BigMoFos Week 23

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Nice shiny new thread ...

Um, no... will have to look into cosmetic though if I'm going to be associated with it

It's just a random name, really (I was on here for over a year with an incredibly boring name that was basically my real name). I am very lacking in imagination for those sorts of things.

Perhaps you should promote it! It's made by Benefit cosmetics, a pale yellow concealer cream called lemonaid and you pat it on your eyelids and it completely does away with purply blotches, veins, etc and gives you the eyelids of a 17 year old. It's my secret magic potion.

No worries at all NumberNineteen, I'm glad to have "newbies" posting about whatever they like. It keeps the thread alive and stops us boring each other to death!

And I wasn't trying to say that we have somehow outgrown talking about food as if it is somehow superior of us - for a good example of how that really isn't true anyway, witness Jackie and my convo earlier about the calories in a KitKat!

It was really a vague musing about how I really have accepted that my weight is as much of an emotional problem as a physical one - not just (as littlemisssensible said) eat less exercise more. Seeing people posting in the same kind of way I started off, made me wonder whether I/we had genuinely moved on to considering the things which make us the way we are or if its just familiarity with each other that means we often talk more about our feelings now. And unless we are on a real low (like me last week) we have almost stopped putting ourselves down (even in a funny way) as I think we have all begun to be much more conscious that we do it.

I'm not entirely sure I know the answer to that but I do think its the first time I have accepted that my weight isn't going to change without a change in attitude and an acceptance that I have a problem which is bigger than just eating one too many cream cakes. It seems so obvious to me now that I believe I've spent so many years thinking that I was not a compulsive eater, that I was just greedy/didn't exercise enough/was too lazy to lose weight.

We don't take offence easily so don't give it another thought, I could probably have found another way of phrasing my comment if I'd spent a bit longer on it.

Well I've certainly reverted to my old ways today... Had an MRI scan this afternoon to check out a lump behind my left eye. Am scared witless it's something bad so today (as well as usual breakfast and lunch) I've eaten:
2 bags of crisps
1 milky bar
1 frys chocolate cream

Feeling quite ill now... Of course I already regret it - but I eat when I'm scared...

scared, bored, fed up, sad, lonely etc I have a lot of reasons why and when I eat dottydot. I hope everything is ok for you.
I think that many of us accept that we are going to turn to food when negativity comes into our lives, and the point is that we just accept it and move on to the next day when we eat sensibly again- which I'm sure is what "naturally slim" people do rather than beating ourselves up. Having said that I am currently mindlessly shoving chocolate into my gob because the house is mess. ds is driving me mad, I have forgotten to collect dh's prescription and to top it all, some f... dog crapped right outside my front door, not even on the pavement and I put Issy's babycarrier down in it so now I have the joyful task of scraping dog crap out of the carseat and the base!! joy of joys

When will you get the results of the MRI, Dotty? It must be such a worrying time for you.

I know what it's like Dotty - not much you can do is there. Hope all goes well.

you forgot "breathing" as one of your reasons to eat, zombiemum - its on my list

not travlling on Tuesday - no letter ahs been issud and won;t be on Monday and the man at the ministry won;t tell us when he is going to issue it so in the dark a bit at the moment. But finished work yesterday so I'm going to rapidly run out of money if we don't travel soon (as well as going completely insane)

Oh Sue ... I'm sticking pins in a model of my MIL at the moment, would you like me to do the same for the man at the ministry?

Speaking of your MIL, any predictions on what you'll get this Christmas?

yes please WWB.

Current theory is that he's pissed off because our coordinator went over his head to make him issue them, so now he's being bloody minded about how long he's taking. Don't know if thats true but is quite feasible.

At the moment there is some doubt over whether she will still be alive at Christmas, because I'm feeling pretty murderous about her at the moment!

It'll probably be something like a pack of bubble wrap or a nice roll of parcel string.

have things not been settled with your MIL yet WWB - is your DH still moving her stuff at the rate of an eggcupful a week?

What a bloody idiot, sue.

I've been packing the stuff this week ... have been round there most mornings and am up to 10 boxes from the kitchen alone. There are probably another two boxes to do from the kitchen, and eight to do from her bedroom. We emptied the loft last weekend - took all weekend to do it - and that's all packed up now too (I'll give you three guesses who packed it).

I put my foot down and we have hired a transit van for this weekend, so we will finish it off tomorrow, drive it round on Sunday, and dump it with her. She, of course, has been nowhere near so most of the stuff I've packed will probably end up being binned but we would still have been here at Easter waiting for her to come and sort it.

Possible presents from WWB's MIL

10 packs of bias binding in assorted shades of beige and orange

3 balls of 100% Acrylic wool in lime green

Soap on a rope

at least it must feel better getting something done about it.

I do wonder about people when they become parents and make their childrens lives difficult. Don't they want their childrens lives to be happy, at whatever age they are? Don't they want their children to be pleased to see them and look forward to it, rather than feeling its a duty?

Truly I really don't understand some people.

If you get the wool - I'll have it, am knitting like a fury at the moment.

Littlefish - where can i get funky wool that isn't cutesy colours in acrylic for childrens stuff?

If you get the wool - I'll have it, am knitting like a fury at the moment.

Littlefish - where can i get funky wool that isn't cutesy colours in acrylic for childrens stuff?

sorry the cat posted that the second time

It does feel a bit better knowing that it's under control now - although I'm knackered, and I know half of what I've done will be wasted. If she'd bothered at least sorting her stuff we wouldn't have had so much packing to do.

She paid the removals men to pack all of her crocks ... they packed one box, and then she told them not to bother with the rest, she didn't know whether she wanted it or not. And I've had to pack it anyway. £120 they charged on top of the removals fee for packing crocks and books, and for that they packed three boxes.

Nine bottles of disinfectant I found in her kitchen cupboard ... NINE. And seven bottles of glass cleaner. I threw a stack of that kind of stuff away, and even then two of the boxes are full of cleaning fluids - most of which she'll throw away. Most of the other stuff is crap but I've had to pack it anyway because she couldn't be arsed to sort it. She was too busy sorting her felt-tipped pens out so they were in the right order and the right way up in the packet

Sue, if she sends me wool you can have it with pleasure.

Hi all - results probably in 2 - 3 weeks, so more waiting. Have drawn a __ under today's eating...

Sue - must be soooo frustrating to have yet more waiting when you're so nearly there - I really hope the letter comes through soon.

WWB - didn't realise you had the infamous MIL who gives balls of string as Christmas presents!

got to go and pack the kids off to bed...

AND the best bit (ooooh, I'm on a roll now)

She's started whining that she's not seeing dd often enough, because we don't see her every week now.

SO WHO CHOSE TO MOVE 2 HOURS DRIVE AWAY THEN?

Oh yes, dotty ... my MIL is the infamous 34-metres-of-elastic one.

Would anyone like to swap? Just for a change?