Super Hard Chiefs (don't mention the poo)

[DoubleMum]

New thread for chiefs who choose their hard - all welcome!
Moving on from this thread which is full:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/big_slim_whatever_weight_loss_club/1696110-Calling-all-Chiefs-who-Choose-Their-Hard

[WiseKneeHair]

OH.MY.GOD.
Hello, er, remember me?
I've not been on here for ages and then I couldn't find you!
You are all doing fantastically.
Kudos to Randall - obese to healthy in 16 weeks Respect.
I've been really busy since I got back from holiday with work. First real weekend off this weekend. Yay!
I've become addicted to running. Did C25K, now doing a 5-10K program.
I(mostly) ran just under 8K yesterday. When I get stressed now, I don't crave wine and chocolate, but think "when can I go for a run" !!!! Can't believe it. I've always hated my attempts at running before.
I'm on my phone at the moment, but I'm going to catch up on the old thread tonight.
Great going Chiefs. I'm off to weigh some pee now as that seems to be the done thing now.
Btw, if anyone newish wants to add me, I'm HappyKite in MFP and a lot more active on there!

[BsshBossh]

Wise you are a RUNNER! Wow! I am inspired.

[DoubleMum]

[RandallPinkFloyd]

Get you Wise a runner!

I really do have to Pilate don't I, can't very well back out now, damn me and my big talk.

I shall dig the DVD player out of the back of the cupboard after work tomorrow, dust it off, and channel my inner Gwynnie.

Believe it or not I am tempted to Shred again too. Just to see if the jumping really is easier without the accompanying Mexican waves of blubber!

[Lizzylou]

Wise, 8km is awesome, well done you

Randall, yep, you kick weight loss arse, now do the same with exercise

Manic day at work, home now with Ds1 the patient, will run once Dh is back with Ds2.

Dinky you can also do squats with weights, hold weight in each hand above your head and hinge elbow backwards, pulling weight down to back. iyswim, I can't link on this tablet thingy.

Aren't we all quite marvellous?

[dinkydoos]

Hello wise we have all been very good chiefs in your absence!
Thanks all for the bingo wing tricep exercises, will give it a go. However (drum roll) I am about to do my first spin class. Am shitting it tbh, have heard the boss lady shouting whilst in gym, and am sooo scared. Hope I can keep up.
juggles just had a scrape of humus and a bite of salmon as was doing kids tea and am starving. Hope those millions of calories will keep me going through the Spin horror. 1815 tonight chiefs, spare me a thought. I will be the glamorous, non sweaty one, with posh gym wear and a bouncy pony tail... not!

[RandallPinkFloyd]

I did a spin class once. I threw up.

[Lizzylou]

Dinky
I love spin, can't believe I am missing it today. Enjoy

Randall, you zipping ip and hollowing?.. stern face....

[RandallPinkFloyd]

No, I'm about to eat a delicious M&S dinner

After work tomorrow, promise!

[Lizzylou]

Let you off
Healthy weight and yummy M&S food, enjoy

Run tonight was easiest so far this year. Still looked like a sweaty crimson guppy but felt good. On it like sonic now Chiefs.

[dinkydoos]

I'm back. Flipping heck. Rather full on, isn't it?
However it has left me non hungry, so am v tempted to not bother eating till tomorrow now, a la bsshh zero fast stylee. Will see...

[Lizzylou]

Go Dinky! Did you enjoy it?
I never feel like eating after exercise. Except for swimming. Then I want pickled onion Monster Munch like when I was 7 after a Sunday morning swim with my Dad

[TeaMakesItAllPossible]

I'm not sure we're friends so I will be friending you right up sister. Great running, really great.

Spin? Dinks that sounds awesome - not convinced I can do it but if you and Lizzy rave about it enough I might try it, after my 10k, as there is a free class I have access too. And at the thought of not eating - I get really hungry about 9.30pm.

Randall you're a better woman than I am I would have fallen on M&S chocolates, bread and cake. Colin the Catepillar cake anyone?

Lizzy I think we went to school together ... on it like sonic ... monster munch after swimming. Ahhhh. The joys of being young in the North-West. And yey to easier run.

I so chose my hard this evening, I chose it, I wrestled it and punched it in the goolies.

DS2 arrived home at 5pm, wailing, waving a bent finger that he couldn't move after his cricket practice. So I grabbed the smallest boy and took a cab to A&E. A lot of prodding and carrying forms around and walking between departments later tis a mere ligament injury me lord. But DH went home via the fish and chip shop THE GOOD ONE and I, YES ME, went in to buy fish and chips for the chaps. I did not get one for me. I did not steal a chip. I cooked fecking chicken and vegetables so I didn't waste the fast.

[DoubleMum]

Well done Tea that really is choosing your hard.

[Lizzylou]

Bloody hell Tea
Go you!
We could be twins. Though I grew up in the Midlands I moved oop North for luuurrrrve.
And because I really, really wanted to have frizzy rained on hair every day. Oh yes.

