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!

Oh Pony, I'm awful glad the bastid things are being nicer today but maybe better for your peace of mind if you weigh twice a week or summat instead??? I'm dreading tomorrow. I'd say it's been a 50-50 kinda week this end. Let's see

Oh Lord. No - full time PhD, 3 day a week job in the world of the law, some freelancing, and some other stuff. There is no fucking justice in the world - anyone else this busy would be whippet thin!

Now then. Today:

B Eggy bread
L Salad with tinned sardine and boiled egg
D the OM is doing some sort of bacon wrapped chicken from this month's SW mag.

Good luck everyone - how are y'all?

My weighing isn't every day. This is for the simple reason that the scales are in my office (no curtains) and there's a sixth form college down the road, which means lots of people walking past and weighing is done in the nuddy, post-poo!

Bloofer Oh wow, 1 month to PhD submission; that is a big deadline. I made a mistake a few years ago of using a bank holiday weekend to finish off a Masters dissertation. It was in fact Queensday 2007 and I lived right in the centre of Amsterdam ground floor in a tiny old house with no soundproofing... opposite a club... It was horrendous. I was actually in tears several times as it was like trying to write and polish it on a float in the middle of Notting Hill Carnival but as I had, of course, pushed right up to the last minute there was no other time it could be done.

CheeseandBiscuits Howdy and congratulations on your DD (first one?) Good luck with the ILs.

OnlyAPhase thanks to step in for weigh-in monitor. Are we still on Weds morning weighing?

AlpinePony Ha! to the non-daily weighing- Do you have a Dutch house with large windows and no proper curtains?

My fridge is now empty of anything that I'd actually like to eat so I guess Easter temptations are now done here. I can't believe how many times I opened the fridge door only to see no choc and close it again over the weekend. Utterly pathetic. I could have a great few weeks coming up for weightloss as DH normally cooks the big meals and I'm a minimalist when it's only me sorting for myself. I was delighted this morning that I've apparently gone through the 80kg barrier. I weigh daily and it can indeed be a huge boost but those short, happy fixes don't seem fairly balanced to the long trudge of always staying inline on eating/ drinking over the day.

Anyway, I'm in work today so better get orf. Laters.

Oh lawks C4ro you know how it feels then. And why WHY WHY WHY did I leave it this late. In fact I know all the answers to that, but still...

fortunately I have until June 24th, so it's technically 2 months. well nearly 2. But we'll say two, shall we?!

I would be up for having Days of Doom (TM) on Wednesdays from henceforth, partly because it fits with others' SW days and partly because otherwise it's only 6 day since the last weigh in and I binged on a Royal picnic. But willing to go with majority vote

well done on getting through the 80kg bit (meaning you are into 70s presumably?). I don't think I have ever weighed less than 80kg - indeed I suspect I was about that as a 13 year old!

Another vote for the Wednesday shift from me :)

Morning Boo!

I have just had a massive PMT fuelled weep. The OM will be bringing home this evening a small medicinal bar of Dairy Milk (13 syns I believe?!).

Thank you for all the lovely welcomes!! Isobel is my first daughter and is bloodly lovely ( even if I do say so myself!!). Cannot wait to have her back to myself. The in laws are lovely but are a bit like the health and safety police! Latest piece of advice was that I shouldn't be wearing flip flops as I could trip when carrying the baby!! Oh and maybe my breastmilk is of poor quality.. Well intended I think but hurrumph.

Not going to the sodding SW meetings as can't bear them. My mum goes though so I have cunningly pinched her online password. Going on hols in July so want to look half decent on the beach when stood next to my 2 size 8 sisters. I got the duff genes I reckon!

Weds is fine by me - I will finish off my Easter egg tomorrow then. Right off to entertain the ILs...walk along the Thames.

Good luck bloofer, hugest sympathies having been in a similar position myself 2 years ago.
Have a lovely day everyone

Symathies for the Phd deadline, I had PMT more recently than 2yrs ago. Dairy milk is, and always will be, the cure for PMT! That is a medical fact!

