I weighed in this morning - 101.6kg, which means I lost 0.4 this week. I need to keep reminding myself that slow is good…

Onya Lindor for not gaining any weight - I knew all that gardening was a good idea. Now you play nice with that plumber :-)

Hey Britt, keep it up - just don't let your naughty days become the focus of your week, or you'll start to feel deprived, and it will be hard to stay motivated. I personally prefer to have naughty moments, because that way I don't feel like I am undoing all the hard work. I've figured out that a bite-size Cherry Ripe is 90 calories, so I can eat it, and then walk it off. Done and dealt with. I'm sure that if I weren't a chocoholic I wouldn't have such a twisted way of looking at the world, but I'd rather do it that way and feel good that I could incorporate yummy, naughty foods into a daily healthy lifestyle.

Good luck with this week everyone.

:-)
Ani

Ani, I love that you can always make me laugh!!!

Play nice??? Me??

Actually, ain't it the way with plumbers! He came, he looked and then 'I've just got to duck back to the workshop to get some bits - I'll be back in 15mins'

That was an hour and a half ago!!!


Now Ani...what is the secret to stopping after just 1 bite sized cherry ripe??? If I could do that then I wouldn't get so upset about being given a bag of M&M's!!!

Now, I shall sit back and patiently wait for my plumber to return!!!

Yeah, I guess its whatever works for us, hey? I know that if I were to have naughty "moments", I wouldnt survive...but having one naughty meal a week keeps me sane. At the end of the day, its whats going to be the most successful for us individually I suppose. Ani, I would personally be able to stop after a bite-size Cherry Ripe since I hate them...haha.

Lindor, good luck with the plumber!

Britt
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Tradesmen!!! They're one of the most frustrating species on earth I reckon. He's probably gone for a couple of beers.

How do I stop at one? Sometimes I don't - sometimes I have a couple. But it's part of my learning to eat differently. I've always been the kind of person who would eat junk if I had it. No matter how good my intention, and how sternly I spoke to myself - I would still eat everything as if it wasn't going to be there tomorrow.

There was no logic to it, and I knew I was being a pig - but I couldn't stop myself. So I had a really long think about why. I spent the first year of my life in an orphanage, and when I got a "family" I was underfed, neglected … all that stuff. I got a very kind and loving family, and of course they shovelled food into me to try and make me healthy.

Now it doesn't take Einstein to figure out that I associate food with very primal instincts, like survival and safety. But those patterns were set really early in my life, and are surprisingly difficult to break. As an adult I know in my head that I won't starve, and that food isn't the symbolic 'thing' that determines my worth as a person. But convincing my emotional self of these things is a little tougher.

Am I rambling? Not really sure where that all popped out from - but I guess the short answer is I have to learn to have food in the cupboard (and that includes chocolate etc), and to only eat what my body needs.

Anyway - back to more immediate issues; hope your plumber hasn't deserted you.

:-)
Ani

The plumber has just finished the job

Apparently he only had to change a perished washer in the tap.

I wonder if I get charged 5hrs labour??? Look out if I do!!!


Ani! That was not rambling in any way at all! You want to see rambling, go back and read my posts again

I can see your reasonings now...and it does make sense. Sometimes I wish I had logical reasons behind my pigging out! Fact is, reason or no reason, it is a habit we have had for a very long time. And don't we all know how hard it is to break a bad habit!!!

Control is my problem too. For a while there I thought I had mastered it, but it seems I have unravelled again

Whether it is in the cupboard or not, I always find something to binge on, if the urge is there and I can't control it! And lately this is the way I am going. I can't keep blaming it on stress! Next thing is I'll be stressing that I am not stressed enough!!

Now, where is my cat??

Not that I expect these spamming fools to read any sane posts, but how do we ask the mods to delete this rubbish (in the above posts)?

Lindor, are you serious? The PLUMBER didn't have a washer, and had to go out and buy one? I would have snuck out and let down his tyres :-)

Ani, I just reported this creep by clicking on the bad post icon with the exclamation mark. I feel violated!

Thanks Britt :-). I use a Macintosh, and can't find any icon for reporting bad posts.

I'm with you. They don't have any right to be here, and they can be sure I won't even consider buying their rubbish after this (not that I would have anyway).

SPAM!!!

Wow, I have not seen it like that on a messageboard before!!!

Yeah, Britt, I feel violated too!! I hope the Mods can delete them!! Pleeeaaassseee?


Ani, if I let his tyres down he'd probably charge me for the time he sat in my driveway while they were being pumped up!!!

Good morning! Sorry about the spam .... it's gone and the creep is banned. Thanks for reporting it!

Thanks so much Meg!!!

Yes! Thank you Meg! I am just sorry creeps like that have to attack the well meaning places like this.

Job well done

Oooh I missed Spam. See what happens when one is so busy. I've barely got time to scratch myself these days. There is so much happening with work and school. Have to take the car in for repaiirs again tomorrow. Stupid thing. Got a trip down to Pedders at 8.30, race Kyra to preschool, run home and somehow get my scrapbooking stuff up to craft. Fun fun fun. Thank goodness for Brothers in law who will do anything for a free feed. Must remember to actually cook on Thursday.

Catch you soon.

You didn't miss much Kathy - the same message repeated four or five times trying to sell different 'cures'. No Viagra though...I did notice that

Well I am sitting here patiently waiting for another potential sucker...errr...I mean buyer to come by and look at the house. Due at 1pm, but I am going to have to round up the dogs shortly and rush them over to Mums place.

Scary thing is...

...Mum and Dad are due home early this afternoon too! Not sure what they are going to think of having three dogs held captive in their house (including a slightly incontinent one at that!!) when the get home!!

Then there is the anxiety of, if they don't arrive while the dogs are there, they might arrive while I am there collecting them again. See there is a bit of a rift between my father and I...haven't spoken to each other in over two years now. I am sure if we are forced to so much as say 'hi' to each other world war three will break out!!

So...my stressor today is not so much the fact that I have someone else trekking through my house but a potential run in with my father! I've had three months of not having to worry about 'bumping into him'.

Hard to believe that in a town with a population of 5000 people I can actually think I can avoid a run in with my father forever!!! But, I have managed for two years already

And of course...it might not happen today...it might never happen!!!

Yeah Ok, ramble over now

Lindor, did you manage to avoid your dad? Are you OK about not speaking to him for all this time? It must have been something big to cause such a big fracture - I'm not prying, incidentally, just checking in to see how you are.

How is the house sale going? I'm renting here and had a house inspection today. I was running around with the vacuum cleaner and various cleaning rags and products at 7am … my cats thought I had gone mad! But at least it gave me an early morning work-out :-).

I have this friend (well, she's really an acquaintance more than a friend) that I'm a bit worried about. When I first met her about 3 years ago she weighed 115kg - she's now almost 150kg, and isn't even slightly interested in losing weight. I've tried talking about it with her, and sometimes she's receptive, but usually she just whinges about all her various physical ailments. If anyone has any suggestions (and I know I can't change her, or 'make' her want to lose weight), I'd love to hear them.

:-)
Ani