BigMoFos Week 38

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New thread for a new week

Three month labour ... that'll be why I'm not having any more

I will be interested to see how the whole experience affects my weight loss. In some ways it seems more important - for Daniel as well as me, in other ways it seems so unimportant compared to what I have seen over the past three motnsh that I'm hoping it will bring me a sense of perspective that maybe I haven't had before.

It's difficult to see a one year old have a birthday with no-one to hug them or kiss them or worry about a birthday party or even a card or a candle. Puts my weight problem in the right place and inconvenience but not not something to beat myself up about.

Maybe a little perspective is what we all need, Sue.

I cried buckets over that part in your blog where you and a carer sang Happy Birthday to a little girl. And the child you blew the bubbles for. Such a tragedy that there are so many children living like this.

er less of the talk of 3 month labours please! 3 hours please...
Welcome back sue and glad you liked the parcel. how is Daniel settling back in West London and are those cats talking to you properly yet?

I will need ALL your butt kicking properties in a few weeks. So get ready. I mean business this time...

I'm not talking about all the tears I shed reading that blog.
sue you write beautifully

Three hours?

She's right, Sue. Your entries on you website are beautifully written, very eloquent, intelligent and moving

Thank you - I just tried to be honest. With some strategic infomration withheld of course. I'm a bit overwhelmed by the number of people who have said I should write a book!!! Think it would be a bit thin and not sure a book that made everyone cry would be a best seller! I wasn;t trying to make everyone cry by the way, many of the things I described didnt actually make me cry at the time, they were just things which touched me. I was trying not to make it too sentimental but obviously failed miserably!!

The cats won;t leave me alone - am trying to type with Lola marching around the keyboard. She won't cpme anywhere near Daniel though. Dylan on the other hand is so desperate for my attention that he will even brave Daniel, though does look rather freaked and edgy when he's within 5 feet him.

Oh and MrsJC - I loved the photo of you and DD on the guest page. Do cute - was it taken in NZ?

No, no - it's not sentimental at all, just very, very moving.

I'm really very hard hearted and selfish on the whole and it was an excellent home but there is just something so sad about these little children who are not extra special to anyone. Every child should be the most important thing in somebody's life.

Someone hard-hearted and selfish wouldn't have spent the last year doing what you've been doing, and they certainly wouldn't have spent the last three months where you have.

I do agree, every child should be the most important thing in at least one person's life. It's a tragedy of epic proportion when you see so many children in one place who don't have that.

I forgot to post but I've stayed the same again. I need a boot up the backside to get me losing again.

Welcome back, Sue!

Oh plz give me a huge kick up the backside everyone.

Have eaten leftover ravoili off dd's platewhich i havn't done for 2 months.Also had double portion of my slimmer meal and on 2nd glass of wine.

i feel soooo tired and unmotivated,think it's to do with dd's being ill this week.Can't seem to get my brain thinking positivly.I have a wedding dress to get into in April,i cannot gain any weight.

tell me to chuck the wine out and get a flipping grip!!!

Oh goody - I'm back and can get into arse kicking straight away...

Ok suejonez,lemme have it!!! need to be tough with people like me,i am going down the slippery slope fast

Difficult as I don;t know much about you, need to target my arse kicking carefully...

Double portion of Slimmer meal isn;t too bad though only adds up to a "normal" meal. Tisn't the end of the world, you didn;t have 15 chocolate cakes (did you?) - start again tomorrow.

Ok.never been on a diet/healthy eating plan ever in my life.decided to do it cos i'm getting married in April but i have enjoyed it so far.Dd's unwell all this week and no excersise whatsoever,no time to myself,lost a smeller amount than i usually do.Just feel i could go back to eating crap.have been eyeing up the chocs etc which havn't bothered me for weeks

Agalch, Step away from the chocolates!!
Although you may have not lost as much as usual, don't forget that you did LOSE. I know its disappointing when you don't do as well as you had hoped/had done in previous weeks, but please don't lose sight of the fact that a loss is a loss and should be celebrated.

Cheers babysmurf

Have had 3 glasses of wine now so off to bed.Tomorrows another day eh? Will take dd's out for a walk and eat super healthy!!

But resisted chocolate so not too bad lol.

no, no, no I am requesting the 3 hour labour. Doubt I'll get it! (2nd babies just fall out don't they?)

sue, yes that pic was taken by me on the beach here a couple of months ago. DD is looking at me like I'm a fool, how perceptive.
Glad to hear the cats are OK, they probably will get used to Daniel. Mine soon worked out that the only way to get lots of attention was to ingratiate themselves with DD and us. Still haven't got a cat here although I really, really want 1/2 - DH says he is still in mourning over leaving ours behind.

agalch - if you haven't lost lb's you may well have lost inches... muscle is denser than flab anyway

suejonez - "Currently reading....baby food packets" pmsl

MrsJC - 3 hour labour hahahahahha (hope you get it though)

I've had a bad(ish) couple of days and haven't been particularly restrained. Am potty training dd atm so god only knows what that's going to do to my stress levels/weight loss...

Agalch, you lost a pound and a half ... what's wrong with that? It's good progress - as is the ten and a half pounds you've lost in the last three weeks.

Go and weigh yourself a pound and a half of potatoes. Or get some cans from the kitchen cupboards - a standard tin of chopped tomatoes and a tin of sweetcorn adds up to a pound and a half.

Feel what a pound and a half weighs - it's not to be sneezed at.

Now go and weigh ten and a half pounds ... that's about ten tins of tomatoes. It's a significant weight, but you don't realise that until you've actually held it in your hands.

And as for leftover ravioli and a double portion of a slimmer's meal, it's hardly the stuff that pigs-of-the-week are made of ... when I'm having a binge I can eat six packs of crisps, a bag of doughnuts and a packet of biscuits in one go. Now that's piggery. You won't have done your diet any harm at all by taking in what amounts to just a few extra calories.

You're doing brilliantly.

Re the binge WWB - me too - big bag of crisps, whole packet of jaffa cakes and a family sized trifle in an hour was not unheard of

Half the battle here is trying to train myself not to do that any more.

Yes, training myself out of binges is a huge part of the battle.

I used to binge daily, and I'm not joking when I say I would pack away the things I listed in my last post in less than half an hour. Every morning. It was almost like a ritual; buy the food, come home, eat it all in one go while watching crappy daytime television.

Costs a fortune, apart from anything else

I keep away from it for weeks, then one binge and I'm back to craving it every day. It's hard, but I have had huge amounts of support from these threads and slowly I think I'm getting somewhere.

The problem is that I think deep down, I will always have problems with food, and I worry that even if I manage to lose weight, those issues will always be lurking beneath the surface, ready to come and bite me on the bum. I think that's one of the reasons I find it so hard - there's always that suspicion that it's all a waste of time because those issues will always resurface.