Losing Weight in the Land of Chocolate and Cheese!

Get ready girl. your life is soooo about to change...but it is great! Some of my best memories are when the kids were little. Now my 16 year old is 6 foot 1 and my 13 year old is 5 foot 10. And my baby girl is about to be 11 years old. Time absolutely flew. Hope you have lots of diapers seems like we went through like 10-14 per day.
 
AYesterday's food:
- porridge with tinned pears
- spinach risotto
- lasagne (all made by me! The first ever lasagne I've made! STACKS of veg in there - layers of spinach, the meat sauce had lots of mushroom, zucchini, carrot, tomato, celery and capsicum...)
- 4 squares hazelnut chocolate

Exercise:
- None. Slept for 12 hours then fell asleep on the couch for another 3.5 hours. Insanity.
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HERE's my little bean! What a wiggler! Apparently my big spongey placenta (too much info?) is right at the front so it will be really hard for me to feel anything. For a while, anyway. YAY!!! Beanie is alive in there and rolling around like a maniac! 

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Look at that cute little nose :) :) :)

SOOOOO relieved.

Brawny - hahaha, you make me laugh. I think as much as I feel I am ready for it, I'll never be ready for it!!! But that's bloody exciting... You have a stack of tall kiddies in your midst, eh? I think ours will be too.. I'm 6ft tall and so is my man... so not much hope for our little one! Not quite at the point where I'm looking for the nappies being on special.... but not long and I'll be there!

Kate - you are the best yeller around. :D Of course I knew I'd get in trouble, but here is the place where I can talk about all that stuff. And there's only you that will tell me off. haha. As much as you tellme I'm doing a great job, I will always feel like I'm not doing the best I can do. I know it's totally unrealistic and I'm setting myself up for disappointment, but that is just the silly person that I am. I've always been a perfectionist, and there has never been anything more inmportant to be such a perfectionist about! I want to do this RIGHT, you know? And yes, I know that there are people out there who pop out healthy babies all the the time after doing nothing but watch America's Next Top Model and eat McDonalds, but I don't want to be lke that. I want to be someone that people can look up to, I want to know that if Beanie ever has stuff go wrong, I'll feel like I couldn't have done anything different. I reiterate that I KNOW this is unachievable, to be 'perfect', but it's still what I want... Thanks for telling me your story about when you fell over in the bathroom. I would have been scared like a mofo! Good on you for making your midwife come and check you out, even though she said you're probably fine. You're a smart chook, you are. ;)
 
ASpeaking of being totally imperfect...

I just had an accident with some sweetened condensed milk. It ended up in my belly. I haven't bought any in YEARS but we are having people over for dinner tonight and I had grand plans for the dessert I'd make.... instead, I ate it. Almost all of it. Shit. (and now I have a headache...)

Sorry Beanie. Hope you don't get diabetes now. haha
 
Yeah yall are gonna have tall ones. Im 6'1" and my wife is 5'10" so ours are all tall. My oldest enjoys showing ne that he is now taller than good ol dad.


Maybe you should start buying basketballs now so your little one can get a college scholarship!
 
AAwwwww look at the little cutiepie :)

Told you all would be fine sweetie and it's cool that there is a 'medical reason' for you not feeling the little wriggler, Maybe you aint as fit as i thought lol!!!!!!!. I hope you didn't think i was belittleing your dedication to making everything as perfect as it could be. I just wanted you to not feel so stressed and worried, you are doing so well hun.
Hopefully you can relax more now that you know Beanie has all his bits and peices in the right place :) Mind you, looking at that cute little button nose, i'm thinking a pretty little girl now :) It's weird, i have called Beanie him fromthe start, now i'm doubting... Hmmm. Whatever, Beanie is uber cute :)

Love the fact that you ate the condenced milk. You made me giggle :) I can picture you spooning it out of the tin and then realising 'whoops!' lol Sorry you have a headache though.
 
A:) Love every single pic!! it makes me feel happy :)

So glad it is all going well and you have a sense of humor about it....because besides love....that is the key to a happy family!! giggle and laugh about it all! :grouphug:
 
AI AM SO HUNGRY. :drool5:
SOOOOO HUNGRY!!!!
Dunc hid the chocolate and I had a full on terrible-twos tantrum at him. He said that he's going to have to learn how to say no, so this is his practice. GAH! :D Hilarious. When I started fake crying he went and got me a piece, but I was so caught up in my fake cry that I didn't go and watch where he got it from! GAH!

