2011 Weight Loss Club: Wannabe Willowy Waifs Waiting for Warmer Weather

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And off we go again!

Piste passes round celebratory glasses of wine for all Wannabe Willowy Waifs.

Let's hope this new thread finds us in good health, good spirits and reducing in stature as we Wait for Warmer Weather!!

Has everybody got one?

Cheers!!

Oops, sorry blondes!

Disenchanted3:start wt: 13 st 7,target wt 10st 5lbs,current wt 12st 4lbs - wt loss 1st 3 lbs.
Blondeshavemorefun;Start wt 13st 5 lb,target wt 11st,Current Wt 11 st 2 lb - Wt loss 2st 3 lbs
Bebejones: Start Wt 15st 1lb, Target Wt 10st, Current Wt 10st 9 lb, Wt loss 4st 6 lbs
Murtette: Start Wt 13st 6, Target Wt 10 st 6, Current Wt 12st 3 lbs, Wt loss 17 lb
RatherBeOnThePiste: start wt 14st 2 current weight 11.9 target wt 11st wt loss 2 stone 7 lb
Trimmer:Start wt 12st 12.5 current weight 12 st 1.5 lbs target wt 10stone 10lb; wt loss 11lb
Jodie - Start wt 11st7 Target wt 10st,current weight 10st 12lbs Wt loss 9lbs
Poohbearsmom: Start Wt: 15st 4lb, Target Wt: 10st, Wt Loss 1st 9lb
Laughalot: start wt 13st 4lbs; Target wt 10st 2lbs ; current wt 12st 5 lbs,Wt loss 13 lbs
Prettybird: start wt 13st 6 lbs; Target wt 9st 13 lbs; current wt 12st 3lbs ; wt lost 1 st 3lb
Hecate - start weight 36 stone . current weight 23st 4 lb weight loss this week:
Smalline - start weight 13st 1.5lbs. Current weight 12st 1.5lbs total wt loss 14lbs
LollipopViolet - start weight 13st 1lb. Current weight 12st 4lbs total weight loss: 11 lbs
smokinaces - st wt 13st 9, target wt 10st 6, current wt 11st 7, weight loss 30 lbs
prettyfly1 - st wt 13st - target wt 10st, current weight 12st 11 lbs, weight loss 3lbs
LittleRedDragon: st wt. 11st. goal weight: 9st.

piste how old is your DD then? My brother used to row and I remember one summer someone lent him an ergo so we ended up trying to fit it in the car to take home - it was a Ford Galaxy but still had to be taken apart as I recall, they're huge!

Would gym membership be any use or is that a bit crappy?

LRD - thank you, she will be 14. She'd love gym membership but for round here she is too young unfortunately, i think you have to be 16+ but they do masses of land training through the school. Ergos are certainly big buggers. We made the mistake of saying if she could find one for free then she could have it, so she's been scouring free-cycle. She loves rowing, just heard this morning she has made it into the London Youth games team, she did trials a couple of weeks ago, but was young for the competition so we didn't hold out hope. She's away right now, but will delighted when she gets my text later!

Ergos themselves new are about £1000 mark, because it would have to be a fairly reasonable one. That's silly money, but also toooo big!

I'm thinking Jack Wills, maybe some earrings

Wow, sounds as if she is one to watch then! I live near a river where rowers train and it always looks extremely hard-core - I used to meet them occasionally coming back from training when I went to catch the 7am train! Ouch!

I think Jack Wills and earrings might be the way forward.

Anyway, I have a question (and the answer is not, please, a rowing machine!). All my weight sits around my stomach in an attractive sort of stretchy bag shape. I am absolutely rubbish at exercise and am forcing myself to go swimming atm as it's what I can stand, but it's probably not going to do anything for the Belly, is it? What can I do that will, do you think? And on a related note (sorry if TMI), why do sit-ups make me feel sick?

Definitely an ergo!!

Bebejones does sit ups, she may be able to help you, but I do think swimming is very good for one's tum. My prob is not my tummy, it's my puffy side bits, but I think just generally losing weight will help them subside.

Or just wear those big control pants!

I do love my control pants, they do a noble job.

Do you mind me asking what stroke it is that would do your tummy for swimming? I swim breast stroke as I have boobs that get too much of a pounding from front crawl, and I didn't think it was using any of those muscles. It'd be lovely if I'm wrong though!

Otherwise I shall wait for Bebe to pop in and ask her advice.

I think any swimming is good but imagine breastsroke is ideal!

Oh, that's great! I shall feel extra-virtuous now.

I go running these days and that nearly kills me but it has certainly changed my shape, and I think that it has helped my tummy and general front bit. My legs are better for it too. My iphone isn't cos I dropped it.

the plank and kettle bells works well for tummys

had a lovely day with dc, out in sunshine but i ate a huge slab of carrot cake

Carrot cake = 1 of your 5 a day, so that was good.

What does one do with a plank? That's what I call my DC - planks, when they are being less than sharp about stuff. If they are being really dim, I call them plankton. Obviously only in jest.

db calls his dc scrotes

and the plank you lie on floor, raise your self on fore arms and then on tiptoe and body/back/bum in striaght line

you can then walk the plank, which is moving one arm and opposite leg up (like the spotted dog)

I truly snorted at 'scrotes!'

DD does planks for core strength.
I don't. I do
Lying down watching BL!!!

seriously he does

he calls/teexts etc and asks how are the scrotes

That is very funny. But does he ever say to them.."You are such a scrote?"

oh no,that would be wrong!!

the cake

That's obscene
Obscenely yum!!

you did see it,wasnt sure as we are not friends on fb, so didnt know if would work

Is that you then - the Blonde one?!!!

it might be

'coy look'

Snorts again

I don't imagine there's much coy about you Mrs B!