BigMoFos Week 14

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New week, new thread, hopefully less "stayed the same"s this week

PS - how was DH's interview, was it last Tuesday?

Littlefish - very very very important that you lose weight if you are planning IVF a) more successful b) reduces risk of OHSS - beleive me you don't want it (and I speak as one who knows)

interview not til the last tuesday in the month. on the plus side though, sue, we went home and talked through the house and even i can find positve spin on it now

Wish him good luck with it then.

Saw a great quote today

"Inside me lives a skinny woman screaming to get out, but i can shut her up with cake!!!!"

Lol suejonez. I like the bit from Ab Fab (although can't remember the exact words) Eddie says 'There's a thin woman inside me trying to get out' and her mother says 'Just the one, dear?'.

Get back on that wagon, woman! (motivational speaking not really my forte, sorry).

Alittlebitshy, sorry to hear about the boy on your camp - how horrible .

Program (at least in London) is called 'Fit for Life' it's a GP referral to a council-run leisure centre with specially qualified trainers. Excellent. If you archive search my name and fit or life etc. you might find more.

hth

thanks for the info hub2dee, i will ask gp whether there is anything similar around here (midlands)

Well I bit the bullet and went swimming today and I loved it I got into the pool and caught the eyes of several people who were staring at the size of me and I just thought stuff em.

We went at 9 this morning and then because we enjoyed it so much we went again this evening at 5.30.

I expect the novilty of diet and exersize will wear off soon and I shall start to struggle but un til then WOOOO HOOOOO for me !!!!!!

Wow flutterbee - you are keen . No exercise for me today, and some rather nice cake this evening, as we had friends round, but back on the straight and narrow tomorrow.

good on ya flutterbee, i wish i could muster up the motivation to go swimming, ds loves swimming but there aren't any nice baby pools around here; although they are building a complex within walking distance which will be fab when done.
my kids have driven me mad today, i don't know what was wrong but they have both whined/cried incessantly all day, I'm sorry but i just had to resort to chocolate. i was a bit like a smoker inhaling deeply, in fact i think i actually forgot to chew sometimes (deeply ashamed )

Think we've all been there, justamum - in fact I might be heading there today. DD was being a right pita earlier, but has now apologised. So maybe I can avoid the chocolate. Don't beat yourself up, justamum - put it behind you, and move on.

My slightlay bad day on Friday just went from bad to worse and reluted in me having a food frenzy on Sunday. The only thing which has stopped me going into freefall today is the memory of WWB having a similar difficult time about a month ago and how she was convinced that she was such a failure around food blah, blah, blah. I seem to remember giving her a good kicking about how well she's done so far and how she would get it under control and etc etc etc. Have decided to practice what I preach and let it go. Eating like a wild woman does not make me a failure it makes me human and I'm not going to keep eating just because I've started as that would be stupid.

There's such a temptation to think - well I've bogged up this week, so I'll just keep eating until Wednesday weigh-in then start again. Like the food I eat between now and then doesn't count because I've already fallen off the wagon on Sunday! There's a tendancy sometimes to lose sight of the goal - ie a healthy body and to start thinking that the weigh-in is the goal!

So today (and for as long as necessary) I'm treating myself as an alcoholic - one day at a time (in fact one hour at a time).

Helpfully I have a dentists appt this afternoon for some nasty root canal work - I'm thinking of asking him to wire my jaw shut at the same time

There now, I feel much better having confessed.

My name is Suejonez and I'm a foodaholic...

OH no - you poor thing suejonez. Mind you, there can't be many occasions when having root canal work done would count as a good thing. Hope it all goes ok - both on the food front, and on the teeth front.

I'm resisting temptation at the moment - have some lovely Lindor chocs and minstrels (actually, Minstrels, in case it sounds like I need to be serenaded while eating chocolate) in the kitchen for the book group meeting I'm hosting tonight but am so far sticking to eating the slightly underripe plums I bought at the weekend.

my name is justamum (sort of)and i am also a foodaholic. i will buy scales tomorrow and am going to doctors, i will also stop thinking i can eat like a horse until i first weigh myself. is wwb ok or is she just staying away for a few days?
Sue, i remember reading somewhere that its what we eat 80%of the time that really counts towards effective healthy eating (note not using word diet) so the occasional blow out is not that bad, and in fact is probably essential to maintaining sanity, the key really is in getting up the next day and putting it behind us as you are doing, well done on strong willpower. can you send some willpower vibes to me! good luck at dentists

ps jackieNo, thanks for the support

My name is littlefish and I'm a foodaholic.

