Slimming world advice please :)

[AngelUK]

Oh wow that sounds bad. Hope your LO recovers really soon! Poor thing!
As for being hungry, eat! Just do it sensibly! And if you are struggling, talk to us and/or your consultant. Hope you lost something anyway cause I bet after that night you could do with a boost too!

 

[nicki01]

I keep craving chocolate and redbull! I want to eat a whole bar of galaxy lol!
When I get hungry I try and fill up on fruit and then have my sw rocky road bar in the evening with a cuppa.
Last week I mostly ate jacket potatoes and omelette for my dinner whereas this week I've been eating my usual dinner like steak and potatoes with green beans and sausage casserole with salad all cooked in sw way and syned what I need to. So I think I'm thinking I may not have lost because I haven't changed my food whereas actually I have been doing 1/3 super free and frylight etc. I hope I have lost as then it will boost my confidence that just the small changes to my usual foods are making a difference!
Waffled on a bit there but hopefully it makes sense!!

Charlie hasn't been sick since 5am and I've anti bacteria sprayed my entire house and washing everything at 60 degrees so hopefully I've kicked the bug! Praying my 1 year old doesn't get it.
I bathed Charlie and she got out and ran round my bedroom bouncing on the bed so she is feeling much better!

 

[AngelUK]

It absolutely made sense. It does seem to me that the little bit of change IS what is needed but we shall see. I am crossing my fingers for you!

Your little girl does sound as if she has kicked the bug! Dominic had it the other week and he was fine the next day so I think these bugs usually don't last long. And phew, Sebastian didn't get it, either. So FX too that Tori doesn't get it

 

[Katerz]

Eeeeek got some catching up to do I shall do it at weigh in later. I'm not feeling hopeful this week

 

[Katerz]

Hit target woop woop!

 

[AngelUK]

Ooh congrats and well done! We would miss you here though so do come and tell us how you are doing maintaining etc?

 

[Katerz]

I'll still stick around, I think I'm boring hubby with slimming world chat haha!

 

[AngelUK]

hehe poor hubby
35lbs is just so amazing! Do you feel fantastic?! I bet you have lost quite few dress sizes there, are going to shop for new things or do you still have nice things from before?

 

[baileybubs]

Nicki sorry to hear bout your LO, sounds like she's feeling better already though. And don't worry about not losing I'm sure you will, just the little changes can make a massive difference. It's once we have started losing the weight I think we will need to be more cautious of syns. For now I'm sure my bodies just losing the weight coz I'm not eating all the rubbish I used to!
And slimming world can be deceiving, you can still eat all the things you like it's just about moderation isn't it?

Katerz well done and congratulations on hitting target!!! That must feel amazing!! Deffo stick around Hun!

I'm so hungry today and I don't know why? I'm starving right now and don't know what to eat. I'm sick of having fruit all the time but I don't know what else to have and I've used enough syns for today so have none spare really

 

[AngelUK]

Have you got potatoes and maybe some baked beans or cottage cheese? I usually have a side salad with that or maybe just cucumber.

 

[baileybubs]

Think I'm gonna make a quick potato rosti and have it with poached egg and spinach. That should fill me! Just need to get this little chap out of my arms and into his cot lol!

 

[AngelUK]

oooh that sounds wonderful!

 

[baileybubs]

I've just gotta hope ds let's me have enough time to make it! He's fast asleep in my arms coz I'm struggling getting him to sleep in his cot and he disturbs dd so I let him fall asleep downstairs then take him up. Fingers crossed he goes into his cot ok!

 

[AngelUK]

Oh FX! Mine were crap sleepers at that age so I sympathise!

 

[nicki01]

Wow well done katerz, that's brilliant!
Got my little monsters to bed but tori is whimpering in her sleep so I'm wondering if she is getting sick now!!
Both my girls are bad sleepers, its a nightmare!
Charlie wakes up from 1am till 5am and repeatedly talks about numberjacks and tori still at 15 months old wakes every 3 hours!! Its improved in the last 6 weeks tho, she was 2 hourly since birth so 3 is moving forward I guess!
I don't know if lack of sleep will affect my weight, I've put on a stone since I had her!

 

[AngelUK]

I put on about that too since I had my boys and mostly in that first sleepless year. Definitely makes me comfort eat when I have not had enough sleep. And OH and I bickered soo much it was awful, so there was also an element of misery too which also makes me eat!
Dominic went through months and months of waking every 45 minutes and a night where I got two two hour blocks of sleep was brilliant! Sigh. In the end we did a type of sleep training where we we went to him when he woke but didn't pick him up and just silently sat with him. It took about 3 nights for him to no longer wake in between his feeds. And then I started watering down his 4am bottle more and more and he stopped waking for that and then suddenly he didn't wake for his midnight bottle any more either. It was like a dream come true. lol
FX your LOs soon sleep better too!

 

[Katerz]

hehe poor hubby
35lbs is just so amazing! Do you feel fantastic?! I bet you have lost quite few dress sizes there, are going to shop for new things or do you still have nice things from before?

I feel fab! It's been a very long time since I was this size I've gone from 16 to 10-12. I am smaller than I was at my wedding!

I need to do a big clothes shop but it's having the cash to do that lol my birthday is next month so I have asked for shop vouchers so I can go mad. It's so hard to shop and not end up with stuff for LO haha

 

[Katerz]

When I'm feeling peckish I like to make syn free potato wedges ping them I'm the microwave for a few mins then put in the oven yum!

I won an actifry a couple if months ago THEY ARE BRILLIANT!

We have been so so fortunate with Lily sleeping, she's gone through the night since she was teeny, when she does have a bad night its a total shock to the system...and usually when I have work the next day cheeky monkey!

Right i think I'm all caught up apologies if I have missed anything!

 

[baileybubs]

Aw I bet that will be great when you can go and buy all those new clothes in your new size katerz! I can't wait for that!

My dd is a great sleeper, she sleeps 7-7 but that's only been since she was about 6 monts. Before that we had night wakings and a phase of waking for the day at 5.30! She was quite colicky though and demanding during the day. Ds on the other hand is a dream during the day, so laid back and easy going (although naps are stating to become a pain coz all of a sudden he's needing movement to fall asleep), but at night he sleeps 8-1 and then wakes every 1-2 hours coz he wriggle so much be wakes himself. If I cuddle him or move his position he calms down half the time but the rest I need to either give him a bottle or rock him in the nursing chair. I'm definately the same with the sleep deprivation and bickering with df, I then comfort eat. I also tend to start feeling a bit isolated and cabin fever coz I never go out and df works evenings so I eat coz I think it's the only luxury I have, can't even get a shower or bath these days most of the time lol!

I just tried the rocky road hi fi bar and it's yummy! Prefer the double choc one though I think.

 

[baileybubs]

Just realised that made me sound a bit icky lol, I do get a shower but it's usually a 30 second one when df has ever so kindly taken 30 mins getting ready himself and we only have 5 mins til he leaves for work, would love a nice relaxing bath one of these days lol!