I used to live in Welling as well - Gypsy (or was it Gipsy) Road on the border between Welling and Bexleyheath! Small world!!

Get better Frus and Chris, being sick sucks.

Michelle, sorry about your toe, last night at the gym I dropped a weight on my thumb. I swore like a sailer.

Good week for me, food and working out have been good, here comes the weekend but not too many damaging things planned. Tonight I have class which I hate because I'd rather workout than sit in this boring class. One more in the Fall and then I have my masters degree and I never have to go back to UMASS again!!!!

Good morning to you all

My day off I'm just tidying up after those two boys of mine. Tonight there could be ructions as I am planning on not making them sarnies or ironing them a clean shirt for school since I am tired of them not listening to me and leaving their crap all over the house. This morning I found Conor's socks stuffed under the computer. A wet towel behind the sofa. Stuff all over the landing. The little fella is no better either. Rant over.

Well the sun is shining I'm just about to have scrambled egg on toast. The scales are saying nine stone 11 which is good. Still five pounds heavier than before Christmas but I'm exercising and eating quite well. Still keeping my lent promise. My father says he wil buy me an easter egg I said I will keep it there until Easter Sunday just in case that husband of mine should eat it remember last year. Oh I can remember it like yesterday going to the teabag box and finding my chocolate gone oh the fecker.

Right I must get going and eat my brekkie

The toe is feeling much better today thank god.

Chris and Frus hope you feel better soon.

Michele

D'oh, I'll try again.... something wrong with 'puter (as well as fingers) so doing a post might be a bit hit or miss. :rolleyes:

I have been visiting every day, I just can't type unless I've taken painkillers and I don't like doing that cos they give me INCREDIBLE heartburn.

Frus... sounds like you're overdoing it again. The intuitive eating DEFINITELY has a slippery slope for me. I start off with all good intentions.... then find myself intuitively eating just about anything that isn't nailed down. I've decided I have to keep a food diary - even if I'm not actively wanting to lose weight (like on holiday) - just writing it down before I eat it is often enough to stop me pigging out.

Helen... :congrat: on the run AND on the weightloss - that is FABULOUS and you are seriously a great inspiration to me. :hug:

Lou - I'm so glad you like your new job - if you gotta spend 8 hours a day doing something it makes it pass so much quicker if you enjoy it. Marmite sounds like a real handful.

Michele - OWWWWWWWWWWWW! Poor you. I definitely agree about men.... my husband usually laughs when I do something like that. There was one time when we went to B&Q to get some wood. He was walking along carrying an 8ft piece of wood (about 2 inches x 2 inches) across his shoulder, spun round and clocked me round the head with a loud BOCK noise. He nearly knocked me in to next week and I ended up sitting on the floor waiting for the world to stop spinning round ... he was making all the right 'concerned' noises but when I looked up at him he had tears of laughter just pouring down his face..... :censored:

Hi Chris :hug: Well done on the new job!!!! :carrot: Do you get to use Curves for free???

CG - Endless fries????? Hmmmm - sounds like my kinda restaurant! :drool:

RSG - I hope your weather gets a bit warmer - I enjoy a brisk walk on a crisp frosty morning but I don't think I could cope with it being as cold as you're having it.

If I've forgotten anyone else, I'm sorry - but big :hug: to you all.

Well... the fingers thing has now spread to my shoulder - and its very similar to the pain I get in my hips. (At least now its in my fingers I can describe it easier - at its worst it feels like I've slammed the top joints of my fingers in a car door!) I went to see my doctor yesterday and he's referring me to the hospital (I forgot to ask what the waiting list time is). He says that some of the stuff wrong with me over the past couple of years might all be related to it - apparently theres an ailment called fibromyalgia which includes all the same stuff - so I came home and looked it up on the internet and scared the knickers off myself! Urghhh! I'm working on the assumption that its NOT fibromyalgia because I can see myself attributing every little ache and pain to it and then looking like a right idiot when I find out I haven't got it.

I've felt a lot more motivated about dieting since I got back off holiday - doing a blood pressure check helped with the motivation .... its had gone back up again.... so I've gone back on my old DASH mega fruit/veg diet which worked for me before. I've also decided to eat restrict eating meat to one meal a week (on Sundays) and oily fish for two or three lunches during the week - and I'm really enjoying it. My BP has come down quite a bit already. :carrot:

OMG.... just read this back.... sounds like I'm falling apart... its really NOT as bad as it sounds! :rolleyes:

:wave: We had to go to Sidcup to do some stuff for some chairs we made a few years ago.

I'm not overdoing it, I'm just sick :barf: In fact I've been under-doing it for a while!!!

I have chocolate! :T I may eat it... Or I may not... :dunno: I shall have to wait until I'm hungry, but at the moment it's been in my bag all morning and I haven't so much as sniffed it! :lol: Although it has been preying on my mind! :rofl:

Sarah - I hope your aches and stuff get sorted out quickly. I think oily fish is supposed to help stuff like that is it not? :hug:

Morning girls. I hope everyone feels better.

Sarah I hope you don't have to wait too long to see the doctor. Has this just started since you hurt your back in the bog? Could be related.

