UK Fat Chicks - Hello From One Fat Chick In England #15

Anyone got anything cheery to post? :p

Diet things?

Everyday things?

Lets post!

Well this is cheery to me, I have 2 job interviews next week in London so will hopefully be moving to civilisation soon.

Come on Tim Henman for Wimbledon :D :D :D

How you doin' Veggie?

I lost 3lbs this week (of the 4 that I had gained :o ) - thats good news...

It was Sprog #1 sports day today - she hates it - but Sprog #2 obviously thought it great and was sick of watching from the side-lines so when the whistle blew she jumped onto the track and believe it or not came 3rd!!! Everyone thought it hilarious and she got to stand on the podium!!

Going shopping for holiday stuff tomorrow and getting hair 'done' planning on lots of different blond highlights. DH's parents are baby sitting whilst we go into town - may not go back and pick them up after :devil:

Good luck for next week Pheobe.

Hi veggie, Melissa, pheobe, making the most of my good news now! I'm having a party tonight for 8 friends, going to get drunk and enjoy myself. :D

Tomorrow is weigh-in day, and I feel positive. I am 2lbs short of my original target (I was 178lb, my target was 147lb and my new target is 133lb) and I have had lots of compliments at work this week about how good I look.:D

I am going to Cannes (business conference) next week and I have bought myself a lovely evening dress from Monsoon, size 14, makes me feel great. :D

I put down a deposit on a new house on Saturday and I just feel really happy.:D

Veggie, don't get down-hearted, find a job where the trainer cares about getting people to be good at their job instead of putting them down all the time (sounds to me like the trainer is cr@p and should be given the elbow). :s:

Veggie - I totally agree with Nicky - that trainer sounded very dodgy...

Well done on the weight loss Nicky - Cannes? You lucky :devil:

We're supposed to be in town shopping by 11 and DH is still in bed :rolleyes:

Have a good weekend everyone...

Veggie come have my job - it's too much hassle and internal politics for me at the moment.

I am in the middle of reinventing myself. Yesterday I decided I wouldn't work in the evenings anymore - if I can't do it between 9 - 5 then I ain't doing it.

I am trying to find things to do with my time, which don't cost anything. We are majorily skint and I think we will be until Ray finds another job. It is so depressing on a Friday when you pay your child care and don't have enough left for food and petrol let alone anything else........

Having said that I have been drinking too much recently - cheap wine or cider - another thing that is going to go.

I have also been eating far too much rubbish and not thinking about what it is doing to me.

I haven't been exercising at all - that is about to change - feel I can start a few simple exercises today.

This lot may sound negative but to me it's a positive step. I need to face all of the above before I can start to move on. I can see a glimmer of hope on the horizon and by thinking a lot more about as I clean the house today I may see a few more sun beams coming from that ray of hope.

Off to keep being positive

My mind is closed to discouraging and negative influences - only we can make this happen.

Enough - I've gone.

I'm feeling very positive at the moment, despite not having lost any weight this week.
After weeks of feeling ill - a whole stack of viral stuff and consequent low-grade depression - I am starting to feel really well again and beginning to look a bit less grey and blotchy.

I feel that my eating has been really good this week, although I have probably been drinking too much (good wine - life's too short for cheap wine;) )

I even ate rice cakes this week - any trace of feeling low or unmotivated is enough to make me think those things are only suitable for coasters.

It's only 4 more weeks until the end of term and although I've got a lot of work to do over the holidays I will have a lot more free time to spend on me and my family. :D

I always fantasise that I will lose lots of weight/learn a language/paint a masterpiece/finish a sweater over the Summer...this year I'm resisting the urge to set myself lots of unachievable targets. I'm just going to get a stack of books and try to increase my exercise levels.

Gill

Hello!
Well got back today from Bournemouth, the conference was very interesting and a complete change for me.
The diet was not at the top of my thoughts! i had a sensible breakfast of fruit and yoghurt. Lunch, i bought count on us stuff from M&S, but we ate out every night between 9 and 10pm. i chose wisely whenever possible but it was very hard.
I went swimming every day and walked a lot but i also sat down all week for at least 8 hours per day.
I just have to get back to it now :(

There is good news though..................I bought a pair of cropped trousers from M&S and I am a comfortable size 16.:D Yippee!
The day has finally come when I can wear clothes with zips and waistbands.

It has been great catching up with you all, keep up the good work.
I am doing the race for life tomorrow!! Wish me luck!!

Well done TQ! Getting into a size 16 means you will be able to buy clothes in nearly every high-street shop .... BLISS!

Pleased to report that my positive feelings were right, I am exactly 10st 7lbs, my target weight way back on January 1st. My mum arrives on July 5th, I can't wait to see her face!! New target 9st 7lbs.

To give you all faith that you can do this, especially with family support, my husband has gone from 15st 1lb to 11st 12lbs! Battle on, if we can do it anyone can.:)

Well today is the first day of the rest of my life. I'm off this morning to walk 12 miles around Edinburgh to raise money for meningitus and if anything is going to pull me back on to the straight and narrow exercise wise then this will.

For ages I kept telling myself I need to lose weight to do the walk, but I haven't managed it and now I need to use it as a new starting point.

Heres's to 15 stone 13lbs.

Well done Carol - thats the fighting talk we need to get rid of this flab!!

Nicky and TQ - keep up the good work. I'm chuffed too, although I only lost a lb this week - I have gone down from size 28 in January to 22 as of yesterday - I know I'm still hovering around the 17 stone mark but with all the dancing I'm doing I've really toned up. In the past week several people have told me that I'm looking better/thinner/well and that feels fantastic. Something else that I've done is I've changed my wardrobe a bit - My mum took me shopping a couple of weeks ago and insisted on buying me some skirts and 'girly' clothes, bearing in mind I was born in jeans - I have actually got my legs out and it doesn't look as bad as I thought it would.

Got to have a 'good' food day today - ate too much yesterday, wish me luck, as my friend is coming over for lunch and I'm doing chicken salad but she's a great cook and making strawberry shortbreads - must be strong :strong:

Have a good day ladies - it looks like the weathers going to be nice too...

Three whole dress sizes gone Melissa!! no wonder people are commenting!

I love to see you all doing Race For Life and 12 mile walks, takes guts to get out and do that stuff.

Gill, you sound bright and ready to face anything - anyone who can face a ricecake gets a round of applause from me :s:

I won't be doing my daily logon over the next few days, I hope you all have sunny weather (and willpower ;) ) while I'm away and I will look back on catching up with the news when I get back.

Well done melissa!Get them legs out girl.
I have lost the plot a bit with dieting, I drank far too much wine yesterday after the Race for life..........talk about a good day going downhill quickly. I have given myself a good talking to today and hope i can get on with it. I havent been to the slimming club during June, i have to go and face those scales this week, I know it won't be good news.
HELP!!:cry:

Come on TQ - you've done so brilliantly - get back on track now girl (you're my main source of inspiration ;)

I have eaten 2 slices of toast with butter for breakfast and thought I'd be good for the rest of the day but a friend turned up today with a huge cheese and pickle baguette which I 'forced' down my neck - now I don't know if I should eat my dinner - it was going to be salmon with hollandaise sauce, veg and boiled new pots - anybody got any suggestions? Talking of which I'd better go and feed the family - how selfish of them to want dinner when I'm not hungry!!

I WALKED 12 MILES in 4 hours 10 minutes and came in 1355th out of over 5000 entrants - am dead chuffed.

Eating has been good today and yesterday - feel asleep before 9pm yesterday - wonder why. Today though I have a cold and am feeling sorry for myself. Ray has offered to make hot toddys later onso that could be my downfall tonight.

I will be strong I will be strong

Well, have managed to stay on track today, havent written anything down but my notebook is being dusted down from tomorrow!!
I am sat here after a 4o minute swim with my hot choc options drink and 2 apple danish snack a jacks yummy.
We will survive!!:cool:

Hello all, well done you walker's, loser's and everyone actually. I haven't lost a pound in weeks, although I'm not surprised cos I really haven't been trying too.
My shoulder is still messed up, I had my first session of physio today, I have to have nine in total and if that doesn't work I've been threatend with steriod shots and apparently they hurt!! OUCH!!!!
Anyhoo, I am in good spirits cos I haven't gained any more apart from the five pounds when I first stopped WW. So I am pleased that I am maintaining and I do plan on getting back on track as soon as I sort this blooming shoulder out.
It's very hottish and humid here of late. I just walked the pooches and sweated to death while I was out there. Nearly gogt in Lew's pool with him when we got home....that ould have been a sight I can tell ya!
Right well I think I had better go and hoover, cos the rugs are in need of it. If I do it now, although it's getting late, it'll all look right nice in the morning when I get up, cos the boys are away in DC for a few days....hehehe.
Everyone have a great week,
Chris. x

Not been too wonderful with my eating today - was at a course in Edinburgh and although I had a salad for lunch it had dressing on it - will take my sandwiches tomorrow.

Do they feed a cold and starve a fever or is it the other way round ?

I saw a councillor today :rolleyes: what can I say I have "issues" ;) he didnt listen very well I told him I couldnt see him next tuesday but he still gave me an appointment for then :?:

Veggie- If you are not happy with him ask to see another one love ok.

i am sat here once again with snack a jacks and options hot choc. Another good day to report, i have a new diet journal it has a pig on the front with the word OINK! underneath. Black paper and silver pen so i have used it to write down every mouthful!!!!
I have been to the gym, it was a bit of a struggle, just because i havent been for a week i felt shattered.

It is pretty quiet around here, come on UKfat chicks lets make it happen!!

Enthusiam has gone out of the window. Had to resort to the LARGER size swimsuit tonight - now I have to do something about it all - bring back my motivation.

Want to be slimmer for the schools going back in August, only I can make that happen.

Had a good point though - resisted the temptation to have chips when we came out of the swimming and didn't steal any of the boys, probably because they had a cheeseburger each instead, but it's a start .........

Come on girls we have to keep going...

Having said that this is what I ate yesterday - Backed potato with cheese & bacon on it, 3 large cookies from Sainsbury's, and a cream doughnut (admittedly a friend came over with the cookies and cakes but she didn't have to force them down my throat) to make up for it I had a low fat WW meal for dinner :lol:

I am determined to be good today...

SS - I can't even think of wearing a swimsuit at all never mind having the choice between 2 different ones!! Which isn't good news as we go on holiday in less than 2 weeks :eek:

hate to admit it but the 'other' swimsuit that I ended up wearing is an old maternity on e- never thought to need it again - just as well I didn't chuck it out else last night would have been embrassing.

Have done ok so far today apart from biscuits at coffee time, don't usually drink coffee or eat biscuits, but I have been. Tomorrow I'm back on the water - more difficult to dunk the biscuits through the narrow neck of the bottle :lol: :lol: :lol:

I am off to sunny south yorkshire this afternoon so won't be around till after the weekend.
I will be glad to have a weekend at home next week. This weekends trip is for my God daughters 18th birthday (ooh I feel so old now!!). I have volunteered to drive to avoid any alcohol. Keeping away from the buffet will be another problem!! Lets hope i can dance the night away for exercise eh!!

I think I have got back on track, been writing everything down trhis week and it does help. The sun has helped in its own way too, been very hot down here.

I went to the gym and had a swim last night. It is taking a lot of effort but i think that is because i am feeling guilty about the housework that isn't getting done.

Oh well enough ramblings for now, better get this show on the road. have a great weekend
TQ

Have a good time TQ!

I am shock horror actually building myself up slowly to actually diet again you have been warned! By monday I will be lean mean healthy eating queen honest. Have put on about 21 pounds back on of the 50 I lost but whats new (pussycats)

Hi all
back again...but decided to post this here instead of on the weekly weigh in thread.I just had to come back and tell you all about an email I got earlier that had me really upset for a while.

Well to cut a long story short I will post the email it went as follows :)

Dear Alison,

I have just finished looking over your website and I have to tell you one thing. Losing weight is one of the hardest things anyone has ever got to do and unless you have been in that position you have no idea how difficult, depressing and distressing it can be.
When I saw your first pictures I thought to myself here is a genuine person who really knows how I feel that was until I carried on looking at the other photographs you posted supposedly of yourself as you lost weight.
They are quite obviously all of different people. If you are going to try to convince people that those are photographs of you.
you should have been more careful in chosing ones that bore some sort of resemblance to the original one you posted. I may be overweight but I am not stupid, give me some credit to be able to tell that a photograph is of someone else.
Some of us are genuinely trying to deal with our weight problems and it is a shame there are sad individuals out there like you who are just trying to mock all our efforts by pretending to understand how we feel and convince us that you have lost weight.
you are pathetic and I just hope no one else is conned by your deception.

Well I was really upset about it for a while but when I had calmed down a bit I decided to reply to it...strangely enough the reply was returned as undeliverable mail...what a surprise.
well girls am I being completely numb here ...on many of them I have my sister in laws dog with me and the background is always the same.( I stand in the same place for my photographs taken every time) does that not give some indication that they are all of the same person.?
I suppose I should really take that email as a compliment...NO I don't look like the same person that started this journey over a year and a half ago.. I do look completely different and a whole lot better than I did before ...but isn't that the point?

In a way I am a different person, I look and feel different, but I am still me and I always will be me no matter what I look like.

To be honest I am surprised that I haven't had more nasty emails since I started my website and that is the very first nasty one I have ever received so I should be grateful for that.


I'm glad there are people out there like you all here who do appreciate all my efforts and it is for you and everyone like you that I carry on posting my story openly as it progresses.

