Chiefs Randalling on to svelteness

[Lizzylou]

Hola.
Thought we needed a new thread
Last day at work for me

Well done Bssh on only gaining 1lb holiday weight, am hoping to emulate this!

thanks Chiefs. Feels good to be making progress but we all know there's ups and downs on this journey and getting back in the saddle after a fall is the key to success.

So up you get Anote, stop the eating, do something else that's nice and start back on track. Just laugh at Monkey suffering in her DH's T shirt, and all the goodwill on here and you'll be sorted.

And Tiger, we did see you. All hands are needed on deck to ensure we're in the success zone of the long term Chiefs. Come and help later.

anote, I think it's normal to fall off the wagon every so often isn't it? I've been doing really well (for me, anyway) and having been pleased with my weight this morning (so will use it for my Monday weigh in), I bought a bag of wine gums and managed to eat the lot in about 15 minutes. I suppose I could blame it on being peeved about going in to town for a hair apt, only to be told that they were running an hour late so after mooching around town for an hour (and resolutely NOT going in to any coffee shops etc), I get back to find they're still not ready and so there wasn't time to do my hair before I had to get back to do the school run. Not happy.

Anyhoo, DH is having lunch at Hotel du Vin today so I told him that meant we would be having a 'light' tea (ie I don't have to cook, and I won't be eating much). His suggestion? "Oh we'll just have fish and chips then". What? After he's had a 3 course lunch?!?One of the reasons I started my health kick was to try and encourage him to do something as he is pretty unhealthy, but it's not really working (apart from feeding him Hairy Dieters recipes all the time so he's eating fewer calories without realising). We're going away overnight tomorrow so I have a feeling that there may be some randalling going on...

Thank you, thank you Chiefs for the encouragement. It makes all the difference, and yes Monkey you have a deal: you chuff off in your trainers, and I'll start again with fecking MFP tomorrow morning (I honestly couldn't log all the junk I've eaten in the last 24 hours. Tomorrow is another day). Carikbue it helps to know I'm not the only to eat out of frustration, and Apples, I really needed that reminder that this isn't a linear journey (WHY not!!! I want RESULTS NOW !!!).

Tits good luck with the house sprucing and here's to all the calories expended in painting a room.

Well, I did it. I came home and got changed before I could change my mind, and ran through woods and round a lake for 35 minutes (which included some walking but, hey, it's been a long time since I ran anywhere).

Now to scoff some houmous as a reward. Have a great weekend!

Yay! Well done monkey! Well deserved scoffing.

Hey Chiefs, just a quick check in as I've been AWOL all week. Well done to you all, am still totally in awe of your exercise and fasting efforts on MFP. Had a super busy week so have literally been eating whatever I can get my hands on easily. Not holding out any hope for a loss tomorrow but will start afresh Monday hopefully. Have a good weekend all.

Morning Chiefs, how's everyone today?

I'm feeling pretty chipper I have to say, sunny day and my lowest weight for years. Had something of a reality check post shower via an unkind mirror pointing out that whilst I may not be the whale I was 2 stone ago I'm still a huge heffer with a long way to go. But I refuse to be brought down, it will be a long journey but the point is I'm doing something about it and am on my way.

Shredded with my friend 'I'm hopin'ya know me' Jillian this morning and am out for a walk. Stopping in caffe Nero en route. Will go home via M&S and get some nice stuff for dinner. We were going to go out but have decided treaty dinner in is cheaper and there's series 2 of the Killing calling.

Sedentary afternoon ahead driving DD to a sleepover.

Think thats enough from smug, me, me, me. Hope everyone's well. Is it sunny all over?

Yay for the new house Lizzy, exciting times! And big yay for pre-holiday weight too.

Well done apples fantastic loss.

Blimey monkey, 5lb in 12 days is fab work, and well done on the running.

anote have a kick from me. Now stop weighing so often. Seriously though, you have to get your head in the right place if you're going to best this. Weigh once a week, no more no less. Don't beat yourself up for one bad day, you have 6 other days to balance it out.

I'm in no way qualified to give out dieting advice but I will say one thing. For MFP to work for you then me I had to log every single thing I ate and I do mean everything. My diaries are rarely pretty (the cider and hula hoops day was not a high point) but they are always honest. I have to be, not logging it doesn't mean I haven't eaten it. If I'm going to stay under my calories for the week I need to know everything I've eaten. It's as simple as that.

Logging the 'bad' days is more than that though. It forces you to take responsibility. Seeing it there in black & white is the biggest reality check you can get. It's also the only way I can properly balance out the Randalling. So it goes 'Ok, I had a fab time and I loved every minute. Now I've got X calories left for the rest of the week'.

