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BigMoFos Week 49

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JackieNo · 13/04/2007 22:39

New thread (we're almost up to a whole year of threads now).

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coppertop · 13/04/2007 22:45

Well done, Fauve.

Has it really been almost a year since the start of the BigMoFos???

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JackieNo · 13/04/2007 22:47

It doesn't seem possible, does it. Good time for a fresh start for those of us who've been around for a long time. We need the challenge of all those zeros, I think.

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MrsJohnCusack · 13/04/2007 23:33

well done losers (you know what I mean!)
I will be joining in again soon. think I will wait until back to where I was when I found out I was pregnant(about 2/3 more pounds still I think) and then I will join in again. Maybe a couple of weeks....

Nearly a year . And since then I have had a lovely DS and moved to NZ. Isn't life amazing

agalch · 14/04/2007 09:38

Morning all

Hope i am not too late to post Thursdays weigh in. I gained 0.5lbs so not too bad considering the food and booze i consumed in the lead up to and during (and after) the wedding lol.

Prob will put on this week too as there is still wedding cake to be eaten.Tis so nice it would be criminal to waste it

Hope you all have a good weekend.xx

whoopsfallenoveragain · 14/04/2007 09:46

Morning
Well done to those who lost
I've been to the gym this morning and weighed myself there - couldn't take much notice of them though as they weighed me 2 stone lighter than the ww ones!! Oh well that'll teach me for trying to see if I have lost anything in the last few days!

suejonez · 14/04/2007 13:59

shall we have a virtual party in week 52?

coppertop · 14/04/2007 17:47

I like the idea of a party. Virtual food is very healthy too.

WigWamBam · 15/04/2007 10:13

Bloody hell, a year?

And I'm right back where I started from I'm not very good at this weight-loss lark.

A virtual party sounds rather fab though

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JackieNo · 15/04/2007 10:17

Look at it this way WigSamBam - you're not really back to where you started, because firstly you wouldn't have lost the weight you've gained back, so you'd be heavier now if you hadn't started the MoFos, and secondly, if you're anything like me, you've gained a whole load of insight into why you eat from chatting to people on here, which is good news whichever way you look at it, whether you're losing weight or not.

And yes - a virtual party would be fab.

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WigWamBam · 15/04/2007 10:22

I suppose you're right on both counts, Jackie. But even with the understanding of why I overeat, I still don't seem to be able to stop doing it! I have so many reasons for shifting the weight but none of them seem to be enough.

So ... who's organising the party hats then?

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JackieNo · 15/04/2007 10:51

Whoops. sorry - slip of the finger and all that!

These are quite fetching , or it is our first birthday , or alternatively, we could all be princesses (especially if hub2dee comes along, I'm sure he'd enjoy that)

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EeyoreIsFab · 15/04/2007 14:01

Love the party hats JackieNo - I like 1st choice best!

I've decided to make that weigh-in my last for a while as I'm fed up of obsessing over the scales (although I'm going to get DH to weigh me & try not to look so that he can warn me if things are going really bad!).

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JackieNo · 15/04/2007 14:31

No worries eeyore - there's no compulsion to weigh, if you don't want to, but it would be lovely to keep chatting to you anyway.

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Dottydot · 15/04/2007 14:45

A party sounds good! Can't remember when I joined but it was yonks ago..! I'm just about managing to keep the weight I've lost off so far, but seem completely stuck where I am - I've more or less weighed the same since November... Still got 2 stone to shift and it's not budging - or rather I've given up a bit.

I'm still eating way too much but I suppose in shorter bursts - I can have a good week, or maybe 2, but then have a bad few days. Overall it's evening out weight-wise, but probably isn't (or should that be definitely) very good for me health-wise.

Ho hum. In my original plan I was going to have lost all my weight (50lbs) by now. I know 28lbs's good, but losing the whole lot feels un-doable.

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JackieNo · 15/04/2007 14:49

I know what you mean dottydot - I've plateau-ed too (since Christmas, in my case). So some of us have decided to make a new start, and have our current weights as a new starting weight. Seeing the smaller amount of pounds lost will hopefully be an incentive to actually do something. Feel free to join us, if you'd like (or carry on from where you are - either is totally optional). If you look back at the end of the last thread, where I posted the weights, that's where all of us new start people are listed.

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Dottydot · 15/04/2007 14:51

oops sorry - i was avoiding last week as I'd had a horrific easter egg splurge and didn't go to WW I know I've put on about 3lbs - weighed myself yesterday at MIL's. I'm going back on Thursday though - can I start then?

