Busty Babe With GSOH Seeks SW Partner for Weigh-Ins, Bad Jokes & Barely Veiled Self-Loathing

[BlooferLady]

All right, when you've un-cringed from the above -

I'm about to (re-)embark on Slimming World and since I have neither the time nor the funds to go to classes could really do with a coupla pals for those delicious weekly morning weigh-ins. Is anyone interested? I guess it would be ideal if we were all SWing, but it ain't essential. It's the praise or blame I need, alongside willing recipients of lengthy descriptions of the size of my arse .

Few stats (and needless to say we needn't go in for actual weights here)

I lost 3.5 stone a couple of years ago on SW, and have gained about 20lb of that. I KNOW! Silly bint.

As a first step I want to lose 10lb because this will take me into the 'light enough for IVF' category (I have 6 months left before referral for fertility treatment and if not pregnant by then would like to arrive in the pink of health).

After that I would like to lose another 10lb and say 'hello stranger!' to my sad neglected wardrobe of vintage frocks.

Finally, if you are interesting in hanging out, would you mind awfully looking in the mirror and checking that you actually are properly overweight?! Because nothing would depress me more than celebrating getting into a size 16 dress, when everyone else on the thread was lamenting finding their size 10 skinnies a little snug

Right. I'll now sit back and await rejection. Alpine my luvva, if you're reading this do join!

I am with Fish who is trying to pack slimming world friendly foods to take camping with her. Any suggestions?

Ok - I weighed yesterday and lost 5 lb

WOO!

I say SW BBQ chicken thighs for picnics! Couscous salad also! Um.......carrot sticks and homemade hummus?

Am hungry now. WHOOOOOOOOO for Colditz! - I believe that would put you top of the Big Fat List! What's your secret?

I just had a mini strop at the gym because they're closed all bank hol. I am therefore joining another gym with an off-peak membership nearby, so I don't have to miss out . If this level of dedication doesn't a) put me at the top of the list on Wednesday's Day of Doom (TM) and b) give me buns of, if not steel, at the very least cooked as opposed to unbaked bread dough, I AM GOING TO DO MY FUCKING NUT.

Ahem.

Evening all!

colditz gracefully hands over shiny trophy for best weekly loss- CONGRATS!

I did actually find myself eyeing a vast plastic tub of something glorifying in the name of SCULPTRESS POWDER the other day

I don't think you could sculpt my body zackly. Squidge, yes. Wibble, absolutely. Sculpt: not. so. sure.

I have had a slightly norty food day t'day. I had a slap-up Vietnamese lunch with DH and wasn't going to eat owt this evening, but fancy ribollita and an easter egg. But I have been to the gym like 9 times in 10 days AND I WANT A TREAT DAMNITALLTOBUGGERYANDBACK

c4ro - no, it is yours, the reason being I weighed in late and forfeited my chance, as I had an extra day's slimming.

Congrats Colditz!

Well, my failure last week sent me into a tailspin of despair and I tried to bury my disappointment under a mountain of chocolate. 3 M&S caramel bubbly bunnies and a packet of minstrels later (did I mention that I have a problem with chocolate and moderation?) and I had a stern word with myself. So, since Tuesday evening I have been virtue itself . The gym will charge me rent if I spent any more time there...

Bloofer, you really should give yourself a break from the gym more often. My PT recommends no more than 4-5 sessions per week max. Your muscles need a bit of rest time to recover. And there's absolutely no way that the fucking fitness fascist he would suggest not exercising if there wasn't sound scientific backing for it. Or maybe it's just bad for business when your client gets stretchered out of the gym...?

