January 2025 starters - it's our anniversary!

[HeidiLite]

new thread, losers!

Hi everyone

ooh enjoy skiing @Thelittlestrangerconditions look amazing this year!
lovely holiday plans @Jins, @DGmaintainingand @MJalltheway. Interested to hear about Madeira. It’s on my list.

Hope you feel better soon @MJalltheway

Glad to hear your relaxing before your new job @PrepossessingPenelopeand great news on the weight too.

Enjoy York @myladyjane.

@Polkadotdashfingers crossed the increased dose helps and good luck with job application, sounds like such a toxic environment and sometimes enough is enough.

blimey well done on the chin ups @HeidiLite.

I started my new job yesterday, think it’s going to be crazy busy, loads to do and right in at the deep end. Great to be working again and looking forward to the challenge. More champagne last night and just off out with friends for drinks and dinner. Need to get back into the swing of things and figure out my next one. I’ve got 2 5mg not yet started and 3-4 doses from current pen left but I sense it won’t be easy!!

enjoy your weekends everyone!

Mumsnet apps is doing stupid things again when I try and put people's names in. This is third time lucky writing this post!

I've had a horrendous week at work and glad to finally be out the other side. Although next week looks similar.

My appointment went really well, not rocket science but really connected to my why and being accountable for putting rubbish in my body. I've not had a binge since the conversation. I'm meeting her on Monday for the next mindset installment. My weight is finally on the downward trend.

Great to hear the new job is going well 26 and The littleStranger I put 8lbs on skiing!!! Last year I think I lost 3! If it hadn't been for the ski holiday I was only just at the top of my range but the ski holiday blew me over it and then the continued binge eating has kept piling the weight on. I'm hopeful that I can get control of it.

Quick recommendation to York based folk who like Mexican- Batanga just off fossgate. Really tasty but really good value and excellent service. I am reliably informed by dd that the wait staff were really hot as well but they were all young enough to be my sons so I didn’t notice ;)

Morning all

@tinyemmy sounds like you had a really positive appointment, great to be able to identify the triggers for you and then have a plan for what to do when they happen.

@26inprogress lots of well deserved celebration 🎉 glad to hear the new job is going well.

@Jins enjoy the zoo today!

Official weekly weigh in and very strange to find I’ve lost a bit more so now below my preferred ‘low’ of 58kg at 57.75kg. I ate a steak last night salsa verde drizzled all over it, with sweet potato wedges and pan-fried courgette…crazy how the body works. So the mid-week high must have been inflammation from the stress of the MRI. I was going to jab 1.75mg today but I think I’ll stick to 1.5mg again. The only thing making me want to go back up is I’ve had a sore hip/glute for the last few days and I wondered if the MJ would help with that but I think I need to wait and see if it heals itself over the next few days.

Breast consultant has asked to see me again on Tuesday. Trying not to worry that he’s calling me back only a week later. At least it’s before we go away.

DS has an inflamed lymph node indeed, oddly not the bigger one we could feel, but a smaller one on the other side. Blood tests look fine though, no signs of infection. They put him on antibiotics and will re-evaluate in 2 weeks. Health care here is luckily top notch so I'm reasonably confident they can figure it out. But lucky they sent us to ultrasound - he is feeling fine and as said, bloods also show no issues.

@DGmaintaining crossing fingers for your call on Tuesday. Hopefully it’s a routine check in with you as it doesn’t sound mega urgent.

@myladyjane have you been to the Ghost Merchants yet?

I’m still procrastinating on getting in with my job application. I wonder if that means I don’t really want the job?

@Polkadotdash depends, are there any issues with the job? I procastinated with one because it would have meant relocation and I was not sure if I wanted to put the family through that - so wasn't the job but other circumstances. If no other issues then yes you probably feel it's not the right fit.

@DGmaintaining hopefully just to go over results so fingers crossed.

@Polkadotdash we did look to queue but it was over an hour so we didn’t bother. We did go to avocado envy as recommended by @PrepossessingPenelopedd and it was nice but I thought I’d treat myself and get pancakes (which pre mj I loved and never get if I’m being ‘good’ but I really couldn’t manage them at all - I ate one out of 4 and the fruit but that was it. I got really bad wind based side effects effects from my jab on Friday for some reason so felt quite uncomfortable. Dd was in hysterics this morning as I tooted my way round the back of the Minster…..

@myladyjane are you still on the extra high dose this week? Wonder if that’s why you struggled?

@HeidiLite glad your DS is being attended to so quickly. Funny how DC can carry on without even realising they have an infection.

DS2 also diagnosed with urine infection after complaining difficulty with going. He feels absolutely fine now but has just been prescribed ABs.

@HeidiLite i think I know in my heart I don’t want the job. I just feel like I have to go for it. Mainly to send a bit of a signal to my current manager that I’m unhappy (they have to sign off you applying for an internal post). The team the other job is in is part of a wider section where I was outright bullied by a previous director. I complained and was told that everyone had bullying cases against this woman so there was no point in complaining as nothing would ever be done. Luckily she has now retired but I still feel a bit of dread at the thought of going back to that section. Even though it’s where all my knowledge and experience is. Plus I don’t know if I can handle a rejection from applying for it. I’m totally opposite to how most men approach job applications, thinking ‘well I can do 60% of it so I’m perfect’. I have to feel that I can do 110% of it to the very best of my ability, all of the time or I won’t apply. It’s bonkers, but that’s how my brain is.

