Salerno

I normally just do a salad or a snack in the evenings and get the same thing from the mother in law "they are hungry and need to eat" but when I make dinner it doesn't get eat and goes to the dogs so I stopped it

TestaRossa

Lol! I'm so glad it's not just mine! He does say he loses weight here though. He reckons a chicken lasts him and his biz partner in Spain 4 meals!!! I try that and he moans he hasn't enough on his plate! He insists on chicken or tuna if I want to do veggie or just pasta - honestly he's just a piggywig!! That's great indie! Stick to it and you won't need to chase those big Italian women anymore!! Lol!

Lorna at Vicenza

Yeah well done Indie.
I must say that I adapted very quickly to the Italian way of eating later in the evenings - but I brought it forwards a bit for the kids and try to have dinner on the table about 6.30pm.

None of us are ever hungry when folks in the UK start talking about what to have for tea at 5pm though.

Made a bit of a Sunday lunch for the kids and I today - sausage and mash with gravy. Both kids have discovered they love fried onions too when they go all soft and sweet.

PAT M

Well done Indie, the scales won't budge for me yet but I do a workout some mornings to Rosemary Conley's DVD with Colleen Nolan in the living room so here's hoping.

Salerno

Well done Indie!
I do the kids Wii in the morning have all my Wii fit stuff and ordered the biggest loser wii last week from amazon.uk so if anyone has a wii and wants to train together just let me know and I'll hook up to the wifi. Need to shift the weight I put on pre xmas, xmas and post xmas I do like to go out walking in the evenings and normally walk to school to get the oldest one now seeing as its only 10 minutes down the road.

TestaRossa

I've sports active and was looking at family trainer which looks good fun! Need to get back into it. I want to lose a stone before Easter when my son comes back and the next batch of hols happen!

37100

Mum bought me a wii and balance board for xmas. Great fun, but oh hogs it to play super mario cart!

TestaRossa

Alex wants us to get that and another two remotes so we can all play! They play against each other on their ds's!!

Salerno

family trainer? Is that the one with the camera? didn't like the sound of seeing my image and the voice saying "yes you are a fat cow shift some of that weight!!!!"

I have all the sports ones and allow the kids to only play stuff where they need to move so they don't turn into zombies!!!! I enjoy it but and challenge my best mate, in NI, to tennis when she comes in from dropping of her children at school while on the phone and having a laugh. Once hubby came in and caught me playing tennis on the Wii, talking on the phone and laughing my head off while calling her all the names under the sun because she was winning he thought I was nuts

Salerno

take the batteries out of the steering wheel and reclaim the balance board.

Hey we could have a weight lose thread where we encourage each other and share tips and give off

TestaRossa

No thats something else - Your body image or something! I thought about that but it sounded just like sports active. Family trainer comes with a dance mat but you are pretending to canoe or abseil and other outdoors things without having to do them! Two can play at once and it looks like fun. There's a new version come out with more activities. I've noticed it seems to be reduced pretty quick here but the amazon reviews are pretty good, so it might just be Italy!! Blockbusters are doing the two games and the mat for €60 at the moment. It's more in pounds plus postage for the two off amazon!!

Salerno

Oh I'll have a go at that! I don't like the ones that talk back to me while I'm trying to weight myself while standing on one foot or putting packs of water bottles on the mat to try to fool the thing I like the dancing one. I can take it to the mother in laws and let the kids go mad just to annoy her downstairs neighbours who complain about any noise at 3pm but who keep her up all night with their parties and load music and then threatened her when she goes to tell them to shut up. Bloody students! Thing is they are 36 years old!!!!!!

37100

Family trainer was in our xmas sack too. It's meant for younger families, but everyone had hysterics at me trying to skip. The 2 game version was on offer here after xmas Auchan for €58, but they soon sold out.

TestaRossa

37100 - is that a recommendation then?!

indiebird

ooohhh!! We have the wii fit and mario cart and a few other games. Must admit I haven't used it for ages!! Watching other people hula hoop is priceless!! DH is strangly attractive when he hulahoops The kids like to play cooking mama, which has to be the most annoying game on the planet!! I too enjoy walking as much as I can to be honest and also go to Yoga once a week too but that's about it on the exercise front. If I don't enjoy stuff then I don't stick to it.

Back on the thread, I saw Dorset Cereals in the Coop here last week!! This is Oh's fave muesli and he normally brings back loads from the UK. It's €4 a box though but better than the €8.50 we found it for in a shop in Torino a couple of years ago. We took our lives in our hands too as it was in a really rough area of the City and there we were wandering about trying to get the kids to shut up speaking in loud English and making us look even more like tourists!!