BigMoFos Week 37

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There are some really lovely people on here.

what a lovely lot you are- Mrs JC I was preggers in the summer and it was awful, i dont envy you my love! i used to sit with feet in a bucket of cold water as had such horrid fat ankles!!

Am having a good day food wise but was at babygroup today and one of my other friends is dieitng with me, anyway she has lost 3lbs and I have lost 7lbs, no biggy. Anyway another girl who was sat with us said to my friend, oh you can really see the weighloss in your face and then said oh I cant believe you've lost 7lbs to me

How funny/awful is that1!??

. Nice one, littlemisssensible.

actually it is the same woman who told me last week that she though i was terribly brave for putting my son into nursery for 2 days a week!!

me thinks she may have a problem!

swifterella. Perhaps she meant '7lbs is a brilliant amount to have lost' . People don't always think through what they say, unfortunately.

Brave?? What a strange comment .

i know, she said that she couldnt do it as she would miss her DS too much!!

people are funny arent they!!

I am feelin' the lurve on this thread today

Swifterella, people can say the strangest things when a simple well done would do.

I'm much braver than you, dd is in nursery 5 days a week

its ridiculous isnt it!! think she has a bit of a problem with me, she is quite competative and since I have gone back to work she has been off - oh well, TBH i dont really care, she dosnt really measure on my important radar (meooooooowww!!)

her ds will end up a smothered child, imo

Hi everyone. Looks like suejonez (joint founder, with WWB, of the BigMoFos, for those who have joined in the last couple of months) is going to be flying home tomorrow with Daniel - about time too, poor thing. Post made me well up, as usual - she writes about Daniel so beautifully.

whata wonderful story

Sue has me in tears yet again. I remember crying when I first read about her blowing bubbles for that little girl, and I'm blubbing again now. She writes so movingly. As for Daniel trying to put his dummy in her mouth to comfort her ... I'm sobbing like a baby.

It's good to know that she'll soon be home, and can really start her new life as a Mum properly. Such a shame that there has been so much hassle about it all!

I hope everything goes really smoothly for her now - she deserves for at least one thing to go easily for her.

Brilliant news about Sue!!! {grin] I'm sooo pleased for her!

I've taken the evening off so I thought I'd come and 'chat' for a change!

My weight seems to be hovering around the 13 stone mark but thats good because I'm being a complete pig with the stress related biccy/cake/treats eating so staying the same is an achievement!

I've taken the plunge and booked myself on an 8 week 'Inch Loss' course at my gym. It starts on Thursday which is nearly at the end of my manic period and I thought it might just give me the kick up the bum I need to kick start me back into a proper frame of mind to beat this bloomin weight once and for all! (Feeling really positive at the moment!)

Whilst chatting about the course with the instructor I mentioned that I'm going through an early menopause and she told me that losing weight would be more difficult because your metabolism tends to slow down!?!?!?!

Is this true? Does anyone know? And if it is why hasn't my doctor mentioned it to me when I've been to see her over the last year or so? She always points out that my asthma and blood pressure problems would improve if I lost weight but has never said that the menopause might be why I'm finding it difficult!

I sort of feel that maybe its true because I have lost weight quite easily even in my recent past but over the last 18 months or so I've lost and regained the same 7lbs over and over and over (although I seem to be doing a little better at the moment! - Is that your influence or the HRT I wonder )!!!

Oh well I've chuntered on for long enough!!!

Thanks for listening

More tears here too. I hope she's got her Medised handy for the flight!

I can't wait to hear from her again on this thread. I wonder how long she'll be home before she is pulled back in again!

LMS, there's some info on weight gain during the menopause here . It does get more difficult over 40 but with the menopause you start to lay down more fat - and it sticks in different places to where it used to go! The only way in increase your metabolism is exercise.

Littlefish, we must insist that she comes back straight away ... if only so that we can hear more about Daniel. She's a lovely person and a very intelligent poster - I really miss her input on MN in general, and particularly on these threads.

Yes WWB - I've missed her wit and wisdom too. Have you sent her the you-know-what. Are we allowed to know what it is?

I'll send it as soon as I know that she's definitely going to be coming home.

Did I not email you to let you know what it was? I'm getting dim in my old age, but I thought I had done.

Thanx WWB!

That explains a lot really! I'm just a bit miffed with my doctor because I've been getting quite down about the 'rude words' weight over the last 18 months, which of course means I've comfort ate for England too! If she'd only mentioned that it might happen I'd have been prepared and better able to deal with it

It annoys me too, that I've been castigated for not getting my weight under control to help my blood pressure (by the bloody practise nurse not my doctor!) but no-one has said the menopause might be contributing!

Oh well! Hopefully the gym will help me sort out a programme which will get the metabolism up again!!!

oooh isn't it lovely
posters helping other posters
Sue and Daniel coming home

and thanks for the sympathy to me. I have been regularly putting on about 5/6 pounds and then it'll be gone 2 days later - monster water retention. I read about the UK weather to mentally cool myself down. And it hasn't even been that hot for must of the summer so far - I am a wimp!

Isn't Sue amazing, her journal would make a fantastic book, she writes so beautifully. I'm so glad they are coming home and won't it be lovely that Daniel will have someone familiar in Sue's mum to greet him when they get here- you can't underestimate the importance of nanas/grandmas in my book.
Just to add my piece, Algach I put on weight while BF both my two, I was constantly hungry and ate like a horse.
I was busy with sick children all last week and by the time I could get on the pc I hadn't got the energy, I still weigh the same and I am getting better at controlling my eating but am not quite there. I am concentrating on ensuring I take my pills at the right time and get enough sleep just now and I do have an appt with the proactice nurse on her weight loss program in a few weeks.

Justamum - I thought exactly the same last night about Sue's blog - it would make a great book. To be sold with a free packet of tissues, as everyone reading it would cry throughout.

Just in case anyone's missed it ...

...SHE'S HOME!!!

(do you know what - a tiny bit of me is still crossing my fingers that it's all OK - I won't believe they've got past passport control etc and are home safe till I hear it in so many words, preferably from Sue - is that very pessimistic of me?)