Ha, i am glad I have medical corroboration! Now where's that damn husband of mine????

Am feeling too weary and hormonal to study. Pants and piss pots. I think I'm going to make a pint of the strongest coffee known to man and see if that helps.

Wednesday weigh-ins are fine by me. The under 80kg (79.9 but it counts) is a big deal for me. I was 60-63 through my 20's and never had to think about it either. I don't think I can get back to that (without tapeworm/ eating disorder) but 70 is my target. Pregnancy put me up to 92+kg though so quite some way down already. Breastfeeding didn't help it though- In the first week about 8kg came off and that was it .

BlooferLady Come on then, what stage are you at on the write up of this PhD? Set yourself daily words targets to write/ review/ numbers of references to chase and keep pushing it forwards. Start early each day and no mooching round sorting your sock drawer! No choc in the morning; afternoon treats OK IF you've done 2/3rds the days targets...

Oh 79.9 most definitely counts! There's something so very magical about getting below a numerical threshold, even thought it's totally arbitrary really! We are dolts in some ways .

I remember when I got below 14st (this was very very slim for me - about a size 14, and the slimmest I had ever been since I was about 13) I called my mum up and sobbed down the phone with happiness. She is a lovely woman but my God, so buttoned up and British, and had specifically ZERO idea what to say !

My current target is to get below 15st and then I will be un-flounce from FB (some extremely hideous fat FB pictures precipitated a gigantic flounce and I declared i would not return until I was Fit For Human Consumption. There were other factors obviously but that's my target. Shallow? ME?!?!?!?!? )

THANKS for the encouragements C3PO - any chance you can keep this up for the next 2 months?! Mine is an odd one because it is practice based - I don't wanna own up to the subject as it is quite rare (I was in the first year of UK students to do it!), but will think of an analogy...

Imagine I am doing a practice-based PhD in biscuits. The main part of the PhD would be to produce between 80,000-100,000 yummy biscuits. They would have to be delicious and of a standard to be ready to sell, and would also need to be a new and original recipe. Then once the yummy biscuits were baked, I would then need to write a 40,000 word thesis on the recipe, and other similar biscuits, and what temperature the oven was, and how many batches I threw away before the final one was ready to sell. Are we following?!

So I have basically finished 90,000 biscuits. I am just icing them, so to speak. That was the hard bit. Now that's done I have to do the 40,000 word thesis bit. Which is not as hard and draining (no vanilla essence shortages, grating your own thumb whilst trying to produce copious quantities of lemon zest) but it is sort of Hard Work.

What a successful analogy that wasn't

I hear you on the sock drawer. Today I rearranged the rugs in the house. Oh yes. That'll get it done

can i join in too? have lots of weight to lose, but according to the dailymail, it because i have worn leggins, nothing to do with the fact i have eaten like a horse for the past five months then? that and i never lost baby weight from ds1 six years ago, or ds2 four years ago, or ds3 six months ago

today is day one for me also slimminmg world books, off to get some greek yog,

ignoring the calls of easter eggs

Course you can join in gkys, assuming you've been reading the Daily Mail ironically?

What, pray, was their reasoning about the leggings?!?! Damn you, now I am going to have to google ...

40 working days incl. today to submission day... I would make you knock off the last 10 days as you need to get your late draft checked/ approved by your supervisor and have time to get it printed, bound etc. So, around 30 working days means around 1,500 processed words a day. That is very possible. Keep your references REALLY tidy as you go or that's hell to sort.

How many words have you already got written though? I'm guessing really you've already done/ had signed off the lit review and have outline process done. Is it just the learning and development of the practical bits plus conclusions? I think instead of your weekly weigh-in, you should give us the % completion of your tome for the next 6 weeks!

'lo gkys I've just bought 2 pairs of wrinkled knee leggings things to go under tunic tops and shift dresses! HA and BALLS to the DM for saying it's fat wear

at the intelligent ladies on this thread. I would love to do a PhD but I fear that my student days are long behind me.

