Chelsea Lou
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Cheers Mel, I'd been trying to forget about that creep
I seem to be a creep magnet for some reason, perhaps I look dirty like Christina Aguilera (sp)!!!Oh to be wooed :sigh:
Alli's 2011 "Head stuff" diet
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I seem to be a creep magnet for some reason, perhaps I look dirty like Christina Aguilera (sp)!!!Oh to be wooed :sigh:
Greeneyes11
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All this talk of exercise is making me tired..... I will lend you my 2 grandsons for the day, in the car, out the car, in the buggy, out the buggy, chase them around the playground, then back in the car, fold up the buggy....... I am definately fit.... to drop!!
Chelsea Lou
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No ta, Linda. I had my twin 22 month old grand-daughters for 5 hours on Saturday and they wore me out big time!!! They are at that 'terrible twos' stage and permanently have that look of defiance on their faces. They are also very very funny.....but oh so tiring.
Good Morning all,
Am working from home today after a horrendous couple of days at work. I'm so looking forward to chilling out a bit when I can and being able to work in my scruffs
WW is stil going well and I've started to fill out the food planner in my Beck work book. This means that I have to do it twice as I also use the food diary on WW online, but I like the idea of writing it down with a pen and ticking each food off as I go. It appeals to the list writing side of me
I'm confident that this will be the first week since Xmas where I actually stick to my chosen diet for a whole week. I did a lot of procrastinating in the beginning but hey I'm here now so it's all good.
Scales are down by 4lbs in total since Christmas which is also pretty good - 2lbs so far this week and 2lbs somehow in the 7 weeks or so since I first weighed after the Xmas / New Year celebrations. It's not much compared to some, but considering the little effort I've put in I'm happy. I am 11st 5lbs today and my lowest weight in 2009 was 10st 9lbs. If I can get there again I will be happy but ideally I would want to go down to 10st 4lbs -ish as this was my original goal.
Anyway - I'm going to go and update my Beck diary as I haven't done that for days. Speak to you all later x
Am working from home today after a horrendous couple of days at work. I'm so looking forward to chilling out a bit when I can and being able to work in my scruffs
WW is stil going well and I've started to fill out the food planner in my Beck work book. This means that I have to do it twice as I also use the food diary on WW online, but I like the idea of writing it down with a pen and ticking each food off as I go. It appeals to the list writing side of me
I'm confident that this will be the first week since Xmas where I actually stick to my chosen diet for a whole week. I did a lot of procrastinating in the beginning but hey I'm here now so it's all good.
Scales are down by 4lbs in total since Christmas which is also pretty good - 2lbs so far this week and 2lbs somehow in the 7 weeks or so since I first weighed after the Xmas / New Year celebrations. It's not much compared to some, but considering the little effort I've put in I'm happy. I am 11st 5lbs today and my lowest weight in 2009 was 10st 9lbs. If I can get there again I will be happy but ideally I would want to go down to 10st 4lbs -ish as this was my original goal.
Anyway - I'm going to go and update my Beck diary as I haven't done that for days. Speak to you all later x
Chelsea Lou
Gold Member
Morning Alli,
You're doing great and the scales are moving in the right direction. Yay for that!!
Have a good one xx
You're doing great and the scales are moving in the right direction. Yay for that!!
Have a good one
xx
Greeneyes11
Gold Member
Wow, the weight coming off is excellent, it also took me ages to get into a plan that suits and that I actually stick tooo.... all downwards from now onwards I hope in a good way xx
Morning Alli,
You're doing great and the scales are moving in the right direction. Yay for that!!
Have a good one
Yay indeed!!
I'm Swedish originally. Came over to the UK in 1995 for a year and ended up staying
. I love going back as it is a beautiful country and so so clean. I come from mid-Sweden which is full of forests and lakes and have such great memories of picking blueberries / mushrooms etc in the woods during the autumn and swimming in the lakes during the summer months. Of course in between there's months and months of darkness and snow - but we get through it with lots of candles and skiing / sledging . Aaahhh you've made me go all emotional now . - I love Sweden but Britain is my home now and I love it too! I hope so too! We are all slowly (in our own time) settling in to our dieting routines - Yay for us!
I'm Swedish originally. Came over to the UK in 1995 for a year and ended up staying
We are all slowly (in our own time) settling in to our dieting routines - Yay for us!
Your description of Sweden sounds blissful!
Re: the dieting routines - some of us are very slow - me! I'm very pleased for you though Alli, well done! xx
MinnieMel
Why Be Normal?
