January 2025 Starters Thread 9!

[meatyryvita]

Time to check in losers!

My cherry tree has unfortunately caught the leaf spot disease so not much this year, needs to be treated next spring.
But I also have a fig tree that's totally full this year - not ripe yet, end of July-early August normally. Can't wait.

I have had to retreat to hotel room as feeling so weak, sick and faint. It’s so bloody frustrating. I am eating well and drinking loads of water.

I guess I just have to ride it out but it feels like such a waste. Plus I am stupidly embarrassed imagining the hotel staff think I’m odd.

Posting for sympathy. 😂

Maintenance call complete and I’m going on the conti plan with Oushk as I’ve still got a bit of weight to lose. I can taper doses or go back up again on that plan. I think if I want to go up from 7.5mg I need a new prescription but I can buy what I like from the ones I’ve had already.

I did weigh in the end and my greedy day puts me 2lbs up! Good job I know it can’t be fat isn’t it?

Much sympathy @Zempy - it’s awful being ill when you aren’t at home.

Thanks @jins.I’m hoping to get on the conti plan eventually. I’m already with Oushk.

Gonna try for an afternoon nap.

I’m really behind on the thread but loving the units of measurement.
Ive tried to grow strawberries, raspberries and blueberries but due to neglect they have not thrived.

Some brilliant nsv. I was inspired to check my bra measurements and I’m now 32D. So I must be getting smaller - I just don’t feel like it !

Sending sympathy @zempy, hope a nice nap does the trick. I went through such a spate of being ill on EVERY holiday that DH threatened to never go anywhere ever again 😂 it's so frustrating when you are living through it though.

I did a boobOrBust measure yesterday and they pegged me as 32K!!! Not a bloody chance.

@MisseyLurker hope you’re ok
@JoanCollinsDiva loved your post.
feel better soon @Zempy
@myladyjane my mother would have been the same, she said I looked ‘quite nice’ on my wedding day 😮

Sorry if I’ve missed anyone - on my lunch break - going to get some chicken. Flipping bored of chicken.

Im not sure how well I measured tbh !!

sorry to hear @Zempy , travelling when ill is no fun. Careful with French pharmacies if you need some medication - if you don't specify, they try to sell you homeopathy. Great if you believe in it, quite annoying if you don't.

I have body dysmorphia issues. Dropped into a shop, tried a few things and thought that oh dear my arse looks massive. Considering the items were in size XS and were still too big, that cannot be true. Brain needs some rewiring.

Just tried on some of my friend's dresses for a wedding I didn't want to buy an outfit for. I wouldn't have fitted any of her stuff before so it's a bonus that I can.

Much of the dresses were size 10 or 12 from the likes of Karen Millen or Warehouse - but from years ago. Not new. And two of them I couldn't do the zip up on !! Many were tight on my (ample) boobs. Given I'm fitting 10s and 12s (and in some cases 8s!) in today's shops, I'm seeing real proof that sizing has changed.

It also tells me that even though I'm told I shouldn't lose anymore, I can clearly can...!!

sizes have definitely gotten larger - although I've always found Karen Millen fitting small, especially with boobs.

@Zempy sorry you are feeling shite. I hope you feel better very soon.

fruit wise, I am inundated. My mother has a big garden and has always grown heaps. I saw her yesterday and have (another) big tub of strawberries, (another) big tub of raspberries, two big bags of dark cherries (one in freezer). She has a mature fig tree which is looking good so far and a plum tree which is looking promising. She also has apples, pears and black currants on the go but I dont like them. She got arsey because ‘you aren’t eating it up’. I’m only one person mother (dds and dh not fruit fans really and she knows this). I did suggest she just maybe grew less but this was baffling to her.

i did a sneaky weigh in this morning (need to reorder plus won’t be able to stand much this week) and I appear to have had a mini whoosh but it’s a mid week whoosh so I don’t believe it.

Re sizing my mother (she features a lot doesn’t she - she’s off on holiday tomorrow thank god) has been a size 12/14 since she was 23 after her first baby and was always ‘average’ at 9 stone and 5 ft 2. She’s now 78, about 9 st 7 and a size 12, sometimes a 10. And maybe 2 inches shorter. She is my vanity size proof of concept.

We need a mother emoji. Maybe an eye roll would do.

We can use the 💩 emoji for my mother.

I am not as faint and am hoping that I can do more tomorrow. I might try and find some boissons electrolites and see if that helps. I’m just cross to have only been out and about for about four hours in total today. At home that would be no problem of course but I feel I am wasting my precious time here.

Thanks for the support lads, it’s made me feel less alone. I can’t tell my adult DC because they will worry, and my friends will roll their eyes because they think I’m too adventurous/crazy anyway. They’d be sending me off to l’hopital.

I am going to power through and it will all be fine. You really are a great bunch of losers 😍

@zempy I hope the electrolytes help. I’ve recovered from my sickly patch over the weekend and it was pants. And I wasn’t trying to enjoy Strasbourg either.

And I will add the ‘I’m more slender than a 16th Century Alsatian’ option to the merch list. Maybe it could have a choice of either ‘Woof’ or ‘Lorraine’ on the back 🤣

The thing that gave me the final push to go for MJ was the fact that I was almost as heavy as my 20th century, 6'4'' Alsatian :D (DH is from Strasbourg)

We really do need the return of the laughing emoji!

I know!!!! Why did they get rid of it? I love the smiley face!

I think some really cruel bastards were using it to reply to posts where people were pouring their hearts out and even contemplating suicide. There really is no depth to which some people on the internet will not plumb 🤬

In other news, it looks like this thread is merging with Stately Homes! Perhaps might explain some of our food issues! 🤣

Hope you're feeling better now @Zempy ? 💐