FOOD TODAY (today was a yummy day........ and I was HUNGRY. So = don't read this if you are feeling weak!)
- Rice porridge with 4 tinned apricot halves
- Decaf milk coffee and mini spinach quiche
- Spinach Ricotta ravioli with cheesey tomato sauce
- 10 or 15 green olives (this seems to be my pregnancy food. I should go buy a 100kg drum of them), a small slice aged cheddar, and a handful of pistachio nuts
- pan-fried chicken schnitzel, a small baked potato with some garlic butter, and lots of broccoli
- more rice porridge with 3 tinned apricot halves
- 2 squares dark chocolate

EXERCISE
- 90 minutes walking

I love saturdays with my man. We went to spend our voucher for a homewares store and got some nice lighting (seeing as when you move into a house here in Switzerland there are no lights.... you take them with you when you go! So we've been living with strategically placed torches and candles, yes, really, for this long) and it was nice to wander around town with him in the snow. :) I got home, very tired and sore, and dunc ran me a bath. I fell asleep in there with the snow falling outside the window onto the lake. DAMN my life is good!

Tonight I've been playing lots of guitar and have been feeling Beanie a lot in there! Either that or it's the schnitzel moving its way through... ;) But I think Beanie likes my music. A little blues goes a long way.

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Brawny - I'll defintely be encouraging sport for Beanie! I grew up with netball in Australia (kind of like basketball but... better! haha) and have since played for the Swiss team here and just love the team sport thing. If only all exercise was team sports!

Kate - hahahahaa - YEP! Maybe I'm NOT as fit as you thought! Seeing as I've had this bloody bone bruise in my ankle since MARCH and haven't been able to do ANYTHING decent... Dont' expect too much from me! And I absolutely didn't think you were belittling me.... I just had to write it all out to kind of explain it to myself, you know? And HAHAHA :D you are now doubting if it's a boy too! haha! Notice I didn't put up any ultrasound pictures that you could over-analyse! ;)

Tete - Hi darlin! :) You are so right. What is life without humour, eh? The thing I love most about my hubby is that he makes me laugh. I think this is so important. I hope our whole family will end up that way! Even if the kids end up groaning at our silly jokes ;)
 
AHeya hotstuff & Beanette :)

:smilielol5: :smilielol5: I love that you threw a total tantrum cos Dunc hid the chocolate!!! That is freaking hilarious!!! Did you stamp your feet and everything?!? lol And the fake crying....awesome. Serves you right not seeing where he stashed it lol You'll have to suck up to get round him next time :) He is right, you guys do need to learn not to cave to stroppy girly tantrums :smilielol5:

Ooooooooooh, do you have a scan pic that shows 'bits'???????? Do you accidently know what your having??????? If you do, i wanna know!!! Or i will throw a tantrum too. I'm very good at them too ya know.

Love and hugs Xx
 
AFOOD TODAY - Ha. Funny, considering the rant I'll go on below, about wanting to put on weight appropriately! I have again been starving! And my gorgeous man made me pancakes :) Geez, he's a keeper.
- porridge cooked in milk with 4 tinned apricot halves
- 3 crepes - one with low fat cottage cheese, one with spinach and gruyere, one with plum jam
- 15 olives (no surprises there)
- 50g packet of twisties (crappy cheese crisps from Australia... finally opened the packet that has been calling to me from the suitcase. But they are gone now!)
Not sure about dinner...

EXERCISE - have been in agony today and last night (very very little sleep) with what I now know as Pelvic Girdle Pain, so no walking today, and probably not for the next few days.
- 30 min yoga and stretching
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WEEK 22 PHOTO

I can't imagine that my belly can possibly get any bigger... but I'm only just over half way! I feel like calling my doctor and asking her to reiterate that, yes, there is only one bubba in there... it feels like moments ago when I was whining to you guys about not having a belly at all!
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LET'S TALK ABOUT WEIGHT GAIN
So I've only ever weighed myself using the Wii, and I love it. I love the routine, the graph, the little person that changes shape, everything. I love that I can zoom out and in on the graph and see how far I've come (or gone). But now we don't have a Wii, and we don't have any scales, so I'm just waiting for my monthly check up at the doctor for her to tell me if I'm doing okay. And that's not good enough for me, coming from an obsessive weigher... I mean, it depends on the time of day, how hydrated I am, if I've eaten, what I'm wearing, etc. So the inaccuracy of it all just freaking annoys me.

