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[SunshineCake]

Apologies for the terrible title but I wanted to encapsulate the boss and how supportive everyone is.

It's ten to eight. I have eaten three meals plus a small mince pie earlier. Not hungry. Could it be true that dh was right?!?! Emotionally I'm not doing great. Dd was mean and unfair earlier. Feel a bit flat and don't know why. Normally now would be get the chocolate or crisps out to cheer me up.

Hope you are feeling better now @SunshineCake? Sorry to hear that your emotions are playing havoc with things; very difficult at the moment especially as you're still recovering from being ill. I think (hope!) it will be easier from tomorrow, once we finally hear Boris' already much leaked plan to get us out of lockdown.

(And whilst I think of it, thank you for the new thread, and your cards are beautiful and will bring much joy to people!)

@Foreverlexicon really sorry to hear your news, both about your GF's DM and your own health issues. You're doing really well to exercise/ get out in the fresh air as much as you can and look after yourself with the healthy eating.

What a pain about your account @TheRealHousewife! Glad to hear that snack dragon is caged though

No tennis here @MrsJonesAndMe but we did walk our neighbour's dog for an hour before it got too hot for him. He is a lovely, friendly dog and great with the DC but he has never been trained and you can tell... pulls terribly at the lead, bounces up at people, has no concept of walking to heel at all. We daren't let him off the lead either as he has no recall! He could really do with at least an hour's walk twice a day but our neighbour has bad arthritis and can barely walk him at all now we know quite a few of our neighbours but no-one had any VE Day celebrations going. We're obviously a grumpy lot

Sorry I haven't been on here for a while, don't get chance during the day as I hear "Mummy mummy mummy" at least 8000 times per hour, and the little horrors darlings don't want to go to bed so early any more either as it's still light... grrrr. No news here, I'm still fat and had a brief flirtation with the idea of rejoining WW, but seriously not sure if I have the willpower at the moment... in the middle of a horrendous AF though which doesn't help. I'm really worried about the DC with me being obese but DP being morbidly obese - his BMI is around 40 - what would they do if we both became ill? Are we teaching them really bad eating habits? Aaargghhhh...

Hey, big (((hugs))) sunshine and ruby DS's sleep has gone to pot too so no down time and I ended eating outside the window - bread, cheese and salami and chocolate! Don't think I was hungry either really. Just fed up! And here we are at 5:45 on a Sunday - up for the day!

Would the news reports spur him on @RubySlippers77 or will he just bury his head in the sand?

Morning all.

I was going to measure my tummy and thighs as might be a better way of seeing if I'm losing fat? But someone has borrowed it and not put it back.

After I posted I was a bit peckish so had two Ryvita crackers and red pepper hummus. Then dh gave me four dark chocolate buttons as I was a bit sad. I'm a bit peckish now but feel ok. I really want to weigh myself but any loss won't show after one day of better eating and day one of 5K, will it??

I had a lovely lady show a lot of interest in my cards, I send photos of a range, but as yet she hadn't made a final decision on which she'd like, if any. No worries if she has changed her mind. It was nice to share them and have encouragement.

I'm still coughing, still a bit worried it is coming back, but also hormonal as 6.5 weeks late and having a lot of not flushes. They happen a lot at the same time as I am feeling anxious, weirdly, but sometimes randomly. I'm not sure what comes first, the anxious feeling or the hot flushes.

I decree today is a no rules day. If you want crisps, cheese, chocolate for breakfast, have it. Give your kids pudding before dinner. I used to do that when my kids were small occasionally and they loved it. I would also put their fruit out while I was cooking dinner and they would eat it while waiting for me to finish so win win as they had fruit then their veg with dinner. I'm finding lately they seem to be too full for fruit after dinner but to be fair, sometimes too full for a nice pudding too. I'm making smoothies or juices when I feel they really should have some or when the fruit looks a bit tired. So, when you've had your crisps for breakfast there's none for later for mindless eating while watching tv and you'll have burnt them off through the day .

They've done 8 miles on their bikes and had a 99

Just getting a roast dinner together.

Thanks @SunshineCake

I have not stopped!

Walked Dog
Pegged out three wash loads and brought them in.
Made a roast dinner
Did three hours in the garden. Planting seeds, weeding and tidying up.
Loaded the dishwasher twice.

I've discovered that shreddies aren't as good as porridge for breakfast so will go back to porridge tomorrow, especially as tomorrow is day two of 5K.

Dh has been working all afternoon but he stopped to make us a bowl of chopped apple and now I am going to wait as long as I can before having a slice of left over home made quiche and some new potatoes for dinner. After all the gardening I had a small piece of sticky toffee pudding so will try very hard not to have any other naughty foods.

Hope everyone is well and had a good day.

i'm totally off the wagon!!
day of reckoning coming very soon. dr.'s appt in 25 1/2 hours!!
fingers crossed i'm permitted to begin walking (house and yard) and that the bone is healed enough i can cut back on calories....
somehow my dh thinks ice cream will help ;) and i'm not putting up any resistance.

