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Over here all you 40s and fading!

my mother is v thin too. and my aunt. BUT, that's only four of them.

Five - my mum, oops six, my mil....

I am not lardy (I don't think) I just don't like this extra bit I am carrying. Shift that I will be happy. (I think I am more annoyed that it snuck up on me - I was okay post ds - back to normal - but in the last two years I don't know what has happened!)
HG you are probably right........

My younger sister has remained slim, but is more wrinkly than me. I think. She also has big issues with food including, I suspect in the past, more frequent trips to the toilet than are strictly necessary. She's always plying me with cake, then mysteriously unable to eat hers due to pressing dishwasher emptying, or similar.

On balance, I'd rather be me!

Don't have food issues. Always ate what I wanted. But not a big seet eater anyway. Everyone says I look better in the face with a bit more padding :)

bd - I read your post as "with a bit more pudding"

LOL (actually so did I - really must put my specs on...)

The highest compliment of said 'gin and jag' aunt is 'ooh, aren't you slim', as if there is no greater accomplishment. Makes me have thirds of all four of her puddings.

'ooh, aren't you slim', as if there is no greater accomplishment - I know!!! All those years I wasted being slim when I could have been out shagging won a Nobel prize or something!

Four puddings? Can I come & help you keep her slim?

Both my mum and DP's late mum are/were tiny. I am a size 10 (I do know today's size 10 is massive by previous standards) and hover around (a bit above at the moment) nine stone (I'm five foot tall) and am a huge and lumpen heifer by comparison.

My mum does that 'you've lost weight' thing as clearly (a) I will pass out with joy (b) I am so huge in her mind that the relatively less huge figure before her must have been madly dieting.

I haven't had bread for 3 days.

Have had cake instead. Arf.

Are you Marie Antoinette?

Hello, hello, just checking in to read the 7,000 or so new messages on this thread since last night. You lot are very.......prolific.

Well, ladies, I have had a rocket up my backside all day - went for a run, then spent 5 hours cleaning the house from top to bottom. Got to be worth a glass or six two of Pinot Grigio later.

Thinking about that "trigger" which finally made me lose the lard - I can pinpoint it exactly. Like many of you, my excess lardage crept on gradually, but I was always in complete and utter denial, until DH spied me doing the gardening in a pair of shorts and a bikini top early last summer and went . That tiny incident was all I needed as a wake-up call, and I realised I was really hating the muffin-top, the back-fat, and the fact that clothes never looked......right.

I also have a super-fit, super-young marathon-running mother, but I wasn't going to take it from her, was I?

That book looks great - I might get it. I love a nice list I do.

When I lost two stone (low carbing) a year or so ago, my mum, my mil and my sis all separately said I was looking 'ill'. 'drawn' or 'pinched'. But I was still a very fulsome size 12 and 9 stone 12 at just over 5'2" so there is aboslutely NO WAY I could have looked anything of the sort. I think they had all just become accustomed to seeing a chubby face and too many roly-poly bits, and admittedly when you lose weight in your 40's your face collapses a bit.

But having (annoyingly) put back on about 9lb I feel really fat and horrible compared to the new found slimness I enjoyed, for a glorious eight months or so, and whilst I don't relish looking haggard, I've decided I'll choose slim and pinched over fat and peachy. There's always botox.

Recent threads have got me thinking about the women I know who are of a certain age.

Most of us have mentioned wanting to lose between 7 and 14lbs before the holidays. A couple, who are of a Beryl Cook build, laugh mightily and have another biscuit.

There are 2 who couldn't lose half a stone without cutting off a lower limb. One who has had a tragic time over the last year and lives on coffee and nail chewings.

The other is a very nervous woman who cannot be still; lives on macro-biotic carpet and holidays in a yurt.

On balance, I'm happy carting around an extra 10lbs. Except when my dear mum points out that "that's 20 packs of butter, you know".

Oh yes, I've had all the comments "you're losing too much weight; you look gaunt". Unfortunately I am blessed with a somewhat bony face, so it's true that I need to carry a little weight, but funnily enough, it was only the overweight people that passed comment.

Creeping in here with my moley eyes! Hello. I have been shortsighted since 14 but am now going longsighted (i think). In practical terms it means I have to take my glasses OFF to look at small print or hold things at arm's length to read with my glasses on. This means I am absolutely BUGGERED when it comes to having contact lenses doesn't it? To complicate matters my left eye is weak from a childhood squint so I can't even do that strange thing of having one longsighted contact lens and one shortsighted lens that I believe is a way round this problem.

I feel very sad when I look at the telly and then take about 10 seconds to adjust back to reading my paper and vice versa - anyone else have the same problem?

I am also having the Fern Britton problem of having lost weight and discovering my sinewy neck but am prepared to accept this (reluctantly!). I am also looking noticeably older but that's because I AM older. I think I just need to accept that. Easier said than done eh?

Talk of Fern makes me wonder why her band seems to have worked much more than Vanessa's www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1384034/Do-inherit-mums-dress-sense.html
or did she have it much earlier?

I have a sneaky admiration for Vanessa she still dresses like she did after she first lost weight & hasn't gone back to the matronly styles. Expect she would laugh in the face of 'menopausal sleeves r us'

Blast - link didn't work

Herbaltea -yes me! A lifelong glasses wearer who takes her glasses off to read the small stuff.

Not running this morning. It's raining [lacks commitment]

have run quite a bit so far this week - may weigh myself later at the gym. I resent having to pay 50p to be told I haven't lost any weight though just sent dh off to the shop for fruit cake - semi-healthy

My scales are saying I haven't lost any weight, they are lying bastards. I am wearing a pair of jeans I couldn't even do up a few weeks ago.

Everyone keeps telling me I've lost weight, and i'm still eating bread! Ha!