Byebye Big Bum!

*faints at the thought*

Stop winding them all up!

Erm. I was just looking at a clothing website (ASOS) and clicked on the size guide and it says a US 16 = UK 20, a US 14 = UK18 and a US 12 = UK 16...which is not what I thought...I thought there was just 2 difference...so when all these people have been saying that they fit into US 10 jeans etc... they are not as TINY as I thought for their lb weight (was wondering how on earth I was going to get that tiny) because a US 10 = UK 14...

That makes SO MUCH MORE SENSE!
 
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LOL!! Well, I'm not posting the pics in the thread, but you can say what you think of them in here. Have also explained why I have to be a bit anonymous...hopefully you understand and will help me keep my secret!

hahaha Ecky...thank goodness you didn't tell anyone about the pic of Mr X:leaving:
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LOL Eycky!!!

She probably doesn't want to share him though....
 
Okay so for the public side of things I will have to say... The lovely J is in fact, quite lovely! I can see why the mysterious Mr. X is enjoying his time...

Edit: Thank you for sharing. The pervert from across the pond enjoyed the ogle...
 
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Erm. I was just looking at a clothing website (ASOS) and clicked on the size guide and it says a US 16 = UK 20, a US 14 = UK18 and a US 12 = UK 16...which is not what I thought...I thought there was just 2 difference...so when all these people have been saying that they fit into US 10 jeans etc... they are not as TINY as I thought for their lb weight (was wondering how on earth I was going to get that tiny) because a US 10 = UK 14...

That makes SO MUCH MORE SENSE!
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That makes more sense to me as well as it never quite seemed right when people said their weight and height compared to their clothes size. Woohoo that means I'm a size 10.
 
heh. That photograph is MASSIVE motivation for me - I really feel like I have come a long way and look 10 years younger. I was proud of it going out with my article as opposed to feeling embarissed about how I looked in print..and that is a huge turnaround - I can't remember the last time I was happy with how I looked in a photograph. And I can't help thinking if that's how I look with a couple of stone difference, what am I going to look like in another couple of stone!

Thank you for the lovely comments!

Food yesterday:
cheese and tomato brown bread toasted sandwich - 360 cals
skinny latte - 75 cals
Chicken Pho soup - 330
potato snacks - 97 cals
strawberries - 112 cals
chicken selects, fries and diet coke on the way home from working late - 330 + 385 + 2 = 717 cals
small slice of birthday cake with icing taken off - 120 cals

Total - 1811

Walk at lunch time - only a mile and a half though. Knackered because of this cold.
 
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Thanks Cabbie! I plan to have another one taken when I'm down to the 160s!!

Food yesterday - not so great as I have a stinking cold:
breakfast - toasted bagel with peanut butter - 315 cals
5 cups of tea - 50 cals
6 slices of low fat ham - 126 cals
potato snacks - 97 cals
chicken noodles steam meal - 357 cals
2 sausages, 2 spoons of mash and veg - 620 cals
toasted tea cake - 160 cals

Total - 1725

Walked 1.6 miles

I didn't sleep last night at all and feel very blocked up and coughy...my chest also hurts a bit so I'm worried about getting a chest infection all over again like I did back in Septmber. I really really really want to be well again by the time I go to THE meeting and there's not long to go now. I'd take the day off work but I am meant to be a out at a client's premises all morning and then have SO much to do this afternoon back in the office.

On the positive side, I dont' really feel hungry at all now. And....DA DA DAAAAAAAAAAA, I can't remember the last time I ate chocolate...I think its been about 12 days and I don't want it AT ALL. We had a huge chocolate cake for my daughter's birthday round my parent's house yesterday and I didn't actually want any. Not even some of the white chocolate curls on the top...In fact, I was put off from eating any at all. Interesting....
 
I've got to exactly the same point as you with chocolate. It just doesn't do it for me anymore. My daughter left a chocolate flake for me on my computer one day when I was feeling down and it was ok but not 'orgasmic' like before.
Try and keep warm and not stress yourself too much so that you don't get ill again and pamper yourself a bit this weekend. You can't go to the meeting with Mr X feeling like crap!!!!!
 
