The Big Fat List and the Days of Doom (TM) Part VI - The thread in which we Spring Into Action

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Sorry chaps, my thinking cap is busted. Best title I could manage tonight!

Loads of comfy chairs in here, bowls of fruit, and lots of superfree veggies to snack on

So, settle in, have a natter, and let's show the lard who's boss!

Bee
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Morning!

Just a quicky (back properly when dd at playgroup). Tis The Day of Doom! Please PM me with your stats, and I shall bung a list up later on. I'll wait till about 9/9.30 to give you all a chance.

Back later!

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TSP Couldn't not reply to you. Rather than calorie counting, why not re-try Sw? Your effort is not for nothing - and remember, you yourself said you were bunged up in the downstairs department, and also PMT suffering, so you may have STS this week, but keep going, and next week will be a stonker!

If you lived closer I'd damn well come over and give you a bear hug!

Thanks all and sorry for being an Eeyore. It's just it's been such a massive shitter of a 12 months, with every single thing I've tried to do being an epic failure, and I honestly thought that unless I was some sort of slime-based alien life form I would at least be able to control my weight. Apparently even that is beyond me

Bee I did try SW a couple of times after my big loss on it in 2008/9 and it just did nothing for me. I think I have to have something that is really stringently controlled or I just overeat But if another couple of weeks of MFP is doing nothing I might switch. Or just give up, who knows

Morning all

Oh TSP you poor thing, that is gutting . I know it's a cliche, but honestly, some weeks it sticks and then if you keep at it, the next week it shows on the scales. Life (and the scales) can be cruel, but please don't give up! Definitely agree you should do a 'mid-week' weigh in on Sat, am sure that will give you better news as you've been positively saintly for 7 days.

We had a wonderful time celebrating ds's 1st birthday on Monday - thanks so much for all the messages! We actually had a double-celebration as I proposed to Mr Slinky and he said "yes!" !! So am very . We went out for lunch to the place we first met (a pretty World Heritage site), and I got down on one knee in a deserted field of neolithic stones, with ds in dp's arms, and produced a ring and popped the question! Hoping to tie the knot by the time the year is out; just a small registry office do with close family I expect.

Anyway Sorry for off-topic ramble, and Good Luck for DoD everyone - will look forward to oooohing and aaaahing at The List later!

P.S I've STS, but am happy with that as at target and been guzzling bottles of bubbly and eating masses of chocolate cake.

Oh oh oh happy bidet to BabySlinky AND MASSIVE CONGRATUMALATIONS!!!!!!!

There should be an emoticon for this so you'll have to have and instead Oh I feel positively snuffly. What lovely lovely news! Have some XXX even though that's a tad nethuns.

RIGHT I have pulled myself together a bit. DH has pointed out that I have lost just over 2% points in body fat, and you're only supposed to be able to lose about 0.5% per week, so 2 in 4 weeks is on track. And my very sweet colleague suggestd that since I am clearly riddled with PMS mizz that I calorie count in a chocolate bar, so I have dutifully allowed for a bar of Dairy Milk Fruit and Nut [clarsy bird emoticon]

Cheese I know you're not reading this but sending all sorts of good vibes for today.

Right you lovely lot, get PM'ing please

Slinky Massive congrats on the engagement. Fab news! Please can you PM me all your stats for the list? Ta muchly If not I shall have to go searching through the old list!

TSP Now then. Have you taken measurements of yourself? It is possible to have lost inches without losing weight, especially with all the walking. Waaaaaaay back in the mists of time, my old consultant used to say you could have lost inches but not weight, but the following week would show it. You are not allowed to give up, as you started all this! .

Food for the day:

Ready Brek, 1 x Ryvita dark with 1tsp jam (1/2 syn), banana
Omelette with red onion and cherry tomatoes, yogurt
Left over beef rogan josh with lots of veg, 2 slices of hobbit bread

Cheese I hope today is going well

Thanks guys! Love the but am off the for a few days .

bee I don't think I'm going to bother joining in with the actual list each week now, as I'm at target and Weds are usually a really busy day for me (day off today, but normally out of the house for almost 12hrs). But please may I stay on the thread?! . I've been about 11st for months now, and feel it is natural to fluctuate 2-3lbs, so no point being added to The List IYSWIM?

cheese Am also thinking of you today, foxy Dr!