Apparently at the doctor's I've put on 9.5kg since conception, which is.... okay. It's the high side of normal. But I told her I lost about 10kg in the four months pre-baby, so she said that amount is bound to come on easier. So that brings me to a whopping 91.7kg. :willy_nilly: I know, I know. It's hard to see though! I just really want to be able to keep track of it better, and that's all! So I'm going to go get myself some scales tomorrow. It keeps me motivated to eat healthily. I know I'm going to put on weight (duh) but I want to make sure it's the appropriate amount. The doctor said I shouldn't let myself get over 100kg :svengo: , and I really want to keep track of that. I might make my own graph or something.


:eek: Now I know that I've been terribly slack with posting on everyone else's diaries. *slap on the wrist* bad me. I'll be better from now on, I promise!
 
AHeya you evil cheese monster :eek:

Sorry to hear that you have been in so much pain....What the hell is pervic girdle? Some sort of Bridget Jones knickers thing lol! Not hear of it before.

Check you out, that is a belly and a half now especially after looking at the 6 week one but you wait, lol you wait.

I guess with you being the control freak that you are :p getting some scales is a good idea. I would be the same, it is freaking me out only weighing once a week as it is.

And yeah you are such a slacker, slap send lol :smilielol5:

I am such a cow lol Love you really, lots Xxx
 
Hi Joh, saw this comment just then & thought I would "share" it with everyone. I wonder who she was talking about........:smilielol5:

"You're one of those annoying pregnant people who stays thin and beautiful the whole time aren't you? Bah!"

:biggrin: xoxoxo Cate
 
AThis Morning:
It's Monday and I'm planning on having a very healthy week.
I had leftover tuna and veg risotto for dinner last night and couldn't get enough. My plate was enormously full TWO TIMES, and Dunc's eyes nearly popped out of his head. Seriously, that is not necessary. I should be making lots of steamed veg and healthy stuff to fill me up instead.

I'm going shopping for scales and healthy food. Everyone will laugh at the contents of my trolley. :)


Edit:


This afternoon - Just went shopping and did good, but got incredibly tired and faint. It's not as if I hadn't eaten or anything... (It was 2pm and I'd had porridge for breakfast at 9am and a grilled veggie foccacia for lunch at 12!) but maybe I really DO need to be eating more often. I got all shaky and light headed... I sat on a wall on the way home and ate a banana, then at home I had a yoghurt and a slice of bread and felt lots better.

Later on -

BLAH. Now I've eaten a huge amount again. I suppose this is all just a learning curve and I have to find ways to cue into my body's signals better.

FOOD SO FAR TODAY (pre dinner)
- Porridge with dried cranberries, decaf skim coffee
- grilled veggie foccacia, green tea
- Banana, vanilla yoghurt, slice of bread with cheese
- small plate leftover tuna and veg risotto
- 1 slice bread with cheese, 2 slices of bread with nutella
- 2 squares dark chocolate

BREAD BREAD BREAD!!!! Just say no. I'm learning! It was the sneaky woman at the shops who just brought out the warm light rye loaf while I was walking past... and this country does the most incredible bread...
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Kate - HAHAH! :smilielol5: Bridget Jones knickers!!! That is totally what I need right now. haahaha. :) Awesome. So there's this point at the pelvis where (oh, wait, I'm about to get techincal and anatomical. Tune out now if you're not that interested ;) ) the bones meet right at the front, and there is a strip of thick cartilage that allows for a small amount of flexibility and mobility there, allowing you to take long strides, walk up steps, sit on the floor cross legged, etc. But for me right now, my HORMONES are making that connection start to become too floppy to quickly (it does need to stretch out a lot, but LATER, and SLOWER!) and causing masses of pain when I lift my leg, roll over, get up, sit down, walk in any way that doesn't resemble a penguin, etc. It's awesome. But hopefully I'll just rest for a while and let it recover, as well as use a pelvic support belt thing (hello bridget!) and it'll stop being so inflamed.

