A Crepey is not just for Christmas...

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It had to be done.
Phew that feels better.
Over here crepeys. All very welcome (but only if you're crepey).

Hello everybody. When I take my bra off my boobs bounce on the ground three times before they smack me in my double chin. Do I qualify to join you?

Hell yes, Jiminy!

Strops - my mother always struggled with weight and was usually on some diet or other - I remember vividly the "mayo clinic" diet that necessitated the eating of 8 or 9 eggs a day - can you imagine?! F-Plan too. Cottage cheese, kidney beans..... All the food she cooked was boringly, joylessly low-fat and wholemeal, but she didn't mind me cooking/baking so I gradually took over the day-to-day catering for myself and DB.

Luckily I have a very different metabolism to DM and never had to watch my weight up until the last few perimenopausal years. And I still have all my teeth.

Jiminy, welcome!

CV, my mother wasn't (and still isn't) overweight, but she was obsessed with her weight and "health". And control was the big issue, so I was deffo not allowed to take over at all. Ya don't wanna know how that all turned out..

Anyhow, despite the xx years spent being eating disordered, I too have all my teeth and have never yet had a filling. But then my father spent most of his working life living in a remote place nowhere near a dentist, eating what he liked, drinking lots of alcohol and smoking a pipe and had his first filling at about 80. And lived to 97. Although my mum did make him go on a draconian diet when she married him.

I come for a strict meat and two veg family. No juice here, and fizzy stuff only on a special occasions. My mum never has had a problem with her weight and never dieted, she just ate sensibly. Meals were quite prosaic (apart from Saturday and Sunday when we seemed to eat for England). Like cv I never had a weight issue until recently - depression and on set of peri-menopause = bad combination.
Hi jiminy welcome to the fold.
Stropps now ds would love that ancient history week!!! :)

Stropps - the Mars bar slices

Hi Jiminy!

BD, ds's school has close links with this place and ds's class are going on a residential there in May and they will have to spend the entire time in "ancient" costume. Dd also spent a fair bit of time there learning to make reed roofs for Celtic roundhouses. Key life skill, obvs.

Hey never know when you might be called on to knock up a reed roof :)
Ds's parents evening last night, I appear to be raising a worry wart. Will need to think of strategies to address this. Experience tells me it is not a good thing to be...

Oh god, oh god, I slice Mars Bars! [self-flagellates] Thicker than Stropps' mum tho. Eating a whole one makes me feel a bit sick, so if we ever have them, I usually add them to a dessert plate - chopped up fruit, Mars Bars, cookies etc all laid out on a plate together for people to help selves. It's very difficult striking a balance though, isn't it? Dh was an overweight teenager which he blames on Mars Bars and CocaCola which he bought a lot at school tuck shop and he was bullied for it - nickname at school - "Buttocks" . And he says that when he looks in the mirror even now when he is in really good shape after all his cycling, he sees a fat kid. But over control is wrong too - I had the same 70s mum, Scarsdale, F-Plan etc and I know her attitude has seeped into me. There's a brilliant line in Bridget Jones somewhere, the book not the film, where she says she'd forgotten you need to food to stay alive and that having to eat was just a lack of willpower. My mum was definitely of that school of thought.

Oh gawd, Scarsdale. I'd forgotten that one. The man was obsessed with grapefruits and so was my mother. Gah, I still can't eat them.

I remember my mum having Energen rolls. 99% air, but able to take a lot of butter.

We also did the F-plan in our house, though not until I was a teenager, and a bit chubby, when I chose to do it myself.

My sis, however, did grow up with a bit of an eating problem. I remember my dad saying to her 'why can't you be slim like your sister'. Even then I cringed - surely that's the worst thing you can say to a fragile teenager. Since then, I'm sure she's been bulimic on and off.

Wotcher, Jimminy (and ll the other various lurkers who surface from time to time - come baaaack!) It has taken me till now - and only at the prompting of my formerly anorexic sister - to realise that my mum does, in fact, have Eating Issues and that liking food and getting hungry is not some vile perversion of mine.

