Blatantly nosey - but also a little bit of an amateur survey

[twoisenoughmum]

1. How tall are you?
2. How much do you weigh?
3. How much would you like to weigh?
4. When was the last time you steadily maintained that weight for, say, 5 years?

As its all anonoymous on here, feel free to join in without judgement. I'll kick off if I must

1. 5 ft 3"
2. 11 stone 6lb
3. 9 stone 6lb (not exactly sylph-like for one so short)
4. 1981 - 1991 I weighed 9 stone or less.

I'm kidding myself, aren't I?

Red wine is my downfall, too. 85 calories for a 125ml glass - that's about 510 calories for a bottle. So a really strict diet would be a bottle of wine and a 100g bar of Green & Black's chocolate per day!

foryplus - sounds good! And think of all those healthy antioxidants!!

Radley - think positively - because you are heavier to start with, your body takes more calories to maintain its present size. So you probably don't need to be too strict to start with - keep the fruit bowl full and munch something every time you feel peckish. The trick is to avoid sugary foods but also highly processed carbohydrates such as white bread and most breakfast cereals. Once I read the GI diet it made perfest sense - you get a 'high' from the foods that you crave, but this is followed a couple of hours later by a 'trough' when you crave more. I lent the book to a friend in April and it's since then that I've put weight back on!
The author also makes interesting statements such as not allowing yourseld to feel 'bad' if you go for a meal and end up overeating. It's what you do most of the time that counts. Too many people have one 'bad' day and think they've blown their diet.

NOELallie - how about a bottle of red wine, a bar of Green and Black's and 5 apples to make sure I'm getting my 5 portions of fruit? Will still only be about 1300 calories!

fortyplus - I'm on a low-carb diet so the green and blacks would be more than enough sugar for me.... so could I eat salad instead? Or perhaps raw brocolli?

I agree that sugar is the very devil! It's truly terrible stuff but so many people insist that it's not really all that bad because it is found in healthy foods too. I think so many people who struggle with their weight cut out processed foods and sugar they would find life so much easier. If you were an alcoholic everyone would applaud you for giving up booze, but it's seen as odd to cut out sugar.

Even frutose in fruit does not have that good an effect on me. Happy to eat 6 bananas, 400+ calories of cherriest etc. It's something about not just sucrose but fructose too for me. It's always been my binge type food.

" By fortyplus on Mon 08-Jan-07 10:22:05
Xenia - the other thing with sugar is that it's so hard to avoid - unlike Cocaine!"

Apparently cocaine is in everyone's purse in the land as it's on all bank notes... scarey thought.

All banknotes ?

I find that very hard to believe

Xenia - that's amazing if it's true! Where did you hear that?
And are you going to post your height and weight? I have mental pic of you a about 5'4", quite slim, but you might be 4' and 15 stone for all I know!

1. How tall are you? 5 ft 5" (and a bit!!)
2. How much do you weigh? 10 stone 7lb
3. How much would you like to weigh? 9 stone 7lb
4. When was the last time you steadily maintained that weight for, say, 5 years? No idea - was that weight when I got married, but have no idea if I'd weighed that for long, because never really used to weigh myself.

(banknotes - I thought I read it in this weekend's papers but my web search throws up Spain. I think the UK is the same news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6208877.stm)
The UK headlines were cocaine in every purse in the UK or something like that. Think how often notes are reused.

On my weight I was trying not to say because I don't feel completely anonymous on line but as I was asked I am 5 foot 4 so that guess as right. I haven't weighed myself since Christmas. I think about just under 10 stone? I feel best around 8 stone 12. Heaviest was when 40 weeks pregnant with the twins when I was 12 stone. I was 9 stone 4 7 months after they were born though (in part because of my brother's wedding which was a sort of target to lose weight). Lowest been about 8 stone 2 about 3 years ago, 8st 7 when we moved house in 1997.

Blimey! As Xenia hadn't come back I googles 'traces cocaine banknotes' and found this...

