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BigMoFos Week 33

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WigWamBam · 21/12/2006 09:18

I think the general agreement was that we wouldn't weigh this week, but I thought we ought to start a new thread anyway.

So here it is

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JackieNo · 29/12/2006 14:34

I guess it does feel like a step backwards, when actually you've been going forwards, which is deeply unfair.

JackieNo · 29/12/2006 14:35

(Look - I've UnChristmassed myself). The ILs went this morning, and it's lovely to have the house to ourselves again. 5 days they were here for, and it was mostly OK, but the 2 of them were getting on each other's nerves by the end of it.

Dottydotthehalls · 29/12/2006 15:22

WWB - hurrah, you're here!!!! That's the most important thing right now - don't worry about the stupid scales - wouldn't your clothes be telling you if you'd suddenly put on 24lbs?? Can't be right - stick to your old ones and keep going!

Yes, I'll start to get back to good habits hopefully - next week...

JackieNo · 29/12/2006 15:25

Slow and steady (and other such cliches). Have just opened the Green and Blacks' pralines...only had 2 so far, but who knows where it could lead.

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WigWamBam · 29/12/2006 17:30

Yeah, I'm here, Dotty. Bit wary but here! Thank you ever so much for the emails you sent me earlier, it really means a lot. Am sticking with the MoFos threads at the moment though, because it feels a bit weird to be posting anywhere else.

Step away from the Green and Blacks, Jackie ...

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JackieNo · 29/12/2006 17:32

(only up to 3 in total now).

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WigWamBam · 29/12/2006 17:34

Wow ... I'm incredibly impressed!

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JackieNo · 29/12/2006 17:38

Me too. It won't last, I'm sure.

Dottydotthehalls · 29/12/2006 21:29

Well I've been slightly better this evening - didn't make a coffee and therefore didn't eat lots of chocolate [saintly emoticon...].

The scales at MIL's house are telling me I've put on 3lbs - fingers crossed that's all the damage is by the time I go to WW next week!

flutturkey · 29/12/2006 21:51

Hi Ladies,

I haven't been around for aaaggggges, I have been far too busy eating to get near the computer (do not even think I am joking).

I am going to weigh myself in the 2nd week of the new year, I suspect I am very near my 23st 3lb starting weight (once again I am not joking) but giving up smoking was my resolution in 2006 so loosing weight will be it for 2007.

Hope you have all had a fab Christmas and have a stonking New Year

I'm off to change out of my Christmas name

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

JackieNo · 29/12/2006 22:04

Well done Dottydot. One layer of Green and Black's pralines gone. Shared with DH, though. Stopped now.

Flutturkey - hope you had a good Christmas. Just think of it this way - if you hadn't already lost a load of weight, you'd have more to lose now.

FrostyTheSnowMarsLady · 29/12/2006 22:11

Good to see you back WWB... and don't feel odd about posting elsewhere on the site. Don't you get the feeling you're loved?

MrsJohnCusack · 29/12/2006 22:12

happy new year!
Did you give up smoking then flutturkey? Well done! It's just gone 3 years for me and I still feel proud, even if all I've done since then is put on weight (have been pregnant twice though).

Guess what - it's pissing down with rain AGAIN here. Do not be jealous that it's summer here - it isn't happening.

I missed the troll . I presume it was just the usual crap? And WWB - so sorry about the scales. The last ones I bought added 7 pounds on and that was depressing enough. Then they weighed me at the midwives (I knew my time was running out) and it was a bit more there as well. But then she said 'oh that's not too bad' which made me wonder, obviously, just how bad I must look. Still, my bump must count for something - it is simply ENORMOUS and the time for looking any mirrors is well and truly over.

Here's to a lovely new 2007 for everyone in which all our dreams come true .

MrsJohnCusack · 30/12/2006 07:02

BTW, Sue has posted an update on her site

JackieNo · 30/12/2006 09:17

Thanks for that MrsJohnCusack - so it's going to be yet longer for her, poor thing. So frustrating. She must be aching to come home again.

flutterbee · 30/12/2006 09:35

Yes I gave up MJC, it will be 1 year on 7th January HU bloody RAH

Dotty I hadn't thought about it like that, I feel better already.

Its my brothers B-day today so I am off to his house for a gathering and plenty of party food

Dottydotthehalls · 30/12/2006 09:59

Flutterbee - it was JackieNo with the good thinking!

New year, new start for 2007. My resolution is to reach my goal weight in 2007 (not being too specific about when though..! )

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WigWamBam · 30/12/2006 12:18

I think I shall keep a low profile for a bit, nonetheless!

Flutterbee, we'll still be here when you decide to get back on those scales again.

