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Hi Manda

Things are going well here thanks.

Congratulations on your weight loss. I know that you will be delighted. It is so nice when you find something that works.

It is also brilliant that your hernia appears to be in an improved state.

Do not think for one moment that I was suggesting that you walk at anything like the levels that I do! I have the time to do this, am very motivated by the project, and really want to lose weight. I have a medical condition - an extreme case of PCOS - which means that I put on weight incredibly easily and find it particularly difficult to lose weight. There are other far worse aspects to PCOS too than morbid obesity - but these are improved by weight loss if only you can manage it. Natalie Jo - also on these forums - is another lady with this condition.

Diet / exercise levels which may well allow a "normal" person to lose weight will put weight on for me.

I do not think that a "normal" person should try to follow my diet / exercise level.

When I suggested that you may benefit from going for a walk - I spoke in normal terms - I do not for one second suggest that you cover my sort of distances. In order to drive the weight off I have had to build up my distance to the stepcount of an athlete. I plateau very easily and kept on increasing my distance as a means of stopping the plateau - being simply grateful at finding a means to force a strict diet to give me weight loss.

I hope that your Sunday is going well.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
OK Margaret,

but I was just musing really about the possibilities really - I always do that when confronted by someone successfully achieving what I want, I look at what their doing, and apply it to me. I wasn't feeling pressures or anything, if that what you thought.

I am not doing so well at gauging my hunger levels this week. It's half term, so I have distractions about like children, and additional duties and responsibilities. I have had to continue working, with my main childcarer on holiday and no offer of help from DH (he helped out so much in the summer holidays I dare not ask him either). I have had to negotiate, and work around the kids, and have felt pressured. Somehow this has affected my ability to "see" my hunger level as clearly as I was before. I ask myself if I'm hungry, and get static back often as not. My clothes still feel loose, so I do not think I have regained, and I am counting that as a success! I hope that working on getting a tighter link between hunger and eating will mean I am less affected by this kind of problem.

Manda
 
Hi Manda

I just didnt want you to think that I was saying that you should do exactly what I do.

I find it quite difficult to qauge hunger levels. Sometimes after I eat my weetabix I could happily eat another bowl of them. I find that if I distract myself I am often quite happy without anything more for quite a while.

It certainly is difficult for you - when you have to look after your children when school holidays occur. It gives you a new top priority task and pushes the normal set down a rung.

Your clothes will give a good indication - and it is good that they are no tighter.

I am sure that when your children go back to school - things will get back to normal.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Tonight I got the munchies and it's nothing to do with hunger - I feel a bit under the weather- head foggy, throat mucky, coughing occassionally, and I want to cheer myself up. DH & DD were passing minstrels round, so I used an old trick, and picked out the "broken" ones. 'Cos those broken bits of chocolate, they don't count do they? No calories in them.

I suppose it could have been worse, but the exhilirating days of last week, when everything was going so well, and I felt that I was losing weight, they seem so long ago!

Manda
 
Hi Manda

The big thing is not to say - I slipped up so I have ruined the day / week / diet. I have been there and done that so many times it is silly. All that you have done is slipped up.

You were not feeling well and were human...

See if you can sort out why you were not feeling well - no-one is at their best then. Are there vitamins / supplements that you should be taking both for that and generally.

I take a multivitamin, omega 3, garlic oil. Also starflower oil for my skin as I am asking it to cope with a lot. At the first sign of sniffles we take echinacea for a couple of weeks.

If we have sniffles or worse - hot orange or lemon drinks and paracetemol help. Honey is a natural mild antibiotic - so you can put a spoon of that in the hot drink.

A few broken sweets on an evening when you are not feeling well do not get you fat and will not keep you fat - losing the focus that you will deal with the problem is what does that. I am sure that as soon as you are feeling a bit better you will regain the focus and be back solving the problem.

I hope that you are feeling your normal self soon - and am sure that you will be losing weight again then.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
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