Hello Barb and Jen,
I'm coming to the end of a hellish day. It's PMT time, so up 7lbs on the scale this morning, then off to the gym with grizzly baby who is still teething like mad.
Get home to find Ted has somehow written his name in marker on one of the sofas!
THEN, I get a call from my Mother telling me she is going to stay at mybrothers next week while his wife goes to Paris without the kids.
THEN my ex- boyfriend calls round, to give me the details of his new house in Spain (yes, I walked away from a seriously rich man to be with DH) And to drop off some sleaning things. He thought my Mother might be here (they still stay in touch) and apparently she wants to give my brothers house a good spring clean while she is away and he had bought her some stuff to help. All this while my home is a wreck, I spend SO much time trying to keep it tidy and all she does when she comes here is re arrange my flowers (when Ilike them the way they are).
THEN the baby went beyond normal grizzly into whiney crying.
THEN I had to go and pick up son from school and husband from work, all with crying baby in car.
THEN we get back and husband tells me he's not interested in looking at the lovely house I have my eye on because he'd rather get a new car than move. Obviously what I want doesn't count.
THEN my son managed to get glue all over the carpet.
Shortly after I exploded.
I hate them all, apart from the baby who can't help it.
still, I feel a bit better with that off my chest!
The job is nothing madly exciting, it's working for a company who deal with travel insurance. i would be assesing claims. i used to be an airline fraud investigator, so it's kind of relevant, but obviously no where near as interesting or well paid.BUT the hours are totally flexi as long as yopu can put in 8 hours a week, it's about 30 minutes from here, and theres potential for doingit from home.
I am going to apply to work right through tea time and kiddy bed time if they aren't careful. I bet they'd appreciate me then!!! Oh well, back to it.
Where are you Jen??
Tomorrow is another day, onwards and upwards my dears.
Gen

Poor Geneve!!! We all feel for you sweetie, it will get better. Boy and somedays I feel overwhelmed just being at home with Drake who really is an angel of a baby. Both his bottom teeth have poked through the gum and he doesn't seem to really mind at all. I think he was being cranky because he wasn't getting enough sleep so we are working on regular nap times. So good luck with that job Geneve, I know you will enjoy having something else besides domestic stuff to think about.

Got my monthly this morning. It had better be a little heavier than last months spotting. I've been really headachey these past few days so I knew it was coming.

We've been having really weird weather in this part of the world, got some snow overnight but it is fairly mild. By the weekend it will be shorts and t-shirt weather. Global warming sure is strange.

Take care all.

Thanks for the kind words. Today was not the day tho!I was in tears by 10.00, and it got worse. The low point was finding out that all that time I spent at the dentist after leo was born was a waste of time...IHATE the dentist, mainly because my jaws are held together with metal plates (long and nasty story) and when they give me the injections they tend not to work well because the nerves aren't where they should be. Turns out that the last dentist was even worse at the injections than most and has given me an abcess, which may or may not be under one of the plates. I know it's a bit gruesome but you know, I like to share all this awful stuff with you
AND my TOM is all wrong, lets just say I had to wash pyjama trousers, sheet, mattress cover and duvet this morning. Am going to see the doctor, I feel like I need a transfusion.
ANY WAy! Lets talk about something more interesting LIKE Global Warming.I would very much like to hear how much green issues like this are news where you are. The UK being such a wee place, and an island too it is getting to be more and more important. Our ecology is very fragile, we are kept warmewr than we should be by the gulf stream. if it moves, we freeze OR we could just warm up more.
As I live a stones throw from the beach I worry about how long the house will be here. The weather is changing here, much wetter winters and as you say Jen odd days of hot sun in the middle of cold snaps.
I would also like to know if you get the pressure we do to stop using disposable nappies. Being in a big country I guess you still have plenty of space to bury garbage, but we are fast running out, and lots of blame is put on nappies which are not biodegradable and also contain raw sewage.
The hospital i had Leo in only let you use cotton nappies which they provided. I hated them, but being a greenie I usually buy biodegradable nappies made from cornstarch, and with none of the gel stuff in. And very nice they are too, if a bit bulky.Apparently you can put them on your compost pile,but so far I have resisted as i don't want the garden to smell like summer in Bombay!
Oh and as this is supposed to have some dieting content, I have totally lost it. I have eaten enough in the past few days to feed a small army, including my emergency bar of very strong dark chocolate. I fear the scales.
Gym tomorrow. I may have to move in there if things don't improve.
I am a !
Please keep on posting, you guys are keeping my head above water at the moment!

Morning all. I have a banger of a headache but I have to keep going through it. I've taken all kinds of pills in the past 5 hours to try and get rid of it. Thank goodness Drake is being nice and quiet so far.

