LOL I had this interesting picture of you in your finest pearls and nothing else munching away at your salad!!!

Well done, keep up your exercise and you can afford a treat or two.

What my gym trainer at work suggested (not to be confused with CGI - cute gym instructor at my home gym) was a maintenance break every eight weeks. The theory beign that you plateau anyway about every 8 weeks, so put your body in a forced one. You keep up the same level of intensity of exercise, even upping it a bit, and eat a couple of extra treats in that week. So for me my normal calorie intake is around 1200 - 1500 a day, on maintenance week every second day is around 2000 or so.

It worked wonders the last time, I didn't gain, and then went straight back to losing again. I've got my next break coming up at the end of this month, to time in with my birthday. It makes the sense of "deprivation" go away, because I have re-educated my eating habits enough that I won't sit on the settee and eat crisps and chocolate, but can enjoy fish and chips at our local posh chippie or a nice piece of cake for afternoon tea when on maintenance break. I do avoid alcohol though, I would rather eat the calories than drink them!!!!!

Wow Janey that meal sounds gorgeous!

For my dinner I had fillet of chicken breast lightly crumbed in a south american style on a bed of lollo rosso, frissee and spinach with crudites on the side! Sounds great doesn't it? Birds eye southern fried chicken and salad! :rofl: I love the fancy wording, it's almost better than the food!

OK, reason I'm up so late, I've just finished my project! Well nearly! The hardware bit anyway, well most of the hardware bit... :lol: And it WORKS! :dance: That's the main thing! YAAAAAHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :cheer:

Ooooh I forgot to mention, for dessert I had a Gu chocolate pudding (cos I have been good eating today even with a raisin and biscuit Yorkie - 300 cals! OUCH!) I've been so busy I haven't had time to snack and have been power walking around on an empty stomach half the time!

I think I have maintenance week every week! :o

GU chocolate puddings are the one thing every diet should make room for, YUM!!!

Student stress calories don't count, same as PMS calories and Friday Fat calories. So you're doing fine :)

:lol: I like it! Student stress calories!

I am posting so early because I'm waiting for my drill battery to charge (:censored: typical that it dies the day I really really really need it! Or maybe it's just typical of me for not having charged it when i really really really need it!).

I'm being excessively considerate to my neighbours today! I started drilling at 7 am! :dance: They're all idiots anyway and deserve waking up early! :rofl: I'm just swigging my morning Red Bull because MOTH came in at 00:15 and woke me up, then proceded to tell me all about his physical he'd had that day and to pester me about CAD models when I have to get up at 6:45 to finish all my work. Of course he is still in bed... I made him get up to help me unstick a drill bit from my workpiece though! He wasn't happy! :rofl: He's now back in bed and keeps moaning whenever I go in the room! He should be up and helping!

Absolutely, MEN!!!! If I was your flatmate I would get up and help you!!!! Though I am no good with the teccy stuff. CGI said at the gym on Monday that I find the equipment more difficult than the exercise, and he is right!!!! I hate all that stuff, I would be quite happy just doing free weights, but then would be stuck in our tiny mirrored corner with tough guys in singlets with shaved heads and tattoos, or far worse, the pretty boy posers who spend more time admiring their buff bods than working them out!!!!!

Hang on a second... GU chocolate puddings???? Somebody has to tell me what these are and tell me where to find them!!!! lol

Frus I searched the Bupa sight and only like 4 jobs came up???
congrats on the project... I'm cracking up thinking about you and MOTH.. you two sound like a funny duo!

Madam thanks for the suggestion... I might just do the average thing...

Janey... excellent job on dinner! Your plan sounds quite reasonable. Good work.

Speak sooon... I'm going to try and get some exercise in early!

It's kykaree the BUPA chicki. If you want an application form I can get you one (that way I get an introduction bonus if you stay for 6 months, which I will then split with you, you'll need it by then coz you'll be a size 14 at least and want to buy brand new clothes!!!! The member services advisor positions aren't coming up on the website for some reason, but they are being advertised on Galaxy radio at the moment.

GU puddings can be found at Tesco and Sainsburys, they are NOT diet friendly, but I usually have a treat on a Sunday and have one of those.

I'm really hot and sweaty, am diong some spring cleaning and just lugged a heap of diet unfriendly cookbooks to the charity shop on the bus, and whilst I was there I bought a little book case for £2.50, which also had to be dragged back on the bus. Just as well I am used to people laughing at me.

Kyk have you tried the souffles? YUMMY! I bought some really nice Mackay's vanilla ice cream to have with them last time, and a strawberry!

The project is nearly finished! All the electronics work! All the plastic bits are glued and drying in my locker at the moment. I'm just transferring some files over from college (that I forgot to do yesterday) I have to finish a report and do some drawings. I was grinning about finishing all the hardware stuff around college just now, and everyone's like "why are you so happy?" haha!

