Dec 08 ladies, time to drop a few pounds...

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New thread for us to waffle on and moan about baby fat, without boring the others...and hopefully drop a few pounds along the way!

I am currently 11 stone - 69.8 kg
Want to be pre preg weight of 59 kg, about 9 stone 4 i think.

If everyone posts stats maybe i can do a bisou style list. (don't post weights if you don't want to! amount to lose will do!)

Weigh in on Mondays?

I have been sooooo naughty. I just can't stop eating the dreaded 'c'. There is still some in the house from DS birthday and I can't leave it alone. I forgot to weigh yesterday so will do it tomorrow morning if that is ok. Can't imagine that I have lost anything but then I don't deserve to!

This morning I went to M&S to buy some cheap jeans to get me through this fat phase. It was one of the most dispiriting shopping trips of my life. The size 14s would not do up, the size 16 did up but looked like, well, size 16s. I felt like a granny for looking at jeans in M&S and then I looked in the mirror and realised my breasts were leaking through my jumper.

I left M&S and passed the Apple store and in a fit of panic about my body decided to but an iTouch. The logic was that having a pretty new toy to listen to exercise music on might inspire me. Yeah right. Just like my £1000 annual gym membership was meant to inspire me. So now I am £167 less well off and still have no clothes I fit into .

On the bright side it is a very pretty toy .

obviously I decided to buy an iTouch, not but one...

Itouch fab for browsing while feeding though arti! I love love love my iphone. Posting on it now!
Ladyt you sound very determined. You are right it is going to take a while but we can get there! I know what your dh means about sounding obsessed but sometimes the only way to lose weight is to get a bit obsessed by it!
Well done veggie on the weight loss and getting on the trainer. I have not managed any exercise since the weekend as dh is now properly at work on a contract out of the house and I am finding it a bit hard going as I had a really bad nights sleep on sun and catching up is hard!
Dh said he would feed ds ebm tonight if I want to go for a ride to the pub to meet my biking mates. Not sure whether to go .. They don't get to the pub til 10ish the alternative would be to get dh to do the feed and go to sleep at 10 which is tempting!

I really want an iTouch. I might save up and by one in a few years unless DH gets a new job soon.

Well done to everyone who has lost weight.

Well done to Veggie for losing weight. I haven't weighed this week as I am doing WW and only want to do weight on their sooper doopa elec scales. The meeting was cancelled this week because of snow so all s london fatties are given a temporary reprieve. Many thanks to SL for the spread sheet. How aptly named.

Arti, I have had the depressing M and S experience too. I bought some slobby pj bottoms to wear in hospital after M was born. They were an 18 (am usually a 12/14) and I figured that they would go over my deflating tummy nicely. NINE weeks on, they still don't exactly fall down when I wear them. I have cut the label out in case DH sees it but am depressed that my slob out clothes are in such a big size. I am currently wearing jeans which, tho not maternity, I could do up when I was 6 months pg. THey are quite tight.

Following JC's shameful comments to Lady T on the other thread, I have just remembered attending a christening party a few years ago. A great friend was down from scotland for it and we spent the night before drinking and smoking. The following morning I was bloated and tired (and looking as fresh as I felt ) and the vicar asked me if I was pg and commented that it was difficult when it just started to show. She got a firm "no, just hungover" and then she shuffled off sharpish. And she was a woman of the cloth as well! I resolved to diet on the spot but was soon stuck into the champers with a vengeance. Didn't seem quite so galling after a few glasses.

Am feeling quite thirsty now actually. Off downstairs for a small sherry and a packet of skips. Classy. I am indeed a hangover from the 70s. In every sense.

Did some walking today to ds1's gymnastics class. But I ruined it by having a mars bar with my tea whilst there. Then went to a cafe and was lured into a vanilla latte thing which was massive so goodness knows how many calories but didn't have a cake, but the latte came with a biscuit wafer thing. Was going to go on the Wii fit tonight but too tired have been starving all day must have been the wind trainer last night. I'm going to one of ds1's little friends houses tomorrow for a coffee with her mum and for ds to play. Might try to walk there. I think walking lots is the way forward it did the trick last time.

Arti I'm sorry but your post had me in stitches you are so funny.

I'm going to start taking the boys swimming when DS2 has had his jabs.

I'm hoping it will help me to lose weight. Plus I will have to walk there and back.

walking lots a good plan I have to walk at the mo as still not signed off to drive. Prob will walk lots of the time anyway after as lots of baby things are in town where parking is pricy
Veggie do you have a newborn infant sling for your chariot trailer? I am debating getting one and am wondering when I could put ds in it. It says from 1 month with the sling!
I went out for a ride to the pub last night! Dh persuaded me - he is great!

We have this little seat thing which fits into the it and supports them up to 10 months I think you have to wait until they can support their head properly before you can use it to jog with and til at least 6 months for cycling as it can jossle them around too much. It is great though and meant we could get out for a run together. I think we didn't start running with ds1 in it until 3 months. I love the chariot ds1 loved it too. They are usually a bit nervous at first so don't be put off if LO cries or is unhappy in it initially just get moving.

