Alexmummy's learning journey...
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alexmummy07
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Sorry for not updating. I'm O.k. - just 'stuff' going on. Hard to explain.
I'll be back shortly though. Diet going ok though x
I'll be back shortly though. Diet going ok though x
Laura Croft
Happily maintaining
Take care of you x
alexmummy07
Silver Member
Hi All
I promise you all the reason behind my not being on here will not de-rail my diet success, if anything 'IT' will only push me forward to achieving better and quicker (should the body allow of course).
I can't post on here 'what' but we are all ok, just feel very sad at a situation that is so very 'obsessive'.
Anyway, I haven't yet stood on the scales but I will do, as it's been one of those mornings where I haven't had time to do anything yet except look after Alex. I think he is teething a lot - the molars at the back I think, so I have now given him some calprofen which slowly seems to be calming the pain and he is sat quietly with me. He doesn't want to cuddle, just to sit quietly - bless. He had quite a restless nights sleep so I don't think it will be too long before he goes down for a sleep today, which will give me chance to tidy up and then to read more into my course-work for this year. Looking forward to starting properly soon x
I promise you all the reason behind my not being on here will not de-rail my diet success, if anything 'IT' will only push me forward to achieving better and quicker (should the body allow of course).
I can't post on here 'what' but we are all ok, just feel very sad at a situation that is so very 'obsessive'.
Anyway, I haven't yet stood on the scales but I will do, as it's been one of those mornings where I haven't had time to do anything yet except look after Alex. I think he is teething a lot - the molars at the back I think, so I have now given him some calprofen which slowly seems to be calming the pain and he is sat quietly with me. He doesn't want to cuddle, just to sit quietly - bless. He had quite a restless nights sleep so I don't think it will be too long before he goes down for a sleep today, which will give me chance to tidy up and then to read more into my course-work for this year. Looking forward to starting properly soon x
curlywurly1234
Cambridge Consultant
Hon,
Hope all ok........ big hugs and hope the scales are moving for you too.
Take care xxxx
Hope all ok........ big hugs and hope the scales are moving for you too.
Take care xxxx
alexmummy07
Silver Member
quick update - scales down - 2lbs over the weekend 10 stone 4 - that's fine - happy with that 
much better than 10 stone 10 last week - so 6lbs in a week! - love 810 for that
Going shopping tonight - have small problem that my phone is broken at the moment. Receiving a new one tomorrow (thanks to my mum) as it had to be on a new network as 3 were really messing around and wouldn't price match anywhere near o2's offer, and asking £150 for a phone...don't think so!
So, have lost my CDC's number to get more supplies. I am trying to find her e-mail/landline but she moved, and couldn't get hold of her on her landline when I tried before as she moved house and hadn't updated her landline on the CD website.
Anyway - will keep trying.
If worst comes to worst, I will have to 1000 for a few days with the best I can do. Not ideal, but...x
much better than 10 stone 10 last week - so 6lbs in a week! - love 810 for that
Going shopping tonight - have small problem that my phone is broken at the moment. Receiving a new one tomorrow (thanks to my mum) as it had to be on a new network as 3 were really messing around and wouldn't price match anywhere near o2's offer, and asking £150 for a phone...don't think so!
So, have lost my CDC's number to get more supplies. I am trying to find her e-mail/landline but she moved, and couldn't get hold of her on her landline when I tried before as she moved house and hadn't updated her landline on the CD website.
Anyway - will keep trying.
If worst comes to worst, I will have to 1000 for a few days with the best I can do. Not ideal, but...x
*butterfly*
Silver Member
Sorry to hear you're having a rough time. Sympathies with Alex teething, poor little mite, makes you feel so useless doesn't it. Just a very unofficial, potential helpful hint, Tesco's ultraslim range are virtually identical to CD in the composition of vits/mins and nutrition, but do have more cals (about 215-250) so could be used in emergency if you didn't want to veer too far from 810. xx
curlywurly1234
Cambridge Consultant
Hey hon
Great loss well done you..
Awww poor little Alex hope his not suffering to much hon xx
Great loss well done you..
Awww poor little Alex hope his not suffering to much hon xx
alexmummy07
Silver Member
Hi Ladies
Firstly thanks butterfly for the unofficial advice - I had been looking at the Tesco Ultraslim but wasn't sure. Yesterday I had totally off -track. I ended up having a slim-fast shake, nothing for lunch (though had planned a CD soup - it's all I had left, though I detest them, and think this is why I avoided it so much) then in the evening at mum's had 1 1/2 chicken fajita's with cheese and salad cream, and then (oh yes there's an 'and then') I had tried a new recipe for mini vanilla cheesecake's with strawberry topping, so I had that too - it was 'mini', as I had made them in cake cases, and I did have one, but doesn't really make up for it. I think I know in my head I don't have any packs left so have been panicking a lot more than I have thought, and mini binged in there too.
So after today (because we have family over tonight so I will be having small amount of the cheesecake with them as I can't make it without tasting it- I don't mean in the sense of 'I shouldn't' - I mean literally, it's for DP's family, so if I don't taste it before I give it to them, then I will be panicking on how it tastes, so have to make sure the vanilla topping etc is 'right'), I will be up to 1000 (with unofficial Ultra slim supplies, so prob will be about 1100) just for a couple of days whilst I try and somehow get hold of CDC!
Today I have so far had,
2 weetabix
cranberry bar (love them!)
Have lots of fruit at the ready
Steak and Stout Casserole in the slow cooker
Small 'mini' cheesecake.
