The LIGHTer, brighter calorie fighters!!

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The title says it all really!!

I'm Mouse, I eat far too much cheese food and need to lose more than I did last week, all thanks to a long weekend away!

So, if you are looking to lose weight, keep off what you've already lost or just want to talk about general bollocks healthy eating etc, this is the thread for you!

Thicky and Mittz.... I like that... I feel like a cat at the moment.

My 'eart is 'urting .... can someone gizza squeeze please? Or remove it completely? Beneath my cool, calm, sophisticated oh so witty exterior I am en emotional puddle

The film 'Where The wild Things Are is helping DS with his feelings.. it is an outstanding film IMO.

Oh mittz . Are you ok? I love that film. It's so beautiful. Don't hurt heart. We're here. Xxx

Crunch.. . I think it was a bit out of order and I hate drink for that. Because it rips things that can't be unripped. I suppose it is her perogative to say what she said, although it seems very churlish and 'unfriendly' but I well understand why you are upset.

It would be my natural inclination to distance myself from her because I would feel (rightly or wrongly) that I was not in a friendship I could rely on. i don't think what you asked her to do was that extraordinary really, if she was a true friend.

MH issues are tough to manage and yes, those of us that have them do benefit from support but no less so than the people in whose lives we exist....

Yeah/No Crunch long story just bubbles to the surface and I am undone. But thanks, really. Sometimes just saying it is a help, cos otherwise it gets too big in my head.

Mouse.. ouch ouch.... you deserve a break on so many levels lady.. brave and courageous Mouse xx

SaF.... There is a you shaped hole in this thread, feel free to fill it anytime you are ready, but you are ever present even in your absence xx

Mittz, thank you. I think part of it may be that in the past she and I always shared our cyclic depression and supported each other. Maybe it's just that now h is down she feels she has more in common with him. Mh issues are so unfair. I still remember feeling so desperate. I was driving down a road the other day, one I hadn't for a long time, and could remember clearly planning to jump out of the car. Now it makes no sense, but then? It was all I could think of.

It turns logic upside down. Lovely people think they're horrible and useless, and it doesn't matter how much the rest of the world can see just how valuable they are it's impossible to get through that fog.

I now have one mantra for when I'm low "make no decisions that cant be undone", and my other one "I'd you don't want to tell friends what you're planning it's probably because it's a bad idea"

But then that's probably true of me most of the time :)

The strongest thing to do in despair is to reach out, but again the illness makes it seem like a weakness :(

Saf, hope you're ok too, and tc and everyone in a dark moment.

Damn you Brian! You just made me cry!

thank you :)

i'm sorry poppet i know exactly ow you feel and you have every right to feel that way, don't let anyone tell you you dont.

where's the old haggard one today????? HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY FAVOURITE EVER OIRISH PERSONAGE

It looks like ms primey went for the school run and just kept running :o

Hopefully she's hiding behind an enormous cake somewhere and will leap out at an opportune moment.

Just had a quick scroll up and where's SAF??

SAF - Are you ok? Drop me a line if you want me.

Went to a manmade beach in Coventry yesterday, bloody hilarious, great fun with a lake and swan pedalos (sp?!) and fake rocks.

Will go catch up but Ive got some random person putting their fingers up my bits at 2pm to check for 'VIRGIN FRESHNESS' so I may not be back till I've got over the excitement

''The strongest thing to do in despair is to reach out, but again the illness makes it seem like a weakness ''

yeah, I hear that. So clearly. What you say resonates very much. I have and still, rarely but still, self harm. Can't say the things that my heart and soul are screaming out. Can't vocalise it. I find it easier on here, because weirdly I can write it, but life patterns don't undo over night. Don't need, don't want, don't feel... is crap.

I am generally very empathetic to those that seem in a similar place, especially young'uns.. horrible to grow up with, especially if there is no home support.

Awfully the deeper something is buried the more intensely it grows, where as letting in light through talking, sharing, offloading gently dilutes it.

I have eaten The tail and 1 1/2 legs of my elephant though and am currently trying it with different sauces

Brian, good luck, hope they're as complimentary as last time.

Mittz, I love the elephant analogy. I think I may have only the head left of mine, but that includes those damn fine ears. Mn was one of the first places I was really honest about what I was doing and how I was feeling. I thought I was properly crazy. By that time I was hallucinating almost constantly, couldn't leave the house and was, well, shall I euphemistically say "not being very nice to myself". This place saved me. It really did. That and a lovely hv who took the time to ask me how I was.

It's horrible. I know how my h has been feeling through all of this. I know only too well. Which made it so much harder to put me and the dcs first.

Always remember that reaching out is strength. It's like you're hanging over the edge of the cliff and someone is offering an arm but you'll need to stretch to reach it. It takes strength to reach up.

Oops, essay

Funnily enough Brian.. I have been checking the very same thing for myself far too much.... Has anyone seen my glasses anywhere?

Do ya still love me Brian....Do ya..Do ya?

Oh and then there's thinking that someone has probably far better things and far more deserving people to be reaching their hand out to..

So so glad you are getting there Crunchy (((( ))))) xx

Im not reaching my hand out to you miitz because i think i know where you'll put it

forgot to say, didn't tocc go through something similar to you uno? you're probably friends anyway but if not it might be worth talking to her, im sure it was her whose h was very depressed... actually i get mixed up so ignore me, bitter will know, they're friends i think.

Brian....

Don't know tocc per se, but I'm sure we've posted on each other's threads.

Mittz, you dumbass :) there isn't anyone more worthy! But do watch out for Brian. She'll cop a feel while you're climbing up :o

i told you my mate fancies you didnt i miitz? Alex on fb. A lady unfortunately, unless your tastes run that way. Very pretty girl.

You did Brian

So! Has everyone else got sunshine!

Hello there birthday girl :o. Sounds like a lovely morning!

Right I'm off to spoil ds2 before he gets too grown up (starts school Monday)

See you later x

I'm off to Tesco (again)

Did I tell you that I am back in a size ten (just) for the first time in nearly 3 years?

My lovely DS kindly tells his Dad(who had/has Jealousy isshooes) if I am (in DS's words) 'perved'.

OOhhhh soft hoody.. I do like a nice hoody. My K boxing was is Ace. If I ever get married again, the dress will have a hood on it..