Chins up girls. Your weigh in's aren't totally bad after this holiday season. And you know from past experiences that it'll all soon be gone again, especially the fluids!
Everyone has done so well in the past year I've been visiting this site, and I know you'll all be an inspiration to me once again this year, I want to be an inspiration to someone this year too.

I wish I had a magic wand and could make all the festive and TOM gains disappear.

I've yet to face mine on Monday night, at a new class ???? My scales were showing a 2lbs gain after a boozey night, but I reckon now I am rehydrated and after all the eating and drinking I am doing tonight, it will be more than that.

During the weeks before xmas my weight had been hovering between 11st 11lbs and 12st 4lbs, the last time I weighed myself before xmas I was 12st 2lbs, now after xmas I am 12st 1lb????!

I dont understand! I was such a pig over xmas! Chocolate, biscuits, fizzy drinks, alcohol and we had family down so we went out for dinner and lunch a lot which meant pizza, chips, lasagne, burgers, curry plus puddings!!!!!

I went out clubbing with my mates more than usual coz they were back from uni, so perhaps dancing the night away helped?

Obviously Im pleased, but part of me is kinda annoyed too, coz all year (minus my 2 weeks on holiday anyway!) Ive been eating really healthily, weeks with no chocolate, crisps, chips, cakes, biscuits, sweets etc and Ive only lost a stone, then I eat crap over xmas and lose a lb? Im glad Ive lost a lb over xmas, but how come when I eat 10 times healthier than that I often dont lose a thing or put on a couple of lbs?

U probably all think Im a right ***** for losing a lb by being a pig, sorry!

But Im really confused now though and I dont know what to do!

Well done Chi chi chi!! maybe you did plenty of exercise dancing the night away or something, whatever happened it sounds good to me. I once lost 1 and a half pound over Christmas and couldn't believe my luck. I made sure that didn't happen this year hee hee!!

Hi All

I haven't posted since September and my weight has steadily increased so I'm almost a stone heavier than when I last "spoke" to you all and I have decided that THIS YEAR is the year that I must deal with it - I'm 40 in 2004 and don't want to be "fat and 40".

I actually started the diet a couple of days ago but am going to have my first official weigh-day as next Wednesday - so my first weeks loss will actually be 1 1/2 weeks. I suppose this is unnecessarily complicated but I want my weigh-in to be on a Wednesday but didn't want to lose any more time before starting!

I hope no-one minds me rejoining after so long.

Welcome back Helen, you're not the only one who has been missing for a bit. I have crept back in too, but wasn't as polite as you asking if I could, just barged back on in....how rude hey? Ooops!
I'm doing a Weds weigh in too and hoping for a loss, I have been good so far.....

I have also not posted for sometime but want to rejoin as I, also, have decided that this is the year. I have put on about 1/2 stone since August time when i went 'absent'.

Today normality returns and, along with it, my healthy eating plan. DH bought me a bike for christmas and i have been out riding it most days (and am thoroughly enjoying it - much to my surprise!) I have also done a quite a bit of walking over the past couple of weeks which i hope to slowly increase. The rebounder has been bought out and dusted down and the video repaired so that i can do my excercise tapes daily as well. My weigh in day will also be on a wednesday for the time being, although this may change if i can rearrange my life to get to a class - i looked at joining WW online but it is quite costly so, for the moment at least, will just be doing my own thing.

Welcome back one and all!! We are always glad to see you, great to hear from you all, i have stuck around but still gained lots over the festivities. All that is behind us now (and in front in my case...in fact everywhere!!) So we just have to get down to it and show who is the boss, it is the one thing we have total control over, lets do it!!

Welcome back to all those who drifted away

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Arwen
[B]Hi All

- I'm 40 in 2004 and don't want to be "fat and 40".

Hi Arwen...welcome back....I noticed that you said you would be 40 in 2004, and so will I, so I looked up your profile....and fell off my chair....
WE SHARE THE SAME BIRTH DATE!!!!

So you definately have a soulmate in cyberland....good luck!WE WILL SUCCEED!!

bye for now, love from Teel xx

What a coincidence - bet you are really twins who were seperated at birth for some reality TV programme which will be shown this autumn to explain the ESP between you, even though you didn't know you were related.

Ok, my imagination is running riot, but it is a big concidence or fate - who knows. Has anybody seen the film Serendipity, all about fate when two lovers meet. My fingers are running away with me again.

Will shut up

Gained a lb tonight, a whole pound. I am cock-a-hoop. 1 pound instead of the 7 or 10 or 14 or even more. Where has all the food and wine I have drunk gone. I have been walking , but I haven't walked that far. Think I have been very very lucky this year, am still grinning ear to ear.

Here are the losses for this week.

Chi Chi = -1lb
Leigh = -3lb
Posy = +9lbs
Sal = +1lb
TQ = +10lbs

Giving us a festive gain of 16lbs. It had to happen it was that time of year.

Personally I think that TOM has an awful lot to do with it and we will see some amazing losses this week.

Thanks for the welcoming back messages. I promise to do better this time (hangs head in shame).

Today has gone really well and I still have 3 points left which I don't even want to eat!

Teel, I'm wondering if we need to lose anything near the same amount of weight; that would make us real cyber-twins and give us some healthy competition as we have the same deadline! Mind you, I may have another baby before I'm 40 which will somewhat affect my chances! I am slightly under 5ft and need to lose 101lb, but I'm trying to just concentrate on how well I do today and not look at the whole picture or I will give up before I've barely started

Carol, your post was really funny. I love your sense of humour

Is there a thread where we post what we've eaten each day? I don't have much of an imagination when it comes to thinking of meals, especially breakfast and seeing what other people eat can sometimes give me some good suggestions to try.

Way to go Carol! Hope I show a loss on Weds. I am being very good, but I feel fatter! Mind you I felt this way last year too, until I'd lost the first ten pounds and then I felt thinner as the pounds came off...does this make sense? Probably not. What I mean is I hope I have lost from being good, cos my body still feels like all the poundage is still there...