Well I totally fucked up yesterday. I had a friend and her 3 children around for elevenses. Now, whenever I go around to her house (or those of mutual friends) there's a spread laid on. So I got washed & dressed (yes, get in!) and went around to the local bakery and picked up a beautiful strawberry tart. Shortbread with chocolate covered base, custard and strawberries on top. Not one of the buggers wanted a slice, it was hard enough trying to get a glass of apple & blackcurrent down them! Hence we had to tuck in to the cake ourselves... :(

But, the scales are still looking good and I'm just back from body pump feeling slight weak and jittery which must mean I had a good work out!

bloof, actualfuck is right - you shouldn't train every day - you need days off because it's the rest days on which the muscles grow. Unless you are in fact Paula Radcliffe, in which case please don't poo on the thread.

Oh my God Pony enough with the food porn - I'm salivating and not just in my mouth . Why the hell didn't they eat any? Sometimes I think these people are a difference species.

Is OK, I don't do the same muscle workouts on consecutive days. So will do just cardio on 1 day then on the day following do cardio + weights (for instance). I'm not training every day forever and ever: I'm having nearly 3 weeks off hell work and decided I'd treat it as a kind of boot camp. Then it'll be back to 4 times a week.

Today I derived immense pleasure from some tiny wood-elf of a sweatless creature getting on the adductor after me and moving the weight from 50kg to 25kg

Off to the ILs tonight, which means takeaway. Am instructing the DH to Keep An Eye On Me.

haha know what you mean bloof - of course the ultimate feel good is when a MAN has to move the weights down!

I know, fresh dutch strawberries on fresh homemade custard from a family bakery just 100 yards from my front door! What indeed is wrong with people?

I should be kicked off this fred in disgrace. I should list the things I didn't eat today, rather than the rather yummy foods I did. 'Tis all MrBoo's fault, I sent him shopping last night for foodstuffs for a picnic today and he came back with 3 types of gorgeous cheese.

Sisters, I confess, I succumbed to the temptation. And I also had an ice-cream. I did however do lots of cycling with a heavy DS on the bike seat. And I will be gooder than good tomorrow.

Good to know we've all been rubbish this week!

I was doing really well and feeling very pleased with myself today, and then in the time it takes to say "My, aren't I thin?" accidentally troughed two buttered hot-cross buns
Out for dinner with my mum tomorrow and then its Chocolate Egg Sunday so I am doomed from hereon in I think.

URGH URGH CHOCLIT URGH CURRY GRNNNNNNGNGNGNGN ROAST LAMB GRRRRRRRR ICE CREAM GNGNGNGNNNNNN GUESTS ALL WEEKEND URGH POMMES DAUPHINOISE SDFLSIUDBFLSJIHBDFHUSBLDFBLDUIFBS **

^ what you lot said ^

This week is a write off already!

On the good side, DS has had a lovely d&v bug (which resulted in him vomming all over my lovely new dress today - in public) so am hoping to get a turn at that to shift some pounds! desperate

We're all doomed, doomed!

Having a shocker of a week here too, every day is fine until about 5pm when the siren call of wine and crisps lure me into the kitchen.

Saw myself on film today and could have wept. I look like a barrel with fat legs, dressed in such middle aged clothes. But I still came home and ate some Nutella on buttered toast, what in the name of all that is holy is wrong with me?

Oh and Cheep sorry to hear about your new dress, but don't hold your breath about the d&v bug - DD had one last week as did one of our dogs, but neither of them were generous enough to share. Just so selfish!

Positively angelic here - survived DD2's 1st birthday, my birthday, and just the christening to go tomorrow, and ducking all the eggs!

well ahem polishing halo here as have just got back from a run... AGAIN ... thats 3 in a week.... so there [bugrin]

here's my dress minus the sick if anyone is nosey here

OnlyAPhase You're reminding me of Louise in "Pulling" who arrives back in the UK after travelling and her friends marvel at her slimline figure. "I know, amoebic dysentry".

I haven't eaten loads of crap yet , although I may have finished off that strawberry cake - although it wasn't going to keep was it?

