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A space to talk openly about weight loss journeys and challenges. Mumsnet hasn't checked the qualifications of anyone posting here. You may wish to speak to a medical professional before starting any diet.

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BigMoFos Week 32

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WigWamBahhumbug · 14/12/2006 10:48

New thread ... let's see if we can get back into our stride again this week.

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JackieNoHoHo · 14/12/2006 11:01

Well done Littlemisssensible - that's a fab achievement. I do need to get a grip again. And I don't want a kick from WWB.

Just think - this time next week, Sue might be back in the country (might be too busy to post on MN, but still).

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WigWamBahhumbug · 14/12/2006 11:05

I know, I was thinking that this morning and getting quite excited about it! If anyone can give us all a swift kick up the backside it's Sue ...

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JackieNoHoHo · 14/12/2006 11:08

Nah, she's gone soft. All that blubbing on her blog...
(I can talk - gets me every time).

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WigWamBahhumbug · 14/12/2006 11:13

And me

Maybe we'll never be able to take the hard act seriously again ...

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twoisenoughmum · 14/12/2006 11:55

Oh dear, I genuinly forgot to weigh myself yesterday - it was DD's school nativity and I was making frantic adjustments to her costume (well, still sewing it together, actually) in the morning. And I just don't weigh myself at any other time - has to be starkers (what a thought) and first thing, or not at all.

Not a very promising start from this particular Big Mo Fo, but I shan't forget next week.

My target for Christmas eating is not to gain anything - but I have a sneaky tactic for making this happen: I am not going to weigh myself for two weeks. So even if I go seriously mad and gain lbs in the actual Christmas week itself, I'm going to give myself another week after it's all died down to get back on the straight and narrow (ha!) before weighing myself again. That way I'll never know exactly how much I gained and, truthfully, I won't care either.

Congrats to LittleMissSensible, btw, hope you are feeling suitable proud of yourself.

Am hungover today, and deprived of sleep by DS with a cough, so off for yet another restorative glass of water.

littlemistletoesensible · 14/12/2006 12:12

Ohhh thanx WWB, thats a lovely Happy Dance!

I'm still walking around in a happy glow! I feel like I've actually lost the whole of that 13th stone in the last week, even though it was only the last little bit of it! Does that make sense to anyone?

FauveGoldRings · 14/12/2006 13:21

Well done, LMS - breaking a barrier is reaalllyy good. I'm currently like a showjumping horse - keep taking runs that stone barrier, but keep running out. This has been going on for some time - but kind WWB has not yet disqualified me

Sorry I didn't email my weight in, I have been v preoccupied with stuff. However, I stayed the same, which is better than going up.

WWB, becos of said stuff, have not posted you a bit of paper yet - is it now too late, or can I still do it?

WigWamBam · 14/12/2006 17:02

No, still time - I've only had one bit of paper so far so you're in good company! Could do with all the bits of paper by next week though, it would be nice to get it all out to Sue so that it arrives for Christmas (if she's actually home by then, of course!).

Nobody gets disqualified here ... although maybe a few time faults might be a good idea sometimes!

FauveGoldRings · 14/12/2006 18:01

I look forward to the day when they don't have to give me a strong horse if I ever go riding again...

JackieNoHoHo · 14/12/2006 18:04

I do like twoisenoughmum's idea of a Christmas weigh-in amnesty - can we ditch the weigh in for Wednesday 27th? Or shall we just go for it regardless? Happy to do the weighing, but quite like the idea of having a one-week break.

WigWamBam · 14/12/2006 18:08

Fauve, I wouldn't dream of riding a horse. I'd squash the poor bugger - even a Shire couldn't cope with me on it's back ...

No problems with having a break at all. I hadn't really given it a lot of thought but it makes sense.

As long as everyone promises to be back in the New Year, even if they've put vast amounts of weight on ...

JackieNoHoHo · 14/12/2006 18:10

Just that one week would do me, I think. But if the consensus is that we weigh, I'm happy to do that too.

WigWamBam · 14/12/2006 18:13

I'm happy to do whatever people feel they would like to.

Over to you lot ...

FauveGoldRings · 14/12/2006 18:34

I think whatever we do, we have to be realistic - we're not likely to lose weight at Xmas, and we shouldn't be devastated if we put on a bit. I suppose I'd be hoping to 'stay the same' by 3 Jan - because that will mean a lot of work on my part.

WigWamBam · 14/12/2006 19:39

Yes, I think we all ought to expect to gain something over Christmas - it would be unrealistic to hope for a loss, and trying too hard to diet would spoil Christmas. We have to cut ourselves a bit of slack.

Maybe we should just think of damage limitation rather than complete prevention - have a bit of what we fancy but not the whole box!

