OMG - how could I?! Thank you for alerting me poorpaws - I forgot the most important thing!
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I think "self-care" is a great idea to distract you, especially in the short term - it's difficult to eat whilst your hands are covered in products anyway! And it'll contribute to a feeling of self-improvement, rather than self-flagellation (if that doesn't sound too Eat Pray Love). I'm sure you'll be able to return to the sofa after a few evenings without snacking, once you know you can do it and it doesn't seem like a big deal. Also, I know this sounds a bit mad, but if you can install some kind of substitute, you might find you can re-wire your brain to know that when you have that, you're not having anything else. For me it was tonic water - I only started drinking it because I wanted something non-sweet to drink when I was breaking my evening wine habit. Then I discovered it's a surprisingly good appetite suppressant, so drinking it keeps me from thinking about food. Nowadays, when I drink tonic water it's like my brain goes "oh, OK" and stops even considering wine and carbs. (The only downside is, it's ruined gin and tonics for me...) It could be anything, lemon tea or some kind of healthy snack like nuts, just as long as it isn't something you have any other time. Worth a shot, anyway. Meanwhile, are there any snacks your husband likes but you're not so keen on? Similarly with your 2yo, will they be happy with vile things like rusks and frubes for a few weeks?
Also OMG - paws did you really say that? 
I am dying for you, that is SO something I would do! Freud would have a field day with you, you poor thing. I am honestly sniggering here. What was his face like?!
And wow bloop, Toads and Oubliette well done on the weigh-ins! Brilliant!
Toads (is your name a reference to Larkin? I love it 
) Those meetings are truly my idea of hell. I can entirely see why they work so well for some people but they wouldn't be for me at all, and if it's all gut-wrenching it sounds even worse (I was imagining lots of cheerleading!).
Quant It'll definitely be fluid, but I agree, it's so frustrating. The effect on my body is really one of the worst thing about colds for me - there's always a day or so of total misery with the symptoms but you can usually get them under control enough to function within a day or two, but my skin goes berserk, gets all dry and pimply, and like you, I hang on to fluid like mad, so I just look vile for ages after I feel better, which makes me feel vile again. I can always imagine myself getting into running when people describe it like that, it's exactly what I get out of walking, and I do it even when the weather's vile. When I run all I can think about is how miserable it all is, which I know would go away if I could just get my fitness up. I just never seem to be able to make it through the awful bit to the bearable bit.
Peridot I did go out yesterday after all - didn't walk very far, maybe 3 miles, but I ended up getting the bus back because it was complaining a bit and I didn't want to push it. In the evening it started "creaking" again which it hadn't been. I don't even know if the creaking is a bad thing, it just feels so fucking weird I think it can't be good! It feels OK today, maybe a little bit tight. Rrrrrrrgh, it's so boring.
Did you make a thread about the friend situation? It sounds familiar. I think you were really brave to stick to your principles even though you feared reprisals. You know you've done nothing wrong, they just desperately didn't want to hear what you had to say, but you had nothing but the best intentions. It sounds horribly stressful and I really admire you for putting yourself through it. I think at some stage, the mother will be grateful to you for doing it, and will realise - I suspect she knows already, just doesn't want to admit - that there was no malice at all in your telling her.
I've just had my first proper weigh-in since America. I'm 1.2kg up, which I'm not too upset about - I've been basically entirely sedentary this week, so I did an extra Golden Day on top of my usual to try and make some inroads. Was secretly hoping to be miraculously back in my desired kg bracket, but never mind. Hopefully I'll be back on my feet a bit more next week, and I can start walloping that back down.