I'm off to the stables in a mo, do my exercise and then vegetate. Yesterday the only exercise I did was cycling to the supermarket to get the food in. Uphill too. This might be slightly more impressive if we couldn't almost see the supermarket from the end of our road... plus yes, it is uphill going, but coming home with saddlebags (yes, real ones, not just my thighs!) laden with shopping is downhill and gravity does the work. Still, at least it was a nod at exercise. I then carried the baybee around a "golf emporium" whilst my boyfriend got his metaphorical socks off.

Those cute little Easter fairy cakes. With chocolate mini eggs on top. Bugger it.

Survived everything except the quiche - had a nice big bit, but no cake or chocolate. My DD1 won the easter bonnet competition too

Hello all. Well, as expected, delicious food and tons of wine and choc at brothers wedding in France all weekend. Decided to just enjoy it all; it's not the time to hold back and suffer on short rations. Interim weigh does show a small +ve but not as bad as it could be ... A French wedding service is a laff- it was a civil service, done by the local deputy mayor and took 20 minutes only which included the English translation of everything. In outline they read you about 6 pieces of French code with official numbering and it is mostly about the kids. There is a nice "bring what you can to the partnership" ethos; it's a bit like brownies where you only have to "do your best". The 8 hour drive there and back was not so great, but bearable as we set off both times at 330am so there were at least 3 hours of the run that DD was spark out.

AlpinePony Who on earth passes the chance for a fresh strawb cake? The big weirdos.

BlooferLady While going to the gym loads is a good thing as it will wedge it firmly into the schedule so it doesn't become skip-able, you're making us all look bad so pack it in!

I also saw my parents who had very sweetly got me a big box of organix stuff over from the UK for DD. They also got two massive twirl easter eggs though... I have eaten nearly both the shell now

cheepcheep I like your maxi dress- the top looks like it would be flattering. My DD manages to poo/ sick on anything nice I put her in so take it as a positive judgement.

On the plus side of all the events, it's impossible to feel much guilt about enjoying yourself on special days like birthdays and christening. Congrats to your DD for her bonnet win. Did she get a prize or just kudos for it?

pixiestix The only way to avoid the hot cross bun is to not have them in the house. Those and crumpets.

MadameBoo Mini eggs truly are ace. Here is an only too true commentary on them; WASAW. That site is filled with funny reviews of chocs as well but YMMV.

Have eaten self sick
Family now gone.
Am wallowing in self-loathing. Have party to attend. Shall smoke self deaf in attempt to ward off booze/food.
Fully intend to vanish off MN on Day of Doom (TM)
So mizz have mislaid pronouns...

How lovely going to a wedding in France .

I've had a nice lazy Easter with DC and friends. I've eaten no choc or anything bad because I want (need) this so much.

The older you get the harder the weight is to shift and I'm not going to self harm (that's how I see it) by eating crap or even posh choc. There's tons of it around me as I sit here on my fat behind but doing the SW thing of having a proper platefull of food 3 times a day is really helping me stay on the straight and narrow.

I'm about a size 18/22 depending and everytime I go into fucking Evans to buy clothes I say to myself "This is the very last time I come into the deppessing fat shop but it never is the last time.

I just want to be a size 14 and go to any bloody shop I like and buy clothes for pleasure. That's what we all want isn't it and it's never too late and nobody can do it for us. So squirt fairy liquid on the rest of the eggs, cakes, etc and put them in the bin. Lets be done with the self loathing and start looking after ourselves

Lets rediscover our hip bones and our female shapeliness girls. Loosing weight is hard work, I think of it like a part time job where I get no days of at Easter or xmas. I'm (finally) doing it, very, very slowly. I'm doing it for me because I deserve to feel slim and nice and happy.

I really recomend finding a SW group with a consultant that you get on with. Mine is fantastic and it makes all the difference. The only really naff thing is that horrid raffia basket full of mouldy fruit that the slimmer of the week gets and luckilly that will never be me.

Chuck the choc, it's the path to missery, failiure and excrutiating gallstones.