The UK 3FC belly dancing troupe, anyone else up for it???? LOL

I went to aquaerobics, it was great!!! Very busy, about 20 people there, and I was the youngest :D Boy it's hard though, my arms are really sore now!!!! I am still planning to go and weight lift tonight. I am hoping that all the cute young boys are taking their cute young girlies to dinner and leaving us wrinkled old hens to the gym!!!

back to work tomorrow, yuck yuck yuck. Ah well it's only a day!!! Then I have my gym induction at the new gym on Thursday, getting fitted for my running trainers on Thursday afternoon, and hopefully starting to do a bit of running over the weekend.

Woo hoo!!!! I will lose weight before June, I will!!!!!

I suddenly realised about Friday I was due a period, it then dawned on me bloody **** I havent been grumpy, havent wanted to kill anyone, havent craved chocolate or havent had the usual intense melancholy. Jesus I thought I surely cannot be pregnant I've hardly seen any action this month. Anyway Saturday my period arrives since then I've felt like crap I sat on my grandmother's grave yesterday like a complete loon and cried my eyes out been as cranky as feck and eaten enough chocolate to cover Canada. It's all back to front oh well here's to a better day tomorrow.
Although I have to say
Martin my husband made me crack a smile this morning though he had left a card poking through our letterbox addressed to "the thin one"

Ooh, I'll do belly dancing.

It wasn't me either Kyk, mine seems to have gone missing this month. Not a sign of anything and it's been about 6 weeks. Just as it was starting to get vaguely regular.

I'm not doing running club tonight, other people don't want to run. I do need to go to Tesco with all the other sad single people who have nothing better to do though ;)

And I'm going to count the holiday loss today, the monthly weigh in on the Boots scales agreed with the weight from yesterday so that's official enough for me :D

I hope you kept your hands away from that Madonna when you were on holiday Miss YP!!!

I'll blame Michele for my change in period time, it's almost a week early!!! I might be able to find someone to blame at work perhaps!! When I lived in residences, all of us girls were due the same day, the poor old boys used to run for cover the week before, and calm us with chocolate during the week of our periods, cost em a fortune!

I'm glad I don't do Tesco anymore, our Somerfield was positively serene last night!!! And they had mackies fruit sorbet. 100 calories a serving, and it's super gorgeous!!!! Full of sugar, but coupled with fruit, makes for a very pleasant dessert.

Don't worry, I didn't go to see the Madonna in the end, 6 weeks is nothing particularly unusual, I just thought I was over that phase ;)

I used to be a 3 month girl. So many times my mum was close to buying a pregnancy kit (I was a virgin at the time!!!) and whoosh, on it would come!!! I kinda miss my irregular periods!!! At least they don't hurt anymore, that's got to be a good thing!

Blimey only half the month gone and we have more pages in this thread than the Jan one. :gossip: :gossip:

Waa I just clicked on an old thread by mistake...Sarah your av was your pic :D and I was talking about falling over at 3am hmm some things don't change...

Ooh I just read the thread where Suzanne was setting up the UK forum. :D :carrot:

grr day before I go away and my stomach has swelled up loads I sense I am about to start my period because I'm in a foul mood too. i'm not due on either grrr

It's a curse, I caught it from Michele, and you caught it from me, who can we give it to next!!??

I miss fat night, we have nothing to talk about!!! I went and had another gym session, been three times today, and had a good chat to cute gym instructor who wants me to write my autobiography!!! I don't think so!!!!

I think he's in the doghouse, he swapped with the other cute gym instructor not realising it was VDay so I don't think he's girlfriend is very impressed. And Col is at pool, so I'm not very impressed, so it's just me and the cat!

well damn you alll for giving me the curse I hate periods!!
I'm probably going to get acne tomorrow now
Also our friendly neighbourhood mouse has been in my bedroom yukky yuk.

We have poison and traps everywhere but will he get in it no of course not.