I feel that the person who sent me that email has some serious issues with their weight, but instead of asking for help they are just trying to justify their own failure by discrediting the efforts of someone who is obviously working hard at becoming successful.
I feel very sorry for them.

well I just wanted to vent a little and I thought you all may like to see that little ditty.

Have a good weekend everyone :)

Ali :wave:

Babe, you should not get downhearted that someone who needs help saw you as a "fake" - there are hundreds (maybe more) of us out there who see you as a total inspiration (I've lost 31lbs, my husband 45 lbs). There will always be people who can't see reality because it is too painful.. Keep inspiring me sweetie.

NickyB

Thanks Nicky I needed that :)

Ali :wave:

Ali,

I cant beleive that somebody had the audacity to send you that email but like you say, from the background etc, it is obviously you - I can only think that they have embarked on their own weight loss journey and failed and are totally jealous of how well you have done. The fact that the email was returned also suggests that it is possibly somebody who maliciously emails people after reading their websites as a matter of habit - for whatever reason i do not know but perhaps they are not well.

You are an inspiration to us all here at 3FC so please do not let this stop you updating your website or continuing your journey.

Tracy

WOW how misguided can you be! There are a lot of odd balls about on the net (and everywhere else) I think thats just the price of FAME Ali :lol: You obviously need a secretary to screen out the bad from the good now!

OOh I love this quick reply button has this just appeared?!

OOh I love quick reply :D

Have just printed out my diet which I start on monday (oh yes I do) took forever I like the days I can have pizza for lunch best!

I wont stop updating my website girls...I know there are far more people out there who get benefit from it than the sad ones like the sender of the email...I need to keep doing it for myself too :)

Veggie I think the button must have just arrived. I don't ever remember seeing it before I know the site was down last night for maintenance so maybe they added it then

Ali :wave:

Ali, keep doing what you're doing luv, you really are an inspiration to loads of us fat chicks out here....that weird e-mailer needs to get a life and leave good people like you alone....keep up the good fight everyone, we can do it, Ali is the proof :)

Please don't take any notice of this email ali or any others you may get. The sender cannot be reached to reply so they are obviously not worth spending any time worrying about their thoughts and what they have said. keep up the good work!!

I had an email that said it came from me (as in my email address in the from bit) that was odd my bruv said that happens all the time I thought someone had hacked into my aol account :lol: Anyway the email was to a msn group I was in slagging someone off :eek: very odd!

Well here I am again! had a great time on friday night at the 18th birthday bash, oldie that I am, stuck to the mineral water and was a good designated driver. Did ok with the buffet too, I stole all the salad garnish to fill up on !!:o

Rest of the weekend has been ok, shopped till I dropped in Barnsley. Primark rules, dresses for £3, I tell you it is now my favourite shop.

We have just had a barbq, monkfish and salmon kebabs, very yummy.

Hope you are all fighting the good fight and are hanging on there, it is so worth it. We are all going to get there it is just a matter of 'when' we reach our destination.

Come on everyone get posting!!;)

Decided to go away for the weekend - last minute decision. Poured with rain the whole weekend, TQ can you send some of that heat & sun shine north. But who cares about the rain, it's not hurt me so far.

Ali - ignore the sicko, we know you are doing great

Will catch up later

Carol, have you got the sun yet, cos it isn't here. Rain all morning oh I hate wet playtime at school:(

No sun here either. Schools are out until Aug 20th here so will no doubt rain every day until then

Thanks for the support girls

I am feeling too good to let one nasty email put me down.

When I got on the scales last week and saw 13 stone 12lbs come up on the dial I cried...I don't ever remember weighing this ever. My very first memory of my weight was when I was about 15 and I joined a slimming club with my mum I weighed 15 and a half stone the scales have gone up gradually ever since with the odd drop from time to time ( tho not by much ) when I embarked on yet another hairbrain diet.

I will be carrying on with my webpage for my own benefit but also for all of you that have been with me through the good times and the bad....You all deserve much of the credit for getting me to where I am today because without you all I know I couldn't have got this far

Thank You

Ali :wave:

13 stone OMG! :D

Its sunny here so I do not understand why wimbledon is not on :dizzy: they should hold it in the north where it is always sunny!

I agree with you veggie the sun has been splitting the trees here in Manchester I had a nursery full of sleeping babies all afternoon and was looking forward to sitting with my feet up in front of the telly for a bit of tennis....what did I get ....replays coz of rain.grrrrrrrrr
you can bet your sweet bippy it wont be raining tomorrow and I will be running around all day like a headless chicken without a minutes to watch any of it :(

Ali :wave:

The weather has been awful here all day, rain, rain and more rain. Wimbledon could do with indoor courts or huge umbrella type roof!!

They were talking about that on the telly today TQ
one of those domes that can be rolled off...but apparently it is beeing frown upon by the officials of the all England club...what sticks in the mud they can be sometimes...I'm sure it would be a lot more enjoyable for fans and players alike not to mention making the running of the tournament a lot smoother when they know they are guaranteed no rain delays

Ali :wave:

wimbledon has indoor courts but they are only used for practice - they wouln't be able to use them for the championships because of they could not get spectators in there. The reason they will not consider a roof is because it will change the condition of the courts to much and it would not be a true grass court championship, also it would need lighting which also changes the nature of the game from a players perspective!

TIMMY TIMMY TIMMY WON WON WON

Im doing a little jig Lleyton Hewitt has lost two sets hee hee. Good news for Timbo if he is struggling!!

damn Veggie. Lleyton Hewitt won... think Timmy Boy is gonna have a tough match to beat him tomorrow...lets just hope he gets a good nights sleep and comes out all guns blazing tomorrow.
I'm gonna be glued to my chair from noon and I aint moving until the match is over.
Hmmmm...I get weighed at 1 o/clock...guess I may be a little late tomorrow ...unless it rains of course:)

Ali :wave:

At least it wasn't a walk over. Be strong Timmy be tough be ruthless :strong: you can do it! Hopefully! Remember Lleyton Hewitt used to look like Tad from neighbours imagine it's him you are playing (I think I should be a coach)

lol veggie...you would make a great coach too :)

Hi all, hope you're all well. I am fine. I just got home from being out most of the day for the 4th July celebrations here. We went to a place called Wildwood about two hours drive and had a wonderful time walking along the boardwalk....I even got my belly button pierced....yes, me, and my little, well not so little in fact, belly....
I am right chuffed with myself now and I think that maybe because I've gone and done something with my tum, I might want to slim it down a lot more and that is my incentive for getting back on track....however, I also bought two pounds of homemade fudge...bad woman that I am....so I'll eat some of that first before point counting.
Anyhoo, an enjoyable day had by all the Parker's here, we even sat on the beach to watch the fireworks which was a different experience.....have a great day everyone, I should be off to bed now cos it's gone two in the morning. :)

Not looking good I have hope though!

Chris are you planning on showing your piercing off? We await the photos with baited breath (whatever that means) :dizzy:

Oh its raining again in soggy old London ITS NOT HERE! :p

I am thinking of building an ark!!!!!!!:lol:

had lots of sunny shine in Scotland today, all the time I was stuck in the office. Have had a garbage day, but then stuff happens, it's how you react to stuff that matters.

What is it about tennis that I can't see. I can't see the attraction - even Timmy?

Ray has a new job, next week we will have some money to spend - hurray !!!!!! Will make a pleasant change.

Still dry here Timbo has lost boo hoo.

Hi Judith - sorry he lost.

Whats the next big sporting event, we've had the world cup, wimbledon, is the grand prix at silver stone this weekend - another excuse for everyone to get out their little union jacks

Makes me sound very unpatriotic - told you I'd had a bad day

Off to cheer up

I dont think there is anymore now thats it nothing but Big Bruv then just NOTHING!!

The new job is something to be cheery about isnt it?

If you want to see my fat belly with my lovely blue stud thingy in it, I will be willing to show you Veggie :)

I WANT TO SEE IT! ;)

Ok, I've taken a pic, wobbly belly, stretch marks and all...are you sure you want to see it Veggie?

Oh shes just teasing me now :lol: :lol:

Have just spent 3 and 3/4 hours tiding Seans bedroom - never again - next time I go in with a bin bag and everything on the floor goes in it.

Have got a really sore throat - had a cold a couple of weeks ago and the cough has never gone anywhere - now my throats red raw - aawwww. Never mind just one more week of work and then I'm off for 3 weeks - hurray

Am building up for a big restart tomorrow - gotta do something

Here you go then luv...my belly....

Mmm nice now whos next with parts of their bodies to show?

I know it's the stretch marks you're the most impressed with Veg.........ROFL!!!

No I can see them anytime I want thanks!

Well the new structure at work was announced yesterday, there are a few chances for promotion, which me (along with everybody else) will be trying for. A few people will be made redundant but they are hoping to do it through voluntary redundancy as opposed to compulsory - am not even thinking down that road yet. There is a job in my current location, at my grade and I'm the only permanent staff member there - so I should be slotted into that if I don't get one of the promotions - well thats what I took out of the personnels womans speach - but no doubt that could all be twisted around to suit them if they really want to get rid of me.

No negativity allowed in my mind about it - I am going to use this as a reason to get my act together and get a new challenging job.

Even better news I finished up from worked this evening for 3 weeks - hurray. bad news I'll need to dial in to check the job adverts and specs after the bank holiday next week

I'm sure whatever you want will happen Carol decisions I'm bad at them do you want to leave or stay?

This is depressing this link I quite fancied one too :lol: but large will fit size 14! click here for linky! (http://www.asseenonscreen.com/product.asp?sku=6FCTS0003)

Am determind to make things at work, work out for me. If they don't then I will go somewhere else - have no idea on whether I want to stay or not - all depends on what job I end up with in the new org - if I end up with one - time will tell.

Am going to have a look on the next site I am looking for some clothes for a night out, which could double as an interview suit, so off to have a perusal

Did you get anything nice? A certain person in my family wanted me to order £200 worth of rubbish clothes from a certain catalogue now SHE wants them all sending back grr how annoying. Dont tell anyone but I voted for Alex on the other thread just for a laugh mind! I have been to the beach today very nice but windy oh so windy and the dog did something on the golf course I am so ashamed!!

I wondered who had voted for Alex, bad girl veggie.

Was out last night with people from work. One of the woman had planned a treasure hunt around the centre of Glasgow - was hilarous. Surprisingly enough most of the clues led us to pubs where we had to have a drink.

Was in a strange team of the service desk team leader, the project leader from an external company putting in software for us and me - but we had a ball and amazingly won. Got a nice mug with STEAMIN on it.

Never before asked barmen if they are wearing a wooly vest or if they have a squash ball we can have ?????? We did get some strange looks when the 3 of us squashed into a photo booth to get a team photo in central station - the photo was conviscated to go in the next newsletter - scary it was a horrondous picture !!

Then we went to a lovely Thai restaurant and had 5 spice chicken was just lovely - didn't drink too much after the 11 pubs, but had a great time - today its back to healthy - had a cheese spread and salad sandwich for breakfast - think something strange is happening to my taste buds !!!

Originally posted by Smiling Sal
- didn't drink too much after the 11 pubs

:lol: good job too! Sounds a laugh.

Phoebe I am going to vote Alex out this week was a joke at first but I have decided it makes sense if I want Kate to win!

I would like to see Kate win, Alex has been acting very strangely lately.

11 pubs! Sounds like my sort of night out. I wouldn't be able to work the next day though.

Mmm ELEVEN pubs that will be Blackpool later this year!

SO many peeps are missing round here boo hoo :( I miss them all.

Saw my sisters new puppy today me proud auntie so cute.

Vote Alex!

If we don't get him out now we may never get another chance.

I have been suprised all the way through that so many people seem to think he is a great guy - he always made me think of a sly prima donna, only liking someone if it made him safe. Why else make friends with the girls and alienating all the boys when the divide first went up? He must have thought that the boys would do themselves no favours with the public, so he was safe in the voting. And by cuddling up to the girls he got the female vote inside and out. Devious boy, very devious.

I still can't bring myself to like Jonny (only because he looks and sounds so much like a much despised ex-housemate of mine). It isn't really fair, but hey! And Tim isn't going anywhere. Even if he is in the last 3 no-one out here is going to vote for such a.... words fail me!

So if Kate is going to win, and she has to, blokes have won the previous 2, we need to get shot of Mr Popular. Then she'll have a better shot going up against Ml Bland (Tim) and Mr Was in Sulk But Feeling Better Now (Jonny).

And I said I don't watch it much!!!!

Stef

No I can see you don't watch much :lol: you've just accidentally analysed everyone the few minutes you saw. Right! you and the rest of the country the way my brother never watches soaps but always seems to know what is going on!

Still everyone missing hope the are enjoying themselves :?: :p

Originally posted by veggie my brother never watches soaps but always seems to know what is going on!

I have a husband that has that same skill - do you think it is a male speciality :lol:

Originally I wanted Alex to win (never could see what everyone saw in Spencer), but as time goes on personality wise I think he's quite "spiteful". Guess Sandy's mean genes must have been implanted and now seem to have rubbed off on Adele and Tim - who strangely enough have taken a dislike to Jonny - heaven knows why.

It would be nice if Kate won, but to be honest, I want Jonny the fireman to win.

Incidentally if any of you saw E4 last night - Alex stirred with Jade, which caused a nuclear fall out and for the first time Jonny blew his top big stylee :lol:

I know he secretly watches them :p and what about people who are sooo bored of big brother then are like whats happening/did you see last night :rolleyes: its not THAT shameful to watch is it?

Have been busy surfing looking for where to go on holiday in my tent next weekend - myself and mad pal have decided to either go to Crail (small fishing vilage) or St Andrews - both are less than an hour away from home - am very far travelled this year

Both boys have been at football training at Stenhousemuir FC this week - have all throughly enjoyed it and had worn then out and made then fall asleep before 10:30 - a novelty at the moment.

