'supporting each other through really tough times'

Softstuff

Fuddle, Moranbah is fine, as far as I can see, just a bit overcast!
http://moranbahweather.com/

It's a bit inland and also a wee bit further north than what's been happening. Don't worry about the idea of "cut off", that happens to a lot of Queensland a lot of the time and isn't that much to worry about. My in-laws are currently cut off, as most likely are my Grandparents in law, it's mildly irritating and passes in a few days.

We're still good here. A little blustery as Pooh might say.

Popperwell

Morning Fuddle and All,
Everywhere is dangerous and iced over. As you say a horrible windy night too. Actually it sounds as though it is getting worse and perhaps overnight was not as bad as now. A day for staying safely indoors here. Hope Mr F is successful...

May get up and make some toast and jam, a weak coffee and probably back to bed with a hot water bottle...listening to the radio if I don't fall asleep.

May have vegetables and a small amount of ham tonight(possibly thinking of turning the potatoes into mashed potato)to use them up. My calorie count says I should eat 1390 but I sometimes go over and depending on what you eat(you know this)the calories can be used up quickly but you remain hungry.

So do have some treats but try and find something that fills you but it means you still have eaten less calories or can eat more without adding extra that is difficult to burn off...but often I don't check myself...

Nothing exciting planned...

Certainly nothing as bad as what is happening for Softstuff, keeping my fingers crossed all is well and it passes as quickly as it came with as little damage and disruption as possible.

Popperwell

Icy rain is lashing the bedroom window. Horrible...

Remember the calories I mentioned? I had some wholemeal buns, pease pudding, tomato and spring onions(for quickness)and a small lucozade around midnight and if I count that as today's food I have eaten 1027 already and officially only have 363 for the rest of the day. How easy to use up your quota.

The three small wholemeal buns I ate came to almost 500 calories alone!

fuddle

Thank you softstuff. We still keep in touch even though it was bit iffy when she left. Her son is flourishing in schools in Australia apparently. Her youngest isn't in school yet which she is finding difficult as she had started reception with my little one before she left.

For the knitters amongst us, can I ask a question? How difficult is cable stitch for a knitter who can only knit and purl? I love the effect cabling gives and always wanted to give it a go but I know I have a habit of getting enthusiastic about projects before I'm ready!

Also on the agenda today is taking up a pair of jeans I got in the sale. Super short arriss that I am bought 32inch leg... but they were cheap!

Far too easy to use up your calorie quota pops. I have no excuse with myfitnesspal but... one yoghurt fro breakfast has used 130 cals and I'm still hungry. I feel a bit lost with the whole weight and eating issue. I know what I need to do I just don't know how, at this time of year, I'm going to motivate myself to do it.

Molly41

Popperwell wrote: »

Icy rain is lashing the bedroom window. Horrible...

Remember the calories I mentioned? I had some wholemeal buns, pease pudding, tomato and spring onions(for quickness)and a small lucozade around midnight and if I count that as today's food I have eaten 1027 already and officially only have 363 for the rest of the day. How easy to use up your quota.

The three small wholemeal buns I ate came to almost 500 calories alone!

That calorie count sounds extraordinarily low for a man. Even I as a 5 foot 4 inch woman with a healthy (ish) BMI and very sedentary (bed bound some days) should eat 1400.

I think you should stop counting calories and concentrate on eating healthy and nutritious food - especially in this weather and especially as you dont have the heating on very much. You use extra calories staying warm. If you dont eat enough it not only has physical implications but you feel depressed and down.

mardatha

Pops you seem to just grab and copy what everybody in here is doing re heating & eating - you dont have to do that. Do your own thing otherwise you'll do some damage!
Molly it's very hard with ME to keep the weight down. I sit in this chair most of the time and that isn't burning any calories at all And you don't have any appetite either.

boultdj

fuddle wrote: »

Thank you softstuff. We still keep in touch even though it was bit iffy when she left. Her son is flourishing in schools in Australia apparently. Her youngest isn't in school yet which she is finding difficult as she had started reception with my little one before she left.

For the knitters amongst us, can I ask a question? How difficult is cable stitch for a knitter who can only knit and purl? I love the effect cabling gives and always wanted to give it a go but I know I have a habit of getting enthusiastic about projects before I'm ready!