Feeling very low at the moment. Food feels all out of control. Trying, like SJ, to tell myself that it doesn't make me a bad person, but it still feels like it does.

Even the desperate, all consuming need I feel to have another baby doesn't seem to be enough to stop me eating. SJ - IVF might is probably our only option. Can I talk to you about it on Friday? I'll understand if you'd rather not.

I need a big kick up the bum, and also, lots of support from people who understand how desperate this all feels.

I feel like life is rushing past me.

thanks fellow foodaholics. I had my last choclate cheesecake 22 hours ago.

Dentist could have been worse. He hasn't done the root canal work, thinks he might have caught all the decay, though the filling is very very deep. Sadly couldn;t numb all the tooth - had three injections and still pain in one part. He decided that there was a rogue nerve connected somewhere it shouldn;t be so we agreed I would tough it out! [brave emoticon]. Possibility I may still need root canal but he's waiting to see how it goes. Unfortunately I still need the wisdom tooth behind it removed by a specialist as he can' fill the tooth properly from inside (the wisdom tooth is impacted onto it from the outside). But temporary filling will keep me going until I can get a referral.

Littlefish - it will be good to meet on Friday if you are feeling low. Very happy to discuss IVF with you, I used to find talking about it clinically with someone helps me when it was much rawer and have kinda got into the habit of being a blabber mouth about it now!

don;t know if WWB is off Mn for a few days but I know she's (quite rightly!) been trying to cut it down a bit.

Our boiler has gone completely, we have no hot water or heating and we need a complete ne boiler and it will cost us nearly £2000.

We can't get together even £200 at the moment and DH and I are now arguing over crap and I just want to eat eat eat.

I can't have a bath or a shower just a wash down with a bucket of water from the kettle and God knows how long this will have to go on for I am soooo fed up. Poor ds (9 months) he loves his baths just a wash in the bucket for now

thats sounds so crap flutterbee - no family locally you can bathe junior at?

My day improved. Have been to acqua and before that met my mum for a coffee. Had a very interesting chat with her about my weight problems. She admittted that she tends to fees me whenever I'm down or need cheering up as I was very ill as a child and often anaemic, slow eating so her instinct is always to feed me - even now! Explained a lot.

She was also gobsmacked to fins out that I thought I was fat growing up. She says I was never fat, although very slightly chubby at around 13, I lost all that weight when I went on a diet. I wanted to know why if I wasn't fat before that, that she always tells me how slim I was afterwards (didn't really have an answer to that).

In retrospect she thinks I picked up the weight paranoia from her and my sister who were going to a slimming club when I was about 10/11. She says that my sister had a much bigger weight problem than I did - go figure! She's about a size 10 now!

Very different take on my size growing up. I can't understand why I always felt to fat? Who knows.

Flutterbee - you'll just have to go swimming every day and use the showers there. How annoying about the boiler though. I guess it's better now than in the depths of winter, but any time's a bad time to have to spend £2,000 .

Suejonez, that's interesting to hear, about your mum's take on things. It's amazing how other people can perceive a situation very differently, isn't it.

I had a rather bad evening, food-wise. Had book club at our house, and ate far too much of the chocs, crisps and dips (even though I also tried to eat loads of the bits of carrot and celery, they were nevertheless loaded with dip). Oh yes, and three big glasses of wine. Trying to get back on the straight and narrow today.

I'm feeling much more in control today and so I'm pleased that even though I will put on weight this week it could have been worse and pleased I managed to make it to acqua last night despite feeling crap.

Exercise really does help on so many levels, I'm tihnking of trying to find a personal trainer who will do two (people) for the price of one so my mum and I can split the cost. It would only be for a month probably (not sure I could afford longer) but it would up my exercise levels a bit for a while.

Sorry flutterbee - sure you don;t want to hear about personal trainers when you're boilerless. Do you have an immersion heater that you could use? Otherwise I have an inflatable baby bath you could borrow which would need less filling up than a full bath and you could use a kettle.

How are you doing today Flutterbee?

Right - down to business.

Please can we make some final decisions about Friday's meet up in Oxford.

I think we agreed 11.00 - 2.00 or was it 11.30?

Where are we meeting if it's a nice day?
Where are we meeting if it's chucking it down?

And most importantly -

WHO'S COMING????????

Come on, be brave - let's get together.