Was at Stirling Castle over the weekend - if any of you are ever in the area and looking for a good day out and seriously reccommend it - they have done a lot of work on it and made it very interesting and entertaining for all ages. We watched a falconery (birds of prey) display, in which the owl made a bid for freedom during the fly around and flew away from the castle - they did finally get it back, but it was tethered during the next display.

Am eating better than I was, but could still be better

Have got a teeny weeny bit sunburnt today - first day of sunshine in a long time

Am going away for the weekend to mum & dads caravan in Kenmore so will catch up with you all on Monday

Am in a very chatty mood - night

Went for walk with pedometer think it is in shock hasn't seen outside for about 6 months am done in now everything aches I have officially put on two stone great now I have to lose that again :( :( :( :( burned 350 cals woo hoo :rolleyes: :cb: :cp:

I am in shock though never in my wildest nightmares did I ever think I'd allow myself to get to this weight again.

Judith,

I have also gained quite a lot (1 1/2 stone) am back on plan from today although i have only had a small amount of exercise due to one of my office staff going sick and me having to cover. WE CAN AND WE WILL DO THIS.

Tracy

Thanks Tracy day one has gone well!!

Great to hear your day has gone well, mine hasn't been too bad either!! We will get there girls we really will!!

I have feel off the wagon again. Too many goodies when I was away and still have my camping expediation to go next week - no doubt will drink too much while I am away, but when I come back the sweet and boozie tooth is being banished and I will be back on track.

I am going to be careful for the next few days at home and watch what I eat while I am away - but I will relax and enjoy myself a bit - well a big bit to be honest - while I am away with my friend and our families.

Come on Ladies, you are doing great and are my inspiration

We deserve a good holiday and a bit of relaxation, we just need to be nagged and made to stand up and be counted (well, weighed really!!) when we get back.
I am away from 28th july - 14th august, please bombard me with email if i fail to turn up!! PLEASE!!

Help I have just walked non stop for 60 mins home am truly tired now and I haven't had my tea yet so I'm hungry don't think I can lift my feet to get food :yawn: my pedometer tried to escape by leaping off me on the bridge and nearly into the water but I got it in time!

This is my first weight loss attempt "properly" and it worries me that so many people seem to put a lot of weight back on or even go back to their original weight and more once they reach their target.

What's the secret of keeping the weight off? Has anyone got good advice? I'm still 11lbs short of my target, but at the moment I am determined never to go back to a size 20 and totally determined to keep off what I have lost so far..

Nicky,yes it is sad but true that lots of sucessful slimmers get to their target weight then gain it all back and some. i know cos I have done just that. I lost 5 and a half stone and reached my target of 10-7 in 1987. I managed to keep within 7lb of my target for some years until i got married in oct 93, moved to london jan 94, lost my dad july 94, became pregnant and by the time I had my son in aug 95 I had gained about 4 stone. Unfortuneately I then went on to gain another 6 stone after his birth and after reaching 20stone + knew I had to seriously do something ....again!!
I managed to maintain my weight between 86 and 94 by being careful mon to fri afternoon and eating whatever i wanted fri evening to sun evening. This really worked for me, i also got weighed once a week and kept a check on it. If my weight ever reached 10-13 it was back to the diet sheet for a couple of weeks. Your clothes are the best guide though as long as they have buttons , zips etc. Lycra has a lot to answer for, its amazing how much size 12 leggings could stretch!!! Good luck with your last 11 lbs you are nearly there, staying slim and saying no is worth it ,its trial and error for a while but i am sure you will find a way. :)

I too have got below 10 stone and then changed jobs, got pregnant - twice and here I am heavier than I ever was. Think once I lost the weight I kiddied myself I could eat what I wanted as I wasn't on a diet any more and I wasn't fat any more - how wrong was I.

Good luck on those 11 pounds and when they are off, my advise would be like TQ did and set yourself a weight which if you ever reach again, it's back on the diet for a couple of weeks to get those few pounds back off. I know I will be closely monitoring my weight for the rest of my life to try and keep it in check.

I was moaning about my weight to my mum at the weekend and she pointed out that although I wasn't big as a child I was always solid and weighed a lot more than I looked like I should - as if that is some explanation of why I am this size. I don't eat that much - ok I am not an angel but I don't think I eat / drink enough to deserve to weigh 16 stone + - but then does anybody. Wiegh in tomorrow morning - last week I was 16 4 - am not expecting to see a drop this week - a holiday weigh in as is next weeks - after that though no excuses

Thanks, I had pretty much decided that I had to have this as a way of life rather than a diet, so that means I will always have to keeping a close eye on the zips/buttons and the figures on the scale! Fortunately my child-bearing years are over (had the op to make sure:dizzy: ) so I will not have that as my downfall :)

I totally agree with you TQ, I can't believe how much I love how my body looks now compared to last Christmas, when I actually refused to have my photo taken, I was so embarrassed. It's got to be worth living with a little close attention to my food & booze intake to keep this good feeling for the rest of my life:D .

Hi girls
Sorry I have been MIA for so long, but I don't seem to have missed much does no one post their weight on the weekly weigh in thread anymore?

I've had not too bad a time over the past couple of weeks well the week before last TOM made a surprise appearance after only 9 days and I gained a pound, but I still lost another 2 inches so I wasn't too depressed about it and last week I lost another 2 lbs so I was very happy with that .

I am just back from a session at the gym and a long long chat with my personal trainer.
I said right at the start of this journey that I was setting my target weight at 10 stone 2 lbs because that was what was recommended from all the slimming magazines and the club I attended years ago, but that I would not go that far if I didn't think I needed to just because someone somewhere said that is what I should weigh for my height.
The one thing my trainer pointed out was that these weights recommended by the magazines and clubs only go off your height, they do not take into account muscle mass and tone and as we all know muscle weighs more than fat so you could look really good but be heavier than the charts say you should be. Well on his recommendation I have readjusted my final goal to 11 stone because he really does think that will be enough. Something in the back of my mind keeps telling me that it wont be enough and I think it is probably pshycological because of the recommended weight, but we have reached a compromise...I am now setting 11 stone as my final target, but when I reach that we will look at it again and if I am not happy then I can lose a little more, but I will definitely take his advice when I get there because I don't think my own feelings would be unbiased, I am sure I will always think I look fatter than I am and his opinion will be totally neutral. I am already getting people telling me that I have done great but that I should stop now because I am looking too thin...lol
I know that isn't true yet, but I can understand why they would be saying it...some people it will be jealousy, but others it will be because they remember what I looked like before, when they saw me then, they saw my size first and then my face...now they see my face first and that does look a whole lot different than it did before. I will defintely have to rely on the opinions of people I trust when I reach that 11 stone target because I really don't want to make the mistake of going too far.

I was interested in your comments about regaining weight after you had got to your targets...
Carol you said you kidded yourself that you could eat whatever you wanted because you weren't on a diet anymore...does that mean you went back to eating more or less the same food as you ate before you started to lose the weight...or did you just eat more of the things that you had become used to eating?
I have found that I just don't like the things I used to eat before I started, with the exception of chocolate of course, but even that, now I will have a small bar and I am quite satisfied with it, these days when I get the munchies I am much happier having raw veg or fruit than anything sweet, my palate has definitely changed which can only be a good thing :)
My child bearing years are over too, so I wont have to worry about that :)
I agree with the advice about setting yourself a weight that when you reach it is back on the diet for a couple of weeks and I do think that so long as you keep a check on your weight and take care of the few pounds that you may gain as soon as you gain them instead of letting them build up will make maintaining a lot easier.

Nicky well done on your loss so far and those 11lbs to reach your goal will soon be gone you must feel so much better I know I do. I can't wait to see just 11lbs left to go on my sig :)

Hope everyone is hanging in there, I'm off to catch up on all the posts I have missed while I've been away now.

Ali :wave:

So far today is going well - my eating has been ok, I was going to buy a bar chocolate earlier but I talked myself out of it - makes a change. Still no exercise though

Had a towbar fitted to my car this morning so I can take the tent up to St Andrews at the weekend - I must be mad it hasn't stopped raining for weeks. I had to go and buy my oldest son a pair of wellies to go with this morning - this is supposed to be summer

Another down side of the rain - the midges - there are millions of them round here at the moment, I brought yet more anti-midge cream. Also got a small bbq as well so at least we can sausages cooked healthily - well with no fat

Off to try and tidy this house a bit - Sean & Steven have pals in to play - too wet to go out and the place is like a bombsite. What will I do when I have to go back to work - am enjoying sitting about doing nothing very much

Sure is quite around here today - surely some one must have something to say - I promise not to slag off BB3 if some one will talk to me ?

Ayup carol!!
Know what you mean about the bomb site, i have given up now, i seem to have a constant stream of kids in and out, still i don't mind really, am thinking about disconnecting the door bell though and leaving the front door open!!
I have had a kit kat mcflurry!! not worried about the cals as there was only about 2" in the bottom of the tub, have they got smaller or what???????
Keep at it, keep the greedy demons at bay!!
Hope the weather dries up in time for the camping trip, it will be mozzies galore where we are going but i have got stocked up on Jungle formula!!

Am off the rails today - took the boys swimming and had chips after with them and a twix - what am I doing ???? need to pull my act together.

It's not raining today so everybody is playing outside - now i have no excuse for not tidying up - it is a thought to get started though.

Ate too much cheese last night - it has always been one of my danger foods - it's going on to my once a week treat list when I come back from my camping trip

You may have noticed by now that I woke up in a very motivated mood this morning

And a colourful one !!!

You'll probably be glad I'm off to motivate (ANNOY) my american friends in the TPAAT thread

I promise not to be so overbearing again

Just feel we needed a bit of an energy injection

really going now - CU later

Don't you go away carol, i need brightening up!!
went to see Paul heaton last night (lead singer of The beautiful south) he was brilliant but when i saw Sean Bean in the bar I was frozen to the spot!! he is so gorgeous, why didn't i speak to him, WHY?????

Just popped back from my American friends - they are all in bed - lucky them !!!

I too go off on holiday tomorrow, but we're not able to take the bikes, no room on the trailers.

But my poor friend I'm going with, had better pack her walking boots cause we are going for miles along the beach - the kids and the dog won't mind so why not

I have to walk off al the wine I know I will be drinking somehow

Could you all make a little wish for me, that St Andrews has some of your sunshine next week. I don't think I can handle a week in the tent in pouring rain. To be honest today has be one of the better days of the summer, it hasn't rained and it has been quite warm, not summer weather though lots of big black clouds which kept threatening a downpour but it never happened - still might though

We are definately going the wrong direction for our holiday, but it is all booked so we'll just need to make the most of it - no point in being miserable over something we have no control

So if you find a genie in a bottle over the next few days, please spare a wish for me

Oh no two more people leaving us hurry back Carol and TQ please! Have a nice time!

I'll be back you are stuck with me

Just a last few words before I go to bed and get some sleep before the big journey tomorrow!!
I will miss you all, be good and hang in there, will be back before you know it!!
Hope the heat wave continues and please keep the land dry for carol!!
C ya soon
TQ

I go on holiday next Sunday (sunny Greece), I am soooo looking forward to it. Another 2lbs gone this week, down to 10st 2lb with another 9 to go (SINGLE FIGURES!!):D :D

I have spent a small fortune on holiday clothes today, I lurve clothes shopping more than almost anything. I've attached before & after pictures of me, so you can see how my clothes choice has widened, unlike my hips:lol: Hope it works ...

OH ALI! Just went to see your site for the first time, how brilliant do you look! You must be so proud of yourself!

Thanks Nicky
I am proud of myself...for once in my life I really feel I have taken control of something I thought controlled me...my weight and I feel brilliant.

Have to say tho you look pretty amazing yourself...not only have you lost the inches but you look a whole lot younger too...well done to you :)

Ali :wave:

Thanks very much - I know what you mean when you mention on your site about wearing the same clothes when your weight changes: I wore a size 18-20 suit until I got down to a size 14 then bought 2 new suits - suddenly (i.e. overnight!) everyone noticed how much weight I'd lost.

Seems like we need some replacement holiday cover round here to replace all the jolly campers etc AND all the awol's sigh any Brit lurkers about????

BTW Nicky good photos you look like my neighbour in the 2nd one!

We'll have to hire some temps to replace us when we're on holiday: What would the job-ad for that look like? :lol:

Yes Nicky it is amazing how wearing something that fits better always makes people notice...doesn't that just go to show you exactly how much people really only glance at you when you wear the same things all the time they get used to you and it isn't any wonder really that even though we have been trying hard and losing what to us seems a lot of weight, we continue to wear the same things and they don't see the difference. I think that is something that discourages a lot of people and why they give in...Looking back now I think it would probably have helped me if I had bought something new every time I reached a new dress size, but when I started at 25 stone I didn't really see the point I just kept telling myself it was a waste of money

Veggie ...Holiday cover....HOLIDAYS?????? what are they ??? :lol:

Ali :wave:

Just had some great news, that my boss will be back to work soner than we had thought, which means my life will get back to normality in a month or so, thank goodness for that.

It means I can go on holiday without dreading what I have to come back to!

This "lovely" weather is making me really look forward to my fortnight in the sun :) I drove Blackpool to Newcastle last night, then Newcastle to Blackpool this morning, I have never seen so much water! It was coming down in buckets!

Chucking it down here I dyed my already very dark hair black to get rid of grey so have purple towels everywhere now duh.

