BigMothers Week 4

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Nice new thread for a new week of fabulous weightloss, lots of chat and great support.

...then went out three days running for lunch, two days to same place it was so good. I had garlic bread with cheese that I would have forked my mother in the eyeball over if she'd tried to get any of mine...

Mmm. Cheese. Did I mention we had McDonalds not once, but twice this weekend. Breakfast on Saturday, and on the way home this evening. You're going to think I'm not trying, but it really was the easiest way to get us all fed at a vaguely sensible time, honestly, it really was. Having a lovely glass of water now

No crown for me this week

Weekends are a disaster, aren't they. Maybe that's OK, though. We can learn to eat moderatly for 5 days, and less moderately for 2.

I don't really like cheese at all tbh. I just wish I felt the same away about chocolate.

Cheese ... food of the devil. Can't stand the stuff ... Was never too fussed about bacon either, even when I ate meat.

Now chocolate ... that's a completely different matter!

I might check out this Fit for Life thing, Hub - although my last experience of the gym wasn't particularly pleasant, so I might not have the bottle to go through with it.

Cheese? Food of the devil?? I think you're getting it confised with jaffa cakes

Nooooooo ... cheese is evil. Jaffa Cakes aren't much better but I can at least stand to eat them without wanting to hurl!

cheese, jaffa cakes, chocolate, crisps, chinese takeaway, pizza - all good! Don't know why I have a weight problem?

There's just too much nice stuff out there, isn't there.

I am kind of hoping that when I'm in NZ and away from M&S I might do better.

M&S is torture for dieters, especially as they pump out the smell of baking bread and cakes - the sadists

Do you know, the best diet for me would be for someone to remove my taste buds - if I get a cold and lose the ability to taste things, after a day or two I actually do start thinking not 'what do I fancy?' but 'what does my body need?'. If they could replicate that for 6 months I'd be sorted (but very bored).

Best diet I ever tried was pregnancy! Rarely had the urge to eat at all - just ate meals and didn't snack on rubbish and lost over 2 stone with each baby! ! Did put it all back on though! They were 8 pounders too!

That worked for me in my first pregnancy - I think everything was a bit, you know, tighter, so that there just wasn't room for me to eat loads, but second time round it didn't happen. That's why I'm trying the 'eat what you want but don't eat very much of it' diet atm - working so far, but I suspect that no longer eating my 2 chocolate bars a day might be helping.

My first pregnancy was when my weight went horribly wrong. I put on about 4st and didn't really lose it afterwards.

what diet is everyone following?

No diet in particular, JSTBCS, just cutting down on portion size, trying to eat healthy snacks rather than chocolate, but not actually forbidding myself to eat anything.

Same as JackieNo. I'm also doing extra walking. I use a pedometer and am now managing 70,000 steps a week during term-time.

I am doing slimming world and a bit more walking.

WW here (wioth DW and FIL !).

WWB - the gym is nice. There is a generous smattering of generously proportioned people too, which helps IMHO. What's also good is that it plays with your appetite a little too. I'm not really ravenous for crap afterwards, and the 'burn' (IYSWIM) lasts several hours after the gym.

The last time I tried a gym (and not a trendy one full of stick-insects; this was a council run one at the local leisure centre) was a humiliating disaster. Some guy on the treadmill had a go at me because "I don't come here to see lardy arses like that (three guesses where he pointed) while I'm working out", and the following week I was followed around the gym by three impossibly skinny women discussing in stage whispers whether I was more closely related to a hippo or an elephant.

I'm sure you can understand my reluctance to go there again ...

and at your horrible experience, WWB! That's truly disgusting!

It was pretty horrible ... have never been back since, although I know it would do me no end of good.

Maybe I just need a thicker skin!

No-one should have to put up with that. Worse than playground bullies IMHO.

I'd be reaching for the pitchfork s and rounding up a posse of BigMoFos if it ever happened again. Grrr!

I would have been devastated. Some people can be such shits.