Yes the endless fries were yummy.They're just like big chunky chips from home. I'm up half a pound this week that's probably why. Mind you I'm lucky I didn't gain more as we've had chinese this week.

Chris enjoy your cream tea. Yum meringues with fresh cream wonder if they will have any.

Just popping in to say a quick Hi! I'm *sort of* on plan at the moment, but I don't get much chance to come and post very often! I'm currently weighing in at anywhere from 148-150lb, which is pretty normal for me. My weight stays the same no matter what at the moment! Tonight I'm off out for a meal at a place called Foliage in the Mandarin Oriental hotel.. it's a tasting menu though, so I will end up with about 8 courses (albiet small courses), and the same amount of wine! So I think the scales will be up quite a bit tomorrow! :P

I've not been exercising at all recently (except the walk to and from work), and I've been eating foods which I really shouldn't, so I do need to be a bit stricter on myself sometime soon.

Hope everyone is doing well and managing to stick to their plans!

Hello all... major disappointment at the tea shoppe...it's supposedly owned and run by a Brit and I'm not impressed.

I ordered a cream tea, they offered lemon lime or rasperry scones and said they didn't have plain (later at the bakery bit, there's a whole batch sitting there saying plain scones) I chose rasperry as lemon lime didn't appeal, and the menu said, 'served with strawberry preserves and devonshire clotted cream' well they were ok with the jam but they brought along a little tub of cool whip! (Similar stuff to dream topping). AND then they charged me for devonshire clotted cream...I was going to say something, but feel a letter coming on instead. The girls serving, was a twit too, when I asked for a cream tea, as in their menu, she thought I said I wanted green tea, and when she did finally bring the right type of tea over, she didn't bring milk and walked past us ignoring us so I had to go and find her to ask, then she brought a tiny little jug of milk for three pots of tea so we had to ask for me...I'm glad I went as I thought it would be a nice place to go when Mum and Ted are over, but we'll go to the little nice place we found at Christmas time again and give this one a miss.

Sarah, sorry but you made me cry with laughing at your husband and the plank incident...I bet you did see stars.

Don't look up anymore illnesses like fibermyalgia...it is scary and I don't think you have it luvey :hug:

Jen, Sidcup hey? My Mum grew up there, I used to love going to see my nan and Grandad there... they lived on a street that was a huge hill, great for roller skating on.

My ears are hurting now, and my throat is still very scratchy, so I'll be watching survivor, then CSI and taking some meds and heading for bed, hannah doesn't have school tomorrow, so I don't have to get up early and I think I'll enjoy a nice warm lay in as it's supposed to be record LOW temps......bloody woosters.......BRRRRRRRRR...

See you all tomorrow.

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I am one happy chick this morning! Check me out - I BAKED last night! I made (warning food porn....) cherry oatmeal cookies :drool: and I had 2, possibly 3 tiny ones while they were fresh out of the oven. Most of the batch made it into the cake tin in the cupboard over night and DH has taken a stash to work, and there are 4 left, one each for me, him and mum and dad tonight. Although I licked the bowl I really couldn't have been fussed over the cookies last night after eating my 2 tinies. Although one did crumble this morning, into my mouth, as I was packing DH's lunch, although that was another tiny one! :D After I made them I made those muffins that are in the recipe thread (which was what I was going to make in the first place but DH insisted that I made something non-healthy!!!!). And I didn't eat ANY! :faint: I have them with me for my morning snack :) :T

All hail intuitive eating! I really am noticing that I'm a lot less interested in food than I used to be. I think if I concentrate on really cleaning my food up, rather than having ice cream and cookies occasionally I might really lose a bit. I think the pecan nuts have to go too! :o

Yesterday I threw a sicky! I was out over lunchtime so didn't gym and I didn't go kickboxing. Good thing actually since Lee called me and said he's got a trapped nerve in his neck! Oooowie! So DILIP (yes, Dipsh*t) was taking the class instead.... :lol3: I'm SO glad I stayed at home! I actually feel a lot better today, I think a night off did me the world of good, or maybe it was the cherry oatmeal cookies :lol3: :D

Mum and Dad are coming tonight. I've bought Mum and I tickets for the ballet at the Royal Opera House, we are going to dress up poshly and go to Paul for afternoon tea :T Dad and DH are going to the "Home of O Gauge" or as DH calls it, "Homo gauge" :lol: Dad is into model railways etc so they are taking a trip out to amuse themselves while we are at the theatre. On Sunday DH is taking us on a canal boat trip from Camden to Little Venice and back again. Well he's booking the tickets, not piloting the boat.... :rofl:

Today I have a stack of work to do. Joy. Then I will be washing the bike at lunchtime and gymming after work - hopefully there's enough time before the 'rents arrive. :)

Wow Sarah Ann! You do get around! Gpysy Road was, I think bombed a fair bit during the war (according to my mum, I was not there at the time you understand!!). We sometimes used to go to Bexleyheath for shopping but I do not remember it at all. All I remember is "The Green" in Welling where the Co-op was and the health centre where my little brother escaped his pushchair and ran along the Rochester way, Motorway!!!! Oh and a very gark little greengrocer where the lady had a greyhound. Oh and a dressmakers whcih oddly enough sold Trolls which is what my brother and I spent our money on. There were also some swings and a sweet shop.

