BigMoFo's Anniversary Thread - week 52

[suejonez]

So are we having a virtual party then?

I'll bring the champagne , someone else can bring the rest

Those of you that have been doing this for a year, how much weight have you each lost in that year?

Please give me hope, I have to be in this for the long-haul, I reckon at least two years to shift the 8 stone (or is that overly optimistic) and I need to change my relation ship with food for the rest of my life to keep the weight off.

So hopefully I will be able to join in at the BigMoFo 2nd birthday celebrations, with a decent weightloss under my belt!

In the meantime, here are some freshly baked raspberry and white choc muffins - heavy on the fruit, light on the choc, so tuck in and enjoy!

I'll bring some sausage rolls and party ring biscuits
I have a couple of bottles of wine spare too!

Happy birthday to uussssss
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Happy birthday dearest MoFos
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Yay - well done for last week you lot who lost . Well done us - I love the fact that we've made it to a year, and are still going strong.

Here - have a bit from my cheese and pineapple hedgehog . (I know how to do classy snacks)

I have lost about 3 stone [showy offy emoticon] but started again last week as I have plateau'd and not lost any since End January. I would be happy to lose another stone by the end of this year.

Wow Sue, 3 stone in a year is fab! And gives me hope

Happy birthday BigMoFos!!!

3 stone Sue! WOW! That's fantastic.

Well done everyone who lost, especially LMS for getting the crown!

Sorry Sue, didn't email my weights either for last couple of weeks. It's all gone out the window with DH leaving. I'll definitely weigh in this Thursday and email my weight, then get back on track.

Hi hippi. I went up to almost 23 stone when I had DD too, lost almost 4 stone in the 6 months after the birth (through gall-stones tho, not effort) but have since regained about a stone (she's 16 months now) so sitting at about 20st 2lb or thereabouts now. I have Paul McKenna's DVD in the drawer but have never even unwrapped it, glad to hear it has had some good results for you so far - might have to dig it out. Oh and I'm a big House fan too!

Cheesyfeet, how's the potty training going? Have to say I'm dreading that!

WWB/Sue - when I read the bit on last week's thread about your inner 6 year old/mother/eating issues I really could relate. Mine too was unable to express her feelings in any other way than feeding me. I was 15 years old the first time she ever said the words "I love you" to me, and even then she was only able to say it over the phone while I was on the other side of the world and my grandad had died. I do feel my mum has a lot of responsibility for my weight because my childhood eating was restricted to pretty much fried and/or processed food, fat and sweets. My mother doesn't like a lot of foods so I wasn't given them. I feel like she is responsible for forming my eating habits, and tastes, which contributes to my difficulty losing the weight now that I am free to make the choices myself. I see it all happening over again when I take my DD to visit her, and she insists on feeding her in the same way. Whenever I ask her not to, and suggest a healthy alternative it kinda throws her defences up and she gets snappy coz I think deep down she knows she has to take some responsibility for my size and feels I'm getting at her when I try to ensure DD eats healthily. Even now, when she knows I'm diabetic, she'll try and push cakes & biscuits onto me with one breath while moaning about me needing to lose weight with the other.

ForcesSweetheart - glad to see you again. I was a bit worried I'd offended you by getting the amount you'd lost wrong a few weeks ago (). Though I did remember your DH was about to go off, so I hoped it was more the case that you were spending as much time as possible with him. Has he actually gone yet, or is that yet to come?

Hi Forcessweetheart - nice to 'meet' you!

Hiya Jackie, nah I don't offend easily, thick skinned as well as waisted. He left on Wednesday, so almost 1 week down, just another 29 or so to go!

'Only' 29. How's it going? I can't imagine what it must be like for you - DH goes away for a week or 2 at a time, fairly regularly, but 30 weeks is a completely different proposition. Mind you, aspects of it can be easier, because there's no feeling of 'well he's here, why isn't he helping' - you just get on and do things yourself.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOFO'S

I havent been around for the whole year but for the time I have been here you have been so amazing with your understanding and support.

JackieNo, can you change my total weight loss, I have now lost 16½ lbs (don't forget the half, it's all important )

Hi FS, I'm sorry to hear your dh has gone away again. I'm sure the time will fly by with mn for company! Thanks for asking about the potty training... I am being annoyingly, utterly smug about it - dd woke up one morning about three weeks ago and said "I'm a big girl now Mummy, I don't need nappies any more!" so we went cold turkey. We had a bit of a setback during the first week as she got an infection in her labia and had to wear pull ups at nursery for fear of spreading the infection so she was just weeing in those without a thought. Once the pull ups came off, she has been completely dry, day and night . I can count the accidents on the finger of one hand and only one wet bed.

