Anyone else clueless as to how some of the arcade games work :?: whats that pingu all about :dizzy: i can't figure out how to play some of them :doh: :lol:

I couldn't figure out how to play some of the games either Cathy, thought I was being really daft, glad to know I'm not alone PHEW! :)

Don't know what's wrong with me this evening, have been munching on things I should stay away from. It was rather enjoyable though, best get to bed, so as I don't eat anything else bad.

I'm off work now for a week :):):)

Gave myself a servere talking to yesterday and have been an angel since. I do not want to be this size,I want to be at least a stone lighter before the really nice weather (if we get any) arrives. I do not want to be this size, I want to be slimmer, healthier and happier. Not that if I was a size 12 I would be instantly and automstically happy but I would have one less thing to be unhappy about, does that make any sense. I feel I have spent the last few months drifting, I'm not enjoying going to WW on a Saturday, nothing wrong with the leader, just she isn't Gail the leader I had last year, who was lovely and so supportive but has given it up (shouldn't be allowed). Not sure what I am going to do WW wise, seeing Veggies success on Slimming World, maybe I ought to try that, would be something different, because if what I am doing isn't working then I should try doing something different, right!! See I know all the logic, I just need to put it into action. I would really rather do it on my own and keep my money, I know we all support each other here, but you don't see me standing on the scales every week, maybe I could install a digi-cam in my bathroom, purely for weigh ins, and you could all monitor my progress. If only! I know what I need to do, I just need someone to kick my butt and give me the gumption to get on with it.

Made a hugemongous decision last night to stop drinking, Sun - Fri, I will allow myself a couple of drinks on a Saturday night, but that is all, a few not bucketfuls. I have been here before, sure Veggie understands where I am coming from, as we used to have conversations about this lots in the past. I feel half of my weight is made up of wine and the rest from the cheese and salt and vinegar crisps I munch whilst drinking. Had a long talk with Ray, again, about my weight, what a sweetheart he is putting up with me. My weight doesn't just affect me, as depending on how my weight loss is going or what I have been eating I can be like a bear with a sore head or a miserable old sod and all 3 of my boys suffer, mainly the big one. Ray just wants to see me happy, he knows I was much happier last year when I weighed just over 14 stone, not exactly thin but a big step forward from where I was and where I am almost back to now. Ray reckons the way for me to lose it is to exercise, as when I have lost weight before I always got up early in the morning and exercise, aerobics tape or a walk for 30 minutes before I started my day in earnest. It is a thought going back to doing that but he is right, exercise in the morning and sensible eating all day and I will get back to where I was, it is hard though. Why is it so easy to gain weight and so difficult to lose it? Suppose if I knew the answer to that question then I would be making a fortune like Mrs WW and Mrs Slimming World.

Enough ramblings, we are off to Dundee to to see what we can see. Think we are going to go visit Discovery, not sure whose boat (ship) this was, Sean is right into history and adventures and things so hopefully he will like this. We have friends who live just outside Dundee so money on we'll end up dropping in on them later on too.

I have to stop listening to Duran Duran, is giving me romantic notions for the drummer Roger, he always used to be my favourite and a pal told me he has recently split up from his wife. Guess he must be finally ready to meet me :) :) Me and Linda have had a few laughs planning all the bizarre ways we could meet him and persuade him to fall for me. What would I do with Ray? Would be my luck he would fancy my pal:) Have passed loads of time wool gathering about this, this week. Feeling like this was fine when I was 15 but hey I'm 37 now, should be past all this.

Don't want to fat and 40 in a couple of years.

