BigMoFos w/c 11 January

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Thought about it for a while and remembered your first "1 year ago today" thread

Happy Anniversary!

(OK, so it's not really an anniversary, but you know what I mean!)

Can't believe it's been a year

OK - better late than never (sorry ... have been feeling really bleurgh): last week's weights!

colditz: - 5.5lb (total 5.5lb)
JackieNo: stayed the same (total +2.5lb)
TigerFeet: -2lb (total 2lb)
WWB: +2lb (total 20lb)

So ... a crown each for colditz and Tiger, and a little incentive for the rest of us

Not much point in changing threads seeing as we'll be weighing again tomorrow! Really sorry.

I have a question... for those of you who have fallen off the wagon and dragged yourself back from the darkside. What was the motivation to start again?

I'm having a real problem motivating myself - it feels a littel like boredom, you know, been there done that, can I really be arsed to do it again...

No need to apologise WWB - hope you are feeling less bleugh every day

Kewc - I can't really answer your question as I don't really know why I have managed to start again. It seems to be an inbuilt mechanism to try every new year! It's a bit like giving up smoking (which I have done successfully) - something has to flip in my brain before I can do it with any sort of commitment.

Every year I get more and more unhealthy and it becomes more obvious to me the older dd gets and the more active she wants her Mum to be. I am constantly tired - due to a combination of excess weight, poor diet, depression and AD's. I really hope I can stick with it this time as to get rid of two of the four would make all our lives much happier.

ooooh colditz would you like the pointy crown or the one with knobbly bits? Not sure which will look best with my sparkly princess shoes

Happy anniversary, Kewcumber.

Don't think I'll get round to doing a 'thin name' - not sure what it would be, maybe just JNo?

And a huge well done to colditz and TigerFeet - that's brilliant. Am feeling a bit more motivated (not that that will necessarily result in any weight loss, you understand, but at least I'm getting the mindset back, gradually).

JNo is cool - kinda like JLo - you could insist on not entering a thread unless there is chilled Evian on tap and a million lilies there just for you

why thank you! I lost 1/2 a pound at yesterday's weigh in too, so that's 6lb total.

well done colditz

JackieNoCal
JackieLoCal

I like JNo.

WgWmBm just looks ... demented!

Feeling more bleurgh today than I was yesterday, Tiger. Back at work and found it really, really hard - think I've probably overdone it a bit.

I quite like WgWmBm (though I mentally read it as WigWamBum, for some reason). Sorry to hear you're not feeling well - it does sound as if you need a bit more time to get over it. Can you take the rest of the week off, to give yourself a proper rest?

WigWamBum is probably not too far off ... my bum is so large that it would take a tent to cover it, after all!

I think I should probably have had a couple of days off, in hindsight, but took the gynae at his word when he said I'd be back to normal the following day. It's all the walking, I think; just too much today.

Loads of painkillers tonight and see how we go.

Kew - happy anniversary!

I don't think I've got back on the wagon properly yet, but my main/only incentive is that I've run out of clothes to wear - am literally bursting out of them and can't afford to re-buy everything in bigger sizes... Dp bought me a pair of £3 comfy jeans from Tescos - size 20 - and I was down to a 16

So, I have to lose the weight or I'll be in my £3 tescos jeans forever!

how so everyone, lost interweb conection last week so not been around. Big move tomoro! Got a txt from new boss to say they are looing forward to me starting, so thats good! Packing is evil though.

still not weighed meself, but I do feel has gone up due to stress eating! oh well, we will... see and in ny new home will be buying scales so I know!

I got a book on PCOS which really promotes the low-gi thingy so Im really trying to stick to it, well I will when Im able to eat more complex stuff then a sarnie in my room!

Wish me luck! wont be here for a bit (on library pc at the mo) but vibe me, Ill get it.

Also, what am I reading about skinny names? Can I be minimoosh for a bit? (cant be arsed to change it though...)

Ooh MiniMoosh - good luck with the move, and sending good vibes for coping with it all without too much chocolate (a bit is, of course, allowed, as is a takeaway, I reckon, the night you move somewhere new).

Good luck MiniMoosh - moving is the pits - I have done it so many times in my life I've lost count and hated it every time.

Weigh in results - lost 3lb

Yay - nice one TigerFeet. Mine: stayed the same again.

Hi Guys,

Congrats to those of you that lost weight, WWB I hope you're feeling better, Happy Aniversary KewC and good luck with the move MM!

I am lurking but little time to post! 20 more returns to go (was 50 at beginning of week) but they're all problem ones so take longer! We're all working until stupid o'clock at the office to get everything done and we're all losing the plot big time!!!

On top of that our builders have started the loft conversion so I have a living room and dining room full of boxes from the loft and I'm trying to sort them out and throw stuff away (and stop DH/DD 'rescueing' stuff from the bin!)because we'll have limited loft storage space once they've finished!

Oh well better go and do another return!!!

Hi Littlemisssensible - hope you get through the last of the returns with sanity intact. And just shut your eyes to the mess at home - look on it as an excuse not to do any housework for a while (not that I need an excuse...)

Had a bit of a lightbulb moment this evening. DH, as often happens, crashed out on the sofa after supper, so fast asleep that he couldn't even wake up enough to read DD her bedtime story. I persuaded him to go to bed (didn't want him snoring away in the sitting room while I'm trying to watch TV, and his quality of sleep's going to be better if he's in bed). And as I was doing it, I caught myself mentally rifling through the cupboards, planning what I was going to eat 'to get back at him'. Very glad I realised what I was doing, or that would have been the end of a very large bar of chocolate that's supposed to be for a present (it's still not out of the woods, tbh). So it might be a power thing, one of the reasons I eat. The feeling that I'm in control, so I can choose to eat crap? For some reason, the quotation 'Living well is the best revenge' came to mind. I can actually choose to eat good stuff, because eating crap doesn't actually 'hurt' anyone but me.

Bit deep for a Friday evening, but there you go.

Jackie, it's surprising sometimes how much we do use food as a weapon. I think I've done that too ... stuff myself as a way of getting at dh.

I suppose it shouldn't be much of a surprise that eating problems can be about control; I have a friend who is a recovering anorexic, and for her anorexia was about control - partly over her overbearing mother (mothers again ), but partly because she had/has low self-esteem and not eating was something she did well.

Like you say, it's all a bit deep!

Anyway, I've been spectacularly useless again (sorry; still not firing on all cylinders) but here are the weights anyway.

colditz: -0.5 (total -6lb)
JackieNo: stayed the same (total +2.5lb)
Littlefish: -1lb (total -14.5lb)
TigerFeet: -3lb (total -5lb)
WWB: -2lb (total -22lb)

A good week - big pats on the back and cream horns all round!

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