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JackieNo · 15/04/2007 14:53

No problem, I was just pointing you to where the 'new start' thing had been explained. I didn't post weights for those doing a 'new start', and we're using last week's weight as the new starting point. Let me or sue know which you'd like to do via the hotmail address .

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JackieNo · 15/04/2007 14:53

or on here, obviously.

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ForcesSweetheart · 16/04/2007 13:28

Just had to do a double-take when I read last weeks weights on the old thread! I've lost 10lb total, not 1.25 Sorry, my own fault I know for not emailing my weights the last couple of weeks. Starting weight was 20st 12.75lb, now 20st 2.75lb after last week's gain.

Agalch, well done you! I hope you had the advantage of lots of wedding night exercise to burn off those calories

Well done to everyone who lost, and hello to all the re-joiners.

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JackieNo · 16/04/2007 13:32

Oops - I'm ever so sorry ForcesSweetheart - the perils of having a few gaps, and of having a couple of different people doing the weights, I suspect.

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Fauve · 17/04/2007 09:23

Thanks for my crown - I need all the encouraging stuff I can get - I've just spent a weekend away in fancy hotels with fancy restaurants, sigh, so this week may not be so zgreat.

You know they go on about that feeling of fullness you get, at which point you're meant to stop? Umame, or something like that? So why do I take that as a signal that I'll get even more blissed out if I keep eating? If I DID stop then, I'd do a lot better in restaurants. It's partly also the idea of leaving expensive food on my plate. Can't quite get my head round that.

"All that running", Suejonez - how I laughed. I do try. My technique is to wobble round the gym, then if I spot my favourite track coming up on the Virgin TV channel, then I make myself run on the treadmill for its duration. Like a suddenly wired up sloth.

whoopsfallenoveragain · 17/04/2007 10:06

Morning all
I've just had my first weigh in and lost 3.5lb
I can't remember when I first joined you all but I know it wasn't at the start but I'ma always up for a party!!

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JackieNo · 17/04/2007 15:15

Wow - well done whoops - that's brilliant.

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DaphneHarvey · 17/04/2007 19:57

{Lurking here quietly, as I have done for weeks}.

Nice to see WWB back.

I used to be Twoisenoughmum, but now got a new name.

Not sure I am good enough for this thread anymore. I can't seem to achieve even the most miniscule weight loss. Every single day I wake up full of optimisim and good intentions. Every single day it all goes wrong, somewhere around dinner time.

I am so not addicted to food. Last night, I had my first bite of Easter Egg, for instance.

I can maintain my weight quite happily, no major ups and downs. I've been this weight or half a stone lighter for ooooh, 10 years now.

And also, I don't seem to have the discipline to log on to Mumsnet and stay for just 30 mins or so. I always end up lurking for hours.

Last week I ended up in a fight, which I found really hard to deal with. So hurt that I could be so villified and misunderstood.

If only I could just stick to these threads, I think I'd be alright!

Am seriously thinking of leaving and just wishing all you lovely Big Mo Fos everything you ever wanted and saying goodbye. .

WigWamBam · 17/04/2007 20:07

DH, you sound very down. Are you OK?

It would be lovely if you felt you could stick around - maybe just stick to the nicer threads for a while - but if you need a break then that's what you should do.
I had a break for a few weeks, which I desperately needed - gave myself a bit of head space away from MN because it was all getting too much for me. Sometimes that little bit of peace away from all of the shouty threads is important. It's sucked me back in, as it always does, but I'm finding it easier now to stick to the less in-your-face threads. I definitely feel better for having been away, because when I'm at a low ebb MN makes things much, much worse.

If you decide to stick around on this thread, please, please, please don't ever think that you're not good enough for it. We're all good enough, every single one of us deserves the support that these threads can give. Your weight and how quickly you can lose it does not and should not define you as a person, and struggling with it is not a measure of how good or bad a person you are.

I don't know if you saw last week's thread but several of us are struggling at the moment - in fact, most of us have actually decided to start afresh from this week. So you're not alone in struggling with even small amounts of weight loss. I wake up with good intentions every day ... and most days I blow it! But we're still here, and we're still chipping at it, and we're still working out why we eat the way we do and how to change it.

Do have a break if you feel you need it, but don't think that you have to stop posting here. There's always someone here to talk to if things get tough.