Am rambling now, off to find my lipgloss incase Roger happens to be in Dundee :dizzy: :dizzy:

Hi girls,
Carol, you DO have all the motivation. You do seem stuck in a rut and I've been there as I'm sure most of us have. It is so much harder to lose than to gain, I agree, but it is such a wonderful feeling when you step on those scales and they show a loss.
Why don't you print out what you typed above and stick it on your fridge, (maybe you should leave your fantasies about Roger out though). :)
AS for your drinking only on a weekend, why don't you try leaving yourself a note out about that too, just a little visual reminder?
I know a few months ago I was very unhappy as I was trying so hard and stuck on a plateau and very close to eating half of America, Stef said something about a fourteen week cycle that our body does of losing and then maintaining, so that helped, plus I talked to Dave and he pointed out a photo of me with friends about six years back and told me to look at it, saying I was HUGE in it, and to take a good look at how far I have come. It was hard to hear him say that, in fact at that time, I thought I was looking slimmer than usual back then, even though I wasn't on any diet, or food plan to lose. I just ate everything when I wanted :) Which was why I was HUGE :)
I think maybe you lost some of your motivation a bit ago, when your computer messed up, cos as you say, we are a good lot to moniter each other and kick bums when needed.
Anyhow, here's a good kick up the bum for you from me. You have helped me so much with your insights and actions in the past, I would like to help you now, even if it has to resort to violence?
Plan your food for the week like you used to! Get a time during the day and make yourself exercise and SMILE, as you're a great woman and I like you :)

Look out Roger :lol: Carol is after you :cofdate:

All my weight is alcohol and crisps and the rest of the stuff you eat after alcohol. Haven't had a crisp for a month :D Have syn free chips or baked potatoes instead :hungry:

Pingu? You just slap the brat on to the target. I don't understand any others except Seal Bounce and that's a no brainer that's why I'm current champ at it . :p

Thanks Chris I'm feeling a bit brighter now we had a lovely day out. Discovery was a big hit with the boys and I learnt that it was Scott from the Antarctic (sp) that sailed in her.

Eatign has been very good today. I had porridge with a teaspoon of sugar for breakfast. Then a cheese salad roll for lunch and some lemon pepper chicken with potatoes and veg for dinner. Only blackcurrent juice from here on.

Veggie - spill the beans on those syn free chips, I have made chips before and spray them in that one cal vegetable oil spray stuff and baked them, is that the same as yours?

What would I do without Ray, sure he is worth ten (if not more) Rogers, but hey a woman can dream.:dizzy: Ray is working nightshift for the next few nights, am determined to be an angel and not have a bottle of wine to help me sleep each night he is working. Is easy done to drink that much wine, once you open the bottle by yourself, you have to drink it or it goes off in the bottle, or so I used to think. I know much better now. Will just need to tackle the ironing pile, that will soon put me sleep.

Am still unsure what to do about WW. Will see how I feel in the morning and take it from there. Am not sure I want to waste the money if I'm not enjoying it.

I can play Tetris, you have to move the shapes around to make full lines on the grid, it gets faster and faster as you go along. I have no chance of ever matching Jennifers score of 146000, think my best score so far is 32000

Am off to snuggle up to Ray and watch inspector morse, haven't seen this one

Night
Carol

Ray now playing unreal tournament on his laptop in the living room, noise is very deafening and repetitive and annoying, so no peace to watch Morse. Will need to play some games instead. Men !!!!!!!!

Cat - new series of bad girls starts here next week

Syn free chips just boiled for 5 mins then sprayed with fry light and baked for 25 mins they are free though ;) and so are beans on a green day yum. I had baked potato tonight with healthy extra ( you have four of them a day) cheese :hun: I like having cheese and knowing it's on my plan I am craving pizza :jeno: though. Chips 'recipe' :p here >link<

I just found the 80 chicks thread I did wonder what that was! :dizzy:

Hi Girls :wave:

Done more spring cleaning today ;) emptied half of the kitchen cupboards washed the contents and the cupboards then re-organised stuff :) did'nt realise how many rubbermaid containers that i had :shrug: got sick of that after 4.5hrs so went to the mall :lol: no easter eggs on sale yet :devil: so i got myself some werthers chocs instead :lol: don't know what brought this on because i've been doing really well :dunno: it must have been the sight of all those easter eggs :T

