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:

I am back from yorkshire!!
 

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: