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Anyone got more than 10 stones to loose?

143 replies

Pipper · 29/02/2004 00:44

I have read through the threads and it seems that most have only a few stones to loose. I know every weight loss is good in it's own right but I have more than 10 stones to loose and I seem like the only one.

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glitterfairy · 20/04/2004 06:53

I was dreadful bf craving, eating and keeping a tin of shortbreads under the bed. My dd who is 9 was born just after Christmas and I stashed the cake and ate it all! People kept telling me bf was good way to lose weight but I could have eaten my babies I was that hungry! With my youngest dd 5 bottlefed as she was ill and even though had breastfed two and had tried with her with expressing and pump for four weeks I got ill too and gave up. I also didnt get hungry and lost weight! Anyway no such excuse now have just never lost it and have to do something. There are so many excuses and I must have lost my bodywieight a thousand times but need to become reformed character. My new excuse is that I go away a lot and there is cooked hotel breakfast (dont cook it myself have to eat it to be kind to chef) dinners with clients and then alcohol! Oh dear oh dear! Even get invited to dinners where you are supposed to discuss interesting elements of job but just concentrate on the free not cooked by me food! So there long post but good confession. Am much better with appearance adn not being embarrased now but had to wear seatbelt extension on plane and that was when it hit me! I mean how much can I put off the inevitable?

champs · 21/04/2004 01:08

glitterfairy, hi!! was out for the day and so missed your post.

I hate going into situations where my weight causes embarasment (planes, plastic garden chairs, theme parks.... EVERYDAY!!!!)

it is hard when your social and work life includes dinning

and please dont mention CAKE!!!

glitterfairy · 21/04/2004 10:21

HI Champs am in Dublin but have found internet! Yipee! Plane embarressment as had to have extension adn was very miserable as have been to gym for two weeks! The airhostess looked at me as if to say oh dear cant you learn to say no! Anyway celebrated by eating poached salmon and no pudding!

Sonnet · 21/04/2004 10:54

Go girls go....

Love your idea about excercising Glitterfairy. Do you find that when you have excercised it becomes easier to eat more healthily? - I do.

I have 22ilbs to loose, OK I admit it isn't as much as you girls but I am finding it SO hard. My weight has crept on over the past 2 years since DD" was born. Unbelieveably I was slimmer than I am now 2 weeks after DD2 was born... My weight has crept on because I:
1.stopped swimming - use to swim 3 times per week bat lunchtimes at work
2. run during the summer months
3. Now drink more wine - most evenings

A week and a day ago I stood on the scales and , well just couldn't beleive it...
I can't afford the time to go to weight watchers or the money to go to WW online SO, like you Glitterfairy I'm trying to shift it by excercise and eating healthily.
ie swimming twice per week - Tues and Wed
Started running as often as I can - not every day but every other day so far
Sit ups on the sit up thread
Reduced wine consupmtion - same for chocolate, crisps, biscuits ( I crave them!!)
Any other excersie I can fit in EG when I'm at home with DD2 on Mon and Fri - going for a brisk walk, doing housework "briskly".
Might start a "excersie motivation" thread - interested Girls?.

glitterfairy · 21/04/2004 11:36

Sonnet great idea! Although not sure about the sit up thread as have always got neck ache from too much of this done wrong! I used to cycle to work (5miles) and back do 60 lengths and a very physical job. THen got office job and three kids and need I say more? I am getting tremendous strength from mn and esepcailly chatting on thie thread and would really appreciate one for spurring me on to exercise! You seem to be doing well!

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glitterfairy · 21/04/2004 23:05

oi beety F))ck off this you havent even. You havent even got 2lb to lose! Am very drunk in Ireland now!

champs · 22/04/2004 02:14

lol.... glitterfairy, DONT mention baileys!! can just imagine the creamy warm feeling.... grrrrrr
I HATE DIETS!!!

ok have stopped whinning now. Had a hunger attack but had some salad

Are you still in dublin? have a guiness for me... (for health reasons of course )

Sonnet..... know what you mean. I weigh more now than when I was pg with ds1

feel totally disgusted with myself as have realised I am the size of two normal people.... Grrrrrrr

tomorow WILL be a good day.

glitterfairy · 22/04/2004 15:32

Hi champs

Have returned and been absolutely dreadfully badly behaved but tomorrow am starting sgt major beetys detox so will be much better! Had far too many healthy (in my dreams) drinks last night and so giving up alcohol for detox will be easy! No extension on plane back so obviously the liquid diet has its point! By the way by the third child I was so tired that the weight was a secondary problem!

Rae1973 · 22/04/2004 20:41

Come on now ladies

I reeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllyyyyyy need you help.

I have got about 8 stone to lose, I am not setting myself a target but more of an area of the weight I want to get to, ie I weigh 20stone and think round about the 12st area would be nice.

