Shineaholics Anonymous: For ladies who try not to lunch (on cold pizza). Join today, see your waist waste away!

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I think this is thread 10. We are an unruly bunch of MNetters trying to shed a lot a little or just some pounds through a variety of methods. Others just trying to eat healthily.

Newcomers most definitely welcome, just be advised the post rate is insane so be sure to check in regularly!

Our hostess Ms Diamond will be along soon I'm sure.

Ella - That diet chef woman annoys the hell out of me. Her voice makes me want to sew up my own ears! I am not a fan of microwaved food so that dietchef thing would be no good for me. I think that living off Lean Cuisine as a student has put me off diet 'meals' for life!

I'm not overweight, but in the last half a year had put on half a stone for no reason, and wanted to get on top of it (and try to eat more healthily) as that's not a good trend to be setting. I've lost most of that half stone now (didn't buy accurate scales til halfway though so not sure precisely) so just hang around for the chat and the reminder not to put it back again.

My boobs have got smaller though

Just noticed I should have put my details on here so, here goes:

I'm 5'7" (well, 5'6" really but I just feel that extra inch sounds better, as it were!). I had DS 5 mths ago and just afterwards weighed 17st 5lb. I joined WW at 16st 13lb and now weigh 14st 5lb - another 3st 7lb to go and I'll be somewhere near what I want to be (although, have to say, am already feeling a lot happier not to be quite the heifer (sp) I was).

Was just muttering to myself about the weightloss cause I think I've done pretty darn well, but quite a few people (jealous ones I reckon) have said to me I've lost the weight cause I'm BF. BOLLOCKS says I - it's been hard work and dedication and I BF DD for 15mths and managed to put on a stone!

Rant over. As the saying goes.. as you were.

Bastardcat - BFing has not caused me to lose weight either and dd is a milk monster. She didn't drop any feeds when she started solids and has only just started slowing down now at nearly 10 months. I only lost weight after ds was born when he stopped bfing. I have friends who eat and eat and eat while bfing and still lose weight, not me! I get annoyed when people assume you must be eating seven cakes a day when you're not losing weight. It doesn't always work like that. Well done on losing 2 and a half stone in 5 months! That's impressive work.

mm - i hate the advert too and the meals look disgusting

mycat - well done so far and no bf didn't make me lose weight either but drained me so much i had to eat and was just white all the time lol seemed to take my nutrition rather than my fat as weird as that sounds. know it works for some but we're obviously not them

in fact food didn't do anything for me full stop - only started losing pregnancy weight when i started doing yoga again and using my body - seemed to kickstart it somehow

Thanks Marthasmama, I'm glad I'm not the only one. After DD I really didn't eat v much at all (PND coupled with complete knackerdness and screaming high maintenance baby) and yet still managed to put weight on. Seemed most unfair.

Thanks for being impressed. Have to say I'm amazed. The most I have ever lost before in one go was 18lb (went from 12st down to about 10 and half st) and that was from not eating for a month (apart from the odd apple) not to be advised really. I'm 40 in Feb and that and not being able to face being that weight and not able to do things with my kids anymore was the impetus.

ellagrace I shall show this thread to my 'friends' next time I see them. I know what you mean about the BF draining the nutrition but not the fat (a tad unfair considering thats what was done for the 9mths of pregnancy too).

Shineon - I just noticed everyone else was doing it so thought I would have my own confessional too. Only my best friend in RL knows the truth, her and now several hundred MNers!

I am being a bitch!

I like it but feel I should stop.

So should I continue being a bitch and feel nastily happy or shall I just stop, forget it and move on?

Mycat, or should I say bastardcat (prefer that one ), no BF didn't make me lose any weight at all, only once I stopped and started having periods did all my hard work pay off.
So you have done brilliantly to lose so much in 5 mths.

