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what makes it so scary is that with BabyBear i had a super bad pregnancy, with a Partial Abruption, where the placenta partially comes away from the womb, and that was at 16 weeks. I then was in and out of hospital every other week until i was induced 5 weeks early because i went into Eclampsia, and BB ended up in the NICU for ages. So i'm literally not taking any chances this time Or at least until i have been scanned and everything is confirmed as being all good Hopefully this time with Bambino, this is just a blip and not a promise of what to come Fingers Crossed!

wooooaaaaahhhh in the UK, we literally have only TWO types of Cheerios and that is Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios... end of lol As for an update i weighed myself yesterday and i was 215.5lb.... and i have exercised and i then started bleeding which if you are a pregnant person is some seriously scary shit to happen so i have been put on bed rest.... as for the chest infection i can't say i'm not grateful for the reprieve on the exercise front because i am dragging my knuckles on the floor i am that Exhausted, sick and just lacking in ANY form of energy... then to top it off i stupidly thought i would turn to sugar as a pep me up and i have jsut crashed completely now so The Hubs has sentenced me to the sofa to watch BabyBear play with hsi little stacky cup things and watch the Formula 1 Racing...... i however am secretly watching The Big Bang Theory. So to be honest i think i am going to gracefully bow out of this challenge and i am totally gutted, i'll try to do as much as i can but lets be honest with how i'm feeling and everything i am not going to risk Bambino for a challenge As much as i love them, i love my kids more If exercising is making me bleed (sorry TMI) then its obviously NOT what my body wants and its a SERIOUS sign to give up gracefully.... I'm going to stick my head around the door to keep up with everyone because i still want to be supportive of everyone else but thats it for me Loves you all xx

Thats pretty cool... (lol I just realised what I did there, blame the paracetamol) Yeah northern Canada I can imagine is seriously cold. .. After all I watch ice road truckers It got to-10 a few years ago but that's just the lowest is gone in my memory

Arillian, pardon me if this sounds rude... BUT... What the heck is your Job??? Have i missed something because it sounds.... very.... COLD O.o! And yes in those temperatures i can understand why your water bottle would be freezing and you'd need a hot meal!

i'm in awe that you can just get up and run a 10k, i can't run a mile let alone 3.5(ish)!

awwwwwww thank you!..... yeh i dont think i could EVER live on cheerios, it just seems to be the only thing that doesnt make me sick and settles my stomach nicely fingers crossed cause i've got fish for lunch :S

i'm now crying! Damn hormones :S I think i needed someone to tell me that.... i think i'm going to go and chill with Babybear whilst i create life x

Okay, so... sorry that i haven't posted in a while, to say i've been feeling rough as a badgers bum would be a VERY STARK UNDERSTATEMENT! I have a chest infection, a heavy cold and horrible horrible morning sickness... and when i'm not being sick i feel sick so i am getting no sort of relief at all, especially at night when i'm sleeping i'll wake myself up feeling sick, and if i move without eating something then i BE sick!.... Whoever said morning sickness only happened in the morning was a sick sick joker! So yeh i weighed myself this morning and i am 216.75lbs so i have dropped 1 pound so far this challenge and i'm okay with that, i suspect that once i start being able to eat properly again then i will start maintaining to a certain degree. I haven't taken the measurements because after doing my washin up this morning i just don't have the energy... THAT is how bad i am feeling So i hope you bare with me... please, cause i am struggling, mentally and physically.... i just need to find some sort of gentle exercise to do because even doing bb rows was making me feel sick I think i'm just generally feeling sorry for myself - and its all my husbands fault! lol x

No he didn't..... fail! lol and yeh i tried to do a sweet and sour sauce and it didn't really work, it had vinegar and pineapple but not in scary quantities... nevermind, i will try it again and tweek it Morning sickness is killing me not going to lie i have cheated, the other day the only thing i could look at without it making me feel sick was cheerios so i thought screw it and had some.... to my surprise i didn't have as big of a reaction as i was expecting *shrugs* I haven't tried that recipe but i'm definitely going to give it a go!! Thank you so much!