I just drove. In a car. On my own. To the country. And back.

Hi everyone. Just had to run round as I've got unexpected visitors arriving in 10 minutes and as I've been out of action for almost two months, the house is a tip.
They are bringing cake, so today I will be on the stuff your face with cake diet.

Will pop in again tomorrow if that's OK.

Hi jiminy - bienvenue!
Oh yes there was some diet that involved a shed load of grapefruit . Hmm
I also have fond memories of my dad taking up 'jogging' complete with lime green Adidas track suit and green flash tennis shoes . We thought it great fun to mock him relentlessly.
( he's now 85 and still plays tennis twice a week)

Herbs, I remember those energen rolls - they couldn't have worked though - my DM has alway been a weeble!

DH has never had a weight problem and as long as he keeps up the exercise, eate whatever he wants I hope my DC inherit his metabolism - they are both slim and very fit and eat well ATM whereas I have to deprive myself (despite a reasonable level of exercise) in an attempt to keep to a reasonable weight
They complain that I am too healthy (and make them eat fruit and veg!!!) but none of us are ever ill - plenty of vitamins?

DP was also the fat kid at school. The last one to be picked for games, all that. He's still a bit overweight, and while does have the occasional bout of exercise or diet, almost resists the idea of becoming slim, as it's his identity. Even though he dislikes it. IYKWIM. I've never been really fat, and used to be very slim, but am the fattest woman in my family.

My mum just never had an issue with food - I am starting to wonder if she's abnormal! We never had crisps, sweets or biscuits in the house (my sil was that I didn't have a biscuit tin until ds arrived!) but always had pudding, and I recall sharing a bar of Caramac with my mum (hated the ruddy stuff!). But I didn't feel deprived - far from it.
We were all normal weight as children, unlike dp who was fat at around 13 - alpen diet - he ate about five bowls a day and stacked the weight on, but when I first new him he was skin and bone -could do with losing some now.
Ds is a skinny little thing despite the buckets of carbs (sorry Gwynnie) he shoves away most days...)

Dh was not overweight until he gave up smoking at 50. I've only ever known him as a weeble. He now says he knows what the fat kids at school felt like when he was one of the fit boys always on the football team. dm frequently passes comment on his fatness (as it is clearly a sign of lack of moral fibre). He claims he would like to be less portly, however he does no exercise at all, has the metabolism of a particularly sluggish slug, a very sweet tooth and likes his beer. And unless I padlock the kitchen door, I can't stop him snarfing doorstop sandwiches between meals, which is what I tell my mother. I think she honestly can't see anything wrong with the padlock idea.

He did lose 10 pounds when he had the squits recently though. And consequently looks a big less pregnant. These days I just shrug and think if he did suddenly lose weight, it would probably be a bad sign anyway.

BTM, we eat stacks of vitamins (fruit, veg, nuts, seeds, fish, home-knitted yoghurt, yada-yada, supplemented with whole mars bars ) but have still spent all this winter full of snots. I want my money back..

Stropps I'm behind you in the queue....actually this cold is the only thing I've had this winter so I haven't done too bad, but it is a real humdinger.

Oh BTM - orange jeggings (wince) lush, peng? I take it that's a good thing?

Ho yes, BD. Peng is what all the young girls want to be

Dh is finally home from NY but has gone straight out to meet his mate so I am not best pleased
Still he has not seen said mate for over a year and we recently found out he is living rough( well on people's settees) he has some mental health problems so I should be more forgiving of dh really.

Ruby I was at the dentist today and thinking about you. Really hope you get resolution soon

Have been over on that mouldies thread saying hello to a few peeps. Realised I have been posting since 2004. Oops

BD - BTM hangs out with teenagers all day, so she knows all the lingo.

Oh ruby - I think it's dreadful that this hasn't been treated as an emergency and urgent!
Nerve pain is intolerable. Definitely seek a private appointment if you can. Courage!
Glad your dh is home soon. Hopefully he can be furious on your behalf( at dr and dentist etc) it will help to have moral support