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)

[grinningbee]

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!

Cheese I have 3 pairs of work trousers in a size 14 you could have if you want them, but the are regular length so you'd have to talk them up

I'm starving, really missing my usual huge portion of melon for for breakfast.

Thank you hedge, that's really kind. But I know from past experience that I won't bother getting them take up .

I'm starving and can't decide what to have for lunch!

I stood playing with my bottom yesterday (not like that!) it is so big, I can't tell you. I mean really, really, really huge. I cannot even begin to imagine wearing trousers of any description, never mind ones in a size 12 or 14

Sometimes I honestly believe that being slim is an impossibility akin to flying. I mean, people who used to be slim know it's possible but for those of us who have been obese since early teens....I dunno. I just can't see it, meself!

Hello all A loss for me today too - not a huge one but I'll take anything going!

You speak the truth Scarlett. Even though I have lost more than 25% of my start weight I still feel like I'll never actually be slim. I'm slimmer obviously, but of all my friends I'm still the "fat" one, and I'm still a way off a healthy BMI. It feels like it will never happen, and as soon as I start making some progress the little imp within causes me to obliterate that progress as fast as I can.

Yo Pix! I have [[http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/big_slim_whatever_weight_loss_club/1391608-Has-anyone-here-NEVER-been-slim started a thread] on it because I'd be so interested to know views...

And yes! The little imp! Oh how I well I know that wee shite!

And yet if I just stuck to SW rigidly for three months say, I would probably hit target and be the thinnest I've ever been. What sick self-destruct button means that I can't do that? Three months is nothing at all!

Oh bum

try this

Pix that is so precisely what I think. And see my other thread - I just feel like people like me being fat

Not ebcause they hate me or anything but because I look so exactly what I am - cosy and matronly and a good pastry cook and very, very unlikely to turn their husbands' heads!

Just seen your excess skin post above - I'm not slimmer of the year by any means but in the last two years I've lost about 45lbs and I haven't got any baggy skin at all. No signs of having been bigger at all really, apart from the teenage stretch marks, but most people have those anyway! And, yes, you are right, the post-partum tummy is something to be very, very scared of. Nothing to be done about the old bowl-a-porridge beneath the waistband Bleurgh.

TSP I totally know what you mean. I don't have a target because I honestly have no idea what a healthy weight/size would be for me. I remember thinking I was fat when I was in primary school (I wasn't, but it just goes to show that what you believe about yourself eventually happens). I am chuffed about my weight loss so far but I've only really lost what I put on since having my DDs. I have 7 stone to go until I am overweight, not obese. This is a long long journey. I am also back in control which is the battle won, IMO.

Wow Pix - 45lb is amazing and about what I want to lose. Er, in 6 months. That's not going to happen is it?!

Really reassuring re. baggy skin. I suppose my worry is that my poor epidermis has been stretched for 15 years, but we'll justhave to wait and see....

Am arfing (in terror) at the bowl o' porridge...

Deb thanks pal, it's always nice to know someone knows what you mean...I remember feeling fat in primary school and although there are perhaps like 2 photos of me as a child () I can see that I was by no means a tiny delicate slip of a thing, but neither was I fat. I also used to come second in the 100m sprint every year and played on the school netball team, so I can't have been too much of a wibbly couch new-potato...

Wotcha I'm only popping in briefly - life ain't arf got in the way this last week. Boo!

TSP this is for your eyes only. I too have been big since forever (20+ years). At the risk of getting thumped by Slinky for boasting I am going to do the unthinkable, and tell you my starting measurements.

Bust 49, Waist 45, Hips 55

Now that is not something I like to shout about, but there you are. After almost 8 months of doing my best, my arse in now just over a foot narrower than it was. Last time I checked I had lost 33 inches from those measurements. I hope that helps even just a smidge.

Now then, you can look again everyone.

I'm sorry for going AWOL, and I am going to miss my first ever weigh in this week, if that's ok with you guys (hope you understand). I'll be back with you again next week!

bee not that I read your stats, but that is incredible and a real encouragement. Thanks for sharing :)

Well done bee. We misses you on the Fred. Hope all is ok.

pix well done on a loss, back in control.

tsp will read your other thread laters. Be very afraid of the post baby tum, it's grim.

Jeez, I've got nice clothes on as NCT bunch are coming over and some of them are vairy smart. I've made beef stew for dinner tonight to try and use some of the mountains of veg we have. Managed to spray myself with lea & perrins. FFS! What the fuck am I going I wear now.

