200lbs to go

A miracle has occured, somehow this week I have lost 1lb... a whole lb! yey am well chuffed I have now lost every week since the first week of january! So no pluses in my new shiny brand-spanking book... how chuffed am I?

Only 3lbs to go till I get my stone, so you never know I might even manage it next week!

OMG Buzzcocks has got Phill Jupitus, Moby and Dale Winton on one of the the teams, the next half hour could get really confusing and surreal!
RAH Good to hear from you, I really like the Slimming World plan, especially Mix 2 Max as it seems to be the best of both worlds. I have friends who love to eat lasagne crisps all day, but as a person who doesn't actually like crisps something that like that doesn't really appeal! I have a current love of superfree quiche using peppers mushrooms tomatoes basil eggs and cottage cheese.

MargaretI'd love to know what yr go to food is, my main one is oat and raisin cookies, but I'm rather good at resisting, mainly as either can't be bothered to go to the shops or wash up after making them. Tomorrow I'm going to Creepy Crawlies with my 2 year old, really not looking forward to going down the giant bumpy slide it's highter than my house... scary but he loves it, may be able to coax my friends hubby into going down with him, but soft play should wear him out nicely after a week of lifting him down from high places and stopping him eating the fake coal in my gas fire! It's been a fun week!
Pedometer has gone out of the window for the week, so will start again tomorrow.
 
It's been a bad food week, a really bad food week, either I'm not eating or all I'm eating is junk... so not good, hopefully I can put a lid on it soon, but I'm putting it all down to nerves, as I am due to have an operation this weekend to repair my stomach muscles, really not looking forward to it, as it means I'm going to have to do nothing at all for at least a week, and hubby isn't really good at letting me be still, and I hate all the not knowing and being out of control, I can't drive myself there or back so have to rely on others to do that for me as my hubby can't drive either!

Eek
 
Hi Tabitha

I am sorry that you are having a bad food week. We all have those. Just dont say - "well that is the diet finished". An operation any day would spook any of us - so do not be surprised - just understand yourself for reacting to a stressful event. It sounds like it is going to be a very difficult time for you - and I am sorry about that.

Well done on the pound loss on your previous posting. I am not sure what you mean by "go to food". Is it the food that I am most likely to eat in a moment of weakness? - then it would definitely be chocolate spread. I can eat it by the spoonful / jarful. Pre-diet I would sometimes have a meal of pancakes and coat them with it. Nowadays I try to nibble cereal and probably go through the south-easts supplies of honey shreddies and raisins without much help from other inhabitants of the region. Once I start to binge I can eat literally anything and everything. It does not need to be something that I like or in date or anything. I just get an idea to eat ....whatever..... into my head and from that point it is irresistable.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Oh, I hate bad food weeks!

You're probably right about the nerves, though...

I wonder if maybe you could find another way to calm yourself?
 
Hi Tabitha

Just calling in to say that I hope that your operation has gone well.

It will be a tough time - so forgive yourself for any food indulgences.

Take care:grouphug:
Love
Margaret
 
Tabitha said:
It's been a bad food week, a really bad food week, either I'm not eating or all I'm eating is junk... so not good, hopefully I can put a lid on it soon, but I'm putting it all down to nerves, as I am due to have an operation this weekend to repair my stomach muscles, really not looking forward to it, as it means I'm going to have to do nothing at all for at least a week, and hubby isn't really good at letting me be still, and I hate all the not knowing and being out of control, I can't drive myself there or back so have to rely on others to do that for me as my hubby can't drive either!
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We all have weeks like that the key is to wipe it from your mind and start a fresh. Nervous eating is totally understandable going in for an op is a scary thing
You will have to make hubby understand that you cant do things like you normally so the op will be a huge success
The being out of control will only be for a short while

I hope everything went well and your relaxing doing not a lot

Sarah
 
I've had the op done. I even managed to come home on the same day, every one else on the ward was admitted! I think I kinda suprised everyone by not having any major complications (apart from fainting when my blood pressure dropped too low just before going home!)

Now I'm just sore... with a smily scar! and for the first time in 2 years and inny belly button!
 
Hi Tabitha

I am pleased that the op went well. The soreness and the scar are only to be expected. It is really great that obviously your op went the best out of the batch. We big girls can surprise these people at times. We can be healthier than they think. The big thing now is to take it easy and recover.

Make sure that your hubby understands that you cannot risk your health so there are things that if he doesnt do them they will not get done. Stick to it!

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Hey there, nearly another week down and it is finally getting less painfull to sit at the pc... it's only 3 weeks till I go back to work, which in a strange way I'm starting to look forward to.

Having food issues though, for love nor money can I stick to anything... but as of thursday I will have to get some will power back as I'll be back to weighing in... I have no clue what I weigh at the moment as my scales are the least reliable scales in the world and you can gain or lose 14lb in about 2 seconds, which isn't good.

Hope you all are well speak to you later
 
Hi Tabitha

I am fine thanks.

I am pleased that your recovery is going well. I am not surprised that part of you is looking forward to getting back to work. Many of us get positive self esteem from going to work and feeling that we have done a good job. Also there is a lot of social interaction that you get if you go to work that does not happen so much at home.