Ali I don't know what hols are either :(

I wish I could whisk you all away somewhere sunny and luxurious, where you could be pampered for a week (maybe even have someone to wash your towels ;) )

Just realised, poor Carol is up in St Andrews with the tent! OMG! Scotland is practically closed because of all the floods, what a shame for her. :-(

EEK hope shes took her canoe :stress:

I love this new smilie its me!!!! :dance::dance::dance::dance:

testing...

Hahahahahaha

nice smilie :D

Its cool innit?

don't know about carol needing her canoe...looking at the news up in scotland I think she probably needs a snorkel and flippers

love the smilie veggie :)

Ali :wave:

Didn't have a canoe, snorkel or flippers, but I did have pair of 84 pence flip flops, short leggings and a sense of humour. There was a lot of rain !!!!!! - understatement.

It is the first time I have ever seen the water running like a small stream under the tent- good news is that our tent has enclosed sleeping area and that stayed snuggly & dry so we survived.

The camaradrie and freindship that was displayed on the site this week was great, every one helping out each other. I had a ball but I am glad to be back - had a long soak in a hot bath - as if I hadn't seen enough water!!

Will catch up with everyone tomorrow am going to feed the boys and try and get them down for an early(ish) night

Sure is quiet around here - I am full of determination and I am back on track big style - well I will be once I have something to eat.

I bought a new notepad with pictures of fish on it for me to log my food everyday. I am going to go back to 1500 calories and 30 minutes easy exercise everyday to start off with and take it from there - obviously if the exercise increases so will the calories I'll need to eat.

It is going to be a long journey but I can do it and I will do it.

Welcome back Carol!

I slept in my clothes last night disgusting went to sisters and ended up staying :p thankfully there were no camera crews to film me getting off bus in slept in clothes have you seen my town on the news? I think they were filming me at the bus stop yesterday!

NEWSFLASH - Summer came to Central Scotland today - we have been basking in the sun all day, no clouds at all and most definately no rain. Hope you manage to catch some sun mini gem.

Welcome back Carol...glad to hear the bad weather didn't dampen your spirits ( sorry about the pun :) )and spoil your holiday too much.

I have just been watching the news about everyone in Glasgow being told to boil all their water, think I'll be bringing some bottles up with me next friday :)

Ali :wave:

Bah, it's _too_ hot here for me now Carol. I wonder if I'll like the heat any better when I'm slim, but at the moment it just kills me.
:(

I recently came back from the south of france where I was studying french as part of my degree. It was regularly 30 degrees or more in may. There I was in jogging bottoms (can't show my legs!) just dying when I had to walk long distances. - I manage to find something to complain about in the best of situations, you know. ;)

Seems to be sunny one minute then cloudy next I dont like to show anything and would gladly walk round in a mac all summer :lol: I bought a short sleeved jacket from evans to cope with the is it sunny oh no its chucking it down moments. I feel down today but I might be happy next minute moan moan :( didnt even weigh myself couldnt be bothered Im cheery today arf!

Summer day 2 in Central SCotland - this is amazing. They say the weather is to break tomorrow but hey we had two sunny days

Well Veggies got Legionnairres (not personally) and I have what ever bug it is that has contaminated the water supply in Glasgow - again not personally and only at work. All our water at work is tap water and the powers that be reccommend that you boil water and let it cool but not drink it hot in tea and coffee, which meant there was no fluids availble in an office of over 500 people apart from a few juice machines. Company ended up bringing in bottle water, but they (them at be again) reckon it could last another couple of days - nightmare on a hot sunny day.

Very stressed have spent all evening working on my cv, hoping to meet the HR woman at work tomorrow to see about applying for the re-organised jobs, but apparently I have to be consulted with first ??

Am going to bed shortly as soon as I have finished my wine - all counted into my allowance - I am being so good it is unreal, even with warm bottled water.

Thats right havent got it myself yet :( it is worrying though.

Hello having a sneaky peak from work - am very busy too busy to be skiving in here - having a good day - still no water though

I'm happy bunny have managed to buy parents bd presents there bds are 5 days apart grr videos lord of the rings for him harry potter for her! £5 off at woolies if you buy lord of the rings then another one!

Very organised Veggie. Wish they did similar offers on school trousers - 2 weeks until the little angels go back.

Have gone of the rails - the stress has got to me - have had a large bar of white chocolate - could be worse I could just be eating constantly - at least there is no other food in the computer cupboard

Where is everybody today ?

Nice pressies Veg. Carol don't worry about the choc, it's a vegetable remember....LOL!
I was reading through different bits today, don't seem to have much time for the computer of late, but there was something about excersise...I'm back on the rebounder, cos the shoulder is moveable again now although I'm only doing ten mins at a time cos I am a fat girlie and un fit..start slow keep going...

Hi everyone

Carol and the rest of the scottish ladies from around the Glasgow area...I know this is short notice, but I am coming up to Glasgow on friday and plan on going into town saturday afternoon. I was just wondering if any of you were free then and fancied meeting up for a coffee...its typical of me..I've known I was coming up for a few weeks now, but only thought about meeting up last night, Ialways leave things to the last minute :)

Well if any of you are up for it, send me an email to alisonshedwick@freeuk.com and I will send you my mobile phone number and we can arrange a time and a place to meet

Ali :wave:

I am a sad puppy :( Got hit in the bum of my nice not even one year old car this morning on my way to work. Thankfully no one was hurt although my little car now has a few dents in the boot and on the bumper.
Hope everyone has a good day tomorrow....

Poor Chris hope your car is feeling better!

What I had for lunch yesterday ahem it was a birthday (not mine) pizza garlic bread 2 pints 2 wine eek!

OOh is anyone meeting up then?

Just read your post Ali - I would love to meet you sometime but this week end I have committed myself to going to Dundee. Let me know next time you are coming north and we can get together.

Am so tired hence the reason I haven't been around. I have had 2 very early nights - like 9pm !!!!!!

The jobs at work have been posted and the interviews planned for next week. 2 people have already announced they are taking voluntary severance - not a very pleasant time.

Am going to have a few drinks tonight - will make me feel a bit better - sorry but tonight I am going to stuff the calories and then wake up in the morning and put it all behind me.

Haven't quiet managed to put all my dispair behind me

Woke up this morning from a dream where an email was sent out announcing who had got the jobs before I had even had my interview In my dream I was outside the building in tears, being comforted by the most two faced woman in the office - you can not imagine how that made me feel After a few minutes I did realise that it was only a dream, but it wasn't the start to the day I wanted

Have a million and one things to do today. I need to tidy this house, all of it. Go to the library, get the messages in and I would love to make a fancy dinner for tonight. something very low calorie though - I need to get back on track and forget all about work for a while

Will be glad when we at least know who is getting the jobs - probably about 10 days away - hopefully not any longer. A close colleague is leaving next Friday and we are going out next Thursday night - it will not be easy to hold it together when he goes. Have never felt like this about people I work with before - but I have built some very close relationships over the last 3 years. (Not that close - get your minds out of the gutter)

Am using colour to cheer me up this morning - am running out of them now

Am off to cheer myself up a bit of retail therapy may be in order but think Ray wants to buy bits for the boys computers not what I had in mind !!!!!!

Carol luv, enjoy retail therapy, your colours have cheered me up this morning, thanks :)
Forget about your dream and don't stress to much about the future, you sound like such a great person, I see no reason for anyone to pass over you for someone else.
Have a nice weekend.
Chris.

Thanks Veggie for the condolances for the poor car. I have to have an insurance man look at it on Monday, so we'll see where we go from there...
I have actually decided that I must be a snob cos I don't like driving my car with a dent and scratches, but I am trying to convince myself I'm not snobby, it's more cos it's a baby car, not even a year old yet.....help please..............LOL!

I would love a new car, have never been able to pick the car I want, have had to settle for what is available second hand in my proce range - maybe oneday I'll be able to choose the make and the colour. Would love a silver car - wonder what that says about me.

Well this is day one of leaving the stress behind me and making some time for myself. Went for a quick shower last night and then covered myself in the bodyshop mango body cream - much to Rays disgust. he hates the smell of it. But he did rub some in my back for me, although he wondered why as nobody every sees my back.

So today I really need to go grocery shopping. yesterday i brought all the boys school stuff, 1 week and 1 day to go and counting. Today I have to buy the serious stuff - food. Will be lots of fruit and veg and vitamins - I definately need the boost.

Have yet to decide what I am going to do today for me - will definately be trying a short walk, but maybe a long soak in the bath later when the boys are in bed.

Havea million and one things to do today. Discovered this morning I have no childcare arranged for this week so I'm waiting until a reasonable time to phone my sister-in-law to see if she can help out. The joys !!!!!

Feeling quite positive about today at the moment - it is not like me to get so down,

Cya

Am getting bored now - need to go and get this day started. I have done one load of washing but want to strip all the other beds - what an exicting live we lead.

Would much rather be lying on a beach in Fiji, with a large glass of Fresh Orange juice with loads of ice - if only

Have my nephew staying the night - nightmare - 3 hyperactive boys !!!!!!!

Have eaten fairly well today, just need to keep eating sensible throughout the evening and I'll have cracked it.

Think TQ comes back from holiday today, prehaps when the schools go back Delaney will come back. I miss all the people who used to come here, Delaney, Kim, Sarah, and every one else. Please come back and chat. Not that I don't enjoy chatting with everyone else but variety is the spice of live.

1 week to school starts

Me too I miss them all :( glad TQ is back soon :)

Just a quick question...does the colour fo your car mean something about you?

Hi all

It feels good to be back. I popped on to see how you're all doing and it seems like you've missed me like I've been missing you guys. :D I went on holiday for a couple of weeks and then been having problems with the computer - DH swears he's fixed it. I gained 6lbs on holiday, I know thats pretty bad but I joined WW 2 weeks ago and lost 3lbs the first week and its weigh in tomorrow so we'll see how I've done. I was a bit down I'd gained 6lbs but I was 18.4 on Jan 1st and I'm now 17.2 (as of this morning) so I've not done toooooooo badly, have I?

I got the local college booklet thingy through this morning - I'm going to pop in today and join the low impact aerobics and body tone and stretch starting in September - my youngest is going to nursery 3 days per week - YIPPEE. Our neighbours want us to join the gym in the hotel up the road - it's expensive but could possibly be worth it, (cheaper if we all join together) I think I remember Ali saying she goes to a gym does anybody have any advice - would it make me more bulky? or would it actually help with weight loss?

I did hear once on the radio that the colour of your car said something about you - probably that you like that colour!!

Are we doing the weekly weigh in that Sarah started. Where is Sarah?

Hi Delaney,
Nice to see you back. Well done on the weight drop, forget about the gain before, it's all past history. Good luck for the next weigh in. Hope you had a good holiday. I am desperate for a holiday but I don't think it'll be happening this year, just some day trips... work is getting in the way between me and hub and spare days.
I went to the gym last year before I started work and felt fantastic, not only did it help me shed those pounds, the firming up of the flab felt wonderful, I am trying to schedule it back into my life again now, I need to try harder though, and I seem to spend most of my free time seeing doctor's for something or not....
Anyhoo, have a great day.....

Welcome back Delaney :D

Welcome back Delaney. Going to the gym would be brillant - it will do you good and firm up those muscles and lose the fat. Am jealous - think I have said that on all my posts tonight

We are doing the weight thread think we're on thread 9, post your losses there and I'll add them in next Monday. I've taken over Sarahs mathematicians (sp) roll temporarily until she comes back -(soon please)

I would love to have time to go the gym, but find that work interfers with the spare time I could have while the boys are at school. Only 6 days until school starts - HURRAY !!!!!!!!!!!! Sean is desperate to go back and Steve is just starting and looking forward to it. 7 weeks of holidays are far too long.

Best go and try and get organised for another day - have spent an uneventful two days on the service desk answering the phone and logging calls. Was fun to talk to everybody but challenging it wasn't - am glad to get back to my 2nd job tomorrow. Will be back in my own job on Friday - confused I am every morning I wake up and have to try and remember where I am going and what I will be doing there.

No wonder I am stressed.

:hat: :gift: :dancer: :flow2: HAPPY 1000 POSTS TO ME :hat: :gift: :dancer: :flow2:

Welcome back Delaney it's great to see you again. we all missed you :)
I think everyone else has already said it, but going to the gym would definitely help you lose the weight and tone up and so long as you don't overdo the weights you wont bulk out, you will just tone.
I sympathise with you all that can't find the time to get to the gym because of work, I have been finding it difficult over the past few weeks to get there regularly, but as I now have pretty much all the equipment at home that I use there I am doing ok, In fact I probably get a better work out at home because I don't have to wait around for the equipment. I usually spend about 3 hours at the gym, but half of that time is probably spent waiting to use stuff or chatting, when I am at home I work out for 3 hours solid with no distractions and no waiting around.. I still like to go on saturday and sunday tho just to keep up with all the friends I've made there.
I had a great weekend up in Glasgow, but I have to admit I couldn't wait to get home, sad isn't it..the reason was I was missing my workouts...:lol:
I was good with my eating tho and I can't wait for this weeks weigh in, it seemed really strange not being weighed last week. I'm sure it is just because that final goal is so close now and I am so impatient to get there, even though over the past few weeks I have been having small losses and staying the same, I still like to get weighed. I am always disappointed when that happens, but I will still keep plugging away and I know I will get there soon.

Sorry we couldn't meet up last weekend Carol, but it was a bit short notice after all...a friend of mine up there is due to have a baby in 10 weeks time so hopefully I will be up again before christmas, I'll let you know in plenty of time when I am coming and hopefully we will be able to get together then.