Goal weight, Dotty ... that'll be about 2017 for me then ...

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Dottydotthehalls · 30/12/2006 15:17

Oy WWB - you can do it!! Even if your goal weight for 2007 isn't what you'd like it to be ideally - how about setting a target anyway? (sorry - I'm all hyper - been out today with the boys and had an unusually nice time! ). If I can shift another 2 stone I'll be happy - was aiming for April but that's looking scarily near now, so maybe the summer!

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WigWamBam · 30/12/2006 15:22

I have so far to go and so much to shift - and with the new scales showing so much heavier it's all seeming like an impossible task at the moment. If the new ones are right then I weigh almost 23 stone ... that's two small people I have to lose. I'm feeling a bit down about life in general at the moment, and not really in the frame of mind for weight-loss when getting down to a size that's anywhere near "normal" seems unachievable.

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Dottydotthehalls · 30/12/2006 15:52

Awww - I'm sorry - and just ignore me when I get all Tigger-ish. And since my last posting I raced upstairs to try on a new fab skirt I found at one of our local charity shops, (it's fab living near somewhere posh - their charity shops sell lovely Next and M&S clothes!) only to discover it had been wrongly labelled and is a size 12... (It had been labelled as a 16 so I was being a bit hopeful even then, but it's such a lovely skirt). I'm gutted - can't even get it over my bum... Never mind. I'm NEVER going to be a size 12, but my goal is to be a 14/16 at some point during 2007.

WWB - small targets - how about (and this is my target as well) aiming to lose 4lbs in January?

Or just tell me to bog off. In fact I'll go now and stop wittering!

Dottydotthehalls · 30/12/2006 15:54

Me again (I really will go after this). WWB - how about aiming to have a dress size that begins with a 2 - I remember this was one of your goals before Christmas?

Ahem. Should go and attempt to do some child care - can hear dp getting increasingly stroppy with ds's..!

twoisenoughmum · 30/12/2006 16:26

WWB - even though I am a newbie to this thread, could I just say that it would definitely not be the same without you and I would miss you terribly.

Have your DH and children weighed themselves on both sets of scales? That might throw some light on the figures?

I have had the same experience with new scales making me weigh much more than I thought and I agree it is crushing. But the reality is that you are the same person you were before you got on the new ones. And you have clearly lost some weight since being on this thread. Which is an achievement in itself. You obviously CAN do it, but don't appear to have much faith in yourself right now. If I/we can do anything to help you up your sense of self-belief, do please say so!

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WigWamBam · 30/12/2006 17:23

I never have a lot of faith in myself really! Keep wittering, Dotty, and ignore me - I get as Eeyore-ish as you get Tiggerish. Just when I think it's getting better it comes back and bites me on the bum again. It's not really about weight, it's everything really but I'll be OK.

Dh weighed himself as well, he won't tell me what he weighed though (and they reckon women are vain ...) I can't weigh dd on them, they measure water and fat as well (haven't dared look at those figures) so have footprints to stand in, and dd's feet are too small. I might go and weigh some tins of soup or something on them ... we worked it out at one point, wasn't it 13 cans to a stone?

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justamum · 31/12/2006 02:27

hello, any more insomniacs out there? I have stupidly run out of ads and have been in too much of a festive frenzy to remember to make a drs appointment so now I am stuck till at least tuesday.
I am still stuck in a post christmas nightmare, my bloody in laws bought ridiculous amounts for the children and it really pissed me off, they bought huge sacks of "small" presents and then a couple of big things each. This was easily double what dh and I had got them and is, quite frankly unmanageable, so our already over crowded house is now overflowing with new toys and the bin with cardboard packaging.

Dottydot, my sil has told her nan that her girlfriend is her housemate! I know the reasons for saying it but if I was in her partners shoes I'm not sure I would be very happy. Whats your opinion, as an expert so to speak?
wwb, we need you! You hold this thread together! The way I'm going to approach things this year is to aim for 1lb per week, if i stick to it that will be 52lb this year which is 3stone 10lb. Losing that much won't put me at a normal weight within a year but it will make a huge difference. I know there are going to be loads of times when I despair my ability to do this but that is what this thread is for.
No one judges on here, we are all in the same boat and I know I have put my body through too much for it not to start protesting. I can feel it in my achy knees and sore back and in my lack of energy or drive.
I also can't watch my dh turn into his father who has been forced to retire at 50 due to diabetes and for my children who have diabetes in the families of 3 of their grandparents.

sorry, I'm rambling. I don't come on here for ages then I blurt everything out all at once. Its lack of sleep and trying to psych myself up for new beginnings. Sorry