Well done Violet, your so focused now. Can't wait to find out how you've done on Saturday.
It's weigh in day tomorrow, I can finally update challenges and tickers as I haven't made a proper record for the last 2 weeks. I think I'm heading for 3-4lb loss. I would obviously like a bit bit more, but I think I'm too far in the plan to get the higher losses maybe, and 3-4lbs a week is pretty much average so I'm happy with that, plus if it gives you that every week then hitting a stone every month is great, there's nothing else that will give you that
Going to have a bit of a rant now!
My eldest has been back at school since Wednesday, yesterday, Thursday he comes home and tells me there was a problem at lunch time. The school don't allow nuts or chocolate bars, like mars, boost etc but do allow kit kats, penguin etc. I do understand about the ban on nuts as people do have allergies, I've never sent my lad to school with whole nuts, a)because of the nut allergy b) because he doesn't like them c) they're a choking hazard.
Yesterday he was sat at the lunch table with his other classmates and a girl (who's very loud, bossy and just generally a know it all) looked into his lunch and said "you can't eat that" pointing into his lunch box. She then, hand in the air told the lunch supervisor my lad had food with nuts. The supervisor took my sons cereal bar (it was a medley cereal bar) examined it, looked at the packaging and said "if you look here, it says may contain nuts, i've got someone who has a nut allergy if he see's this he'll have a fit" My lad put his cereal bar in his lunch box and didn't eat it. :rant2: He never answered back, he's afraid to stick up for himself in case he gets into trouble, he should've told the girl to mind her own business and eat her own lunch and stop concentrating on what everyone else is doing, but he doesn't, he's a polite, thoughtful member of the class, and this I feel will be his downfall in certain cases.
The bar he had, had tiny pieces of peanut that were crushed into miniscule pieces, you couldn't even pick them out, he had these bars every day for the whole of last year and there was never a problem. I have sent a letter in with him today, as I quite literally flipped out. I didn't like it that his food was examined, it's unacceptable and I don't think the teachers who have lunch would allow someone to examine their food. I also made the point that you can't ban every food that 'may contain nuts' 'may contain nuts as produced in a nut factory' and that over half of the kids who take a packed lunch will have foods that contain this on their food labelling. What are they going to do, ban everything that says this? (I did say that in the letter) I also stated that what he had was a cereal bar not a bag of brazils.
I expect I may have a phone call or a letter or something regarding my letter as it was rather long and my tone did come through in the letter. I was mad!
I understand that teachers have it rough these days against some parents and kids, but I've never caused a fuss, even though there are things I could've made fuss about, but I will not stand for this. I actually looked at a packet of Diary Lee dunkers, the labelling says 'may contain nuts' so does that mean that all the kids that take these can't?.... fuming I was :flamingmad:
When I was writing the letter, all my lad kept saying was, "we don't have to do this" he will have a go at home, be challenging etc but as school he won't behave that way, and doesn't like to be confrontational..I wish he did stick up for himself yesterday and I told him so and he wouldn't get into trouble for that. Rant over!