Well done Janey, you're a shining example of how it should be done :) by the way, you've made my mouth water, it sounds lovely (don't know if I could've been strong enough to resist the ice-cream though :T

LOL Frus :lol: what is a moth? (man of the hour?) or a flying thing that you swat? :rofl: and what is CAD? to me it means canadian moola :lol: I feel like i'm talking (or you are he-he) a different language :lol: I think you had a lucky escape from your ex ;) any man that tells you he doesn't like you big :eek: or fat or anything like that just is'nt worth your time in my opinion :rollpin: the guy that lives next door told his first wife (who was skinny and fasted and ran up and down the driveway to keep thin) that if she ever got fat he would divorce her!! :yikes: he'd have been divorced in a flash if i'd been married to him :yes: she ended up dying of cancer..poor thing.
I ended up with my "first love" we were engaged in out teens, separated :( both married other partners :shrug: had two kids each :D then met up again 12 years ago (about 21 years later!) and the rest is history :lol: if only i'd remembered why we did'nt make it the first time :rollpin: i'd have saved myself some grief :devil: :rofl:
Went to the quacks today and I have to have a load of tests :( my blood pressure is high :( and there was me thinking that it was good :rolleyes: I won't trust those machines in the shops anymore :dunno: I need an EKG plus a thyroid test, cholestrol test, diabetes test, pap smear, mammogram :faint: and a bunch of others but can't remember what they are :lol: the doc thinks that after living in Canada for 11 years without any medical attention whatsoever that I need a "tune up" :lol3: :rofl: the only highlight of the day was the fact that she did'nt believe that i'm as old as I am :p and she thinks i'll last a while longer :yikes: :rofl:

:tired: <---------- I looked in the mirror this morning and saw this! :rofl: :yikes:

I've had 2 and a half hours sleep! Woooohoooo! I finished my project off though (am in the middle of properly finishing it off now..... :lol: ) I have until 4pm. If I finish soon I'm taking myself shopping to max out the credit card if I can take the 10 minute walk into town!

Cat, MOTH is kyk's thing, Man Of The House! :rofl: CAD is Computer Aided Design. Drawing stuff on the computer like 3D models and engineering drawings.

Aye the ex, well he is SOOOOOO boring now! He works in a bank, YAWN (he did design engineering at Uni) and I bet he's fat now anyway! He was lardy before I met him, then he slimmed down, but I'm sure married life will have made him pack on the lbs! I bet his wife's a MINGER too! :rofl: Oooooh it's soooooo :devil: but it's fun! I keep telling myself I'm in love with Chris version 2000, not Chris version 2005! :lol: BLIMEY Cat about you and your 1st love, you mad pair!

I think those US & Canadian Docs just do all the tests they can think of to get the cash from the insurers.

I've eaten 3/4 pack of Maryland cookies this morning :o I didn't think I could still do that without throwing up! :lol:

I will have to do some POWER SHOPPING to burn them off! :lol3:

Kyk

Thanks for the GU pudding tip... Da*N, I thought they would be on plan!!! lol... in that vein though... a couple weeks ago I had those chocolate WW puddings that get heated in the mircorwave... very chocolatey, not as sweet as you would expect, but after cutting most sugar from one's diet, it was like a goody bag from heaven!!!

Um, about Bupa... the hrs for that job are 8am - 8 pm M-F and 8 am - 6 pm on SATURDAYS???!!!! Is that a typo? Or do they mean 40 hrs within these times? That's scary... they should just invite applicants to bring a sleeping bag! :lol:

Frus... um 2.5 hrs of sleep? I used to do that stuff during my student days but it usually resulted in sleeping for 3 days once the high was over... waking up and eating all those missed meals in the caf with friends, bragging about my insomnia and narcolepsy spasms... lol Anyway, live it up... in a few years you'll be asking yourself how the **** you managed to do that!!!

Have a great day girls!

:lol: LOL Frus I was close with MOTH but i'd have never have got CAD :yikes:
Actually i'm glad that she is doing all those tests because I can honestly say that i've rarely seen a doctor in my life :eek: I've always avoided mammograms and smear tests :( like the plague :lol: so i'm seriously due for a overhaul. I think i'm just looking for the "all clear" then I can stop thinking the worst about the pains that I get :) btw, what does the GU stand for in that pudding :?: :rofl:

Hello everyone

Lovely morning here in Telford - warm and sunny, still windy, but the wind's not as cold as it has been over the last couple of days.

How British is that, starting a message with a weather report!! :^:

Frus, just wait till you're an old lady like me (41 :lol: ) a couple of weeks ago had a big family get-together and my sister, brother & I stayed up till about 2:30 talking but I still woke up around 8:00 next morning, but just having about 5½ hours sleep killed me, it took me days (no kidding) to recover - aah the energy of youth, tis but a distant memory :p Anyway, well done on your project, you've worked really hard by the sound of it - what is it for, what qualification are you working towards? If you don't mind me asking!

I've seen those Gu puds in Sainsbury's, never bought one though, I put weight on just looking at them! Have you seen the ads for the new Haagen Dazs ice-cream, sort of a wafer, with ice-cream and caramel and chocolate, :hun: oooooooh, want, want, want. Hubby just went down to Homebase, which is next to Tesco and he went and looked for them for me, but Tesco (yah, boo) don't have them :rollpin:

Been cycling this morning, and this afternoon we're off to Hawkstone Park, which is an amazing place. It's more than a park, having hills, valley, woods, cliffs, caves and wonderful follies built and dotted around the park, so you climb a hill and come across a statue of King Arthur, or a tower, where you can climb up and see for miles and miles. Parts of it were used when the BBC filmed "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" a few years ago. Haven't been for ages and so thought it'd be a nice way of putting some exercise in and having a good family afternoon as well, will probably manage to find the time to visit the coffee shop though ;) :coffee2: and yes a cake may enter into the equation!

Have a good day everyone

x :D