Oh my goodness SL I checked on the sling that is fab we got the seat for ours I don't think we saw the doing on the website it looks great and ds1 will still fit in too as I think with seat it takes up too much room and so he can't fit into his seat. I can feel a new purchase coming on. It seems they can use it now too yay!

Right, finally weighed myself and I'm 75 kilos. So a week of trying not to eat too much and I have lost ... 1 kg. Hum. This may take longer than I thought. Trouble is I am STARVING when bfing and not good at self-control . Am also planning to up the exercise, will take the boys to the park this afternoon rather than lolling round in front of a dvd.

My main prob is that we have to be out and about most of the day to give DH space to work, which means regular stops in coffee shops to feed DS2 (too blooming chilly to feed outside). Which means milky coffees and cake. Not good for bank balance either. So new plan is plain tea rather than girnormous frothy coffee and sharing a cake with DS1 rather than having one each

have updated spreadsheet!
the sling does look cool doesn't it veggie?
I was meant to be buying a chariot trailer from a friend but it's a double one and they are massive and he doesnt' want to sell until spring (and I don't know whether "spring" is March or May!) and I am getting impatient if I could actually use it now!
Do you have a double or a single? I live on quite a busy road that is a bit too narrow for cycling and I am worried that the double one would be too wide. I also want to use it by converting it to buggy in town and the double one is soooo massive that I think it would be cumbersome around town.
I am toying with the idea of getting a new single one, but they are soooo expensive! Do you really like yours? Are they worth the extra money over other trailers?
effie I know what you mean about slow progress. I have been trying really really hard for 4 weeks and have lost 1kg. It's so depressing, I thought weight was meant to fall off when you are breasfeeding?

They are really expensive but it was worth every penny it was our main mode of transport I know you would use it heaps. We were lucky in a way in that we had 5 of our bikes stolen and we just got 4 replaced by the insurance and with the leftover money we got the chariot. We have the double cougar and it is large but we knew we would have another child. But it is combersome and there are times I wished we had the single I know I wiki appreciate it now. In all the chariots are brill though, they are german made and you can tell they have thought of everything. Our local bike shop boys at the time in whitechapel put it together for us, non of them have kids but they all loved it and were so excited to see us put ds1 in it. Sorry to go on but I just love it. I get to share my love of cycling, with my kids. When yours is a but bigger ask me about the wee ride it's a great front mounting child seat.

i guess i am just wondering if for 2 kids if i have another i wouldnt prefer to use a seat on the back or front for the bigger one plus the single trailer?? and then if we went out as a family we could take 1 kid each rather than one of us taking both in the trailer.
think i may go and look at friend's one and listen to his hard sell as he loves it.
then go to local dealer and have a look at a single one.
sorry about lack of caps typing one handed. and sorry for temp thread hijack!

Well if you need any other advice re bike kids stuff let me know so far we have the chariot, the wee ride, ds1's bike with a trailgator which attached his bike to mine or dh's, sometimes I think we had kids coz we ran out of gadgets and kit to buy. Oh and sorry to hear about your iPhone I bet you feel lost without it, can you claim it on your insurance.

Veggie if we see you in London, I might need some advice! H us cycle mad and has been looking at those trailers since before he was born! - I'm terrified though as he's all about speed..!

Arti hilarious M&S / itouch story!!!! SL I lost ZERO the first week

Kmp they are pretty stable but the single ones apparently can tip around corners but I think you have to be going pretty fast.

Is there going to be meet up? Would be lovely we could all eat low fat pizzas

Part of the prob for me is that I've been pg or bfing for all of the last 3 years so have got out of the habit of keeping an eye on what I eat (the weight came off pretty easily after DS1 thanks to no sleep and lots of enforced pram pushing). Bit of a shock to have to think about trying to lose weight

I have had a pack of bloody crisps this morning. I am really annoyed with myself.

I had cheese on toast for lunch kayz

Oh and one two glasses of wine last night...I can't help it, no longer I didn't lose weight this week. DH home early today and I have convinced myself I'll go for a run

that would be 'wonder' not longer

Cheese on toast is not that bad is it? I mean at least it was lunch rather than an extraneous snack. Tell me a bit of cheese is OK if eaten as part of a main meal. Please? Pretty please?

I need inspiration for very easy to prepare, filling but healthy lunches that I can make while running around after both DDs. Soup doesn't cut it as I end up starving two hours later and thats when I become most at risk from the lure of the muffin and coffee shop trip. I need something as easy as heating up soup. Any ideas? Today I had a tin of beans. It was neither tasty, not I fear was it particularly healthy (there was a trace of grated cheese to be seen on top).

cous cous is dead easy as you just put boiling water on it and leave it a bit then fluff it up. I mix it with some of: dried fruit, nuts, tomatoes, harissa to give it spice, fresh coriander or parsley if lying around, chicken maybe, chick peas, etc. Add a bit of olive oil and lemon/lime juice (from bottle)
Bit more filling than soup and it is just as easy

I would have thought cheese on toast is ok!! Depends how much cheese i guess! If you drown the toast in cheese could be quite lardy.

I've been having pitta bread with a bit of cheese and salad for lunch recently.