yesterday was a good day! Dinner was me making some sort of chinese paleo meal which came out a bit wonky but it was edible at least lol and The Husband seemed to enjoy it. I'm not quite sure whether it settled properly in my stomach, but then nothing seems to settle properly at the moment :/ I did some squats which i enjoy and then i tried to get my treadmill mile done whilst BabyBear was asleep but my brother turned up after someone reversed into the front of his car and needed some help so that scuppered that :/ Oh well i will get on with it and hopefully get my mile done, and if BabyBear sleeps i might even get two!

Congrats on the good dinner and don't sweat the barely fulfilling the requirements... sometimes you need to just blah, as long as you get right back on the wagon asap! You did your stretching and again that is better than nothing, when the choice was stretching or doing NOTHING at all then at least you did something! Well Done!

I definitely second this! You can't blame yourself and be hard on yourself for something you didn't know! That just adding unnecessary stress to yourself and generally not being fair on yourself either And yeh, asking for help isn't nagging, so don't worry

yeah thats why i said to use leeks cut length wise instead because its amazing! I did try the courgette/zucini idea and it didn't work for me but it might work for someone else so definitely give it a go nomy nom

I completely agree with you when you say that this is the time of the year when all plans of goodness and health go to pot, they just seem to crumble and its slightly more than depressing! And congratulations on the step climbing! If theres ever a zombie apocolypse my plan is to get as high as i possible can ( although i did wonder if this would leave me stranded with no escape 0.o) and then using whatever weapon i could find.... KILL THEM ALLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!! Its kill or be killed after all and i have BabyBear and Bambino to look after! The Husband can come along if he wants but only if he brings guns lol. Definitely use your crockpot they are so great and i really can't recommend them enough! You saw what my food list was like and about 80% can be made in a crockpot! heck if you have a smallish one you could make a paleo lasagna using Leek sheets instead of pasta sheets..... hmmmmmm paleo lasagna.... nom nom nom, or if you have a big one you will have lots of left overs!

THAT is an amazing workout! I bow down in wonder at that, i would love to do something like this but to be honest it scares me silly! Good Luck on your goals too, and the Judo sounds like good fun!

As a stay at home mum on a farm i have a lot of time to think about food, and i am a caker by trade so i'm always in the kitchen, baking or cooking something so i like to plan out the meal and food, especially like today, The Husband has gone to run a pheasant shoot and he'll be starving hungry when he gets home so he's going to need a sturdy hearty meal (probably a roast) You are more than welcome to some recipes or crock pot times Nom nom nom! It depends on whether your crockpot cooks hot or not if that makes sense, some just cook at a higher or lower temperature so you need to adjust times slightly Who DOESN'T love crackling?? its lush! Yeah the destressing will be difficult but i just need to give myself some time each day to just reflect or have some quiet time, I cannot afford for my blood pressure to get too high this time (eclampsia happened with BabyBear) so me being selfish for half an hour isn't really me being selfish

i dont use tomatoes a lot and i think its because i associate it with pasta so much but i LOVE paleo lasanga! instead of the pasta sheets its leek sheets gotta love the hairy bikers for that idea lol

I can certainly share my good news as it is in the title of my Challenge thread! I'm PREGNANT!!!!!! I'm so freaking excited! BabyBear is getting a brother or sister!, That shows me for joking about it last challenge, but i am most defintely with child lol! @KLeeroy, I think we all have days where we don't want to get out of bed, especially with weather like we've had the past few days and i havent left my house since.....................sunday, and it's starting to grate on me as well so i know how you're feeling right now :/ @Arillian - Sleep? What is this thing called sleep? I haven't had a decent nights sleep since before BabyBear was born and that was because i was so huge i couldn't get comfy! Roll on when BabyBear and Bambino sleep through the night! Although lets be honest my mother is champing at the bit to get her hands on BabyBear for the night so i think MummyBear and DaddyBear might pen that if for a decent nights sleep lol

Got to say i am loving the Haikus! Keep up the good work, youve got some good goals there!

