The Big Fat List and the Days of Doom (TM) Part V - Once we were plump but now we are thinner, and looking forward to our Christmas Dinner! (Also incorporating the New Year weigh in confession thread)

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So, here we have our nice new little thread. No food type is banned from being mentioned. It is Xmas afterall . So pull up a comfy chair, I've put a good film on the telly for you, put some logs on the fire and laid out some snacks. We have stollen, mince pies, chocs, shortbread, smelly cheese and crackers, wine and baileys.

Feel free to add anything else!

This thread will self destruct later in the new year, so don't worry about confessing to eating naughty nibbles, or putting on the odd pound (or 8).

Enjoy, and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

It has been a rotten day, hasn't it. Impressed at your getting out and about Cheese - I've been dead lax on the exercise this week. Must Try Harder.

PS Cheese you checking in for BL at 9pm?! DH is on nights and I might actually have to speak to him during the programme. What a fucking liberty

And I have made the schoolboy error of finishing dinner by 6.30pm, which means I now have a looooooooooong evening stretching ahead with no food in sight. How unspeakably depressing.

Yes I will be checking in. DH is actually in this eve so I'm going to have to talk to him as well fucking hell

In fact I hear a key turning. Best be off!

honestly, these husbands of ours. I mean it's not like they work punishing hours safe-guarding their fellow-me...oh, hang on

Dh has declared that I deserve a gin and slim...huzzah!

I'm totes watching Biggest Loser USA at 8. That's 2 hours straight of fat telly

Hahaha I will tell him that. You'll make his day as I've been a snipey bitch miserable tonight.

Oh which channel is that on?

Aw, sorry you've been feeling mizz

It's on Sky Living. Home of trashy goodness and my favourite thing ever I have read Joyce you know! No seriously!

YUM, the soup was delicious.
I assume it was SW friendly but I'm no expert. So, for those of you that are experts at SW and soup making, I had a bag of finely chopped veg (suitable for soups and bolognese type dishes), I added salt, pepper, garlic and a lamb oxo cube. I blended it for a bit so it was still a bit lumpy.
It really did taste amazing, I didn't know I could make something that nice!

So, does it sound okay for SW to you?

Hi all! Will read back through everyones messages as has been a bit mad here with the MIL pretending to be a yoyo and bouncing back and forth plus have had the flu and computer issues
I put on last week and think at WI tomorrow I will have again but hopefully will give me a good kick up my ample backside

waves to everyone will return after I've caught up x

Aah I'm alright really, pre work blues I think. I'm watching biggest loser USA too - 10 bloody percent of his body weight

Yep kid that sounds pretty SW friendly too me! Well done on your first ever soup.

I've only just realised that was in one bloody week

Kid that is perfect SW and I want some!

Yo Huff, nice to see yer

DH is most incensed that they are losing 30lb when our chaps are losing like 3

This cannot be in a week. It can't!

I know, the Brits aren't quite as hefty but even so!

I know this sounds mental given I have lost, like, 4lb, but I am starting to fret about getting to my target and being slim but having loads of floppy skin I've been fat for 15 years - heck, nearly 20. That skin ain't going to pop back, is it?

TSP
I think if you exercise as you lose weight, the skin has a chance to shrink back a bit but I don't think it will ever be as tight as it was. But, if its just empty skin, you can tuck it in your clothes, thats my plan anyway

I measured myself last night. I've lost 2inches off my stomach since I last measured it a zillion years ago

Kid it's true, loose skin is somewhat easier to disguise! I'm not so worried about my tummy because I figure if I have children - which obviously I am very much hoping I can - it's going to be shot to bits anyway. But I have very very big bingo wings with stretch marks, and really the most gargantuan thighs you have ever seen, and I worry that I still won't be able to wear bare legs/short sleeves in summer even if I lose 40lb!

Anyway I am being bonkers.

HURRAH for the 2 inches! That's a whole dress size!

I think if you get down the gym now with a combo of Pilates / CV work to build muscle under the flab then your skin should be ok-ish. However, if you rapidly drop weight without exercising then you will have loose skin. That's my thinking!

Evening fellow slimmers

Weigh in tonight, managed to lose 1/2lb but only because I removed my shoes . Honestly, I deserved to gain but thanks to you lovely lot I did pull it back yesterday and today. Back on track now with a 4lb target for this week.

TSP there are 2 target members at my group both of whom say they have excess skin. One has lost 5st and runs loads. I'm just hoping that since I'm so young and all it'll be fine

hmm. I think you are tres right re. exercise.

I will not be going to the gym - I know from personal experience and a lot of wasted money that it's just not going to work. I will carry on my walking - just bought some Fit Flop trainers which I'm looking forward to - and aim to get jogging once I'm really storming it on my walks. And I think I'll get down the swimming pool too - just ordered some new swimming costumes for my hols and I feel far more confident in them which is a great incentive. I do a manic and terrifying powerful back stroke so it does tone my arms and shoulders loads when I do it.

Kindly point me to these posts when I have failed to lose more than a stone in 6 months

TSP
My local gym is only £15 a month and that includes use of the gym at any time, most classes with an instructor, a womens only section of the gym and 1/2 hour torture session with a personal trainer. I've been a member for a year now and its great there.

Haha I might come and chase you around Victoria park, that will scare you enough to get jogging

Seriously swimming is amazing for toning, fab idea.

OMG Kid - that's MY local gym

(You do live near me don't you!?!) I bet you a tenner you've seen me there!

I actually have a membership there until April but I don't go. I just hate it. HATE it. I hate the palaver of being in a gym, I hate walking through that fucking intimidating men's weight training bit (this is assuming it's the same one, which it plainly is), I hate the mirrors where I can see myself, I hate the ladies room where everyone is tiny except me. I HATE HATE HATE it. And I feel fucking bad enough about having spent my life in obesity with feeling like I'm punishing myself for it, you know?

Maybe when (if ) I get smaller I'll have more confidence, but for now it's long walks, I think.

*without

Sorry about the rant!!! I do know that going to the gym would help my loss. I just can't face it yet, 'tis all.

yes, it's the same one and I too hate the walk through the weights part but I just look ahead!
I go wearing my gym clothes and leave in them too so I don't hang around in the changing rooms.
I wonder if we've seen eachother there?!

I pay monthly so am free to leave whenever I want, but I like it there. Its really hard at this time of the year as its too cold outside!

Its a 5 minute drive from my house. I could probably walk it in about 35 minutes max, (so the car it is then!)