I need a bean bag!:dz: Been listening to Paul McKennas 'I can make you thin' cd... God, I am so chilled out, feels like i've been smoking several dodgy ciggies!:dizzy: :smoking:
Innit gooooood. Even if it doesn't work, helping me to lose weight, it right chills me out!

And his voice.... Ooooooooh:dizzy: :dizzy: Sexxxhhhhhhy. *Gggrrrhhhh*

We've got severe storms here in Plymouth tonight! It is absolutely blowing a hoolie and the rain, oioioi!:( Not much sleep for me, can't kip with rain pelting on my window, cause it makes my bladder over sensitive! LOL!:D

I'm gonna have to try this cd!!!! I need more chill out time. I can just picture myself lying on a fitball listening to McKenna. I look like a beached walrus on a fitball, but I don't care.

Well good people I am off to work today :( Not happy about it, but hey ho. Lets hope my safe haven hasn't been carpeted. If it has and no one has made any arrangements I am going straight to Occupational Health and making a formal complaint. I have had enough! My asthma is just starting to settle now, and I know it will go right back to being unlivable again sat in that office.

Off to gym this morning before work, I am travelling in my gym gear. My knee length wool coat covers a multitude of sins!!! :D

Sorry Princess and Kyraree it's my dodgy hormones.

Your great Kykaree going to the gym before work truly saintly. I missed Fat Club too. The woman on supersize surgery has become obsessed. My husband hid the scales as I stupidly said don't let me on them till the weekend so he has only gone and listened to me, and won't weaken.

I must get myself moving I have work and I am sat here in just my knickers all gormless. Don't even try and picture it. I think I feel a little better time will tell.

Have a good day everyone

Michele x

:wave: I'm a great big skiver today! :D

Actually I do feel rough, but I could've made the effort, taken some migraine tablets and gone to work. But I don't wanna! :tantrum: Got woken up by the lashing rain, wind, burglar alarms and Christmas trees falling over in the night. :tired: So I thought I'd have a lovely lie-in and get all rested, but I can't sleep because suddenly the sun is out and flooding the bedroom. Only dark place is the bathroom... I might have to sleep in the bath! :rofl:

Had good kickboxing class last night, managed to pull something in my groin (oooer missus and on V-day too!). Developed my sparring quite a bit, faking dodges and being a general PITA for this one instructor :D

I tried on my whole "careers day" outfit (I'm going back to my old school to tell them about design) and I look positively waif-like! I just have to slice a bit off the old butt to remove the dodgy creases at the top of my thighs and we're all set! :D Oh and I might need another red T-shirt, since the one I have doesn't match my shoes! :tantrum:

Morning! Sounds like the south had the worst of the weather. It was rainy and windy here but not enough to keep me awake. All the rain has turned the Moors in to a large squelchy blancmange though. The ground is a bit wobbly/bouncy at the best of times and on days like today it is really strange almost bouncing along (a bit like walking on a firm trampoline). I've got a bad sense of balance and as usual after rain I've slipped over again but it didn't hurt - I'm just got a bit muddy and the dogs were all concerned and stood over me staring me in the face trying to figure out what I was doing flat on my back which meant I had a problem getting up. :rolleyes:

All these period problems are nothing to do with me - I don't suffer with that problem any more, thank goodness! When I did they were very infrequent but were guaranteed to ALWAYS start on Christmas Day, Valentine's Day, our anniversary, the first day of our holidays and my birthday. :devil:

I'd love to try :belly: but I've got useless feet for dancing. Somehow my feet never do what my brain knows they should be doing (which is why I would never do an exercise class in public). :dizzy:

Frus, I hope you feel better - migraines are miserable! :hug:

Mands, you are so right about Paul McKenna's voice. I've got the old dieting one and I think I've only made it through to the end twice because I've always dozed off half way through. Apparently thats okay though because it reaches the subconscious (or something like that).