Hi Alli,
I am a "Swedish" American. My paternal grandfather was born in Sweden (immigrated from Gothenberg as a child in 1906) and my paternal grandmother was Swedish/Norwegian but a first generation American. My mother's family is about 50% Scandinavian, as well.
My father is from the Pacific Northwest -- loads of Swedes and Nords live there. And, mother's family settled in Ohio.
We grew up eating rårakor, celebrating St. Lucia's Day, are Lutheran, etc.
I have been to southern Sweden and it is so beautiful (and so much cleaner than Denmark -- which is cleaner than Germany -- which is cleaner than...). I would love to see more of my ancestral homeland.
By the way, like most Scandinavians, your English is excellent.
I bought my daughter this American Girl Doll -- she is one of their "dolls from American history." The dolls all have books that tell their stories. Kristen is a Swedish immigrant, who lived in the mid-west (Wisconsin, I think), in the 1800s. Her books teach about the immigrant experince, prairie life (like Little House on the Prairie), etc.
Sorry to hijack your diary... I guess Scandinavian Americans can be just as sentimental as Irish-Americans who make a huge party out of St. Patrick's Day.
I hope you have a good weekend. You are lucky to be so close to home (as compared to me).
MM
I am a "Swedish" American. My paternal grandfather was born in Sweden (immigrated from Gothenberg as a child in 1906) and my paternal grandmother was Swedish/Norwegian but a first generation American. My mother's family is about 50% Scandinavian, as well.
My father is from the Pacific Northwest -- loads of Swedes and Nords live there. And, mother's family settled in Ohio.
We grew up eating rårakor, celebrating St. Lucia's Day, are Lutheran, etc.
I have been to southern Sweden and it is so beautiful (and so much cleaner than Denmark -- which is cleaner than Germany -- which is cleaner than...). I would love to see more of my ancestral homeland.
By the way, like most Scandinavians, your English is excellent.
I bought my daughter this American Girl Doll -- she is one of their "dolls from American history." The dolls all have books that tell their stories. Kristen is a Swedish immigrant, who lived in the mid-west (Wisconsin, I think), in the 1800s. Her books teach about the immigrant experince, prairie life (like Little House on the Prairie), etc.
Sorry to hijack your diary... I guess Scandinavian Americans can be just as sentimental as Irish-Americans who make a huge party out of St. Patrick's Day.
I hope you have a good weekend. You are lucky to be so close to home (as compared to me).
MM
Aww MM that doll is lovely! I love St Lucia day and we try to get to the swedish church every year for their Lucia celebrations!
My brother lives in Gothenburg and I was born in a town about 1 hour from G-burg
It is a beautiful country and I appreciate it so much more now that I don't live there. I love the way that there's all this land where people are allowed to wonder through the woods and pick fruits and plants, set up camp sites and generally use the land freely (within the law). Lakes are for everyone to use and not like in some countries in Europe where you have to charge to swim in the lake.
As a teenager I found it so dull though - I just couldn't wait to get away and once I'd finished university I just knew that I wanted to move abroad. I've been back since, for a few months when I was seconded to Stockholm for work and I felt like a foreigner as nothing was like I remembered and I'd only ever worked in the UK and things were so different. Still - I love going back now, especially as the children have so much freedom. There's not a lot of traffic and there's cycle paths everywhere so bike riding is really safe - the kids loved that. I felt safe enough to send them off to the playground on their own (just a couple of minutes away) and they are only 6 and 7 years old (I was just a minute or two behind them but still). We love walking in the woods picking blueberries as we walk along and maybe spotting an elk or two if we're lucky. It's not all good - taxes are high and there's so much red tape in politics it's unbelievable! All these expenses scams here could never happen in Sweden - if somone so much as claims expenses for a coffee they'd had when they weren't working it's all over the news.
Right - I'm off to bed early as I have a bit of a migraine! Night night!
My brother lives in Gothenburg and I was born in a town about 1 hour from G-burg
It is a beautiful country and I appreciate it so much more now that I don't live there. I love the way that there's all this land where people are allowed to wonder through the woods and pick fruits and plants, set up camp sites and generally use the land freely (within the law). Lakes are for everyone to use and not like in some countries in Europe where you have to charge to swim in the lake.
