Don’t start her on the willies again! We’re not talking about meat knots are we?!

Oh my God Timmy, it just shows how easy it is to do. They say something like that, that it takes 21 days to change a habit. You don’t always equate it with changing good habits into bad though, do you? Just changing our vices, smoking, drinking, food etc? You can do it! We’ll be here like your personal ever-diminishing cheerleading pack 🙂

Yes, no need to waste good alcohol is there? One of the bottles is for 16lbs time when I’ve lost 3 stone. The other, maybe Christmas or something. Can’t believe there’s been wine in the house for two months, untouched! Pashmina of determination! I like it! I like it a lot! I may buy one in three colours!

I love my new friends 🙂

I am going to work him like a b*tch in the house this summer, to pay for the books.

And Happy Anniversary for Sunday!

Oh God, the meat knot, I was thinking about that this morning… not in a pervy way, just when you mentioned speedos. Or did I mention speedos. I don’t know. But anyway. Yeah. Meat knots. Fnarr.

Lucky you’re doing a great job by the sounds of it – and now he has the bleedin’ books so no excuses! There were a lot of people who didn’t bother to buy the books when I was in college, it was pretty common. But more to the point you’ve now got a good leverage stick (not sure that’s the right phrase?!) because you’ve just spent money on books for him which was the reason he gave for failing so now all he has he has left to do is pass. And at the end of the day it’s up to him – he has a choice to do what he can before August and if he wants to stay in college he’ll have to do it – otherwise, well he’s made a different choice – guess no harm in reminding him that he can go either way. (especially ‘cos you say he’s bright)

So enough waffle, some cat truths… (feel free to share with him;-)))) When our cat is chasing the laser pointer, he walks himself into his water bowl, bangs his head off cupboards, jumps about 5 feet in the air to get at it. When you want him to get off the counter and stop trying to stick his head in your tuna, he turns into a dead weight and becomes impossible to move….

Illuminating eh…. ;-)))))))

I think you’re great – a great example of restraint and humour and patience – AND on top of all that are well on your way to being a skinny minny, or as skinny minny as you would like to be – NO LIMITS! :-)) I totally agree – aim high, who says you can’t be any size you’d like to be – nobody. Though by the time you are fab and even more healthy than you must be already after all this cauliflower, you might not even care about being a stick – who knows what’s ahead. ***lots of clapping hands***

Awwwwwwwwwwwww Eps *hugs and thanks* that was lovely 😀 You’re right. No limits. As long as I break it down into baby steps (because another 7 stone is like sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh!) who’s to say I can’t get down to that size again? It’s obviously how I was naturally intended to be, so if I’m eating foods I’m meant to be eating, and not eating the ones I’m not, then common sense says my body should revert to type, right?

Moral of the story – always eat your tuna armed with a laser pointer????? 😉

Now THAT is saying of the day – Always eat your tuna armed with a laser pointer.

That’s my mantra. I may even have it tattooed on me. Under the pashmina of determination obviously.

hee heeeee :-))))

Yayyyyyyy I finally get a saying of the day! Nobody say anything witty now until midnight. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

if i was a visitor from another planet and read this thread that started 901 posts ago i would think what the f😀😀😀!!
on second thoughts i am thinking what the f😀😀😀 !!
have i missed something with cats ??
it is the most random thread in the land od BSD !!!!

Oh my God, 900 posts? This isn’t like Mumsnet where they can it after 1000 is it? :-O

Cat Psych 101 Tokyo, keep up, Jesus… 😉

Yes we pride ourselves on confusing anyone who dares read this. And because I am competitive I want our thread to be the longest one on BSD!!

Now, I’m thinking that maybe my fart breads could be made into a toastie. Two slabs, goats cheese and tomato in the middle then slammed into the breville. I’m working from home tomorrow. I’m going to try that 👍🏼

What is the longest thread here? Do they go over 1000 comments? I’m a bit worried now.

Oooooh a proper toastie. I think it could work, I used to use ‘crap’ thin bread in mine when dieting (Nimble, WW) and loved ham toasties with brown sauce. It could well work. You’re all doing so much better than me. I am currently wearing the Shameful Veil of Procrastination.

no need to fear lucky i have investigated and we are way behind longest post 36 pages and 1,750 or near enough !!!
procrastination about what pray tell ?

Getting her bake on I think.

