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So, here we are on the 63rd(?) thread...

Much intellectual discourse has been held...The big bang theory rewritten...thermodynamics hotly debated, the Election mused upon....

Alongside which, we coax, encourage, arse kick, tease, boost and cajole our way into a healthier lifestyle, with whatever 'diet' or exercise regime suits, and drinking more WATER (are we drinking our water ladies? )..

Please pay homage to our mascot as you enter the thread.

Anyway, where were we? The life and works of Aristotle I believe.....and over to you Total...

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oh good luck Lizzy - sponsor done (though not sure if message worked).

at defluff's friend

Just donated Lixxy .

May have to put my link up again in a couple of threads time.

jet - no problem, happy to answer. I started off at about 18stone but officially began at WW when I was 17st 5lb. I decided I wanted to get down to where my BMI was considered normal, which is about 11st 5lb. This was mainly cause I was coming up to 40 and had 2 small children. I really did not want to be that fat old mum who just sat around and didn't play or run about. Last September I'd got down to about 13st 10lb and was going great guns, then my best friend who I was going with stopped going to WW because her mum got suddenly v ill (and then died, of cancer, which is why I am doing the last bit of WW for cancer research UK). This meant that I stopped basically, although managed to lose another 7lb over the following few months. I've just decided that I really do want to get down to 11st (which would make my BMI about 24.5) so am really trying hard now (and have lost 6 more lb since last weekend).

I have to say though, having got to 13st I did feel pretty good (BMI 28). I was v overweight for most of my 30's, having been v slim in my 20's (never of 10st 7lb) so to get back into clothes from normal shops and feel healthier and more attractive is really lovely.

Sorry, I went on a bit there.

Thanks Hells and Mycat

I have never had piles, I would wear a headscarf, dark glasses and go to a chemist you don't normally go to to buy the anusol, Hells.

Lovely dress batty

jet - I am wearing a dress - it is a very simple dress nothing fancy. I have some light coffee coloured patent wedges and a similar colour clutch bag to go with it. I will wear the jacket I bought yesterday ifit is really cold or I have a cream cardi that I could wear with it if needs be.

Sazz, I didn't buy the dress for the meet up, I already had it, but have not worn it yet, likewise with the shoes to go with it.

Goobs - I have missed you - where have you been?

Vinny, sounds like you are doing just fabulous.

Now, anyone want a husband? free to a good home.. 'cos seriously he is driving me nuts. I was upstairs stomping about cleaning the bathrooms and the tesco man came - DH shouts up - "your shopping is here love" - no it is not my fucking shopping, it is ours.. so I shout back "well can't you deal with it?" He did, but why do I have to be involved in everything? Just before this, he comes upstairs, I have just ciffed moussed the shower room and was leaving for 5 mins whilst I did the main bathroom - he saw me doing this. He says to me "do you know you have left the stuff on the tiles in the shower room?" "have you forgotten to clean it off?" - me in mid spray.. do you get my drift?

Lixxy???? Err... meant Lizzy of course

Hey Sazz, well done on the running

bella, thanks for the DH offer but I already have a faulty specimen, not sure I could take on another.

Mycat, you have done so well, I will sponsor you when DH transfers my housekeeping money in!

Does it make you feel physically a lot fitter, losing that much weight? I was around 14.5stone after DS2 for a long while, did start at 16stone immediately post birth. I noticed how much easier walking up hills etc were as I lost weight.

Sazz, you are sooo good at running, fab time, have no idea how you can run for so long on a treadmill Enjoy lunch and clothes swapping.

Bella, you really need to get him to spoil you tomorrow now!

Oh yes - Sazz, bloody amazing on the running. If I tried to do that I would start out this colour , about 3 mins in be this colour and then pretty rapidly this colour as I ran to the loo to be sick as a dog from all the exertion!

Lizzy yes, I do feel a lot fitter. I used to walk up the stairs and feel exhausted and dizzy at the top. Now I just run up. In fact, I was carrying DS up yesterday and found it a bit of a strain and he weighs about 25lb, so less than half what I used to weigh. That really struck me about how much weight I used to lug around every day.

Would you think this was weird? Met up in a group with one of dd's schoolfriend's dads. IYSWIM. Anyway...

It came up in conversation that a man who had been accessing child porn lived in the same road as this dad. It was in the local Advertiser (not that he lived on same road! The conviction and then his name and address). The road itself is very very long, about 400 odd houses I think, even has a 'west' and 'east' part. So, the dad says that he'd looked up this guy in the directory (the paper gave his surname and initial) to try to find his exact house number. I said 'why?' and he said:

'To go round there and put bricks through his winows.'

Now I'm aware of bravado but this dad brought the conversation up in the first place and also said what he said with a totally straight face and no hint at all that he was joking / being 'outraged of ourtown' or anything. Another man there said 'give me a ring and I'll join you' but that did seem to be just jokingly silly bravado. The first dad seemed totally serious and he also said it in a way that was quite menacing.

