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AuntieMaryHadACanary · 13/04/2016 19:30

I have had enough of trying to be thin. Or even a bit thinner. I'm not massive but I am bigger than I should be. Its just too hard to lose weight. And I'm getting older - 41. And DH doesn't give a damn (God love him) Who has accepted their bodies, embraced their chubster self and stuck two fingers up at the world of thin? Come on women give some support to my fatty self

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Smileandwaveboys · 13/04/2016 20:32

I wish I could just stop worrying about my weight.

I'm 5ft 3, a 12-14 and could do with losing about 2 a stone. But I enjoy my food, going out on the piss now and again and cooking. My DP thinks I'm
Gorgeous as I am and prefers me sans diet as he ends up dieting too!

I lost over a stone last year and I did feel good but I've lost the willpower now.

I should just stop moaning as I have just eaten a piece of coffee cake and loved it. I bore myself with my weight whinging.

AuntieMaryHadACanary · 13/04/2016 20:34

Wow I am so overwhelmed by all your responses! You all sound so similar to me! Yes it is really boring counting, weighing, restricting - i have done every blooming diet under the sun and they all work while I am doing them, then I think sod it, I really want all those foods I've denied myself, and it all goes back on again. Really what is the point?
Maybe we should start a club. Non slimming world. Not weight watching.
Yvaine, mmmm salted caramel.....

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Fairylea · 13/04/2016 20:59

my absolute downfall is salted caramel Millie's cookies ... I buy some every time I go into the city and usually eat 6 to myself over the course of the evening when I get back. They are absolutely delicious and worth every single glorious calorie!

YvaineStormhold · 13/04/2016 21:02

YY to club!

What shall we call it?

LBOCS2 · 13/04/2016 21:09

Me. I'm a size 18, 5'6", have ranged from an 8 up to this size. I'm no happier slim, and am in fact far more comfortable in my own skin now than I was 10 years ago, despite being almost double the weight.

I just don't care enough to deny myself yummy things.

I should do more exercise though, for my health.

AuntieMaryHadACanary · 13/04/2016 21:16

Hmm. Thinks.
Tub club
Cake world
More pie please

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TheWeeBabySeamus1 · 13/04/2016 21:18

Cake watchers?

AuntieMaryHadACanary · 13/04/2016 21:22

YY Cake Watchers! Love it
Thanks everyone you have all cheered me up tonight.

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notagiraffe · 13/04/2016 21:22

Me. I'm the opposite of the philosophy 'Nothing tastes as good a skinny feels'
Constant hunger and thinking about what you can/can't/should/shouldn't eat bores me rigid. I eat what I want, when I want. Always have. And for almost all my adult life was bang in the middle of BMI healthy weight. But then medication plus menopause added 20lb and I just don't have the will to starve it off and keep starving to keep it off. DH likes me as I am, and I scrub up OK. No desire to attract loads of other men as I only want DH, so happy as I am. Yes I'd love to be thinner, but it's low on the priority list of things to spend my willpower on!

notagiraffe · 13/04/2016 21:24

Fairylea - have you tried Pret's orange and white chocolate cookies? ...They're worth putting on weight for!

YvaineStormhold · 13/04/2016 21:24

Cake Watchers - brilliant!

libertydoddle · 13/04/2016 21:31

Me! I'd love to be a stone thinner but CBA with the effort required. Have decided that as long as I exercise regularly and get my 5 a day that I'm not going to worry. And watching my mum with severe osteoporis (bones of an 80 yr old at 60) is enough to put me off obsessive dieting.

elastamum · 13/04/2016 21:32

Can I join? Am 52 and a size 14. Am pretty fit as I keep teenagers horses and dogs and have a FT job but I love my food and can't be arsed to diet back to my ideal weight. Life is far too short and too much fun

YvaineStormhold · 13/04/2016 21:34

Self-acceptance is the way forward, Cake Watchers!

Fairylea · 13/04/2016 21:36

Oooooo notagiraffe they sound lovely! Will have to give them a go :)

Starface · 13/04/2016 21:39

I have been talking about exactly this at work recently (I don't entirely fit in). I happily have a bmi of 27. I have been bigger. I was skinner once, and frankly it looked weird to me and I looked ill. Which may say more about my body perception than anything else.

I have a double chin, but so do my skinnier sisters, so this may just be how my face is. With a couple of deaths of similar aged people now in my circle of family/close friends, I am firmly in the "life's too short" camp. Especially as some of them watched their weight and were v healthy and died young anyway. I want life to be long and not too plagued by ill health, but I also want to enjoy it whilst it's there.

Cake Watchers are my kind of people.

NoMilkNoSugar · 13/04/2016 21:41

I'll join cake watchers. I'm 5'5 and a 18/20. I've come to the conclusion that it's not my weight that bothers me but my clothes. If I dress well and fashionably, put some effort in with my hair and makeup, then I feel good. But the days I put me old trackies on housework day then I feel like a bag of shite.

Initiation starts now

TheOddity · 13/04/2016 21:44

I have never talked about food as much as I did at weight watchers. I came away from there seriously hungry. And so many women would get weighed and immediately start eating a bag of ww crisps in the class, I always had a chuckle to myself. When I diet I also become a food bore. I got rid of my scales and honestly can't tell much difference in my 'natural' weight the weight I am when I just eat whatever I fancy and isn't really that healthy but not that exaggerated and meh

LarrytheCucumber · 13/04/2016 21:50

I am 64 and twice the woman I was when I got married. I had to go on a punishing low fat diet before I had my gall bladder out and looked like a bag of bones. Now, to me, thin means ill, so I embrace my larger self.

YvaineStormhold · 13/04/2016 21:55

Whenever someone tells me they're on a diet (unless they really are morbidly obese and I'm worried about them) I reply "Why ever do you think there should be less of you? You're lovely!"

So maybe it's time to apply that sentiment to myself.

TrixieBernadette · 13/04/2016 21:57

I'm trying to accept myself, I'm a size 12-14 at 5ft 4. And that's big boobs and big belly. Last year I was a 10-12 though, and summer was easier.

Today my thighs rubbed a hole in the top of my skin coloured tights. That made me sad.

I run 5k three times a week though so I'm not unfit.

TrixieBernadette · 13/04/2016 21:58

And I'm another who's DP is constantly telling me I'm gorgeous and sexy. I'm bloody lucky.

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Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 13/04/2016 21:58

Me. And my life has been so much easier since it hasn't been ruled by the scales. Love me as I am or dont love me at all. Its taken years though to get to this point, though My ambition used to be to get to a size 10.

GarlicShake · 13/04/2016 22:02

I rather like "Why ever do you think there should be less of you?", Yvaine.

And love Cake Watchers!

Dafspunk · 13/04/2016 22:03

I am such a happier person when my life revolves around eating, rather than not eating.

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