I think it is time to stop wearing my wedding and engagement rings until I reach my final target and have them made smaller. I was in the supermarket earlier and reached into the freezer to get something and watched them slide off my finger. the problem was the freezer was so deep I couldn't reach them and I had to go and ask one of the shelf stackers to come and get them for me...I picked the tallest one I could find and he couldn't reach them either. he ended up going to get the manager who was 6ft 4 to get them..it was very embarrassing, but very funny :)

day off work tomorrow and I am going to get up early and work out and I think I will take myself off swimming in the afternoon if I get a chance

hope you are all having a good day ...don't work too hard tomorrow :)

Ali :wave:

Congrats Carol :cool:

6 DAYS till school? Thats early back isn't it I wish all the little brats round here would go back :lol:

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Thanks for that note Veggie - not sure what a bookmark is though...

Thank you all for welcoming me back - I've been sitting here reading your posts with a big grin on my face :D

After a lot of yakking about it this afternoon DH and myself are off to join the gym, I have to admit at just over 17 stone I am worried that the staff may look at me like I'm going to break the machines!! I have been told its very friendly and there are some overweight people who go, it also has a swimming pool, I hope I feel brave enough to go and have a swim - I do enjoy it but don't like the walk to and from the changing rooms. A neighbour is watching the sprogs for me, may not come back..... the little darlings are driving me crackers - they don't go back until the 5th September (or something like that). I'm running out of ideas for the 7 year old - we've painted, gone to the park, been over to friends and had them here - she's now talking of a sleep over....

Ali - wow 3 hours in the gym - I don't think I could manage 20 mins at the moment!! I was interested to read that you were good at the w/end when you were away - I've realised recently that I dread the w/ends when I'm dieting because that is my downfall, so last week I went to M&S and got some of their 'count on us' range and DH and I were good because it was yummy and good for us. Definitely going to do that regularly.

Better go the kids are in the garden and screaming at something, probably a fly!!!

Bookmarks are favourites you got that on your browser if it says 3fatchicks.com your ok if its under a IP address it will be a load of numbers I think!

Hi everyone

Delaney...don't let being just over 17 stone put you off going to the gym...I joined the gym back in November and I weighed 17 stone 5lbs....I took my son to his Thai Boxing class and sat in the reception for over an hour trying to pluck up the courage to go and ask how much it was to join the gym...I was cewrtain everyone there would take one look at me including the staff and think Oh my god look at the size of her...but it wasn't a bit like that...the staff are all so friendly and can't do enough to help...as for the people at the gym...most of them are very friendly and chatty....they are all there for pretty much the same reason to get fit and healthy, some of them also to lose weight, but the main thing is everyone is more interested in what they are doing for themeselves, they don't have the time to spend looking at anyone else..and yes there are a few poers there, but again they are more interested in how good they think they look and think everyone else should be looking at them that they too don't have the time to look at anyone else.
So go for it and good luck, I'm sure once you have gone a few times you will realise it wasn't as bad as you thought it would be. More to the point when you start seeing the results, you will feel great. the other good thing is you will have your hubby there with you too so that is also good at least you will have someone there to talk to that you know.
I can also assure you too Delaney that when I first started at the gym I only did 20 minutes a time and part of that was waiting for equipment, but it is amazing how quickly your stamina builds up....after 3 hours working out now I have just started to break a sweat, back then, just thinking about the workout had me sweating buckets never mind doing it :lol:

well better run...lots to do before morning...I'm on countdown now for my 2 weeks off, it can't come quickly enough :)

Ali :wave:

Thanks for that Veg ;)

Well we joined the gym and for £40 per year the kids can go to the pool whenever they like (apparently its never busy) plus it costs £5 a week when DH takes them on a Sunday, so we're joining them up too as its closer than the regular very busy pool and hopefully it will send them the right messages about staying fit and active. Ali I can't wait 'till I can manage 3 hours in the gym - mind you I'd better get my induction over with first :lol:

What you planning on doing with your 2 weeks off Ali?

Went to WW last night ON MY BIKE yes, I cycled the mile there got weighed (only lost 1lb but my scales say 3!!!!!!!!!!!) anyway cycled back and my flippin' chain came of - managed to fix it - must have looked a right idiot by the side of the road with my helmet on bending over my bike trying to look like I knew what I was doing :o The ride felt quite easy which was surprising but my bums killin' me this morning...

Have a good one - looks like the weathers going to be nice today.

Good weather? I dont see any! I have no food till tesco.com come and Im puppy sitting she is whining at least SHE had food.

Food come good only got half a paper though the middle bits not there am going to cry now :lol:

Its boiling here - you should come down to sunny Leicester Veg.

Have you been so hungry you ate the paper? I hear the Sunday supplement is thick n chewy - hehehe

Weather update hot hot hot!

Ayup everyone!!
I have just written a very long post and now i have lost it!!:dizzy:
well had a great holiday but feel as if i have gained a stone.maybe more!!
So it is back to it from today, bad news is my diet class has closed, the lady may start again in mid october but i need help now and fast. will have a look around and see what i can find.

i havent dared get weighed yet, i hate those bloody scales !!:mad:

But if you go on holiday and eat caramel magnums/drink wine/etc etc what can you expect! i have had my photos developed today and they were enough to keep me on track today!!

I promise to get myself back to the gym and swimming pool too.

It has been great to catch up with you all, nice to see some new people here too. Keep up the good work :cool:

Welcome back TQ glad you are back :cb:

HI TQ, well done on being positive.... :) You'll be right back on track.
Caramel magnums...sound delish......I haven't had amagnum in years....I am craving a 99 this summer too....but they don't do them over here, so I suppose that's a good thing.
It's rather warm here today too... 96 degrees and humid with a heat index of 105, but we should cool later with some thunderstorms....of course, we will have storms as I have to go out birthday shopping....

Thanks for the welcome!!
I have braved the scales this morning, I weighed in at 16stone 5lb. At my last slimming club weigh in (end of May!) i was 15st 6 1/2lb, I have always been half a stone heavier on my own scales but as they are the only ones I have to go on at the moment it doesn't matter what they say and as long as the numbers head in a downward spiral I know i am winning!! :)
So it's out with the notebook and the rescue remedy and off to the shops cos it is like old mother hubbards in this house at the moment!!
The weekend isn't going to be easy, I have friends coming down for Harry's birthday party on Sunday but hey we can do this can't we.

Morning all

Going to visit a friend over in Staffordshire today - she's skinny as a rake and eats like a :ink: I just know I'll go to pot and scoff everything in sight....

Hi TQ - hope you had a good holiday. Don't worry about the gain at least you're under 17 stones - I'm still there!!! Do you remember we were both at 17 and decided to get into the 16's together....

Have a good day everyone - see you later.

Well no one had put on as much as me :( :( :( :( I can not believe how much I have allowed myself to gain. I can't afford to join a slimming club yet which is what I was thinking of doing.

WOO HOO we back and it looks all funny!

I been to festival at docks lots of boats tanks and owls good fun doesn't take much to amuse me! Walked a lot. Am tired now zzz.

Nice calming blue page hey.....I like it. I missed this page all weekend although it was nice to have a personal hello from you dear Veggie :)
We went to the beach last night , had dinner, and played crazy golf, and walked about all the cutesy shops and then went for ice cream. It was a place called Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream shop. What choices. I ended up having a 'carmello capachillo' which was a drink of sorts with whipped cream on top, it was bl**dy lovely and I'm sure calorie free...hehe...Hannah had cookies and cream shake which was huge and Dave chose an ice cream cone which was longer than my arm from elbow to wrist, with loads of chocolate all around the edge......simply delish...
All in all we had a great evening, it was nice to get away even for a few hours.
Hope all of you had a nice weekend and hope to see you on here with your little ditties soon.......by the way, have decided not to weigh in again until I start back to work cos although I am being careful in what passes these chops, I am not counting, so don't expect a loss of any sort...
Not to put a damper on things as such but have been keeping tabs on the news stories about those poor ten year olds who have been missing for a few weeks now. A friend just called me and told me the bodies have been found near Lakenheath base in Suffolk, which is six miles away from the town I grew up in and call home. Horrible, horrible, horrible. Those poor girls and families having to go through this awful stuff. My heart goes out to them. Sorry for talking about this......just needed to share my sadness, cos it is so close to home for me.

Yes it is very sad.

Piggin' warm in my house today, our humidity has dropped so with the A/C on my house should be nice and cool, but noooooooooo, we are sweating away here. Dave just went up the loft and thinks he has found the reason, one of the filter's is all bunged up with dust...UGH! So we have to get a new one and hopefully the house will start to cool down soon. How's the weather over there this week? My Mum has been having some good thunderstorms....

It has been terrible news about the girls found at Lakenheath, why? why? why?, i won't go on for too long about it but can't seem to think of anything else, what must the parents and families , townsfolk etc be feeling...........

Hope you are all fighting the good fight against the greedy demons, I have been really battling but managed to get monday over with so lets hope its a good week for all. I t has been very hot and sticky here in london, I went to the park all day yesterday and took a picnic with some friends and their children. managed to eat quite well, it helped that my two friends are trying to lose weight too.

i haven't been very active other than housework etc, will probably have to wait until I go back to work before |i get into a swim/gym routine. I am going to see my mum for a few days today so will get out for some good walks whilst I am up there.
Speak to you all soon
TQ

Hello everybody - I've been guilty of ignoring you lately. Last week I had the cheek to have a social life I was in the pub 3 nights in a row has been a long time since I was out that much and then at the weekend when I tried to log in the forums were shut.

But I'm here today and am having a horrible day. Today my baby started school. He looked far too young and small to be going. But knowing Steven he'll take it all in his stride and hopefully it will calm him down a bit. Am feeling a bit emotional about it all so am watching daytime tv - dead sad really.

Am waiting on a phone call from work, so I can't stay online for long. Will get the weights updated when I have more time to pop back later. Am away to put a brave face on things and tidy this house to pass the time until lunchtime when Steven comes home. Problems still beyond Steven though as Sean, my older boy has gone into primary 3 and has announced he is big enough to walk home by himself. Will be pacing the floor from 3:15 until he gets in

Children !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Speak to you later - when I'm less emotional

Oh Carol you poor luv. I know where you're coming from with your kids although mine was all over quite a while back now. I cried when J went to his first day of primary school, and of course he did fine, celebrated when I dropped Hannah off cos she ran me ragged at four, and then went home and moped about not having any toys to pick up all day....
Now I have J who is in his second year of High School which I'm ok with but Hannah is off to Middle School this year, on a bus, and I am having real trouble with this one. Not that I would let her know as she gets right stroppy with me when she thinks I treat her like a baby anyhoo. ( Remember Hannah is 5'8"and people have been thinking she has been 15 for three years)!
I'm sure by the time you check in here again, your baby will be home safe and sound and Sean will be well pleased that he is big enough to walk home too, cos you let him, even though he'll have no idea that you walked the floor and probably put four miles in pacing...think of the calories you've prob burned today :)
Right, I'm off to do laundry and wrap pressies ready to send home for my Mum's birthday.
Everyone have a good day. Tracy, have fun in your new job on Thurs :)
Chris.

Well the boys both coped marvellously yesterday - me though !!!!heard I hadn't got a promotion at work, feel very let down have worked hard for the project team over the last year. When I think back there were clues in the interview, the boss didn't ask me which job appealled to me above all the others - he did to everyone else. He also told me he couldn't give all the project team a job as there'd be too many rumours, everybody else in the team got a promotion but not me !!!!!!!!! Not always best to be the last person interviewed.

Thats the breaks though and at least I still have a job. I'm moving to the Stirling office to do IT support. Stirling suits me for travelling and cheaper child care - not so great on challenges and job satisfaction, had a look at some of the support calls and could do them standing on my head (sorry very boastful !!!!) but what am I going to do with the rest of my time ????

Enough negativity, at least I have a job and looks like I will be able to make time while at work to look for another one. Am supposed to moving across in October, but will see.

Have reached a turning point of my life and need to pick myself up and go the way I want to. As they say only I can make it happen.

Today is a brand new day

Speak to you later

Carol

Carol they are fools!!!! I'm sure you are better than all the others btw IT support that mean you can help us all when our computers go wrong????

Am not getting a chance to enjoy the sunshine today - had a very nasty anonymous letter this morning, telling me that my daughter (to my knowledge I don't have one) was selling drugs from my house and I was a sick parent for letting her do it. They also said that they knew about the men and what really went on in my house. Was spooked when I read it, as they named the daughter I think it is definately meant for someone else but don't know who. The envelope just had my address on it not my name.

As the letter said they were contacting the police, council and MP about this I took the letter to the police station where a very nice lady took all my details, including the fact I have no daughter and I'm now waiting for a visit for a chat. The joys.

Don't suppose I'll ever get an apology for a hate letter sent to the wrong address. Only thing worrying me about it is if the sender got the wrong address, who else have they given it to. How many more of these letters am I going to get or worse is someone going to chuck a brick through my window. Yes I know my imagination is probably running away with me, but thats what happens in Taggart ?

Not a good couple of days - what can go wrong tomorrow to give me the three lots of bad luck ?

Am going to my mums then taking the boys swimming, was hoping to go for a walk later, but as Ray is working until 9 there is no chance of that.

Poor Carol, at least you went to the police, good for you. Now leave it in their hands and if you do feel spooked by anything else to do with your apparent drug dealing daughter......that you don't have......be sure to call the police out straight away.

Carol OMG you have done the right thing I have only had experience of phone calls telling me so and so lives in the house and they know here it is etc it is scary but I'm sure it will be ok. The police will probably know who it is meant for after all.