I vaguley remember Weling High Street cos mum left me on one side of the road while she went to (I think ) Fads. YOu know how kids are left for a few minutes and think it is hours? I decided I was lost. A nice policeman took me to his policebox (what a disappointment, the tardis was not inside!). I was shocked when a male passerby offered my a sweet. Did the policeman not know that "strange men" offered poisoned sweets to children???!!!!! Eventually they located my rather bemused mum and I felt like a right chump!!!!

Its a lovely day here today - very sunshiney with a breeze ... I got up at 6.15 to walk the dogs and it was warm enough to wear a denim jacket instead of the padded one I've been wearing all winter. I've got a line full of washing all blowing dry in the sunshine - I love the smell of it when its dried in the fresh air.

Chris - thats my DH all over. Like the time I got out the car on to a big frozen puddle and slipped over, got up and slipped over again... and again .... and again.... and all he could do was cry with laughter. Men!

Peacock - I was brought up in Sarf Lundun. I lived in New Cross Gate from age 10 until 20. When I married the ex Mr Sarah I moved down to Rainham for a couple of years then moved to Gypsy Road when when a 'bargain' house came up for sale opposite my parents in law. (Not the best idea I've ever had!!) A lot of my extended family still live in that area - I've got half and step brothers and sisters living in Welling, Bexleyheath, Sidcup, Eltham and Blackfen. When I lived in Gypsy Road I used to mainly go to Bexleyheath for shopping, rather than Welling because there was a Sainsbury there - I don't remember there being a decent supermarket in Welling at the time (if, in fact, there was one there at all!). All I can remember about my three years of living there was being INCREDIBLY unhappy - mainly because of the in-laws..... I often wonder if I'd still be married to the ex Mr S if we hadn't moved there.

Chris, I hope you're feeling better today. :hug: That cream tea sounds awful! :barf: Last week we had a cream tea every day and some were not great but none of them were THAT bad. The ABSOLUTE best one was a tearoom on a dairy farm in the middle of nowhere - we were the only customers (not surprising given the location!) and the owner made a big fuss of us and our dogs. She'd just made some wholemeal and sultana scones which were about 4 inches wide and still warm - which she served with her homemade raspberry jam and the yellowest, thickest clotted cream I've ever seen (it cut with a knife!) AND she gave us a huge pot of tea with decent size cups and plenty of milk. At the end of two scones and three cups of tea I could hardly move. (Sorry... as Frus says, this is totally 'food porn' and apologies to anyone it upsets.)

Frus, well done on having an evening off. I know exercise can be addictive but you need to pace yourself. (Yes, I worry about you!) :hug: :hug: Those cookies sound yummy.... :drool:

CG - I don't THINK the bog incident is related - although if it is fibromyalgia it could explain why the pain went on for such a long time afterwards. :crossed: I'm having a better day today.

I'm enjoying the veggie food in the evenings... it might be different when DH stops working mid-shift and eating at work (he's covering for someone else) - so we're back to 'normal' next week which means I'll have to either cook two separate meals (which I hate doing) or try and figure out a way to have the same meal but just change the protein... easier said than done! The other thing I'm trying to do is cut down the amount of calories I eat at dinner... I think it is just habit that I always eat the bulk of my calories in the evening which is obviously not such a great idea.... you've only got to look at my jelly belly to see that!

Oh - and I've gone cold turkey on the cheese. So far so good. It did help that someone recently described it to me as flavoured fat and each time I think about it that phrase comes in to my mind. :barf:

Eeeeeeeeeew flavoured fat - that's GROSS! :barf: :lol: But so TRUE!

And your cream tea sounds fabby! Can we see some pics of the doggies? Did Ellie stick her head on the table for clotted cream? :lol:

Great news....we've broken the record for cold today!!!!! Seriously I need to move, the weekend is supposed to be nice though.

Got up late so I have to head to work, have a great day all...scales look good, but here comes the weekend :( I'll need to try and hold it together.

Ooohhhhh weird.... I just tried posting using the 'quick' page and I got an advert for Amazon in the bit where I was supposed to type.... 'advanced' seems okay though.

ANYWAY.... the dogs weren't allowed in the actual tea room bit (health regulations I suppose) but they were allowed in to a closed in veranda area and when we came out they were having a great time - laid out on a couple of those thickly padded cane sofas with assorted minions (the farm lady's children) stroking them gently and feeding them morsels of warm buttered scones and milky tea. We had to drag them out of there! I think they decided that was much nicer than being squidged in together in the back of a Land Rover, especially as we'd forgotten to take Ellie's charcoal wind bikkies and couldn't find anywhere that sold them in bulk. :lol: We're waiting for DH to finish the last of the film in his camera to get them developed.

Good news (we think) .... we are 99.99% sure that Ellie is going to be our dog permanently. We found out through DH's boss that her 'owner' has accepted a year long contract to work in the Middle East -shame he hasn't had the courtesy to tell us direct.

OMG, RSG, how absolutely miserable. :hug: Good luck for the weekend....