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maman

Feel for you and your family @Coxy11. We went through it with DGD, brought on by exam stress. She fortunately had support from CAMHS (really lucky as that's like hen's teeth around here ☹️) but she took control by cooking for herself. She went from trying vegan then vegetarian to fish until she's now eating everything. I do hope your SIL gets the same good outcome. 🤗

It is irritating that the app keeps telling you to go to WI weeks ahead @Coxy11. It needs an ignore button! 😁

Don't blame you having a take away @annabanana82. I'd want it at Thorpe Park! Fortunately, our DDs have outgrown it but I remember it well. 😁

Can't believe you put so many plants in @bubbs. Do you open your garden to the public? And sell ice cream? 🤣🤣

beanielou

coxy~~so so sorry.
Just sounds so grim.
Was it this SIL who lost her son?     xxx

beanielou

Lost 1lb tonight.

bubbs

Ahhh i see Coxy, i mis read it, i thought no way you was out of target 😂

Maman, no i don't 😂 still didn't have enough plants either , i also used 150l of compost!

When i worked in the bakery, we had a saturday girl who was 6ft tall and 6 stone 😱😱 she would nibble at a crumb like it was a loaf! she ended up being admitted and no eating meant no visitors , she was chubby but by no means fat and wanted to lose about a stone and she said she found it easy to lose the weight and then didn't know when to stop  
She would go out in her lunch break , come back and say she had eaten when we damn well knew she hadn't!

maman

Well done on your 1lb @beanielou. 👏👏👏 Are you going for a new target? You can't be far off. 🤔

beanielou

maman said:

Well done on your 1lb @beanielou. 👏👏👏 Are you going for a new target? You can't be far off. 🤔

Not at the moment maman.
I think I am 1 1/2 under target.
If I did drop my target it would not be until I was out of the bottom of target range.
Hope that makes sense!

maman

Just out of curiosity @beanielou, how does it work? If, for example, your target weight was 9st 7lbs and you went down to 9st 3, could you aim for  a target of 9 st  or would it have to be 8st 10 lbs? If that makes sense! 🤣

joedenise

Morning all, still breezy here and have had to do another load of washing and will get it out on the line! later  Really annoyed as had hoped not to do any more but DH got grease on a pair of cream coloured trousers so had to wash them but decided it was too late to hang them out last night.

Well done @beanielou on your lb loss.  You're doing well as you always do when you put your mind to it!

@maman - the reduction in target weights is in 7lb from original target so in your example it would be 9 stone, although it can be reduced by a smaller amount if you decided after a very short time that you had made a mistake.  So for example if you'd opted for 9st 7lb and then was down to 9st 3lb by the next week you could decide to call target at that weight or even 9 stone at that point - hope that makes sense!

DH is off to play golf this morning as he wants to try out his new to him golf buggy - well that's his excuse!  I think he just wants to play as won't get a chance during June!

Today's plan:

B - sweet omelette, mixed frozen fruit, yoghurt - P; S; F
L -  Pizza - HEB; HEA2; S; F
D - butter chicken, rice - P; S; F; 3

HEA1 - milk
HEA2 - mozzarella
HEB - schlar roll
Syns - 1/2 Tbs butter 3; will probably have a Skinny Crunch bar later 3

Have a good day everyone.

Coxy11

Morning all,

Thanks for all the comments about SIL. No @beanielou this is DH's brothers' wife. It was my sister who lost a son. DH's sister (registered nurse) had a text from BIL last night saying SIL had put on 5lb in 21 days since leaving hospital "so you do the math" - such a flippant comment. We have no idea if that's about right/too much/too little as they don't have a meal/nutrition plan but are going it alone. He has a messiah complex. I'm going to contact a clinical psychologist at work today to see if he thinks we should be doing more.

In the meantime my sore throat is agony despite me taking medication. Sure it's the bloomin' stress.

130L of compost @bubbs!!!

The roast dinner was lovely last night but I ate alone as DH didn't get back from DS1's until 7pm. No food or drink offered all day so he was very hangry!! Hopefully I wasn't too far over syns as you're right @joedenise I could use part of my HEXA for the cheese sauce.

WFH today thank goodness. Food will be:

B: poached egg, mushrooms, tomatoes, 1 x WM toast - P, S, 1/2 HEB
L: Mackerel in hot tomato sauce*, 1 x WM toast, lettuce, pickles - free, 1/2 HEB, S
Stuffed pork fillet, SW wedges, roasted red onion, BNS and carrots - 1
HEA - milk
Syns - skinny bar 3 plus 1 so 4 total

*It's a range called Grace and a large 400g can. Anyone tried this one before?

ruby_eskimo

Morning all.  

Really hope SIL gets the help soon @Coxy11 and BIL wakes up and stops doing more harm than good.

Hope your dad gets to his placement soon @bubbs, it's stupid that everything shuts down for the bank holiday.

Well done on your loss @beanielou and hope your DS enjoys his new school!

I haven't been to Thorpe Park in years @annabanana82 but hope you're having fun.  We're off to Chessington hopefully in June so DH can do the penguin experience and we can get a theme park fix.

Hope you have a good time away in France @joedenise and DH enjoys his golf fix today!

So dad is still in hospital.  Can't remember when I last posted but he was left in a corridor on Thursday for over 8 hours, no food, no drink (other than the water I'd bought for him the night before), no shower, not told where the toilets were etc.  He called me and asked to be picked up and when I got there I was raging.  Made even worse by the nurse in charge then going out of her way to avoid me when she knew I wanted to talk to her (I wasn't being aggressive or shouting, she was just feeling guilty I think).  He's on the gastro ward, waiting to have fluid drained (hoping it's tomorrow or Thursday) and then he'll be seeing the specialists in London (hopefully next week or the week after).

Made it home for a night on Friday to get more clothes, weighed myself and I've lost 1.5 lbs which was a nice bonus from all the stress!  Not only is it stressful having my dad being unwell, my mum has developed sever agoraphobia since all the lockdowns so hasn't really left the house in 3 years, and getting her out to visit him has been a struggle.  There's also loads of niggly (and also quite big) jobs that need doing around the house so I'm trying to get her to make a start on the things she can do (like decluttering...) but it's a struggle.  Need to take her to the bank this afternoon to sort her account out which will be fun.  Oh and then yesterday when we got back from visiting Dad, we were locked out of the house because apparently "the catch on that doors been a bit funny for a few months" so had to send mother into the neighbours while I got a locksmith out to replace the lock.  

Apologies for the long post, I'm literally at breaking point here and don't really know where to start with sorting everything out, plus have to fit some work in around everything because I have no annual leave left for the year due to all the trips DH has booked for us, and I'm only entitled to 1 day of carer's leave for the whole year.  

Right anyway back to SW to keep this on topic: had shredded wheat and a satsuma for breakfast, lunch will be a chicken salad and dinner is whatever there is in the hospital canteen (maybe a jacket potato).

Hope everyone is having a better day than me!