May 2025 Starters Thread 7 - Ending the year as we mean to go on ✌️

[FlorenceNightshade]

A sparkly new thread for our chatty gang!

and good luck for Thursday 🤞 @Gingercar

Sorry, I think I’ve actually asked you that before. I teach a few french lessons alongside my cafe. One of my students is moving to the Limoges area this summer.

Well I’m back down to where I was last week! Two days to go before the diabetes weigh in - I’d love to drop another by then!

Oh brilliant @Gingercar ! Do you get weighed at the diabetes group? It was all on line when I did it and you just self reported.

Gosh @ElsieJay your poor DH! I must say, I'd read a book of your pastimes quite happily. I wonder if I'm at a different life stage or living an empty life in comparison. I would like what you have, please.

We moved into our dream home last year and are still financially recovering. It's a 250-year old cottage and the roof developed leaks in two places over Christmas. That killed any surplus we'd managed to claw back from solicitor fees and the like. By this point I hoped we'd have fruit trees planted and some internal redecoration done but it's a big property (compared to what I'm used to) and just cleaning it is killing me. I would love to make friends in the local area but I'm socially awkward to begin with. I'm great in small doses, which helps my career, but leaves me lonely in real life.

Sometimes I think about leaving my partner and buying a much smaller place on my own, like I had before. I'm trying not to wuss out. The house is gorgeous and the children are happy and my partner is lovely.

My dad would have loved it.

@notgonnafail It's lovely to hear from you. When I was reading your post I was thinking, I hope we get so much data from folks being on WLI that disparities in thyroid medication doses and HRT needs are highlighted much more starkly. The NHS' windows of 'normal' are so vast and they need to be shot at with plenty of data.

Data analyst head very much on here!

@DidILeaveTheGasOn - thank you for your lovely words.
We love our son in law to bits, couldn’t have picked better for our DD if we’d tried - just wish they weren’t all a 5 hour flight away. Thank goodness for FaceTime, which we didn’t have in the early days.
His family are very warm and welcoming, and we cherish the time we have here, as relocation is out of the question for various reasons.
Just need to make the best of our last few days, then start looking forward to the next time. Hopefully DS, his partner and her daughter will be coming too.

Fingers crossed for Thursday, @Gingercar.
Glad the very unfair and undeserved gain has disappeared.

@notgonnafail - reunited with your DH at last ! Hope the nasty side effects have abated and you can enjoy settling into your new life together.

Thanks for the welcone back everyone.

@DidILeaveTheGasOn I really hope it will at least expand treatment of thyroid issues enough to look outside TSH alone, which simply doesn't work in the majority of cases. I am also fascinated by all the things these jabs are throwing up that could make great research projects that could really improve people's lives. Was mostly a practitioner, but am a data nerd too!

@Gingercar Hope your students will love it here as much as I do. It's such a lovely part of the world.

@notgonnafail we live in a 300yr old country house. I can tell you now that the issues with these houses never end. Ever! But I love it. Sometimes I fantasise about a little newbuild, we’d be able to live off the proceeds of the sale of this smallholding for the rest of our lives, but I love it here, the space and views! You just have to learn to ignore some of the faults. They’ve seen standing for decades before we lived here and will for decades after we’ve gone.

Slight aside here but does anyone else still experience disrupted sleep the night after they jab?

@DidILeaveTheGasOn yup, me.

Beginning to suspect pancreatitis may be the cause of my woes this past week. And despite 4 days of v&d I have somehow gained 1.4kg. I feel extremely hard done by over this! My weightloss has been so minimal anyway, to then be struck by SEs/pancreatitis? again and to gain weight and spend my birthday with my head over the loo seems just too much to bear 😭

@notgonnafail - ooooh, sweetheart , what a rotten time you’re having.
Sending you some virtual 💐, 🎂 and 🍾 🥂 in the hope you can enjoy some of them. Have the best birthday possible xxx

@notgonnafail nooooo, you poor thing! You are right to feel hard done by, I would too in your place. I’m so sorry. Definitely deserve a belated birthday celebration to try and make up for it!

Ah @notgonnafail that's horrendous, so sorry. Big hugs and belated happy birthday.

Oh no @notgonnafail what a crap birthday! Hope you’re feeling better soon. Don’t worry about that scales reading, it’s not going to be an accurate reading if you’re ill. See where it settles a couple of days later when you’re hydrated again.
Happy Birthday!

@notgonnafail - what everybody else said. Could you reschedule your birthday? If you have it on the same date but next month - you'll be feeling quite different by then. 💐

@notgonnafail - you poor soul! Look after yourself x

Sorry you’re having a rough time, and hope this passes soon.

Feeling fed up.
same 1kg has gone up or down for weeks now.

despite upping dose to 12.5

Thanks everyone. Birthday was last Friday, so we are currently on postponement number 2! Keeping all things crossed am ok by next weekend as we're booked to go to the ballet!

Sorry, I never answered you. Yes they weigh you, which I like as it keeps you on track.

Despite the weight not going any lower (having a bouncy scale week!) I was still down on last month.

@SignedUpAgain thats annoying. Are you calorie counting or anything particular?

@notgonnafail - apologies, hadn’t realised - keeping everything crossed for you.
Third time lucky …… 🤞 xx

Not doing anything special. Just what I’ve been trying to do the past year.

definitely struggling with drinking enough water during the day. So hard when it’s cold and miserable.

It feels like a lot of us are struggling a bit since Xmas, or have very much slowed down. The last stone has taken months. I remember reading old WLI threads just before I started and a lot of people on those were on big plateaus at around a year. I hoped it wouldn’t happen for me, but I am evidently not one of the fast ones! But I can’t eat tiny portions either.

I wonder if checking calories for a week or so might help? I don’t particularly want to count anything or cut anything, but a check of calories now and again does rein you in if portions are getting too big or snacks are getting a bit too much.