Diet for stressed women

Nevyn

Diet for stressed women. This is a specially formulated diet designed to help WOMEN cope with the stress that builds during the day.

BREAKFAST
* 1 Grapefruit
* 1 slice whole-wheat toast
* 1 cup skim milk

LUNCH
* 1 small portion lean, steamed chicken with a cup of spinach
* 1 cup herbal tea
* 1 Penguin Biscuit

AFTERNOON TEA
* The rest of the Penguins from the packet
* 1 tub of Gino Ginelli ice cream with chocolate topping

DINNER
* 4 bottles of wine (red or white)
* 2 loaves garlic bread
* 1 family size Supreme pizza
* 3 snickers bars

LATE NIGHT SNACK
* 1 whole cheesecake (eaten directly from the freezer)

REMEMBER:

'Stressed' spelled backwards is desserts'

Here's some advice for you:

Dr. Neil proclaimed the way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have started:

So I looked around my house to see things I started and hadn't finished; and before leaving the house this morning, I finished off a bottle of Pinot, a bottle of Chardonay, a bottle of Baileys, a butle of Kehuha,

a pockage of Pinqeuns, tha mainder of bot Prozic and Valum scriptins, the res of the Chesescke, some saltins an a bax a cholates.

Yu haf no idr who gud I fel!

Jules

Just want i needed to give sense to the day.... Stars for you!

/me goes looking for ice cream!

Orlee

Penguin Bars - damn it

they're all I can think about now!!!!!

watna

I'm actually suffering from stress at the moment. Stress at work is giving me migraines and insomnia. I was going to post a serious thread about how you ladies cope with stress and learn to switch off your head at night.

Now Thaed has given me the answer. Desserts and wine!

/emails bf to tell him to pick up wine and cake on the way home... or else!

Aisling(",)

grr...this makes me so hungry....i eat constantly im gonna turn into a blimp


but still a blimp that loves her food

Nevyn

What is better then desserts and wine ?
Having desserts and wine while being in a bubble bath.

watna

Thaedydal wrote: »

What is better then desserts and wine ?
Having desserts and wine while being in a bubble bath.

Did it last night. Hot bath, white wine and a crunchie bar. It was heaven. It actually helped me sleep too!

Maple

Thaedydal wrote: »

What is better then desserts and wine ?
Having desserts and wine while being in a bubble bath.

Legendary.

God i'd murder a whole cheesecake right now. Delicious.

Piste

Oooh a chocolaite bailey's cheesecake would be divine...

Crazy Catlady

Piste wrote: »

Oooh a chocolaite bailey's cheesecake would be divine...

If only that really where the answer to all lifes' problems tho is does me
Also, love a coffee with a good lash of bailey's in it! Its the "hot drink" version of a glass of wine for when its cold outside.

Kazobel

Very funny :D Feasts do it for me..mmmmmmmmmm....

bronte

Haha!That made me laugh!:D

Clare Bear

Ye're making me so fecking hungry!

g'em

Me Thaed's dietary ideas. I wonder is it too late to absolve my N & D responsibilities... mmmm, cheesecake *drool*...

Piste

I just had a lovely bowlof Haagen Dasz cookiea and cream icecream...nyom.

seaner

ha ha. Thats so true...you start off light...then work your way through an entire fridge by the end of the day.
On a serious note tho.....foods that can calm anxiety and help relieve stress:
Bananas
Asparagus
Avocado
Kidney Beans
Brazil nuts
Sunflower seeds
Linseed
and the best stress buster of all : TEA

WindSock

I'm off choklet for lent

SheRa

Sorry, that was cheeky.

LilyM1980

watna wrote: »

I'm actually suffering from stress at the moment. Stress at work is giving me migraines and insomnia. I was going to post a serious thread about how you ladies cope with stress and learn to switch off your head at night.

Now Thaed has given me the answer. Desserts and wine!

/emails bf to tell him to pick up wine and cake on the way home... or else!

Watna,

What I do is totally switch off when I leave work. There is no point in getting stressed because you will make yourself sick.

Go for a walk
Go for a drink
Go out for dinner
Go to the gym
DVD...etc
Or just some together with the OH

Just do things that are totally non related to work

Hope that helps missus;)

The Sweeper

How I relieve my own stress:

Cook. Cook a lot. Open a bottle of scotch. Drink the scotch while cooking.

Last night, for dinner, I cooked a lamb madras, a ragu sauce to be used for lasagne and a chili con carne.

Last night, for dinner, I ate: ...do the icecubes out of four glasses of scotch count?