@SunshineCake don't worry about a tape measure just get a bit of string or wool and use that. Tie a knot or attach a piece of tape with the date on to the string to show where you are each week

You do t need the actual numbers just a guide on if that part of your body is getting bigger or smaller.

@SunshineCake I frequently buy small cheap dressmaker's tape measures from ebay as the DC love them and they tend to disappear I often end up using my (very) old Rosemary Conley magic measuring tape, but as @TorysSuckRevokeArticle50 says, any piece of string or similar would be fine!

I'm in awe of everyone who has had a good day of eating and/ or lots of exercise. I haven't actually stopped for long but my step count is only 6K - DP took the DC out on their bikes for a bit but I stayed in to clean the bathroom as it desperately needed doing. And my periods are so heavy now (peri menopause?) that I have very little energy when I'm not shovelling in eating chocolate. I was ill a couple of months ago and lost my sense of taste and smell completely; I still don't enjoy all the things I used to either, such as dark chocolate. Very annoying!

@MrsJonesAndMe I remember once screeching at my DC when I was full of flu and absolutely exhausted and they decided to get up at 5.30am I sobbed, they sobbed and we had some cuddles. No wonder it took me 10 weeks to get better on that occasion! In answer to your question, no, I don't think DP will change his habits even on hearing the news reports. He told me in all seriousness today that the reason he's putting on weight is not all the booze and extra calories he has (4000 calories on alcohol alone last weekend, then he picks at the DC's meals after finishing his!) but the fact that he eats too many carbs. I agreed that yes, carbs don't help, but what about drinking too much beer/ wine/ spirits? No, apparently that doesn't affect it at all...

Morning all

I did pretty well. I had nothing else until I went up to bed and had two squares of chocolate. Was lovely.

Using a length of wool is a great idea, *@TorysSuckRevokeArticle50, especially as they numbers are usually too high and don't go down very often! Is there anywhere I can find out a good number to aim for as I'm sure I've read something about health reasons ones waist should be below a certain measurement?

*@RubySlippers77 I think DD probably has my tape measure. Please be kind to yourself. I'm at the other end as my period is nearly seven weeks late but I'm still having hormonal dips and it is horrible when one doesn't know why and it comes on suddenly. When I know why I am sad it is somehow a bit easier to deal with.

As for your husband, train the kids to pour washing up liquid on their leftovers. I read that as a lose weight tip to stop someone picking at it. Also, serve up less carbs then when his weight doesn't drop he has to face up to it. Alcohol has a huge of very countable calories in it!

I'm looking forward to porridge and raspberries then walking the dog to the big field where I will do 5K but emotionally I am feeling scared, anxious, worried and I have no clue why.

Hope everyone has a good day.

Good luck @fallfallfall I hope that it has healed sufficiently for the next stage of recovery.

Wow, that's a busier Sunday than I had @SunshineCake Lots of random tight chest feeling here too. Not for anything I can pinpoint either. Hope your day and jog went well.

Good luck with that mindset then @RubySlippers77 sounds like a losing battle, but we all know that no one can make you lose weight until you are ready to face up to it

Hormones are the absolute pits isn't it???

Thinking of you @Foreverlexicon I hope you've been reunited with GF now to give you both some comfort.

Thank you mrsjones I’ll be asking about reducing my calories!

Good luck tomorrow *@fallfallfall.

*@MrsJonesAndMe, I hope you aren't doing too much? Take it easy!
I'm shattered with a sore throat trying to emerge but I've got lots done and feel okay. DH will walk our dog on his own for her second walk though as I am pretty tired. I did my second 5K (I run and walk for about 20 minutes officially but as I do it when out with the dog I walk a lot more) so I think ok not to go out again.

Hmm working, home schooling and all the normal house stuff and DH decorated a bit over the weekend, so sorting, cleaning etc around it.

Relaxing a bit now and will do my yoga in a bit. Thanks for asking!

It's never ending, isn't it?

All healed up; “can barely tell where the fracture was on the X-ray”, no need for a cast, fully able to resume walking and biking etc. incision looking great, already moving better than most. Physio to start as soon as services open.
So I can get on the scale tomorrow and begin the calorie countdown!

That's wonderful news @fallfallfall!

It certainly feels like a relentless hamster wheel at the moment and we've had to cancel our holiday cottage for July as we just don't know and if we don't cancel now, we'd lose the deposit so it feels like there's nothing to look forward to! but we are safe and healthy and the sun is shining, so we carry on week 8 of being at home.

Take care all x

That is great news, *@fallfallfall but don't go too far too soon.

*@MrsJonesAndMe, that is such a shame but you can plan something even better or save to go to the same place for longer.

I'm wondering if there is something wrong with me as I'm fine with being in. I walk the dog but other than that I stay in. In normal life, I would go shopping two or three times a week and sometimes on a weekend I would be desperate to go out, if only to Homebase but I'm fine and actually feel a little apprehensive about going out but also not bothered if it is more months of this. I don't think it is all about scared of catching it again as I was really quite poorly but just that being in is ok. All I miss is walking with my dog's best friend and I am looking forward to having my therapy again.

Weird dream alert -

Dh cousin came to the house but I only saw her via a phone camera as was busy.