Thanks for giving me the go-ahead on getting scales. I was worried I'd get yelled at. LOL ;)

Cate - YOU ARE NAUGHTY! hahaha.When worlds collide... :) But I KNOW!!! HOW AWESOME WAS THAT COMMENT!!!!! I was so supremely chuffed about that. :D She is a gorgeous friend, and one of those people who will always tell you how beautiful and radiant you are looking every time you see them. Friends like that are good for the soul. :) Thanks for being so happy about that for me! :) xxx
 
OW!!your belly is lovely!!!!You seem so happy and blessed Joh!!!

as LONG AS YOU ARE OK WITH THE WEIGHT FROM YOUR DOCTOR THAN THAT IS EXELLENT!dONT stress about weight and scales .Get a healthy week in and just chill!!!

When is your due date?I love reading your diary you seem so happy and colorfull
 
I bet you will bounce right back to your normal weight quickly after you deliver...Breast feeding really helps. It is the about an 6-8 hundred calorie loss. I am really lucky Mrs Brawny sqeezed out 3 beautiful kiddos and was back to her weight goals within a couple of months (she is one of those tall slender people who will never be heavy) I played college football at 246 lbs and somehow got heavier and heavier for the 20 years after that.....(maybe it was the french fries)


Stay healthy
 
A:smilielol5: :smilielol5: Ha Ha!!! You have to wear bridget knickers!!! :smilielol5: :smilielol5:

With the feeling faint when you were out, i had that a lot when i was pregnant. I was told it was low blood sugar so kept some chocolate in my bag! Perfect excuse to eat choc 'but Dunc, it stops me feeling faint' :)

Love and hugs
 
AFOOD TODAY - was pretty good :) Besides the brownie. But I didn't eat non-stop like a maniac, which is a breakthrough!
Breakfast - Bowl of pecan crunch muesli with skim milk, sunflower seeds and linseeds; slice of rye bread with cheese
Lunch - Large Mixed green salad with feta cheese and balsamic dressing; 1/2 slice multigrain bread, small fresh orange juice
Dinner - baked pesto coated chicken breast with steamed veg and a baked potato (out of my pregnancy nutrition cook book.)
Snacks - Soy latte, 1/2 walnut brownie, 5 strawberries

EXERCISE
- 1 hour yoga
- 30 minutes walking
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I weighed myself t
his morning and am officially (ie. naked, post-ablutions, pre-shower and breakfast - yay! The way I used to do it!) 90.3kg. So that means I've put on 9.5kg in these 22 weeks of pregnancy. For me to stay under 100, which my doctor says I should, I need to make sure I put on a max of 0.5kg per week from here on in. That is pretty much what I've done so far (but now is where everything says that the mama starts putting on weight... so we'll see!). Dunc has a work function tonight, which means I might need to ransack the house to find the hidden chocolate. haha. HALF A KILO A WEEK, Johanna. Yeah yeah. I've got it. Meanwhile, I'm getting really excited about my little Bean. Just saying. :)
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Jess - Hi lovely! Thanks for popping by! Hhahaha - funny how you say I seem to happy and blessed, and then I write THAT post. Whoops. :) I suppose we all have days like that. I'm due May 14, but I think it's actually May 9 (long story). I looked it up, and May 13 is mother's day, so that'd be nice! :)

Brawny - don't you just hate those tall slender women who never put on weight? Oh, wait, you married one of them. ;) hahaha. Lucky bugger! I really hope that I 'bounce back' to my healthy weight afterwards, but losing weight has never been easy for me, so I'm not expecting it to be a smooth ride! I might end up breast-feeding for 10 years in the hopes that I'll get thin! LOL. Oh, what a horrid image. Erase! Erase!

Kateyhotbuns - Better than bridget knickers - I have to wear a big beige bridget belt over the top of it too! ;) HOT! And I love your idea about the chocolate... you're a thinker!
 
