OV Slimming Club Part 3!

Sally lovely to 'meet' you at last, and Hannah[msnwink] I agree with Kazzie you do not look over weight at all[clap][clap]

Green day diary for me and I have been an [angel]

summer fruits and nat low fat yog(1 syn) (For a change)
1/2 a HiFi bar = 1/2 a HC B
cottage cheese and pineapple (2.5 syns) on 1 slice of wholemeal 1 HC B
skinny lattes x 2 = 2 HC a's
quorn sausages, sw chips and beans
more summer friuts and yog (1 syn)
apple
over 2 litres of water[angel][angel][angel]

1 small skinny latte 4 syns, total syns for today 8.5[angel][angel]

[thornton]

Good evening all, first chance I have had today to read everything. It is so hard hard to keep up with everything so if I miss someone out I apologise.

Mizzy, sorry to hear that you gained, but I am sure it has made you even more determined to loose next week][grouphug]

Paula well done. [clap][clap]

Sharon, I'm sure you will loose next week.

Sally, you have failed me by putting your photo on, now I'm the only one who hasn't, but folks you will just have to wait until I have one to put on.

Had a busy but pleasant day today, had two swims, played tennis and badminton for an hour each and we should have gone to the theatre on Hayling this evening but they did not have two tickets together so we are going tomorrow instead.

I am sorry that I can't make York on Friday, you must have the next one somewhere nearer so that us in the south can get there.

Menu today
Cereal and banana
Salmon salad
Steak and salad, raspberrries and strawberries.

Jill

[mizzy]

Karen it's an achievement to stay the same look at it as practice for when you hit that target, your doing great[clap][clap][clap][clap][clap]

nice to meet you at last Sally[msnsmile2] you look very slim to me[msnwink]

Alison, yes my children both have additional needs and at times i find things (the system) really frustrating, it has taken a long time to come to terms with the diagnosis when each one happened and it was most definately harder with the second one but i just keep it one day at a time and sometimes only one hour at a time[msnwink]

have you ever seen this poem Alison it's sums everthing up for me, i'm not prepared to live my life in mourning anymore,i'm happy that the kids are physically healthy and happy and thats what every parent wants

Welcome to Holland by Emily Perl Kingsley

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this...

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. Michelangelo's David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian.

It's all very exciting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland."

"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."

But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.
The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.

So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.

It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills... and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."

And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very, very significant loss.
But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.

Mizzy

Mizzy that is so moving, you have reduced me to tears with mixed emotions happy and sad if that makes sense - for what its worth I had some of my best nightstops in 'Holland' (you will understand where I am coming from) and some of my best passengers were children with disabilities[grouphug]

You are right to celebrate the wonderful things that Holland has to offer[grouphug]

[Sally D]

Mizzy, that was lovely, I read it to Peter and we both agreed it was very moving.

Thank you all for your comments, it must be a good photo then[msnwink]

Jill I can always bring along my camera on Thursday and post it for you[msnwink]

[Kazzie]

Mizzy, how true that poem is, its lovely and very moving.

Karen

[mizzy]

you do that Sally[msnwink]

bl**dy hell Julie , your food diary says half of a hi-fi bar who ate the other half[msneek]

my food diary for today looks like this

usual brekkie (yes i know i need to change it now and then)
quorn sausages sweet potato wedges and beans
museli yoghurt
quorn minted lamb grills with packet of tesco ready to cook microwave veg and a few tablespoons of gravy
another yoghurt strawberry with wholegrain pieces
2 peaches [angel][angel][angel]

Mizzy

[Paula D-S]

Sally, great photo.

Mizzy that poem is just lovely.....I don't know what else I can say really.

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you do that Sally[msnwink]

bl**dy hell Julie , your food diary says half of a hi-fi bar who ate the other half[msneek]

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Little Louis came with me to weigh in as he was off school and we shared it in the car on the way home - he thought it was yummy too as it was the Apricot and White Choc one[msnwink][msnwink]

[mizzy]

didn't want to make people feel sad and please please don't feel sorry for me because i couldn't bear that

i just wanted to give an insight of how it is to have a child with additional needs

this is the follow up poem about celebrating holland and i'm almost there (i've come a long way)but i'm still a foot stomper!!!! i'd get a gold medal if it was an olympic sport[msnsmile]

Celebrating Holland - I'm Home
A follow up to welcome to Holland

"I have been in Holland for over a decade now and it has become home. I have had time to catch my breath, to settle and adjust, to accept something different than I'd planned. I reflect back on when I first landed in Holland. I remember clearly my shock, my fear, my anger, and the pain and uncertainty.

In those first few years I tried to get back to Italy, my planned destination, but Holland was where I was to stay. Today, I can say how far I've come on this unexpected journey. I have learned so much more, but this too has been a journey of time.

I worked hard; I bought new guidebooks; I learned a new language, and I slowly found my way around this new land. I have met others whose plans changed, like mine, and who could share my experience. We supported one another and some have become very special friends.

Some of these fellow travellers had been in Holland longer than I and were seasoned guides, assisting me along the way. Many encouraged me; many taught me to open my eyes to the wonder and gifts to behold in this new land. I discovered a community of caring - Holland wasn't so bad!

I think that Holland is used to wayward travellers like me and grew to become a land of hospitality, reaching out to welcome, assist and support newcomers. Over the years, I have wondered what life would have been like if I had landed in Italy as planned. Would life have been easier? Would it have been as rewarding? Would I have learned some of the important lessons I hold today?

Sure, this journey has been more challenging and, at times, I would (and still do) stomp my feet and cry out in frustration and protest. Yes, Holland is slower paced than Italy and less flashy than Italy, but this too has been an unexpected gift. I have learned to slow down in ways too, and look closer at things with a new appreciation for the remarkable beauty of Holland with its tulips, windmills and Rembrandts. I have come to love Holland and call it Home.

I have become a world traveller and discovered that it doesn't matter where you land; what is more important is what you make of your journey and how you see and enjoy the very special, the very lovely things that Holland, or any land, has to offer.

Yes, over a decade ago I landed in a place I hadn't planned yet I'm thankful, for this destination has been richer than I ever could have imagined!"

Mizzy