Hello Freddy!! (Totally my favourite name choice for upcoming Bambino btw!) COngrats on your fight against lazy, I am up against the same opponent so *fistbump* I'm on my 3rd challenge now, and i'm still fighting, the key i have found is trying to come up with FUN ways of getting to it, climbing is totally one of them but out of my league im afraid I love bodyweight workouts which are fun for me but get a bit boring so a little mix up is needed really, so i bought a treadmill to see what that does. Glad you did so well yesterday and congratulations, KEEP IT UP!

Hello! I'm finding that because i run indoors, BabyBear does not allow for running outside, that i dont actually build that much stamina, i can get a 14 minute mile from the treadmill doing super walking at about 5.5mph but its just not the same as outdoors :/ So really congratualtions for getting as far as you did do because i would love to get that far, I'm trying to get a mile in a day on the treadmill i have to build it myself up further because i would love to do a 5K race, so i bow down to you because youve done fantastic so far! And the walking was definitely a great idea, what makes me laugh is that we push ourselves to run but we burn the same amount of calories walking as we do running, the only difference with running is you run further and that where the extra calories come from, At the end of the day every little counts so again you're doing a fab job! Yeah, so totally jealous of you going to the smithsonian, I live in the UK, so no chance for me lol

Yesterday was a good day really, I ate well with only a few bits of cheese crackers to keep the nausea at bay, i drank 4 pints of all natural squash for my fluid intake and i went to bed happy As for exercise, a lot of housework was done, squats happened along the way but not as many as i would have liked and the only way i could get BabyBear to sleep was to just hug him and when i tried to put him down he woke up screaming so i didn't get to do a full workout or treadmill session but if its a choice between cwtch ups with my boy or working out then the answer is simple, i'm not complaining so i need to get off here and get going for the day because i'm behind on our schedule already! Not Good! Housework and Exercise beware, the mummybear is coming to get you!

Paleo Meals for the Week: Crockpot BBQ RIbs Crockpot Curry Beef Burgers and mega mushroom 'baps' - small amount of cheese was had with some fried onions and tomato paste Salmon and steamed vegetables Lamb Roast Pork Roast With the crackling, nom nom nom ( Roasted veg and apple slices as well) Crockpot chilli Crockpot Roast Chicken (Note to Self - 4 hours on high is too long, 2.5-3 will do lol) I try to make as much use of my crock pot as i can because with Babybear running around in his walker and learning to crawl as i type i havent got time to stand at the cooker and watch it cook when hes pulling the telephone down and having strops so with the crock pot i just throw it in and wait till cooked Saturday night we're going to my mother inlaws and she does gluten free sausages and salads and lots of lovely homemade food that i can eat, Might not strictly be from grass fed moo moos but i appreciate the effort she goes to for me/us

i couldn't get on with the paleo mug cake so maybe i didn't do it right but the description was more of paleo bread in a mug and to be frank it was vile! So any link to your awesome one would be fab! I just have to convince my stomach that eggs are not the enemy, because it seriously thinks they are at the moment which is poopy! As for paleo recipes, i do lots of roasts, or crockpot meals which are my favourite, lots of currys, i did a BBQ Ribs rack in the crock pot which were amazing! And then i do things like soups and stews and chillis and then have it on its own or with shredded cabbage which i prefer to the cauliflower rice I LOVE ME SOME CROCK POT! Lol, sorry for that, i'm obviously easily excitable this morning, what types of paleo foods are you cooking?

it was a 2 week holiday on a boat and we went to the cities as day trips just to get off the boat lol, so i didnt just go for the day if you know what i mean lol It was amazing though, i went to St Petersburg to the Hermitage and that was quite possibly my favourite museum EVER! If i could figure out how to post images i'd upload a few on here for you