I have health problems all the time with colds and virus's etc and I put alot of this down to being so overweight. I am also suffering from PND and anxiety so find slimming hard as food is a comfort to me as is a bottle of wine.

But I have decided that I am not getting any younger (I'm 30) and the longer I leave it the harder it will be to shift.

I am going out tomorrow to get stuff in for my meals as i am going to follow the weighwatchers plan and prefer cooking my own meals to buying ready meals.I am also a member of a gym and aim to start going again once dd is full time and I have more time during the day.

I am to have a good weekend on Monday, but really need your support and encouragement.

Any advice and tips would be gratefully received.

champs · 22/04/2004 22:14

glitterfairy--- let me know how detox starts off tommorow.
Rae!!!! Welcome back hi how r ya? i tried to contact u thru talk!!! pnd does make it harder but if you get some low cal/point treats for those times when you need them it may help.
bulk up your meals with salad or veg so they stretch further.

I too need all the motivation I can get, cake is NOT my friend.

glitterfairy · 23/04/2004 14:01

HI all Deetox fine and have also been to the gym. Rae it will get better! Just do a day at a time like AA! Have always thought though that comparing AA to wieght loss was silly as they can give up alcohol the problem with food is you have to keep eating and thinking about it all the time! Anyway am having vegetable soup and have brought brown rice (YUK) my dh thinks that not only am I addicted to the web but am now becomning a hippy!My problem champs is that cake, cholocate, alcohol etc are not just my friends they are my best mates!

collision · 23/04/2004 14:09

Dont forget though that with WW you can have choc, cake and alcohol as long as you count it. Try some of the WW cakes or go to ASDA and buy their LF cakes....carrot cake is lovely and really low in points. Crunchie bars are quite low in points too and a glass of wine wont kill you.

champs · 23/04/2004 19:16

thanks collison, will look out for them.

Glitterfairy, started off day good, got to about 6:30 and I caved and had a happy hippo. Oh well will add it and move on.

glitterfairy · 23/04/2004 19:37

dh is in terrible mood and has flounced out to buy wine and is maoning on about detox. This is where I usually give up and cave in. He claims to dislike my weight but is so unsupportive when I do anything! Anyway thats enough moaning. Am sticking to it and now about to eat brown rice and feta! Yuk only 9 more days to go. What is a happy hippo by the way (new food for me to reject)

champs · 23/04/2004 20:01

wooops just had another one!!! they are milk and hazlenut cream in a wafer. by kinder who have decided that since I have given up choc they would make something else to tempt me!!
well now I'm an unhappy hippo!!!

Tell DH to..... actually forget that, maybe he feels threatened by your weight loss?

glitterfairy · 23/04/2004 22:04

Wow they sound great! I am imagining one now. This detox may only last a few days. Brown rice spinach and ewes milk cheese Yuk! Dont have a headache though but the lack of salt on veg is killing me it all tastes like s**t! Anyway beety says I will feel pure soon which is why I have to keep going on the I love sex thread! Enough of that itS Friday night and I wish I was in a bar somehere downing hippos!

champs · 23/04/2004 22:17

lmao. i am gonna tell my dh to hide them pesky hippos. they are calling me.... can u hear them?

need diet vanilla famous name cola... NOW!!

glitterfairy · 24/04/2004 08:53

ok imao???? Can do most but that foxed me! Am feeling ready for new diet/detox day and dh even managed to talk about it without ranting this morning! I said I would buy him some fish to eat in his cave!

glitterfairy · 24/04/2004 18:24

Champs look at the thread on big fat con it is a really interesting article!

carla · 24/04/2004 18:43

Can I add something here? Although at the moment I've nothing to lose?

carla · 24/04/2004 18:55

Well, I will anyway At the age of 10, I had to shop in women's outsized clothes shops. My mum took me to Weightwatchers, and I became a normal size again. 20 years on, I am what a teacher at school regards as'skinny'. I don't like that either. I'd much rather see a round, happy faced - on me or anyone!

glitterfairy · 24/04/2004 19:01

Hi carla! I am glad that weightwatchers worked for you. My mum always told ne I was fat when I wasnt and I finally have convinced her that she is the one with the problem even though I am now fat! Self fulfilling prophecy. She put me on a diet at 6 when I was really not fat at all. Anwyay she is not a witch just has a problem as her mother had eating disorder adn so did she and now I have one but my kids are fine thank god!

carla · 24/04/2004 19:35

so sorry to hear about that GF, at least my mum knew I had a problem. Hope you're managing OK now. Contact me if you want to

glitterfairy · 24/04/2004 19:41

THanks Carla! Apart from being told I had a problem when I didnt years of working at it ahs actually meant I solved it for myself and have emerged stronger in every way. Today mum told me that she now felt that everything I ahd said about weight was right and she had treated me badly. Normally wouldnt talk much about it but as she said that today and I felt very strong and positive you touched a nerve! Being on here and talking to others is also helpful and I am now on second day of detox and joined gym and feeling much much better :0