Is it just me who thinks this was a weird thing to say in front of a group of your dc's schoolfriend's parents who you don't really know? [admittedly not as weird as talking about strangers coming on your foot but hey ho]

Hells - if it can wait for two days I'll buy some later today and post to you?

Bella - mine has same fault unfortunately.

Will come in and ask me if we've run out of ketchup. How the hell would I know? Look in the bloody cupboard!!!!! Puts empty packets back in the fridge / cupboards. Places used teabags by the sink, which is FURTHER away from the kettle than the friggin bin. Put new toilet roll balanced on top of old one that hes LEFT STILL ON THE HOLDER. Actually, today I came down and he had put the toilet paper new roll on the holder but had still left the old empty roll on the floor. No, that's fine dear the loo roll holder fairys will put it away.

And he spent £70 on a brabantia bin so bloody well use it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!

I find that explaining that clearing up after him makes me too tired to tends to work for a while (until he cottons on that actually now we have a child together and are practically married he's never getting again anyway)

Lizzy, he has bought me those shoes and a jumper that I ordered at the same time all £113 pounds worth... don't you worry, he has already spoilt me - he just doesn't know it yet!!

Seriously Sazz, well done on the running

Defluff - it was a terrible thing that the man convicted did but I really do hate this vigilante crap. I would be if I heard that too.

My DH is taking up the child care whilst I go back to work. He thinks he's going to get a few games of regular golf in! He has no idea of the amount of work it takes to keep the house looking just vaguely clean and tidy. His main fault is just not seeing what the hell is in front of him 'babe, where's the teabags?' - 'in the cupboard' - 'no, they aren'te I've just looked' - 'yes they are, they are probably behind something'. Just because things don't actually leap into his arms from the cupboard/fridge/shelf etc he assumes they aren't there.

Still, he's a great bloke really and it's not too much of a fault.

Defluff, he promised me last week, that he would focus this week on the stuff that needs doing in the house and outside.. the front garage door needs repainting as does the front door. But he has shown no signs yet of doing any of the jobs and tomorrow is Friday. He has just been sat in the same chair in the living room with his laptop stuck to him doing his charity work - which he promised he would not do this week. He even had a conference call that he had to do last night at 9.00pm. He said yesterday that he had loads of paperwork he needed to do. He is seriously upsetting me because it is taking over our lives and we - me and the boys are just getting left on the sidelines. When I try and broach the subject with him he gets all annoyed and says I am being silly. When I came back from shopping yesterday - around 12.30 he had had his lunch but just left everything in the kitchen (which I had tidied up before I went out).

Sorry to moan and rant

Hellooooo, just back from our mn Adelaide meet up. It was very nice.

Went to a restaurant, had salad and deep fried calamari.

Off to beddy byes now.

Hello Batty, gorgeous dress. Congratulations on impending nuptuals.

Defluff, yes that is wierd. Odd and yuk and uncomfortable making.

MyCat - DH said the same thing to me about teabags yesterday - I hardly drink bloody tea but he seems to think that I am in charge of the teabags. As soon as I walked in through the door from shopping he says - I can't find any teabags, haven't we got any? If you looked in the fucking cupboard, you would see there are two packs. GAH!

Defluf - it was not nice what that Dad said - he should have kept his thoughts to himself.

Oh Bella, sorry you are down about it. It is a good thing he is doing, the charity, but it shouldn't come at the expense of family life. Think you need to have a chat with him. Am sure if he knew how upset you were he would make some changes.

Claudia, how lovely a sunny MN meet down under. My friend emigrated to Adelaide 2 years ago, her little boy was friends with DS1. Her photos on MN make me very

THanks for the donation Hells

Lizzy, that's the thing I have tried to have several chats with him.. it doesn't work. I have told him it upsets me that it seems to come before us and he says I am being silly. Sometimes I want to run away and not come back and see how he manages without me.

Glad you had a good time Claudia.

Claudia, that meetup sounds lovely. I'm glad you had a good time.

Bella, you'll have to tell DH methinks. Men can be bloody dim when it comes to seeing what is right in front of him (see teabags story above), including upset wives and children.

Afternoon all.

Bella - gorgeous shoes! And lol at your window cleaner.

Hells - well I seem to becoming quite expert on the subject of piles . There are different types and some just come and go and some need treatment. I'm off to see a nice consultant later this afternoon.

Batty & Twinset - hello! Exciting to be dieting for weddings and babies.

SOrry, xpost there bella. Would you be able to go away with the DC for a couple of days? How about a bloody good shout at him instead of a chat. Sometimes I think DH thinks I'm not being serious if I talk politely with him, he does when I lose it with him though.