Try spinning, you'd love it.

[TeaMakesItAllPossible]

I feel your pain sister. It's bad in the SW too - I had lovely hair for my four years in Nottingham and eight years down the big smoke. My swishy hair from the hairdressers is no longer. I have no magic serum at home. I look like I did in the 80s when I hate a shite perm. Fecking moisture. Bah!

[RandallPinkFloyd]

Wow, massive respect for the chip avoidance, that's some hard core chiefing right there.

Spinning is definitely not for me. Apart from the vomitting once I'd span I couldn't walk. I was like sodding Bambie

It seemed to go on forever then just when I though I'd spun my last the lights went down and everyone went mental.

It was all I could do not to cry.

[DoubleMum]

Aww Randall. Just find something else that doesn't turn into a baby deer.

[dinkydoos]

Respect to tea re fish and chips, gawd, I adore that smell but only from a good chippy, ooh, and ESP at the seaside...
Anyway, feel the need to shout about this, I did spin and then did not eat at all until this morning can't quite believe it, and weird thing is I have only had tiny bit of muesli as wasn't actually hungry... There is an amazing deli near my office that does great sarnies, so planning ones of those for lunch. Got on scales and had gone back to my low of last week, but was hoping for another pound tbh. Will see how rest of week shapes up.
I sort of hated yet loved Spin, was a bit full on, but I could see the attraction. Will go again I think. Have a good Day all - randall you know we are expecting the exercise update later

[DoubleMum]

Well done Dinky!

[WiseKneeHair]

Aw, Guys, thanks for welcoming me back.
Well done Dinky. I'm with Randall on this one though, spinning is the work of the devil. I only did it once, circa 1995, when I was at my fittest and it was purgatory! I vowed to never, ever do it again.
Randall we are waiting for your exercise update now. You're not allowed to be a healthy weight and not do it. I'd go for Jillian, personally, and sod the wobble.
Tea respect for the chip abstinence. I bow before you. I think we may have gone to school together as I grew up in the NW. I also now live in Nottingham, but don't have particularly lovely hair.
Lizzy Yay for the good run. I occasionally have one of those and then the next one tends to be really hard, so I hope it doesn't bite you in the very firm, I'm sure bum!

DH wants to buy some kettle weight thingamabobs and I said I'd go halves with him. I've no idea how to use them, but they're meant to be good for you, aren't they?
I'm running again tonight as part of my quest of being able to run for one hour without walking and also as I am probably going to do my first Parkrun this Saturday as long as I can get out of bed
Then we have our first family weekend for three weeks.

[WiseKneeHair]

I forgot! How could I forget?
V excited as I booked our summer holiday last night. We are off to Menorca for 10 days at the end of July/beginning of August, so I have just under 13 weeks to lose 9lbs and get to a healthy BMI! Eek! Better get running...

[Lizzylou]

Ooh Menorca, how lovely Wise
You have inspired me to start doing my old 8km run I did a few years ago when I was training for the 10km. Did the 10km and never ran that far again
I really should do it, my arse and thighs have never been as good as when I used to run 8km 3x a week. Me all over though, have a goal, train like a mad bugger for it, complete goal and go back to old sloth like ways, eating cake and drinking wine like it's going out of fashion

Good day today and have been to gym on way home, whilst dh and boys went out for a chippy tea

Lovely weather!

[TeaMakesItAllPossible]

Hmmm. I'm not sure whether spinning is something I will enjoy [terrified]

Wise Kettles are brill. I went to a session using just them last week and it was mental. I loved them actually. And yey to ParkRun-ing, is that at Woollaton? I used to live near there and The Park [poshest moment of my life emoticon] There isn't one near me.

Menorca . You will get there. The 9lbs. That is, I assume you've got a plane booked for Menorca so I'm sure you'll get there too.

Lizzy It seems you and I are sisters separated at birth, this is my problem too. I may have reached my new goal today and so I've eaten like a horse, I'm there and therefore am going back to old ways. Maybe it's because we have a bug in the family and because I've been fasting and training for the 10k, or because I'm there, but feck me I'm so hungry I could eat a scabby horse between two mattresses - passed off as beef n'atch. Perhaps this means that I'm not quite ready to just trust myself with one fast day. I suspect that some times of the month I may still need to do 2 just to counter my love of chocolate and cake. Anyway my BMI is 21.34 and I'm mid-range on the healthy. The next two days I'm eating normally with very light exercise so I'll be like a greyhound st bernard with my own barrel out of the blocks of the 10k. Once I've done the 10k I will work out what I'm doing next to avoid the sloth setting in.

And Randall I wanted your M&S dinner. It looked lovely.

Though I do confess I'm starting to look at Double's diary and wonder whether living in her garage with the red wine and that menu would be my idea of heaven.

[DoubleMum]

Trouble is I'm not having the red wine with the nice menu!