I'm so pleased for her and proud of her that I could just burst [gushing emoticon]. She is so happy and proud of herself. Each wee is celebrated with happy dancing and smiles

I was starting to get funny looks when we were out and about because she was still in nappies - she is only 2.10 but is tall and her speech is really good for her age so people assume she is much older. Not that it's anyones business but ours but, well, you know how annoying it is when people make assumptions or question your parenting.

I would thoroughly recommend waiting until your dc asks to leave the nappies off. It has been so easy because it was her decision so she co-operated completely.

SMUG

hippopotami, I am exactly the same weight as I was a year ago!

BUT I have become pregnant and had a baby in that time who is now 2 months old so actually that's not a bad result as I have lost all the baby weight from him (now just have to deal with the stones of it left over from 2 year old DD )

Happy Birthday MoFos. THink I'm rejoining this week. have had hideous interview with life insurance woman today at my Pa's insistence and am depressed about my weight probably increasing the premiums even though I have NO medical problems at all. I want to lose weight, I have HAD IT UP TO HERE with the extra poundage. It must go. Also now I can come on here more often as the weeks of being out every night are over (which is a shame, was really enjoying it).

congrats on the potty trainig CheesyFeet! Still no idea what to do with DD - at the moment she is suddenly using more nappies and has, for the first time in her life, absolutely dreadful nappy rash. She's suddenly much more aware of things, I am crossing my fingers that she might be nearly ready...

Jackie, a cheese and pineapple hedgehog IS the classiset snack. i love 'em

Hurray! I am new but I like it here. THat said, don't think I have lost any weight again this week so far and may have put on.
Hey-ho.

well I have had a terrible week for food - having eaten too much last week and still lost a pound I have been stuffing my face with cake this week, almost without pause! I just have to prove to myself that if I eat too much I will put on weight! Does anyone else do that - unexpected weight loss so you just have to eat more and more and more until your body gives in and puts on weight. Whats that all about then

I sum[athise ForcesSweetheart, an exbf of mine was in the army and in Bosnia for a while and on barracks at Wilton for quite a bit of the rest of it (being single of course I was allowed or so he said ), then he worked for UN and Red Cross in Bosnia and India. Mind you I always said that we would have split up after about 5 weeks if we'd had to live together full time as it was we lasted 4 yrs with a years re-run a bit later when he did his MA in Aberystwyth. India was easier to get to than Aber

Hi Mrs JC - I think you've done brilliantly this year. And to be fair I buried myself in Siberia to lose 2 of my 3 stone which is a bit extreme...

Cheesyfeet - yes, I'll amend the amount (sorry).

MrsJC - you really have done brilliantly on the weight loss front, not to mention the coping with several life-changing experiences front.

Sue, I know what you mean - it's a bit like resting on your laurels, but in an agressive way. I've been picking at unhealthy snacks all weekend - DH has bought a load of chocolate to send to SIL in the US, and it's been sitting around waiting to be posted for so long that some of it's going out of date. So now we have a big pack of fun sized bars of stuff just taunting me from the kitchen. And while each one individually isn't bad, when you've eaten probably 8 or 10 of them in a day, you suddenly look back at the end of the day and get all depressed about it. Otherwise not too bad. Oh, except that I did also make (make) waffles for breakfast yesterday, which we had with maple syrup, and then had the left-over ones in the evening with ice cream and blueberries.

Oh Jackie I haven't been picking I have been SNARFING (is that a word?)

If it isn't, it should be .

Mrs JC, you should be proud of yourself for being where you are, you have done so amazingly well. The rest will come in time, give yourself a break

Ellie - don't worry if you have put on. I have had some stupendous gains at times, the sorts of gains that you don't think would be possible in just one week! Overall I have lost and I am pleased with that. I find it helps to set small targets and to ignore hiccups. My overall weight loss is slow because I have the odd gain here and there, but I am happy as long as the general direction is the right way over time.

Sue, I know exactly what you mean wrt "proving" that binging = weight gain. If I have a decent loss, I convince myself that I can get away with eating more rubbish and still lose. I know it's not true but I do it anyway. I find that I get a delayed response to a bad week, the week I have overeaten I get away with it but it catches up with me the following week. I know that's how it works, but it doesn't stop me [sigh]

God I have a lot to say for myself today . I've missed mn.

Snarfing... I love it.

Yesterday I was in a strop as I had to work on a bank holiday so I snarfed a load of haribo, some squashed fly biscuits and breadsticks with cheese & spring onion dip.

Today I am mainly snarfing fruit as it is weigh in tonight. I am always virtuous on Tuesdays.

Keep putting off weighing in as I know the chinese I had yesterday will be making me extra heavy. Not to mention all the wine on sunday....

Happy birthday MoFo's!

LOL at the cheese and pineapple hedgehog. All we need now is the babycham.

I'm semi-lurking as I didn't dare weigh myself last week but I'm having a fairly good week now.

Has anyone got any cheesey party music?