Hi girls,
I woke up this morning with a very strange feeling in my tum. I used to get it before I started WW back in Feb and I think I've figured out what it is. It's all the bad stuff I lob past my chops and it just sits in my expanding gut and makes it uncomfotable. I used to think it was because I smoked, but seeing as I don't now, it wouldn't be that.
Anyhoo, it's been a wake up call, I have been pigging out :nono: :ink: lately planning to get back on track when work starts again, but NO MORE!!! TODAY IS THE DAY I GET BACK ON TRACK!!!!
I have started off good, my ususl healthy breakfast of a one point yogurt with my cuppa and now I am off to have a go at good old Tae-Bo.
I had a MRI yesterday for my shoulder injury, should find out what is wrong tomorrow from the doctor, but it doesn't hurt as much as it was, so I def want to try the Tae-Bo.
Wish me luck for being back on plan.....
Have a great day everyone.
:grouphug:

AYUP!!
I am back once again, I have brought my mam back with me for a week or so and plan to be very good from now on !!:s:

The choccy biccies have taken their toll whilst at my mum's, have I no willpower whatsoever or what??

So i am biting the bullet and joining a Sat morning WW meeting tomorrow with a workmate, I am so sad that my slimming class has closed :(

Hope you are all keeping up the good work, I will try to do my best
TQ:grouphug:

Think I need a slimming club - wish we had one on a saturday morning that fitted in with the boys football training. Boys football is from 9 - 10:15 - WW 10 - 11, 3 miles away - not a hope in making it for the weigh in by the time I get the boys off the pitch & into the car.

need to keep my eyes open I need to do something positive

Hello! Does anyone remember me? I have been away for ages as I have moved from north Devon to London and now have a job right in the West End. Quite a difference! I have also moved in with my boyfriend who seems to think he has to keep me sweet by buying Marks and Spencer chocolate covered peanuts every day! As a result, I am now 5 pounds heavier than when I moved 3 weeks ago!

I need to get back on the diet wagon and I am glad to see familiar names - Veggie, Smiling Sal, Tupperware Queen, Posy, etc - so hopefully you will all have me right back in the swing soon.

Phoebe :)

Hi everyone

sorry I haven't been around for a while, for those of you who read my journal on my webpage you will already know why...for those of you who don't. well where shall I start :)
the week before last I had a really good week and I was confident of having a good weightloss. when fridays weigh in time arrived I had lost absolutely nothing and I was pretty fed up with that...I decided to check my measurements and they had stayed the same too so again I was even more fed up. Then the straw that broke the camels back was my computer dying a death. My mate put me some more memory in and then it wouldn't work...well after taking it to the computer shop it turned out it wasn't the memory that caused the problem it was a faulty video card which shorted out my mother board. That meant I had to buy a new mother board and get my video card replaced...Thankfully the video card was only 6 weeks old and I bought it from the same computer shop so I wont have to pay for the replacement...but that really sent me into a depression and I am disgusted to admit that for the first time since I started this diet I turned to food for comfort. The funny thing was though that I was rational enough to tell myself how bad I would feel after I had done it if I went ahead and how bad I would feel this week if I had gained weight and that I would only have myself to blame. but I still went ahead and did it anyway.
I don't consider it comfort eating anymore, because I got absolutely no comfort from doing it...it just added to my misery as I knew it would.
Well after last friday I got my act together and really got a grip I cut down my calories on saturday and sunday and I have worked out every day since, plus I have been round at my mates new flat every day helping him decorate which has been another great workout
Thankfully all my efforts have been repaid at this weeks weigh in and I have lost another 4lbs.
I have to admit to feeling slightly guilty about having such a good loss after what I ate last friday, but as a friend pointed out, firstly I worked hard to repair the damage I did last friday and secondly I should look at it as making up for all the times I have been really good and expected to lose weight and haven't, just like last week really. I think that is a good way to look at it :)

Well I am now back on the straight and narrow again...I think the pig out probably did me a lot of good too....I at least got it out of my system and I am now more focused than ever on reaching my final goal :)

Welcome back Phoebe nice to see you again...you need to get your boyfriend trained better...tell him to stop wasting his money on chocolate covered peanuts...no matter how nice they are...tell him you prefer the cash :lol:
But you have to admit it is sweet of him, the thought is there...make the most of it, after you have been living together for a while it will all stop and you will be lucky to get even the wrapping that the chocolate peanuts came in :)

well I better run I have a floor waiting for me that needs sanding :)

Have a great day everyone

Ali :wave:

Hello Pheobe and welcome back.

Ali you are an inspiration do you every stand still - sanding floors and whatever.

I am having a dieting disaster - got up this morning with good intentions, but these have gone along the way side, well before lunch. Need to be more positive tomorrow.

Plan on spending a bit of time on the PC, planning things out tonight, menus, exercise plans, etc. I have to organise this. I am looking for a new job and if my new skirt and shirt don't fit me for the interviews then I want it to be because I am too small not the clothes.

Off to plan

Nearly signed up for WW on line - but then if I can't get the motivation myself feel I am unlikely to find it from a newsletter and a standard email telling me to enter my weights.

Before I am unindated with comments, I know you get more than that with WW online and that it works, but don't think it will work for me - I need a real lie scary woman weighing me every week.

Need to get my finger out and try harder

I will do this I will I will I will

HI Girls, Ali, well done on losing again. I was telling a WW buddy about you today and she said it was so great to hear a success story, I agree. And I thought I was going off the rails for lunch when I started on the peanut butter, but I wrote it down and just looked and right now at 4.40 I am still only at 13 points so I've not messed up.
I actually started writing all the food doown yesterday as part of my plan to stay on track again. I bought a nice thick notebook to write in, and as well as writing points down I am adding a little ditty about how I feel and although I could have fallen off the wagon more today with the PB I didn't. :D
I had a docs appointment this morning with my MRI x-rays in hand so I got a final response on what I have actually done to my shoulder now. ( I seem to be using the word 'actually a lot today):D :devil: :?: ( and I think someone must have just added the smilies when I went outside for a mo)....Hannah!!!
Back to the shoulder business. I have arthritis in it and in May when I injured it by tearing the rotator cuff, I just made the swelling around the joint worse, so that's what all the pain has been about. I now have another four weks of Physical therapy to do and back to the docs to see if it's helped any. If it hasn't he was talking about removing a bit of the clavical so it doesn't rub anymore being inflamed. Don't want to go under the knife so please keep finger's crossed for me that the PT works.:dizzy:
OK, well that's it for me, hubby just ordered pizza for dinner. HELP.... Everyone have a great weekend....
Tata for now,
Chris. x:grouphug:

Carol the simple answer to that question, do I ever stand still...well to be honest, these days very rarely....I spent far too many years not physically capable of moving around much and now that I can do it without any effort at all I just don't want to stop :)
I know exactly what you mean about not getting the motivation you need from a newsletter and emails, you are getting pretty much that here for free too...If I lived closer to you I'd be round every day weighing you...ask my son...he thinks I am a very scary woman :)

Chris ...well done on not overdoing your points... after 18 months of this journey I still write everything down that I eat and I am absolutely certain if I didn't I would have had a lot more slips ups along the way than I have done...but don't you feel good once you realise you could quite easily have fallen off the band wagon, but stopped yourself ...its great to be in control :)

Glad to hear you have finally got an answer to your shoulder problem I will be keeping my fingers crossed that the PT does work, surgery is so drastic and I wouldn't fancy it either.
Get the salad out to go with that Pizza and only have a small slice, it wont be as high in calories that way, then make hubby eat the rest standing outside where you cant see it....:lol:
easy to say isn't it when I can't smell it and hear it calling my name :)

well I better run I have a birthday party to go to in an hour and I am still sitting here in my bathrobe

Have a good weekend everyone

Ali :wave:

Looked out my new notebook this morning. It has pictures of fish and octopusses on the front of it. :faint: This is my new - food logger - not sure the cover is the great idea as you may remember I am scared of fish (??) could only be me:mouse: . But the pictures are nice and the notebook cheery so hopefully I will write in it some more and keep everything logged.

Am going for 1500 cals a day, :goodvibes will be hard in the evenings, especially today as we're off to see men in black 2. Ray was going to take the boys last week, but didn't get round to it and now with all the hours he's working won't manage for a while, so it's up to me again

Did my shopping while the boys were at football and brought some seriously healthly stuff.:cloud9: :goodvibes :chef:

I am going to do at least 10 minutes of exercise today - doesn't sound like much but it is better than nothing at all:goodvibes

The boys are watching Pochahontus (sp?) have watched it none stop for the last week or so and it is driving me up the wall, so I'm off to wash everything I can find and hide in the kitchen for a while out of the way. There will be no food passing my lips until the lunch is ready :goodvibes

well done Carol you sound really focussed, heres hoping I am too. i think i am, :)

Was so focused I lost the plot mid afternoon. Am starting again this morning - if I keep practising this I'll get it right one day

Have those greedy demons been let out again? Someone put them back in their cage purlease! :doh: :lol: It all TQs fault she brought them here :lol: now they are attacking and stalking me ;)

I only came to the site to post in help for Delaney she can't get in :( I nearly left without posting must go there now!

One of my sisters wants a nose stud (my parents are horrified ha ha she is 40) I foolishly said me too don't think I'll do it though.

hey veggie whats wrong with being 40 and having a nose stud...only 5 weeks to go now and I will be 40 too and I have a nose stud...mind you I have had it for years, it isn't a recent thing :)

Nothing wrong to me!

How are you getting on now, Carol? I can really relate to what you're saying about starting off the day all motivated, & then it totally goes by the wayside a few hours later. Am I the only person who'll eat something, & then a while later think 'Oh God, I was supposed to be back on the diet today - I forgot!'. As if I needed any other proof that I wasn't in the right frame of mind! I hope you can get back on track, because we're very close in weight, & I think a bit of friendly competition can sometimes work wonders! :)

Ali - I can also really relate to what you were saying about the comfort eating. My friend & I have discussed how we've sat there binging - usually on chocolate, & we haven't even enjoyed it, but we still do it! Why?! I'm glad it didn't do you any harm in the weigh-in dept. - I think everyone's entitled to go off the rails occasionally, & if you can do it without showing a gain; all the better! :)

I too seem to be having trouble staying on track - the problem is it only seems to be at the weekend. Everything gets thrown out of sink and I totally lose focus. Last week was a hen weekend and I was fortunate not to do too much damage. I have no excuse for the weekend just gone, but the wedding is this coming weekend. I mean can I really be expected to eat sensibly at a wedding? :devil:

Although I have to admit I had a few TimeOut bars and a chocolate donut this weekend and I didn't enjoy it one bit, so why did I keep on eating them. I remember the days when I used to polish off 3+ flakes in a row on almost a daily basis and I savoured every bite - now I eat something "bad" and think "why?"

I have fallen off of the wagon and I can't get back on.......HELP!!!
Hi girls, I hope you're all having a good day. I am having a good day, but not eating wise. And the bad thing is, I am not feeling guilty about it either :devil:
I think I've figured it out though, it's mine and hubby's anniversary on Friday and we plan on going out for a good old slap up meal. I am hoping to go to a British Pub I have found here, so I know I will want to eat all of our lovely Brit food...so.....even though I did great getting back on track last week, until the pizza arrived Friday night, I deep down know that I am going to gorge come Friday so my brain says I can be bad for the rest of the week too....I am trying to overcome this, and haven't done too bad so far today, but I know if I'm offered anything good I won't refuse it....
Could someone send me some will power please....or just a good telling off might work too.....
Help! Help! Help!!!! :fr:

Chris DON'T DO IT!!!!!!! You know how terrible you're going to feel afterwards if you blow the whole week - we've all been there!

Think how much more you'll enjoy your meal on Friday if you know you've earned it by behaving the rest of the week. You don't want to ruin it by feeling guilty because you know you've pigged out!

I am thinking of you & sending motivational vibes your way!!! :)

:p Thanks Shell, I needed that. Ok, I'm doing good this evening. No snacking and don't feel hungry either, so that's a blessing.:angel:
Thanks for the support, hope I can be there for you too whenever you need it.
Have a great day.
Chris.

Chris Shell is right...Don't do it!!!!

I can fully understand how tempting it is when you know you have something special like that coming up to just forget about it for the few days leading up to it, but all you are doing if you pig out on anything before hand is make it that more difficult for yourself to get back on track afterwards.
Believe me I've been there and done that so many times in the past. You never really enjoy your special occasion as much as you really should when you've done it as well because you just feel so guilty and then fret about how to get back on track and how reaching your goal has become further away from reaching again.

I always try to eat less now before a special occasion so that I have enough calories in hand to eat whatever I want and really enjoy it without the feelings of guilt....If something happens unexpectedly and I do have a bad day then I will cut down for a couple of days afterwards, but I really do find it easier to do it before.

Ali :wave:

Thanks Ali, I think I am back on track, and what you say is soooooooooo true I know. I just needed some help to tell me what I already know. Am eating melon for my brekky now and plan on getting on the trampoline after, and I'm feeling good :) Thanks again for your support. :)
Chris. x

Have managed one reasonable good day - lost count of the number of cals last night. But then I got up for a drink in the middle of the night and finished off the cheese in the fridge - am not buying any more so the cheese demons can't shout for me from the fridge.

Today I have been an angel and intend on staying that way. I have just had a tin of butter beans - can't resist them. Comes in at 210 cals for the whole tin, I could have had a cuppa soup but would have had bread with that too and that would have been a lot more cals by the time I finished.

Am having a chinese chicken drumstick with salad when Ray comes in from work in about 3 hours, so everytime I feel pekish between now and then I'll just need to remember the butter beans.

Am so determind today that I will finish up under 1500 cals

Have been drinking too much diet coke recently. used to only have a couple of glasses a night, but now it's more like the 1.5 litre bottle - need to get back to my water drinking in the house as well as at work.