AWarning - :rant: rant alert. Diary-being-used-as-a-vent alert. Feel free to skip this completely

I'm having a bit of a sad today :( because apparently, according to a friend here, I was very unsupportive, negative and judgemental last night when a bunch of us went out for dinner. I have no idea what I've done, and dunc says he also has no idea and that she's just being a whiney poohead (who's probably hormonal or something).... but those three things - unsupportive, negative and judgemental - are all things that I really strive not to be. :( Sad. We went into the old town to go to the pub quiz night (we WON last week - woah -:cheers2: and had to go back to spend our winnings!) but there was a major miscommunication, and apparently an email that said to everyone 'can anyone get there a little early and save a table' actually meant 'Hey Joh, you're not busy, can you go yourself, sit on your pregnant lonesome in a stinky pub at a table for 8 and wait there for an hour before any of the rest of us turn up?' Hmm. Somehow I didn't pick up on that. :confused: So I arrived half an hour early, then dunc and another friend met us there, but there were no tables. I'd been trying to call her, message her, email her all day to see if she could join me earlier... When she did eventually arrive (late) she was so shitty and didn't smile or say anything, barely looked at me, for the rest of the night. We all ended up going for dinner, and she just sat there at the table with her head in her hands, and later just leant back with her eyes closed the rest of the night. I asked if she was okay, and she just gave me a withering look and said she'd had a really busy day and was tired, that's all. To make it worse, besides sending me emails saying these things, she's being totally passive agressive on facebook, with updates like 'why do I keep looking to the wrong places (like my husband and my 'friends' here) for support? FML' and such things. :banghead: Glad I'm not the husband! Apparently he's said that she really overreacted and he has no idea what the problem was. Which no doubt made it worse...

Anyhoo. I'm looking for a little love. Something along the lines of: "Oh joh joh, you're not a meany pants at all! You would never have deliberately hurt her, and she's an egit for thinking otherwise. You're a lovely person, really!" Feel free to copy and paste ;)
I find it really hard to deal with such ups and downs - she is so lovely and a great friend one day, then completely removed and bitchy the next. Difficult!!!!:icon_bs:
 
aw lovely i dont know you but i promise i really belive from your posting \s and your pretty face that you are a sweetie pie and carring person.Maybe this friend you are speaking about is having a difficult time in her life and is expresing her feelings in this wrong way.Maybe she really does feel like you didnt support her ect in her own mind , she is obviously over reacting,did you try speaking to her after the email you got?what did she say if so?

You really shouldnt be upset just curious maybe of what is going on with her,cause you also said that your man and her man agreethat she is over reacting.


good on you for the goof\d food day and try not to search for the choc.!!!!!!Maybe there isnt even any left and you will be searching for nothing!!!!!I ate so much when i was pregnant but i wasnt a happy mommy..so ate and ate and managed to put on over 20 kg.i think it was 23 kg....................................................

wish i could turn back time and eat good like you are!


That would be so lovely to give birth on mothers day + / - a day!!!!
 
AHeya sweetie.

You are NOT un-supportive, negative and judgemental!!!!!!!!! how fucking dare she!!!!!!!

:cuss: :cuss: I am so bloody angry!!!!! That 'so called' friend of yours is bang out of order for treating you like that!!!!! You're pregnant for fucks sake Hormonal!!! (ha ha had to use that word lol) and if she was a bloody true friend then she wouldn't have done it. Even if she is having problems that has put her in some sort of mood.....it isn't your bloody fault.....I want to bloody slap her for you. Gggggrrrrrrr so so angry :cuss: :cuss:
I can remember a while ago you saying that someone was nasty, is it her? If so, then i think you need to dispose of that 'friend'. You are a truly wonderful, caring, awesome, sweet sweet person and you really don't deserve to be treated like that.

"Oh joh joh, you're not a meany pants at all! You would never have deliberately hurt her, and she's an egit for thinking otherwise. You're a lovely person, really!" Feel free to copy and paste

Copy and pasted!!!

Deep breath......Rant over!!

Please let me come slap her for you lol

OOOooooh bridget knickers and an ultra sexy beige bridget belt!!! I bet Dunc is a slobbering mess drowling after you lol That really is a special look!!!

We all love you sexy....YOU ROCK!!!!!
 
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