BigMoFos Week 29

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New thread ...

One's about four and a half years, the other is about forty-five years ... I shall be a nobby old duck but I shall almost undoubtedly still be here!

A day at home sounds like just what the doctor ordered, Jackie.

Hmm - do you think I'll still be posting when I'm 86? Might be about all I can do, I suppose.

I can hear a dvd of Casanova with David Tennant calling...

Littlefish... when we last typed you were just about to (or maybe just had) hit a 10% loss with comensurate key fob at ww... I haven't been following everyone's numbers as my weigh in is Thursday And and by the time I'm here Wednesday's thread is old news... Have you kept that loss off ? I'm teetering around one of the stone barriers - some weeks something 13 1/2 pounds, others something 0 or something 1 pound... haven't moved properly for a wee while... just wondering how you were doing.

And everyone - it's taken us (typically) a fair few years to put our weight on, it'll take a fair while for it to come off !!! They do say the slower the better for securing permanent loss...

I know it's going to take a long while to shift - it's taken 40-odd years to go on. I shall be 88 by the time BigMoFos 2370 comes around ... should just about have cracked it by then ...

Sorry Hub - not me! I wish it was me who was just about to hit my 10% but I haven't even made it to my first ww meeting yet!

I've posted on you other thread about attitudes to eating etc.

You're absolutely right, that this is just the time for you and your dw to keep going to ww.

Just think how you'll feel when you get properly under the next stone barrier.

v. sorry... I wonder who I was thinking of !!! Hmmm...

Yes, I think Thursday is a non-negotiable...

I think it might be Dottydot....

doooooooooottttttttttttttttttyyyyyyyyyyyy....

Yes, Dottydot is doing ww so it could be her.

Well I hope BigMoFos is still around for thread 2370 because I like it and I like you all the best. It feels like my spiritual home here (even though I haven't actually lost any weight on it! - but there are extenuating circs I guess)

going for my gestational diabetes blood test tomorrow so no food until at least 10.30 am - gah. Things like that make me feel grim because the midwifes are so keen for me to do it and no messing about with a prelim, straight to the fasting test (horrid the way they look at you and say 'yes your BMI must be rather high'. Still at least they don't weigh me thank goodness). Just like I always feel depressed because I need the bigger cuff to take my BP every time I go. The little day to day humiliations, you all know them.

BTW JackieNo, am giggling over DS eating chips in his pushchair! bet he still looked super angelic though.

I think you have the best reason going to not be losing weight at the moment, MrsJohnCusack. But not eating till at least 10.30 sounds horrible. Hope it all goes OK for you.

DS did still look cute (but I'm biased, of course). We did also have possibly the most unpleasant 'chicken' nuggets I've ever tasted. I managed to eat one, but couldn't face any more. Presumably made from really, really unhappy chickens (or bits of them). Yeuch. Never again.

Am feeling dreadful with my cold still, so I'll be off work today.

I'm sorry the other thread made you feel bad wwb

Not your fault WWW - it is just that a lot of us here have a considerable amount of weight to lose to get close to a healthy weight (6 stone for me)and it can be hard hearing someone who is size 16 talk about how disgustingly fat they are for example. Please don't feel bad.

Oh, WWW - don't be sorry! It's me and my stupid mindset that's to blame, not you. I ought to be able to read stuff like that without getting upset and hung up about it - and one day I will be able to. It's just hard sometimes to see people calling themselves such awful names for being a size 16 - it's hard to see that as a size 32 (well, 30 now ...!) without feeling disgusted with myself.

And I guess there's also the fact that on these threads we try not to be too hard on ourselves when we have a bad day, it feels awful that someone should beat themselves up quite so hard for eating what, to me, don't seem like such awful things to eat.

I'm sorry, I should probably have kept my mouth shut. People take what support they can from threads, and that one is no exception; I should have just left it alone when I realised it made me feel bad.

No, no, no wwb, don't you be sorry about me being sorry! I've been thinking about this this morning and I think people on the other thread were talking about their own self loathing at being size 16, 18, whatever - it doesn't matter what actual size we/they are, they feel awful about it. And so they weren't judging YOU for your size, they were judging themsleves for their own sizes and for their feelings on the matter (me included). I know I am judged in the world for being fat, I know it. It's not right but it's there. I really didn't intend any offence though, I am sorry if I caused any (I was the one who said I know people judge me for being fat).

At this rate I shall be right here with you all in week 23000. I lost a lot of weight in the first few weeks after dd's birth - probably at least 2-2.5st but the weight I've lost with the MoFos seems to be up and down a bit. I lose a pound one week, stay the same the next, and then put it back on in the 3rd week. The run-up to Christmas isn't helping here either.

I haven't looked at the other thread WWB but I hope you're okay.xxx

We are going to spend the next hour apologising to each other, WWW

I know it's all about other poster's self-loathing; it just got mine working overtime, that's all. It wasn't you, really it wasn't.

I'm OK, ct - feel very silly for being so thrown by the other thread.

(Phew! All those W's)

Don't feel silly, WWB. Surely part of the reason for this thread is for somewhere to post when things get you down?

I saw the other thread, and thought gloomily that everyone had defected over to it . So I'm very glad to see you all here, after all Hey, I don't do slices of stuff, I do packets. Coppertop, I'm like you, I'm going back and forth over the same piece of ground; but overall, over time, there's a downward trend. I have taken to fishing out my old Rosemary Conley card from last year, and staring at the weight I was then, just to reassure myself: I've lost two stone over the last year, all very slow, but it has gone.

This week has been completely rubbish, however - I've got a horrible cold (every sympathy, JackieNo), so have been holed up indoors, erm, eating.

lol at apology blocker! ha ha ha ha!

I've just joined ediets and saw a scary chart of my bmi, eek. But onwards! I am going to go to bed in a little while as I woke at 4.30am and couldn't get back to sleep.

All the Ws do get a bit confusing, don't they ... happens all the time though, I'm always being called WWW. I did think about asking Tech if the B bit of my name could appear in flashing day-glo pink or something - might stop the confusion

4.30? Yikes! I hope you can catch up with some sleep this morning/afternoon.

Fauve - lots of sympathy. There seems to be an eternal cold in our house that keeps jumping from one person to the next.

Hi Fauve, have a tissue . On a positive note, the mouse man has been and put poison in our loft, so hopefully scrabbling and knawing sounds will soon diminish and disappear. On the minus side, the fact that he was able to come at such short notice meant that I had to dash around tidying up and cleaning a bit, so that I wasn't completely embarrassed when he arrived. Done now though.

It could be day-glo orange, if you prefer ...

I'm working on the assumption that a certain person won't be checking in here being as she's so far away and has someone else to occupy her time with, so just wanted to keep you all updated.

I've now finished buying all the things that we were buying for the person we were buying them for. Once the last two items arrive (I waited until I knew what flavour she was getting!) they will be ready to parcel up and send out.

There's still time to join in with the gifts, if anyone who hasn't yet would like to - most of you know what I'm talking about, and those who don't can probably guess! I emailed everyone who was using these threads at the time, so there are probably a couple of people who are completely in the dark ... you can email me on traceyparker63 at hotmail dot com if you'd still like to contribute.