Crumble Froo

timtams > penguins

anti stress involves music. and usually walking. and now i leave relatively near beach. what a combo :cool:

Donegal Lass

can i substitute the penguin bars for the extra large galaxy bars??

watna

Timtams are awesome. You can get them here in Tesco.

Thanks for the advice girls. Cooking when I go home helps and we usually watch a film in bed. It's just after that I have a problem. I'll be exhasuted and relaxed and suddenly I'll snap and be awake thinking about all the crap I have to do tomorrow. Or, a few times I've fallen asleep and snapped awake suddenly thinking about work.. I figure I'm dreaming about it and panic wakes me up! My Oh told me to wake him up if I can't sleep, I tried, but he resisted a lot. I don't think that's going to work! I love my sleep and rearely have problems, it's the last few weeks.

I did manage to sleep through the night last night though (god, i sound like I'm 9 months old!)

Crumble Froo

ugh, i've been needing to be out of bed by 6am most mornings lately, and have woken a few times dreaming i've just seen the bus go by, and i've put my arm out for it only to realise im inside and looking out a big window and the bus can't see me, and then i wake up and it's only 5am and there's no point going back to sleep.

I did manage to sleep through the night last night though (god, i sound like I'm 9 months old!)

or that you have a 9 month old :P

watna

Crumble Froo wrote: »

ugh, i've been needing to be out of bed by 6am most mornings lately, and have woken a few times dreaming i've just seen the bus go by, and i've put my arm out for it only to realise im inside and looking out a big window and the bus can't see me, and then i wake up and it's only 5am and there's no point going back to sleep.



or that you have a 9 month old :P

That sounds familiar. I think it's because you're never fully asleep (i.e. you don't enter the deep sleep phase or whatever it's called) so your dreams are vivid and your surroundings are incorporated in to them. It's really weird! Our crazy room mate got up at 6 am yesterday and stomped around the house really loudly. I dreamt I screamed at her to shut the f*ck up and when I woke up I didn't know whether or not I'd actually screamed at her!

Do not even joke about having a 9 month old!
/shudders!

Crumble Froo

watna wrote: »

That sounds familiar. I think it's because you're never fully asleep (i.e. you don't enter the deep sleep phase or whatever it's called) so your dreams are vivid and your surroundings are incorporated in to them. It's really weird! Our crazy room mate got up at 6 am yesterday and stomped around the house really loudly. I dreamt I screamed at her to shut the f*ck up and when I woke up I didn't know whether or not I'd actually screamed at her!

ha, i have been having rememberable dreams a lot lately. i usually never remember them... (even the times housemates inform me that ive been shouting/screaming in my sleep, nada). i think it's probably to do with sharing a bed while sober and knowing ive to get up the next morning... not quite the same deep sleep when there's someone moving/making noises right beside you, plus it's a zillion degrees in our house (once the heat gets in, it's bloody hot) so im not entirely comfortable in that respect either. plus im a worrier. total worrier, and phobic about being late for stuff. so no, no i haven't been fully asleep in a while. forming bags under eyes right now, getting slightly bigger the longer im here...

Do not even joke about having a 9 month old!
/shudders!

i hesitated before writing that, wondered if i was crossing hte line :P

watna

Crumble Froo wrote: »

ha, i have been having rememberable dreams a lot lately. i usually never remember them... (even the times housemates inform me that ive been shouting/screaming in my sleep, nada). i think it's probably to do with sharing a bed while sober and knowing ive to get up the next morning... not quite the same deep sleep when there's someone moving/making noises right beside you, plus it's a zillion degrees in our house (once the heat gets in, it's bloody hot) so im not entirely comfortable in that respect either. plus im a worrier. total worrier, and phobic about being late for stuff. so no, no i haven't been fully asleep in a while. forming bags under eyes right now, getting slightly bigger the longer im here...



i hesitated before writing that, wondered if i was crossing hte line :P

Glad I'm not alone... this sounds like my sleeping habits in the last few months. I feel your pain! I'm hoping once I leave work and get going I'll have less to worry about and will sleep better!

Crumble Froo

i just intend to get drunk on weekends and just pass out. best night's sleep ill ever have. morphine caused me to dream so vividly they were borderline hallucinations. ill never know if i was actually sitting up talking with the people who weren't there all afternoon, or if i just dreamt it...

jezza

Too true. The only decent sleep I get is when i'm passed out from an all night session.

