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Today I am being dragged kicking and screaming...

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hub2dee · 02/05/2006 08:29

... to Weight Watchers.

I have so far failed to sort my weight out myself (for many years), and so now I must surrender to The Dark Side.

I always wanted to say 'I sorted my weight out for myself' IYSWIM. You know, bear in a cave style, all the way from Mars, divine revelation, willpower so strong etc. etc.

I appreciate it will still be down to me what goes in, in what quantity, and how much gets exercised off... but it still feels, erm, slightly pants.

DW and dd are coming with. DW also has (not inconsiderable) weight to lose.

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jessicaandrebeccasmummy · 02/05/2006 08:30

well done hun - wish i could get the guts up to go to a class again. 2 babies in the space of 15 months does NOTHING for your figure!

throckenholt · 02/05/2006 08:32

a family outing - what fun Grin.

Seriously - it will be so much easier if you are both trying to lose weight.

Good luck.

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hub2dee · 02/05/2006 08:32

When I am at a much healthier weight I'm gonna cycle from Lands' End to John O' Groats with my dad. Grin Was supposed to be this August, but the GP has advised it would be 'bl00dy stupid' to try it so soon....

Next Summer then. Probably to raise money for BLISS - the premature baby charity.

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Original poster
hub2dee · 02/05/2006 08:33

jarm - neither do copious quantities of pringles and chocolate, LOL.

Thanks for the encouragement.

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beansprout · 02/05/2006 08:34

Good luck. Hope that once you get into it, it won't seem so bad...? Smile

schneebly · 02/05/2006 08:35

Good for you hub2dee - it will be much easier if you and dw are doing it together and I have been to WW - it is a good diet, very flexible. All the best!

jessicaandrebeccasmummy · 02/05/2006 08:35

You can do it hub!

You never know, this might just be the kick i need! Im supposed to be doing the RACE FOR LIFE in july and im nowhere NEEAR ready for it! Done one run so far and lasted 10 minutes and nearly died!

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hub2dee · 02/05/2006 09:34

26 minutes to go...

I haven't had a hair cut (100 grams), I am wearing jeans (heavy), and will now go and drink a glass of water. Wink

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grumpyfrumpy · 02/05/2006 09:44

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arfy · 02/05/2006 09:46

ah well kicking and screaming is good exercise!

Wish I could get my (lardy) arse in gear and go back. It does work though - and there were always men in my classes too. And you get more points than women Grin

fireflyfairy2 · 02/05/2006 09:48

Well Done!!

My weigh in is on a Tuesday too, it is tonight though!
I wish my DH would come with me, he has about 4 stone to lose and keeps saying "I'll do it in my own time" Grin

Wear big boots too... I wore huge boots and jeans at my first weigh in.. next week I had 6lb off already... hmm some might say cheating.. I called it a good start!!

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hub2dee · 02/05/2006 12:00

Class began at 10. At 09:55, we're in the car trying to find a parking space. at 10:13 we gave up.

Next week we are walking.

Wonderful start, LOL...

All this paying for skipping a class bo11ox sounds v. pathetic though. Does not appeal to this stubborn bear grappler I must say. Will give it a month or so though...

Will bump next week if it all happens....

... of course I mean when it all happens.

I hope all your lardy arses will soon be minxy, like my future one. pmsl.

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Anchovy · 02/05/2006 12:26

Have you looked at the on-line version? You can do it all from the privacy of your own home! None of this stripping down to your undercrackers in draughty church halls, no sir! Reassuringly "modern" and "technological" way of losing weight. None of this "unable to find a parking place" malarky either - you have to come up with some much more modern and technological excuses.

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hub2dee · 02/05/2006 12:31

But I thought the whole idea was you are pressured into the GROUP WEIGH IN. In front of YOUR LEADER...

etc. etc.

Typing some numbers into a browser might be much more moi.

Smile
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WigWamBam · 02/05/2006 12:45

Yes, the whole idea is that the public weigh-in in front of the leader, and then the leader telling everyone how much weight you've lost (or not ...) is enough to stop you from tucking into that Thornton's Continental bar (ahem ... although that might just be me there - says she picking chocolate off her teeth). That and the leader having a pair of pink piggy ears that the "Pig of the Week" had to wear for the entire session at the group I used to go to ... I didn't stick that for very long, I can be publicly humiliated for free any time I chose, I don't need to pay for it.

Good luck with it, however you decide to do it ... I ought to get myself along to a dusty church hall for a bit of ritual humiliation too, but the classes are at the wrong times for me, and I don't suit pink piggy ears. And I'm hopeless at doing it myself.

charliegreensmum · 02/05/2006 13:11

Would recommend rosemary conley. At least you get an aerobics class for your £5 a week and weightwatchers can be cheated on, eat salad all day and then scoff crisps and glug wine all evening. I have tried weightwatchers, slimming world and rosemary conley, and RC has the least 'majorie dawes' feel to it...

Nightynight · 02/05/2006 13:16

Shockwigwam that sounds awful!

WigWamBam · 02/05/2006 13:21

It wasn't very nice. I think I stuck it for about 6 weeks, but in hindsight I should have run screaming from the place the first week.

I have to agree with CGM - I quite enjoyed Rosemary Conley classes. I lost quite a lot of weight with them until the leader had a baby, jacked it in, and the classes stopped. It does mean getting red-faced and sweaty in front of a whole load of other women whilst wearing shorts though, which might be a bit off-putting for a man Wink

wordgirl · 02/05/2006 13:27

They don't have public weigh-ins at Weightwatchers! This is a popular misconception.
In actual fact what happens is you are weighed away from the rest of the group and your weight loss (or otherwise!) is between you and the leader.
If you stay for the meeting, the leader may congratulate members who have "done well" but will not publicly humiliate those who have not.

WigWamBam · 02/05/2006 13:33

Maybe in your experience, wordgirl, but my experience was different. The scales had a digital display which the leader set up on the table facing outward, everyone queued up to be weighed and the display was intentionally visible to everyone standing behind you, as it was an "incentive" towards weight loss. Everyone's loss or gain was read out after the weighing, which was the point that the Pig of the Week was announced (the person who had lost least or gained most) and the ears were given out.

Maybe not all WW leaders do this but I can assure you that mine did - and it's not all that long ago either.

But don't let that put you off, Hub Grin

wordgirl · 02/05/2006 13:51

Blimey that's awful WWW. I really hope yours was just a rogue leader because I'm sure they're not supposed to be like that - Pig of the Week Shock
Isn't Dior a WW leader - wonder what she would make of it?

wordgirl · 02/05/2006 13:52

Meant WWB obviously - would have been quicker just to type WigWamBam!

WigWamBam · 02/05/2006 13:54

Poor old WWW, people are always mixing me up with her Wink

It would be interesting to see it from the perspective of a leader - I think you're right, Dior may be one. It was certainly enough to put me off WW for life though, rogue leader or not.

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hub2dee · 02/05/2006 13:54

I would deffo prefer just to tap into my inner hunk and do this all without resort to externalities like sweaty laydees in shorts, LEADERS, points etc. etc.

Hmmm....

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WigWamBam · 02/05/2006 13:55

Your inner hunk would probably just prefer to be eating chocolate though, Hub Wink Bit like my inner goddess.

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