My daughter has only been off school for 2 weeks and i've already put on 4lb!! i cant stop nibbling :rolleyes:
My routine has changed so i find myself more at home than when shes at school and i must be getting bored or else she wants to eat at odd times so i find myself eating when she does!!

eg i dont do breakfast until 11am she wants dinner by 12 (as she would at school) so i find myself making us both a dinner (when i've only eaten brekkie an hour before!) then she has tea at 4pm (so do i) then hubby comes home at 6pm and has his tea (and so do i :D) then we have cheese on toast for supper

Please help its serious!! i have a breed club dinner dance next saturday and already my dress is tight :rolleyes:

if someone could offer to take my daughter for say? 4weeks i think that may work

You just have to replace the fatty foods for something leafy green I m afraid,there really is no way out,nibbles should be fruit aswell,Im going to a wedding in 4 weeks, got the lovely dress, but could lose 3,4 pounds to feel really good,not a lot I know,but I got a lecture from my boss today when I said about it so I am passing it on.
Its rabbit food for snax and no choclate:rolleyes:

if someone could offer to take my daughter for say? 4weeks i think that may work

Ok it is a deal

Lucy
xx

ps did I say the otherside of the deal was to have madam Indigo for the next 18 years :D :D

ok 4 weeks versus 18 years no deal lucy :D

Darn it, i know what it is the dogs dont get walked enough when shes off school and i say oh i'll walk them at night instead of a quick run round the strawberry fields but by the time hubby comes home i've stuffed my face i dont want to move!

Cut up a load of salad stuff or fruit and niblle on that.  Drink loads of water.  People often mistake hunger for thirst.  Get out there with your dogs  :)

have you and your daughter got a bike? if yes take your daughter out for a bike ride, ive lost loads of weight just by cycling to work (5 miles up hill most of the way) in less than a month i dropped down a dress size.

tanya

ok 4 weeks versus 18 years no deal lucy

She is not THAT bad

(OK she is and she is so lucky that she has reached the big 3 tomorrow :) :D )

Eat sausages and beetroot all day and you can't go wrong :D (Hey HG ;) )

My daughter is disabled so limited walking during the day i do take her but shes confined to the van so then i cant stray too far! i have to wait for hubby to come home which by that time i'm done for.

Right i'm sooo determined thanks guys water/veggies i'm on it!!

Lucy i ate beetroot my pee turned red was mighty shocking!

>my pee turned red<

I never knew that!!! eeeeuw!!
(I knew Asparagus made it go green!!...few more and we will have a wee (small!!) rainbow!! ;) to play on words!!)

I only know that as we stopped last week after a show at the local petrol station (they sell all local farmers goods) and you just cant beat fresh boiled beetroot i love it so we had beetroot butties (tons of them) and my pee was red/pink lol (couldnt be bothered to cook so we went the easy option ended up in an argument had i been unfaithful roflmao)

That happened to my sister last week.....she didn't know it could happen and went running to the Dr. I laughed and said she should have told me I knew about it, but it is a scary sight.........

I bet the Doc had a good laugh :D :D

i have lost just over half a stone in 5 weeks and i have never had to eat so much in my life, i struggled the first week as i had so much to eat but when the weight started to drop off i was yes this works so kept it up, last week i weighed in and lost half a stone which i was exstatic with if my daughter wants her dinner at noon and i don't feel like eating i don't i have my lunch when i want it, i don't have tea with them either if they want to eat at 4pm they can, will have mine later i have had to have will power when it comes to snacking etc, but i tend to now snack on the good stuff, it does still include crisps, icecreams choclolate etc so i don't feel as though i am depriving myself of anything, i have never felt so good in myself either.
carol

judgedredd what diet are you on! Iwant to be on it!!

Lozi

You have got to cut out all the nibbles like bicuites, cakes and sweets and eat fruit instead if you want to loose weight. A year ago this is what i did, and I did a bit more exercise and i have lost nearly 4 stone in weight.
So come on you can do it.  :)

Hehe not much help from me as I don't have kids, but there's one thing I always wanted to ask English people ;) ...... what are you actually talking about when you say you're having tea? I know what tea is as I drink it every winter, but you usually say tea and mean something else. Am I right? Do you just drink tea and eat biscuits or do you actually make a meal out of it? When I hear of that habit I can't help myself but imagining some nice old English granny, drinking her tea and eating cake in some small idyllic village that looks like something from Agatha Christie films. So cute!

Ah, one of my pet subjects! :) 'Tea' has several meanings, and is a minefield even for British people.

Originally of course it was just the drink; then it became a short form of referring to two meals - 'afternoon tea' (which was taken at about 4 o'clock and consisted of bread-and-butter and cake with a drink of tea) or 'high tea', which was eaten at about 6 o'clock and included savoury foods such as boiled eggs, ham, salad with cake and biscuits to follow. Obviously 'afternoon tea' wasn't taken by people who were at work at that time, so was mainly a 'leisured class' meal. There is also a 'cream tea', which is a scone (which correctly rhymes with 'con' not 'cone' ;)) with clotted cream and jam (traditionally strawberry) with a pot of tea.

Nowadays many people refer to their main evening meal as 'tea', and a child's invitation to tea is a nightmare - which will it be? The snack after school or a main meal?

Thanks, that explains a lot! Quite interesting actually...... it's so cool to learn new things every day. I love this site!!

Oh sorry lolol i get told off many many times by my southern friends who call it dinner but oop norf we always called it tea! :D :D

When I want to stop myself snacking on rubbish I go and buy loads of fresh fruit - different types,  chop up a great big tub of fresh fruit salad and keep in the fridge.  Then I am so determined not to waste my money (because as we all know healthy equals expensive) and let it go off that I do eat that and leave the rubbish!  That way you can eat fruit with the kids and a healthy meal with hubby....

Does anyoen actually know how to cook beetroot? funnily enough my husband has come home from a job last night and the old gentleman gave him some home grown potatoes (i know how to cook them :D) 2 bottles of blackberry wine (i CERTAINLY know how to drink them :D ) and 4 beetroots what on earth do i do with them?

You can boil them, with skins on to minimise bleeding, they take quite a long time about 2 - 3 hours but I think the best way is baked slowly in the oven for about 3 hours, skins on, wrapped in foil, low heat gas mark 2, the flavour is more intense, yummy :)  When you get them out the skins rub off very easily.

ooh, yummy my mouth is watering....

I boil mine with the skins on but do tend to do them so they are still slightly firm so only for about 1hr to 1.5 hrs.

Enjoy

It's a long time since I boiled them so I could easily have overstated it :) but it does take that long in a low oven.

We make salads with them .
http://recipes.chef2chef.net/recipe-archive/33/178637.shtml

That is, by far, it's most common use in the UK too :)  or shredded raw in a mixed salad.

Ok they've been on for an hour how do i know they are done? or is that it?

Oh Ory that salad looks scrummy and only 2 calories per serving? wooo hoooo

Are you boiling them?  I'm sure an hour will not be enough, give it at least another half.  I use a think skewer to prod mine to see if they are still hard as it does not break to much of the skin. 
Actually, in deference to Lucy prod them now if you like to see if they are soft enough ;)

Thanks Isabel all sliced and waiting his lordship :D

Now wheres that homemade wine

Hope you enjoyed it!