Had a brillant day at work today. the project manager - whom I used to admire - is on holiday and has dumped a load of rubbish on us. But one of the other women has picked up the threads and we will have a load of things implemented by the time she gets back from holiday. The more we do now the sooner I can start working in Stirling and walking at lunchtimes - feel very motivated at the moment

Will stop rambling now and go do the ironing - such a wonderous task. I have to do it early or find excuses to not do it all night

Speak to later, when I have less to say

Hi everyone

Chris you are right...I think we all know what we should do, but when we tell ourselves it is like a licence to just ignore it...when we hear someone else tell us the same things we already know...or in this case...see them type it, it seems to hit home more...you just hang in there girl I know you can do it :)

well done on being an angel today Carol I hope you did keep it up.
I hear what you say about the cheese demons...in my case it is potato salad demons at the moment...my husband makes the most delicious potato salad....we went to a birthday party on saturday and he made some to take ...he also made some for himself which he overdid and there are still 2 dishfulls of it in the fridge....I have to hold my breath every time I open the fridge door....just one sniff of it and I know it would be in my mouth before I could blink....I swear if he doesn't eat it all by tomorrow...or take it to work with him I am definitely going to have to feed it to the dog :)

Ali :wave:

Hey girls, how is everyone doing? I have a quick question which I think has been answered before and I will go and look at other threads, but before I do I'll ask anyhow. How do we get to put a pic by our name? I finally found a pic I want to put up and can't fathom how to do it.
Any help would be much appreciated :).

Ok, I am a really clever bu**er I will say cos I fathomed this one out as well.however, it's not the pic I want there, but I liked it to have for now as I do like a beach.
I'll see if I can add my own later....

Just wanted to say hello to helen and shell..........
HELLLOOOOOOOOO!!!
Welcome aboard to both of you, this site is really great please don't disappear people here really keep you going when the going gets tough.................hello to everybody else too and thanks for being here when i need you!!
I am taking my mam home to Barnsley today and am coming back tomorrow, I will not eat choc when travelling...or owt else for that matter.

Originally posted by BritinNJ
Ok, I am a really clever bu**er I will say cos I fathomed this one out as well.however, it's not the pic I want there, but I liked it to have for now as I do like a beach.
I'll see if I can add my own later....

Clever clogs!

Thanks...:smug: :spin: :cp:

Sort of ;) :o :D

the cheek! LOL!

Originally posted by tupperware queen
I will not eat choc when travelling...or owt else for that matter.

Did you manage to avoid it ? Money on you did. Am off to Dundee tomorrow and the guy I am travelling with will be starving halfway there - it is only a 90 minute drive. So he'll up with a roll from somewhere and a full fat coke - me though will be sticking to the diet coke and no roll.

Managed to stay on plan yesterday almost . had 1725 calories instead of my aim of 1500, but it is much better than I have been for a long time and at least I didn't stop counting halfway through the day. Today has been really good so far as well, tonight I take the boys swimming and we'll all have chips when we come out, have already counted the chips in and am still left with a couple of hundred cals for something else tonight.

Will be weighing in first thing tomorrow morning, Had two really good days and a couple of not so bad but also had a couple of disasterous days - tomorrow morning will tell:p :p

.........I really managed the drive without any choc or other rubbish. we stopped off at a retail park near Leicester and I had a M&S count on us chilli beef wrap with a diet drink and felt bloody angelic!!:angel:
Harry is at his Nan and Grandads until the weekend so i travelled home alone with lots of sweets and a pack of 9 triple choc Twix bars.............I put them in the boot so i could not scoff!!

I am a saint, now long may it continue!!

I haven't got into the weight watchers diet at all this week I havent even read the books etc that i was given, I have just tried to eat 3 meals a day and not too much rubbish. Must give the pure points a fair trial next week, keeping everything crossed for Saturdays weigh in , TQ.

Well done TQ you did it - you have more will power than me.

I managed to avoid the goodies in Dundee but the muchies are in my house tormenting me to eat. There are 2 bounties in the fridge for the boys play pieces, just need to keep telling myself they are the boys and then I won't eat them. It really is a case of mind over matter and my mind is set

Am very tired - not sleeping well - think it has been to warm. But it is a bit cooler today, so when the boys go to bed I'll have a tepid bath and flow them. Ray can fend for hisself when he gets in for work, he's heeps big enough

HI all, well after yesterdays surprise loss of two pounds I daren't step on the scales after today. It was our anniversary today and we headed off to the British pub we've found. I didn;t know what to order...but ended up with steak and muchroom pie...HUGE pastry top on it, but it did come with a salad so I suppose that's good....
Dave had Cod and Chips which I had a few bites of cod and both the kids ordered banger's mash and beans, so I had a tiny taste of a proper British sausage..... I was in heaven...
We had to have dessert too, bread pudding no less....mouth watering.......it's been so long since I've seen any of this food let alone eaten it, so like I said before, I won't be hurrying to step on the scales...LOL!
But I will be back on track come tomorrow and it was all worth it cos we've had a lovely day....hope you all have a lovely weekend. tata for now...
Chris. x

Today is a new day as they say - have been so tired this week I haven't been up to anything. Ray is working long shifts 7 days a week so there is no help from him, the house looks likea bomb has hit it. If the environmental health came round my kitchen would be shut down, as for the bathroom !!!!! The boys spend most of their time playing in the burn up from the house and have a bath everynight, but after all the rain yesterdy think I have about a ton of mud inthe bottom of the bath. Washing ! forgot domestic think chinese laundry and then your closer to the amount I need to do. So my mission for today is to tidy the lot up and stay on program. Am thinking about making a pizza later - used to do it years ago when I had more time. Really need to sit down and plan what I am going to eat over the next week - is the only way I will stick to it.

How manay calories does housework burn ?

Tonight we're of to the pictures to see spy kids2, that's if the boys aren't out playing at time. Thier social life is much better than mine !!!

Can you believe it's the first of September already and here I am just the same as I was in on January the first.

I have some serious thinking about my life to do - thats sounds very ominous. But I need to decide what to do job wise, health wise and most importantly what I want to do for me. I realised last night for the first time in a lot of years I don't have a plan, I don't have an clear picture of where I want to go, so how am I going to know when I get there or even how to get there.

The only thing I know I want is to lose weight and be healthly, but again I haven't sat down and planned the route. Previously I lost about 3 stone by planning, but as I was younger and less wise I put it all back on and some more over the years.

So today when the boys are off playing I'm going to think about where I want to go with my whole life. Years ago on a training course, we did some planning with circles. In the centre circle you wrote were you were now, in the circle outside that we wrote we we would like to be in 2 years time and in the circle outside that where we would like to be in 5 years. It was for a lot of stuff, not just work, but think I need to do the circle thing again and then spend some time over the next few days planning how I am going to get there, slimming clubs, further education for work stuff, sleeping with the boss (only kidding about that one, just wanted to see if anyone was still awake after reading all this - my current boss is a woman and very nice but not my type :lol: )

On the slimming front I would like to join a slimming club of some sort, just for the getting weighed bit, I get all the support I need to keep me on the straight and narrow from you, I just don't stick with it. I do though need to know I am getting weighed every week and it is important. I need to convince myself that my Thursday morning weigh ins in my bathroom are as important and vital as if I was paying £4+ to go to weight watchers. Prehaps I should charge myself to stand on the scales - now there is an idea I can follow up. Pay £2 to stand on the scales and when I reach a target I can go and spend it on myself - does need some serious consideration.

Eating though I need a big kick up the bum. Am a bit down at the moment, think Rays shifts, the atmosphere at work and the fact I am exhausted and trying to do everything on my own at home is getting me down. But I keep smiling and nobody really knows how I feel. I am always the cheeful one in the group who can see the positive side of a situation. I know I need to make more time for myself, at the moment long hot baths are the easiest for me todo, so tonight when the boys are in bed and Ray is on his way home from work, you know where I'll be with my book and a glass of juice.

I'm also drinking far too much fizzy juice and wine. Although I am drinking less alchol than I used to, the fizzy juice is taken over so I have to get back to the blackcurrent juice and water.

This is all very profound for a Sunday morning, but I think the changing of the calendar to another month this morning has made me sit up and take note.

I feel this could be the turning point I have been waiting for all year, planned correctly I could hang onto this enthusiam and zest for ages and become successful.

I feel I am at that stage of my life where my weight is holding me back from the stuff I want to do, I feel it blots what people think of me, how can I be capable of doing anything serious when I can't control my weight ????????

I am the only one stopping me

Sorry for rambling on but just had to get it out of my system. First time I step of the tracks, remind me of this post will you and kick my butt untilI get back on plan and get this weight off

Thank you for reading this

Carol

Hello - just testing to see if I am REALLY back...

yes Melissa your back and stuck with us now

Oh it feels great to be back - I've been trying to get on for a fortnight now - heaven only knows what my computer was up to :dizzy: Thanks very much to Veggie/Suzanne and TQ for their help in getting me back here - it took Dave about 2 hours on Friday night with all your e-mail help... Thanks guys

Carol - what you've just written is how I was feeling about 4 weeks ago - I too had to totally re-evaluate my life, was I going to get a job now that the kids are in school? Am I going to join a gym/diet club or just gain/lose weight constantly. I decided to write everything down in a lovely little notebook I bought just for my thoughts (not that there's many of them!!) I've lost 6lbs since then, joined a gym and WW and decided (with the help of Dave) that I'm going to have a year out; decorating, enjoying some peace and then this time next year I'll look into college or work or something. Just reading your mail has inspired me to continue what I'm doing. I am determined to wear a lovely dress from a regular shop (not Evans) for New Years Eve! Good luck Carol you can do it - we all can.

I'm going to go and catch up with everyone's mail now that I'm back - speak to you later...

Have a big challenge to face on my first day of being the new me.

Have been promising to take the boys to the pictures all weekend to see spy kids, but they keep playing out and I leave them with their pals as it is good they are in the fresh air.

Well we are going to day - no excuses, so the first challenge is no popcorn and then nothing from McDonalds :cbg: on the way home - like to make things easy for myself.

:idea: The plan :idea: - take some grapes into the film and buy a diet cola to sweeten me up. Prepare a dinner for me before I go and warm it up when I come back after being through the drive through :cbg: with the boys.

Just what I like a nice easy day to start back on the big plan

Sorry for monoplosing this thread :sp: - just gotta get myself organised.

Kitchen here I come:hyper: :hyper: :hyper:

Also looking at buying a new bed from the catalogue as mine is years old and not helping my back, might as well paint the room while I'm at it - never one to do things by half. :hyper:

Carol
I think you have already recognised that you need a plan...the one thing I would say is don't plan too far ahead...yes by all means set yourself a goal. but when it comes down to planning your routine...do it on a daily or weekly basis...I have found in the past that if I tried to plan out my entire journey I never reached it...this time I have done it on a daily basis, usually the night before...and prepare to be flexible...unexpected things happen...make sure you can change what you planned if you need to. That is one of the benefits of counting calories...if you unexpectedly eat something higher for your lunch than you intend to, its easier to cut down for your dinner..or the next day.

As for paying £2 to weigh yourself...another good idea...The only thing about that is that sometimes you may find yourself a little short of the reddies and be tempted to say I'll pay double next week...and you never do...the way I do it is for every pound I lose my hubby puts £1 into my money box...if I gain anything...for every pound I gain I have to give the same amount back to my hubby....I hate giving my hard earned money back to him, so that gives me more of an incentive to keep losing than just putting money into the box for actually getting weighed...does that make any sense? :)
Your plan for the trip to the cinema is a great one...while your in the drive through and smelling all the burgers...you keep reminding yourself of your last post and that you have a much healthier and probably more filling meal all ready for you at home :)
Good luck

Delaney...welcome back...congratulations on you 6lbs loss...a great start...sounds like you have a good plan too.....the feeling of going into a regular shop and buying something is fantastic....the most fantastic feeling is knowing when you buy it...IT FITS !!!! :)

Well only 28lbs to go now...but strangely enough these last 28lbs I Hope will make all the difference....I know I look so much better than when I started...not to mention feeling better too.
But there is still a lot of me that I am not happy with, and I am hoping the last 28lbs will change that....Its no surprise at all that after carrying around 25 stone 4lbs for so many years I do have loose skin on my tummy and my arms and I am aware that some of that may still be there when I reach my goal...I will just need to wait and see...But with all the exercise I have been doing I have noticed just over the past month how much it has gone...so thats really what I mean about the last 28lbs making all the difference.
And yes it is possible you just keep believing it.
I have always said that if by putting my story online and helping just one person reach their goal it will all have been worth it...I think you will probably remember me talking about my friend Dave...he is my life saver when it comes to my computer...I know nothing about them...he knows everything.
Well back in March he weighed 15 stone 3lbs and wanted to be around 12 stone .
I worked out a plan for him to follow and he reached his target ( well actually under his target 11 stone 13lbs ) on friday...he is over the moon. Especially as he now has to start increasing his calories until he finds the right amount to eat to keep his weight stable. He said he does still find it difficult to eat as much as I tell him he should eat now. He wont find it as difficult as he thinks he will because I will just show him that he can increase the amount of the higher calorie part of his meal and cut down on the amount of calorie free food like the veg that is just used to fill up.
He made the point that a lot of people who say they get hungry when they are on a diet is because they really don't believe they can eat as much veg as we eat...I have a serving platter that I eat my meals from and every night it is piled high...if I had a digital camera I would take a photograph of one of my meals to show you all how much I eat....hmmm...might ask for one for my birthday :)
It was a great boost for me too...I helped someone :)

well I better go I need to set the vcr for the world superbikes or hubby will have me in the divorce courts :)

Have a great weekend everyone And Carol..enjoy the movie :)

Ali :wave:

Posy - DH has just read your post about your friend Dave losing so much weight and he said 'thats going to be me my Christmas' -thank you.