Also on the agenda today is taking up a pair of jeans I got in the sale. Super short arriss that I am bought 32inch leg... but they were cheap!

Far too easy to use up your calorie quota pops. I have no excuse with myfitnesspal but... one yoghurt fro breakfast has used 130 cals and I'm still hungry. I feel a bit lost with the whole weight and eating issue. I know what I need to do I just don't know how, at this time of year, I'm going to motivate myself to do it.

Cable is pretty easy fuddle as long as you remember to leave the stiches crossing under or over slightly looser than normal.hth

Popperwell

Hi Molly and Mar:),
I think I am coming on leaps and bounds...not copying anyone as far as I can see...but always learning and ready to take advice...and you'll notice I said that I often eat more than my suggested calorie intake and I don't stick rigidly to it or look daily.;)

My weight stays quite constant(but the truth is I would like to lose perhaps a stone at least)I'd like to be around nine and half to ten stone and I am just too much, I think I am nearer 12 stone though I don't look as though I am...and I am about the same height as you Molly(only small)

I am also making an effort many days to try and have something that takes a bit of thought and planning mealwise which if on your own it is too easy to choose something easy and simple.

VJsmum

Morning all

Interesting debate. My DS struggled with learning at primary school - at his first ever parents meeting the teacher said "he isn't where he should be" and so it continued. One teacher said she thought he may be dyslexic, yet when we went through the initial questionnaire it appeared that he wasn't, and he isn't. But we KNEW that, despite the learning difficulties he was having, he was a very bright child with an amazing memory. He has always fallen into a category of "not *bad* enough to get additional help but not *good* enough to do it on his own". So, after a fairly disastrous parents evening at high school, we found a tutor who can give him the help he needs. It works similar to the Kumon system, if anyone is familiar to that. He goes to the tutor for 20 minutes once a week and then is set work to do at home - only 10 minutes a day. He has now gone up 4 sublevels in a year (the expectation is 2) for maths, which was our focus at first. But, more than that, the confidence he has gained - because he couldn't do something, and now he can - has spilled across into other subjects (except Art, but that's a different story :rotfl:). The tutor initially said that his english must be fine as he speaks so well, but now we've realised that yes, he does speak well, but struggles with writing it down. His history teacher, at the last parents evening said "He is a really bright boy, a clever boy, and if he could talk his way through his GCSE's he would do better than him having to write". It was the first time a teacher had ever said he was clever. It was like "hallelujah" :T someone, finally, recognises it.

So now we are working on the english - I can't say he loves it but it is only 10 minutes a day, so he can put up with that. And already - after only about 2 months - he can see the difference and has gone up 2 levels in history! DS is nearly 14 and we have to do the dreaded options soon, but there are more options open to him now.

All the way through, with both mine (DD is nearly 17) it has been about options, not being about the cleverest. DS loves trains, always has. If he wants to be a train driver that's fine, as long as it is his choice then he will be happier in it. DD wants to act, but i told her that i wouldn't support her going to a specialised performing arts college as they didn't do a range of A levels (only English). Once she has her A levels I will support any choice she makes.

It's tough being a parent isn't it?:D I don't know why I felt the need to pour all that out, just to give another perspective I guess.

We seemed to have survived the wild and blustery night and the snow is all gone :j bright and sunny at the mo, but I know we aren't out of the "weather woods" yet. OH and I are discussing caravan holidays today - you don't get a lot more OS than that! I love our caravan, keeps us independent and we can have several holidays as they are so cheap. DS will turn 14 just before easter and he will be eligible to volunteer on a preserved steam railway that he has been going to since before he was born . So easter and a week in the summer will be spent in mid wales with DS getting sooty and oily from cleaning engines - he will be like a pig in muck DD has declared Independance and announced she is staying behind.

Roast chicken for tea - been craving one for weeks. Which means chicken stew next week and lots for the freezer. I have managed to stay within my calorie allowance this week - even without exercising so am feeling chuffed.

Sorry for the essay

Oh and "COME ON MURRAY!!"

Popperwell

Yes Fuddle that is it exactly as you say, you can eat something like a yogurt and it doesn't fill you but 130 calories gone. I think we eat more though when its cold and the winter months anyhow and plenty of time to shed those extra pounds in the summer;)

They say a little extra weight helps keep us warm.

Well done VJ's Mum...