Geneve - I wish I was having your out of control monthly. So far I have just had a bit of spotting. I'm starting to get worried why I am not having proper periods. It is very strange for me to be having this. Hopefully things will get better today. They use cloth diapers at the hospital also but you can bring in your own disposibles if you want. I don't think we've had much pressure here in North America to stop using them. I'm not planning to have another baby so I don't feel too guilty about using them, after all one baby's worth of diapers isn't going to be that much added to the landfill. Now if 1000's of women were changing back I would too but I'm certain there are more women using disposibles than cloth. About the global warming, I saw something in the newspaper that the gov't has put out some kind of a booklet about what we should be doing as ordinary people to stop it from getting worse. I can't imagine what is in there, I think they are targetting the wrong people. If the car companies would put out the electric cars that would probably be a huge step in the right direction but they are under so much pressure from the oil industry. If you really think about the whole thing it is quite depressing. I would say locally the worse bit about global warming is that we have had really nasty summers, practically no rain, so it hits the farmers badly and we have to start watching how much and how often we are watering our gardens. Apparently in some communities the water resevoirs get really low and they have to almost ration water. Only use it for drinking and personal washing. No washing cars, watering the yard or whatever. I believe too that the levels of the lakes is dropping every year. We haven't gotten much snow these past few years, not like when I was little. This year I think we had one really good snow that only lasted a couple of weeks. Today it is cold and overcast but tomorrow it is supposed to be really warm and sunny.

I did well yesterday, ate well, though I was snacking too much but they were healthy snacks, I don't have any junk food in the house so I would have to go out to get anything really fattening. Also I managed to walk a couple of miles and do my stretching and weight training. It was 9:30 at night by the time I got motivated to do the weight training and stretching but at least I did it.

I think the meds are starting to kick in a bit as my head has stopping banging and just hurts. Well the tension in my shoulders and neck is starting to let up a bit. I'd better get going as Drake is making 'I want out of my crib' noises, not exactly crying but getting there. Take care all. Be well.

I'm here but no time!!!
Will write when I find some!

Everything is going just so-so. I was really gung-ho about staying on track last week and I can say I did just ok. I didn't gain and I didn't have a loss either. I had hoped for better. Oh well. I did exercise 4x last week. I finally had my 6 wk chckup and declared 'fine'. Since I quit nursing we've been doing the formula 'dance'--trying to find something that doesn't upset Matthew's tummy. Right now he is on Soy Powder and that seems to be doing the trick. For some reason the concentrate and readymade version upset his stomach (?????). He is eating quite a bit daily, about 32-40 oz and he is just 7 wks old!!!!! My stomach is so droopy I can barely stand to look at it. Well just wanted to pop in. About to run out the door as usual.......

Ann

Did anyone have their baby vaccinated with Prevnar? We are looking into it and just wondered what everyone else's experience was.

HI everyone. I used to post on the PG thread way back when and some of you look familiar. Guess I didn't know there was an offshoot thread. My sweety is now almost 17 months. We are going to trying for # 2 soon!!! Just thought I would say HI!!!

Hi all. How are you doing? I was really gung ho yesterday about the exercise and it is really coming back at me this morning. My back was really sore and just feeling kind of achy. I'm still going out for a walk though, I'm sure that will loosen me up.

Did I tell you that Drake is getting his bottom front 2 teeth in? He is taking it fairly well, not a lot of crankiness, mostly a lot of drooling and trying to munch on everything. I guess I have to start brushing his teeth now. He went and had portraits done at Sears yesterday and he was so good the whole time. We got some really cute photos. I have him sitting in his bouncy chair while I'm on the computer. He's finally big enough that he can reach the bar where all the toys are. I'm glad he is enjoying sitting up more that way he can play with more things.

ann - I'm 6 months post partum and my tummy looks like one of those beached whales that has been bleached white by the sun! I'm telling ya, I'm getting a bikini whether it looks stupid or not so I can sunbathe in the back yard and get a tan on my gigantic tummy! That or get a tan out of a bottle.

Take care all, hope everyone has a nice weekend.

Hi everyone, sorry I haven't been posting but I've had a busy and depressing week!
I have been going to the gym though, which is the best I can say. The thing that really triggered my negative feelings was seeing two photos of myself inone week. i do all i can to avoid having my picture taken but sometimes people insist and then seeing the results breaks my heart. The worst one was from the side showing all that stretched out flesh...I still look 8 months pregnant! I have been doing 70 sit ups plus at the gym evey time but nothing is moving. It's all so grim.
I am obviously hopeless at dieting, I do a few days using the WW CD and then I can't be bothered to keep typing it all in, or I go out for a meal or drink a few glasses of wine and it all goes out the window again.
AND I have an abcess under my gum... I have a jaw ful of metal plates (don't ask, long and horrible story, but never come between your so called best friend and her psycho boyfriend) and they think it might be under one of them. I had a root canal just after leo was born and the problem starts from where the injections went in. Am full of antibiotics (thrush here I come) am terrified that i will have to have the plate taken out. It took 6 hours to put them in and I couldn't eat for a couple of months after...my all time lowest weight ALMOST underweight you never knew anyone buy as many pairs of shorts in one summer...maybe I should be hoping they DO need to take it out!
Anyway, so there's all the grief. I may be fitter but I'm no lighter, andI need to find an approach that works for me.
Jen, you did Slimfast didn't you? Did it help? I think maybe I'll try it, God knows I've tried just about everything else, and it means I could have the same evening meal as the rest of the family.
Leo now has top and bottom teeth and is much more cheerful. i took them swimming today and he was so cute spashing about...he's fearless. He has this big curl sticking up which is so sweet when he's wet.
My belly is quite horrible, I think a tan covers a multitude of sins, although I know I shouldn't sunbathe I do try to maintain a light tan. Somehow I feel my stomach will remain white no matter what!
Oh one good thing I did read in the paper was that the body mass thing isn't appropriate for people who are very fit because muscle is so dense. Apparently many top athletes would be obese using the ususal height/ weight scale, and we should be using our waist measurement too They had this great chart to help you work it all out which I planned to keep but the one time in his life DH decides to actually throw something away and it's the paper!!!
Anyway,Mum's pleas ekkep on posting. I'm feeling a bit bereft as you may be able to tell and I need some encouagement. I must pick myself up again.
Hope you all get a good night's sleep.
Geneve

