Put that down, fatty! (For the last time!!)

Hi Cate :) I'm still here! Just got back from my parents and it's all been very busy!

Hope everyone had a great Christmas--I went home and did SO well with the booze--Had two glasses on Christmas eve and then drank fizzy water out of a wine glass for the rest of the evening and then on Christmas Day I only had a small baileys, and a few glasses of wine. It was brilliant! I got a lovely new swimming costume which is suppppper gorgeous and a little bit sexy (oo-eer!!) and I've brought myself an underwater radio MP3 player with some money I got. So I'm all set! I'm also doing the Dryathalon for Cancer research in January so literally NO booze from 1st January for the whole month. I'm going to swim 4 times a week, no booze and clean eating and this will be MY YEAR!

Lots of love to you all--will check diaries now :) Missed my WLF chums whilst I was eating too much Christmas Pud and watching old reruns of Dads Army ;)
 
Awesome job limiting the wine! Moderation is sooooo hard, I'm so impressed that you were able to do it!!
 
Thanks lovely people :D

I'm at the tail end of a 24 hour shift right now--Was supposed to sleep last night but kids very bad so only got two hours. Needless to say I wont be making it to the pool. Am gutted as really wanted to go but am just absolutely exhausted and need to get some sleep.

Will post my food later!
 
Hullo! Have announced NY Resolutions to the world so thought I would share with my WLF Family:

New Years Resolution: more Brigitte Bardot, less Bridget Jones. Must stop doing Bridget type things like wearing two day old make - up, giant pants and forcing myself to swim for 30 mins more than I wanted to because a nice looking chappy (Probably, was wearing very sexual goggles) gets in the pool and I'm too embarrassed to get out, exposing wobbly Bridget type bits to svelte swimming man. Will also stop mid week wine guzzling, secret cheese eating and watching endless reruns of Peep Show instead of focusing on being sophisticated, cultured being.

So there we have it! Am very excited to start a new year and get some serious work done! I just got back from an hour at the pool in new glamorous swimsuit and am gonna have lunch now and watch some TV. Today is my only day off this week so going to enjoy it :) I changed my shifts around at work so I am now working tomorrow night--bit of a shame but don't trust myself to not go a bit "mad" on the last night of drinking which isn't what I want to do so removing the temptation :)
 
Very clever & very funny girl! Love it! "More Brigitte Bardot & less Bridget Jones." Very funny! :smilielol5: xoxo Cate
 
Hahaha funny post. Love it. Have a happy new year!

Ps- I have no idea how you can do 24hr shifts, I would stop functioning completely around the 16hr mark I think. I cannot stay up for the life of me, what a nanna!
 
Hiiiii everyone ^_^

Had a brilliant "1st" day yesterday. Calories came in at 1450, no booze, no hangover, noooo problem! (For now!!)

Today I started work at 6am -- We have a trafficked child just come into the children's home so it's all a bit manic. Got a meeting at the bank (gulp!!) after work and then meeting Yank and going to the pool for a workout :)

Todays foooood

Breakfast: toast x 2 (250)
Lunch: crackers and marmite, fresh veg (340)
Dinner:
 
Isn't it weird to not be hungover on days where you are 'supposed' to be?? Choosing to work was a great idea.
 
I was not hungover on the 1st either. Crap, I'm a terrible liar, I had a truly awful hangover yesterday. My headache had it's own headache.

Good job on the calories!
 
Oaks--it's very strange! Very nice as well too though ;)

Mr Vee--I hope you had a great night! I don't think I had quite as much fun without the booze..social situations still not very fun for me without my old friend!

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It's been a good few days. Have swum with Yank on Friday and then took two girlfriends with me today and we stayed and had a salad at the health club afterwards as well. It's 4pm and I've walked my 10,000 steps already for the day as well as a swim so going to do some laundry and chill out! Am going again tomorrow as well, hoping to weigh in on Friday as haven't been eating great since Christmas so need to rein that back in before I risk the scales!
 
Sunflower said:
I don't think I had quite as much fun without the booze..social situations still not very fun for me without my old friend!
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This will change for you Hana. "Partys" where people are just sitting around getting shitfaced still won't be much fun, but there really isn't any reason to be there if you aren't getting shitfaced. Actual parties were people are being social and enjoying themselves will become much more enjoyable. Seriously. I wouldn't have believed it either.

I was a fun drunk, but even so sometimes when I thought I was being clever and/or hilarious I was being obnoxious. You'll find that instant when you realize you are laughing a little with and a lot at a drunk person and realize that that was you sometimes. At first it was odd, but you will figure out that you can loosen up because it's a party and not because you got some booze in you. I had a great time at the New Year's Eve party, did zero regrettable things, and didn't start the new year feeling like death. It will happen, but it will take a little while. Great job so far!
 
When I was first starting to question my drinking habits last month I was reading stories about people who had stopped drinking, and a few key thoughts of theirs have stuck with me. One of the guys said he "used to be the fun and crazy drunk guy" but now he's "the fun and crazy sober guy." He said it took a while for the anxiety to go away while in social settings, but once it did he realized fun and drunk didn't have to go hand-in-hand. So stick with it! It's worth it.
 
Bumping you back to the front page where you belong Han(there has been a weird attack on the forum) xo
 
Q & Oaks, thanks for your words of wisdom, I think it'll take a little time to get my head around it all but am already slipping into the routine of not drinking. It's like smoking, I guess. If you're used to doing something all the time then it's going to feel weird when you stop. Don't know if it's the actual alcohol I'm missing or the comfort of the routine of drinking. *shrug* either way, I'm still going so it's all good!

Thanks for bumping me back up Cate!

I'm posting on here to prevent me from eating EVERYTHING in my fridge. Have woken up horribly hungry. I think it's all the shite I've been eating recently, my body is now demanding junk!! So I must feed it with nummy healthy stuff. :willy_nilly:

I've weighed in at 218 today. Dissapointed, obviously. But know that with all the swimming I am doing and the exercising in between swim sessions that it's a diet thing now, not a lack of exercise thing! So I'll be keeping a much closer eye on my calories from today.

Logging food is really, really vital for me and even though I struggle to get on here enough to do I think part of it is just because I don't want to admit what I've had! Sooooo here it goes for today, I guess. I'm working a late today and we've had ANOTHER new admission so it's likely to be very hectic, lots of assaults and probably staying late this evening. I'm not going to have much time to eat so taking some 500 calorie rice and veg dish that I made up yesterday so calories should be good today.. We shall see!

Breakfast: crisps.. Yes.. really. (114)
Lunch: nothing
Dinner: 1 cup pasta, olives, mixed veggies, onion, peas and cheeeeeese (570)
Snacks:1 biscuit, 1 waffle off the kids plates anddd a low fat yog (340)

Total:1024

No swimming today--Am going tomorrow after work though.
 
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