Crepeys do Christmas...

[oldqueenie]

Will this fit the bill. Dull but seasonal?

9th would be good for me

Sorry ladies, out last night (birthday meal- yum!).
Not sure on 8th, would very much like to but away/out the previous three weekends and I think dp might change the locks on me! Let me see what I can do - the Friday would be better for me as at least I could go home Sat morning and not lose the whole weekend!

In other news I have cracked on the El Naturalista boots (damn you amazon) but last purchase for a while. And on the low Carbing I have been thinking a lot about what Strops said and have decided to accept I will never get back to my size 6/8, but would like to hold at 8/10 and stop the slide to 10/12 which is currently happening. So I will cut out the big carbs (bread, pots, pasta etc) for a while, cut down the alcohol (sob), and try to eat more healthily to shift a few pounds.

:) yes, I was once skin and bone....... More of an 8 most of the time!
I now have lagging....

I am vertically challenged, yes, 5 2 (on a good day :) )

Yes, 6/8!!!

DD is 5 foot 2 or 3 and a 6/8 (though definitely not skin and bone - she is muscular!) and she is miniscule next to me

So...

Hands up for 8th!
BTM
Beachy
Strops
Herbs
CV
Ruby
MI
Old Queenie!
BD?

Hands up for 9th!
BTM
Wilbur
Herbs
CV
Ruby
MI
Alto

It looks like it could be a weekender

Or should we settle on one night?

I am five nothing and a bosomy size 10. Am gratified that a few of the extra pounds have retreated though the remaining spare tyre will take work. However have been swimming this morning for the first time in ages. Hurrah.

I used to be a size 6/8. When I was between the ages of 6 and 8. But I think that's the right way to look at crepeydom - remember the size you maintained pre-children, add a size or two up and aim to maintain that. That's what I'm doing - I was never a skinny mini due to my fat arse J-Lo styling but I averaged around a 10/12 in most shops barring Karen Millen and their pixie clothes. Now I aim to stay a 12 ish, with size 14 bottom halves if they are fitted. I look ok like that, never really slim, but I think if I lost a lot more weight my face would fall off. At the mo, I have snuck up to more of a size 14 all over and I want to claw that back.

Have a fabulous time in Paris, MI. Dh is probably going to do one of the Etapes of the Tour de France this summer, so I'm going to find a little break for me at some point as well. There's a workshop I want to do which I was going to do in London, but they also do them in Devon so I may go for a B&B and see some friends down there at the same time.

At my very thinnest (this was after I had cocked up my A levels and my mother informed me that she had no intention of contributing anything to top up my grant if I was going to university as she didn't see why she should have to do without her holidays just for my education - in her view I should get a job and pay back some of the money that had been spent on me over the years) I was, at best, a large 14. I was a size 16 for years and years, but got ill and was on antibiotics for months and months and just ballooned and have never managed to lose the weight. I could make more effort though.

I realised yet again - while watching Borgen last night - just how much my perceptions and assumptions have been unrealistically skewed by my upbringing: that in most families teenage girls are smaller than their mothers. As it is, I struggle with the belief that not only should I weigh what I did pre children, but that I should weigh a good half stone or better still stone less than that.

The irony is that I do weigh what I did pre-kids

MI - I don't think we should think about dieting next weekend though!

Morning... Just finished reading a review of awful sounding "fat-moir" in yesterday's Guardian, then come on here to find you lot all bemoaning being VERY NORMAL SIZES. I hate this time of year when it feels hard not to do some kind of personal stocktake and find oneself somewhat wanting... Am considerably larger than most of you. Normally OK with that. If I venture to met up no pointing and laughing!

OQ, crepeys come in all shapes and sizes.

Am on tenterhooks at the moment; DH just phoned to tell me that DS's Cup match has gone to penalties. It's against a club we have "history" with, and the last time we played them a couple of the parents squared up to each other after the linesman had called one of the kids a "cheating bastard"

i'm just hoping DS, as a Back, won't have to step up. He's not good under pressure with an open goal in front of him.

Yay, they won!

DH said it was a very dirty match, fouls aplenty, and abuse from the opposition parents. He had to physically hold back one of our more, er, combative dads at one point.

I'm glad I stayed at home with the Sunday Times.

Great stuff CV Fingers crossed DS will come home from his match smiling. He is also a Back. Centre Back!

I was/am 8 inches taller than my DM and as a teen was a size 14, which was thinner than her, though I felt pretty big compared to my peers. I did have a brief year or two as a size 8 in my early 20's. I looked really terrible and never want to be that thin again

I don't really notice other people's size either. It also is what you are used to I expect. I was (aside from pregnancy) pretty much the same size weight until I hit my mid forties then I had a major bout of depression during which I can only assume I ate for England because when I came out the other side I had gained a stone (or two) and I personally hate it.
I have walked over the hill and am watching ds swim having made my own birthday cake (there's something wrong with that sentence...)

Welcome CV's ds. Glad the cheaters didn't win.

Ruby - he did Mont Ventoux on holiday a couple of years ago, for fun so he's in good general shape but will be training to do the Etape. He's terrified of the broom wagon that sweeps up all the chancers who get too far behind. Can't imagine the mid-life crisis that will ensure if he ends up on that.

BD - is it your birthday today? Many Happy Returns, old thing. Sorry you had to make your own cake. Can you get ds to help ice it?

I'm 5'8", with narrow shoulders. In my 20s I was 9.5 stone and a size 10 (more like 8 on the top) ? apart from a stint when I dropped down to 8stone 3. I was v thin. In my 30s I was 10.5 stone and a size 12 (10 on the top). In my 40s I'm 11.5 stone and a 14 (12 on top). With too much face. I'd like to be 10.5 stone again, but this would require exercise and application.

Many happy returns BD!

Birthday tomorrow, but caking making after a days work is just not on - I am not MrsS :)
Near disaster as transferring it from wire rack to plate I nearly dropped it!
Ds is traumatised - he hasn't bought me anything.....

Herbs, I hadn't realised you are the same height as me! Too much faceAhh but it's a lovely face!

BD, many happy's for tomorrow - get your DH to take your DS shopping

Thanks BTM! I kind of mean too much flesh - not enough bone.

I think I'm actually somewhere between 5'7" and 5'8", but say 5'8" for BMI purposes!