I posted a few hours ago and it was swallowed in cyberspace.

All is well with us, however I haven't been keeping track of my eating, nor loading on the veggies (a strategy that seems to work usually).

The kids didn't have school today. They are, thankfully, running loops around the house instead of in it.

No big plans for the weekend. We are going to friends for dinner tonight.



Barb

Geneve - yes I am still doing Slimfast for all the good it is doing me. The scale has not budged a bit though I am trying very hard to believe that it is a combination of water retention and increased muscle mass that is causing the scale not to budge. Still I find that the Slimfast does take some of the urge to snack away. I bought 3 cans, I just started the last one. When I'm done that I'm not buying anymore. I've got to learn how to eat healthy all the time.

I know for 100% fact that if I started drinking more water I would start losing some weight. I am so sure of this because a few months ago I was doing really well with the water, diet and exercise and lost 4 lbs in one week. Then after that the water intake nose dived but I didn't regain those 4 lbs. I know all this but I just can't get myself to drink the darned stuff!!

Okay, I will keep trying, it is all I can do.

Geneve - sorry to hear about all your dental woes. It sounds really nasty. I can't imagine going through all of that. Hope it gets better without major surgery. I know what you mean about having your photo taken. Why do people persist in taking your photo when it is extremely obvious that you don't want it taken?? Of course it is always people who are in shape and are photogenic that take a million pics.

Barb - too bad your message got lost. I don't know how many times that has happened to me and it is always when I had a really really long post too. I shouldn't say that I'll jinx myself.

Take care all.

Morning all. I've decided to take a break from getting on the scale, it is just depressing me that I am not seeing tons of weight loss though I am certain that I am losing but I am retaining water and building muscle and the scale doesn't reflect that. I'm just going to keep doing what I have been doing and try out the scale in a few weeks. Hopefully by then I'll see more results.

How is everyone and their baby's doing? Drake is fine though he went to the dr's yesterday for 2 needles, the regular 6 month one and his first Prevnar. Poor little guy was kind of cranky all day but seems better today. He has started waking up in the middle of the night again. I was giving him a bottle of formula to get him back to sleep but last night I just gave him cold water. He took nearly half a bottle. so I don't know if he is being bothered by his teeth or he is thirsty or what is going on. I was hoping by giving him water it would discourage him from waking up if I give it a few nights in a row. Speaking of Drake he just woke up from his nap so I must fly. Take care all.

Hello hello heloooooooo
I'm quite enjoying the slimfast Jen, although I ordered one of each flavour (I order my groceries on the net) and they only had chocolate so I might be a bit sick of it soon. It does fill you up though, doesn't it? I figure that if I stick to it and still don't lose weight then I KNOW there is something up.
Baby Leo is making all the cute noises now da da da da and all that...and singing to himself. Very sweet. he has this big sticky up curl too...do you know Mabel Lucy Atwell? An illustrator of some time ago used to paint kids that look v. much like Leo. He's a right muck magnet though, he seems to be covered from seconds after he is dressed, all his food sticks to his face and clothes and he always looks kind of sticky!
Had a bit of a row with DH tonight. Am not going to dwell on it though as it's our wedding anniversary (5 years, and they said it wouldn't last)on friday and he is taking me out for the day. I am still in love so lucky me, but God, men are hard work. Some days I feel like I have a house full of St Bernards.
Well, bed time already, and so much still left undone.
Wish I had the guts to chuck my scales out the window.
Geneve

Drake seems to be covered with something most of the time. It is either formula dribbling down his chin or a bit of food I missed wiping off his face or drool all over. There is only so much you can do without hosing them down every 2 minutes. I gave up changing his clothes every time they got something on them. As long as it isn't too gross I wipe it as best I can and cover it with a bib if we go out.

I'm just so sick of those stupid scales not moving and it is so inaccurate. Depending on where I stand it moves around by about 5 lbs.

Did pretty well yesterday. did all my exercise and the diet was okay. Actually drank a fair bit of water too so that made for a good day.

Take care all.