I’ve just logged in to my work account to see that a presentation I’m giving tomorrow to external people has been completely decimated by the project lead. I’ve no idea how I’m meant to stand up in the morning and present what has effectively become someone else’s presentation rather than my own because he didn’t like my ideas. Fuck’s sake. I can’t work like this.

ouch @Polkadotdash I would be super annoyed.

But you're not the only woman applying only if they've perfect fit. I've done a bit of recruitment and it's amazing how unsuitable male candidates we get, while female candidates, as you say, meet the requirements 110%.

If the bully is gone, the team may be totally different though? One person can totally ruin it for the entire company.

Reminds me of a manager I once had who would change totally random tiny details in my work. And when she reviewed the next version, she changed the things back to my original wording, because she had of course forgotten she wanted the change in the first place and original was better. Cow.

@Polkadotdash Honestlh I would pretend I hadn’t seen it and call in sick. Fuck them!

oh @Zempy i am soooooo tempted. I really feel like they are using me as a bloody generative AI device then they just take my work, trash it and use their own.
I may have just consumed a whole Easter egg to comfort myself.

Just do it!

@Polkadotdash seriously do it. Take a day, go for a lovely walk, stop for a drink. Chill. Most importantly Fuck ‘em

Another one agreeing that a sick day is a good solution although I had something similar happen to me once and went with my original when it came to the presentation. I hate seeing good people being sacrificed on the altar of someone else’s ambition.

Wonderful day at the zoo yesterday. Started off well at the queue for tickets when we asked where to get memberships and were quietly led over to join two people who had two spare tickets. Absolutely not something the staff member should have done but what a win! Our luck held and we saw more animals than ever before. It was so lovely having a family day out with just the four of us.

I’ve gained a little weight since dropping to 8 7.8 and it looks like 8 8.2 is the new 8 10.2. Both are fine. I need to stay above 8.7 to keep my BMI above 21 to maintain more options for maintenance providers but I think BMI 21 is as low as I should go without looking too scrawny. My WePrescribe order arrived on Saturday so I’ve got 1.5 10mg pens, a 7.5 and a 5 in the fridge. I’m still not sure what to do about Oushk as the flex plan remains tempting.

Have a great week all!

Back from skiing and my weight is as it would normally be for a Monday. Shocking really. Although, I'm prepared for it to go up in a few days with delayed onset.

Looking forward to some fresh vegetables and a bit of a chill week. It's the first one where I haven't got much planned since finishing work. So intention is to plan some self care and quiet time. I'm not very good at not doing alot, so let's see how I go...

Hi, I’ve been quiet recently due to being away, being busy and not having much to report. Have been reading and cheering you all on from the sidelines though.

I ended up skipping two weeks which has slightly derailed my titrating down, plus eating wasn’t so good while I was away and as we all know exercise never burns as many calories as we’d like. Now up a couple of kilos and back to taking 7.5 until they have gone. I think I really need to be down to 57kg (I was at 58) in order to feel I have a bit of wiggle room. Now back to ‘normal’ life so looking at some more orderly eating. I don’t think all the gain is actually fat, but I do love feeling smaller. I did a first aid course last week where I was the patient at one point and had to be lifted, somebody said “This is easy because you’re so light” 💃

That's a great NSV @Aimingforearlierbedtimes! I will never in a million years have that comment, I'm too tall/big even when slim.
Not much to report here either, I'm still suffering with my back, still not able to do my usual exercise 😭
weight is staying steady though which I think is a victory in itself at the moment.
Break from work next week, and I'm going for a spa day with my sister which I'm very much looking forward to.

Hope back feels better soon @MJalltheway
💐. Steady weight is definitely an achievement.
I think I actually look (even) shorter now I’ve lost some weight, perhaps the previous heft somehow made me look more substantial in general. I’ll take it though. I was looking through some old photos at the weekend, I was definitely in denial!

By the way, there seems to be a problem posting on the website. Has been flagged to Mumsnet. Posting on the Apple app is OK, but I find the app fiddly to use.

@Aimingforearlierbedtimes oddly I look taller now, several people have said it. Must be optical illusion, wide things look shorter.

So as a pocket rocket I find weight loss interesting from this perspective. I am not amazingly short (5ft3) and I have a medium build for my height so I am not what you’d think of as overly petite and I am a true endomorph in shape - thick limbs, hips etc, . But lots of people are commenting on my being ‘little’ atm. I’m a size 12 and bmi 26. When fatter it was rare I got height comments. I have noticed I need petite trousers more and dh worked out it’s because I have less tummy/bum which fills out the clothes….

I’m 5ft 3 and exactly the same height and clothes size as my niece yet nowadays everyone says she’s taller than me. I’m getting the ‘tiny’ comments but more in the context of me always having been tiny rather than suddenly. It seems that my 3 stone weight gain went largely unnoticed by other people.

Had a crap nights sleep last night. Really strange dreams when I finally slept. I was on a day trip with DS2s friends but not DS2 as I was using his ticket and I caused havoc by suddenly having a sore eye. Sadly when I woke up I did have a sore eye and wasn’t on a trip anywhere. Dreams are really odd, I’m putting this down to taking my sertraline in the evening as I forgot it in the morning.

Today I have declared that it’s officially Spring and all the winter bedding has been washed, dried and stored. Note to self - check weather forecast in future.