I'm not posting my vital stats, cos you'll all be jealous

5ft 6

10st 8

36c-32-36

i like to think of myself as curvy...ha ha

i'm not supposed to be here..

bastardcat is in fact what I call my cat. I shall think of the mangy maniac everytime I read it (I do like the cat, he is just a git).

I like to think of myself as curvy too, although I am curvy in the extreme sense of the word (more mountains and valleys than soft undulating hills!)

DP i am the same height as you, only you are the weight i am aiming to be once i've lost a few stone pounds

Hi all,
just sticking my head in with a huge on my face, 2 weeks of Du Pain, Du Vin, & Du Boursin in France and I haven't put on an ounce!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(haven't lost either but not gaining after gourging myself for 2 weeks feels great )

Will get back to healthy eating, lots of hearty soups and salad and complex carbs. with regain my FF fetish as well.

Not great at chatting, but hope I am allowed to still post ?

VT; i've looked at the pictures you linked on here....you look skinny to me...honestly.

Yeah Jac how are you being a bitch? Come talk to us about it...

Hiya Power - nice to see you - well done on the no weight gain.

Yep Jaq, gwan you know ya want to!

Greyskull!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bloody well done on not putting on any weight while you were away!

I won't be around this evening, or for a few days - going camping again, with lots of lentil-weaver HE friends . Yay!

Hope no one pukes this time, or gets a random rash, or collapses, or gets stung by a wasp...I think I'm the only one who hasn't had an accident or illness so far!

Jac - what are you doing to be a bitch?

Bastardcat - I forgot you lived near a certain new designer outlet. Do you like it? I don't - feels too shiny and the lift music is horrid! I do like the new Sainbos though!

Sorry had to dash as DS was due back from nursery.

OK it's a real life bitch thing. I shall try and explain.

I used to have a very close best friend, we were never apart and shared everything, including our battle with weight. She has always known my weight and I hers.

So about a year ago things went drasticlly down hill. I had lent her a lot of money (money I couldn't afford to lend) and had let her buy stuff from my catalogues. We had an agreement for a monthly payment plan and that was fine with me as it helped my budgeting. Anyway, her partner moved in with her, he worked full time and she continued to claim all her single parent benefits (this infuriated me but because she was a friend I said nothing apart from she was being silly and would get caught). On the whole they were loaded, however, my monthly payment stopped. New payments were arranged and then they were ignored. I then began getting ignored, texts not replied to etc. She knew how desperate my situation was and knew that her money was the difference between me being able to feed the DCs or not.

Eventually I had enough and said forget it, no money is wrth what I am going through lets just call it quits. We had no contact (we live about 500yards apart) for months, until she sent me a text out of the blue asking how I was and we should meet for a coffee and chat. I presumed it would be to talk over what had happened and put it behind us.

Nope, she probed me about every area of my life being really nosey and not in a nice way. Then the subject of weight came up, (I put on about 2 stone in the year)she asked me why I had gained so much weight and said it must be because I'm not happy in my relationship etc, I explained it was the exact opposite and left it at that.

Now I know this has been very, very long winded but I noticed when she was here that she had put on a lot of weight, I'm guessing she is now weighing around 19stone. However, she told me she has lost at least a stone over the past year and now weighs 15stone 12lb it's bollocks and the reason I think I'm being a bitch is because I'm secretly pleased she has put weight on.

I know it sounds pathetic, but after everything she has put me through I can't help feeling pleased she has gained weight, and I'm hoping she gains more I want to be slimmer than her ASAP as it will really piss her off! I'm wishing someone fat, and I feel a serious bitch for doing it but it feels very, very good at the same time. I had a dream last night that I bumped into her and I looked fabulous and she looked awful

Sorry I sound horrible and sorry I made this so long I just wanted you to see what she has out me through

I'm a horrible person, but I can't seem to change my mind on this. I want her to be fat, fat, fat and I shall smile smugly at her in my full gorgeousness.

I think it's quite normal and human to want bad things to happen to someone who has done you wrong.