The Big Fat List and the Days of Doom (TM) Part IX - The One With A Wedding and Some Weightloss

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Here we are again - new thread time! Can you believe we're on our 9th one?

I've been down to DFS and got us some new squidgy sofas. Feel free to add anything else you like

I am stuffing my face with eating a bubbles bar right now...it is heaven in my mouth

Think this name is more apt

I love twirls. A lot.

Been poorly and not eaten today so should have some loss this week. Got til Friday for my weigh in so will see. The thought of food at the mo is quite repulsive.

yum, I like twirls too.

Thanks for reposting Slim, although I was busy searching while you posted that
Right, let me see if I can follow it now.

Can I take a couple of days off though as it is almost my birthday and it would be rude not to celebrate.

Are you hiding your food in case we do a house to house search? As long as my desk is left untouched then I would pass with flying colours

Anyways I voted one of you lot for the title of Skinny Minny and FHF said mine was the only vote!!! Shocking

RIGHT YOU LOT!!!!!!!!! Let's do this!!

100% on plan, no excuses?? No slip ups, and no AWOLs Ria

4 weigh ins til Christmas!

I want menus, I want food diaries, I want weighed and measured healthy extras, I want syns accounted for, I want results, I want success!!!!

I want twirl

I also want votes for miss slinky!!!!!! If I give youse til Friday is that enough time?

I think your new strict rules sound great Fair but I lack the ability to plan well. But, I will rise to your challenge from Thursday with a couple of sneaky meals for celebrations over the weekend.

I guess I should weigh myself to see what damage I have done. I know I am heading dangerously close to my heaviest which I don't want to pass. I have to take control.
Surely its not really just 4 WIs until Xmas, it can't be!!!

feeling a bit pants tonight. My Uncle was taken in to hospital last week, and was meant to be being moved to the hospice for a couple of weeks as he has reacted badly to the radiotherapy. He is still in the hospital, and there seems to be no intention to move him. He got really upset when my mum visited today and more or less thinks his time is up and said his goodbyes. I could weep.

Also had an interview yesterday for a TA job. I was amazed to get an interview, and I aren't surprised I didn't get the job, but I am gutted by the reason I didn't get it. The HT said my skills and qualifications were fine, but I am not confident enough. I could have got more qualifications, but I just don't see what I can do about my confidence. I am the person I am

sorry, it's all me me me. Bet you wish I was AWOL now.

when is the miss slinky revealed?

duh, just read your post FHF.

Haha FH! You'll have a job keeping this motley crew on the straight and narrow :o

Bloody hell Ria, you're brave sticking your tongue out at FHF, she'll have you!!!

:( ladyRia so sorry your uncle feels that it's the end, and sorry to hear you didn't get the job, how annoying to be told that about your confidence too, surely comments like that do more harm than good

If I'm honest, the job prob. wasn't for me, but I agree about the confidence thing. I feel there is a fine line between being OK-confident, and being self-important and over-confident, and I would hate to cross that. I also felt it was better to be honest, rather than pretending to be something I'm not, and over-exaggerating my experience - especially as it was an SEN post. Why pretend to kids?

(Of course, what I really want to do is have 2 more babies, buy a cafe and bake scones by day while DH runs a bistro at night, and write lots of side-splittingly amusing chick-lit in my spare time... maybe I have a mental barrier about the idea of actually getting a real job)

I'm sorry to hear about your uncle sweetheart, this is a cruel cruel world and one I'll never understand.

We're all adults, capable of making our own decisions, but the bottom line is we need to do it for ourselves - in our hearts and in our heads we need to want to follow this plan and make the changes, as the man said, nothing changes if nothing changes!!

Ria, why do they get the impression you lack confidence? And how do they suggest you get some?

Your baby and scones idea sounds bliss, but I'm past having babies and I don't like scones.

Love the bistro idea though :)

The perfect job is waiting on you x

oooh, my tongue tingles!

I am just checking to see if there's any confidence in this bottle of wine...

I have always been unconfident, but it's never affected my ability to do my job! (It is also not connected to my weight/self-image, it's just the kind of person I am).

You probably won't believe me, but I was quiet during the interview morning. I engaged with the kids I met, and asked them questions, and even made some jokes (heaven help us), but I wanted to listen and observe, rather than make myself the centre of attention (yes me!), 3 of the other 4 candidates did lots of talking about themselves.

Anyhow, it means I can carry on in my SHITE job, but also I can carry on being invaluable in the class I help out in, and get to play at art projects with the kids

Sorry to hear you didn't get the job, I bet it wasn't the job for you but a better, more suitable one will come along when the time is right.

You have just reminded me, I am meant to be planning an arts and craft thing for work tomorrow. Hopefully no-one heard me volunteer today!

Really sorry to hear about your uncle, its awful watching someone suffer when there is nothing you can do to change the situation. Hopefully he can be moved to the hospice soon where he'll be more comfortable. Hospitals are fine if you need medical attention, but the hospice would be so much calmer for him and they have more staff on duty.

up early as it's my morning helping in class, so WI done and I have a start point. And it's more or less where my "pre-AWOL" WI was, so that's not too bad.

Have a good DoD everyone

BTW, no point being on the list as I don't post my actual weight, but I'll be there next week.

Well done on your AWOL sts, that's pretty good :)

Don't mind doing the list tonight so pm when you have your wonderful results

pretty good because star week also made an unexpected appearance on Monday (during the interview morning - Monday really wasn' my day )

I have done my SW shop!

Ria hope you feeling better today, hopefully something will come up that fits you perfectly.

So sorry about your Uncle ((())) hugs