Ky, good luck with going to work / the new carpets. You might need to shock them in to taking you seriously - perhaps go and see human resources and tell them you don't think your health is being given adequate consideration and they need to put an emergency plan in place should you get another attack due to their inability to give you a safe/healthy working environment.

Did anyone else see that program last night called something like 'Change the day you die' (something like that) - it was about a woman who lives on kebabs/takeaway, smokes and drinks a HUGE amount of booze each night - and is a STONE underweight. (Life is so not fair, if I ate/drank like that I'd be putting on a stone a week.) She was told her estimated age at death would be 62. Anyway, they did a kind of health makeover on her which involved her eating 3 meals a day, cutting hard back on the booze and start exercising. I found that all very confusing.... isn't that what they tell us to do in order to LOSE weight... but she needed to GAIN a stone? The female life coach had a right go at this girl for having a boozey night out with her friends while she was on holiday. Ah well - you can't help but wonder if all these so called 'experts' and celebrity doctors live their lives in the way they tell other people to. :(

Naughty naughty Sarah Ann - thinking of food -blancmange to be precise - even as she slides in the mud!!!

:rofl:

Yeah skinny people need to eat healthily too :yes: They just need more healthy calories to put on a stone! So everyone really should be eating like :angel: and they'll be healthy :D

I just got woken up by a telephone sales :censored: :tired: He asked for "Mr Smith" oh yeah! So I told him he had the wrong number, then just after I'd got back into bed he rang again, but I let the answer phone get it. He was a grade A idiot! :rollpin:

*sigh* I need more sleep :tired: I suppose I'll crawl back to bed in a bit!

I was listening to Paul McKenna's stop smoking cd last night even though I don't smoke :p I needed a change from the weight loss one.

Careful, Veggie, you never know - it might make you start smoking! ;)

DH has got the one to make you sleep which has worked for him and - going by the orders thing on Play.com - I think he has bought me the Change Your Life In 7 Days one for me or an anniversary pressie. :( Bless him - he knew I wanted the 'latest' PM one but I think he's got me the wrong one. I wonder what will happen if I listen to it (bearing in mind that I'm very happy with my life as it is)!!

Frus - I hope you're feeling better. I used to ask those telesales people to give me their home number and I'll call them back when its inconvenient for them, like 2.30 in the morning. They used to hang up on me! There is a website where you can register to have your name taken off their calling lists at tpsonline.org.uk/tps/ After you've registered it takes about two weeks to kick in but it has worked like a charm for us - no more sales calls just as we are about to sit down to dinner. :joker:

Hi all, what a day. I got to work at 8am, I don't start until 10, I went up to my "safe office" and guess what, new carpet. Sigh. So I found the manager on duty and read the riot act. Went to the gym and lifted weights (could have done with the punching bag!) and then went back to the office.

They found me a safe desk for a day, and have found me a permanent place in an office which will not be carpeted, and that will be available for 4 weeks, in the mean time they are going to power hoover and try and sort the carpets out.

And they'll pay me two hours overtime for coming in early and being proactive!

I joined the telephone preference service, it only took a couple of days, I have a link at work that our telemarketers use, and i can check if it works. I used to get really annoying calls on a Sunday, hate that!

nearly home time, haven't been able to jump on the internet today, too much going on!

I'm on TPS too, I have a right go at people if they call me.

Interesting developments at work. I seem to have been promoted slightly. :) Unfortunately it's the kind of promotion with more work, no change in job title and no pay rise til pay review in May :(

Basically at the moment there are three of us and I'm the most junior. The bloke in the middle (the bosses husband) is leaving, and they're recruiting below me. I'm going to be second in charge and groomed for associate (which is more of a badge of approval bestowed by the firm than a reflection of the work you actually do), and I get to have control of my own files with the boss just having overall strategic supervision - at the moment my work is still checked fairly carefully by the bloke who's leaving. But associate appointments are only done once a year, as are pay reviews, so there will be no change on those fronts until then. Overall it should be good though, the department will be a better place to work without a married couple in charge, and more responsibility and independence has to be a good thing.