Food issues are something that we are all familiar with. Your brain has to be in the right place to make real progress. Your scales sound an absolute nightmare. I would be treating myself to a new set of bathroom scales if I were you. Mine can vary by a fifth of a pound - so I get onto the scales several times. I take the first number to come up 3 times. I always make sure that I have it on the same point on the bathroom floor. I do know that they often dont work very well on carpet.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
I'm back, fingers crossed that I can now return to participating in the board on a more regular basis. Although I'm not allowed to exercise for another 4 weeks, which is starting to niggle, but a week tomorrow and I will be back in the office! Oh joy I get to read what happens in Coronation St in 5 different ways! How much fun will that be :p

I started back on the Slimming World plan on Friday, so far sooo good I even had enough sins left over yesterday to eat a peanut butter kit kat chunky mmmm, probably would have enjoyed it more if I could have tasted it! But the thought was there and after burger and chips it didn't feel like a diet yesterday. Lunch today will be some trout and salad, not sure what tea will be yet, but it'll probably be pasta based!

Considering how much tat I ate when I wasn't allowed to do cooking and looking after myself I only put on 3lb, so hopefully I can lose that this week, but I hereby promise not to beat myself up too much if I don't!

Tab x
 
Hi

Work in 1 week i bet you cant wait, i know sitting round drives me insane daytime tv is not good!

Good for you getting back on the plan, and 3lb is do-able but great attidute not to beat yourself up if you dont make it i think i need some of that!

Have a good week
Sarah
 
So this time next week I will be sat in my office waiting for the newest tv listings to plip plop and drip feed into my email, so I can put it in a tv magazine for a national newspaper... ooh eck I've got to get organised... argh! What a quandry and on a different level ooh ice pops completely forgot how fab they are... I have a mega huge cough and the moment so I have raided my sons stash... like he's aware they are there! hahahahahahahaha!

The 11hr friday is going to be a killer!
 
ooh have spotted a pair of scales that weigh up to 24st for only £20 so I think when I hit the magic 23st something I will be getting a new set of scales!
 
Only 4 and a half hours now to weigh in, getting a bit nervous, as I know that I have been good, but I have no idea of how I have done, as often the weeks I've lost most I've eaten nothing but junk... so we'll see!

So lets dig out the weigh in clothes and the light knick knack noos!
 
Woo hoo! I lost 3 and a half pounds. Fandabidozy, I now weigh the lightest that I have this year... weigh hey.

Hopefully I can keep this up, have got a night out coming up and would like to have shifted more weight by then, the last set of photies made me look a real heffer!
 
Hi Tabitha

Congratulations on the weight loss. :hurray: You lost the 3 pounds that you set as a target and an extra half a pound for fun. It is great that you have got to a new low. Well done! :party:

A new set of scales sounds a really good idea. We got ours last Spring from scales express and they delivered 2 days later


They were pretty expensive as they cost turned £48 - but we wanted something that could weigh hubby and they go up to 32 stone.

I loved your description of having some special clothes just for weighing. I must admit that I wear pretty much identical clothing (T shirt, Tesco yoga pants) every day so there really is no difference in what I am wearing from one day to the next.

I hope that things go well when you are back at work.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Thanks for stopping by Margaret,

I'm glad that I've hit a new low, but I'm currently slightly narked that it could have been so much better if I'd got my a into g last year, I would have loved to have gone back to work several stone lighter and looking totally different, but again it wasn't to be, I originally set the target of being in size 22/24 but instead my first day back gets to be in size 28/30 trousers... so I'm ratty with myself.

My current scales weigh upto 27st but are totally unreliable, they have a lifetime guarantee on them that I have yet to figure out there is bound to be a catch.

Tab x
 
:cuss:

grr and rah and argh, today it is official I feel like I've had enough, have been giving loads of support to a friend who last week fell out of target, she was really narked, so I offered to txt her every morning to keep her head in gear to help her get back to target this week. Today she txts back saying that she couldn't stay this strict, but she isn't being strict she's just sticking to the SW plan for the first time in months, and the only reason she fell out of target was that she was eating nothing but crap for months and going out drinking, like her I have 2 kids I'm not an angel, far from it, but how can she expect to get to and stay in target without some sort of sacrifice? In my case eating everytime I go in the kitchen!

Rah! It has just made me feel hopeless and like I am never going to lose all my weight especially as I am only 11lb lighter than I was 8 months ago and now I have to fit extra stress in by going to work too, and thats when the chocolate maching will start calling!

Tab
 
Hi Tabitha

If there was a healthy way of losing weight quickly with no sacrifice and effort - we would all be doing it. I often think that my hubby is looking for that sacrifice free method - and I suspect that is central to why his weight is maybe two pounds less than it was this time last year. Yes - not gaining is an achievement - but I certainly wish that his weight was less as I worry about him.

In my opinion - the bottom line is that you have your own problems to deal with. If friends are not willing to commit to dealing with their problems - dont divert your efforts too much from the main job in hand - dealing with your own problems. In past weight loss projects - my hubby and I did things as a team - but then if one of us abandoned the project we both did. This is something to be wary of if working on a project too closely with another person. Do not let her problems become your problems.

We would all like to lose weight quicker. We just get impatient. The thing is that things get in the way. For instance - it would be unreasonable to think that you would continue losing weight in the run up to, while you had and were recovering from your recent operation.

I would look into that guarantee on your scales. It would be great if you could get them replaced by some scales that actually work.

I hope that things look brighter soon for you.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
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