JackieNoHoHo · 14/12/2006 19:42

Yes. I think I'm hoping to stay below 14 stone 7 (currently 14 3, I think). But if I go above that, so be it. And you're right, WWB, it's definitely a case of have what we want, but not in huge quantities. We've got the in-laws coming, and I have visions of me sneaking out to the kitchen and eating stuff in secret out there.

MrsJohnCuSackFullOfPresents · 14/12/2006 19:53

I'm sorry I don't post here much, but I am in denial about putting on pregnancy weight (it's still not much, but still, I hate it, and I'm really not eating that much and I'm sooooooo tired and sore). whinge, whinge. Only 10 weeks to go now, damage limitation is the name of the game! i read this thread all the time though

one of the reasons I would like to lose weight is so that I can start riding again. I would really love to, but at the moment would feel far too mean to a horse.

WigWamBam · 14/12/2006 19:54

I'm spending Christmas day with the MIL and SIL ... I shall be taking my own stash of chocolate and biscuits as comfort food to stop me hurling myself off MIL's balcony!

I think I almost need to give myself permission to eat so that I can relax and not have to worry about it. Not permission to gorge, but permission to eat nice things and not get hung up about them.

I also need to promise myself that whatever happens, and however much goes back on, I am straight back onto these threads. No hiding from it, no giving up because the weight's gone back on again - back here, onwards and upwards. Or downwards, depending on which way you look at it

WigWamBam · 14/12/2006 19:55

Hello, MrsJCS! How are you - haven't seen you around for ages.

JackieNoHoHo · 14/12/2006 19:58

Yes, WWB - permission to eat, and to know that we will put on weight, but that it will come off again afterwards, just as the inital weight has come off.

Hi MrsJC. Can it really only be 10 weeks to go. Amazing. Are you feeling Christmassy yet, or is it all too strange being in NZ?

MrsJohnCuSackFullOfPresents · 14/12/2006 20:01

I am fine, just plodding along trying not to stuff my face and trying to keep exercising despite SPD and general decripitness
Also - the only job I want here, which comes up every few years and so may not be up again for ages, HAS come up - but the audition is 3 days before my due date TYPICAL. So am trying to keep in practice for that.
So in general life is just going along. Desperate for DH to get a job but no idea what he's going to do and he seems supremely unmotivated which means he is eating for BRitain - not helpful to me! And my sister back home is so sad too and I can't help her. All this of course leads to Bad Eating.
Oh no, what a whinge! I must say reading this thread is helping me even when I don't post anything useful (or anything at all). And when some of the other threads I've ventured onto in the last few days have descended into unpleasantness.
I have to go now and get DD and myself ready for music class, but I will be back for More Inspiration and chat.

MrsJohnCuSackFullOfPresents · 14/12/2006 20:04

It's not Christmassy!
but I put up the tree last night and DD was most satisfying impressed this morning - 'oh, wow' which was cute.
it's all a bit of a strain trying to keep the ILs OK through Christmas, everytime the MIL sees a pic of DD she cries so I don't know how much to send her! Also she has decided she is agoraphobic so they probably won't visit. All v.difficult.

I am missing the UK a bit - but I won't in Jan/Feb!

JackieNoHoHo · 14/12/2006 20:07

Oh no - SPD, poor you. Glad DD was impressed with the tree - we're going to put ours up this weekend. Sorry to hear your family's going through horrible stuff, though.

FauveGoldRings · 14/12/2006 21:41

Oh, Mrs JC, you can ride when you're big (but poss not when preggers ) - think of all those large huntsmen and women who used to clamber onto vast hunters in the foxhunting season. And Clarissa Dickson Wright. And Henry VIII was tall as well as wide, and a great horseman. In fact I bemoan the fact that riding is so damn expensive because otherwise it's a great sport to do for all shapes and sizes IMO.
Having said all that, it is embarrassing when they have to scour the stables for a big enough horse...

Does anyone fancy attempting a bit of a detox in the New Year? All the newspapers are full of them then, so motivation is there. I sometimes attempt a weird kind of detox where I eat lots of just fruit and reward myself with Starbucks decaff cappucino - sometimes a few of them - you get my drift - my body doesn't exactly revel in the detoxicity, but I do shed some weight. And sometimes I feel really well on it - almost high. I could post the detox diet I've got as it's meant to be done.

MrsJohnCuSackFullOfPresents · 15/12/2006 06:01

oh I'm so SORRY to moan on - what a misery
just so, so tired and fed up at the moment. Boo

I don't think I could cope with them looking for a big horse! (or with wearing trousers and seeing my thighs against a saddle - shudder). But I am going to go riding some time, I am determined.
I would like to try some sort of cut down on sugar in the NY. Don't have gestational diabetes but am quite tempted to treat myself as though I have and try to sort myself out. Other than that I am quite detoxed anyway - for me anyhow!

I can see DH wants to order a pizza tonight. Do I have the willpower to not join him? dunno TBH

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