he-he-he YES IT IS WATER :yes:

Lounging around drinking hot water this morning :rolleyes: its awful when you can't even have a tea-bag is'nt it? :lol: I can't EAT either :yikes: not until around noon when I can have a piece of toast :dunno: my stomach was rumbling when I was being scanned yesterday :lol: so it will really be groaning this morning :rofl: I was going to :tread: before I leave but it might affect the test so i'd better wait and do it there I think :dunno: I can't wait for it to be over with then tonight I can settle down and enjoy an ice cold Bud :T

It's definitely water :). Just keep telling yourself often enough ;)

This is a link to this years challenge http://www.gosh.org/events/china/index.html but I am planning to do it next year, when I am a bit fitter and hopefully slimmer.

It's something I really want to do, and a charity I really care about, so why not?????

Go for it! I'd love to do something like that but don't think I'd get the time off work (and I don't have enough holiday to use that for it while still managing to see my family at any point during the year :( )

I only get 25 days a year, but the trek runs from the 5th to the 15th, so it's only 10 days long. My company will match what I fundraise, so that will help push my total along. I have done a couple of fundraisers at work, that have always been quite successful,but this will be a big challenge!!!

Only 25 days? :shrug: :joker: Two thousand six hundred and fifty quid :faint: thats quite a chunk of change to find :lol: but if you really have your heart set on it :goodluck: Kyk. Btw those 39 ish steps look more like 139 to me :lol:

I was'nt too impressed with todays hospital visit :eek: but its over with now and i'll find out at the end of the month if i'll live or not :rofl: actually these last 4 days have been good for me because when they told me "You CAN"T have chocolate or alcohol" and I DID'NT have any then I knew that I can leave it alone..so why can't I abide by that rule for myself? A little voice inside of me says "I fancy some chocolate" or "I want a beer" and I go and get it..there is no other voice :angel: telling me YOU CAN'T have it. :rofl: My plan was to have an ice cold Bud tonight (now that i'm free :lol: ) but now i'm thinking about all the calories in it :lol3: and I won't stop at one it will be more like 3 or 4 (about 600cals) so I think I might abstain again ;) but don't hold me to it :lol3:

I have survived two birthdays this week (just about). :devil: No fat club either as it was shut. :genie: :hyper:

Well done veggie for surviving 2 birthdays, they are so tempting birthdays. So much nice food around at times like that. So far since my diet started in March 2005 i have eaten out, in May (daughters birthday) june(eldest sons birthday) July (youngest sons birthday). So slap on the back for surviving.

Im just looking forward to my birthday in september woohoooo.

Mary

Where has Chris got to? :dunno: I miss her :cry:

The little voice let me down :rofl: I was out :cheers: on Saturday and Sunday :lol: feeling yucky today as well :p serves me right :lol:

I'm here Cat.. thanks for missing me :)

I have been hecticly busy at work recently, had friends over from home for two weeks and had to have a near melt down last Friday, to convince my lovely kids that I'm not bloody superwoman and I can't do everything without losing my sanity if they don't help out! I got the message across, they were both angels over the weekend and I didn't have to ask them to do anything, they just did all the things they were supposed to :)

My eating isn't too bad, I'm counting, but no exercise... can't find the energy or the time... hubby has mentioned bying me a treadmill though... we can walk together...

How's everyone else doing?

Hello Brit!

Just been out all morning to get some bits from a wheelchair! Took us 30 mins to drive there and over an hour to drive back! Hmmmm methinks my driver was on a work skive! :rofl: I'm not complaining, look what I'm doing..... ;)

I've been shopping again :s:

I realised I only have one suit that fits me, and even that is a little loose (despite me only buying it in June and buying the skirt and trousers in two sizes, one of which didn't fit properly at the time in an attempt to make it last longer)

So I hit the Next clearance shop and found a suit I liked. There are no changing rooms so I had to do my best to try it on on the shop floor (they do allow refunds to be fair though). I tried the 16. The jacket was possibly a little baggy, and the skirt fastened easily despite the fact that I had my suit trousers on underneath it.

I didn't want to be caught out again by not being able to wear something for long because it was already baggy when I bought it, so I took a deep breath, picked up the 14 and walked to the till :dizzy:

It's a little tight, but it does fasten. And that's more than I can say about some of the size 20 suits when I was in my denying I'm a size 22 stage - the skirts would be horribly tight (and I have the ripped linings to prove it) and the jackets would have to stay open because they didn't fasten. Shockingly, it looks better than what I wore did back then.

I'm planning to leave it for a few weeks and hope to shrink into it so it fits more comfortably, but I own a size 14 suit! And it fastens!

Just time for a very quick post to let you know that I've not gone AWOL or fallen off the wagon - I'm just house-sitting for Kim's mum while she's on honeymoon, and I don't have internet access - talk about cold turkey!

Weight-wise I'm doing well - down 3lbs this week to 193lbs (13st 11lbs), and on Saturday I bought my first size 16 trousers, in Marks and Sparks. In most other shops I'm still an 18 (and in SOME :tantrum: :censored: :tantrum: :censored: shops I'm still a 20), but ****, now I've bought two skirts and a pair of trousers in size 16 in M&S I'm considering myself officially that size, and forgetting that it's only one shop out of millions!

We go to Cornwall for a week's camping on Saturday, so more internet-less days - I'll try to pop in here on Friday to see how you're all doing.

If I don't make it, enjoy next week, and see you on bank holiday Monday!

Janey ;)

Congrats on the smaller sizes Ladies :cp:

Hiya Chris :wave: glad to hear that you are still sane :crazy:

Frus..bits from a wheelchair :?: :fr: :dunno:

I have'nt exercised since Friday so i've got to convince myself to get back at it today :lol: :halfempty I've had a shower though and been out so I don't want to get all sweaty :p maybe i'll do something thats not strenuous :devil:

Hi ladies, I often read your threads and feel like I know you all, but am a regular poster over on WW boards. I just posted something over there and I thought I would run it by you guys as well - do any of you read the Observer newspaper? Did you see the TV section this week, where they reviewed the new BBC programme 'No Waste Like Home'? And did you see what they wrote about the presenter, who is a serious environmentalist, very professional and attractive and just happens to be a larger lady? They wrote that she 'looks as if she regularly consumes enough food to feed a
small country for a year'. How gratuitous is that? I was furious enough to send the editor an e-mail about it ... but I wondered if anybody else had noticed or if I was overreacting about it?
Hope you're all having a lovely evening!