Losingit's losing it journey

[losingit]

mmm hadn't thought of adding cheese that sounds great.

 

[losingit]

Just tried the cheese version of the flaxseed fried chicken. Very nice! I didn't have parmesan cheese but used cheddar very finely grated and it worked very well indeeed, it made the batter much thicker, almost like an Atkins version of KFC, yummy! The chicken does always look very dark when it's fried because of the flaxseed but it tastes heavenly.

On a different subject, has anyone ever had dreams that they ate loads of carbs and broke their diet? Every so often i get this, normally when i'm on a roll and doing really well and haven't broken the diet in weeks, like now. Last night i dreamed that i ate a whole bunch of grapes, and felt bad for breaking my diet and then thought "oh stuff it" and ate a whole packet of Jammy Dodgers too. Then i woke up and wasn't quite sure if i had broken the diet or not, didn't know if it had actually happened! Jumped on the scales and i hadn't gained so convinced myself it wasn't real,,... what a relief!

 

[ladyfelsham]

LOL yep I sometimes dream about bread (sorry to mention the B word!) - on Friday I dreamt I cycled to a French patisserie, bought a baguette, cycled home, then smeared it with butter and jam - and i swear I could smell the bread....

 

[moonlights]

I get that sometimes - in dreams I'm always capable of eating vastly more food than I could manage in real life which is what usually clues me in that it wasn't real...

 

[losingit]

mmm french bread sounds much more tasty than my dream of jammie dodgers lol. I don't even like them much!

 

[sammy1]

Morning, sadly I can never remember my dreams. I am going to try that flax breading this week, make a kind of chicken Kiev.

 

[losingit]

Morning everyone. Weigh in day, 2lbs down this week I'm 14 stone 7 now which was my pre Christmas weight. Glad it's finally gone, can't believe it has taken a month almost though to do it... those days of binge eating chocolate were really not worth it. All downhill from here now anyway.

 

[Supersmileyme]

Well done losing it, that's great work!

 

[stef2009]

Woohoo well done Hun!!! Xxx

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[sammy1]

Well done, I am still struggling to loose the Xmas weight.

 

[ladyfelsham]

Fab news losingit, well done girl!

 

[losingit]

sammy1, don't give up just keep plodding forwards and the christmas weight will go eventually, i know it surprised me how long it took, was hoping it'd be gone in a week but no. You said you were going to make a kind of chicken kiev with flax, how did that work out? Sounds yummy i love chicken kiev.

 

[ladyfelsham]

Oh I love chicken kiev!

 

[losingit]

me too! garlicky buttery chicken mmmmmm

 

[sammy1]

Evening, thanks for support...I haven't yet made the Kiev, I might try it for lunch tomoro....will let you know when I do.

 

[losingit]

Just got back from the supermarket, Tesco this week because my usual place (Asda) doesn't stock the unsweetened Almond milk that i love in my coffee, plus tesco have it on offer at the moment. But the trip was a bit traumatic. There was a couple there with a young boy not much younger than my little girl, probably around 4 years old. The poor kid was getting so much abuse from his parents it really upset me, you could literally hear the dad yelling at him throughout the whole shop.... and then they happened to come behind me at the checkout. The kid crouched under the checkout area where the baskets go, and the dad just yelled "you stupid stupid boy" and i just wanted to break down and cry for the poor kid . Am i being over sensitive, or is continually yelling at your kid and telling them they are stupid as horrendous as i think? I feel that i'm a pretty strict mother to my daughter and i'll admit when i'm at the end of my tether i can shout too but calling her 'stupid' over and over is the last thing i'd do no matter how bad things were. The dad kept giving the eye to the kid too, the one that says "i'm going to deal with you later".. makes me wonder what they are like in private if they are like that in a supermarket .

 

[twinkle22]

You're definitely not being too over sensitive. I hate seeing children being shouted at and threatened it really upsets me.
I always wonder why people have children if they are just going to shout and upset them xx

 

[moonlights]

That's horrible. Personally I ban the word stupid around children, I think they can end up using it as a rod to beat themselves with, but in the circumstances it seems like it was the worst of his problems. Poor thing.

 

[losingit]

I strongly believe in what we tell ourselves, makes us who we are. For instance, if you keep telling yourself you are fat and unworthy, then you end up being fat and having low self esteem. For myself, i spent years telling myself that it was hard or impossible to lose weight and keep it off, and guess what? I couldn't lose weight or keep any losses off, and gave up and just stuffed my face, for YEARS on end. This follows on to our children, if i keep telling my daughter she is stupid then she will end up thinking she is stupid and fulfilling that role in her life and giving up trying. With myself i now make a point of telling myself that i can be slim and beautiful and that if i keep trying i will eventually succeed no matter how long it takes, and likewise with my daughter, i make a point of telling her every day that she is loved and that i'm proud of her.

grrrrrr... still mad about this.

 

[moonlights]

I agree with every word, Losingit and you sound like a lovely mum. Now, altering what I tell myself is much harder than being considerate about how I speak to other people, unfortunately, but that's a lifetime of negative association to overcome. It's why making children confident in being loved is so important.