Oh thank goodness, we’re only about a day or so behind, then 😉 hahahaha.

Oh, you name it Tokyo, I’m procrastinating about it today. Housework. Cooking any of these lovely new recipes. Just… pffffffffffffft. Children finish school on Tuesday… that means 6 – 7 weeks of mess and zero point in me cleaning… so I need to give the house a Summer ‘spring clean’ before that happens. Can I be bothered? Can I hell.

It’s PMT time!

Bacon Lettuce Avocado and Tomato salad tonight, with some rather nice looking roasted garlic mayo I picked up in Marks this morning. It’s my cousin’s anniversary and her two little ones have been ill all week, so I picked them up a meal deal with wine, a victoria sponge and some Reese’s Pieces and a large Toblerone. Didn’t bat an eyelid but the smell in that place – evil. Pure evil. Smelled like croissant. Timmy, can you make me a croissant candle?

oh i see !! mind you since the cookie fiasco i have not dare look at my mixer again its janey baking queen !!! i think she should go up for great british low carb bake off!!!!!

Yep Timmy, spot on. Loaf tin is out and everything, lined, pumpkin seeds, butternut squash and pfffffffffft.

my query is who is going to get the 1000 post !!!!

I think you should try the cookies again Tokyo and just adapt and amend. No salt, less sugar, less chocolate 🙂

It could even be tonight. Ooooooooooh exciting!

MEEEEEEEE!!! :-)))))

I dare say I could. But I’m currently thinking about an apple strudel one for Christmas to go with my Noelle candle, which smells like mulling spices.

hee hee sorry, got a bit ahead of myself there.

Not sure about those chick pea cookies though – I even reduced the coconut sugar by two thirds (which made them taste kind of almost sweet) but even then they definitely affected scales for a few days. Now weekends are never as good as during the week but still, I hadn’t really eaten much else over the 800 so suspect No.1 is those biscuits… BE WARNED 🙂

ha ha ha ha M&S and that damn cookie smell they pump through the air conditioning… they do!!

Ah ok. I have to say I’ve been constantly ‘good’ on this, I haven’t eaten more on weekends than during the week, so it’s hard for me to say at the moment if things like this affect me. I’ve made blueberry muffins and the blueberry scones and aside from the one time each – they’re languishing in the freezer lol. I’m not a biscuit person myself anyway, but damn they don’t half look good. The smell nearly finished me in Marks, I tell you. I’ve only just managed to start walking past Greggs without openly weeping. Will have to give M&S a wide berth, I think.

Oooooooh Timmy that sounds good. Just smells you have to have at Christmas 🙂

My missus makes amazing cakes and she cooked a batch of cupcakes yesterday for the kids. She left the icing off one for me which I duly ate after my steak. To be honest, my tastebuds have changes and although it was nice, I much preferred a bit of peanut butter on ryvitta!

Eps, I finished Girl on the Train by the way. Oh my. Did see it coming by about 2/3 of the way through, but not… completely either. Vague but not spoiler-ing it for Janey. These books don’t half creep me out. Makes you look at people in a different light.

See Timmy, I’m hoping I feel like that, because I’m seeing it in the sweetness of normal things. Almonds for example, never noticed before how sweet they were. Just normal fruit. I haven’t had anything I shouldn’t have had in the last nearly 5 weeks, so I won’t be able to tell until I do. But I do know I found the scones I baked overbearingly sweet. I am lucky in that I am more savoury inclined anyway.

Peanut butter on wholemeal toast…

Peanut butter on chickpea wrap, toasted?

Can you toast a chickpea wrap?

Hmmm…

Just eat it straight off the spoon! My son eats hummus off a spoon. It make my missus wretch.

Unfortunately most standard weights/calories of a teaspoon of peanut butter and MY idea of teaspoon of peanut butter are not the same thing 😉 Level vs heaped etc. I watered some down ever so slightly the other week, added some hot chilli flakes and used it as a dip for celery and cucumber. That was nice. I’ve never had hummus before, I’ve got some in the fridge, a chilli one from Tesco.

You’ve never had hummus? WTAF? We get through buckets of it in my house every week! I thought it was a staple of everyones diet, lol!

We’ve got a proper teaspoon measuring thingy. Makes it far easier when you’re cooking.

Never, ever, ever.