As a teenager I found it so dull though - I just couldn't wait to get away and once I'd finished university I just knew that I wanted to move abroad. I've been back since, for a few months when I was seconded to Stockholm for work and I felt like a foreigner as nothing was like I remembered and I'd only ever worked in the UK and things were so different. Still - I love going back now, especially as the children have so much freedom. There's not a lot of traffic and there's cycle paths everywhere so bike riding is really safe - the kids loved that. I felt safe enough to send them off to the playground on their own (just a couple of minutes away) and they are only 6 and 7 years old (I was just a minute or two behind them but still). We love walking in the woods picking blueberries as we walk along and maybe spotting an elk or two if we're lucky. It's not all good - taxes are high and there's so much red tape in politics it's unbelievable! All these expenses scams here could never happen in Sweden - if somone so much as claims expenses for a coffee they'd had when they weren't working it's all over the news
. Right - I'm off to bed early as I have a bit of a migraine! Night night!
Hope you feel better Alli, this morning. Very interesting hearing more about Sweden. It sounds really great and from what you've said, I think I'd like to live there, especially if I was Swedish, apart from the dark winters, that would be a real problem for me, I hate ours for that reason - and the cold of course! I know you are happily settled here so don't want to return now, do you think you'll always feel the same?
I don't know Bess. As I get older I appreciate Sweden so much more and all the things that I thought was boring in my late teens early twenties are now things that I'd desperately want - good state schools with no need to apply, excellent parental benefits for working parents, capped and state subsidised nursery / after school club fees (max £150 per month for full time nursery - less if you have more than 1 in child care), excellent employee laws and good NHS. University is free and you are given benefits to help you through uni (this might have changed) and brilliant sport facilities to encourage young people to do sports. Nature in general is really appreciated and we have a word which I can't find a UK equivalent for which is "free-air life" which basically being doing outdoor activities such as skiing, cycling, canoeing or just walking - basically exercise which combines nature. Friluftsliv is very important to most people and is simply part of the Swedish culture.
On the other hand taxes are very high - around 70% for medium to high earners, alcohol consumption is a problem - people might not drink more than in the UK but as it's generally not accepted to drink during the week people binge drink at the weekend - this is changing as prices of alcohol have come down over the past few years and it's moving more towards a pub culture as opposed to binge drinking at home before going out as it's too expensive to drink out. Still - drinking spirits is very much part of the culture for many and so the teen binge drinking trend we are seeing here in the UK at the moment is very similar to what I experienced growing up in a small village in Sweden
You know, I haven't seen that many parts of the UK and I think the lake district might be not that dissimilar to parts of Sweden, much like parts of Scotland are probably similar to the north of Sweden - I would really like to do a tour of Britain....might convince DH to take a week off this summer to go camping - should be fun with the kids and both dogs!!
Here is a link to a clip showing off Sweden - it's a bit modern and marketing like - but it does show some imagery of the lovely nature!
http://www.sweden.se/Watch/Meet-the-Swedes/Open-Skies-Open-Minds/
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I'm so proud of myself for sticking to plan! Yesterday I did have a craving for something sweet and had a few dried apricots over and above my daily points, but I still have the new weekly allowance to eat into which I plan to make use of this weekend
Poppy is having her 2nd jab this morning but other than that we have no plans. We desperately need to go to the supermarket as the fridge is empty and I'm even running out of basics such as rice :sigh:. I hate food shopping at the weekend but DH has been working late a lot this week so I haven't been able to go.
We're going to the cinema tomorrow morning so am looking forward to that, but other than that it's going to be a quiet weekend. Might see if we can find a dog friendly pub nearby that we can go to and have lunch at tomorrow - I think there's one locally...
Anyway - have a good weekend! I'll no doubt check in regularly to keep me on the straight and narrow
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Chelsea Lou
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You should be proud you are doing very well.I don't know Bess. As I get older I appreciate Sweden so much more and all the things that I thought was boring in my late teens early twenties are now things that I'd desperately want - good state schools with no need to apply, excellent parental benefits for working parents, capped and state subsidised nursery / after school club fees (max £150 per month for full time nursery - less if you have more than 1 in child care), excellent employee laws and good NHS. University is free and you are given benefits to help you through uni (this might have changed) and brilliant sport facilities to encourage young people to do sports. Nature in general is really appreciated and we have a word which I can't find a UK equivalent for which is "free-air life" which basically being doing outdoor activities such as skiing, cycling, canoeing or just walking - basically exercise which combines nature. Friluftsliv is very important to most people and is simply part of the Swedish culture.