Told dh to hoover as he'd left loads of dried mud in the hallway.

I had oil warming in the oven but then dh said no, that's not for the phones as they are coming from somewhere else.

Walking into a building I nearly cut up Joanna Lumley and she wasn't best pleased when I apologised.

Dh and I were watching donkeys in the beach when a woman came to us and handed out leaflets. Inside dh was a box of chocolates with a birthday message. They'd been having an affair.

We got lost and I asked the Duchess of Cambridge for directions. She wasn't sure which way the beach was.

I was in the field with my dog when she ran after a dog she used to know who was leaving. There was about six people and a few dogs in the snicket and my dog wouldn't come to me. I didn't want to go near the man and no one would bring her back to me. I had to get her and then when I got in the field it wasn't my dog. Someone had stolen her 💔. A woman and her daughter were helping by looking in the field to see if mine was there and the other was going to ring the number on the tag of the fake SunshineDog. Then I woke up.

Dog is okay as I've heard her barking to tell daddy to feed her quicker . DH said it was all a dream.

I feel like it was all real though. I will need to keep busy today so my MH doesn't crash and I don't mainline chocolate.

Morning all.

Glad the fracture has healed @fallfallfall, don’t rush back too fast though!

Hopefully the gf is going to come for the weekend. Trying to sort out travel logistics - she only has a motorbike and it’s a long long way on a bike but doesn’t really want to get a train at the moment and it feels a bit soon in reality to go there as I don’t know her family that well so feels a bit intrusive.

I’ve given myself a kick up the bum and am trying to eat a bit more. Went slightly over my calorie allowance yesterday thanks to insomniac snacking but it was probably needed after a few light days. On the plus side, with all the stress I’ve now dropped over 10lb since lockdown started so I only have a stone to go. I may not go that far as my top half starts to look too thin, I will need to see how I go.

Feeling a bit groggy as ended up giving in and taking a sleeping pill at 1.30am and had to get up at a decent time for an occy Heath appointment. Plus I restarted antidepressants a few days ago and feeling the side effects. Plan to go for a run after the appointment and do a food shop and ride the horse later so should be a fairly busy day and keep the anxiety at bay...maybe please?!

Exercise will definitely help, Foreverlexicon and I hope you get to see your GF very soon.

I've been out for 2 3/4 hours with my dog, no one stole her, and walked 5.2 miles.

Just had avocado and houmous on crackers and a small homemade tea cake. Delicious an delicious much better than the first lots.

Oh I hope she can come @Foreverlexicon Service stations are still open, so she could pull in for a rest break.

That is a very weird dream indeed @SunshineCake I hope that you are OK. Can you enquire about when appointments may resume or at least if phone is an option after all?

I've been on plan yesterday and so far today all good! Going out for a walk a bit later and planning a quick HIIT and yoga stretch too. I weighed because it fitted in with logistics and I'm at 29.5lbs, so that is more or less at goal...happy enough after the time of disruption and the lack of getting out!

Take care and check in later.

Hi *@MrsJonesAndMe I could have an appointment by Zoom but I couldn't see how it would work for the best. I'd be worrying about people overhearing and I thought about sitting in the car but worried I would get distracted. I also didn't want to wish crying when there are people around. If it goes on too long I might just have to make a decision.

I had porridge and frozen raspberries for breakfast.
Crackers, avocado, houmous and a home made fruit tea cake for lunch. I've just had a small packet of cola bottles for a smack as I've been feeling sick and with an upset tummy and I decided I needed a lift.
Dinner is a mix of things from the freezer and I may just have every vegetable in the freezer with a small piece of unbattered fish.

162.8 goal 140
Breakfast 260 calories and aiming for 1000 a day.
No exercise other than yard work at present.

Glad you are on the mend @fallfallfall!!

I hope you get to see your GF soon one way or the other @Foreverlexicon - it's been such a tough time for you.

@SunshineCake I completely know what you mean about not missing going out. I do miss taking the DC to local parks/ attractions but on the bright side we're saving £££; I thought I'd miss shopping more (pottering round Primarni etc) but find it quite stressful going out with everyone in masks etc. That said I would love to sit in Costa again for a (child free!) coffee

Such sad news about holidays @MrsJonesAndMe. As you know our foreign holiday is already cancelled and no hope of even booking a UK break at the moment. I feel really sorry for anyone who works in the tourism industry

Morning!

I think I slept through . Must have been that five mile walk my dog took me in!

You mentioning holidays has reminded me dh booked two weeks off and we were hoping to go away for some of the time. I feel bad for dh as tbh I wasn't fussed if we went away but he really needed a break. Last year I asked him not to take two weeks to spread out the help/ time. Of course he had a heart attack in February and would have appreciated a break. Especially as he is back doing ten hour days and has no time to look for help .

I'm about to get up as need to get on if doggy wants to be out nearly three hours again and today I get to do my run, yay!. I've just written a job list for today and there are 15 things on it.

Hope all is well. I know it is weigh on Wednesday but I am waiting until Saturday as I will have done five runs by then.

Oh yes, if anyone can recommend any running trousers/leggings?, ankle length I would appreciate that. Thank you.

Bye for now!