Shine on you crazy dieters 2 - OVER HERE!!! - JOIN US...

[flamingobingo]

Following on from this thread

and how are you doing TMW?

I started to laugh then had to rein it in when I saw she had that "not amused" look on her face . It would be

"Malcolm, Malcolm, MALCOLM, you've gotta do something"..

Dad.. "well what do you want me to do?"

Mum... "just something, but do it"

Dad tries in vain to help...to be told he ain't doing it right.. god help him.

I lurve the caramel snack a jacks...

Sazzles - forgot to say...your DD is doing fantastically.

And well done you for sticking with it - obviously the right choice

bella, i am still taking small steps. If I think too hard it is a bit crap really.

I am lucky that I have this spark of something that keeps fighting and fighting and believing that ''this too will pass''. And it doesn't go out, it just gets dimn from time to time. I am tired and try to look to a point in life when it will have passed, but I can't see it being for quite some time.

But I try to remind myself that if I keep breathing the air and walking the earth, and believing, it will get me through. And try to look at the simplest things in life, like my beautiful DD sleeping, or the precious times when DS and I laugh together, or seeing some thing that makes me smile, and hold them close to my heart.

Thank-you for asking. If I could take that litle spark and break it into a million pieces, I would give a piece to anyone who suffers from any level of depression because it is like a cancer of the mind and emotions, and it makes things that are already hard in life, 100 x harder.

People like yourselves are one of the things that keep me keeping on, so thanks...

I crave the flavouring... don't actually need the crisps/rice cakes - a friend has suggested trying the potato wedges flavouring - I undertstand that there is a sour cream and chive version that I really like in the crisps... Mind you, this is from someone who was eating marmite from a teaspoon yesterday....

oh bless you.. you are sooo welcome

this is one of my current anthems

TMW I can so relate to what your saying. The fear of leaving my children motherless is the only thing that has brought me back from the brink sometimes.

Popping back on for a quick fix in between chunks of work. My reading pile is about as high as my bed . Two huge meetings tomorrow and I have got to think of some clever and interesting things to say... I ought to stop and cook myself something but am too scared I won't get everything done.

I'm fine thinks Shiney - nice to hear from you. Do email tomorrow, it will be nice. Have two marathon meetings morning and afternoon but it will be nice to see a non worky email waiting for me

I want to throw a big blanket of love over TMW and Fab....a special seaweed wrap type one that will take off 5 inches all over than will never come back

Flamingo - have not seen your AIBU but I now officially love everyone on their thread regardless of anything they ever post anywhere else even if it normally the kind of thing that brings out my most hoity toity posting 'tood

Will post again afore the night is over.

Snogs, Syc.

and they are a nice pair..... I have seen

Type in haste, look like an illiterate arse at leisure.

Am sure you can all decipher my post somehow

Let's think of a new thread title.

Doesn't necessarily have to be funny, but a new title will feel like a new start, clean slate etc.

A good thing for dieters

at Syc.

Yes please to seeing BoF's tits. Although I'm sure they're not as fab as mine!

Ooh, I like that Sazzles - I vote for that one!

Sounds ok to me Sazzles

Big 'normous loves to FBG and TMW. I've been there too, when it's like a mist over everything, and the tiniest things just seem soooooooo hard. Like everything's heavy and slow and painful, even just getting dressed sometimes.

It's the chemicals in your head, nothing more. Yes, they make you feel like this, but it's all just a soup of chemicals. You will get better. But goodness, it is hard when it's entwined with food too.

Well done to you both for hanging in there and trying to find positivity. I so admire you both for dealing with this stuff and kids.

Hope the work inspiration comes easily Syc. I hate those late Sunday nights, they feel kind of lonely and reminiscent of school. Power through your stack though, skim read, grab some soundbites and wow them tomorrow! Or just nod and smile lots

Now, how about Shiny's Slightly Slimmer Sirens?

x posts Sazzles, I agree with the "slimmer" sentiments!

I like that one too FM - do we need to save it for thread number 4?

Evening all

Everyone is doing marvellously well! Such restraint!

Totally agree with Flamingo & Sazzles - even in the short time (how many weeks, now?) we've been doing this, it's made an enormous difference. I feel fuller more quickly, my clothes are looser and I don't feel so sluggish after a meal. Well, I did after yesterday's chinese, but that is good because it felt horrible and it's just not worth it! Lord Ford has also adjusted the way I see food. I used to have a vague idea that all meals weren't equal, but now it is painfully clear.

Hold on in there TMW and Fab. Thinking of you.