Leggings may be fat wear but I have to wear them otherwise

my legs rub together at the top and make me sore
No summer bare legs for tubby ol' me.

Well, I don't want to jinx myself but I am having rather a good week. The SW online doofer puts me at a BMI of 29.6 - that is the first time in years, years, YEARS that I have not been in the obese category. I don't even know how long it has been. I am thrilled! Who would have thought it was possible to be so happy to "only" be overweight!

Only another two and a half stone to go. Harrumph.

good for you pixiestix well done! over sweight is a dream for me at the min, only 4.9 ponits of bmi to lose and you are at a healthy weightxx keep it up

yep bloorferlady dm strikes again with its unique take on reality

first day out of thre way and i feel good

let youy know what the scales show next weekx

hullo all - I did a sneaky weigh today and its pretty shite really... but I went for a run last night and managed 1.8miles so thats something I guess!

I have decided I hate my scales... they are body fat ones - and I know they aren't 100% accurate but reading that you have 44% fat in you is a pretty shit start to the day isn't it!!!

hullo and welcome gkys :)

am happy for a wednesday DoD too

Hello hello, am in mad rush this morning but just wanted to set out the 'rules' such as they are for tomorrow's Day of Doom

If you can send me by PM these details -
amount of weight lost this week
amount of weight lost in total
amount of weight to loose to goal weight / interim goal weight

I will collate the list and publish early evening tomorrow

Looks like the majority are happy with Wed weigh days, I'm happy with this too but will be using my official weight from Tuesday's Meeting of Doom as otherwise I'll forget where I am.

Will remind you all tomorrow as well.

You know what you're talking 'bout doncha? Fancying coming to stay with me for the next few weeks?? I have a tiny box room full of junk luscious spare room in my spacious apartment .

Well. You see. The 90,000 biscuits are signed off by my supervisor (for every biscuit there is a word, if we can stretch this analogy until it snaps. Like a biscuit, in fact!), so that's OK. I have 2 pages of drunken scrawling in a Moleskine notebook that will form the basis of the 40,000 biscuits SORRY WORDS! of the critical piece. What I need to do now is whack that into a thesis outline, which'll only take a morning, then fling it at my co-supervisor. I realise you are by now very fervently wishing you hadn't asked.

To complicate matters further, someone now wants to act on my behalf selling the biscuits, but before doing so wanted the icing refined a bit. So even though the biscuits are finished as far as my supervisor is concerned, I am amending the icing on them for Other Purposes...

You have cheered me up though. 1500 a day is a mere bagatelle. Hey, tell me about your studies, as I am assuming you have done similar!

Pix I am not in the least clever I assure you - I just have a happy knack for biscuits!!!!

And WELL BLOODY DONE on slipping into the overweight territory. I know how important that is. Ah, how wistfully I remember that happening to me. I do hope to merely overweight again by the time summer really sets in.

Cheepcheep I am ASTONISHED at you running that far. Your body fat % isn't going to stay very high at that right!

Only you remain my hero. Fancy a snog behind the bike sheds later?

right rate.

Twat.

bloof - do remember that by run I mean a very slow jog!!! 26 mins it took me but weirdly it was the second half or so that went well.. I could have done further I think... found it VERY hard to begin with mind!

I am fairly certain I would collapse with an asthma attack after a mere 5 minutes, leaving concerned passers by to contact the local authorities to haul me to my feet with an industrial crane

when I started in feb I was stopping with my asthma after about 3 minutes - have built it up pretty gradually! I did need to walk a couple of times last night - 1 min or so, but am doing race for life in July and hoping to run ( jog very slowly) the whole way! eeeek

Oooo Race for Life - I've done a coupla those. Took me 45 minutes mind, which was either the fastest walker or the slowest runner, depending on how you look at it

At one point some woman jogged next to me and said "Oh you know I really do think you're doing most marvellously well" and I was FURIOUS, the patronising sow. I was a size 22 at the time, not a fucking 92 two year old amputee!