Forgot to say earlier hi huffers. How's it going with the MIL.

Bee, you are a darling thing, and you are also incredibly inspiring and brilliant. That's amazing. I might print that off and stick it to the fridge. I have never ever known anyone tell me their stats and in return I can tell you that at my very largest, at the age of around 22 having suffered long-term glandular fever, clinical depression and a bad back, my hips were bigger than that by a good 2-3 inches...

Wow! Looks like ti IS possible then!!!!

Scarlett I should have said - the two years that I took to lose that weight did actually include getting pregnant and popping a sprog, so you have no excuses at all missy - 6 months is bloody childs play!

Bee its good to see you! I saw what happened to J on FB and it made my blood run cold I didn't look at your stats, honest, but if I had I would say "Wow, that is bloody fantastic and inspiring". But I didn't, so I'm just mooching around nonchalantly saying nowt.

Fucking hell that's some achievement!

Oh I do hope 6 months is feasible. It's only 2lb a week. I am daydreaming of my FIRST EVER SUMMER of not hating every picnic and every miserable glance at my hulking great reflection sweating miserably in a black yashmak and also I am going to cut all my hair off and get a tattoo

Bee dearie, I hope all is well

Debka I am totally with you on the "What the hell is my target" question. I have no idea what I can maintain in a realistic way. I have set my target for three pounds inside my healthy BMI range, to be tweaked and changed depending on how I feel when I get there.

Still haven't caught up - think I need to jump on the laptop!

Ahhhh the MIL...well after she moved out the first time she came home before a week was out to go hospital with me (my cyst is still the same size so see my gynaeo next week to talk options before hopefully TTC again). She was home for 2 days then had another strop and left while DP was on a day off work and DC and I were at playgroup claiming the cooker was dirty and I never did any clearing up sigh

I let myself believe she was gone but she's back again! And after apologizing to me is being sweet as pie
They do say that as people get older they get more childlike so I think as she's nearly 85 we're nearing the end of the teenage years and heading towards toddler....

Still at least I know I've earnt my place in heaven!

Weigh in tonight and reckon it's going to be a gain as the whole situation has stressed me which equals eating but hopefully will spur me on

Oh excess skin worries me too...I've got a mahoosive fat roll under my belly button that I can't even blame on the babies it was fairly well established before them

I must check out your thread TSP on who's always been fat because that's me! Even though I only got puppy fat in highschool I was teased because of it and then the comfort eating kicked in!

I remember when I last did sw. I managed to get down to 9st 4lb which was amazing for me. I still didn't consider myself skinny but others did apparently. I lost that weight by following sw at home by myself. I can only dream of being 9 st something. I'd even settle for 9st 13.5lb at the moment I guess if I did it that once, I can do it again.

I've sts this week which I'm fine with. I went off the tracks again last week and only pulled it together on Monday. I'm expecting a loss next week.
My clothes are feeling looser so I'm not focussing too much on the scales this week.

A quick post from me as off to the gym.

You can tell its the end of Jan as the list is dwindling

Have just PM'd you Cheese as just in from group x

Just doing today's food diary to help me work out if I have a healthy extra left or not...

B: omelette with peppers, ham, cheese. Huge amounts of mushrooms.
L: sweetcorn chowder (new recipe from the all in one book). apple. pear.
Post gym snack: fruit and seed flapjack from my graze box (3.5syns)
D: gammon, chips (c2 syns of oil), stringless beans, broccoli, carrots

Excellent, I can have a HEb. :)

We almost need a new thread btw ladies.

sorry cheese, I missed WI this morning, and have narrowly avoided a migraine tonight so have only just got caught up on the thread.

Had to take DS1 to town to see his paediatrician this morning (4 days -maybe almost 5- it's taken me to sort out his bedroom as she said she wanted him to tidy it and she wanted to see before and after photos at our next appointment... she didn't even mention it - that's a missed college session, a late OU assessment, a diet fail and an ironing mountain for no reason.), then DH had his JC appointment, then occupational therapy for DS1, so been in town all day. Had to deputise my poor parents to go to the "enterprise workshop" at school as DS3 was representing reception in the presentation and I couldn't bear to think of him not having someone there to see him. Then band rehersal with DS1. nearly went to bed with no treat and no wine

hope you've all had a good DoD