Its 11:08 and I still have been to bed. Ugh.

misswex

I'm just back from an exhausting contours gym session and now you having me craving penguin bars - how ironic!! Thankfully i can't just leave work and go buy them so I'm saved

I used to be a complete stress ball I mean I used to have problems sleeping for months on end for about 18 months and most of last year the problems disappeared I'd say mostly due to things in my life going right for once and now most night I fall asleep out of nowhere even times when I don't want to which is grand if i'm at home in bed but I hate it if friends are over or if i'm at his and I just nod off.
my boyfriend is having problems sleeping now due to some stuff going on and I told him abot my past issues with getting some shuteye and he sent me this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcolepsy
and said I really think you have this

I think I over indulge on the deserts and wine tbh

aye

hmmm, what the hell is a timtam?

de-stress? go for a swim, to the gym, eat (some) chocolate.
anything that releases the endorphins.
sex!

sex is good for headaches by the way, so that excuse is out the window.
apples are good for headaches too

jellie

i let myself get stressed way too easily. this week in work is getting insane. luckily i dont like cheesecake or have any in the freezer. although yesterday i got a caramel sundae from mc donalds after lunch - theyve never tasted so good as it did yesterday.
my de-stressing yesterday involved coming home, ringing my bf, and just ranting about work for about 10-15mins. he just let me rant & rant & i felt sooooo much better when i was done & had got it all out of my system

edit: nice hot bath with lots of bubbles can be good too

watna

aye wrote: »

hmmm, what the hell is a timtam?

de-stress? go for a swim, to the gym, eat (some) chocolate.
anything that releases the endorphins.
sex!

sex is good for headaches by the way, so that excuse is out the window.
apples are good for headaches too

Timtams = Yum!

Blush_01

Tim-Tams are what Penguins would taste like if they didn't taste sh!t. Oh, I hate Penguins. Caramel Tim-Tams for the win!

Crumble Froo - was in the filling station yesterday and saw bags of Crunchie Nuggets. I remember you saying you like them in the happy-making-junk-food thread. If you ever want some posted over, drop me a PM.

aye

Blush_01 wrote: »

Tim-Tams are what Penguins would taste like if they didn't taste sh!t. Oh, I hate Penguins. Caramel Tim-Tams for the win!

Crumble Froo - was in the filling station yesterday and saw bags of Crunchie Nuggets. I remember you saying you like them in the happy-making-junk-food thread. If you ever want some posted over, drop me a PM.

where can i purchase these timtams?
are these like thos packets of bars you get 6 for 99c or something, like the rocky's?

watna

aye wrote: »

where can i purchase these timtams?
are these like thos packets of bars you get 6 for 99c or something, like the rocky's?

You can get them in Tesco. I got mine in the one in Ballybrack. Also got them in Superquinn in Blackrock once. They're yum but as they're imported (they're Australian) they're not cheap... no 6 for 99c I'm afraid.

Crumble Froo

aye wrote: »

hmmm, what the hell is a timtam?

a timtam is a penguin but with better biscuit pieces.

Blush_01 wrote: »

Tim-Tams are what Penguins would taste like if they didn't taste sh!t. Oh, I hate Penguins. Caramel Tim-Tams for the win!

ill try the caramel ones this month.

Crumble Froo - was in the filling station yesterday and saw bags of Crunchie Nuggets. I remember you saying you like them in the happy-making-junk-food thread. If you ever want some posted over, drop me a PM.

*attempts to be strong*... im... on... a ... d-i-e-t.

crunchy nuggets are most certainly not part of that.\

you are just lucky im too drunk to be able to figure out eht PM thing right now.

Blush_01

Blush_01 wrote: »

Tim-Tams are what Penguins would taste like if they didn't taste sh!t. Oh, I hate Penguins. Caramel Tim-Tams for the win!

+20.

What you do is arm yourself with cup of tea, then nibble both ends off the timtam and drink your tea through it like it was a straw.
After a couple of seconds it disintegrates in a blob of choclately Nyomness.

aye

watna wrote: »

You can get them in Tesco. I got mine in the one in Ballybrack. Also got them in Superquinn in Blackrock once. They're yum but as they're imported (they're Australian) they're not cheap... no 6 for 99c I'm afraid.

savage, i can drop into tesco in ballybrack on the way home later.
i'll sample these timtams!

Mr Magnolia

g'em wrote: »

Me Thaed's dietary ideas. I wonder is it too late to absolve my N & D responsibilities

:eek: Don't do it

Nevyn

/me cackles.

Babette08

Must get my hands on those Tim Tams when i'm doing my on-line Tesco shopping . Watna I read somewhere that Tv's in the bedroom are the biggest culprit when it comes to interrupted sleep patterns...something bout the brain needing to wind down before nodding off.

If all else fails get yourself one of those sleep cds..two minutes listening to one and it's coma here i come