Lilt and Jellytots most excellent adventure...

in_need_of_direction

Have I mentioned that until she was in her 40s, one of my sisters thought that unicorns were real creatures that had become extinct.

MeandO

in_need_of_direction wrote: »

Have I mentioned that until she was in her 40s, one of my sisters thought that unicorns were real creatures that had become extinct.

Brilliant INOD! :rotfl:

MeandO

liltdiddylilt wrote: »

Becs!!!!! How are you!? Hows the lovely girls. I mean the kids, not the boobs.

You crack me up Lilty! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


Ah, you're both gorgeous!
I am queen of the thunder thighs, lardy !!!! and child-bearing hips. A well-ripened pear shape for sure. You will never see my legs out, ever. I will always be covered to at least lower shin height, even in the middle of the summer, and the upper arms also never see the light of day. Mine is a limb problem - the torso I can live with lol. :cool: Now that explains why you only ever see pictures of me from the waist up on FB Lilty - unless they're old ones, from when I was a skinny minny.

Ah the things we put ourselves through eh?!

hohum

It's not wise to leave your diary for too long - 100 new posts? :eek:

Anywaaaaay belatedly:

Attention whilst walking..people are weird, no? It doesn't happen so much on the routes I use now, but where I used to run there'd always be one joker who'd start running alongside me to look clever to his mates. I used to tell them there was only another 2 miles to go, and they'd best keep up Mostly it gets on my tits that what's going on is people feel qualified to pass comment on my activity, mostly because I'm a woman but it riles me less than it used to. The one good heckle I had when out running was when I lived in South London and was out on the day of the marathon - 'the marathon is that way!' one guy yelled at me .

New phone, well essentially what you're doing is a more cost effective way of getting a new handset than purchasing through contract. This way you don't pay VAT or interest on it. Not such a terrible idea, just ups your 'phone' expenses for a year but touch wood it will las for much longer. Credit is a thing that is not bad in and of itself.

Your lifestyle stuff sounds SO positive. I am pretty impressed that you have the discipline to do all the prep. I have to confess that I can only sustain prepping at breakfast, lunch, dinner from scratch level for about a week. Then I start saying 'i'll do it tomorrow' which of course, never happens...

MeandO

I don't quite believe this... I had a follow-up appointment with my dcotor today who has suggested I try a Ketogenic diet for a month to see if that helps with my tiredness, poor sleep and general wellbeing.. I'm pretty sure you and Apple have been talking to him lol!

I've looked at the daily apple site, but it all looks way too confusing for my befuddled brain to take in.

Any pointers Lilty??
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liltdiddylilt

MSE need to sort their IT department out. I should not crash my computer everytime I click on a blooming hyperlink icon on the quick reply setting. I lost a huge post on Becs diary and now one on my own.

SO ANGRY WITH THIS JUNK.

http://keto-calculator.ankerl.com - they won't let me link it properly so here ya are Me&O. I find the marks daily apple site far too confusing. I think you have to spend a LOT of time to find the usefulness of that particular resource and I just can't dedicate enough time to it at the minute, though I do not doubt how great some of it is... I can't seem to find the starting point and flounder about reading about raw milk before wandering off. Apple is definitely the one to ask on that particular site, however beware, a ketogenic diet is not Paelo/Primal. It is vastly stricter than that especially at the start - in order to approach the levels of ketosis needed you need to eat 5 times less carbs than Paleo allows for in a day. And that takes effort unfortunately, but the results are fab.

I've explained before about the reason my Dr put me on the diet. Insulin responses drive stress reactions in the pathways of your brain. This can exacerbate conditions such as epilepsy, migraines and even depression. There are a lot of studies linking these things. I am living proof that it can and does at least work for migraines, having not suffered from one since starting my diet many weeks ago.

The way it works is by lowering your insulin response to an absolute minimum. And unfortunately that means cutting out even *low GI* foods such as wholegrain breads, rice etc. I've found very quickly that just one slip up stops the happy side effects of the diet. Those being tonnes of energy, great sleep and big weight losses. So if you're going to attempt this, realistically you need to do it when you are off work for a few days in order to get yourself up and running and give you the best possible chance at getting through the keto-flu and out of the other side. It gives you time to get your cooking mojo working and prep so that you can have a weeks worth of work lunches and a freezer full of meals ready to go at a moments notice. Cooking is one thing this diet forces in spades and if you're not so disciplined at that then you have to hit it full on one day a week and coast the rest :rotfl: like me....

hohum sorry, it moves so quickly it is quite bonkers sometimes!! I am LOLing at your heckler. Very smart :huh: Naaaat!!