Interesting about the chocolate. Maybe I should try going cold turkey for a while and see if it breaks my 'addiction' as well. Would be VERY good for my backside if I could kick that habit to the curb!
 
I could give up chocolate.... But I don't want to :p Although maybe that's the chocolate talking?!
Hope you're not getting ill!! Especially if you're coming to my neck of the woods.. No passing it around missy!! :p
No seriously though, hope it's not a nasty chest infection!!
Have a relaxing weekend and try and get over it before your big meeting!!
 
Interesting about the chocolate. Maybe I should try going cold turkey for a while and see if it breaks my 'addiction' as well. Would be VERY good for my backside if I could kick that habit to the curb!
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Ha that's exactly how I feel. I'm pretty sure it's not healthy the percentage of my daily calories that comes from chocolate. I'm a sucker for it. I kinda only just realised how much I feel like I need chocolate, especially after a meal.

We should start a cold turkey challenge to give up our worst habits!

Anyway, hey Jay!
I hope you're feeling less rotten by today? I wish I could see this pic - I bet you look great - but I totally get the professional issues. Keep up the good work chick!
 
Hey guys!!
I am pleased to report that I am starting to feel better!! Although I am no longer that blocked up or tired, I have completely lost my voice! Thank god this meeting was agreed for next week, not this coming week or I would have been speaking in a very husky whisper!! and not saying much!!

Last time I lost my voice in similar circumstances, I had to call a client and he said that I sounded really sexy!!! So I said that I was comforted that he thought if my current career didn't work out, that there was a place for me on the sexy phone lines and he laughed and said definitely, then I said actually, its costing you more per minute to call me now anyway!! (my hourly rate is much more than £2 per minute sexy chat line rate!!) hahahaha.

So, food yesterday wasn't bad, but wasn't great. I'm not generally THAT hungry but I was boredom snacking as I was mulching around at home working in bed and stuff. I actually had a chocolate mini-roll yesterday (GASP!) and was even more suprised to find that I didn't enjoy it. I am really in a place where I can take chocolate or leave it (weird considering I was ADDICTED just a couple of weeks ago). This has made the daily calorie count so much easier - not having 250 cals from a chocolate bar in there each day!

So, a week to go and I am half a stone lighter, and considerably more toned than the last time I saw X. This I am feeling GOOD about!! For example, I am actually starting to like how slim my waist looks (mostly when I am standing up...still get a little roll when I sit down and relax...but will put on hold me in knickers!) and I don't feel too bad about my ass now either - again, in the right pair of little black trousers it is starting to look quite peachy rather than huge! My other happy place is my jaw line - much more defined as those of you who have seen my corporate photo can attest to! Bye bye double chin!!!

I think being on the border of being a size 14 is a real breakthrough for me. I think of UK 16 as curvy and rolls of fat and bust spilling out of your clothes (but still a relatively "normal size" for women here and shopping...whereas anything above feels like truly fat rather than curvy)...and size 14 feels so much more closer to size 12 and slimmer with a bit of curviness around the bust and hips. I think I am going to have real difficulties not buying ALL TEH BEAUTIFUL CLOTHES when I get to a size 14 or a 12. I am already drooling over shoes in womens magazines now that I can wear really high heels whereas before I'd just skip the fashion pages as not really relevant to me.

I have been buying some new work suits on ebay as well - ones from Next where I know the sizing will fit me and I can recognise some of the suits from the catalogue as ones i have owned in bigger sizes or tried on before. Its amazing - I have bought 3 new suits in size 16 jacket and 14 trousers for like £5 each. I tried on my "smartest most flattering" two suits the other day and because the jackets are size 18, they just swamp me now so have to find something to wear for the big meeting. Going shopping with my best work pal tomorrow after work to a HUGE shopping centre to see if we can find something new, otherwise I'll wear one of these new ebay suits - they are in near perfect condition so nothign to be embarrissed about being seen in! I am finding clothes and shoes SO MUCH CHEAPER to find and buy now - mostly because if somethign is my size a) it fits me and b) it looks quite good. Whereas when I was larger, even if something was the right size, it was so hit and miss whether it would be cut right for my shape or even look remotely flattering.