Your work developments sound promising, hopefully you get rewarded in May! My pay review has been decided, but they haven't told me what my increase is, so it will be a surprise for April! The end of February is bonus month, so that will be interesting.

I was in bed by 9pm last night, the return of the asthma knocked the stuffing out of me. But am up early and ready to try out my shiny new gym!!! How exciting!!!!

:wave: Howdy!

Lucky YP and Kykaree getting pay rises! :D

I'm WITH the tps... that's the most annoying thing! :tantrum:

Feeling slightly better today, but still a bit blonde! (just spent 10 minutes trying to sort out some measuerments :spin: )

Morning everyone! Well done on the pay rises - the drinks are on you then! I'll have a red wine. :cheers:

I'm just listening to DH disassembling the bathroom. Great. He only gets one day off a week and he has to take out the shower before the plumber starts work next Monday - so instead of having a nice day out I'm looking at a building site. (I wish he'd told me yesterday that he was planning to do this - before I'd polished and hoovered up here!) :crazy: I am really looking forward to getting the new bathroom suite in, the current one is a weird 80s sort of pale coffee colour and the shower blew up on Christmas Eve (its taken this long to find a plumber who has got any free time to do the work). :(

Must be something in the air - I was in bed by 9pm last night. I slept through until 6.30am when the alarm went off and I STILL feel tired. It was a struggle to motivate myself to walk the dogs this morning.

Wow! I just worked added up my miles for the last week and the total was..... 58.5 - no wonder I'm feeling tired, I don't think I've lost any weight though but I'll wait until the ritual weigh-in on Saturday to find out for sure. :(

I've been to my sparkly new gym. It's very good, lots of space, and of course all the equipment is new. I tried a few new things, like a stair climber that looks like an escalator! And a groovy thing that looks like a cross trainer but your legs go sideways, like skiing, it's called a Cardio Wave. And I tried the Power Plate, a thing that vibrates, and you can do various moves on it, it's very cool. And there are fit balls, millions of em, and a huge area to use them on. Boy I had fun.

And I swum and had a spa and a quick blast in the steam room. I love it!!!

And there were fat people there, and thin people, and everyone in between. I'm glad I've made the switch.

Oh the Power Plate... Oh I wanna try :tantrum:

My Mother's had her diary out! I weighed 12 stone 4lbs on my 12th birthday!!!! So I haven't been this light since I was 11 years old! :?:

Come to Manchester for a visit and I'll take you with me!! It's very strange, and makes you talk funny. I did squats, bicep curls and lunges on it. It'll be interesting to see if it makes a difference. Something has to, I don't seem to be losing weight, yet again, no idea what's going on!?!?!?!

I have no idea what I weighed at any given age, except 90 kilos when I got engaged when I was 21, which is what I weigh now.

Fancy being lighter now that you were at 12, that's just weird!!!

Wow that gym sounds fantastic, Kykaree! I live in the sticks and the nearest gym is a tiny one - all new and well equipped - about 8 miles from here. I see it when I go swimming as it's in the same building and what puts me off is it really does seem to be populated by stick insects and 17 year olds... I have had a 3 month pass to the pool twice last year and it included free gym membership too, but I never did the induction because the thought of all those twig people put me off! I wish someone could talk me into going there as it's daft that I don't - literally wouldn't cost me any more than I'm already paying, to swim!

I think it's the thought of the induction, too, as the only people who seem to work there are about 12 - I've got pants older than most of them! I think someone should start a chain of gyms specifically for fatter/older people where folk like me wouldn't feel so intimidated!

Well done on the promotions, everyone.