Yes I have measuring teaspoons but they’re like slidey ones so you can change the measurement and besides which, I like my teaspoon of peanut butter better. Or, my finger straight in the jar. No judging, it’s only me that eats the stuff in this house 😉

I’m curious now about this thing you call hummus. Is it that good? I do see a lot of people go on about it, just never appealled to me. Might try mine for lunch tomorrow then.

Lucky – it WILL be this time – if you are like me and have decades of fruitless anxiety about weight and failed or abandoned diets – what I now tell myself is ‘this WILL work and I will stick with it because I don’t want to have to do this again’
Jill

Did someone say humus?? Love it. Bloody kids love it too and keep dunking their cocktail sausages in it when I’m not looking 😡

SVP – Shameful Veil of Procrastination. Hahaha, we are divising a complete wardrobe of mood swings. Someone needs that robe of smugness back on.

Think I will cook the Paleo cookies for my boy’s summer party this weekend. Leave the Willies out tho, they’re too good for small boys. That’s sounds very wrong actually 😳

Challenge on who hits the 1000th post.. We will be slowing down and speeding up, trying to hit it!

i am posting in defence of m and s !!! most saturday i go in and we have a m and s tea !!! i have still gone in whilst doing this and avoided putting all the things i normally put in my basket but found plenty of things i can have so my defence rests in the case against m and s !!!
and no i dont like hummus!!! the very thought shudders my bones !!

Absolutely love hummus – Lucky you’re in for a treat! 🙂 Though not a very big portion of treat – I don’t seem to be able to eat that much of it on 800 calories a day!!! It’s those chickpeas… or the oil.. both good but I guess calories build up and combine to create such deliciously creamy goodness!

Yes Jill. I have a good feeling about this. 24/25 years of slimming clubs, at the start only about half a stone to lose, going up to 18 stone 10 at my highest, when I did my last stint in WW after my father’s heart attack, and having half my body weight plus to lose. I lost 4 and a half stone then… put all but half a stone back on by New Year’s Day. I’m only short too – five foot one and a half. It feels different because I don’t feel like I’m on a diet. I don’t feel hungry. I don’t feel denied because we’re all working in our little way to come up with acceptable alternatives (chickpea ‘wraps’, farty flatbreds, scones, cookies, muffins, crackers, breads) but I think the main part is, and I don’t know if anyone agrees with me, is that we’ve kicked/are kicking the carb and sugar addiction. On other diets/plans, you can still eat chocolate, still eat crisps, still eat potatoes. It doesn’t work. You always end up wanting more. So I think if any plan is going to be successful, it’s this one. Apart from a tiny bit of carb flu, there’s been no adverse effects on me. It doesn’t feel like a diet. There’s nothing to fall off the wagon for, we don’t want it any more, we don’t need it, we have alternatives – as long as we plan and adapt, and know what we can and can’t eat. I think we all have an element of what you were saying before about being on the road a lot and it being hard (not all of us to your extent though) but it can be done.

Going to have to go through this thread with a fine toothcomb and get a word doc sorted with all the different expressions… Shame we can’t do a FAQ or pinned post at the top.
Pot of Hurrah – Commonly served after successful avoidance of cake all afternoon.
Tutting at Wilted Kale – When something doesn’t quite meet your exacting standards. See: KALE; YANKEE CANDLES
How Much! – See: HOLLAND & BARRETT; ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING TEXTBOOKS; JO MALONE CANDLES
Robes/Capes of Smugness – Items of clothing worn by those feeling righteously smug. This can be for cake avoidance, getting into a lower size, or just because they are of a smug nature, ordinarily.
Shameful Veil of Procrastination – When you’re just sat looking at a PC/phone/tablet screen, waiting for someone to answer your last post, rather than baking the pumpkin seed bread.
Meat Knot – Ahem…
Keep your Chickpeas Chunky – self explanatory. Don’t blend them to a pulp. Fool.
The ‘Well, That Didn’t Work’ Cookbook – For the time being, a mythical, but also very real cookbook of BSD recipes that we hoped would work, but didn’t.
Farty Bread – A brocolli based flat-bread that smells of fart.

Any more for any more?

Haha Tokyo, you would make a good defence lawyer!

Eps, I think it was about 150 for a quarter of a tub, which would be ample for me with some veggie sticks. Glorious orange colour too. I hope it is spicy.

