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calling all long term slimmers

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glitterfairy · 12/05/2004 20:12

I am starting this thread to take up from the 10 stone one. That thread has given me a lot of strength and hope and I would like to continue that dialogue but thought it might need freshening up. Champs speak to me! Hows it going and how many new food types can you alert me to?
Any more takers for the long haul speak now!

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moniker · 16/09/2004 14:30

Is do-able a word BTW

still smiling!!

champs · 16/09/2004 22:53

rofl!!! I'm afraid to say i use all different flavours!! orangey ones work best tho.

Well done on your loss to date bran I am not doing as good as last week, I have a rotten cold and it seems to want sweet stuff, have brought some grapes to ward off cravings.

champs · 16/09/2004 22:54

btw, do-able is as good a word as any

bran · 17/09/2004 16:10

I hope your cold gets better soon Champs. Remember, lots of fluids. Apparently raising your blood sugar interferes with the efficiency of your immune system, so resist the sweets and stick with the oatmeal. I think that everything tastes revolting when I have a cold anyway, so I usually eat by texture, and I really like soups when I'm ill.

I think do-able is a word too, but I suspect my English teacher would have replaced it with achievable . Either way I'm thrilled with your confidence in me , but then, of course, you don't know me all that well, so you could be wrong (why can't I just look at the positive? ).

Congratulations Moniker, 1 lb is good considering you weren't doing it whole-heartedly. I think any downward movement counts, and the exercise is good for you in so many ways besides weight loss.

champs · 18/09/2004 14:32

bran!!! you MUST look at the positive side of things (says her who finds it hard too)--- did that help?!

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glitterfairy · 18/09/2004 17:23

Hi Guys am back! No superwoman me though. First two days I was so good no alcohol up at 7am and in the gym then we flew back to bristol and landed late and arrived in Torquay at 11.30pm knackered. Couldnt get to gym in the morning then spent all day interviewing until 4pm with half an hours lunch and started long fdrive back up North to home. ONLY.... Nightmare traffic. Got to Manchester airport at 12.30 at night and have to say ate a bar of chocolate instead of tea and a bag of sweeets! Booked into a hotel and then got up this morning to get kids to ballet and drove from 7.30 to home at 9 when dh saaw me he went welcome home at last and I burst into tears and couldnt stop blubbing until my ds 8 was hugging me and saying mummy dont cry whta has happened? Oh dear me.

Treated myself to new red hair today and have been good all day back to gym tomorrow but then flying to London monday and Dublin rest of week. Have been good and booked gym there but am gradually relapsing help help help! Have to shop and wash tomorrow and may cry too. Feel better for my moan/rant sorry. Will try to post in Dublin and may ask for support!

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champs · 18/09/2004 22:10

glitter my hun, how are you now? I do think you are putting alot on yoursel... it cant be helped if it is for work but it all sounds totally exausting. Bless your ds.
No need to say sorry by the way, we are all here to support and laugh at... er i mean help each other
please donot beat yourself over a choc bar, sure it is worked of by now with all the hustle and bustle!!

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glitterfairy · 18/09/2004 22:12

Yes and thank you for your message. LOL all my emails come onto my mobile so you got me at 1am in the morning in Belfast and I PML at being woken at that time! Am off to the gym in the morning!

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bran · 18/09/2004 22:40

Glitter I think you're amazing doing all that travelling and sorting out your family, and going to the gym. Any little slip-ups are entirely excusable and will only be a short set-back.

Eat proper meals (I know, I know, no time ) to keep your blood sugar on an even keel. Carry fruit and cereal bars with you (not the really sugary ones).

Lots of hugs now, but when you're finished travelling and you're feeling more cheerful I'll be pious and bossy again (although I'll never be as scary as Beetroot no matter how hard I try).

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glitterfairy · 19/09/2004 08:30

Thanks guys you have really really helped as I was feeling a bit low. Brought some dried fruit and nuts for snacks this weekend.

Cant go to the gym this morning as my dh has to go to work may manage it this afternoon although it will be a toss up between gym and a nap quite frankly.

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bran · 19/09/2004 13:08

Glitter, I was going to suggest going for a walk with the kids, or playing a game of tag (I don't know how old your kids are), but look it's afternoon already. Doesn't the day fly by when you're having a lie in . I've also done an hour's walk, but I was supposed to be tidying the kitchen, it's my turn to empty the dishwasher and the clean stuff has been sitting in it since Thursday, so all the dirty stuff is heaped up in the sink , I must do it before those awful women turn up from How Clean is your House.

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glitterfairy · 19/09/2004 15:15

That is a truly awful programme isnt it? Mind you we could probably do how messy can we make it in ours? LOl your turn to do the dishwasher how fair is your home?

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champs · 19/09/2004 22:23

glitter-- SORRY!!!! glad ur feelin better.
bran--- your dishwasher and sink sounds like mine

bran · 19/09/2004 22:47

My home is very, very fair Glitter, simply because I'm much to lazy to do anything more than my half. DH has learnt that if it's not my turn it just doesn't get done, I can ignore a mess for weeks if necessary (of course having a cleaner helps, but I think we probably have to pay her more than most people ).

champs · 19/09/2004 22:53

i need to do some drastic house cleaning!! was meant to have started ages ago

bran · 19/09/2004 22:58

Champs, we were supposed to have spring cleaned this weekend (postponed from last weekend). I agreed with dh that we should and just quietly waited for him to get started, and so had a lovely relaxing weekend. My philosophy is that you can have a happier life if you have low enough standards.

champs · 19/09/2004 23:01

in that case i should be MEGA happy, ecstatic even

bran · 19/09/2004 23:07

Of course, it could be that the difference between me and a naturally thin person could be the energy expended doing housework.

champs · 19/09/2004 23:20

lol.... everyday i say.... i must tidy the house, sounds like my old promises to start dieting

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glitterfairy · 20/09/2004 07:42

rofl bran I must perfect this technique instead of being a matyr!

Cahmps how are you darling? Am off to London today and then to Dublin tomorrow I think the kids are sorted although I spoke to the new nanny yesterday and she is having problems with dd 9 who has been rude and shouting and saying "whatever". Had a chat with her and am hoping that things will be better this week FIngers crossed as she is very bright and can be very hard work!

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champs · 20/09/2004 13:28

glitter!! hi!! you are in London, my neck of the england woods.
sounds like your dd is embanking on pre teenhood couldn't help but lol at WHatever!! hope she setles down a bit.

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glitterfairy · 20/09/2004 19:58

Me to dont want to lose Mary Poppins! Am at my sisters tonight and she is cooking me a monkfish risotto! yum all ww food as well arent I lucky?

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bran · 20/09/2004 20:05

Mmm, I love risotto. I once had the most sublime scallop and strawberry risotto, I still remember it 5 years later. I might try it one day, although I'm always a bit nervous cooking scallops, you take you eye off them for one second and suddenly they're overdone.

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glitterfairy · 20/09/2004 20:09

I love scallops and know exactly what you mean the trick is to underdo them and then leave them a bit! Anyway am happy tonight and it is great not to have to worry about food!

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bran · 20/09/2004 20:15

Are you looking forward to Dublin? I haven't been back for ages, I think Christmas was the last time I was there. I've been half thinking about going back in the New Year for my 20 year school reunion (I'm sure they're mistaken, I'm just not old enough). I'll probably be there anyway, unless my dps and db come to us for Christmas. Thing is, if I couldn't be bothered to look up most of these people for 20 years, why bother now? I can't think of a single person that I want to see that I don't already see fairly regularly, and I can think of plenty that I NEVER want to see again.

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