Veggie, you slap the brat into the target??? How? the Yeti throws a snowball and i don't know whether to aim at the penguin or the target :lol: the instructions with some of these games are'nt the greatest :dizzy:

Carol, i'm sure Roger would'nt live up to your expectations if you got him :halfempty you're better off with Ray in my opinion ;) i don't subscribe to BBC Canada anymore i was sick of watching the first? or second series of Bad Girls over and over again so i canned it :lol:

Morning all. Have decided to can WW and just carry on doing this weight loss thing myself with all off your help. Have weighed in on my own scales this morning so can't really compare with last weeks WW ones. Have not had the best eating week, I have been off work this week and I always seem to eat more when I am in the house, probably because the kitchen is closer :) :cb: Have discovered that if I put my scales on the wooden floor in the livingroom I get a steady weight instead of on the lino in the bathroom when the weight changes every time I stand on the scales. By weighing in in the livingroom it will discourage me from scale jumping every morning, a habit I have got back into, as Ray usually leaves for work before me and opens the curtains, could be embrassing.

Cathy can you send over some of your enthusiasm for spring cleaning, I am determined to give my livingroom and bathroom a good clean for once instead of just a lick and a promise. Will burn up some cals whilst doing it, so that is no bad thing.

Veggie thanks for the recipe they sound similar to the WW ones. If I get sick of doing this on my own or if I don't find it working I think I will try and track down a slimming world, is about the only group I haven't tried and add to that that I love cheese.

Am feeling very determined this morning

Today I know that I am going to do this and do it well. I (WE) will lose weight if we eat less and move more. It's the law. If I stick to it for all of this week there will be less of me for my weigh in next Saturday morning, is pure logic.

I'm the only one who can make it happen and I am going to do it.

Am off to clean this house :) :) :) :)

hi all my you have all been busy and ive only not been here since yesterday morning CAROL keep your chin up honey and if it helps im the same with john bon jovi i dont want to keep him just play with him for a wee while whats your hubbys unreal name as mine is addicted and plays under the name of straif {actually i think hed be better off changing his name he uses that more than his own } well went out to a party and while i was feeling a bit crap went anyway as i am totally fed up with my illness leading my life BIG BIG BIG MISTAKE i ended up in tears at 4 oclock this morning and because my brother in law was asleep on the setee i didnt want to wake him so i tried to cope without painkillers and given the amount id drunk its just as well so theres me 5 oclock lying on the floor in tears trying to convince my staffie that i was not playing games and this was not entertainment at all finally convinced her {i think }at about 6 oclock so ive had about three hours sleep {on the floor}and now im fully medicated but because i left it so long im going to suffer all day anyway CAROL if you need some recipies or hints about slimming world ill email them through as i joined them on thursday and it seems that you can eat loads as long as its the right things so the infos here if you want ti and lets be honest it aint as if ill be doing anything else today
catch you all later
kirsty

OK girls, my bags are packed, and I'll be leaving for the airport shortly for my lONG day of travelling.
Will check in when I can, have a great Easter, don't eat too many eggs :)

Aim at the penguin I think :?: I could do with some instructions the arcade is still new there's no link to it yet I don't think.

I've been trying the one where you throw Pingi up, have managed to get over a 1000 points but have no strategy is pure fluke really, still no where near Veggie

Chris - have a great trip.

Have just been shopping for easter eggs and have managed to avoid eating any, so far. Am not tempted at the moment. Picked up an ex rental copy of titantic this afternoon so will be sobbing my heart out this evening, I must be mad, have seen it loads of times. I still cry at Ghost and have seen that hundreds of times, but once Patrick Swayze moves that penny up the door, off I go again.

Have made a marvelous Beef stew for dinner, still haven't cleaned the bathroom or the livingroom, funny how I have managed to find otehr more important / interesting things to pass the time.