As I just said, I am not so sure about the discipline side of things but I am doing my best because this is the healthiest I have felt in a very long time! Even without the weight loss, this is worth it to me.

Thanks for the sound business sense regarding the phone. I have to remember I was horrified that my friend and her hubby got contracts at £40 a month each for an older model of the phone I want only a few months ago. 24 months contracts and hardly enough minutes/data in reality. Shockingly expensive!

Right.. me and my all over fatty body (not all of us can boast a nice waist Me&O) are off to shower as I have just had a MOUNTAIN of hair chopped off me!! I now have the longest parts just touching my shoulders with mid to long length layers and I can barely scrape it into a bobble. Looks nice but I am wondering at the wiseness of my decision. Upkeep 1 - Lilty 0. Anyways it is stabbing me in a billion places and I must go shower it off.

Ooh in good news on that point... I took the money out for it yesterday, as it was £40 last time!! Saving me a No Spend Day today as per the rules of the challenge.. And lo and behold, it was £22... :j different (more junior but no less talented) hairdresser as mine has gone on maternity leave... So apparently cheaper! So happy!! And she did a brill job!

I am going to discuss some important business with YNAB later before an early night. We have things to talk of. Like starting a new budget. Because I have slightly broken the old one. If I can work it out then nothing to be fixed and it will be fine. If not, I refuse to report to adjusting balances and so I will begin again Like the lunatic that I am!! :rotfl: xxx

apple_muncher

I think the mda website does require time to browse and mooch around. But click on the 'start here' and then the '21 day challenge' if you want to follow it up.


Lilty - where did you buy your epsom salts? Is Jelly any better? Great news on the haircut - and cheaper too! I desperately need one - and my hair's so thick I may well lose a few lbs too...!


Sleep well x

liltdiddylilt

Y'know apple, I didn't even think about the weight loss aspect. According to.. every hairdresser I have ever had, I have enough hair for three average people!! :rotfl: - normal bobbles don't work on my hair. I have to have the giant granny knickers version maybe I will have lost some weight!! Certainly feels like it! Lol

The MDA start here & 21 day challenge is great. I have copied lots of it down. And the book is invaluable. I need to buy you a new one. I have dog eared the life out of your current one and I definitely need my own copy so sending you a new one seems the best idea!!

Epsom salts! - I got them on amazon sweets, far far cheaper on there. I have got a £25 25kg sack. I use it 3-4 times a week and probably use 250-500 grams at a time but man does it work. It has even helped my very poorly back following bed-sharing with small child. How do you do it? I am in actual agony and have taken the full dose of painkillers 4 hourly for 2 straight days now

Jelly was miraculously recovered after her night of burning up and delirium. She is her fathers daughter. Whenever he has a bug he burns it off on night 2 and she is just the same. It is frightening to behold though. The temperature she reached surpassed even her own personal worst and I honestly thought she was going to go into convulsions if I couldn't cool her down. The one time in my life I have ever run out of calpol :eek: but by morning, apart from a soaking wet vest and sweaty matted hair she was perfectly fine. And has been since, although she has been asking for naps and sleeping for 15ish hours a day the last couple!

I've just blown my diet with a blooming chocolate coconut macaroon. If I had made my own I wouldn't be hating myself now. Must do that at the weekend with jellytot. Keto coconut macaroons.

Big hugs xx

MeandO

Thanks loads for the info Lilty, I'll try and digest it properly tomorrow. At the moment, it all sounds like a foreign language to me.
If the doc thinks it's going to help me then I'd really like to try it, but things like this just don't sink into my head at the moment (I give you the whole tax credits debacle:o).

I found exactly the same thing with the MDA site. I did see the 'start here' bit and the 21 day course thingy but it just seemed like it was trying to sell something - am I missing a chunk of it?

Tonight I'm just simply exhausted beyond belief, so anything that gives me more energy must be worth a try!

Oh no, the waist isn't small Lilty, it's just that the huge hips and &rse combo create an optical illusion and make it appear smaller than it is! :rotfl:


Sleep well all
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MeandO

I'm a fellow granny-bobbled too Lilty - hair thicker than a thick thing and stupidly frizzy underneath too
Don't even get me started on hair clips... They're like industrial strength to keep anything off my face!
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