I agree with what you said about setting goals - but not too far into the future - I think that's where I've slipped up in the past - now I work Wednesday to Wednesday (WW weigh ins). This week I think I've lost 2lbs and I had McDonalds with the kids, I had McChicken Sandwhich, regular fries and diet coke. I had to take in my ww book to work out the points but I still managed to work it into my plan, I knew I wouldn't be able to take the kids and not eat - so if you can do that Carol - RESPECT!!

I'm thinking of painting my bedroom too Carol - what colour are you planning on? I'm currently going for gold/beige with duvet/curtains in burgundy - not sure yet...

See you later.

Am planning to do the bedroom lilac / lavender colour - not completely decided yet, with a pale green stencil - looks nicer than it sounds - honestly

I've just done Sprog #2's bedroom lilac walls, oatmeal coloured curtains with lilac and green flowers on them and topped it off with a lilac and green rug - it looks lovely. The only problem now is that Sprog #1 wants the same!!

Thanks for writing your thoughts down for us to share Carol, it sounds like we all think about the same things!!!!! Great to hear from you too Delaney, it seems like you are really focussed too.
Ali-It must be a great feeling to only have 28lb to lose, you will see a big difference when the last 2 stone have gone.

I know the difference between a size 26 and size 16 is a good start but i really still feel uncomfortable and am still obese, i really can't wait to reach a healthy weight and feel great. Another 4 stone should do it. I have reached target before and that was 10 stone 7lb, I managed to stay at that weight for years but it wasn't easy. i will settle for 11-13 this time but am just taking it one week at a time, I know with your help i can do it, i know I am not alone, I also know that I am the only one who can get me to that weight, we are all capable just sometimes we forget that we can do it, we have to keep reminding each other.

I am going to try and get into a size 14 for christmas!!

A size 14 is a good dream - you gotta have a dream, else how you gonna have a dream come true ....

I'm aiming on being 2 stone lighter come Christmas, in my heart I am hoping I can be below the 200lbs (14 stone 4lbs) mark and in what our American friends call Onederland. 2 stone 1lb will take me there - in 4 months. It can be done, it will be done.

I dream of being a size 16 as well, my friend weighs the same as me, but is about 5 inches taller than me at 5 foot 10 and is a snug size 16, an 18 for comfort, while me at 5 foot 5 (on a good day) have to squash into a 20 or a 22 for comfort.

Life just isn't far, with a little more height I could several sizes smaller as the weight has more places to distribute itself - shouldn't gripe about things I can't change

Off to tidy a bit more of this tip I call home

Oh to be in onederland would in deed be wonderful!! I haven't been there since early 1995 !!

I am in a much more positive frame of mind this morning, I was vile last night (but with good reason:o ) and I can't even blame PMT:s:

I told myself I wouldn't turn the computer on till the evening but hey i just couldn't resist. It's gonna be a long day and I plan to walk to work this afternoon, will try to remember to use my pedometer and see how many miles I clock up!!

Have a great week ladies!! Onward and downward!!

Just taking a break from sewing name tags onto the kids clothes -I don't really have time to stop but I'm just sick of 'getting ready for school' I'll be glad when its upon us and I can get some peace (don't I sound like a moany old bag?) (you don't have to answer that!!)

I'm in a bad mood 'cause I weigh myself every morning (I know I shouldn't but can't stop) anyhoo, this morning 'they' say I've gained 2lbs which is a physical impossibility... I have worked out at gym 3 times this week, been swimming and really watching what I eat!! I know its official weigh in tomorrow at WW but just had to share that with someone - really miffed. Thanks for listening...

TQ - well done on getting back into your positve frame of mind. and Carol - you've spurred me on... I want to lose 1lb per week until Christmas which will take me to the 15.12 mark or thereabouts which will make me a very happy bunny as last Christmas I was 18.4 - I know that seems REALLY slow but the way I see it is the slower it comes off the longer it stays off.

I don't know if I've already mentioned this but sorry if I have... but were going out for New Years Eve (not done that for about 7 years due to sprogs) I am determined to buy a 'normal' dress from Wallis and not go in some tent from Evans.

Oh well the sewing beckons...

I'm not sure where to post this but really need to talk to someone, if only to get it off my chest. My 3 year old daughter has had me in tears all afternoon because she called me fat, I can feel my eyes filling up as I type. I asked her to repeat what she said because I couldn't believe I had heard her correctly. She then said I had a fat bum and legs. After I'd got upset she did say that she wouldn't say it again to me (or anyone else) then had a nap and when she woke up the first thing she said was "I won't call you fat again Mummy", which just re-inforced my feelings.

I know she is correct, I AM fat, (although the vast majority is on my stomach) but I've been like this since she's known me and I didn't think she would even notice. I also know she is only 3 and hasn't learnt to lie yet but I just feel so upset

Helen I wish I had some comforting words, kids can be cruel but please take heart that she loves you. :grouphug:

My boys (4 & 7) and their pals use the 'fat' word as an insult to each other and I hate it when they describe someone as 'fat' which in their slang means stupid. I look down at myself and try and think what it says about me. I have had many a tearful evening once they have gone to bed, Ray has eventually managed to persuade me that they are not doing it as an insult to me personally or any other larger person. But it still cuts right through me when I hear them or their wee pals saying it.

We are the same weight Helen, if we both work at it out kids will be calling us flattering names within a few months

On that note I am being an :angel: If I had a halo this week I would give it a polish.

I have stuck to 1500 calories for the last 2 days with today going to be the third. I nearly fell off the wagon today, I was sent out to a different site and the chocolate machine was calling my name, but I just let it call and carried on with my work.

Lots of mundane *****y moany down and used feelings at work at the moment. I am trying to rise above it all, but it isn't easy. Was quite glad to get out of the main office today. I'm sure they are several ways to reorganise a company but the way Scottish Enterprise is doing it isn't the one to be reccommended.

What's happened to Veggie ? not been around here much this week

I was just wondering the same thing!! veggie where are you ???? Come back!!!!!!!!!!!!

Arwen, I have had this too from my son when he was about 3 or 4, it choked me but I just ate more and gained more weight!!

He now hardly uses the 3 letter f word which makes me smile, he understands much more now of course being a 7 year old who knows everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your daughter doesn't understand how much she is upsetting you please try not to let it get to you (I know easier said than done!!)

Like Carol said soon you will have her saying the most flattering things, I am still waiting like, kids can be cruel, I should know I am a teaching assistant!! :dizzy:

Arwen, hope you're feeling a bit cheery by now. As Carol and TQ said, your little one didn't mean anything by what she said to you, she wasn't trying to be mean. Fat is such a horrible word I think, it has been made to sound so derogatory (sp?) over the years.
My son, now aged 15 ( a sweetie if I do say so myself) says I'm not fat, I'm cuddly, which doesn't upset me, cos he has always been a cuddly child growing up, but deep down I would love to be just 'Mum' and nothing else even though I know he loves me for who I am, which is the way it should be....does this make sense?
I went back to work today, we had an all day convcation, top knobs rambling on about the law of the land within the school district. It was so nice to come home at three and have a cuppa. I did good eating too, I had a bagel and cream cheese and marked dwon 7 points for it. We have to go back to the 'O' club tomorrow and Thurs too, and get fed both days which is nice, but I shall have to be really careful as it wasn't part of my getting back on track plan.
Anyhoo, hope you do feel better now Arwen, you are a good person and don't forget it.
Hope everyone has a nice evening.....and yes, where is that Veggie?

Thanks to everyone for their words of support, unfortunately it not something I can discuss with my husband as he just wouldn't understand (or would laugh at how silly I am to let her words upset me) but I do feel a lot better now thanks to all of you. I haven't really managed to stick to points too well today but I am pleased that i didn't comfort eat after Estras words this afternoon - I did think about it but then thought doing that would make her even more right, if that makes sense. I'm not weighing in tomorrow for several reasons; will have daughter in tow and still have very tender foot that blistered from walking all that way 2 weeks ago so am getting seriously back on track tomorrow with the aim of showing a good loss the week after. Also I'd gained 4lb over the last week and a half since my last weigh-in and haven't quite managed to lose all of it yet. My daughter starts nursery next week at the school she will be attending next year so I can go to Weight Watchers while she isn't with me, also I'm hoping to start swimming again when she's there too. I only learnt in March so not sure how much i will manage the first time!

Thanks again for everyones support, it is really appreciated especially as I'm new to the list and none of you have got to "know" me yet.

I'm here just not in a diet mood!

Helen I don't have kids but have been called names and yes it is hurtfull she probably got this from other kids and they get it from their parents/other kids all you can do is make sure your kid knows it is rude to comment on people like that I guess but as she so young shes just copying others isnt she? Anyway the tellytubbies are fat so maybe she thinks its a good thing! :D

Hi Veggie

Now I've calmed down from yesterday and have thought about it a bit more rationally I don't think she was saying it in any negative sort of way (even though thats how I took it), I think she was just saying it how it is. She may well have got it from other kids but has not been at Nursery since June as its been closed, I think she may well have picked it up from listening to me and Shell who always talk about dieting when we get together.

Now looking like a tellytubbie - that really is an insult:lol:

Anyway I feel a lot better today and have got things more in perspective. At least until she says it again:goodvibes

Hi everyone

Helen - I'm pleased you feel better about what your daughter said - kids just don't have the ability to be tacktfull (sp?) at that age. I have a problem in that my 7 year old is always skipping or jogging on the spot etc and when asked why she says she must stay fit!! She always asks me if she's had 5 portions of fruit and veg per day too - I worry - but when we chat I point out that she's healthy and fit and needn't worry - although I do!!

I had a friend over for coffee this morning and she joined Rosemary Conley club about 6 weeks ago and did really well (I think she lost 5lb in the first week and then 2 per week for a couple of weeks) anyway she was really upset and apparently she gained 2lbs last week and 2.5lbs this week and wanted my help. We chatted for ages and I think I've helped her - anyway, I've told her about you guys so she may well come on here for more support.

Must go and get Sprog #1 from school - WW dreaded weigh in tonight...

PS: Veggie hope you're ok?

Just a quick post, glad everyones OK. We don't mind if you're not in the mood for dieting Veggie, but we miss you when you don't pop in and chat.

I am on day 4 on program and am hoping for another good day, have this evening all planned out, cuppa soup, toast and jam or maybe a jam butty depending on how I feel at the time and some veggies as I haven't had my five yet today. Not all in that order, but I just had a beefburger roll (well in a folded piece of bread) was making the boys one each and knew that if I didn't do one for me I would end up picking so worked out the cals and changed the evening around

Tonight is Seans swimming lessons, he doesn't go until 8pm, but Steven my youngest is really tired thing this being at school thing is wearing him out. This is the second week they have been for full days and the first that they have had homework - so the tired little bunny is lying on the couch all wrapped up in his quilt watching the lion king - awww. So we may not make the swimming, if at all possible I would like to take Sean and me & Steven could sit and watch, but not vry likely with Steven he just loves the water

Hows Sprog2 enjoying school Delaney - Steven has been there 3 weeks and thinks he runs the place - typical 4 year old. Have to be honest he does look cute in his uniform

Hi everyone

well this week so far hit a disaster on monday evening...I was doing really well eventhough it was mad bisy at work.

My wonderful husband...god bless him knew I was having a really busy day at work , so he called me and said he had been out and bought me a meal for my dinner...chicken in a creamy mushroom and peppercorn sauce....I knew weight watchers did a similar meal which is just over 300 calories so when he said it was a supermarkets own brand and 423 calories I didn't think much about it and said great thanks...when I got home, he had everything ready for me just waiting to be warmed up so I didn't even think to check the box to make sure the calories were right...it wasn't until I was eating it I said my goodness there is a lot here in this meal it is pretty good value for the calories ...I battled my way through it, and I have to admit I struggled and I had to leave some of my veggies.
It wasn't until I went to wash the dishes that I found the box and read it myself...the meal was 423 calories per 100 grms not per meal and the meal itself was 250gms...yeah you guessed it, it should have served 2 people not just one...so with the jacket potato I had with it as well and my lunch and breakfast today I have eaten over 2000 calories, quite a few more than my allowed 1250. Tomorrow I am really going to have to cut back to make up for it....I can't be annoyed with him though, he was just being thoughtful and trying to be helpful. It really was my own fault for not checking first.
So take notice all you out there who think I never make mistakes...there is one great example that I still do...but I've learnt my lesson and its a mistake I wont make again .
Especially as I have had to cut back for the past 2 days...I have still eaten well, but I've had to stick with lower calorie options, instead of having what I really fancied...and just to make matters worse...TOM arrived yesterday and as always I feel like a balloon, so I've probably gained a few pounds because of that...in one way now is the best time to make a mistake like that, at least gaining any weight can be blamed on TOM....I know I am definitely retaining fluid...as you probably remember, last week I lost my rings in the freezer in the supermarket, because they have gone so big...today I can hardly twist them round, my fingers are so swollen.
Oh well...no point fretting over it...jsut need to get on :)

well I'm going to hit the sack, I have the bed completely to myself for the next 3 nights..hubby has gone to Amsterdam, so I should get some decent nights sleep without constantly being woken up by his snoring:)

Have a good day tomorrow everyone

Ali:wave:

Wotcha its raining here has summer ended? Had my hooded active v111 jacket on today boo its winter or something. Have another sick note so thats one good (?!) thing or is it I don't know.

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