TSP that's so discouraging, but as everyone has said, PMT and Needing To Go do take their toll, and I bet my large wobbly bottom that next week you'll have a good loss. Enjoy your fruit and nut and remind yourself that you WILL do it :)

bee did you get my pm?

slinky that's lovely you old romantic huge congratulations :)

Food today-
B- bacon and egg- forgot my fruit, oops!
L- half baked potato, left over lamb casserole thing mixed with baked beans, 2 pears (making up)
D- lasagne and salad
S- 2 weetabix and a begrudged apple (possibly) after my run

Debka yes, I did thank you. You're on the list

Slinky No probs. And yes, you'd better stay on the list or we'll come and find you .

Picked dd up from playgroup earlier. Just as I was strapping ds back into his buggy I moved my hand quickly and both my engagement and wedding rings flew off! Think it might be time to get them altered as they are both very loose. Thank goodness I found them. The engagement ring already has a gold bar thingy in it to make it smaller...

H is off on another lads day/night out at the weekend. Git. He's going with M's husband. I'm a bit cross actually. There she is, having radiotherapy all this week, and the first day off and he's going out. And he isn't going to any of the appointments with her . There's burying your head in the sand, and then there's being an insensitive arse. Just my opinion mind you!

Rotten to hear m's husband isn't being supportive. It's hard to know how you'd react in the same situation. I can bet he will be expecting lots of help and support when the inevitable happens

I sent DoD VIA Fb, did you receive it?

I'm trying some red days for a while, I need a substantial loss to make me want to stick it out. At this rate, it could go 2 ways. I'll either just stop eating and starve myself or I'll stuff my face with anything or everything. Both are bad choices so I'll stick with sw for now but its sooooooooo slow!

hello I'm here lurking frantically trying to work ekkkkkkkkk Quickly I've just had a quick read through Slinky congrats, TSP ((hugs)) but it will happen stick with it I am sending diety vibes your wey, Bee grrrrrr to DH, and Cheese hope it all goes well. Will mail you later Bee not a spectacular week for me shall we say (but the cream at the w/e was tres yummmm). Right back to my deadlines

woosh>>>>>>>>>

Kid I got it, thanks.

I know we all react differently to stuff. When H had stomach cancer back in 2007 we didn't get any help at all from anyone. H also cut me out of going to any appointments, so I never really knew what was going on. He'd set up our market stall, leave me to run it (so I couldn't get away), then go and have his treatment, come back and pack up. But that night and the following day he mostly spent asleep. I did what I could, as far as he would let me anyway.

I just don't understand though why he wouldn't want to be there for her .

We think there's a distinct possibility that he'll just drink himself to death after all this. He's a bus driver, and had to be replaced on a school run when the teachers got concerned that he was crying in the bus . He needs help but won't have it.

Anyway. back to lard losing! Just eaten a very yummy omelette. They don't half fill me up!

bee it is so hard for the partner I think. My mum has terminal cancer, although her prognosis is pretty good atm. My dad is a wonderful, good man but even he behaves in a way we can find weird and difficult. Men can't always express their feelings, they deal with them in a very different way from us I think. For example when my dad is worried (a lot of the time tbh) he gets angry, esp with my mum, although he isn't really angry, he is concerned. He's (in the last 10 yrs since she got her initial diagnosis) developed different coping strategies. Of course your friend's H hasn't had the chance to do this so he is just 'managing' how he can- I imagine he just wants to escape from it all for a while. Can't really blame him. Not much help really, that little monologue, but much sympathy for you, your friend and her DH.

I'm here! After only six hours of trying to load this bloody page!

Right...

Now listen to me, young lady.

1. You said yourself that you are PMSing like a mad thing and retaining water all over the place. So this weigh in result is practically guaranteed to be due to water retention and not fat retention. It is fat loss not weight loss that counts.
2. Given point 1. - you have just said yourself that you have now lost 2% of your body fat and that is brilliant and totally on the right track, so absolutely no moping allowed.
3. You said earlier in the week that you had lost 1.5 inches off your boobs - now if you aren't losing weight then what evil voodoo magic caused that to happen, hey?

All of these points lead me to demand that you don't feel sorry for yourself anymore because you are losing weight, you are just full of bloat and periodyness right now

And fair do's, if I had tried as hard as you have this week and maintained then I would be pissed right off too, but you are at a crunch point and if you give up now you will kick yourself for ever more. All you have to keep doing is exactly what you are doing.

So there.

Still haven't read the while thread and about to go on school run, but just wanted to say:

Bee will pm you when I get back.

TSP it's so hard when you don't lose weight, but... A girl at SW gained 1lb last week, despite having stuck rigidly to plan, she was really upset. This week she'd lost 6 while pounds!!! Also, my friend has 'only' lost 6lbs since starting SW, but she walks loads and she has lost 7" off her waist! So all is not lost, keep going! I eat gazillions is SW, ridiculously huge portions and still lose weight, so maybe consider it?