Never forget…

– Eat your tuna armed with a laser pointer (for when cat based psychology is required)
– don your Pashmina of Determination (for when the going gets tough and you can’t have a biscuit)

WRITE THESE DOWN LUCKY!

How did I forget the Pashmina, it was only like, an hour ago or something!! Didn’t Tokyo come out with another one around the time of the pot of hurrah? Something to do with ‘me’?

see you think that’s loads and then you’ll taste it…. :-)))))

You can add in roasted peppers and other delicious stuff too if you make it from scratch – I should again… soon…

Just had a tub of green leaves and a spoon of peanut butter there – delicious. It was all that talk of it before, reminded me!

The glossary is hilarious… you’re wasted on procrastination. 🙂

Ah is it one of those, is it? Before I know it the whole pot is gone and I’ve got 150 calories left for tea? I’ve just had my BLAT salad, oh my days I enjoyed it so much. I baby love spinach leaves and peanut butter.

Haha, thank you 🙂 But I can’t take all the credit. It’s a team effort. And remember. There’s no ‘ME’ in ‘TEAM’.

Unless you move the letters.

Sorry, just seen that on Amazing World of Gumball and it tickled me 😉 I’m a total child, I know.

Now – what new book to start reading? I’m still in a novel mood now after Girl on the Train.

Oh God. I do not ‘baby love’ Spinach. I do not, I repeat, I do not have a spinach fetish. I ‘love baby’ Spinach.

*Facepalm*

3 hours and 16 minutes later, Lucky is sobbing. “Where IS everyone?” she wept.

Hee heee was at cinema, kind of funny, called Maggies plan.

Did you find a new book? Hmmm my next one to read is called All the light we cannot see – haven’t started yet but looks good?

Hungry but just having cup of herbal tea😳😂 Have to play with the cat, he’s chasing up and down the corridor pretending to see ghosts so I think that means he’s been bored all day, there was nobody home.

hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

lol at spinach fetish!

Have you read The Book Thief?

Well, am I glad you two showed up! I was just about to go and retrieve the ‘Slippers of Sulkiness’.

I haven’t heard of yours Eps, but I think I read yours Izzy (Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii back 🙂 ), is it a few years old now, set in WW2?

I’m sat with water. I had a bar of mousse chocolate just. I reorganised kitchen cupboard. It looks like the kitchen cupboard of people I would try to avoid barely two months ago lol. Flaxseed… coconut flour… chickpea flour… sesame seeds… pumpkin seeds.

I’m finishing off a self-help type book that I hadn’t quite got to the end of. Next I think I’m going to go forrrrrrrrrrrrr…. Between You and Me or Bone by Bone. Or I might read Gretchen Rubin’s Better than Before, I liked her last two books. Ooooh just found ‘Goddesses Never Age’ too. Stop me buying books!

Awwww is the cat on a mad one, Eps? Bless 🙂

am here and now your gone lucky always the way !! i am impressed with how many sayings we have conbled together !! a feast of them !!
i have given the 1000th post sime thought !! and i am nominating lucky to write it she started this whole escapade on this thread only fitting shes takes the 1000th !!!! and i know you lucky you will make it a good one !!!!

No, I’m still here Tokyo 🙂 I read a few pages and then I check my email 🙂

Awwwwwww that’s sweet lol. But I don’t really mind, there will be another milestone. Imagine if there’s a really good conversation going on and I’m asleep or shopping or cleaning and everyone would have to be in limbo until I showed my face 🙂 I may have started the thread but you’re all equals on the journey and in creating the laughter and friendship 🙂

yes the bookthief has been around a while. I don’t normally enjoy books set in wartimes but the perspective it was written from and the story was a real surprise to me I loved it. I’ve read it twice. The movie is rubbish tho…

If you are interested in creativity Try Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic. The same author as eat pray love. I never liked eat pray love and never finished the book, but I’ve read Big Magic twice.

I enjoyed Girl on The train as well.

I loved Stephen Kings The Green Mile – I expected it to be a heavy read but it was very easy to read and the movie was reasonably close to the book.

Room- I forget the author but an interesting tale of a girl abducted and held prisoner for years in one room.

The Chimp Paradox – an easy to read book about why people behave in certain ways. Not a novel but a book I’ve enjoyed nonetheless.

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, an odd but interesting tale about a world that exists underneath London that no one sees.