscovers the art of tantrumming ... it's a sight to behold in a 6 year old They are small teenagers without the nous of teenagers - very scary. Particularly when they are completely love-lorn as my daughter is at the moment ... I thought I had another ten years or so before we got into this lot!

oh dear who is she in love with?

A little boy from her class. Nice lad, and has all the right moves ... dd had to start wearing glasses recently and he told her that she looked lovely without her glasses, but she was beautiful with them (smooth mover or what!).

Last week she told me that she was going to nip out at dinner time the following day, get married to Cameron, then come back in time for afternoon lessons. She wants to marry him before her best friend "gets her claws into him" (her words) and had a complete teenage strop when I said children couldn't get married, weeping and wailing, throwing herself about like a love-lorn teenager and howling "but I looooove him!"

And in another fit of teenagerdom she's turned veggie too ...

oh bless!

Hey Kew - your DS really is deeply cute. I've been fairly uncontrolled recently too. Period started today, and no achey norks for a second month, so I'm definitely putting it down to the Magnesium-OK multivits.

(I was a bit worried I'd killed the thread off, with the suggestion of not doing the weekly weigh-in - I also feel a bit as if I was treading on your toes, Kewcumber and WigWamBam - are you OK with it being more of a chat/support thread, or do you think we should carry on with the weekly weigh-ins? I can take it, go on, tell me what you think...)

Kew! DS is gorgeous! Wanna swop him for a stroppy 9 year old DD? She's lovely....when she's asleep!

WWB! I'm afraid it just gets worse! DD has had a 'boyfriend' for the last few years...luckily she only meets him at the holiday playscheme! She went veggie at 7 but after a fortnight of veggie meals that she didn't like she decided to start eating meat again! I must admit we did pick a fair amount of unappealing pulse based dishes but as the only veg she likes is carrots I didn't think a veggie diet was ever going to give her what she needed!!! Particularly as she hates fish abd isn't all that fond of cheese either!

my niece has been veggie pretty much since the age of 11 and its worked OK for her but she does each tuna and salmon and likes cheeses and adores hummous. However my sister pretty much insisted that she sort out her own lunches from then on. In her case I think its more becasue she's squeamish anout certian aspects of meat - bone and grizzle etc.

DD went veggie because she didn't want to eat 'cute' little animals! Not something I'd mind about if I knew she was eating a good and nutrious variety of veg, pulses and cheese/fish/eggs.

But I have real difficulty getting a variety of food in her as it is, without limiting her diet further!!!

I suspect as she gets older she'll give it another go!

I'm OK with dd being veggie in practice; I've been vegetarian myself for years so know how to throw a good, balanced veggie diet together.

But dd already has quite a limited diet, and a lot of the things she won't eat are vegetables. She's also not keen on cheese (unless it's on top of pizza!) or eggs - which makes things a little awkward! She's agreed to try one new thing every two days though, so hopefully things will improve slowly.

She's surprised me; I thought that it would last two days and she'd be back on the sausage rolls again, but she seems to be serious - she hasn't eaten the meat choice at school, even when it's been her favourite, and is (almost) willingly trying new things.

Jackie, I'm in two minds about stopping the weighing. I haven't weighed for a couple of weeks, and the diet has definitely gone out of the window because of it. But we do seem a bit thin on the ground at the moment ... am happy to go along with what everyone else wants.

Providing a good, varied veggie diet would be my other problem WWB! As a confirmed carnivore, I'm not too experienced in that area! If she feels that a veggie diet is right for her later on I may be asking you for tips!

we do tend to eat a non meat meal 1 or 2 times a week (because i think it's healthier to have as varied a diet as possible!)but the only time I followed a completely veggie diet (during a Vordamon Detox phase!) I was climbing the walls after a month and dreaming of raw steak, DH on the other hand really enjoyed it!

I was never a big meat-eater even before I was veggie, so I didn't really get that desperate craving for steak that some people have!

Something that I'm doing for dd that I don't do myself is giving her meat replacements like Quorn and soya. At least I know that she's getting plenty of protein - so it doesn't matter for the moment if she won't eat cheese or lentils. Plus it means that a lot of her meals still feel the same to her - having Quorn sausages and Shepherd's pie made with soya at least keeps some of her favourite dishes familiar while I get her used to having things like pulses and beans.

If she sticks with it, I hope that eventually she will be happy eating the kinds of things that I eat so that cooking is easier and she will be getting the good stuff without relying on processed meat replacements.

WWB - maybe we could compromise, and post people's losses for the week, but not the cumulative totals - I think it's just me struggling to keep up with logging it that's making me want to stop, tbh. But if it was just a case of looking at the emails, and putting that week's loss up, that would be fine (or people could provide their own cumulative totals in with their weekly emails?). Would that be a way round it, do you think?

I think asking people to put MN name current week total loss would be easier. Perhaps we could send out a template email for everyone and to any new joiners, I'd volunteer to put one together.

TBH I really don;t want to weigh at the moment but normally I do and it gives me a feeling that otehrs are also interested in how I'm doing IYSWIM.

For people who are doing WW or other clubs, they can either post their own when they've been weighed to avoid having to do it twice in a month, or send in an email of their previous loss a few days late for a Thursday BigMoFo's weigh in.

What do you all think?

Jackie, I'm OK to take over the emails again if that would help - if people still want to do it that way. But I'm equally happy with KC's suggestion.

I would like to see the threads carrying on though, whichever way we do it.

HI'd be happy with either of your suggestions, and yes, WWB, I definitely want the threads to continue too. You lot are my favourite MNers.

there wasn't a suggestion of stopping the threads that I missed was there , I come here when the rest of MN has turned into a mad house.

Are we up for a meeting in August in Oxford

I am free

August 7,8 10 and 14 15 17 (tues, Wednes, fri both weeks)

Picnic would be nice as I'm not sure how patient DS would be sitting in a restaurant...

No, I don't think there was ever any thought of stopping the threads - certainly not on my part. As you say, a sane(-ish) haven when the rest of MN is a bear pit.

August would be good. Haven't got any particular plans yet, so am pretty flexible, I think. Definitely a picnic, weather permitting.