Its a tough clothing call because the big boss is a woman, and her senior guys are men...if I was just dressing for a meeting with men, I'd wear a more low cut top with my suit but because she is the boss, I don't want her thinking I am the kind of woman who gets where she wants by using her assets hahahaha.

Anyhows, off for a country walk in a few mins with my mum and daughter, so guess I'll catch you all later!
 
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Jay - thank you for showing me the pic - you look like a different person! So glamorous looking. I'd pay your hourly rate ;) hahaha

I'd just skip the fashion pages as not really relevant to me.
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I totally used to do this when I was bigger too. I just didn't care about my appearance. I do it now still but that's more because I can't afford anything at the moment haha and I don't need any temptation!

I'm excited about this meeting for you. I can't wait to hear how it goes. So much to plan it seems - right down to where you top begins haha.

Hope you've had a lovely walk x
 
Yay for new clothes shopping ... and enjoying it. When you are fatter its so much harder to go shopping and get any good feelings from it. Its so great when you've lost a bit and the clothes are more comfortable and fit right.

Well done you.
 
Thanks Holly - not too sure I can do corporate glamour!! BUt I'm trying!!

I am getting super excited about this meeting too....its been 4 months..and now i'm going to spend the whole day in his office hahahah. I'll get a big kick out of just seeing where he goes to work each day, and what the room looks like...does that sound strange?

I'm a real one for being able to picture people in certain places...like for example, if I saw a picture of Sunflower in her living room, then whenever I talk to her on the forum or was thinking "oh I hope she is ok because she hasn't been in for a few days" then I would have a mental picture of her in that room in my head....same as when I talk to X on the phone - I can't imagine him at his desk talking to me on the phone because I don't know what it looks like. I guess I'm trying to say that I'm like that in how I visualise all people - not just men I fancy!! Friends, family etc...I feel much more "anchored" in corresponding / talking on the telephone when I can visualise them and their surroundings. Sounds mad I know...Something about how my brain works I guess.

I wish I'd lost more weight in the time - I'm physically 7-10lbs down which seems pretty pathetic for that length of time but size wise...lost more inches than I'd have thought so a good bit of toning going on! But I am feeling GOOOOOOooooood so that's the main thing!

LOL I over-plan EVERYTHING!!! Although, I have a wrap up meeting with him at the end whch he thinks is going to be about a certain topic, but I actually have somethign far more delicate and important to talk to him about - work-related of course....it is going to be F-U-N...and hopefully the start of a very important negotiation. Lets just say...if I can carry it off...then career gold dust for me. Fingers crossed. So that's another reason why I am so over-anxious and planning every little detail and playing over possible ways of saying things in my head...

Had a day of being HUNGRY today - ToM any time now and i always feel like eating non-stop these couple of days before hand. So today I've eaten:
- toasted teacake
- sausage bap
- numerous cups of tea
- packet of squares
- small lemon and sugar pancake (although the french guy on the stall litereally put one tea spoon of sugar and virtually no lemon on it. I was not impressed)
- grilled chicken, pitta bread and fresh tomatos
- 2 spoons of my daughter's spaghetti
- a couple of breadsticks

So just a fair few snack problems really which is normal for this time of the month...Walked nearly 3 miles though. Not enough but with being ill and not wanting to overdo it whilst on the road to recovery...

Right. Off for big shopping tomorrow. Hopefully will find something new and fun to wear.
 
I'm a real one for being able to picture people in certain places...like for example, if I saw a picture of Sunflower in her living room, then whenever I talk to her on the forum or was thinking "oh I hope she is ok because she hasn't been in for a few days" then I would have a mental picture of her in that room in my head....same as when I talk to X on the phone
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I'm the exact same way. I always get disappointed though, because I imagine what places look like and then I see the actual place and I'm like...meh. If that makes sense?! I don't know. But I'm the same way!

P.S. Just for your visuals, here is where I do all my forum posting! In ma room! ;) (see below!)
 
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