On the other hand taxes are very high - around 70% for medium to high earners,
That sounds such a lot, although you seem to get a lot for you money as in education/nursery facilities etc. Our tax rate might seem lower in the UK but so much tax is paid by us via stealth tax - they say that the UK is one of the most taxed countries on the planet. Even when you die the money you leave is taxed.
alcohol consumption is a problem - people might not drink more than in the UK but as it's generally not accepted to drink during the week people binge drink at the weekend - this is changing as prices of alcohol have come down over the past few years and it's moving more towards a pub culture as opposed to binge drinking at home before going out as it's too expensive to drink out. Still - drinking spirits is very much part of the culture for many and so the teen binge drinking trend we are seeing here in the UK at the moment is very similar to what I experienced growing up in a small village in Sweden
It's strange this 'drinking culture' tag that we have been given. When I was a young working girl it was almost compulsory for everyone (bosses, secretaries, everyone) to go to the pub every lunchtime. We'd all come back to work quite merry and carry on. A lot of the people would then have a couple before they went home at the end of the day too. These days it is an incredibly rare event for anyone to go to the pub at lunchtime/after work. It wouldn't enter my head to drink during work hours. It does seem to be a mission now to go out to get 'wasted', 'lashed' or whatever term you want to call it, whereas when we were young we were 'going out for a drink' Getting totally trolleyed sometimes happened but wasn't the sole purpose of going out.
You know, I haven't seen that many parts of the UK and I think the lake district might be not that dissimilar to parts of Sweden, much like parts of Scotland are probably similar to the north of Sweden - I would really like to do a tour of Britain....might convince DH to take a week off this summer to go camping - should be fun with the kids and both dogs!!
Here is a link to a clip showing off Sweden - it's a bit modern and marketing like - but it does show some imagery of the lovely nature!
Open Skies, Open Minds - SWEDEN.SE
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I'm so proud of myself for sticking to plan! Yesterday I did have a craving for something sweet and had a few dried apricots over and above my daily points, but I still have the new weekly allowance to eat into which I plan to make use of this weekend
Poppy is having her 2nd jab this morning but other than that we have no plans. We desperately need to go to the supermarket as the fridge is empty and I'm even running out of basics such as rice :sigh:. I hate food shopping at the weekend but DH has been working late a lot this week so I haven't been able to go.
We're going to the cinema tomorrow morning so am looking forward to that, but other than that it's going to be a quiet weekend. Might see if we can find a dog friendly pub nearby that we can go to and have lunch at tomorrow - I think there's one locally...
Anyway - have a good weekend! I'll no doubt check in regularly to keep me on the straight and narrow
Pub tomorrow sounds lovely - log fire, doggy by your feet, good conversation, drinky-poos Thank you for sharing Sweden with us. It does sound lovely and maybe one day I will explore. Typical Brit, I'm afraid. Opportunity for a holiday, straight to Spain or the Canaries etc., for some sun. Never think of other places.......I am definitely too narrow-minded.
Wow! What am amazing film of a wonderful place! Thankyou for posting that and for telling us more about it, I'm a vicarious traveller so far and love hearing about other unfamiliar places. Some of the people in the clip looked very familiar - not in themselves, but in their features.
You should explore the British Isles, it's beautiful, lots of it. Especially the North. Oops! I'm ducking to avoid the mud slinging that may come my way from all the Southerners on here!
Well done on keeping to WW! Enjoy the weekend.
You should explore the British Isles, it's beautiful, lots of it. Especially the North. Oops! I'm ducking to avoid the mud slinging that may come my way from all the Southerners on here!
Well done on keeping to WW! Enjoy the weekend.
Greeneyes11
Gold Member
Wow Sweden looks a great place to live, the high taxes are off putting though. I went to the Lake District here about 18 years ago and loved it, went on a Steam Train, on a boat on Lake Windermere, went to the Beatrix Potter Museum..... it was lovely around there.
Dont think my dogs would be welcome in a dog friendly pub, my boxer is manic, though I think she would sit down eventually. We are not the dogs best friends at the moment, for some reason we have never been able to stop them peeing in the kitchen at night, so 2 days ago I bought a big dog crate (now I mean real big over 4 foot long, smaller may have been better) and we have been shutting them in at night, and no problems with peeing then, problem is they are not keen going in at night so hopefully as it gets more familiar they will be happier..... have a good day Alli, and remember you have nearly done a whole week on WW to plan, keep up the good work.
Dont think my dogs would be welcome in a dog friendly pub, my boxer is manic, though I think she would sit down eventually. We are not the dogs best friends at the moment, for some reason we have never been able to stop them peeing in the kitchen at night, so 2 days ago I bought a big dog crate (now I mean real big over 4 foot long, smaller may have been better) and we have been shutting them in at night, and no problems with peeing then, problem is they are not keen going in at night so hopefully as it gets more familiar they will be happier..... have a good day Alli, and remember you have nearly done a whole week on WW to plan, keep up the good work.