Bundles of paper, similar to sterling banknotes, were counted in banks in England and Wales. Subsequent analysis showed that the counting process, both by machine and by hand, transferred nanogram amounts of cocaine to the paper. Crystalline material, similar to cocaine hydrochloride, could be observed on the surface of the paper following counting. The geographical distribution of contamination broadly followed Government statistics for cocaine usage within the UK. Diacetylmorphine, Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and 3,4-methylenedioxymethylamphetamine (MDMA) were not detected during this study.

Author Keywords: Cocaine; Banknotes; Counting machines; Contamination

That's a coincidence - sorry, Xenia - I was obviously too impatient!

Xenia - I once paid a visit to a blind man - someone at work had posted him a survey to fill in - derrrr.
He was totally blind but claimed that he could tell a lot about me just from being in the same room. Said he guessed I was 5'4" - 5'6" with blue eyes. That covers a good % of the female population, doesn't it? So I suppose my correctly guessing that you're average height doesn't make me psychic?!

I am not happy about the bank notes. It means the police could frame anyone they really wanted to get perhaps? If we all have cocaine in our purses. I was then going to say use plastic but I understand that has other uses too.....

My difficult father used to tell people to smoke if they wanted to lose weight as a stupid joke (he's a doctor and gave up in the 60s when it was clear it caused cancer).....

I will be told off for thread deflection next. I went to ww once and in fact I'm a gold member which I think means I can go free for life and that worked. I never got as heavy again. I must have been 10 stone something then I think at the start. I just don't think people should think older means heavier. I think as you get in your 40s and 50s the weight is the thing that most causes the problems, the bad diet that makes the menopause harder, the hip and knee joints that go because of the weight they're trying to support etc. It's then yo uhave the problem and all the heart disease caused in women, which people don't realise, by being over weight....

1. 5ft 1"

1. 10st 10lbs but am on day 5 of low carb diet with help of noelallie, sally, ernest and others on the thread.

1. 9st 6lbs would be ace.

1. Prior to having ds who is 16months.

1. How tall are you? 5ft 2in
2. How much do you weigh? 13 1/2 stone
3. How much would you like to weigh? not sure would like to a size 10/12
4. When was the last time you steadily maintained that weight for, say, 5 years?

Not sure probaly upto about 26years was about 7 1/2 stone, my weight has slowly gone up over the last 10 years.

Xenia - well I suppose at least we'd be able to refer to this study as a defence? Presumably someone actually using cocaine would have it in their bloodstream, not just minute traces on their skin?
You're right about joint problems - I've lost count of the times I've heard overweight people complaining about having bad knees and back.
Apparently past the age of 30 we lose muscle tone - which is why athletes can't keep performing at the same level. Muscle uses more calories than fat, so even lying asleep a young person uses up more calories than someone older.
So that's why we have to work at it if we want to keep the weight off.
i have a friend who is a personal fitness trainer - she says that once you're past 40 you have to do about 5x as many repetitions to achieve the same result as a 25 year old! Now that's just not fair!

1. 5' 6"

1. 16st 11lb, as of this morning

1. The mid range of my ideal weight for height is 10st but this is too low for my frame. I was 12st when I got married, that'd do for me.

1. Never. My weight has fluctuated all my adult life.

I'd already taken the decision to try Rosemary Conley - first class tomorrow [gulp]

5'7"
10.7 stone
10 stone b4 DS

But am giong to be super good and start ack at the gym on Wednesday after losing 7lbs over Xmas Ihave to maintain it and try and lose some more.

That sounds like hard work. Drinking hot chocolate here deciding whether to go to bikram yoga at 5. It's the sugar addiction which is the problem for me. When I've been off it I've felt so much better.

1. 5ft 8
2. 13st 4
3. 11st anything
4. Always got back to 11st ish but never maintained it for longer than 6 months due to pg, stress, bereavement, injury. Determined to crack it this year as sick of fighting with my weight all the time.

Can anyone in the know help? What is the WW's recommended weight range for someone 5'3"? Also, how do you know if you are obese?

1. 5ft 6"
2. 10st 10lb
3. 9st 10lb
4. not since i hit 32 (8 years ago) - I actually puit on a bit of weight a couple of years before children came along - and have never lost it!

Its not rocket science - I enjoy my food too much, do not exerciser enough and like a glass or two of wine way too often, still very hard to get out of the rut!