Firstly thanks butterfly for the unofficial advice - I had been looking at the Tesco Ultraslim but wasn't sure. Yesterday I had totally off -track. I ended up having a slim-fast shake, nothing for lunch (though had planned a CD soup - it's all I had left, though I detest them, and think this is why I avoided it so much) then in the evening at mum's had 1 1/2 chicken fajita's with cheese and salad cream, and then (oh yes there's an 'and then') I had tried a new recipe for mini vanilla cheesecake's with strawberry topping, so I had that too - it was 'mini', as I had made them in cake cases, and I did have one, but doesn't really make up for it. I think I know in my head I don't have any packs left so have been panicking a lot more than I have thought, and mini binged in there too.
So after today (because we have family over tonight so I will be having small amount of the cheesecake with them as I can't make it without tasting it- I don't mean in the sense of 'I shouldn't' - I mean literally, it's for DP's family, so if I don't taste it before I give it to them, then I will be panicking on how it tastes, so have to make sure the vanilla topping etc is 'right'), I will be up to 1000 (with unofficial Ultra slim supplies, so prob will be about 1100) just for a couple of days whilst I try and somehow get hold of CDC!
Today I have so far had,
2 weetabix
cranberry bar (love them!)
Have lots of fruit at the ready
Steak and Stout Casserole in the slow cooker
Small 'mini' cheesecake.
*butterfly*
Silver Member
Aww, try not to panic hun. Just remember any gains/bloating will be the glycogen thing, as your cals are still below maintenance level, even given the mini cheesecakes. Love the steak casserole, never tried it in slow cooker - good tip! xx
alexmummy07
Silver Member
TOTM now also - so that def won't help the scales, so I'm just not looking at the moment.
Today I am very much back 'on it' - have a planned lunch out with a good friend, and planning a light chicken, with salad and mushrooms, and then will have a bar for tea tonight. It's the night before work, so always have lots to do, so think it will work out right anyway.
One of my ramblings, but it's so strange how my going with OH to work in the mornings (we only have one car, so any days' that I need to go anywhere in particular I take him to work and then come back) I am so much more organised and have so much more energy in the day. My house is immaculate already, and always is when I have taken him to work, whereas when I know I am 'stuck in the house' I almost feel like I can't be bothered, when I shouldn't feel that way.
Anyway, it is a beautiful day outside, the nicest I have seen for a long time, no snow, no rain, no grey sky - just lovely. Almost would be a perfect day to do the mountain - except I feel it would be so so so cold!
I will catch up on everyone's diaries soon I promise. Things have just gone a bit hectic the last few days. XX
Today I am very much back 'on it' - have a planned lunch out with a good friend, and planning a light chicken, with salad and mushrooms, and then will have a bar for tea tonight. It's the night before work, so always have lots to do, so think it will work out right anyway.
One of my ramblings, but it's so strange how my going with OH to work in the mornings (we only have one car, so any days' that I need to go anywhere in particular I take him to work and then come back) I am so much more organised and have so much more energy in the day. My house is immaculate already, and always is when I have taken him to work, whereas when I know I am 'stuck in the house' I almost feel like I can't be bothered, when I shouldn't feel that way.
Anyway, it is a beautiful day outside, the nicest I have seen for a long time, no snow, no rain, no grey sky - just lovely. Almost would be a perfect day to do the mountain - except I feel it would be so so so cold!
I will catch up on everyone's diaries soon I promise. Things have just gone a bit hectic the last few days. XX
Do you know, I have never, ever, ever been able to say that. :sigh: Perhaps there's a link to this and my previous mucking around with CD. Hmm......
Well done though Claire, on staying on track, send some of that sunshine this way please, we have rain, rain, rain. Yuk.
alexmummy07
Silver Member
The last few days haven't been good food wise. I was going to add a 'but' there...I won't. They just haven't been good days.
Today has been better. I feel like I have 'missed out' again on fruit and so on, so have been self sabotaging my attempts.
So, this is it now, now more messing about. I will take the glycogen gain (and any other gain) on the chin - I've got to! and learn to diet/eat more naturally, as at some stage I know I have to. I have to train for the mountain climb, so I have to have calories, and I also feel I have relied for far too long on packs, so I am upping to 1200 cals and going to stay there (or at least really really try)
I am scared, as I know how the scales react, but I also know that I have got to take a leap at some stage, and kick-start my bodies metabolism at some point. I know I have GOT to exercise, and so I need the calories in order to do so.
So today...I have had:
1127 cals:
2 weetabix plus skimmed milk
Tesco Ultra-slim meal bar
Banana
Clementines
Home cooked Cottage Pie (no salt)
I made this with parsnip mash and my own stock - fresh veg etc
Sainsburys Probiotics Yoghurt
2 Litres water.
Tonight I feel 'comfortably' full, and keeping my fingers crossed that I can do this now. I feel like I started Jan so well, and now have fallen flat on my face again x
Today has been better. I feel like I have 'missed out' again on fruit and so on, so have been self sabotaging my attempts.
So, this is it now, now more messing about. I will take the glycogen gain (and any other gain) on the chin - I've got to! and learn to diet/eat more naturally, as at some stage I know I have to. I have to train for the mountain climb, so I have to have calories, and I also feel I have relied for far too long on packs, so I am upping to 1200 cals and going to stay there (or at least really really try)
I am scared, as I know how the scales react, but I also know that I have got to take a leap at some stage, and kick-start my bodies metabolism at some point. I know I have GOT to exercise, and so I need the calories in order to do so.
So today...I have had:
1127 cals:
2 weetabix plus skimmed milk
Tesco Ultra-slim meal bar
Banana
Clementines
Home cooked Cottage Pie (no salt)
I made this with parsnip mash and my own stock - fresh veg etc
Sainsburys Probiotics Yoghurt
2 Litres water.
Tonight I feel 'comfortably' full, and keeping my fingers crossed that I can do this now. I feel like I started Jan so well, and now have fallen flat on my face again
x