Congratulations SlinkyBride!!! How exciting! Were you nervous? I think I would have had last minute jitters how ever sure I was of the answer.
If you really are at target then you deserve a bit more of a fanfare than that! Our first target member!! etc

I am cluster posting in case my bastard internet breaks again...

Oh Bee, it must be so hard to watch M's husband being useless struggling

On the wedding ring front - get them resized now! If you look closely at my FB photos you will see that I am wedding-ring-less. It fell off in November about 24 hours after I commented on how loose it was and we haven't got the cash to replace it. for the ring but for being so skinny that things just fall off me

As its DoD, I just treated myself to a dark chocolate digestive biscuit. It wasn't even that nice but its the only form of chocolate we have in the house.

At least my dinner is done so I don't have to think about what to eat tonight. I've got chicken thighs (skinless and boneless) which i might chuck in a curry of some kind for tomorrow.

Quick hallo, Thanks for doing the list bee, have pm'd you, hope I'm not too late.

DS2 on Day 4 of sickness bug and on daily visits to GP to assess hydration.
He's finally kept some dioralyte down today so hopefully we've averted a trip to the hospital for IV fluids. It's grim when they're ill
On a positive note, nothing like dealing with vomit and diarrhoea to suppress one's appetite

Hope today went well cheese have been thinking of you.

TSP there is no way that your saintly diet and exercise regime this week won't show reward on the scales next week, don't be disheartened.

Congrats slinky

Back for proper catch up tonight, DS2 permitting

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THANK YOU all for giving me a pep talk. Pix you can stay sitting on me if you like Midori, what a flipping achievement - SEVEN INCHES?!?!?!?!?! I don't think I could lose 7 inches without a corset! I am so sorry, talk about throwing all my toys out of the pram, and out of the window behind the pram, and onto the heads of startled passers-by. I am NOT going to stop: that'd be stupid. I am going to carry on and hope that by doing a succession of massive shits/getting over my PMT I will get some Results. And stop behaving like a stroppy teen

On to much more important things: Bee I can't begin to understand what you're all going through or how hard it must be to watch your friends struggle like this. I mean - what does one say? It sound like he is going through a very male sort of reponse, which sounds like such a cliche but I do think denial is for some people the first resort. There are no words for these situations but honestly, you sound as if you are such a help even though it's far from the easiest thing to do

Cheese matey, hope all went well today

Sorry if I've missed anyone. You're all LUSH you are

I'm tired, is it bedtime yet?
Still got to make the rice to go with dinner, I have to pick DD up from a friends, I have to drop a letter off and also some presents to a friends house.
Then it will be bedtime for me I think. Need to work out tomorrows menu which I can then post here and some kind soul can check it out for me

Right, lets get cracking with that rice. Not even going to check the cauli rice out right now as that will require extra energy and I don't know if I have enough to make it through the night as it is!

I won't be bothering with the morrocan lamb again. It wasn't very nice at all. I did eat it as I know it was a healthy meal but DH, who will eat anything, didn't like it.

The lamb was lovely and soft as I'd cooked it in the slow cooker, but the flavour wasn't nice.

I'm about to make a mild chicken curry using chicken thighs, lets see if thats any better! I'm not sure which would be a better use of syns or B choice, rice or SW chips.

TSP, sounds like you have got a more sensible head on now which I'm pleased to hear.
I'm venturing to the gym tomorrow night, its been a long time since I was last there!

Oh what a shame Kid, it's always disappointing when something you've been looking forward to goes wrong. Chicken thighs are great in curry though - so tender

Loved your pep-talk to TSP, Pixie - seems to have done the trick! Glad you're in a better frame of mind now, the chocolate no doubt helped

And thanks for the fanfare re: my target too. It was once to be 10st 10lbs, and I got to 10st 13.5 once, and I could probably get down to there again if I really really really tried...but I'd be fecking miserable and put it all on again or get really obsessive and weird, so 11st it is! Was 11st 0 3/4 this am, so as long as I don't go over 11st 2 I'll be happy. If by some weird way I can shift the last 4lbs then fab, but I'm not going holding out any hope as life's so busy right now! Annoying that I was 2lbs off getting my 2st sticker though... .

Oh, and was very nervous about proposing; dp is divorced and all 'once bitten twice shy', so wasn't 100% sure he'd say yes!

kid what a disappointment. Hope you rest well after all those chores.

Been for my run despite the freezing weather , now eating a Coconut Muller Light, yum.

Right food for tomorrow.
B- bacon, egg, pear
L- got some carrots, could make carrot soup?
D- gammon, potatoes, carrots, cabbage. Can't wait.