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BigMoFos Week 40

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WigWamBam · 11/02/2007 09:35

Sorry girls

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JackieNo · 14/02/2007 20:05

Hi justamum - I haven't lost anything since Christmas, but I'm still posting. Welcome back - you don't even have to post weights if you don't want - just stick around and chat.

The dates are for a MoFos meetup - the Mile for Maude is on a different day, I think. I think we decided it would be easier for us all to go to the mile nearest to us, and to meet up another time.

CheesyFeet · 14/02/2007 20:43

Well I know that I had a lot to eat/drink at the weekend...

but...

I was weighed yesterday and I've put on 5½ lbs!!! In a week!!! I didn't know it was possible to put that much on in a week.

suejonez · 14/02/2007 21:43

welcome - justamum thanks for the snowsuit, nice to have you back... I'm not exactly dieting for England at the moment so you'll fit right in.

Cheesyfeet - bet that was a shock! will it motivate you to try again or will it discourage you? In the same way as 2/3rds of the weight you lose the first week you diet is water so is 2/3rds of the weight when you put back on. (I can explain the broing science why if anyone wants to know).

So you've probably put on about 2lb in reality and if it went on in a week then I bet it'll come off in no time.

Do you have PMT becasue you can easily blame it on that...

CheesyFeet · 15/02/2007 09:40

It's definitely motivated me - I have been doing really well and I don't want to spoil that. I have a holiday to aim for now, only a week on the Isle of Wight with the IL's but even so it would be nice to wear summer clothes and not feel like a heifer

I have definitely retained water, my fingers and feet are really puffy.
Not PMT though. That's next week's excuse

Dottydot · 15/02/2007 09:53

Aww - Cheesy - I'd be feeling too. Don't worry - it's a blip and you'll be back on track this week. Drink plenty of fluids if you've got water retention - flush it all out!

suejonez · 15/02/2007 11:18

Don't know if you have much to lose, Cheesy, but if like me you have loads, then we have to learn to deal with the ups as well as the downs. (Kipling put it better than me - blah blah "success and failure" blah blah "and treat these two imposters just the same".

ten months on from when we started I have lost about 2.5 stone and I don't plan to ever put it back on, if in ten months time I've only lost another stone I will be pleased because it's really about being healthy and taking control and being happy with myself.

Being overweight doesn't make me unhappy per se - risking serious illness does when I have a small child dependent on me. I also don;t like the thought that I find it hard to control my addiction to food. I will never overcome that completely - unless by some miracle I suddenly manage to get through my thick skull that eating will not make me feel better but WORSE!!

However I have been far less uncontrolled in the last ten months, I have been more open and honest with myself and on here about my food issues and that helped me keep it better in control and as a result I am definitely happier about myself than I was when I started.

And for that I thank you all... (SJ bows at end of her speech)

CheesyFeet · 15/02/2007 11:39

Thanks ladies

I weigh just over 16 stone atm so I could do with shifting a fair old amount of that

Sue, great speech I agree wholeheartedly with everything you said in that post, could have been me talking. It's about health and passing on good eating habits for dd. And not having ridiculously large norks any more

CheesyFeet · 15/02/2007 11:42

(god I seem to be going mental with the emoticons today)

suejonez · 15/02/2007 12:11

I had ridiculously large norks (though admittedly smaller) when I was 21 and size 12 so if I lose weight they are going to be droopy ridiculously large norks...

littlemisssensible · 15/02/2007 12:11

Bad news Cheesyfeet

There's no guarentee the large norks go! I have lost a fair amount of my weight in the past (all back plus more ) but never lost the old norks!

I reckon if I could lose them I'd have at least a stone less to lose!

JackieNo · 15/02/2007 12:12

Brava!

You've said it all in a (quite large) nutshell.

suejonez · 15/02/2007 12:13

Thank you, thank you all

CheesyFeet · 15/02/2007 13:42

Oh god am I going to keep the norks

they are already v droopy and difficult to accommodate - they should make two bra variations for each size imo - eg 38G pert & 38g droopy (with extra scaffolding)

JackieNo · 15/02/2007 15:07

Wahey!! Have just weighed, and I've lost - only a pound, but still, it's the first time since Christmas. Only another 3lb to go and I'll be back at the weight I was before Christmas.

(I'm with you on the norks, cheesyfeet - mine are 36G, and pretty droopy - bras from Bravissimo work wonders, I find).

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WigWamBam · 15/02/2007 15:22

I'm too big for bras from Bravissimo

And probably will be even if I lose weight because the last place my weight ever goes from is my norks ...

Ridiculously large and even more droopy than they are now ... there's something to look forward to, hey

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CheesyFeet · 15/02/2007 15:51

I once said to dh that I would lose a stone if I had my boobs removed, he said "Have you ever had them weighed?", and like the mug I am I said, "No" and he grabbed them and went "Wahey!!"

Not sure which is worse, that he did it or I fell for it

suejonez · 15/02/2007 16:12

where do you buy your bras WWB? Mine have changed since my recent weight loss in Kaz - bought a 40G in M&S last week and its riding up at the back (therefore presumably too big around the rib cage) but a sidgeon too small in the cup. If I go down a size to 38 I assume I would definitely need to go up a cup size - assume H is next one up and M&S stop at G.

Don;t want to spend a fortune as I'm obviously hoping to keep going down but the riding up my back thing is driving me nuts.

suejonez · 15/02/2007 16:12

PS 38 doesw not mean I have a 38 inch bust it means I have (and always had) a very narrow back - chest size is about 50" I think!

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WigWamBam · 15/02/2007 16:23

I usually get mine from the very tweely (I think I may just have made that word up!) named Ample Bosom by mail order. They're very reliable and very friendly.

Big bras don't come cheap though so if anyone has any ideas of cheap places to buy seriously biiiiiiig ones I'm all ears ...

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WigWamBam · 15/02/2007 16:24

Mine are probably around 3 stone between the pair of them ...

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WigWamBam · 15/02/2007 16:28

Figleaves might be worth a try as well, Sue.

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agalch · 15/02/2007 20:55

Been to slimmimg class tonight and lost 1.5lbs.

Need to get excercising too though,being lazy atm lol.

Dottydot · 15/02/2007 22:03

Well I'm really and ... Went to WW tonight and I've stayed the same!! have been really good all week - done tons of exercising and running and have tracked my food every day.

Am in a BIG grump...

suejonez · 15/02/2007 22:14

Dotty I can;t beleive you are in a grump - didn't you lose 5lb last week Lordy lordy there's no pleasing some people! Buck up woman!

I did remember to go to Boots to weigh in today but its out of order again. Bloody think is perpetually out of order . If it continues I will have to start using my homw scales but they are not very accurate. Better than nothing though I guess.

Dottydot · 15/02/2007 22:15

I know, but I've tried sooooo hard and I'm 1.5lbs away from losing 2 stone and it's DRIVING ME MAD!!!!!! I've got another 2 sodding stone to lose after that - it's not even like I'm anywhere sodding near it..!!

(It's just possible of course that I'm very pre-menstrual, which could be another reason I didn't lose anything BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT! )