Everyone has to find their own way but that's how it worked for me anyway.

*for MFP to work for me that should say.
God I suck at typing.

Thanks for that Randall. I'm in awe of your results and so will follow your advice. Right, I will weight Fridays only and see how that goes. And commit to logging it all (what, even the Xmas marshmallow pies ???? )

Apples congrats on the loss, and enjoy your day. Sounds lovely.

Monkey - YAAAAAY. Good on you for running and I love the sound of the woods and the lake. I'll stick to my part of the deal too- am already back on MFP. Thank you you all for the support and encouragement. I think I may have faltered and stopped without it.

Yep, even the marshmallow pies

Fridays sounds perfect, especially if you want to have some high cal days at the weekend. It'll give you the rest of the week to balance it out.

Morning Chiefs.
Anote, glad you are feeling more positive, that Randall knows her stuff
Been for a swim nice and early, then a big walk and pub grub. Hopefully dragging dh to some furniture places too.
Have decided to do 2 fast days this week and have cheated somewhat by getting two ready meals that are c450cals until I get my head round it all properly. I think not having to think about preparing/choosing food will help.
Hope everyone has lovely Sundays

When are your fast days Lizzy? Mine are Mondays (always welcome after a gluttonous weekend) and Thursdays. Ready meals are a great idea and I often resort to them for an easy fast day.

I have piles. Mother fucking piles.

They are temporary right? When I google cures there's going to be a magic potion that will clear it all away forever yes?

Yes and yes. Get it in Boots. Works. No big deal.

P.s. nobody's laughing. Cos piles ain't funny. Oh no. Not funny at all. Not one little bit. Not even smirk worthy.

PPS. Is that what serious Randalling does to a person??

What do I buy? I need a magic potion and I can't ask the poor counter assistant in Boots what I need to put on my mother fucking pile ridden arse hole.

(Luckily it's the inside-y type not actual on the outside arse grapes but still, not cool.)

Randalling does not cause piles. Satan causes piles.

Another one here who thinks there is nothing humorous about piles, and would never dream of sniggering. Or chortling quietly.

Brazen it out Randall, and I speak as one who has been through this. Go the pharmacy/drugs section (NOT to the assistants packing the shelves in the tame old handcream section)and coolly ask the pharmacist for something for piles. He or she will be all professionalism, and then you sail away to the till with your head held high. Your dignity hasn't been dented at all, oh no.

I've only ever had the arse-grapes version still do

Crossing out the 'still do' part does not make it any less terrifying. Why do you still have them? Apples told me they are going to go away forever. She wouldn't lie to me.

Soz about the arse grapes.

I once had mother fucking piles. I no longer have mother fucking piles. They arrived because my labour was 2 hours and in my pethodene adeled state I tried quite hard to remove the bowling ball shaped object from my fanjo.

I didn't get anything for them and they left inside my arse within a few months. Pooing was a frightening ordeal for a while.

There is at our house anusol cream for inserting up the bum, some suppositories for poking up one's bum and special toilet paper for piles. DH goes on secret missions to boots to invest in these things .... they are on the aisles and no interacting with a smirking sales assistant is required.

My piles never returned. DH gets them every couple of years.

Now that's the perfect reply.
My piles never returned.
Perfect.

I shall buy some fybogel, ignore the whole sorry saga, and let it go away of it's own accord. Job done.

(I too had a rather swift and dramatic labour involving a ventouse and an extremely large headed child.)

Respect to Tea for not even considering snorting.

And I would never lie to you Randall. The solution is indeed Anusol. Mine were pregnancy induced and return maybe once every 5 years. But it's honestly an easy thing to sort out. You just have to disguise it with a whole load of unnecessary other Boots purchases if you're less brazen than Anote.

Ok, every 5 years isn't too bad I suppose. It's better than permanence. Anusol it is. (Seriously, that's what it's called?)

And stop snorting at my mother fucking piles

Yep thats its name. And why it has to lurk under other stuff and not be vocalised.

I laughed. Out loud. Not snorting. But mainly at the mother fucking piles rather than Randall's mother fucking piles.

Drink water. Less arse ripping with a soft shite [missed my calling as a doctor emoticon]

I don't drink anything but flipping water. (Except booze but that doesn't count)
I drink pints of the fricking stuff.

Anusol? What utter bastards. As if having mother fucking piles isn't bad enough I have to ask for anusol. Ffs.

I hate bloody fybogel too. I had to have it everyday for 6 fucking weeks after having a blood patch done for a post dural puncture. 'Pleasant tasting, orange flavour, high fibre drink' my arse. It mings. Hard.