2frus - that's actually such a cool thing, to weigh less than when you were 12! I never weighed myself my entire childhood/adolescence/20s, except for once when I would have been about 18 - I was six and a half stone! (Not down to any conscious keep-fit regime, just a stepmother who starved me. Not a diet I'd recommend!) And when I was 19 at university, I know I weighed around 9 stone - but as one of my best mates had had anorexia and at that time bulimia, scales were banned from our house!

And Sarah, I bet you have definitely lost something on weigh-in day this week, after all that walking!

TELL ME ABOUT IT! :rofl:

I've got her to check what I weighed at 11... I'm waiting for the results! :lol:

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Yeah I suppose it is cool as well, but still plain FREAKY!

Sarah, even if the :devil: scales are nasty you KNOW you've been good and increasing your health (and your dogs') with all that walking!

UPDATE - I weighed 10 stone 6 when I was 11... quite a way to go then, another stone and a bit!

Ky, Oh that gym sounds WONDERFUL! Somewhere like that within walking distance might even persuade me to make a fool of myself in public. (I get so hot and red.)

Frus, That is REALLY nice.... in a strange kind of way!

PhatPhoenix, Yup - I feel EXACTLY the same. I did get inducted (or is it induced) at the teeny tiny gym at my local swimming pool but it was full of very sweaty muscle popping men all about half my age!

I was a stick insect right up until I was 18, I was 5ft 6 never went over 8 st. It was easy because Mum was such a dreadful cook and she wouldn't let me even try.

After a huge row I left home at 18 and found out that I loved cooking but, better still, I loved eating. I went up to 12 st but most of it slid off on its own after I got engaged and went to live back home to save up to get married. A year later, when I was 20, just a couple of months before my wedding, my older brother told me I was looking 'fat' (at 9st 8!) and so I panicked and went to my first diet class who told me the only way to lose that weight in time for my wedding was to eat 800 cals/day. :mad: That was it - I've been dieting pretty much ever since.

:doh: Sarah - you know what to do. DON'T DIET! :hug:

I have to - nowadays if I don't maintain some kind of control over what I eat I just get bigger and bigger. I tried the 'no diet' approach (you know, the body is self correcting so if you eat what you like but only eat when you're hungray and then eat it slowly then you will lose weight) and I gained 2lbs a week. :(

No it's still not a "diet" it's a way of life... healthy eating for THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!

Yes, but unless I shift some of this weight then the rest of my life is likely to be very short. Heart problems run in my family - at 50 I'm the only female in the last 3 generations of my Mum's side of the family not to have had a stroke or heart attack by this age - and its almost as bad on my father's side with nearly all of then not living beyond 60. I only really found this out when I did a family tree and noticed that everyone seems to die young.

I totally and completely agree that I have to live healthily for the rest of my life - but with a short term goal of losing a lot of weight.

The Low GI plan you follow now, that's more of a "lifestyle change" than a girly girl diet...... I think you and frus are talking the same language, just a different accent (I get that a lot!!! LOL)

On the new gym, the lighting is really soft, so no one can tell if you're red and sweaty!!! I sweat buckets!!!

I've been for a nice walk into our village, and decided to go to the library to pick up a book on weight training, but the library is now tiny and has NO NON FICTION!!! Can you believe that??????? They are building a new library which will be ready by the end of February, which February precisely that is, no one is saying. It is still a pile of rubble and mess on the footpath!

Sarah we are singing from the same hymn sheet :yes: I started out at 226, so I know where you're coming from (I think I will fill in my user CP thingy).

NO NON-FICTION :yikes: I recommend Anita Bean's Strength Training book :yes: I've just bought it for mummy's birthday! :D

Oooh cat - I figured out the duplicate post!!! Do you double click on the "Post quick reply button"?? That will do it ;)

:o :mad:

Computer chair back was loose yesterday...

today I sat back on it and I fell halfway to the floor

my sister was laughing, I couldn't get up

now I'm aching oh dear, it was quite funny but painful.